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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This was on display out front. IYKYK
A beautiful display of brilliant orange and red plumes, as if from the Firebird itself.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love a good timeline coincidence
Two posts in a row. The first from the Onion is a headline that says "NSFW artist struggling to improve on sexiness of regular muppets". The second is someone else's unrelated (???) photo of human-sized Statler and Waldorf muppets.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Greatest American Hero from the TV show in 1981, a guy with curly blonde hair poses like he's flying badly (which he always did) on a red costume and dark cape.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Got my flu and COVID shots today! I'm doing it to protect myself, my family, everyone around me, and to say "fuck you" to RFK Jr.
Me, masked, in a baseball cap and black t-shirt with a pharmacist's hand visible giving me a vacccine. Not visible: me thinking "fuck you" to RFK Jr.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At the risk of showing my age
An abacus with red beads and a dark brown wood frame
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
<mlep> the sequel
My small black dog with white and brown patches and bat ears lying on a couch with the tip of his tongue sticking out
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Buddy's contribution to the "if an animal wore pants how would it wear them?" debate
A small black mutt with pointy bat ears stands on a carpet wearing a shirt-like contraption designed to keep dogs from licking wounds. Buddy has a small cut on a leg and he won't stop fussing with it so now he is cursed with wearing this ridiculous thing.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
<mlep>
My dog, a white mutt with brown spots, rests her head on the arm of an easy chair. Her ears are back and her tongue is sticking out a little bit. Pretty cute.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And look at this bald-faced flat-out bullshit at the GOP booth outside my voting area. Just straight up lies. I voted YES on all three amendments.
A red tent/booth in a parking lot for the Albermarle County Republicans. Sgns say "Protect women's heath: bote no to abortion amendment" and "boys don't belong in girls sports. vote no to marriage amendment". I voted yes on all three, which increase personal freedoms and keep the government's nose out of people's private parts
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Did my civic duty on the first day of voting! I voted to dump my asshole GOP rep. Huzzah!
Me in a hat and mask holding up an "I voted" sticker in front of the seal of Virginia.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In fact yes I covered this in CCA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B7I...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Daisy investigating a daisy
A white dog with brown patches has her nose up against a bright red flower
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Holy cow (literal) it happened again! #MooThru
Me looking amazed as I hold a cone of chocolate chip ice cream
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At my Science of Star Trek panel last night, I met Marc Okrand! *He invented the Klingon language*. #qaplah
Selfie of me in a star trek hat and shirt next to a man with gray hair wearing a dark blue shirt. Both of us are smiling.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don't always stop at the Moo Thru on 29 in VA when I'm in the area because sometimes it's closed.
Selfie of me eating a vanilla and chocolate swirl soft ice cream cone in my car.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
CONSUMER WARNING
A character in a Star Trek TNG uniform frozen solid
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Due to a profound and well-earned mistrust of the GOP, I check my voter registration relatively often. I just did and I'm OK. You can check yours; just search on "check voter registration status [your state]".
Screenshot of my voter status, listed as "Active"
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That's gonna be a loooooooooong bus ride
A sign for a bus route that says "M82" which is also the name of a galaxy about 12 million light-years away.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of Buddy Adoption Day! I think he likes it here, especially in sunny spots.
My dog Buddy, a mostly black mutt with bat ears, lying lazily in a chair out by sumight with his head resting on the arm.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Saw this gorgeous cumulonimbus cloud punching its way up into the sky yesterday. When I looked at a radar map I saw it was about 100 km away.
A towering cloud in a blue sky
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Very cool: Gianluca Masi with the Virtual Telescope Project caught the Roman Space Telescope (1) and the Falcon Heavy upper stage (2) in space, half an hour after launch! www.virtualtelescope.eu/2026/08/31/t...
In a gray sky background, stars appear as short streak of white light. The rocket and telescope are just dots, labeled 1 and 2.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And this was the exact moment I stopped using Google maps
Map of Lake Ontario on Google maps, and it's listed as Lake America
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's true
A bumper sticker on a truck that says "Friends don't let friends"
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger speaking at the rally to defend the vote in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Abigail Spanberger with an interpreter next to her in front of a massive marble column.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So damned embarrassing. A tribute to the brittle ego of a madman. Standing here and seeing it in person is infuriating that this is where we are.
The Washington Monument in the distance, with the Reflecting Pool in the foreground, covered in a tarp because Trump screwed it up allegorically as he has the country.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
63 years after '63 we're here to defend democracy. naacp.org/find-resourc...
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC with a crowd of thousands to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the MLK March on Washington.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
From an email I keep meaning to get to
Screenshot of the date an email was sent to me that I have yet to respond to: October 2, 2017
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Don't forget #LowerDecksLowerDecks
Captain Freeman holding up a tiny Balok, thinking it was a puppet
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Somebody's had a day
My dog Daisy, white with big brown patches, lies with her head resting on the arm of a chair. The one eye you can see is slightly open but she's clearly out like a light.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My wife found this little guy on our patio! I've never seen a wee baby turtle in the wild before. We had to move it a little bit to keep the dogs from being too interested but it seemed happy in the new place as far as we could tell.
A very small turtle with its head and front legs tucked into its shell, sitting on my wife's hand. It is maybe 3 centimeters across.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sleepy pups
My two dogs, one black and one white, sleeping on a couch facing away from each other.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Weird new spam: companies sending me (real) job openings that they apparently scrape from other sites. I got two very similar ones from two different companies. Also, me as a project director for ALMA2040? HAHAHAHAHA! At some point the dishes would actually be on fire.
Screenshot showing various job openings sent to me, including project director for a huge radio astronomy observatory, and various other high level jobs that I would be so terrible for it would set astronomical research back at least 30 years.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I woke up early this morning and this adorable gray tree frog (maybe?) was watching me from the other side of the kitchen window.
A small frog clinging to the outside of a window with sticky feet. It has a gray or green top that's hard to see and a white underside.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yes, this should be a sufficient amount
A huge display of hatch chilis, which make unbelievable Colorado green chili sauce. My wife makes it and we put it on a fried egg over french fries and it's the single greatest meal ever in the history of the universe
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Maybe unfortunate word useagement at the moment
A sign at a local grocery store advertising lettuce that says "Hot zone prices".
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I love it when an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly sniffs around the hibiscus.
A beautiful orange and black butterfly with blue spots on its wings on a spectacularly red hibiscus flower.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Y'know, this kinda feels personal
Screenshot of a weather map showing huge and multiple (like over a dozen) storms converging on the Charlottesville, VA area.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There was a time not long ago where you could have a scene like this in a movie and the audience understood immediately that the man was a colossal piece of shit and his political career was over.
Martin Sheen as a presidential contender in the movie "Dead Zone". As an attempted assassin tries to shoot him, Sheen holds up a baby as a human shield.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Cool view of Charlottesville from near Monticello. The bldg complex is the hospital and just above and to the left is the Rotunda (it's teeny in he pic), which many people know because Thomas Jefferson built it but it's perhaps better known as where I defended my PhD a few years back.
Trees is the foreground and angry dark skies over buildings in the distance. A white dome is barely discernible in the center.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I had one and it was
My mini horse Elvis, a paint (white with black spots) standing in a paddock with the wind blowing his mane back
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I took this photo to make a *very* "you had to be there" pun to a friend, but it's cute so I'm posting it.
Me, lying on the floor and looking up at the camera, with my white and brown dog's head resting on my chest as she lies perpendicular to me.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Protest going on in Charlottesville in front of the Federal Building!
People standing on a street corner holding up signs that spell out STOP ICE MURDERED
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's possible. There are some big spots on the sun right now. sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/l...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Classic tweet saying, me and my friends would've killed E T with hammers i can tell you that much
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I love eastern bluebirds. Saw this handsome fellow hopping around from chair to chair.
A small blue bird with a brown chest sitting on a metal chair with grass on the ground.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Daisy was happy I came upstairs but not so happy as to, y'know, get up or anything.
My super cute but astonishingly lazy dog with a white head and brown patch over one eye, her ears sticking up. She's on an easy chair facing to the side so all you see is her head resting on the chair arm. Her face registers... Nothing. Tepid ennui, perhaps.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Looks like those Reflecting Pool vandals have struck again!
A small pond covered in green algae. A fountain is spraying up and clearing a small area of scum.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Lord of their domain: a northern mockingbird overlooking Barboursville vineyard.
A fierce gray-brown bird sits on top of a furled umbrella looking over the tops of some trees, with a very hazy blue sky.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Just another day in Virginia
A spectacular landscape of bushes, verdant hills, mountains in the background and an overcast sky with dramatic clouds
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The back end of a copperhead snake, so, I suppose, a copperbutt
The back end of a snake, with about 30 cm visible and the rest hidden by bushes as it rested half on and half off a friend's front atep
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