rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A @janecoaston.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net history podcast would be an instant subscribe for me 021
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Haumea is spinning so fast (once every 3.9 hours) that it's significantly non-spherical. All bodies in space do this a bit, but Haumea is pretty extreme. Here's a nice artist's conception: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea#...en.wikipedia.orgHaumea - Wikipedia 0131
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Do you know if there are any links between the traditional Paul Bunyan stories and the Chuck Norris jokes of the early Internet? I found myself thinking of those jokes throughout this episode. 000
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I do wish pollsters (and the media coverage of polls) made a bigger deal of the inherent uncertainty of polls. At best, we get a footnote with the statistical margin of error. But that doesn't even begin to address systematic uncertainties. 020
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026MoE is 3 points. This poll shows that they're tied, not that Talarico is ahead 000
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Apparently, for the midterms, no other party has been able to get enough signatures to get on the ballot. So, it'll just be a two person race. No runoff! 020
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The statistical margin of error is 4.6 percentage points. So, even without taking into account the wide range of systematic uncertainties in polling, this is consistent with a tied race, a Jackson squeaker, or a Bottoms landslide. 110
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Sure, this guy's weird, and I don't know what the eating in the car thing is all about, but Buc-ee's is an amazing piece of "unimportant" US culture. It's big, it's lively, it's useful, and most of all, it's fun. It's also something we haven't exported, so only visitors get to see it. 010
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If a majority of the representatives of the people, a majority of the representatives of the states, and the president all think something should be a law, it should. And if it's a bad law, the next set of representatives can replace it. That's democracy! 030
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I'm an astronomer and I learned parsec as parallax + arcsecond. One parsec is the distance that something has if its parallax measurement is one arcsecond (1/3600 degrees). And the parallax is (roughly) how much an object's apparent position in the sky changes as the Earth moves around the Sun. 050
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Not-so-fun fact, Schrodinger would have loved Epstein's island en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_S...en.wikipedia.orgErwin Schrödinger - Wikipedia 001
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Should the Democrats shut down the government to try to rein in ICE? 000
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025a) There's nothing in the original post that's contradictory to increasing existing services. That's a valid way of accomplishing the sentence-long goal b) I was arguing that there's benefit to a Meals-on-Wheels-like program that wouldn't be captured by just giving people money for food 120
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025One of the points of a service like Meals on Wheels is for people who can't easily make it out of the house. And it gives those people not just food, but someone to talk to for a bit, which is especially important when you aren't able to easily make it out of the house. 130
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Being driven is way more important to success than being smart. And that's true whether you're driven for good or ill. 010
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I just listened to this one (I'm a bit behind) and given how things are going in universities, it felt uncomfortably timely 010
Reposted by @rejemy.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO 413414531924033
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I had a professor call them upstairs and downstairs, which I've always liked 010
Reposted by @rejemy.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Just sitting here having some tea...thinking about the tremendous amount of fraud that's gonna get done over the next four years. 1094491208
rejemy.bsky.social @rejemy.bsky.social · 06/11/2024So, you're saying I shouldn't say that if Manchin and Sinema had just gotten on board with Build Back Better, Harris would have won? 030
