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It's Friday night. I don't think I can do it this week. Anyone else want to take a turn?

Warning: Even Advisory System Level: Severe.

Bruh... (Gaia23bra b has been added to the NASA Exoplanet Archive!)

NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way - NASA ScienceFor the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to ripples inscience.nasa.gov

Don't mind me, just over here selling a kidney to be able to take my two kids to Disneyland on a Monday the week before school restarts.

Family Guy Lois Reacts to High PriceAlt: Family Guy Lois Reacts to High Price: "Isn't that high? It just seems so high."static.klipy.com

WITHOUT CHECKING: how do you pronounce cupola and what nationality are you.

When my (now tenured, somewhat decorated, multiple-society-fellowed) husband was interviewing for faculty jobs, a senior astronomer at a prestigious institution told him ‘I just don’t think of what you do* as science.’ He didn’t get that offer. 😂🫠 *At that point, largely numerical simulations.

I'm sure all the metrics show that the choose-your-own-adventure scenarios in sexual harassment training videos are more pedagogical than other options but hello, some of us have actually experienced sexual harassment at work and don't really enjoy a live action recreation.

Live footage of me switching between mom-mode on the weekend and scientist-mode on Monday morning. (Always boss-mode though. 😎)

Scrolling Ball Juggling PerformanceAlt: Someone lying on their back juggling five beach balls and changing direction halfway through MIRACULOUSLY.static.klipy.com

Watching @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social DM the Identify spell for #CriticalRole campaign 4 and not use the @dimension20.dropout.tv Identify spell voice. 😭😭😭

John Cena's Sad MomentAlt: John Cena's Sad Momentstatic.klipy.com

Momentarily misread 'Dobsonian telescope' as 'Dragonborn telescope' and wow my mind went to a strange and whimsical place for a second.

The number of times I have thought through text to add to this proposal and then mentally checked it off as having been done without ever actually remembering to write it down is … more than a few.

Actually this is the right answer not the wrong answer and I stand by it.

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible JourneyAlt: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journeystatic.klipy.com

Determined to enjoy the cooler outside temps I went and sat outside and lit one of the hefty citronella candles I bought at the hardware on the weekend, waited a minute, and then propped my legs up on the table beside it, only to watch as a mosquito immediately landed on and bit my ankle.

I don't know if the Tortured Astronomy Acronym account ever made it over here from The Hell Place but I have a submission! arxiv.org/abs/2607.13545

SaNDi-SHoP: Searching for Satellites'N'Disks with a Star-Hopping Program II. Spectrophotometric analysis and orbital monitoring of directly imaged companionsOver the past decade, advances in high-contrast imaging instrumentation, coupled with extreme adaptive optics systems, have enabled the discovery of tens of planets and brown dwarfs orbiting at wide s...arxiv.org

It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week.

Guys, I didn't even ask them to do this, but the engineers have named SHERA's astrometry pipeline ADORA (Astrometric Differential Optics and Retrieval Algorithm), and I just CAN'T with how amazing that is and how much I love it. (Adora is her name when she's not She-Ra.) #PIDaily

She-Ra Time! Adora's TransformationAlt: She-Ra Time! Adora's Transformationstatic.klipy.com

"Ha-ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"!"

Princess Bride: Sicilian LaughsAlt: Vizzini laughs, freezes, and falls over sideways.static.klipy.com

The newest example in the long history of Public: You did something unethical and you should be stopped. The WH: Of course we did not, here is the sane-washed version of what we did, you clearly have TDS. Trump: Oh I absolutely did the unethical thing for the unethical reason and I WOULD AGAIN.