And after reverse impact searching our purchase, it was in fact a very nice find

Jake Postiglione@jakepost.tech · 5mo ago

Feeling rich in life because I got a “nice find!” comment from the girlies leaving their 5th floor walk-up while @annahi.bsky.social and I were carrying away a facebook marketplace purchase.

The overlap of Moon joy, sandwiches in the park weather, and a new cross stitch project has done wonders for my mental health recently.

Flowers are temporary, 120 skeins of floss and a DMC wooden chest are forever @jakepost.tech took notes ❤️🪡

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wish 3 of my libby holds becoming available at the same time was the most stressful part of my life

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

No one on this subway platform knows I have hot chocolate in my disposable coffee cup, I promise I have black coffee mentality I just can’t abide by drinking it

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Here's a sentence with an exclamation point! Here's a regular sentence with a period where I say what I want to say. Now here's another exclamation point so you don't think I'm a bitch! From, Every woman ever

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

My partner is officially now a published first author!!!! Take a look! 🛰️🌌

Jake Postiglione@jakepost.tech · last yr.

My first 1st author paper is published! Explainer thread from when it originally went live on arXiv quoted! 🔭🧪 Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by a Supermassive Black Hole doi.org/10.3847/1538... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

*taps sign*

Today is Constitution and Citizenship Day here in the US, I thought I would have something more profound after being in law school for a bit but really nothing makes a whole lot of sense anymore. Anyway, read the constitution today for fun and register to vote! Vote.nyc

When I defend NYC I do not speak on pizza, bodegas, or bagels - I’m here for the $4 commuter ferries (less w/ 10 trip ticket) and I will hear no counter argument 🌇 🧵 @nycferry.bsky.social

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

After getting my first tattoo I can confidently say extensive allergy tests are way worse and you don’t get a fun sticker to take home just hives

Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.

Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · last yr.

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

“The jury reached a verdict on Monday that there was a ‘preponderance’ of evidence showing Meta had ‘intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device,’ unbeknownst to Flo app users.”

Meta illegally collected Flo users’ menstrual data, jury rules

Meta has already disagreed with the decision.

theverge.com

Instagram automatically turning on location tracking AND it being viewable by followers is one of the dumbest features I’ve ever seen added to an app. Like whoever thought “let’s add a doxing feature” to the app where people already get doxed for what they support is fucking insane.

🪽🛬🪽 Yellow-crowned Night Heron coming in for a landing over the East River, Part II Astoria NY, 7.27.25 🪶

My partner is a PhD candidate now!

👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃@saavikford.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey everyone! Please congratulate @jakepost.tech on passing his oral qualifier with flying colors!! He is now a level II PhD student @cuny.edu Grad Center in the Physics PhD program!! Also, did you know you* can write a whole science talk using a game rendering engine?!? *you=Jake—I cannot do this

Got to change my bio from Masters Student to Law Student!!!!! (3 months later but waiting to be dismissed after jury duty lets you catch up on these things)

Ever wonder how gravitational wave detectors like LISA would hear the signal of binary black holes orbiting around a supermassive black hole? 🔭 Well check out my first 1st author paper investigating that very topic, live on the arXiv today! 🔥📄 arxiv.org/abs/2502.10591 Explainer in 🧵👇 1/10

Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by an SMBH

Binary black holes (BBH) are expected to form and merge in active galactic nuclei (AGN), deep in the potential well of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), from populations that exist in a nuclear star c...

arxiv.org

Gonna try to use BlueSky more since the Instagram algorithm wants me to buy things, get married, and move to Europe with $4 to my name, YouTube might be trying to get me into a cult, and Twitter is definitely trying to get me into a cult. I just wanna look at bird pictures and memes……

Monday morning is for birds in park puddles. (Ruby-crowned Kinglet, I think). Los Angeles, CA.🪶