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Yoni Brande

@yonibrande.bsky.social

phd astrologer, world class barista, and professional chef

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Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · last mo.

heat index is 108 so dinner is butterbean ceviche and a high life

a bowl of bean ceviche, in a bright red tomato chili sauce with diced avocado, sliced red onion, and cilantro

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 3mo ago

overheard an undergrad leaving a meeting with one of the professors who called out "canvas is back up, so don't forget to submit your assignment" as the kid walked out and he just dejectedly replied "yeah, I saw..." lmfao

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 5mo ago

stuff from last month's jews against ice demonstration outside hq in dc

a man wearing a tallit and sunglasses blows a shofar at the anti-ice rally

two women display a hand-painted sign featuring a woman blowing a shofar. the sign says "Jews against ICE", and the shofar is labeled with "this shofar blasts fascists"

a man in an overcoat and trilby blows a shofar, while another man behind him holds a sign that says "we've seen where this goes. jews against fascists"

a crowd of people at the anti-ice rally. somewhere in the crowd a bright sign featuring yellow stars is displayed, saying "Nuremberg is coming". another sign off to the side says "love the stranger, love your neighbor"

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 6mo ago

sizable public protest about this the other day while I caught my bus to work. lots of drivers-by honking in solidarity with demonstrators. heartening to see, but hard to know exactly what other pressures are needed to stop this

Yoni Brande@yonibrande.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In addition to the concerns about community landmarks, the Hyattsville location is a shared office building with a community college, doctors offices, social services. There's a bus stop outside on a line taking mostly black and brown kids to school around the corner.

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Screenshot of article text from "ICE is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed". Text reads: The same pattern plays out in dozens of other cities across the US. ICE’s expansion includes not just its own preexisting space, or sharing an office with other government agencies, but also situates its agents near sensitive civilian locations.

That often includes places of worship. In Hyattsville, Maryland, ICE is expanding its offices at the Metro 1 building on 6505 Belcrest Road, which sits a few blocks from a Lutheran church. In Tennessee, OPLA is planning to move into the Nashville House office building, a business center in the city near multiple churches. The One City Center building in Portland, Maine, where ICE plans to expand its offices, is within walking distance to at least six churches, a mosque, one synagogue, and a Salvation Army adult rehab center.

WIRED@wired.com · 6mo ago

Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 7mo ago

pulled a stack of Reiner movies out of the library last month and I'm glad I waited to get around to this one last, after listening to the latest @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social podcast

a letterboxed review of the Rob Reiner film "A Few Good Men", stating:

a first rate courtroom drama, drowning under a thick slime of american civic responsibility and military fetishism. thirty years and countless war crimes on, with the ascendance of a civilian military leadership that watches jack nicholson's scenes as an instruction manual, it's hard to imagine anything in real life resolving the way this does (as unsatisfying as the resolution actually is).

a nice nugget hidden in nicholson's tirade on the stand is the venom with which he spits out lieutenant weinberg (nearly as hateful as his remarks on tom cruise's navy whites). great writing, you have to hand it to early sorkin

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 8mo ago

are they still thanksgiving leftovers if you were flying all day thursday and deboned turkey legs on sale into steaks and cooked today instead

a plate with roasted sweet potatoes, greens, and sliced roasted turkey with gravy

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 8mo ago

after two weeks in germany I have ventured out into the 1°C morning to get a bagel and coffee and groceries. also a copy of contact out of the LFL

yoni, a dark haired bearded man, walks though a neighborhood on a cold clear morning

yoni holds a copy of carl sagan's contact in front of the camera. the cover shows the night side of earth, with illuminated cities, framed against the disk of the Milky Way

Dr. Alysa Orbits (Obertas)@astroalysa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I want to post something happier today as well, so here are some scientists whom I recommend platforming and financially supporting! I'm a bit out of the loop, so I'm bound to miss people. Please reply with your own recommendations!

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 9mo ago

scenes from No Kings, deemed too "dangerous" to post on instagram by their automated content filtering

a black and white photograph from the no kings rally, showing a crowd of people in front of the US Capitol building. someone holds up a sign that says "Trans Rights are Human Rights". another sign reads "DC and America are NOT for sale. FIGHT PLUTOCRACY"

a black and white photograph from the no kings rally. a police officer speaks to a woman high above his head, crouched on top of an electrical box plastered in rally advertising flyers.

a black and white photograph from the no kings rally. three people, a black woman and two white men, are sitting on a concrete bench on the side of a government building. one of the men is holding a hand-painted sign that reads "Fascists feed on your fear, starve them!"

a black and white photograph from the no kings rally. An older woman, wearing knee-high boots, a scarf, and a "Queen RBG" shirt, walks among protesters, looking shockingly like RBG herself

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 9mo ago

there is an aroma of cookies in the office and I can't locate them

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 9mo ago

some campus views from the start of the semester and an abandoned synagogue in my neighborhood. kodak gold 200

a large, patinated bronze sundial showing the seal of the university of maryland, with a large brick porticoed library in the background, against the blue sky.

a view of mckeldin mall, centered on the terraced ODK fountain, which peaks with mckeldin library in the background

a red granite bench with bronze statues of jim henson speaking to kermit the frog, shaded under trees with the brick of the stamp student union behind

a large brick synagogue, with a decorative menorah candelabra on the exterior niche wall, framed between overgrown bushes and trees, with rusting handlebars along a cracked concrete walkway

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 9mo ago

tuna steak au poivre

a blue ceramic plate with a portion of seared tuna steak, sliced and covered with a peppercorn cream sauce, served alongside crispy french fries

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 10mo ago

one of the most incredibly cursed contributors lists I've ever seen in a collection. fully 10% of these people are (astro)physicist sex pests.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 10mo ago

13 total JWST proposals in (2 PI, 1 Co-PI), with 2014 submissions btw the earliest and latest. are we gonna break last year's record of 2377?

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 10mo ago

having mandatory couch time

Luna, a big white dog, smiles sweetly and shows off her gaping maw

Luna, a big white dog, reclines on a couch and gets scratched under the chin

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 10mo ago

someone mentioned passing around the snuff box at neilah yesterday and I feel like the contemporary equivalent would be a box of zyns can someone pasken whether they're fasting-appropriate or not since they're lip pouches

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 10mo ago

just got a 245 page PDF in my spam folder about ether theory I love having a physics phd

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 11mo ago

pissed off because I wouldn't let him have my boba

a small brown fluffy bird perches on a blue painted metal chair

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I will never be able to afford a house

egg, cheese, avocado, and latke on an everything bagel with an iced coffee

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 12mo ago

actually starting to live in a place now

a gray couch with striped throw pillows sitting on a dark blue rug

a TV stands on a console/bookshelf, holding cookbooks, fiction, nonfiction, and a nintendo switch

Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · last yr.

unexpected @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on npr talking about her new book, sloppy, out now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751421...

Sloppy by Rax King: 9780593688458 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is "Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different...

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Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · last yr.

congrats to Dr. David Coria, who defended his dissertation with honors on stellar elemental abundance and isotopic ratios (and had an emergency appendectomy last week when he was supposed to originally defend!)