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Wonder of Science

"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
— Carl Sagan

The Milky Way over La Silla Observatory. Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

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PoliticalVinylence

Don’t like. Don’t comment. Just re-post until the gun nuts see this image in their sleep tonight.

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andreagrimes

I wrote this because everyone needs to be clear that what's happening at @TexasObserver isn't just another case of nonprofit media struggling to sustain itself -- a 70-year-old magazine is being deliberately tanked and staff are trying to save it.

andreagrimes.substack.com/p/we

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bacon popsicle 🧘🩲

Today is Tuesday, 28th of March 2023, and that's just not something you can say every day.

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Ham on Wry

If you're not woke you're sound asleep and dreaming of a time that never existed.

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Duane Aubin :verified:

1/23 Why explore the #PartySwitch?

#WhiteSupremacists like to deny it happened. Some just don't know any better but, from those who do, this is a flag - are they hiding something?

All our threads in this discussion thus far (which I've saved on Medium pending a better way to do this, see medium.com/@DuaneAubin) have provided broader context towards enhancing clarity for so much of #AmericanHistory and the current state of affairs, and this topic is no different in that regard.

Let's rock!

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Phillip Winn

One of my brothers pointed this out, but the proper experience for listening to Del Amitri's "Roll To Me" is not, as I would have said, as background music in a grocery store. No, it turns out that the proper experience involves headphones. That song is mixed with a *heavy* emphasis on stereo. There are no drums at all in the right channel! Only vocals, acoustic guitar, and I think castanets.

I'm not even going to link to a YouTube video here, because you should listen to it in the music service of your choice using headphones. Not in a car or a grocery store!

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Totoro🍊🍃

#StudioGhibli #Ponyo

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Jimmy Biscuits 🧻

Whenever I see someone without tattoos, I just assume their mom won’t let them get one.

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StefanThinks

How come cupcakes have to go incognito under the alias of ‘muffins’ to qualify as healthy for the breakfast menu, but pancakes can waltz in with ‘cake’ right there in their name and then we top them off with syrup?

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Nate

Can I tell you about Charles S L Baker? He was the founder of the Friction Heating Co, incorporated in 1904 and I've just learned of him today.

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Working Families Party

To give you an idea of how much more a billion is than a million:

A million minutes ago was April, 2021 — a year into the COVID 19 pandemic.
A billion minutes ago it was November 121 CE — the height of the Roman empire.

Billionaires. Shouldn’t. Exist.

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SeaTea

I am the Director of my own life.

But one of those first-time Directors where everyone on the set realizes he doesn’t know what he’s doing and start calling their agents to see if they can get out of this impending flop before it ruins their careers.

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Happy St Patrick's Day!

youtu.be/oxo-loXdcH0

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If you're trying to find music that is engaging without being disruptive, music you can play during creative work that won't take you out of your flow state, I highly recommend music in a language you don't understand.

parannoul.bandcamp.com/album/t

I stumbled on this album thanks to @cambraca earlier this week, and it turns out Korean shoegaze is exactly the genre I needed, and Parannoul is exactly the band to give it to me. I have no idea what they're saying, because I refuse to click the links on the Bandcamp site to show me the English translation of the lyrics. The tone and energy of the music is all I want to know right now. I mean, the first song is called 아​름​다​운 세상, which I'm told means "Beautiful World." That's fine, that's all the info I need.

It's been my background music during work, my driving music, and I've sent this link to a few people already. Now I pass it along to all of you. Happy Friday! Spend your weekend enjoying this excellent Korean shoegaze album from 2021, and maybe next week I'll check out one of the two albums they've put out since--or maybe not.

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I can’t stop thinking about something @pluralistic said to @adamconover in this one-minute video clip.

youtube.com/clip/UgkxyH968O4_s

To paraphrase, optimism and pessimism are both rooted in fatalism, because they presume that nothing we do matters.

Instead we choose Hope. We do things to make life better at every opportunity, to move toward the world we Hope to see, and what we do matters whether it lines up with a big-picture plan or not. We move forward in Hope, and then we see new ways to move forward in Hope, and then we do it again and again.

What else can we do?

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Parade du Grotesque 💀

Truth.

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Swapna Krishna

I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.

She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"

And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.

I can't think about it without crying.

(The original article: authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-S)

#MichelleYeoh #StarTrek #Oscars

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Cliff

Today is March 14th or 3/14 or 3-14 or 3.14 which means it's Pi Day!

So to all of you who celebrate, and everyone should be celebrating, HAPPY PI DAY!

#PiDay #MarchFourteenth #HappyPiDay

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Vi Hart

Wow, the 13th annual Pi Day video? That's so many!

At least some things stay constant...

or do they?

youtu.be/cmskjWp6Dpc

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