types two letters (m and o twice) into a search engine and it predicts a search for a baby hippo on the other side of the world :^)
The tail of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas stretching dozen degrees, amazing in dark skies :) With @astroshishir.bsky.social
(was tempted to forward a meme - feeling old, going for a walk...)
Some heavy duty supply chain risk in Helene:
I always thought the mines in Spruce Pine, NC made kitchen countertops. TIL they made the Palomar Observatory, and pretty much every modern computer chip:
The processor that makes your laptop or cell phone work was fabricated using quartz from this obscure Appalachian backwater.
I visited the tomato souped painting a few days after and it was fine. I’m still reeling over the 20- and 24-month long sentences that the activists got.
“We like to feel that the world is safe...” --- Errol Morris
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris deconstructs the most famous 26 seconds in film history
lobbying conserves lucrative inefficiency
watching a conversation between a catholic-scholar and a monk.... and both have better cameras, lighting, microphones, and editing than a gazillion influencer bro types
TFW you see someone's typing and the put a space before the full stop . argh .