A chronic compulsive content-stealer creature like gallowboob might have encompassed that 15% all by himself.

I’m waiting for my combination AI/blockchain/cordless blender, so I can’t even use it because it had a brainfart while trying to make an NFT of my smoothie, dropped its’ internet connection and now it won’t even charge.

The thought of Quark Stars have fascinated me ever since I first read about them, about maybe fifteen years ago, a supernova remnant that is dense enough to overcome neutron degeneracy pressure, not dense enough to become a singularity.

The Cosmic Microwave Background was emitted when the Universe was around 370,000 years old, the oldest light in the Universe but the way space expands and accelerates, the distance at which the photons we detect now were emitted and when they reach us, is all distorted and crazily stretched. If you want to visualize how light moves as slow as a snail in the grand scheme of things, look no further.

Neutrinos, as far as we know the closest a particle with mass approaches zero, to the infinitesimal point that it’s thought it doesn’t derive its’ mass from the Higgs Field. Then there’s the as-yet elusive Cosmic Neutrino Background, emitted when the Universe was less than a second old.

Alright alright there, Nietzche.

When I was a kid, our family’s portable stereo had a bunch of weird radio bands on it, by which I mean anything other than AM and FM, the edges of some shortwave bands picked up the radio chatter of local fishermen here and there.

One time a friend and I stumbled into one of these conversations, the engine of some boat had stalled, my friend plugged in the headphones into the microphone jack and started to talk with the guy on the other end.
Of course he wasn’t, but his improv and timing was impeccable, it really did seem like the setup was working as a transmitter also.

Decades later, I still clearly remember the way my friend mimicked an adult and technical conversation to a tee, promising to the stranded fishermen that backup was on the way… into the right earcup of a set of headphones.

The legacy is irreparably tainted. He abused a position of influence to push a personal vendetta and in the process, helped the kremlin inject a political cancer into western society.

Assange turned out to be just as much a megalomaniacal, petty little tyrant as those he pointed a sanctimonious finger at, to the cheers of those who saw him as a “friend”, when he was only just “the enemy of my enemy”.

Ranked choice voting negatively impacts only those who benefit from the narrative that people are stupid, to be force-fed their policies and their infotainment.

It could be broken down into a couple of further categories somewhere in the middle:

1. Where probes have landed - Venus, Moon, Mars, Titan, a couple of asteroids/comets.
2. Where probes have only flown past - Mercury, a few asteroids/comets, Jupiter and its’ main moons, Saturn and its’ moons (except Titan, see above), Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Ultima Thule (now officially named 486958 Arrokoth).

EDIT: on further thought, there’s another one in between those two.
Where probes have orbited - Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

Wouldn’t it be a lovely sight to see these social media companies paint themselves into a corner with their shiny, flashy new tech, mindlessly thrust out into the world, not because of any true functionality (as of yet) but because “new!”

Fifteen comically chaotic, bumbling, self-defeating henchmen, at that.

The one album where you can see the title is Bill Chinnock’s “Badlands” (never heard of him or it), in the other one I recognize the image, it’s Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s “Bongo Fury”.

Six Degrees Of Francis Bacon?

Is Brexit an ignorant, lazy, myopic tantrum you can undo?

Especially when you keep on giving the goddamned Tories the keys to the castle in every election that matters.

nAh I’m NoT vOtiNg MaTe PoLiTiCs Is FoR wAnKeRs sHaLL wE gO fOr dRiNkS iNsTeAd?

Back when Australia was still remote and exotic, before Crocodile Dundee even, a lot of people back in the day thought he sang:
“He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich”,
which would have also made for a fantastic lyric in a very silly way.

Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated by astronomy and physics, have read a bunch of books - including Alan Guth’s “The Inflationary Universe” - and watched a ton of content, from “Cosmos” (as a boy when it first aired) to nearly every PBS Spacetime video (among other hard science YouTube channels).

This video is the first time I’ve ever come across the Oscillon, as well as the Truth Quark and Beauty Quark in another one of this channel’s videos, and at this point in my life, to be surprised by three whole new particles in one evening is kinda thrilling.

Here’s the one that mentions the Truth and Beauty Quarks.

Ooh la lá!
Zoot allors!

I don’t know… I think she zoomed past the potato and plowed straight into the ambrosia salad.

Witness me, honey, here, hold my sandwich. Hey kids… KIDS! Settle down back there, jeez… pay attention, we’re about to ride all shiny and chrome.

“AWESOME!”

(proceeds to perform a Clark Griswold station wagon jump)

For a second there, I visualized The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Bible.

Did somebody input those “life in the year 2000” drawings from the good ole Queen Victoria days, plus “gators”, into the AI image generator?