Mary C

Red/orange/ lavender sunset caused by Saharan dust in the atmosphere.

Saharan dust sunset. It’s getting red out there.

I rammed into Ian Paisley’s ankles whilst on my tricycle.

Big Ian, not IPJ. He was proselytising loudly in the street and he was in my way.
Then I told him to move.

Nominative determinism in action. Name your child “Markwayne” and what you get is exactly what you summoned 😕

"There is no exemption for Christian evangelicals or climate change activists or animal rights activists or anti-abortion protesters. The law applies equally to all persons who seek to deliberately interrupt court proceedings and seek to disrupt them."

Mr Justice Cregan said he had tried to argue this point with Martina Burke but "there is simply no reasoning" with her or any members of the Burke family he had encountered in court. "They are impervious to reason. Theirs is a faith-driven ideology which refuses to accept the rule of law. The rule of law applies to them whether they accept it or not," he said.

Her behaviour was "disgraceful and indefensible", particularly given that she is a trained solicitor, he said. Mr Justice Cregan said he was going to send certain papers to the Law Society's relevant disciplinary committee to consider if it should open a disciplinary investigation into Ammi Burke.

He is so utterly over it. 😈

Enoch Burke told the judge it was a "fearful and nefarious" judgment, that "there is a higher judge", and he will "account to God". Mr Justice Cregan warned Enoch Burke: "Don't threaten me."

Ah I wish there was a video of the increasingly tetchy judge vs the collected haverings of the Burke family.
I often enjoy a judge who has lost sight of the end of their tether with a court-botherer and becomes waspish and pointed.

"You might have to share a cell with a member of the Burke family" would be a powerful anti-recidivism message.

YouTube video by Physics Girl My first science video in 3 years

Yay! Physics Girl is back after 3 years.
Delighted to see her.

youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc

Yes, I’m that nerd. I doubt anyone is surprised.

a man is talking on a telephone with the words we may experience some slight turbulence and then explode Alt: a man is talking on a telephone with the words we may experience some slight turbulence and then explode

Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god.

Forgive me in this febrile time with all of the everything, but why are the cast of Firefly getting together and posting reels with a theme of “it’s time”?

You can’t tease like this, not in these times of cess and despair.

Yes. You absolutely trashed the curve.

That’s 1375 light years away from my back yard. I used to have a poster of it in my room when I was wee and I just took a photo of it with this smooth, shiny little oblong.

Bloody hell like.

Horsehead nebula from, again, my back yard.

Then, and this wrecks my head because amateur doesn’t even begin to describe the operators of this device, THE HORSEHEAD NEBULA:

Photo of the Orion Nebula from my back yard

Just a casual wee back yard photo of the Orion Nebula on the first clear night since we got the new scope.

Photo of the full moon against black background

Big moon! (I did not take this photo, @rubenjames.bsky.social took it because he got up a 4am, saw the moon and went outside with a telescope to get a photo. I am not a person who can wake with grace at 4am, so…)

Spending a happy few minutes on Google there looking up “painful rashes”.
The biochemical processes continue on their way.

Changeable Hawk-Eagle

guys guys I’ve found the best bird name

Yay! This is a relief! I have been tense in anticipation since I enjoyed the book, and also because I loved the film of The Martian so much.

This is where we put her.

There’s a corner of my parents’ garden that is getting a bit Steven King.

They get a tree each, a tiny forest has begun. The slab is to keep any passing wildlife from digging for a while.

She would not be summoned, summoning is for lesser beings, like dogs and humans.
She would arrive exactly when she meant to.

Small tabby cat looks enquiringly at the camera.

Small tabby cat is disgusted by the smell of that finger.

Perfect Princess Prissy Paws Who Won’t Answer To Human Names left us today 😔

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

We are committed to peace and a stable region.

This is why we have launched Operation Infernal Apocalyptic Fire that Drives Ye to Abandon All Hope and Pray for the Mercy of Swift Death as Our Legions of Righteous Annihalation Burn your Very Memory to Ash in Divinely Sanctioned Flame.

Pete Hegseth got all dressed up to stand in front of a flag and sign a bomb.

I cannot fathom how anyone, even a member of the current US administration, thinks it is reasonable to sign a bomb before it is sent off to kill people, perhaps a hundred Iranian schoolchildren.

Is it low IQ or malice or both? What level of demon must you be?

Oxygen thieves 🤢

So much more productive when it is not actually raining 😕

The sun was out this morning! So I ventured forth on friends horse, to bask in the vitamin D.
We were only lightly hindered by the need to assist in the rescue of a bumble bee who was mildly disoriented and needed scooped up and put in some dandelions.
Horse was intrigued by these actions.

I am aware that it is sub optimal to be bringing religious beliefs to a matter of law, however scotus did start it, so I am both amused and intrigued to see the big kahuna wading in. 😈

Also worth noting that the multi- named VEEP also claims to be a Catholic…

Pope Leo, in full pope robes, holding a baseball bat.

Excited to see which of the scotus Opus Dei contingent is willing to go toe to toe with the actual pope.
Can you bring a candle, a book and a bell to an amicus briefing? Just to spice things up a bit 😈

This is an amicus brief BTW, aimed at Scotus, by the US council of catholic bishops.
Yeah.

it’s nice to see them throwing their political weight around for something besides policing our bodies for goddamn once