Always a Simulation

My local kebab shop considers me a hero and gives me free food. Apparently, they were getting robbed one night and I stopped it by talking the robber out of it. But I have no recollection of this because I was almost on the verge of being paralytically drunk. Still, free food.

Greenwich Villagers - New York (1964)

📷 by Evelyn Hofer

The 43rd object of Beverly Lynds' 1962 Catalogue of Dark Nebulae, fondly known as the Cosmic Bat nebula. While its visage looks alarmingly like a scary flying mammal, Lynds Dark Nebula 43 is over 12 light-years across. Glowing with eerie light, stars are forming within the dusty interstellar molecular cloud that is dense enough to appear in silhouette against a luminous background of Milky Way stars. This Cosmic Bat nebula is a mere 400 light-years distant toward the serpent-bearing constellation Ophiuchus.

🦇 Astronomy Picture of the Day

Lynds Dark Nebula 43, a.k.a. the Cosmic Bat nebula

Credit: Team Ciel Austral www.cielaustral.com

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

#APOD 🧪🔭

Tommy Edman tagging Daulton Varsho in the twig & berries, neither player's face is visible

right in the 🍆

YouTube video by Letterman Black Sabbath Performs "Paranoid" | David Letterman

October 30, 1998

All four original members of Black Sabbath reunited momentarily to play 'Paranoid' on US TV's David Letterman Show. 🎶🎤🎸🤘

#RockNRoll
#MusicSky

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Sandy Koufax facing us pointing at Magic Johnson who has his back tilted more towards us and is pointing back at Sandy

🐐👉🏼 👈🏼🐐

Mass exodus of Dodger fans when Blake Treinen’s name was announced.

One fan in my section “are you FUCKING KIDDING ME DAVE”

Why sit in parking lot traffic for 2 hours when ths Dodgers manager has conceded the game?

Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood met by chance at a motel in Tucson - Arizona in 1972.

Terry O’Neil was there to record it.

Did somebody say star cluster?
Here is 47 Tucanae. Only about 10,000 stars. 14,500 light years from Earth. 👌

Infographic showing the path of comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to enter our Solar System. It displays the orbits of Earth, Mars and the Juice spacecraft around the Sun, along with key dates and events as comet 3I/ATLAS travels through the inner Solar System in 2025. Coloured and numbered dots mark important observation points by telescopes and spacecraft.

☄️ Comet #3I/ATLAS is currently making its closest approach to the Sun.

#ESAJuice might catch the best view of this comet in a very active state. Juice will attempt observations in November 2025, with data received on Earth in February 2026 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪

Aurora season 💚

80 Candles 🎂 today for the much loved HENRY WINKLER

A young Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross on the set of ‘The Legacy’ (1978) - the film where they met and fell in love.

They’re still together 47yrs on.

To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure A reaction between hydrogen and magma at high pressure can produce water, which might explain evidence for ‘wet planets’ in places where water can’t condense.

To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure

A reaction between hydrogen and magma at high pressure can produce water, which might explain evidence for ‘wet planets’ in places where water can’t condense. 🧪🔭

☑️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
☑️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it's a short story

Good Morning ☀️😃🌞
#Prince
#Prince4Ever
💜🎶🕊️☔️

Dusty Baker, 1973 #Braves

#Baseball

Trey Yesavage struck out 12 batters and walked none in seven innings of one-run ball in Game 5 of the freakin' World Series.

He also generated 23 whiffs tonight, the most by any pitcher in the World Series in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008).

Here are his dozen strikeouts against the Dodgers.

NGC 6559: A gorgeous realm of star birth!

(Credit: ESO, U.G. Jørgensen)

WHAT AN AMAZING YEAR FOR TREY YESAVAGE

World Series starting pitching through 5 games:

Dodgers 31⅓ IP, 4.88 ERA, 5 HR, 14.5% K-BB
Blue Jays 27⅓ IP, 3.29 ERA, 5 HR, 20.6% K-BB

Dodgers fan kid with a square popcorn bucket upside down over his head

Trey Yesavage has 10 strikeouts, second-most by a rookie in a World Series game, behind only:

1949 G1 Don Newcombe: 11

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

Leonardo DiCaprio all in black with his hand up as if holding a skull talking to someone at the World Series

Leo's pointing meme from the chair

Last year, Trey Yesavage was an East Carolina Pirate and had a loss to UTSA

Tit Kat

Change one letter, ruin a candy.

100 Gland

11 16 20 15 15 12 12 total 101 5-1 Toronto through 7

Trey Yesavage's pitch count by inning

The Blue Jays lead 6-1 and are 3 outs away from taking a 3-games-to-2 lead back to Toronto.

In the previous 19 World Series that were tied at 2-2, when the road team won Game 5, it went on to win 15 of those 19 World Series.

(This doesn't count the 2020 bubble year.)