Simon Petrie (he/him)

existennialmemes The Ides of March approaches and it's making me very sentimental for the concept of large scale organizing to address a shared problem.

"I'll have the roadkill stomp platter, thanks."

Not all heroes wear capes
(but totally no judgment if you do)

I have fleetingly been the width of one Chinese bodyguard away from Xi Jinping

RFK Jr's influence is pernicious.

I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives

Easy-to-Remember Conversion Chart Gallons to Litres 1 Gallon = 1 Litre Pounds to Kilos 1 Pound = 1 Kilo Fahrenheit to Celcius 1°F = 1°C Inches to Centimetres 1 Inch = 1 Centimetre Feet to Metres 1 Foot = 1 Metre Miles to Kilometres 1 Mile = 1 Kilometre

Here's a universal conversion chart that's very easy to remember. Hopefully it proves useful

eclipse weather canberra yes please and thank you

go on, rain some more, you know you want to

the perfect end to a perfect day

the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it

although I suppose your thesis does explain why all poetry is written in English, since 'warp' and 'weft' are just nonsense words in those other languages

if the metre is strict and 'warp and weft' just will not work, 'betimes' may suffice

Over the silvery Tay, by a rattling boy from Dublin town, with a railway bridge

He is as eloquent as he is principled.

I'm refusing to watch any more of them in protest until they rename it 'Cretaceous World', which would be marginally less anachronistic

I can in truth credibly provide an astrochemist's perspective here, because I was one since before it was a word, and I can report that astrochemists really don't care about time except as something that allows their weird little outer-space reactions to happen

Quite aside from anything else, that orientation for a rotating wheel, with the horizon tilting on its head every several seconds, looks like a recipe for spacesickness.
Clearly, this space hotel is funded by Big Antiemetic.

Black and white illustration featuring a forest setting with central hippo like creature, hedgehog in the foreground and birds flying overhead

Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945) #Womensart

War is a negative-sum game.

Many people are saying this.

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

this is unfortunately a strong candidate for evergreen tweethood

"Please, won't someone think of the Overton window?"

So many peaces.

Fun that only a sort of hemispherical 'cap' on the antisaturnian side of Titan ever gets *truly* dark, with the rest sitting in various degrees of moonlit twilight at their gloomiest. That big tall atmosphere acts like god's own lampshade!

not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life

"The image shows a shell of thick gas and dust (red) expelled from the outer layers of a star as its core collapsed into a black hole. The inner regions show a heated ball of gas (white) continuing to fall into the central black hole."

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A recent Science paper claims a massive star in Andromeda basically vanished without first exploding in a supernova.

According to the authors, the star’s core collapsed directly into a stellar-mass black hole.

➡️ news.columbia.edu/news/scienti...

🔭🧪⚛️ #astronomy #science #cosmology #universe

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days).

And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of?

Small red stars.

PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!!

Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.

it's this or the 'let them fight' meme image, but that one could be misinterpreted

He starved that poor brainworm.

Behold!

The Tempest Prognosticator!