#sectioned

[victusinveritas]

[yume-fanfare]

top places to publicly overshare online:

tumblr blog

youtube comment section of a song

[remnantglow]

looked up a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!

[druid-for-hire]

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

[cy-lindric]

Started a new vest project this week ! Test swatch + bottom section ⛪🌿

[uk-fossils]

Giant cut & polished ammonite single fossil ammonoids - impressive specimen

Scale cube=1cm: Full sizing please see photo

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Name: Ammonite

Species: Cleoniceras

Age: Cretaceous Period

Location Found: Madagascar

Ammonites are one of the most recognisable fossils around the world due to their familiar spiral shape. They were marine based, present between 240 - 65 million years ago. They are the most  popular fossil for collections and found all over the world. Some ammonites could reach up to 2 metres in size. Children love collecting them, and places like Lyme Regis in Dorset becomes busy during the summer months with many people trying their luck at finding impressions in the rocks of their own ammonites.

These stunningly beautiful ammonites have been sliced in half and polished to expose the amazing colourful chambers inside the fossil.

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Origin : Madagascar.

Era : Cretaceous

Unique : (Actual as seen).

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA The Times di Oggi venerdì, 23 maggio 2025

[homethoughtsc]

Sectioned by my the local constabulary

for standing where only seagulls reside

when they aren't in flight.

Officer I was only taking in the view I

don't want to be observed twenty four

seven and I hate hospital food.

Officer you said we were going to talk

in your car, why are you calling for an

ambulance? i want to go home, it isn't far.

[honehonn3honey]

Board games with uncle Sukuna :)

They are taking this thing seriously, already take the cards out of the game

[jamiemoonymarks]

Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

[chronocrump]

redrew some old noelle art i did back in 2022!

[holographings]

ppl on twitter apparently liked the sketch of this so it has gotten a little colour. daniel molloy u will live forever

[batfam-stuff-posts-0]

Sex is ok but like. have you tried good pasta

[woosh-floosh-art]