i love when kids are obsessed with a thing that isnt really designed for children but not in the like. edgy adult inappropriate way. im talking like my childhood obsession with antiques roadshow. or my cousin who's favorite toy was a photographers tripod. like not the camera JUST the tripod. kids are so silly and delightful sometimes.
there's no need to look down, i said
really, please don't look down, i said
It’s fun to stay in
It’s fun to stay in
one of the best feelings tbh
probably the worst attitude tumblr unintentionally cultivates is "the world out there is completely dangerous for you and no one can possibly understand you, so you should isolate yourself from it and avoid interacting with it as much as possible"
Time to roll out the Andrew Marr quote again...
"If you put away social media and you walk out into the streets and you look at real people, three-dimensional people, they mostly smile back at you. If you look around you- you see perfectly decent, ordinary people getting on with their lives and inclined, by and large, to rather like each other, that is the real us. Let us not be fooled."
nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.
So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"
Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here
So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work
I think some of y'all would really benefit from learning the scope of power of various political offices.
Are you trying to tell me my local schoolboard doesn't have the ability to declare a unilateral ceasefire with iran?
If they try hard enough and are pure of heart... still no.
Paradoxically I think people often dismiss local elections as useless, which is also absolutely not true. Your local schoolboard might be aggressively banning books, or they might be fighting a trans sport ban. Paying attention to who gets elected to that board is important. It's just also important to know what you're electing someone to do, and what they can do.
while that's true, I'm pretty sure the original point is that people overestimate what presidents (and other officer) can actually do or affect
It's both! People get mad at local positions for not tackling federal issues and get mad at national positions for not doing things governed by local offices.
Sometimes it's easier to just harass your park board into doing something rather than to harass your senator into creating a cascading set of legislation that would allow them to do it. And also don't be mad that your park board didn't vote for a ceasefire with Iran.
