[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Illustration of a space hurricane, created using the observation data

When it comes to extreme weather, it's safe to say a "space hurricane" qualifies.

Scientists said last week they observed a previously unknown phenomenon — a 620-mile-wide swirling mass of plasma that roiled for hours in Earth's upper atmosphere, raining electrons instead of water.

The researchers labeled the disturbance a space hurricane because it resembled and behaved like the rotating storm systems that routinely batter coastlines around the world. But until now, they were not known to exist.

"It really wasn't expected," [...] "It wasn't even theoretically known."

[...]

Scientists from China, the United States, Norway and the United Kingdom found the space hurricane while combing through satellite observations from August 2014.

[...]

The spiral-armed space hurricane swirled roughly 125 miles over the North Pole, churning in place for almost eight hours'

https://www.nbcnews....glRT55S96pMmVuk

[Malankazooie]

caption: A boy walks past a street mural in Mumbai. | (REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas)

caption: A hennaed female soldier in Tindouf, Algeria. | (REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina)

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'For the past year, we've been taking our pandemic cues from public health authorities, but maybe we should have been looking to menswear brands. This week the soothsayers at Suitsupply declared that the "new normal" is coming, and since no one else has told us when this is really going to end, it seemed like a prophecy worth considering. And the company's words came with a vision—several visions, actually. This "new normal," according to them, is going to look a lot like an orgy. Yes, when post-pandemic life starts up again, we're all going to be licking each other—and if Suitsupply has its way, a bunch of us will be wearing business casual while we do it.



"She’s almost eating him. That’s actually exactly the feeling, right? That also goes really well with our brand. [...]

We just ran it in Europe, on billboards and outdoors. It was fine."'

https://slate.com/hu...y-pandemic.html

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 07 March 2021 - 01:16 AM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'A Finnish Astrophotographer Spent 12 Years Creating a 1.7 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo of the Entire Milky Way





In the final, climactic scene of Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, the Milky Way engulfs the protagonist — an aesthete who keeps himself detached from the world, a universal perspective overtaking an insignificant individual.

We now know the Milky Way itself to be a minuscule part of the whole, just one of 100 to 200 billion galaxies. [...]

[...] via lactea, "Milky Way," or as the Greeks called it, galaktikos kýklos, "milky circle." Andy Briggs summarizes just a few of the ancient myths and legends:

To the ancient Armenians, it was straw strewn across the sky by the god Vahagn. In eastern Asia, it was the Silvery River of Heaven. The Finns and Estonians saw it as the Pathway of the Birds…. Both the Greeks and the Romans saw the starry band as a river of milk. The Greek myth said it was milk from the breast of the goddess Hera, divine wife of Zeus. The Romans saw the river of light as milk from their goddess Ops.

A barred spiral galaxy spinning around a "galactic bulge" with [...] center[...] a "monstrous black hole," [...] "billions of times as massive as the sun"… the Milky Way remains an awesome symbol for a universe too vast for us to hold in our minds.

[...] a 1.7 gigapixel panoramic photo of the Milky Way, from Taurus to Cygnus, 100,000 pixels wide, pieced together from 234 panels by Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio, who began the project all the way back in 2009. "I can hear music in this composition," he writes at his site, "from high sparks and bubbles at left to deep and massive sounds at right."

Over 12 years, and around 1250 hours of exposure, [...] Metsavainio "focused on different areas and objects in the Milky Way, shooting stitched mosaics of them as individual artworks." As he began to knit the galactic clouds of stars and gasses together into a Photoshop panorama, he discovered a "complex image set which is partly overlapping with lots of unimaged areas between and around frames." Over the years, he filled in the gaps, shooting the "missing data."'

https://www.opencult...-milky-way.html

More at the photographer's website:

https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 22 March 2021 - 10:05 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Eduardo García-Molina

I was unaware of the Medieval trend of depicting Aristotle being ridden and whipped by a dominatrix named Phyllis to show the power of female sexuality over male intellect. Having just finished a comp exam where I was subjected to too much Aristotle, I'm enjoying these.'
https://twitter.com/...Ny-fr-hokAnApMs

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Macros]

I don't understand that comic at all

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Macros, on 09 April 2021 - 04:30 PM, said:

I don't understand that comic at all

It's making fun of Jordan Peterson.

'Peterson, the self-styled "professor against political correctness" who wrote the book 12 Rules for Life and is adored by young white men who feel alienated, describes chaos as being "represented by the feminine" and says that "the masculine spirit is under assault"'

https://www.theguard...-rules-for-life

'To prove his point, Peterson uses the example of lobsters, which humans share a common evolutionary ancestor with. Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies and have a nervous system attuned to status which "runs on serotonin" (a brain chemical often associated with feelings of happiness).

The higher up a hierarchy a lobster climbs, this brain mechanism helps make more serotonin available. The more defeat it suffers, the more restricted the serotonin supply. Lower serotonin is in turn associated with more negative emotions – perhaps making it harder to climb back up the ladder. According to Peterson, hierarchies in humans work in a similar way[...]

However, the structures serotonin can act on are much more varied in vertebrates with highly complex and stratified brains like reptiles, birds and mammals – including humans. [...]

The same neurotransmitter can have contrasting effects in different organisms. While lower levels of serotonin are associated with decreased levels of aggression in vertebrates like the lobster, the opposite is true in humans.'

https://theconversat...t-do-they-90489

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 09 April 2021 - 05:14 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Jordan Peterson: Feminists support the rights of Muslims because of their "unconscious wish for brutal male domination."'

https://twitter.com/...889027957297152

If the skull fits....

[Edit: Some more:





https://www.theguard...-a-hornets-nest



https://www.brainyqu...peterson_927024

Courtesy of:

'Zis is a parody page dedicated to mocking Jordan B. Peterson by putting his words in ze speech bubbles of ze fascist marvel villain, Red Skull. Zis page does not endorse any of JP’s beliefs.'

https://www.facebook...104787708395986
]

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 11 April 2021 - 02:31 AM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

(more actual Jordan Peterson quotes)

https://www.facebook...04787708395986/

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Peterson has responded to all the Red Skull parodies (starting with the one in the official Captain America comic) by trying to sell t-shirts and stickers:



'Clean Your Room' is the commandment on top... and yet: 'Alt-Right Hero Jordan Peterson Can't Keep His Room Clean'

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'they built the 2nd tallest jesus statue in the world in an empty field outside a small polish town and the local priest is making bank renting the crown for wifi antennas'

https://twitter.com/...4470530/photo/1

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

https://www.saurylab...product/dragon/

I'm tempted to get this, though I don't think it would fit over my P100 mask. Jaw opens and closes with your lower jaw. Looks like it would be hard to drink anything (without a very long straw), and I imagine it may be hard to avoid bumping into people in very crowded spaces, so maybe not ideal for parties (could wear around neck though? if the horns allow).

[Edit: also, long snout looks like it would get in the way of vision at cons or while playing rpgs that use dice / minis / maps / etc. Probably not great for singing either, though I'd suppose it depends.]

[Edit: but maybe for a music video / TikTok?... hmm. Might be played out before I get around to it....]

[Edit: okay I caved and bought it, worst case scenario I can probably use it as a codpiece. Or decor....]

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 17 April 2021 - 01:05 AM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Before and after mural' (building in Poland)

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Malankazooie, on 21 April 2021 - 06:46 PM, said:

- doubles as crotch guard?
- effective as diaper? (particularly if you die (especially in battle---assuming you don't want people slipping on your shit (though that may provide some advantages with tactical positioning...)))

If 'yes' to both then men's fashion really has degraded....

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 21 April 2021 - 07:11 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

The sculptor:

https://en.wikipedia...iki/Luo_Li_Rong

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 24 April 2021 - 02:42 PM

[Aptorian]

You made me Google who Ivan Throne is. I'm impressed that somebody who sounds like they have brain damage can be a life coach.