The sun will swallow the Earth.
The galaxies will fade.
Protons will decay.
Your LinkedIn bio will not survive this process.
This is a Good Thing™️
joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-i…
You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.
A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally SmallJA Westenberg (Westenberg.)
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
-- Charles Darwin, in _The Descent of Man_
⏰ Wakeful times for the Wakeful Wolf as a holographic sticker! 🐺 🌈 🌟 shop.sylvia-ritter.com/collect…
#art #mastoart #fediart #wolf #sticker #illustration #colorful
Wakeful Wolf - Holographic Sticker
- Durable die-cut vinyl. - Sticker size: 78 mm x 90 mm. - The sticker has a vibrant rainbow effect that changes with light and perspective. - Free shipping included up to 3 Stickers.Sylvia Ritter Art & Illustrations
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@experimentmapass huh. I don’t have any problems in Edinburgh with Royal mail, not even with international packages (I just owed a tariff once which was annoying).
After living in the US for many years I can say their mail service was 10x worse 😂
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Hey, spoilers, man. We're not allowed to figure the year's big surprise twist when it comes to the Russia/Ukraine escalation for a couple of months yet.
Coming this Christmas: A high atmosphere EMP pulse.
I'm really excited to eventually see this film, "Shifting Baselines", that I'm in! It looks SO COOL from the trailer, and there's a big picture of me on IMDB for it, haha weird. (But honestly, it's pretty hard to tell it's me because it was -25C or so when they were filming me here in Feb 2024)
Trailer here! viff.org/whats-on/viff25-shift… Right now I think you can only see it in film festivals, but if there's one near you, you should definitely watch it!
Shifting Baselines | VIFF 2025
Towering rockets rise as wetlands vanish in this sly black-and-white documentary about SpaceX's conquest of Boca Chica, Texas. With sci-fi aesthetics and observational calm, the film exposes how cosmic dreams begin with the quiet erasure of Earth.Vancouver International Film Festival
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Will have to watch this!
I love that, on imdb, they say it "stars: Samantha Lawler, Jonathan McDowell and Daniel Pauly"
You're a star! (In many ways 😃 )
A worker transports sacks of discarded plastic bags near the Buriganga River, #Dhaka, #Bangladesh
Photograph: Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
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The climate crisis is turning into a climate catastrophe, we have a mental health epidemic, a plastic epidemic, an inequality crisis, a pollution crisis, an energy crisis, a misinformation crisis, a migration crisis, a corporate crisis, an AI slop crisis, an art decline crisis, an economic crisis – and one positive thing – a sex retreat party 🤣. We're doing pretty well, aren’t we 😀
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Not playing 4D chess nor checkers, just a megalomaniac narcissistic bullying dictator enriching himself and betraying and conning his ignorant disciples…
Wake up Americans.
Every online argument:
Person A: 'X is good'
Person B: 'So you're saying we should do X to an insane degree with no nuance?'
Person A: 'I didn't - '
Person B: 'DESTROYED by FACTS'
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Much of the perimeter of the #Arctic Ocean is getting wetter during the month of October. This is largest over the Barents-Kara Seas region, along with the eastern coast of Greenland.
+ Data: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data…
+ More info: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/re…
Precipitation - NOAA Arctic
DOI: 10.25923/xf7c-p592 M. C. Serreze1, S. Bigalke2, R. Lader3, A. Crawford4, and T. J. Ballinger3 1National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 2Dep…Tracey Nakamura (NOAA Arctic)
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September 2025 was the 3rd warmest September on record for our planet, following 2023 (1st place) and 2024 (2nd place). The last 12-months have been about 1.51°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-… via @CopernicusECMWF data
Surface air temperature for September 2025
September 2025 was the third-warmest September globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 16.11°C, 0.66°C above the 1991-2020 average for September.climate.copernicus.eu
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I'm a little bit angry that AMD is in it... But as a BTC gold rush how they say:
its in a game
Science In Action: A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference from space.BBC
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Gardeners urged to leave perennials standing for winter to benefit insects, birds and soil - All For Gardening
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — As fall approaches, gardeners are often tempted to trim back their plants for winter. However, experts suggest that leaving perennialsGardening (All For Gardening)
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🔥 More anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire
✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts.
✨ Transparency by design: A dedicated real-time dashboard to monitor migration progress in detail and troubleshoot issues.
Read more about 1.0 RC3: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf…
#enshittification #release
Bonfire Social 1.0rc3
Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform tricks) front and center.bonfirenetworks.org
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@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe I'm very excited about the Bonfire developments, thank you for all your work! 🙏🤩
I was looking at the Open Science flavour / app (I'm still a bit foggy on the terminology), but there seem to be some dead links (e.g. on bonfirenetworks.org/app/open-s…, the "participate" link (to github.com/bonfire-networks/bo…); and on github.com/bonfire-networks/bo…, the "Open Science" link (to github.com/bonfire-networks/op…).
Do you know whether this is still alive, so to speak? 🙂
GitHub - bonfire-networks/bonfire-app: Bonfire - tend to your digital life in community. Customise and host your own online space and control your experience at the most granular level.
Bonfire - tend to your digital life in community. Customise and host your own online space and control your experience at the most granular level. - bonfire-networks/bonfire-appGitHub
happy to have a quick chat when you're available to share with you what we did and roadmap
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •THIS is why I'm an astronomer! (well, and a lot of random chances!)
Thank you for writing this up so beautifully
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •This is something I've been feeling over the last few years but hadn't put into words.
Now I don't have to because you nailed it perfectly.
This should be mandatory reading for a whole lot of people trying really hard to be significant right now.
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in reply to Chao-c' • • •Yeah, based on experimental evidence, there are a handful of lower bounds for the predicted half-life of protons (the lowest is 10³⁴ years), assuming they do decay, which are all many orders of magnitude greater than the current age of the Universe (1.4x10¹⁰ years). Maybe someone will see it happen, but they probably won't be human.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_d…
hypothetical decay process of a nucleon (proton or neutron) into non-nucleons (anything else)
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Chao-c'
in reply to StarkRG • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •And then you realize that the big bang was theorized by Georges Lemaitre.
Who was, before any other thing, a catholic priest.
Now notice that we never had a good theory for inflation.
which means, that we still dont have a good explanation for the origin of the universe, and the big bang explosion "all from nothing" is just as bad as "god made the world".
we're even more insignificant that we can realize.
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •TLDR;)
"And Crawling,
On The Planet's Face,
Some Insects,
Called The Human Race.
Lost In Time, And Lost In Space...
And Meaning."
(From "Rocky Horror Picture Show")
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •The year 5 quadrillion
Voiceover: Somehow, his LinkedIn bio survived.