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   Mx Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:35:03 JST Mx Jay Baker

   My Disabled partner is particularly suffering in these unprecedented heatwaves here in the UK, and there's sadly only so much I can do to alleviate it. She pointed out last night that, as we had the #PerseidMeteorShower right after the #SolarEclipse, it feels almost like Mother Nature sending a message -- how beautiful it all is, how we ought to value and cherish it all, rather than exacerbate the climate crisis with North Sea oil and gas and an economic system of endless extraction.

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     Mx Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 03:35:54 JST Mx Jay Baker

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     Incidentally, last night I learned something I'd always wondered about when I was younger: that the equatorial diameter of the Sun is, in fact, about 400 times the diameter of the Moon, a ratio that then leads to one of astronomy’s most spectacular quirks – because the distance between the Earth and the Sun is almost 400 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon, the Moon and the Sun appear almost exactly the same size in Earth’s sky and therefore when the Moon and the Sun line up perfectly, as seen from Earth, something wonderful happens: a total eclipse of the Sun. How magical is that.