@simsa03 I'm a boomer and in spite of my best efforts I'm living in considerably more comfort in old age than I expected or people who knew me expected. Many expected I'd be dead by now, and ha, I outlived some of the many. I did expect to be living in poverty, and possible homeless by now. I never cared about money so I never sought it and lived poor the first half and more of my adult life. I am grateful for my life, all of it. Can't wait to see what happens next, in spite of all the shit.
@simsa03 I remember The Sun and Utne. I subscribed to Utne. I think I had a poem published in The Sun, but that was a long long time ago. I certainly don't have a copy of the magazine. I wonder what happened to the pile of Utnes I had. Some place the Heavy Metal issues went no doubt. All the very pretty magazines printed on good paper without the smeary ink.
@instantiatethis I currently listen to music on a phonograph. Neither it or the LP records I play on it can be turned off remotely because I didn’t pay a recurring or subsequently added fee to the manufacturer or “provider “. Some LPs I buy new, but some I own are 60-70 years old and play fine. I do have a bunch of CDs downstairs, only a old laptop to play them on.
Comet SWAN25F was discovered by the Solar Wind ANisotropies (SWAN) instrument (developed by LATMOS, France and the Finnish Meterological Institute) aboard the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
The astronomy community was alerted by Maik Meyer, assistant editor of the International Comet Quarterly (ICQ) and founder of the Comets Mailing List.
Meyer later posted that SWAN25F will probably be named C/2025 F2.
I'm a Pentecostal Atheist putting on a tent show revival, speaking in tongues and witnessing to the Word of not god but the Mammon of my counterfeits of meaning