Notices by Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) (guncelawits@mastodon.social), page 2

@teledyn I briefly thought this was a dub reggae producer inexplicably named The Boy and the Heron.

@rejinl @dgar My current answer is, “The more math and science you learn in high school, the more options you have after high school. If we didn’t teach you this stuff, we’d be saying, ‘These kids will never need to fly very high: let’s give them turkey wings instead of eagle wings.’ That would make us assholes, right?”

Skimming the NYT:

“Travis Kelce Was a Star. Taylor Swift Put Him in Another Orbit.

Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, has won two Super Bowls and hosted Saturday Night Live. But nothing compares to his brush with the Swift aura.”

Me: “Football is still a thing? Saturday night live is still a thing? <straining> Taylor Swift is a singer, right?”

“Republicans are so hostile to laws protecting the safety and well-being of children that they've even blocked the U.S. from ratifying the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, making ours the only nation in the world that doesn't recognize the human rights of children.” https://www.salon.com/2023/09/08/another-christian-influencer-arrested-for-child-abuse-why-conservatives-keep-falling-for-these-cons/ via @e_urq

I have met the paperclip maximizer and it is us https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/05/alarming-scale-of-marine-sand-dredging-laid-bare-by-new-data-platform

@StillIRise1963 It is difficult to get a white mark to understand a con, when the con artist shares their racism.

“Bail bond agents are almost exclusively found in the United States, as the practice of bail bonding is illegal in most other countries.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_bondsman

Pancakes are named after the god Pan.

She did her high-school thesis on asteroid-borne amino acids back in the day, and just… stuck with it, and here we are.

Ink Girl got herself a job analyzing the first-ever asteroid return sample, and I’m the proudest and most bezozzled dad ever.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/1st-nasa-asteroid-sample-return-mission-on-track-for-fall-23-delivery

“History is full of people who continued to struggle in desperate and grim circumstances, and so is the news from Ukraine to the Philippines. Some lived to see those circumstances change because of that struggle. Maybe this is what Antonio Gramsci meant with his famous phrase “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers

via @inthehands

@misc The real killer app for augmented reality is gonna be feeding you people’s names and where you know them from.

@simmagolda I will ask trans kid’s advice. They have excellent moral sense, and excellent fashion sense.

I probably don’t have the guts, but the moral imperative is clear.

I spoke at the high school last night, to give out some scholarships, and I just realized that I should woman up and always wear dresses when I do stuff like that, just so an old straight cis guy can draw some fire. Fuck the freedom-haters.

I’m lucky as shit, because my whole family would support this. So if not me, then who. Do I have the courage to spend down some of this privilege?

Perhaps if Kid Flash takes me out dress shopping…

@Mrfunkedude Tangent: I recently learned that the Italian word for “parents” is “genitori,” and the Italian word for “relatives” is “parenti.”