Notices by Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)

I spend a lot of time doing nothing, and that's okay

Turns out doing nothing is a valid activity. I mean, it's as valid as anything is. I can think of a lot of worse things to be doing than nothing.

HEADLINE: POTUS signs executive order making bad weather illegal. Musk vows DOGE will track down government weather control machine and modernize with AI.

HEADLINE: 22 year old DOGE intern killed after showing up unannounced at the gate to Area 51 demanding statistics for expenses related to extraterrestrials

Seriously considering just fucking leaving the country (again). This DOGE clown show seems to have finally pushed past my internal threshold of stupid bullshit I'm willing to tolerate. I'm so done with this shit.

I'm less angry and more just exhausted and exasperated

A real country would have put Musk's head on a fucking spike by now, but nah let's just let him brazenly usurp governmental authority with impunity because we're all apparently just a bunch of sheep being led to the slaughter

Fuck everything

Trying to live a "normal" life right now feels like wasted effort

Here's the shot of the Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) I got last night. Red Cat 51 and ASI2600MC using Askar Colormagic C1+C2 filters.

Pulled out H, OIII, and SII channels out of the two image stacks and mapped them to the HOS palette, which I thought looked stunning. This is one of my favorite nebulae 😍

These filters are cool AF. Even straight out of the camera the images looked really pretty. I'm very happy with them.

#astronomy #astrophotography

Here's a cropped version because Mastodon decided to pixelate the crap out of full res one.

The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) in HOS narrowband palette.

#astronomy #astrophotography

I'm sure some of you are like, "holy crap, I had no idea there was anything that bright and colorful in space!"

That's because it isn't lol. I use special light filters for narrowband, and it lets me have more fun with the colors.

Here's what a true color image of the Rosette Nebula would look like (this isn't the best capture I've done, so accuracy is probably off a bit).

#astronomy #astrophotography

I just realized I could write a description that applies equally well to either the vampires in What We Do In The Shadows or the current administration of the US government:

Out of touch monsters (who are fundamentally parasites on society) try to perpetrate evil but are often thwarted by their own ineptitude and interpersonal drama.

No person is safe until all people are safe. We will weather the storm together or not at all.

I don't say that as a sort of hope, or aspiration, or prayer. It's not even a statement of fact.

It is a promise; a curse. Ignore or defy it at your own peril.

Perhaps someone said this during the human population bottleneck event tens of thousands of years ago, when we were reduced to a few thousand people at most on the entire planet.

Maybe an eldritch god heard it and made it so — an ancient bargain to stave off the end of the world.

For anyone unaware of our genetic heritage as a species:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_Toba_eruption#Toba_catastrophe_theory

When people say "humans have been through worse" when talking about global warming, I don't think they realize just how little that reassures me.

@Floppy Exactly. The idea that *some* people will get through it doesn't make up for all the people who won't, especially when the entire situation can be avoided.

The fire in LA is a warning; a preview of future calamity.

You can either stand your ground now and fight Nazis, or run and try your luck with endless natural disasters, plagues, droughts, and famines.

Choose how you'd rather die.

Once you start running, you won't stop. There is no refuge, no place to hide from the brewing storm. Earth is our only haven, and we have set it alight.

Any force that works to alienate and divide us is anti-human and wants us all dead. Escapism is one of those forces. There is no escape from our fate, only denial of the terrifying truth:

No person is safe until all people are safe. We will weather the storm together or not at all.