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

At the beginning of the universe, there was just a bunch of particles flying around in a hot soup. One part of the universe was barely distinguishable from any other.

For 14.8 billion years that soup of particles has been doing an elaborate dance — jumping around, constantly reconfiguring themselves, getting locked into clumps of matter that are changed and mixed by the laws of physics.

This dance could have led to countless different configurations, but they arrived here, to you reading this.

@muon Yeah, as long as ChatGPT is still operating, there's not much point expending any effort to reduce my personal energy consumption. The energy use from people running their AC is a small fraction compared to all the other stupid shit we're wasting power on.

Borders are fucking stupid

Is your country suffering from a lack of technical talent? Do you want to be a buzzing hub of creativity and innovation?

Here's one simple trick: provide asylum for US citizens that are LGBT+, or have Autism or ADHD. Or, fuck it, just accept any US citizen from any targeted group.

All of the smartest and most talented people I can think of are currently freaking the fuck out and would seriously consider moving to your country if you did that. Just saying.

My political party is humanity

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.