Just in time for Pride, we have news about the notorious "pink planet," a billion year-old gas supergiant that's 57 light years from Earth. Turns out that this old, pink planet is extremely salty, which feels relatable. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...
I’ve been coming up with increasingly unhinged names for literary genres. Do any of these sound intriguing to anyone?
1 Metaphysical mystery
2 Microcosmic horror
3 Speculative art history
4 Eldritch musicology
5 Anthropocene surrealism
6 Object-oriented hauntology
7 Psychogeographical suspense
Seen on Cuba St.
"These aren’t obscure SoundCloud demos," says this article.
Cannot state strongly enough that the issue would persist even if they WERE obscure SoundCloud demos. Copyright exists independently of whatever financial value the work in question holds.
The ordering of this is incredible:
James Webb Space Telescope finds salt clouds surround one of the coldest objects ever studied
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We’ve signed an open letter addressed to the people of Aotearoa and the MPs who represent them because we need your support to ensure this bill does not pass.
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[blind date]
Him: what are you looking for in a partner?
Her: someone with serious ink
Him: *opens coat to reveal a range of 19th century fountain pens*
Her: [whispering] holy shit
Tamaki is well aware that he can incite violence against religious minorities, due to Labour failing to pass the Human Rights Act amendment in 2023 that would have covered religion under the 'incitement' section out of fear of the anti-woke (literal) mob doing the inciting.