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35 D: "Suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" // Trans Rights // Videogame's OST Connoisseur

Invoco por 1a vez en mi vida la magia de bluesky. Mi hijo se va a Pontevedra en setiembre a estudiar un semestre de Bellas Artes y les está costando encontrar alojamiento, ya que, lógico, la gente busca a alguien que esté todo el curso. Sí sabéis de alguien que busque compañero de piso por la zona

I can't speak to the traditional beliefs about it, but I can say that it's a neat reminder of how our brains use context cues like shadows to ground objects in reality. When we experience a moment that doesn't fit our mental model, we 'glitch out' & well... "the sun rests on the brains" FITS.

A yellow construction level has been placed on a sidewalk vertically so that it casts no shadow at Lahaina Noon in Hawaii.  From a physic forum.

The "zero shadow" phenomenon is only true for perfectly vertical straight-sided objects, but it's trippy to look at. The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History of Hawai'i ran a contest to come up with a name & landed on 'Lāhainā' which means "cruel sun" in Hawai'ian.

From a physic forum, some hi-vis yellow pedestrian bollards in a parking lot cast no shadow. on the yellow hi-vis non-skid strip outside a grocery store.  In the background is a hauler truck and an SUV.

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk.  It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow.  The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.