Sean McKnight

@ynot1989.bsky.social

(He/Him) Old Cartographer, Writer, Futurist, multiverse traveler. BLM / ACAB 🇺🇦 Patreon: http://patreon.com/SeanMcKnight dA: ynot1989.deviantart.com Beehiiv: https://sean-mcknight.beehiiv.com/

I think we're learning: -consumerism is an overpowering populist force in American society -the populism expresses itself as a base urge for greater consumption; it is not reactive to conditions on the ground -people are ashamed of this and often try to disguise it as other types of politics

"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.

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1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about me I'll try but I might in fact be too dull and mundane to think of that many

And the KIDS Act, please call about the KIDS Act too! Don't let anyone tell you your voice doesn't matter, we can fend this off as many times as we need 🙏 Thanks again guys you are genuinely so cool

The thing I keep running into is that no one really has a specific definition of any group. Like, I see people call themselves liberals and hate on leftists but their positions are all aligned with other people who call themselves leftists and hate on liberals. It gets *wildly* confusing.

Oh wow: ESA announces it has a positive detection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage booster impacting the moon! I still haven't seen any images of a flash, but that's not surprising. It was faint. Here, they saw evidence of gas (vaporized material) in the impact plume by taking spectra.

ESO@eso.org · 8h ago

Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4