Genuinely wild that a major topic in the 2014 Cosmos series was gravitational waves, which at the time hadn’t been directly observed*. And now a decade later new stellar mass binary GW detections happen like every day and we’re all a bit confused about why the cosmic GW background is so gosh darn loud
The most enjoyable ways to rotate a cow in your imagination: 1) pitch (end over end) 2) roll 3) yaw
girl in the park ( @Jessica Rooster ) #f64point0 image
is it still doomscrolling when there’s real doom out there or is it just regular scrolling
i don’t have the energy to put it together, but just imagine that screenshot of the dude from Airplane saying “guess I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue” but like with the ‘stop sniffing glue’ replaced with ‘stop doomscrolling’
@erl: hey can I tell you something? @Jessica Rooster: of course; you can tell me anything as long as you start it with “forgive me father, for I have sinned”
Used “we don’t know where they come from but we know how we grow” to transition from a slide about supermassive black hole origins to evolution and the only one in the audience to laugh was @Jessica Rooster smh
Hey any east bay trans photographers out there wanna meet up? I'm thinking of starting a photo group / zine (shoutout to @Jessica Rooster) centered around slice of life photography of the trans experience in the east bay. The idea is inspired by the group formed by Ansel Adams and friends, f/64 (
Group f/64 - Wikipedia
) which pushed back against pictorial photography of the 20s and instead aimed to embrace photography as a medium in its own right. Their work was frequently extremely political in its use of straight photography to reproduce a scene as they see it and understand it, rather than using it to build a pictorial image. In this sense, their photography acted as a testament to the way they saw the world, in all its problems: environmental, economic, bigoted; and aimed to lay those problems bare on their film F64.0 is the ICD-10 code for transexualism. In short, this project f/64.0 is a photographic depiction of trans life as we see it and as we experience it, during a period where our existences are politicized and used for purposes beyond ourselves. Just as f/64 used straight photography to ground their medium in its material realities and pull it back from pictorialism, f/64.0 does the same to root trans existence and pull it back from politicization.