LittleBitMore

i'm a space nerd who loves to be asked space trivia

[littlebitmoreksp]

Howdy! I'm LittleBitMore! I'm a queer neurodivergent space nerd addicted to space stuff. I use the pronouns she/her. This blog posts mostly nonsense and memes. DMs always okay and encouraged, asks always okay and encouraged. Ask me space trivia at any given point in time and I'll try to answer it!

Go begone and vaporize spontaneously if you're a:

terf

transphobe

homophobe

This list will get longer when I find more people to complain about.

[mapsontheweb]

The United States — ALL of it

[bonediggercharleston]

Reminder that Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands and DC don’t have actual representation in congress and only DC can vote for President even though over 5 million people live in these areas

[carolxdanvers]

They drill “no taxation without representation” into our heads like it’s why the country exists… and then omit the fact that allllllll of those people pay taxes and have no say in their government.

[herothat]

I don’t think this is quite right

[simkaye]

Mom says stfu or we’re not going to Dairy Queen

[cryptid-sighting]

Sinking Giant Concrete Orbs to the Bottom of the Ocean Could Store Massive Amounts of Renewable Energy

These underwater batteries could potentially store hundreds of thousands of gigawatt-hours.

I'm not going to bother reading the article to find out if this actually works or if anyone is actually trying it. I'm just happy we as a society are showing proper reverence for Orbs.

[communist-hatsunemiku]

this is so freakin cool. the article goes on to say it has been successfully tested on a small scale in a german lake, and they're scaling it up in trials off the california coast!

[foone]

The power is stored in the balls

[nick-nonya]

[rocketcomics]

pure love

[perrokallej3ro]

i’m fucking crying y’all

[perrokallej3ro]

IWMXKWKSOWKDJEJ??????

[idetecthorseofcourse]

????? horse detected

[hbmmaster]

how much does the aurora borealis weigh

[hbmmaster]

it's pretty light

[draconym]

My tattoo artist told me his teenage son came out to him as trans by giving him a bunch of blue cupcakes and a greeting card that said "it's a boy!"

"That's cute," I said.

"It was NOT cute!" he snapped. "I thought he was pregnant."

[jabberding0]

bridge building

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge wild wild abandon.

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

RIP Richard Serra. You made so many people so so so mad

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

In honor of this guy's passing let me once again tell the story of my favorite piece of art ever - Tilted Arc.

Commissioned by the US government in 1979 the work was made up of a 12x120 foot sheet of cor-ten steel which bisected Foley federal plaza in Manhattan. That's it. Just a sheet of metal in a plaza between several government buildings. It doesnt do anything. But it made people So Angry and also made the best argument I've ever seen for the worth of public art.

Foley square is the sqare around which the NY County courthouse, US Court of appeals, and several international ans national seats of law are positioned, which makes it a very important governmental spot in the US. These are the courts that don't send billionaires to jail and rule in class action suits against the prosecution.

The sculpture was installed after a lengthy period during which Serra carefully watched the way people interacted with and moved through the space. His artwork was as much a piece of participatory performance as it was a piece of sculpture, using the general public as part of the piece itself.

Of course everyone fucking hated it.

Because of the way the structure was positioned, lawyers and government employees had to walk around the structure, not only disrupting their habitual path of movement and allowing time for contemplation, but also making them contend directly with the people they were supposed to be working in the best interest of. The sculpture became a site of impromptu games of soccer between neighborhood kids, a makeshift arena for buskers because of the accoustics, and a windbreak under which the homeless could take shelter. It was a sculpture which made one intensely aware of their trajectory in space and thereby the world. While, granted, not as good as the park which had been initially considered (and which is there today) it did function as a living community space in ways it previously had not.

There were multiple hearings at which artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Joan Jonas, and Keith Harring argued in support of keeping the piece. But to no avail. After a protracted legal battle -- during which Serra stated his right to free speech and that the government itself had greenlit the commission and the government argued that the curvature of the piece would cause bomb blasts to ricochet into the courthouse (what?)-- the piece was dismantled in 1989 and is stored in a warehouse somewhere in Brooklyn to this day.

Ultimately the commission and subsequent censorship of the piece triggered long running debates over Institution vs. Public, general poor urban planning, public perception of art, and the creation of environments as art which continue to rage within sectors from public policy to architecture to art. It really shifted the discourse and formed the basis of a lot of my own academic inquiry.

Public art should not (and arguably can not) be just pure aesthetic frosting on the cake of life. It needs to activate a space, and, more importantly, activate people within that space. Contemporary art should make you uncomfortable, should make you think, and this piece really speaks to the general societal fear of anything that disrupts our routines or makes us think about our environment too much. It was a wakeup call and a community space and a free speech argument and an example of the stupidity of the US government all wrapped up in one thing and I love it so so so very much.

Anyway, RIP Richard. You made so many people so mad and so many people so happy. Hope you're frolicking in a field of rusty steel monoliths as was your happy place.

[1los]

[10knotes]

omfg that is just too adorable

[satanic-b00ty]

This will always be one of my favorite comics ever. It gives me warm fuzzies~

[hello-missvixy-deactivated20160]

This is the most perfect.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This kitteh having a little halloween adventure is one of my favourite posts of all time :)

[wonderhawk]

Every fall like clockwork this photo set pops up and we all must reblog it

[zooophagous]

ITS TIME

[dduane]

Always will reblog.

[trilliath]

Scaredy Cat Mini Book — Heather Franzen

On a dark night, a little kitten curiously wanders into a pumpkin patch. He soon becomes scared of the pumpkin patch's inhabitants and wishe

Remember to support the real artist - it makes a great gift for any little ones or witchiness-inclined people in your life.

[indigosfindings]

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[drakensberg-blog]

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

[poupon]

how dare you say we piss on the poor

[sparrow-va]

all hail the 1 million note Piss Post

[blaxolt]

excuse me i never pissed on this post!