Welcome to Heaven, Mr Sorry

A Time Spanner fanblog

[myjetpack]

A recent New Scientist cartoon.

p.s. I will be in Madrid and Germany very soon! Details at www.tomgauld.com

[certified-linguistics-moment]

[coldswarkids]

i just saw someone misspell guardian angel as 'gardening angel' and i am absolutely sent

[asterwild]

arctic/antarctic

[timespanner]

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[myjetpack]

A books cartoon for The Guardian from a while back

[publicdomainreview]

Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93).

More from the series here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise

[clawmarks]

Research : design in nature ; Field Museum of Natural History ; School of the Art Institute, Chicago - John Gilbert Wilkins - 1926 - via Internet Archive

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings

[pseudomasochist]

You wanna know what's fucked?

Your brain is a 25-watt computer.

Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I don't like that fact

[pseudomasochist]

No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

It's a cool fact it just makes me uncomfortable

[fictionadventurer]

Solving a plot problem in the story that I'm daydreaming up just for fun feels like an accomplishment, until I remember that this is on the same level as Arthur Shappey going, "I'm the one who thought of putting an otter in the fridge!"

Which is why I've started calling these "otter in the fridge" problems. I have an entirely hypothetical scenario that I'm trying to solve, and coming up with a solution is intellectually and emotionally satisfying, but that solution doesn't have any actual effect on the world, so make sure you're also accomplishing things that matter.

[barstoolblues]

truly there are only so many words

[timespanner]

[stellaluna33]

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

[humanoidhistory]

Radar operator monitors air traffic aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1988.

[ephraimwaite]

Dreamt I had to come up with a new aesthetic and my idea was "celestial uncle"

[ephraimwaite]

Celestial uncle was like... unflattering middle aged man clothes but printed with centuries old cosmological diagrams and various esoteric imagery

[timespanner]

Meridian Line of Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna

A massive line that stretches across the floor of Bologna’s largest church was created by a 17th-century scientist to measure the movements

[nemfrog]

"Venus appears largest when in the crescent phase." Natural History. December 1949.

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