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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • From the article linked by MML:

    You might be in for a surprise when you read it, though. To answer the question, “How many stars in the sky?” The total comes to 9,096 stars visible across the entire sky. Both hemispheres. Since we can only see half the celestial sphere at any moment, we necessarily divide that number by two to arrive at 4,548 stars (give or take depending on the season). And that’s from the darkest sky you can imagine. I don’t know about you, but that number seems paltry to one’s impression of an inky night in the backcountry.

    At the poles, where the north and south polestars are pinned to the zenith and no stars rise or set, the same ~4,500 stars are visible every single clear night of the year. At northern mid-latitudes, the pole star is halfway up in the northern sky, allowing us to peer deeper into the southern realms of the celestial sphere. During the course of a year from latitude 45° north, we see roughly half again as many stars as we do at a particular time on a given evening. That tallies up to approximately 6,800 stars. Still pretty lean, but apparently enough to convey the impression of an intensely starry sky.




  • Time to poke the nearest sleeping baby. Don’t harm them, just wake them so they will wail. Then yell at the preacher for waking the baby, to direct the mother’s wrath and the entire plane’s enmity at them, while the wails drown out the sermon.

    Feel free to include references to the many harms done by Christian leaders to children, from the mass graves found at Catholic Indian Boarding Schools and Irish mother and baby homes to the massive and ongoing conspiracies in many different denominations, including the Evangelicals, to molest and rape children that goes even beyond the worst excesses of the Epstein files.