I think that’s more than enough reasons, so go make your own website ;)
— Bertrand Russell on the limits set by science (via The Quotations Page)Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
As always, excellent insights from Cory Doctorow on how to remain hopeful nowadays (and always) and why is it different from being optimistic.
— Typewriter interview with James KochalkaThe word HOBBY doesn’t make sense to me. It’s all just STUFF I DO.
Are hobbies just the part of the process that no one pays me for?
— Last paragraph of Emily Wilson's translator notes for The Oddysey (via Choose your own Odyssey)
Via Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Explanation: On August 12th, 2026, the Moon totally eclipsed the Sun and cast its shadow across Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal. Today’s image features two total solar eclipses viewed from Zaragoza, Spain, one over the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar and the other reflecting in the Ebro River.
(Much better than mine because of course it is 😅)
This blurry photo absolutely does not make justice to the amazing phenomenon that was the solar eclipse of yesterday, but it’s my photo and I love it :D
Watched The Odyssey ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ½
Besides being visually stunning, I always find adaptations interesting because I like seeing how someone translates a story from one medium to another.
Some of my favorite parts:
Started reading Devotions by Mary Oliver
I think the Spanish edition prologue nails it when saying that these poems “transmit an intense spirituality without subscribing to any orthodox creed”.
Liked Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
this scratches an itch I didn’t knew I had, both as a dinosaur kid and a computer nerd 😆
Listened to 199: Unburned gasoline by Lateral with Tom Scott ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
not me screaming at the screen because I know what “i18n” and “a11y” mean 😆
Listened to Astronaut Reid Wiseman Thinks We're Going to Be OK by Humans ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
10/10 no notes 🤩
