Platinum ship of fools @conatus@octodon.social

Imagine finding these babies in your black-site shed:
“In 2012 the National Reconnaissance Office, the folks in charge of designing and building secret satellites, found that they had a couple huge telescopes just sitting around in a black-site warehouse somewhere. So they did the saintly thing and classified them so they could give them to NASA to do something useful with them” from: https://www.universetoday.com/141528/meeet-wfirst-the-space-telescope-with-the-power-of-100-hubbles/

I just discovered that my favourite instant noodles contain palm oil. which means I can't buy them anymore. all nice things are cancelled.

Sometimes when I'm feeling down I listen to Gusty Garden Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy and am instantly reminded that life is good. It's amazing how much joy you can put into one song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHQGiz6b8g

Tigran Hamasyan is so good. I can't wrap my head around it. Quickly becoming my favourite artist. This part always gives me chills.
https://youtu.be/Y5ogerZedws?t=177

Is everybody already over the fact that the new president of Nintendo of America is a guy named Doug Bowser? 2019 is WILD.

Working next to a synth isn't good for productivity

Can I borrow some work-ethic.
Mine is missing.
Procrastination is hell.

Listening to soundracks of games I sank 100rds of hours as a kid. I made me realize where my love for jazz comes from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXOxLpdMds
Shoutout to Jerry Martin for his work on the sims and sims adjacent games.

... Aunt Jemina could be safely used to bake pancakes or biscuits indistinguishable from the real thing in appearance and taste, other than a slightly gritty texture. With the proper detonator attached, however, the biscuit contained sufficient explosives to become a small bomb."

Currently reading Spycraft: The secret history of the CIA's spytechs, from communism to Al-Qaeda. It's full of amazing facts, that make me wonder what is possible with current tech:
"In one exceptional example of camouflage, Lovell's engineers began work in November of 1942 on a new type of high explosive disguised as flour. Eventually, DuPont produced fifteen tons of the granular explosive, nickname Aunt Jemina, for use by OSS in China. Designed to match the gray color of Chinese wheat flour...

Waking up and seeing the blood moon from my bedroom window, is a swell way to start the day.

Don't forget that all monsters respawn after a blood moon, stay safe everyone.

I'm obsessed by this performance by the Avishai Cohen Trio https://youtu.be/JVijn6v_cLM It's so hypnotic.

The moon looks very T H I C C today

I know it's wrong but #brexit is deeply funny to me. Very hyped for the season finale tonight.

Best discovery for me in 2019: I write way faster when I outline in mindmap form. If only I could just send in mindmaps instead of real reports.

tired: One Belt, One Road
wired: Always Walls and always Wheels

We have driven away the evil spirits of 2018! Have a tranquil 2019