Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

how many people would come to defend a trans womans right to keep her gold medal?

it is only technically true, that trans women were allowed to compete. they changed the rules specifically for the 2024 olympics in such a way to effectively ban 99.9% of trans women specifically from participating:

Here hes talking about the brutal murder of Brandon Teena, a trans man, in 1993 also calling Brandon a “cross-dressing female” and the quote you see here

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

okay so it’s a somewhat obtuse system and lord knows i don’t actually mention it anywhere on my letterboxd but to me there are six categories of movies! there’s Bad-Bad, Good-Bad, Bad-Mid, Good-Mid, Bad-Good, and Good-Good. to complicate things, the order that i listed these in isn’t actually the scale in order of how much i like a movie!

to start off with the Bads, Bad-Bad is just a movie that straight-up sucks with no redeeming qualities. a Bad-Bad will typically be about a half a star to *maybe* a one-star review.

Good-Bad is a movie that sucks but is really entertaining to watch anyway, either as an mst3k-type thing with friends or just because it’s at such a level of absurdity that you kind of can’t look away. to me a Good-Bad can be between anywhere from two to two and a half stars but can sometimes have a low three-star rating with a heart. i will absolutely watch a Good-Bad movie again, especially if i happen to have gone on a date with miss mary beforehand.

Bad-Mid is a movie that’s just. well it Exists and wasn’t necessarily BAD but it was pretty forgettable. this will be usually a two or so (sometimes lower) in my book, i wouldn’t leap to watch this movie again unless i was being threatened with a firearm.

Good-Mid is a movie that’s just alright! i had fun watching it but it don’t really “wow” me. this is usually will have a three-star rating from me; it’s the sort of thing i’d watch again but wouldn’t be the first thing to come to mind if i decided that i wanted to watch a movie.

Bad-Good is a movie that is Good (typically in a technical sense to be specific) but god i didn’t enjoy watching it (and i don’t necessarily mean a movie that makes me feel bad! i mean like it feels overly pretentious or bores the hell out of me) i’ve taken film classes and can appreciate the construction of a film and the artistry on a technical level but sometimes a movie feels like it was made to appeal to the sort of person that’s really annoying on twitter and regularly masturbates to a framed photo of alfred hitchcock (and i say this as someone who does quite like hitchcock movies LOL rear window is one of my favorites) while mumbling to themself about how their taste in movies is miles above other moviegoers and that everyone else is ants beneath them. i’ll watch a Bad-Good if i have to for academic reasons or if i’m just particularly curious but i generally won’t leap to rewatch it. a Bad-Good will usually have a four-star rating from me but won’t have a little heart next to it (i appreciated it as a film but i didn’t like it as a movie).

a Good-Good is something that i liked both as a film and as a movie! well-made, kept my interest, gave me stuff to think about, etc. a Good-Good will usually be a four and a half to five-star rating and also have a heart on it on my letterboxd.

the actual scale in order from what i like most to least goes:

Good-Good

Good-Bad

Good-Mid

Bad-Good

Bad-Mid

Bad-Bad