Good morning. 🫖☕😃
7 October 2025
The weather report I checked this morning said we can expect it to be partly sunny. I found that curious — why not partly cloudy? I appreciate the glass-half-full sentiment, though. Technically, the sun is always present, albeit sometimes obscured from our direct view by clouds or by the Earth itself. Clouds, however, come and go, so partly cloudy feels more accurate. Or is it more correct? I tried correcter, but it got the dreaded red squiggly underline. So yes — more correct is correct. Now that I’ve corrected that, I can move on.
The sun has always been and always will be. Well, like all things, it will eventually go away — but not within our wee little lifetimes, which are but a fraction of a second in the grand scheme of things. As far as humans go — or life on Earth, for that matter — the sun has always been. To be sure, Earth will cease to exist long before the sun does. Scientists predict that Earth will likely be snuffed out by the sun when it becomes a red giant in a mere 5 billion years or so.
Yes, it’s likely that humans won’t always be — but they will always be in our lifetimes 😜. I read a headline this morning about the discovery of a 57,000-year-old artifact. The headline claimed the object, which bore carvings, wasn’t created by humans. But when I read further, I discovered the carvings were made by Neanderthal people — which gave me pause 🤔. Wait a minute, weren’t Homo neanderthalensis human? Homo means “man,” you know.
Oh no! I’m running out of space and need to wrap this up. Homo neanderthalensis were human, just like Homo sapiens — different species, yes, but they interbred. So were they really that different, way back when?
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation... that makes us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.” — Elizabeth Kolbert
#morning #weather #sun #human #homosapien #homoneanderthalensis #plants #photography
Happy anniversary to Pete Shelley’s album, ‘Homosapien’. Released this week in 1982.#peteshelley #homosapien #idontknowwhatitis
https://open.spotify.com/album/59sf1CK6QyJ5DDaeru4xqG?si=4H1DuPBJRTSon5Vaf-
as one of the #MTV generation… queer-coded #80s #synth has an ability to cheer me up…
there could be some correlation to the current mass hysteria against #queer & #trans with the rise of homophobia during the AIDS crisis that has me needing to listen to it more lately…
but my current obsession [with every remix on infinite loop] is #Homosapien by #PeteShelley
the lyrics stand out as much today in significance…
#QueerMusic #MentalHealth #queer #gay #🎧 #🎶 #🧠
Not long ago, our species was not on the top. There were lions and other courageous predators that stood above us. We were still scared monkies always thinking somebody was behind us going to eat us.
Through the miracle of language and cooperation, we rose to the top far faster than we should have. Instead of being courageous dominatrs, we are scared dominators. And that fear is what makes us the most dangerous species to ever have existed.
A song banned by the BBC for "explicit reference to gay sex" in the lyrics "homo superior / in my interior".
Pete Shelley and 1981's Homosapien
Homosapien at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosapien_(song)
Don't forget to listen to The Groove Yard at:
https://www.accessmedia.nz/ProgrammePage.aspx?PID=bd513235-08f8-4f47-a358-02a2230dd55e
#Podcast #Podcasts #Music #TrackOfTheDay #Dance #1980s #PeteShelley #Homosapien
#Aliens may have already visited #Earth.
Presuming that they'd be here at any point during our wafer-thin moment of existence on this #planet is the pinnacle of #narcissitic #human arrogance.
We're also far out in the sticks of the #MilkyWay #galaxy.
Maybe we only get scanned every #epoch (1,000,000 years) or even half an epoch. They could have "just" missed early #HomoSapien.
Anyway, the premise for 65, on #Netflix, "the atmosphere is breathable" is the most unbelievable part of the plot.
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