Saddened To Hear Of The Passing Of Our Very Own Mrs Hudson 😞 RIP Una Stubbs

This person gets it

“Your bruises and your scars

Tell a story on your skin.

They tell us who you are

And they map out where you’ve been.”

- me.

“less than twelve parsecs!”

I’m a day late for May the Fourth, but I’m gonna share this anyway!

At this point, most of us are fully aware that parsecs are a unit of distance, not time. Star Wars even went ahead and used Solo to retcon Star Wars: A New Hope to reflect that fact. If you’ve watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts on Netflix, you might also know that 1 parsec is equivalent to 3.262 light-years. But what actually is a parsec?

Parsec stands for parallax per arcsecond. 

Astronomers use the observed parallax of celestial objects to determine how far away they are. Parallax refers to how an object in space seems to shift against its background when observed from different points. If you hold your finger out in front of your face and then tilt your head left and then right, you can observe this for yourself.

The angle where the sight line from each point of observation meets the observed object is called the angle of parallax. With that angle, astronomers can use trigonometry to find the distance to the object - usually a star. It’s only really useful if the objects are within a distance of 200 parsecs from Earth, because for objects farther out than that, there’s not really an observable parallactic shift.

I’m pretty sure that this next bit gets taught in grade school at some point, so some of you may recall what an arcsecond is. An arcsecond is 1/60th of an arcminute, and an arcminute is 1/60th of a one-degree angle. So, 1° = 3600 arcseconds.

So, back to that parallax per arcsecond definition. What it means is that:

One parsec is equal to the distance of an object from Earth when the angle of parallax between them is equal to one arcsecond.

And there you have it! That’s what a parsec is! May the Fourth be with you.

TIL, the residents of Cheran, Mexico armed themselves and kicked out the ruling cartel as well as every politician and policeman. It now functions as a legal self-governing indigenous community with a crime rate near 0%

via reddit.com

16th February, 2021. [Video: Pablo Hasél being arrested by policemen and taken inside a police car while he shouts “mai ens aturaran, mai ens callaran, mort a l’estat feixista! mort a l’estat feixista!”, which means “they will never stop us, they will never shut us up, death to the fascist state! death to the fascist state!” in the Catalan language]

The rap singer from Lleida (Catalonia) Pablo Hasél being arrested for the lyrics of his songs and the content of his tweets. He has been sentenced to 2 years, 4 months and 15 days of prison for “glorifying terrorism” and “insulting the [Spanish] monarchy” according to the Spanish judicial system.

He refused to turn himself in, and instead locked himself with comrades who showed up inside the University of Lleida, as they barricaded the doors and people blocked the access of the policemen in solidarity. After 2 hours displacing the protestors, the anti-riot police accessed the third floor, where Hasél was, and took him directly to prison.

Spain is the country in the world with the most artists sentenced to jail (source: The state of artistic freedom 2020, FreeMuse).

More than Turkey, more than Iran, more than China. Spain, and disproportionately national minorities (Catalans and Basques). And the European Union allows it.

In Spain, you can go on TV and openly give support to fascism, you can send death threats to people from national minorities and/or political dissidents, you can do the fascist salute on the streets and shout “viva Franco” and “arriba España” while circling cultural centres of national minorities (mostly Catalans and Basques) and calling for the need to “shed their blood”, the Spanish army can call for the execution of 26 million citizens … but you cannot take a stand against the Spanish monarchy (remember Josep Valtònyc is still on exile for having said “the Bourbons [dynasty of the Spanish monarchy] are thieves”) and wish them the guillotine.

People like Pablo Hasél and Valtònyc were not even famous when they released these “criminal” songs, they were just people like any other, with access to internet and something to say. Spain came for them like it can come for any of us, like it came for our parents and grandparents. Like they came for Adri, for Tamara Carrasco, for the Altsasua boys, for Dani Gallardo, for Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez, for our democratically-elected government still in jail and exile, for everyone arrested and threatened and beaten by the police in strikes and demonstrations, for the people who tweeted jokes about the death of Carrero Blanco (the fascist admiral who could’ve been Franco’s successor as fascist dictator if he had not been killed by ETA), for the people who posted on Facebook comments against the Spanish police’s brutality on Catalan people… People like you, people like me.

LLIBERTAT PABLO HASÉL

I almost scrolled past this; was not expecting it to be this funny oh my god

Weeks? It’s been like 8 months.

Today’s aesthetic: keeping the same tab open in your browser for three solid weeks because you’re definitely going to get around to reading and/or acting on whatever’s in it any minute now.

“Untitled“ by | Erin Moon

Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington

Soft and Chewy Lemon Cookies - Averie Cooks

These soft and chewy lemon cookies are packed with big, bold lemon flavor for all you lemon lovers! They're soft, chewy and not at all cakey!

So I tried this recipe for lemon cookies today, because I love lemons and it seemed like a fun thing to do for the beginning of summer. It was really good! As advertised, they are very soft and chewy (and delicious).

It takes a little while, particularly if you don’t have any lemon zest on hand, but they’re cookies worth making if you have some time to spare.

(Actually, though, the recipe calls for two whole tablespoons of lemon zest! I didn’t have enough lemons for that, so after I’d taken all the zest from four lemons I stopped and just used what I had. So my cookies are probably not quite as lemony as the original, but they’re still good.)

I had them with my family with a dusting of sugar on top and some chilled blueberry-lavender tea!