Harsh Biscuits
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Doing my best to make you feel small, unimportant, and temporary. Science says it will make you feel good!
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Harsh Biscuits
@harshbiscuits.bsky.social
· Nov 26
How a Bit of Awe Can Improve Your Health (Gift Article)
Experts say wonder is an essential human emotion — and a salve for a turbulent mind.
www.nytimes.com
A sense of awe - evoked in whimsical, scientific and even gruesome ways - helps you get out of your head. At least that's what research says.
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
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The observable universe contains an estimated 2 trillion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. Unfortunately, if life exists in any of those other 2 trillion galaxies, we'll never know, because they're just too far away.
December 1, 2024 at 5:53 PM
The observable universe contains an estimated 2 trillion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. Unfortunately, if life exists in any of those other 2 trillion galaxies, we'll never know, because they're just too far away.
Saying “I don’t want to die,” is as silly as a toddler saying they don’t want to eat or go to sleep. Especially to the 100 billion or so people who have already died on the planet.
November 30, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Saying “I don’t want to die,” is as silly as a toddler saying they don’t want to eat or go to sleep. Especially to the 100 billion or so people who have already died on the planet.
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Do you think you're sitting still right now?
- You're on a planet orbiting a star at 30km/s
- That star is orbiting the centre of a galaxy at 230km/s
- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.
Since you started reading this, you have travelled about 3000km
- You're on a planet orbiting a star at 30km/s
- That star is orbiting the centre of a galaxy at 230km/s
- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.
Since you started reading this, you have travelled about 3000km
November 28, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Do you think you're sitting still right now?
- You're on a planet orbiting a star at 30km/s
- That star is orbiting the centre of a galaxy at 230km/s
- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.
Since you started reading this, you have travelled about 3000km
- You're on a planet orbiting a star at 30km/s
- That star is orbiting the centre of a galaxy at 230km/s
- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.
Since you started reading this, you have travelled about 3000km
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Perspective is everything. We're small, aren't we?
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Perspective is everything. We're small, aren't we?
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“Rather tragic optimism holds space for the full range of human experience and emotion, giving us permission to feel happiness and sadness, hope and fear, loss and possibility — sometimes in the same day, and even in the same hour.”
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
Opinion | How to Keep Going Amid the Chaos (Gift Article)
When in despair, try tragic optimism, wise hope and wise action.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:37 PM
“Rather tragic optimism holds space for the full range of human experience and emotion, giving us permission to feel happiness and sadness, hope and fear, loss and possibility — sometimes in the same day, and even in the same hour.”
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
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The Pacific Ocean is big.
November 29, 2024 at 12:15 PM
The Pacific Ocean is big.
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"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." - Welcome to Night Vale
November 26, 2024 at 9:14 PM
"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." - Welcome to Night Vale
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A sense of awe - evoked in whimsical, scientific and even gruesome ways - helps you get out of your head. At least that's what research says.
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
How a Bit of Awe Can Improve Your Health (Gift Article)
Experts say wonder is an essential human emotion — and a salve for a turbulent mind.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
A sense of awe - evoked in whimsical, scientific and even gruesome ways - helps you get out of your head. At least that's what research says.
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
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There's something quite sobering about the fact that 95% of all stars that will ever be born ... have already been born.
(I learned this from @astrokatie.com)
(I learned this from @astrokatie.com)
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
There's something quite sobering about the fact that 95% of all stars that will ever be born ... have already been born.
(I learned this from @astrokatie.com)
(I learned this from @astrokatie.com)
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Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)
Here’s how the Sun will end all life on Earth
Our home star won't go supernova, but the end of its life will be no less spectacular.
www.sciencefocus.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)
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Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.
November 26, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.
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Sometimes when I go to sleep I try to imagine all human hearts beating in the world. No bodies, just all of the hearts. Beating a few inches above beds in my part of the world. Going about their business in the other half. It is beautiful and overwhelming and puts me to sleep in five minutes.
November 26, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Sometimes when I go to sleep I try to imagine all human hearts beating in the world. No bodies, just all of the hearts. Beating a few inches above beds in my part of the world. Going about their business in the other half. It is beautiful and overwhelming and puts me to sleep in five minutes.
Sometimes when I go to sleep I try to imagine all human hearts beating in the world. No bodies, just all of the hearts. Beating a few inches above beds in my part of the world. Going about their business in the other half. It is beautiful and overwhelming and puts me to sleep in five minutes.
November 26, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Sometimes when I go to sleep I try to imagine all human hearts beating in the world. No bodies, just all of the hearts. Beating a few inches above beds in my part of the world. Going about their business in the other half. It is beautiful and overwhelming and puts me to sleep in five minutes.
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Out galactic neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy | NASA
November 26, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Out galactic neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy | NASA
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
November 26, 2024 at 9:43 PM
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
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Experiencing awe in the everyday world around you can calm down your nervous system and increase oxytocin levels. Additionally: you can develop the ability to experience awe like working a muscle
A sense of awe - evoked in whimsical, scientific and even gruesome ways - helps you get out of your head. At least that's what research says.
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
How a Bit of Awe Can Improve Your Health (Gift Article)
Experts say wonder is an essential human emotion — and a salve for a turbulent mind.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Experiencing awe in the everyday world around you can calm down your nervous system and increase oxytocin levels. Additionally: you can develop the ability to experience awe like working a muscle
"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." - Welcome to Night Vale
November 26, 2024 at 9:14 PM
"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." - Welcome to Night Vale
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We're all going to die in a relatively short amount of time so I had this weird idea, and tell me if it's stupid, but maybe we could all be kind to each other until then??
November 20, 2024 at 6:25 PM
We're all going to die in a relatively short amount of time so I had this weird idea, and tell me if it's stupid, but maybe we could all be kind to each other until then??
A sense of awe - evoked in whimsical, scientific and even gruesome ways - helps you get out of your head. At least that's what research says.
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
How a Bit of Awe Can Improve Your Health (Gift Article)
Experts say wonder is an essential human emotion — and a salve for a turbulent mind.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
A sense of awe - evoked in whimsical, scientific and even gruesome ways - helps you get out of your head. At least that's what research says.
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
On that note, I'd like to remind you that you are a meat bag that will spoil in the next cosmic heartbeat. Happy Tuesday!👼
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/w...
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In a stunning feat, a group of astronomers said that it had managed to take the first close-up picture of a star in another galaxy. Not only was the image a distance record for such cosmic intimacy, but the star looks as if it is getting ready to explode.
First Close Up Picture of Star Outside Our Galaxy Shows a Giant About to Blow
Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:07 AM
In a stunning feat, a group of astronomers said that it had managed to take the first close-up picture of a star in another galaxy. Not only was the image a distance record for such cosmic intimacy, but the star looks as if it is getting ready to explode.
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