Catoblepas

On Cosmos (the original), Carl Sagan goes through a lot of the names for the part of the galactic spiral that we see at night in places without light pollution. A lot of them revolved around milk, but one that really stuck in my mind was ‘the backbone of the night.’ I think it might have been from an Aboriginal Australian culture, but it’s been so long I couldn’t say for sure.

I like to imagine they were just found in random shoes over the day that people lost/forgot. Someone gets to Vegas and goes ah, fuck, I lost my coke shoe!

I’m glad, stay safe! Grab some N95 or KN95 masks for outdoor use too while you’re at it 👍

Yes! A single camp fire can only put out so much wood smoke, but wildfires cause all the air around you to be saturated with smoke. The smoke can contain heavy metals and all other kinds of bad shit to breathe, because it’s not just dry wood the way camp fires are. The contents of any homes or cars that have burned are also now floating around in the atmosphere.

TL;DR: don’t breathe this

with an open window.

From a fellow resident of an area with frequent fires… Friend, close the window 😬 You don’t want to be breathing it! Wildfire particles are very tiny and will lodge themselves in your lungs. Do you have air purification going? Please be careful and take care of yourself.