Another unlimbering of materials - Early April 02024

Let us begin with important business: the weighing of the manuscripts at the British Library.

Hopefully, there were no persons who suffered eye injury from looking at the solar eclipse, as there were worries about fake solar eclipse glasses filters being sold that would not actually protect the eyes during the viewing of the eclipse. Because there's always someone who wants to make a quick buck and who doesn't care about who gets hurt in the process.

The eclipse was fodder for all the conspiracy theorists and those that make their living from peddling to them, about who is supposedly going to perform occult rituals and show, if just for a moment, who the people that are really in charge of the world are. Or that the true reality of the world will be present during the eclipse, proving the world is flat, the universe is smaller than science says, or that staring at the sun at all times, eclipse or no, is perfectly fine and nobody ever gets hurt by looking directly at the sun.

( Legislators and governments having a field day ignoring whatever they find unpalatable and more inside )

Last for tonight, extensions on the idea of "two cakes!" that also remind us that sometimes people want cake without frosting, or that seeing someone else making cake means they have a community instead of being the only one. And that the idea continues on into comments, too, even if some of them seem better or more elaborate than others.

(Materials via adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)