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Shelley Durga Karpaty's avatar

Damn, I didn't know about the Beatles song. Next time.

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Constantine Markides's avatar

2044 it is

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Serious journalism at it's prime! I loved this!

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Constantine Markides's avatar

I'm a serious man so I only do serious journalism :)

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The Second Folio's avatar

“It should be about Ra or Apollo” made me chuckle. Also please Carrie that she looks absolutely gorgeous in those sexy sexy glasses

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Constantine Markides's avatar

NASA fired three sounding rockets today to study atmospheric disturbances caused by the eclipse. They were named APEP after the Egyptian serpent deity of darkness and disorder whose lifelong mission was to devour Ra. I guess NASA knows what's up.

I'll pass on the message. It was the only way I could take a photo of her: wearing magic glasses that blinded her to anything and anyone but the sun.

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The Second Folio's avatar

NASA definitely DOESN’T know what’s up as an entity, but many of the individual nerds who work for NASA out of some naive idealist love for astronomy in itself DEFINITELY do. But yes.

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Constantine Markides's avatar

Hmmm, some may be nerds, but all of them are apparently definitively sex magic ritual practitioners...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5EzgfOunfE/

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The Second Folio's avatar

It won’t let me open the link because it’s just giving me a “false information as reviewed by independent fact-checkers” error message 😭

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Constantine Markides's avatar

proof

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Caroline Good Markides's avatar

His wife seems incredibly smart and insightful. What a woman

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Constantine Markides's avatar

Needs to work on humility, but yes

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Grimalkin's avatar

Thank you for the morning giggles. Over here (PNW) our eclipse was clouds. \m/

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Constantine Markides's avatar

Hey, you can always start planning travel for the August 2027 total solar eclipse in Luxor, Egypt. You'll not only get a whopping 6+ minutes of totality but also a sun so fierce that no pacfiic northwest cloud would ever stand a chance

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Hilarious!

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Caroline Good Markides's avatar

Dressing like a Christmas elf (red and green) is actually where the sartorial science is at

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Constantine Markides's avatar

Recent Slate headline: "Here's why you should wear red and green for the April 8 total solar eclipse." Online journalism at its finest

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