The Piltdown Octopus

 

Let´s be honest about this. Had this fossil not been mentioned in the popular Guiness Book of World Records, absolutely nobody would have given a damn. Who cares if octopi evolved 150 million years later than previously thought? But sure, some pesky creationist might dub this "The Piltdown Octopus" and make it just as famous as the bombardier beetle!

From the article (see link below):    

>>>A fossil that was fundamental to describing the evolution of octopuses turns out to have been an impostor, all along.

>>>The famous 300-million-year-old Pohlsepia mazonensis, discovered in 2000 and later lauded in the Guiness Book of World Records as the oldest known octopus species, has been reclassified as a nautiloid – a shelled cephalopod closely related to the nautiluses living in the ocean today.

>>>This means that scientists are going to have to redraw the cephalopod family tree – the discovery pushes the record of nautiloid soft tissue back by around 220 million years, and brings the earliest evidence for octopuses forward by around 150 million years.

World´s oldest known "octopus" turns out to be an entirely different animal

Late stage capitalism

 

Also known as Pissmaxxing. I associate drinking your own urine with a certain neo-Nazi quasi-Theosophical cultist in Sweden, but naah, it´s a global subculture. Because of course it is. Haven´t seen the whole thing (yet) so good luck with this content, LOL. 

Serenity now

 

OK, so the Orion astronauts have safely splashed down somewhere in the Pacific. Good. Can we please go back to talk about 3I/ATLAS now on some fake Avi Loeb channel? 

OK Boomer

 

Credit: The Fourth Way 

Denying the Moon landing must be the most "Boomer" thing ever. I mean, dude, come on. What year is it? 1971? When the Hare Krishna were still edgy??? What´s up next? The face on Mars? Däniken´s musings on Mayan astronauts? Even flat earthism feels old and almost establishment these days, and that stuff didn´t really take off until about ten years ago. 

But perhaps I shouldn´t say anything, since I think/hope there might be *something* (anything) to the UFO phenomenon. That started before the Boomers were even born...

We´re all getting older.  

Splashdown

 

Artemis II (or was it Orion) is back on Earth. Meanwhile, the trolling and low IQ disinfo on various social media platforms about the Moon mission is off the scales. I frankly wonder if sheer resentment is part of the picture? Imagine being jealous of some crazy ass nigga who flew around the Moon, I mean, dude!  

The postmodern condition

 

Credit: Alex_LG

This is the "opposition", apparently. 

German transgender far-right extremist arrested in Czech Republic

The alien interview

 

A weird spin on the Roswell mythos. In this version, the crashed alien is female. Her message sounds like a syncretic blend of New Age, Scientology, David Icke, John Keel and some kind of Neo-Gnosticism. It´s surprisingly elaborate and "consistent". Evidence? None. But then, the entire point of the exercise is that we´re the victims of a grand cosmic conspiracy only known to a select few. Think Gnostic prison planet, false memory implants, that kind of thing. 

Fascinating after a fashion. But probably not, you know, true. Indeed, skeptics suspect that this new space opera *is* a front for the "Church" of Scientology...

!!!

 

Inte?! 

"Jag är inte för fri invandring eller hög mångfaldsnivå i sig"

Howdie

 

It seems I forgot to post a funny pic of Ganesha this Wednesday, so here he is instead, together with a Friday goddess. Bala, to be more exact. Although her iconography doesn´t seem to make much sense, LOL. 

Welcome back(?)

 

So the astronauts from the Artemis II mission will soon be back on Earth. LOL, do they *really* wanna return here, I wonder?

If everything goes smoothly, it´s a big win for paganism. You know, Artemis, Moon, Easter, that kind of thing...