I've Been Through the Neptunian Desert on a Ship With No Name

Astronomers have uncovered the “Neptunian Ridge,” a newly identified feature in the distribution of exoplanets. This discovery … highlights the complex dynamics within the Neptunian Desert, a region with a scarcity of hot Neptunes, and the Neptunian Savanna, where these planets are more commonly found.

— Phys.org: “Astronomers discover new feature in exoplanet distribution that’s between the Neptunian Desert and Savanna”

And then you stop at the ridge and look down into the Neptunian Savanna, making a choice between where you’ve been and where you want to go.

I might not make it into any starter packs but at least I’m a certified badass Bluesky elder! 💪

Bluesky graphic indicating user number and celebrating 10 million total users.

That Notebook

That notebook. I see that notebook. Spiral. Open flat. I see it on that table.

That notebook is too small. It has boundaries. Take a tube of blue acrylic paint. One of the big, thick ones. Hold it in one hand, pointed downward. Squeeze the tube across the page and beyond it. And back. Back and forth. Take yellow and do the same. Onto that table.

This is the proper use of the notebook. It’s restrictive so that you can go beyond it.

Soon you’re not drawing in that notebook. You’re drawing on a vertical pane of glass. And not just back and forth but a continuous line. Keep going. The people on the other side of that glass only see the colors.

More colors? More colors. Peter Max colors. Leaping across the sky.

And trailing a rainbow.

A pattern of painted colors, mostly blue.

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