Cake Wrecks ([syndicated profile] cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-08-24 01:00 pm

Sunday Sweets... In... SPAAAACE!

Posted by Jen

Today’s Sweets are dedicated to everyone who reaches for the stars... and then feels a bit peckish.

(By Anna Vasilyeva)

Excited? Why, this astronaut is over the moon!

 

(By Cake Studio Rouge)

Gorgeous shading, and that number constellation? BRILLIANT.

 

So it turns out making a perfect globe out of cake is just a little difficult.

By which I mean you have to be a magician with an advanced degree in structural engineering.

But, BEHOLD!

(Submitted By Jennifer W. Baker unknown. Anyone know?)

MAGIC!!
Or talent. You know, one or the other.

 

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that fabulous Jupiter cake that went viral a while back. It's even pretty INSIDE:

(By Cakecrumbs, which has a Youtube tutorial here)

 

And now, the cutest little space kid and rocket ship EVAH:

(By Viva La Cake)

Why does the astronaut have little doggie ears?* I don't know. BUT I LOVE THEM. And that rocket!
Ack! I want a miniature version on a necklace, stat.

[*Apparently those are ponytails. Which I guess makes a LITTLE more sense than doggie ears. ;)]

 

Also digging this steampunk style ship:

(By Sugarrealm)

Check out all the rivets!

 

Not a great picture, but I've always loved this alien abduction cake:

(By Leigh Henderson)

It reminds me of those cow abduction lamps. Ha! Remember those?
Anyway, the plexiglass pillar is genius, and there's even an alien inside one of the windows!

 

I'm sure we all remember how a space shuttle cake can go very, very wrong, so I'm pleased as punch to see a beauty like this:

(By Scrumptious Cakes)

There's a tiny solar system on the middle tier, and constellations cover the bottom. Lovely!

 

One more the NASA buffs:

(By Cake Central user Careyl)

Best rocket cake I've seen - it looks like a model!

 

Speaking of which, my friend Jason of Red Rocket Farm paints robots and - you guessed it - the CUTEST red rockets. So naturally, this reminded me of him:

(By Sweet Disposition Cakes)

That's for you, Jason. (Now, paint me more rockets, dangit!)

 

Who says a space cake needs fancy sculpting and modeling skills? Sometimes all you need is an airbrush and a tank load of talent:

(By Merely Sweets)

Great galloping galaxies! Now THAT is a wedding cake.

 

And finally, it's only fitting that I end with a space cake that defies gravity:

(By Erin Eason)

WOWZA.

 

Happy Sunday, everyone! Here's hoping your weekend has been out of this world.

*****

Here's a stellar (eh?) gift for anyone who loves astronomy: solar system bracelets! I like that they're subtle, so folks have to look twice to realize you need your space.

Solar System Bracelets

Even better, they come in a bunch of different styles - chain, elastic, adjustable cord - and only cost $10 each!

******

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PostSecret ([syndicated profile] post_secret_feed) wrote2025-08-24 12:07 am

Emails Sent to PostSecret

Posted by Frank

A friend from college told a bunch of us how once, he and some friends had dropped acid and then went to Disneyland. They started “coming up” just after they went through the gates. As they went further into the park, the person in the Goofy costume bounded up to them. Our friend felt freaked out, so he leaned in and confided, “Please, Goofy, not now – we’re tripping, Goofy,” …and Goofy leaned in and whispered back, “Guess what – me too,” and bounded off.

~~~

I sent a postcard with a drawing of my fiance asleep and a message about changing the alarm to spend more time with her. She found it before I mailed it and now we spend more time together while awake too. Thanks.

~~~

Two weeks ago I was placed in a psych ward for attempting to take my own life. I was sitting there alone until another boy came up to me and simply said, “You’re not the most fucked up person anymore”. Everyone was just like me, dealing with some kind of issue. For the first time in my life I didn’t feel like I was the only one dealing with these things. I felt normal.

~~~

I am a counselor in a locked mental health facility. We joke that we are just patients with keys.

~~~

I’m hiding pictures of us from the past 13 years under shelves and behind drawers.

My ex-wife takes half the furniture next week.

When she finds them years from now, I hope they break her heart.

~~~

When I bought my first vibrator I was so embarrassed that when the sales person asked if I wanted to purchase batteries as well. I told her no, that I thought “she can buy her own damn batteries.”

~~~

There are no words, in any language verbal or pictorial, that could ever describe how much I wish this postcard were for me. Today is my last visit to your site, never again. It hurts too much, seeing postcards like the one I need, knowing it will never come.

 

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Good Stuff Happened Today ([syndicated profile] goodstuffhappenedtod_feed) wrote2025-08-23 08:30 pm

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tanoraqui:

toospoopyformyshirt:

obeekris:

doggos-with-jobs:

Sampson is a service dog for a researcher who works in a lab. He has his own lab coat and safety goggles

He’s practicing lab safety

He has little booties!!!!!!

this is the most Pokemon Professor-looking person I’ve ever seen in real life

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8 rumors we've fact-checked about Nobel Peace Prize nominations

Posted by Rae Deng

Yes, someone once nominated Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize. No, Pope Leo XIV did not nominate Taylor Swift for the prestigious award.
Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-08-23 01:00 pm

Unraveling retired detective Duane Lee Proctor's claim Trump staged assassination attempt

Posted by Jordan Liles

Online users shared a meme claiming the ex-detective provided his alleged expertise about the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Ars Technica - All content ([syndicated profile] arstechnica_feed) wrote2025-08-23 11:07 am

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

Posted by Marc Hudson, The Conversation

When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about a European Union trade deal, that wind turbines were a "con job" that drive whales "loco," kill birds and even people, he wasn’t just repeating old myths. He was tapping into a global pattern of conspiracy theories around renewable energy—particularly wind farms. (Trump calls them “windmills”—a climate denier trope.)

Like 19th century fears that telephones would spread diseases, wind farm conspiracy theories reflect deeper anxieties about change. They combine distrust of government, nostalgia for the fossil fuel era, and a resistance to confronting the complexities of the modern world.

And research shows that, once these fears are embedded in someone’s worldview, no amount of fact-checking is likely to shift them.

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Ars Technica - All content ([syndicated profile] arstechnica_feed) wrote2025-08-23 11:00 am

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

Posted by Jacek Krywko

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle actions that produce it. A patient has to physically attempt to speak to make these implants work, which is tiresome for severely paralyzed people.

To go around it, researchers at the Stanford University built a BCI that could decode inner speech—the kind we engage in silent reading and use for all our internal monologues. The problem is that those inner monologues often involve stuff we don’t want others to hear. To keep their BCI from spilling the patients’ most private thoughts, the researchers designed a first-of-its-kind “mental privacy” safeguard.

Overlapping signals

The reason nearly all neural prostheses used for speech are designed to decode attempted speech is that our first idea was to try the same thing we did with controlling artificial limbs: record from the area of the brain responsible for controlling muscles. “Attempted movements produced very strong signal, and we thought it could also be used for speech,” says Benyamin Meschede Abramovich Krasa, a neuroscientist at Stanford University who, along with Erin M. Kunz, was a co-lead author of the study.

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Snopes.com ([syndicated profile] snopes_feed) wrote2025-08-23 01:30 am

CDC faces lawsuit over '72-dose' children's vaccine schedule. Here's context

Posted by Rae Deng

The idea that vaccines can "overwhelm" a child's immune system betrays a fundamental misconception about how the human body functions.