#M58

[quiltofstars]

M58 // DoubleStarPhotography

One of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster, M58 is a barred spiral galaxy. In other words, it is a spiral galaxy, but instead of a spherical bulge at its center, it has a bar-shaped structure at its center. About two-thirds of all spiral galaxies in the local universe have bars, including (perhaps) our own Milky Way.

[m58]

from "Words Made for Night: A Book of Psalms" by Alan Baker

PSALM 1

A smoky bar in blurred light, men playing cards

A crowded bus, a stray dog sniffing at litter bins

A mood of turbulent change throughout the nation

I sat outside the cafe, falling in love with every passer-by

Living on the margins of the world in the twilight, the crunch

Of a wasp in casual snow emptied into a summer room

Windows that let the breeze fondle my hair

Translate a smile into something absolved

A piece of music like a layer of time

So that my eyes construct the street from spores and pollen

Fungus and leaf-mould and listen to the song birds

Who offer music and new life to the months to come then turn

To forage nonchalantly as if such a gift were easily in their power 

PSALM 2

I can survive mundane miracles and accept

A scene from the oldest book in the world

Dreaming of endless journeys and favourable winds

Tuber and taproot, the grimace of winter under

A place of stillness, tendrils and plasma membranes

Leaf-mould, moss, spores and a handprint

On the cave wall, someone already there

A fox-run opened onto a clearing

Was this wildwood or domesticated menace?

Next year's bulbs stir in my optic nerve

Fungal strands take hold in the chambers of my ear

A life of multiple forms and sloughed skins

Everyday acts of kindness remembered

PSALM 3

I write from the safety of the neutral zone

Though I know that all around

The fires smoulder and men in clown masks

Are armed and dangerous but at least

There are mothers walking their kids to school

A man scraping ice from his car window

The exhaust smoke white, floating, toxic, beautiful

Two figures in orange overalls

Emptying litter bins in the park

And now a lorry with shouting men tips

Tarmac onto the road, steam

Melted tar, flames and smell of burning

And tomorrow the road will be new

PSALM 4

As I walked through the wilderness of this world

Sea-birds raised their instinctual broods, long-distance travellers

Down by the docks among cranes and warehouses

Where a solitary walker feels as though a door had been opened

Into a wholly unexpected dimension where words fail

A place to sleep: and as I slept, to dream a dream

I saw a man anchoring weights on something that should fill like a sail

Flit like a swift from town to town bringing good news

Too unbelievable to be put into words

PSALM 5

I peered into the windows of the public library

Leaking radiators, polished floors, books on everyday wellness

The sky was night-tinged over the pound shop and advice centre

When I am lost, be my GPS, when I am weary be my single bed

Trees absorb the petrol fumes which they later turn into leaves

Leaf-vein atlas suddenly awake to sun on wings, flit and hover

In a sudden march snow-shower jab at dead leaves, switch

To litter-laden playground like a local deity of the edgelands

Concrete and buddleia, damp and cloudy skies

To the roadside at night to regally regard the passing cars

Alan Baker was born and raise in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and has lived in Nottingham since 1985 where he runs the poetry publisher Leafe Press. Recent books include Riverrun a series of modernist sonnets about the river Trent, and A Book of Odes.

[objectum-confessions]

microphone kisser anon. i ordered one. a pre owned shure sm58-lc. feeling a little silly but. im also excited. thanks for encouraging me (genuine). (:

OH THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR!!!!!!!!!! i hope you and your mic have the best of times anon ^__^

[ozdeg]

szar lett, bocs

[blueiscoool]

Big Bang

The American M58 MICLIC demining system in action in Ukraine.

[todaywold]

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[molfarua]

💥 The Ukrainian military is already using the American M58 MICLIC demining installations. This system uses a rocket-type linear explosive charge and provides a strip of 8 by 100 meters

[pattern-recognition]

*conspiracy theory hat* the nazis got rid of as much impressionist art and labelled it as degenerate so that no one could train their eye to recognise their camouflage

I get the joke, but the beginning of camouflage pattern experimentation catalyzed by WW1 does actually have it roots in late 19th century impressionism. The above painting is Monet’s Morning on the Seine near Giverny, and the camo is DDR NVA M58 Flächentarn (also called Blumentarn), not WW1 era but you get the picture. Many of first camofleurs were professional artists or academics such as like Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola, a pastelist who was conscripted as an officer into the French army and later led the Section de Camouflage R&D team. It makes sense given both mediums seek to interpret and abstract the fleeting moment of an observation, specifically through lighting and from a distance, and disrupt sharp silhouettes into hazier shapes. That’s a very shitty and brief explanation, and I really want to seek out and read some more developed literature on the topic.

Other camo patterns are derived from cubism or other trends, like the above sketch by André Mare of art deco fame.

[moonmoonsim]

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[quiltofstars]

M58 // CrestwoodSky

M58 has the distinction of being the most distant object in Messier's catalog, being about 62 million light years away. Although you can see its star-forming spiral arms clearly in this image, it is a relatively anemic galaxy with a low rate of star formation. This is likely caused by its interaction with the surrounding intracluster medium, the gas that fills the space between galaxies in the Virgo Cluster.

[m58]

three from Daniel Lehan.

top - 'fullstops', middle - 'no ribbon - commas' bottom - 'no ribbon - letters.' (click to enlarge).

Daniel Lehan has lived in New York, Florence, Finland, and Quebec, and now lives in Dungeness, on the south coast of England, facing France.  

He delivers collage workshops to a wide range of participants including those in prison.

His visual and collaged poetry has appeared in numerous print and online magazines, including And/Or, DITCH, experientialexperimental-literature, foam:e, Indefinite Space, Kumquat Poetry, the delinquent, shuf, and small po[r]tions.

His work - 'Book Pages Destroyed By Typewriter' - is included in The New Concrete, Visual Poetry in the 21st Century, published by Hayward Publishing, 2015.

[honkbird]

I found an oldie desktop tower in the garage from when I was in like . Idk some point in middleschool?

I had to track it down a little but it's a "Lenovo ThinkCentre Desktop Intel M58" or, at least, the case/shell is. A couple of parts must've been refurbished when I bought it but carbon dating says it's from 2008 and probably refurbished circa 2014 when I got it from walmart.

WHAT a PRETTY BIRD, as a kid I didn't value some of this enough but I'm glad young honk was anal about preserving hardware. It's got a disk tray (in the year of 2024), 2tb storage, and 8gb ram. This thing is going to make an amazing media centre. It wasn't properly booting at first but I think that's due to windows crapping out.

Fun fact, when I got it, it didn't have a licensed version of windows despite saying "comes with win10" on the order. I was going to change it to a linux distro but it's funny that now I HAVE to.

Expect me to spend time with this instead of art for while.

[theverumproject]

AITA Tag Game!

Guess who's been gone for another two weeks (ig) again? Woopsie...

Thank you for the tag @illarian-rambling, I have never done this one before, looks like fun!

I think I'm gonna do this one for Dethra, will contain spoilers for the first part of my WIP Verum II: The Robotic Era.

Rules: write an am i the asshole post as if you are a character from your wip.

CW: Mentions death, torture, violence

AITA for killing a man in front of an audience because he was the owner of a death ring? (And for wanting to traumatize a bunch of rich snobs)

I (M58) am a pretty famous person, you might know me as Dethra, the big scary robot from the organisation Hemalog. I'm one of the leaders.

So the other day, me, my friend Luce (F69) and our teams (alpha and beta this time) were paying a visit to another death ring. As you might know, if you regularly catch up with the news, we get rid of them. In other words, we more often than not slaughter people like pigs. (Which is not an entirely bad thing btw). We do it for the good of other people. Imagine if your friend or partner got kidnapped one day, was forced to fight to death against another person and sooner or later was killed. You wouldn't like that, would you?

Well, we don't either.

So, that day I stepped into that ring, told the two robots who were forced to fight to stop and leave. Then this small little rich ugly bastard came up to me and poked me with his gross finger. I recognized him as the owner of that filthy place, so I didn't make it a long process. I grabbed his head and slowly closed my hand around him until his head popped. Of course the audience, that was just watching robots, people, fight to their death, was forced to watch it all. Moments ago they were just laughing and cheering, and suddenly they were crying and begging. Really gave them a taste of their own medicine. (We kept them alive btw, we don't just kill everybody).

So, am I the asshole?

Tags: @teamarine777 + open tag!

[captain-price-unofficially]

Ukrainian M1224 MaxxPro MRAP obliterated by the detonation of approximately 1750 lbs of explosive in the M58 MICLIC it was towing, early 2024

[nicolaradano]

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[fragilepeach]

AITA if i (m58 eunuch) attempt to poison my liege lord (m30 noble) because i have fallen under the bewitchment of his concubine (f22 previously common)