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It's so sad because it's true 🫤🤦‍♂️

@oatmeal Myself

@oatmeal Finland in the winter.

@oatmeal That’s my aurora experience through and through.

@oatmeal Every night here has been aurora borealis this winter for me, too. :(

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lol - I posted this on FB overnight. It's a classic!

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100% this around here....

@oatmeal Right in the feels. We'd been dead by 2044. Mother Nature loves playing tricks.

@oatmeal forreal

@oatmeal This is me.

@oatmeal So you're in Ireland today

@oatmeal So true.

@oatmeal Yes, 8 out of 10 times. 2 out of 10 times: light pollution (city lights) or buildings blocking the view.

@oatmeal he lives in Asturias, for sure

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Ok, I really did LOL

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Can confirm the meteory shower one.

Every. Damn. Year.

😂

#PerseidsMeteorShower

@oatmeal British astronomy 🙂

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This is what it's like for a astronomy nerd living in the Pacific Northwest.

@oatmeal Ireland every celestial event, ever...

@oatmeal 😆😆😆😆

@oatmeal ahhh Seattle weather, always so predictably opposite of what you want

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Welp, that's been the general Gen-X experience. So glad that some of us got to see the eclipse really happening today.

@oatmeal hello from Ireland 😄

@oatmeal yup, nothing but clouds where I’m at today

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@oatmeal Seattle life amirite?

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I feel seen here

@oatmeal is there an eclipse photo version of the pumpkin deluge?

@oatmeal so bloody true! 😂😂😂

@oatmeal The story of every Seattleite's astronomy experiences.

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See also, "new telescope depression", a recognised disease and meteorological phenomenon in the astronomical world.

"My new telescope is due tomorrow. Sorry, everyone." is a standing not-quite-a-joke.

@oatmeal funny to see in the comments that this doesn't only happen in the Netherlands 😀

@oatmeal In theory, a partial eclipse should have been visible at sunset in Glasgow. Instead, rain and clouds. Rain and clouds are often visible in Glasgow!

@oatmeal I felt this so hard 🤣

@oatmeal Truth

@oatmeal every. single. time.

@oatmeal@mastodon.social I see you live in Northern Europe too? 😅

@oatmeal it should say solar eclipse as a lunar eclipse is not at all rare. Lunar eclipses are visible to half of the planet all at once. Solar eclipses are very local.
I would share this if it would say solar.

@oatmeal Murphy's laws 😂