The Fedora Chronicles

01/07/2026

01/07/2026

Photo of Marsten Bailey by Nicholas James Unsworth

01/05/2026

- I found this quote somewhere and thought it would be the perfect text for my first Monday motivation of the year. “You don’t have to be everybody’s cup of tea, be gasoline and set some stuff on fire.”

This means exactly what you think it means, or what you want it to mean for you and your purposes.

I am not everybody’s favorite person or best friend. I’m pretty sure that I rub a couple of people the wrong way. Gone are the days when I go along to get along and tell people I don’t feel comfortable doing something that goes against my values or is in my best interest. If I had to share a New Year’s resolution, it would be: this is the year I’m going to be even more uncensored.

Sometimes you need to set a situation on fire and burn the bridge behind you and move on with your life. Some people do need to get cut out of your life when they prove they’re only out to use you and abuse you and will set you a drift when you’re depleted.

If it hasn’t happened yet 2026 is the year you become the protagonist of your own story.

01/02/2026

I promise you this is probably gonna be the one of the nerdiest things you’re going to read all day:

•••According to the team, the rogue planet’s mass suggests it didn’t form in isolation like a star or a brown dwarf. Instead, it was likely born in a protoplanetary disk before being cast out by violent processes. In the paper, the authors write: “We conclude that violent dynamical processes shape the demographics of planetary-mass objects, both those that remain bound to their host stars and those that are expelled to become free-floating.”•••

I don’t mind telling you I would love to be able to travel to this road planet to get a look at it for myself.



http://www.astronomy.com/https:/astronomers-measure-mass-and-distance-of-free-floating-planet/

01/01/2026

AJ LoCascio posted this picture on another group and it sums up 2025 perfectly, but not the way you think.

The way he tells the story is that this was lost while he was moving. He went for a walk later and he found it in this condition after the rain took it down the street.

Then something happened after he posted this picture. One hatter offered to clean and reblock it, others offered him suggestions on how he can clean and fix it himself. Some hatters stepped up and offered to sell him a new one. 

For so many of us, 2025 did to us what the downpour did to this fedora. It’s never over until it’s over because you see it through to the end! Or you quit.

It’s your choice and your story. Make it a good one!

12/28/2025

Getting back to regular posts and Wez Burns is the inspiration for this edition of “Nothing is stopping you!” In a world of slobs and furry’s, stand out by dressing up with a decent suit and fedora. People will thank you and you will inspire others to do the same!

Fedoras aren’t for cosplay, they’re for everyday life.

12/25/2025

It’s my Christmas Wish is that Artemis brings back our world’s sense of wonder and adventure and kick starts our collective pursuit of a better tomorrow!

Space.com: “NASA's Apollo 8 moonshot saved 1968. Could Artemis 2 do the same in 2026? On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.”

From just 60 miles above the surface, the astronauts became the first humans to gaze upon the moon’s stark mountains and cratered plains. Then came a moment none of them expected: the blue marble of earth rising above the lunar horizon. In a single photograph — the now-iconic "Earthrise" — humanity saw itself from a quarter-million miles away, fragile and alone in the darkness.



Original link:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasas-apollo-8-moonshot-saved-1968-could-artemis-2-do-the-same-in-2026

12/22/2025

Another possible entrance to a different section of an Egyptian pyramid. But why would they back-fill it after they were finished with construction? We’re they keeping everyone out, or something in?

“We believe that the continuity of the shallow structure and the deep large structure is important. From the survey results, we cannot determine the material causing the anomaly, but it may be a large subsurface archaeological structure.”

12/19/2025

“That belongs in a museum!” Hanukkah 2025 Edition!

“An excavation at the City of David in Jerusalem unearthed a 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with a seven-branched menorah on each side.”



Original story:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/rare-1-300-year-old-medallion-decorated-with-menorahs-found-near-jerusalems-temple-mount

12/19/2025