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I’m experimenting with pushing Tri-X to 1600 and 3200 ISO (this shot is 3200). My masters final project is about a dream-like experience and I’m playing with heavy grain and the sense of fogginess it can illicit. I’ll be experimenting with double exposures as well.
This is the Barcelona Cathedral around 10am on a weekday during Semana Santa. The tourists hadn’t quite started to swarm yet (I mean, if I’m honest, at 8 months living here I’m still a tourist).
Shot on a Minolta XD-11 that used to be my father’s. 35mm lens. Probably f8 with a high-is shutter given the ISO.
This is the Barcelona Cathedral around 10am on a weekday during Semana Santa. The tourists hadn’t quite started to swarm yet (I mean, if I’m honest, at 8 months living here I’m still a tourist).
Shot on a Minolta XD-11 that used to be my father’s. 35mm lens. Probably f8 with a high-is shutter given the ISO.
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Never did much with TriX but I loved pushing Ilford Delta to 1600 and beyond. Such gorgeous grain and contrast.
that's a lovely shot
@1f2frfbf oh i should definitely try with some delta. i have delta 3200 to experiment with, but i've never pushed delta 400 (or 100). i've also been playing with harmon kentmere 400 and really like it. i usually stick with hp5+, it's very hardy when messing with chemistry.
@wjcstp thank you!
@wjcstp thank you!
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Presenting male on a cliff top holding a tiny terrier dog. They're both wearing the same white puffa jacket.
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animation of artemis II's flight trajectory, with the earth rotating at a fixed point in the upper-center of frame. the craft is depicted as a red ball following a red loop, with the moon (a grey ball and grey line) coming into frame just as the craft is at its furthest extent.
animation of the flight path of artemis II, making the rounds here this morning.
source: https://community.wolfram.com/groups...
source: https://community.wolfram.com/groups...
It's so sad that they will never be able to return to Earth
Missed it by that much!
I love the moon doing a little scoot through.
@dogwelder "ope just gonna s l i d e right by ya there"
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
It utterly boggles my mind that they can calculate this so accurately as the moon passes - after an exactly 5 minute and 55 second burst of engines from Earth.
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a computer/keyboard, a satellite in space and a dolphin in water, all connected via a triangle. you can see the word 'login' printed in stylish letters.
So long and thanks for all the phishing emails
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A 3 panel comic strip: "There's no way out of this one, Dad. Check." says a kid who is dominating his Dad in chess. Dad, slyly, angles his watch to reflect a beam of light onto the board, catching the attention of a cat. In the last panel, we see the pieces scatter as the cat pounces. Dad covers his smile from his distraught child.
source: https://pbfcomics.com/comics...
The alt text came directly from PBF! Nice that they are adding it!
The alt text came directly from PBF! Nice that they are adding it!
Love you, Gurewitch
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9. man vs the empire brain building
10. Dead woman wouldn't
username checks out
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Screenshot of a Reddit thread:
Confettireadi: I once booked a hotel without knowing there was a furry convention. My 3 year old was convinced we were somewhere special and was obsessed. Everytime the elevator opened up, someone else would hop on and he was beside himself with excitement.
cassodragon: This is so unexpectedly wholesome
Confettireadi: A 3 year loudly commenting on furry costumes was a funny weekend!
cassodragon: I feel like this is a parent hack; saves a lot of money vs going to Disney, if your kid is young enough not to know the difference.
AtticusFinch2: This happened to me too! I went to a friend’s Indian wedding and at the same nice Hyatt on the Baltimore waterfront, there was a brony convention. It was a whole weekend of people in beautiful saris (many who had come over from India) mixing in the elevator with guys in hoodies wearing my little pony tails. It was the best weekend of my life.
Confettireadi: I once booked a hotel without knowing there was a furry convention. My 3 year old was convinced we were somewhere special and was obsessed. Everytime the elevator opened up, someone else would hop on and he was beside himself with excitement.
cassodragon: This is so unexpectedly wholesome
Confettireadi: A 3 year loudly commenting on furry costumes was a funny weekend!
cassodragon: I feel like this is a parent hack; saves a lot of money vs going to Disney, if your kid is young enough not to know the difference.
AtticusFinch2: This happened to me too! I went to a friend’s Indian wedding and at the same nice Hyatt on the Baltimore waterfront, there was a brony convention. It was a whole weekend of people in beautiful saris (many who had come over from India) mixing in the elevator with guys in hoodies wearing my little pony tails. It was the best weekend of my life.
Didn't know there was a furry con in town this weekend until I saw a thread in the local subreddit about it.
This made me go bwaaaah.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Unfortunately most of the rest of the thread is furries good! no furries bad! back and forth.
As far as I'm concerned anybody willing to walk around downtown in >85° sunny weather while wearing full-body fursuit with head enclosed in an unventilated plastic shell has earned the right to be wherever they want to be.
This made me go bwaaaah.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Unfortunately most of the rest of the thread is furries good! no furries bad! back and forth.
As far as I'm concerned anybody willing to walk around downtown in >85° sunny weather while wearing full-body fursuit with head enclosed in an unventilated plastic shell has earned the right to be wherever they want to be.
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More machine than man
Rockit - 1835
BIDDI BIDDI BIDDI
I'm an abolitionist organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
We can build you!
This must satisfy the fantasies of a certain demographic
The sexiest Liam Neeson.
@poorusher patriots
He looks good for his age.
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I wasn't very productive as the meeting was at my own studio, and I had promised to provide lunch and coffee for my six colleagues. I'd also cooked eggs, roasted zucchini and prepared salad. I felt a bit like a proper mom.
(I work for a comics festival, so they're all quite understanding when I make notes like this)
#notes
(I work for a comics festival, so they're all quite understanding when I make notes like this)
#notes
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In Jyväskylä, Finland, apprently
Happy five year FYB anniversary, concrete bunny! https://mltshp.com/p/1L77Y
Oh this one's going straight to Big Units
https://mltshp.com/bigunits
https://mltshp.com/bigunits
KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR KINDER EGGS
Look, if we built this large, wooden badger...
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Actor Brittany Murphy photographed in a suit wearing pointy boots sat on the floor. Behind her on the wall are paintings all hung at jaunty angles.
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A metal panel of elevator buttons. The lowest one says EARTH. Then they go up by increments (numbered 75, 95, 115, 135, 155, 175, 195, 215, 235) and the last one just says SPACE
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A dingy room with a yellow wall. Dominating the room is a giant metal box, the size of an enormous refrigerator or furnace. It's the greenish blue color of corroded copper. On the front of it is a round portal, revealing the head of a flaming figure inside. The figure is a fiery orange with blazing yellow eyes. There are a few controls and lights on the front of the box. Numerous pipes, the same color as the box, lead out of the box and up to the ceiling. To the right of the box is a door with a red triangle on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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phew, I was confused about the scale.
Lucky they cleared up that scale issue
https://www.bbc.com/news...
More here, although they do write it as Nasa (which instantly makes me think it's all AI - bloody hell)
https://www.bbc.com/news...
More here, although they do write it as Nasa (which instantly makes me think it's all AI - bloody hell)
That’s a conscious choice of the BBC style guide. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyl...
“Where you would normally say the abbreviation as a string of letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces (eg FA, UNHCR, NUT). However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms, where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Aids, Farc, Eta, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec).”
“Where you would normally say the abbreviation as a string of letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces (eg FA, UNHCR, NUT). However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms, where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Aids, Farc, Eta, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec).”
@bezt oh wow, today I learned, I did not know this, but I have seen Aids written that way so I'ts not totally new I guess. I'm thinking having NASA up on signage, logos etc is why I assume it should always be like that.
@Argie NASA has their own style and design guides, as modified by the whims and dictats of the present management. I think it’s mostly GPO for text. https://www.govinfo.gov/collecti...
The BBC styling is definitely a choice, probably not one I agree with, but at least the Beeb is consistent about it.
The BBC styling is definitely a choice, probably not one I agree with, but at least the Beeb is consistent about it.
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Huffington Post headline about Pam Bondi's firing which says "SNEER TODAY, GONE TOMORROW"
Gone Tomorrow.
I am sure that Blanche will be at least as bad, but also, Fuck Pam Bondi.
I am sure that Blanche will be at least as bad, but also, Fuck Pam Bondi.
But, who will replace Zeldin at the EPA? And Bondi is someone you don't even look at sideways, much less F.
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a blue circuit board in a museum display. It has many components attached and lots of bodge wires
forget that expensive Apple nonsense: this is real history. Prototype Sinclair ZX Spectrum discovered in the Nine Tiles office in 2019. It had been lurking there since 1982.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
wire-wrap (not shown) ftw
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Close-up photo of the manufacturer's tag on a blue towel that's long become faded and yellowed. Prominently in the middle: "Sears Our Better Quality". On one side is wash instructions, on the other is the fabric composition: 100% cotton for the face, 50% cotton and polyester for the base. Whatever that means. You can tell it's old because its Sears logo was retired in 1984.
I miss the days when retailers like Sears branded their own consumer products by practical rankings: Good, Better and Best, usually. These days they're more like Supreme, Excellent, Superior or something.
These were never actually great for their primary purpose of towelling water off things. As insulating liners for the cooler we keep in the car for groceries, they're fantastic.
These were never actually great for their primary purpose of towelling water off things. As insulating liners for the cooler we keep in the car for groceries, they're fantastic.
I miss Sears. When I was a kid, my dad worked in Sears service fixing TVs, appliances, HVAC, computers and various other things over the years, so we got an employee discount and shopped there a lot. I also worked at a Sears Hardware for a few years in college. It was amazing how much customer loyalty Sears had.
You could definitely see the cracks starting to form and a lot of mismanagement as the years went on, even before the idiotic K-Mart merger and Eddie Lampert decided to strip the company for parts. They can and should have been Amazon, with all the catalog and distribution infrastructure in place, but got out of the mail order business just in time for the internet to take off.
You could definitely see the cracks starting to form and a lot of mismanagement as the years went on, even before the idiotic K-Mart merger and Eddie Lampert decided to strip the company for parts. They can and should have been Amazon, with all the catalog and distribution infrastructure in place, but got out of the mail order business just in time for the internet to take off.
@cwhartman My dad was a lifelong Sears stan. I have boxes of old Craftsman tools to prove it, and could have had several times as many except even the Craftsman name couldn't keep some of their power tools from being crap.
Lampert was the worst thing to happen to the company. A bully and utter incompetent whose only virtue was to prove how robust his predecessors had made the company, by how long it took him to finally destroy it through mismanagement and appalling decisionmaking.
Lampert was the worst thing to happen to the company. A bully and utter incompetent whose only virtue was to prove how robust his predecessors had made the company, by how long it took him to finally destroy it through mismanagement and appalling decisionmaking.
@ardgedee I stocked up on tools when I worked at Sears Hardware, most of which I still have. One of the nice quirks of their inventory system was that after items were discontinued for a certain amount of time (I think one year), inventory was zeroed out. Managers were supposed to destroy any stock found at that point.
What happened instead was a savvy, poorly paid employee could dig through dusty boxes of stock, or check things on the shelf that seemed neglected to look for anything zeroed out. Managers would do the right thing and sell to store employees (we'd all get one of whatever it was) for a token cheap amount ($1-$5) rather than trash it. It could have been a way to get employees to actually work stock, but I'm not sure that level of sophistication was in play.
Most of the power tools were indeed trash, I tried to steer customers who actually use their tools towards just about anything else.
What happened instead was a savvy, poorly paid employee could dig through dusty boxes of stock, or check things on the shelf that seemed neglected to look for anything zeroed out. Managers would do the right thing and sell to store employees (we'd all get one of whatever it was) for a token cheap amount ($1-$5) rather than trash it. It could have been a way to get employees to actually work stock, but I'm not sure that level of sophistication was in play.
Most of the power tools were indeed trash, I tried to steer customers who actually use their tools towards just about anything else.
@cwhartman I was, literally, just saying the part about Amazon yesterday. I went to JC Penney's to buy a pillow.
Military brat overseas, Sears catalogue for clothes!
@cwhartman In the 60s, when my dad was building out his workshop, Sears's TOTL power tools were built by Delta, Porter-Cable, etc... people collect 'em now because they're cheap (relative to new equipment) and still run great.
Those weren't the ones my dad got. He usually purchased at the "good" or "better" tier.
Those weren't the ones my dad got. He usually purchased at the "good" or "better" tier.
@cwhartman My first adultin' job was at Sears, and it felt like progress when I went from working parts in the auto center to a job in the credit department in the early 80's, but what was going on was a big consolidation, the "promotion" I got was because they closed down 6 other reginal offices and we just lucked out getting the new office.
I moved on to other things after awhile but of course that office was also closed later and you know how the story ends.
I moved on to other things after awhile but of course that office was also closed later and you know how the story ends.
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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photo of a bomb attached to the wing of a fighter jet. Scrawled on the side of the bomb are the words "as per my last email"
My nation is in this picture and I don't like it.
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"Just had this photo sent to me, posted on Space: 1999 Art, Fans & BTS facebook page... me, Mum, Tamiko (gran) and Ray Austin on the set of Space 1999, in Pinewood. Happy memories of running about in the moondust and only a slight disappointment discovering that the doors had to be manually operated by stagehands and didn't whoosh open as you approached..."
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A photo of a bumper sticker on the back of a pickup truck. The photo is cropped to only show a little striping of the truck, with two white stripes at the top, one thick, one thin; there is some scratch marks over these. Below it is black, where the sticker, itself black with white text is located.
The text reads:
"Trans people existing
does nothing negative
to your life
you crybaby bitch"
The text reads:
"Trans people existing
does nothing negative
to your life
you crybaby bitch"
As seen on a pickup truck near the intersection of 35th Street and Bloomington Ave in Powderhorn.
Is this not the Law and Order font? It ends with a Dun-dun sound when I read this in my head.
@ang Looks like it is, yes. Friz Quadrata according to the internet.
Wish I had a truck.
Wait, I have a black box on the back of my cargo bike. Will be preaching to the converted in Montreal, maybe the queerest city of Canada.
Wait, I have a black box on the back of my cargo bike. Will be preaching to the converted in Montreal, maybe the queerest city of Canada.
@mare Its absolutely preaching to the converted in Powderhorn neighborhood, too.
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Altoona Curve We Want Al
Just got this in the mail from a client who found it at an Altoona Curve minor league baseball game. I cannot wait to wear it!
source: https://altoonacurve.milbstore.com/collecti...
source: https://altoonacurve.milbstore.com/collecti...
Awesome!
haha, perfect!
The mascot is, of course, Al Tuna.
(I wonder if AI is going to increase use of typefaces that clearly disambiguate l and I.)
(I wonder if AI is going to increase use of typefaces that clearly disambiguate l and I.)
My eyes are up here... oh wait.
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Ad features vineyard, SA outline and graphic face with tagline 'Go down South with your mouth'
South Australia's rival campaign to the Northern Territory's "CUin the NT"
Via Facebook
Via Facebook
I had forgotten about the CU add!!!! Bwahahahaaa!!!
Put some in your south mouth
I went down to Adelaide, and two days later I had pink eye.
UUUUUUUH...
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Written in English round hand in India ink on a square piece of fine paper:
export function matchesNegativeKeyword(input: string): boolean {
const lowerInput = input.toLowerCase()
const negativePattern =
/\b(wtf|wth|ffs|omfg|shit(ty|tiest)?|dumbass|horrible|awful|piss(ed|ing)? off|piece of (shit|crap|junk)|what the (fuck|hell)|fucking? (broken|useless|terrible|awful|horrible)|fuck you|screw (this|you)|so frustrating|this sucks|damn it)\b/
return negativePattern.test(lowerInput)
}
export function matchesNegativeKeyword(input: string): boolean {
const lowerInput = input.toLowerCase()
const negativePattern =
/\b(wtf|wth|ffs|omfg|shit(ty|tiest)?|dumbass|horrible|awful|piss(ed|ing)? off|piece of (shit|crap|junk)|what the (fuck|hell)|fucking? (broken|useless|terrible|awful|horrible)|fuck you|screw (this|you)|so frustrating|this sucks|damn it)\b/
return negativePattern.test(lowerInput)
}
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Purple carrots, with yellow centers, in a lemon and dill coleslaw, to go into fish tacos. The carrots are so pretty!
Purple carrots, with yellow centers, in a lemon and dill coleslaw, to go into fish tacos. The carrots are so pretty!
What did you do to those hot dogs?
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A black and white dog laying on a deck.
Picked her up on Sunday. She's settling in nicely. She's an 11-month old Australian cattle dog/poodle mix, very energetic, but also very eager to please. Uly seems to like being a big brother.
More pics and words: https://kmalexander.com/2026...
More pics and words: https://kmalexander.com/2026...
Yesss! I know a Scottie that would love a playdate with the pair of ‘em.
Super cute!
We just adopted an Aussie Shepherd / poodle mix from Texas. He's a sleeve biter, but we love him.