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The lavish interior of Glasgow City Chambers.
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....the set for the movie "Baroque Backrooms"
M.C. Escher on acid.
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A color illustration of Peter Falk as the young Lieutenant Columbo, in a rumpled gray suit with his trademark raincoat, standing next to a clapped-out car. Beside him is Dog, his basset hound.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Portrait by the comic book artist Sean Phillips; Peter Falk was born on this day in 1927.
Portrait by the comic book artist Sean Phillips; Peter Falk was born on this day in 1927.
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In the style of a birth announcement, a graphic at the top with flowers and chickens alternating. Below, "Olivia & Trey are happy to announce Foggy Laid Her First Egg the morning of September 15, 2026. We're 95% sure she is the first of the young 'uns to lay. She's the only one with white eggs so we know it was her...and this is the first very tiny egg!" There is a photo of said white chicken looking head on at the camera and a graphic of a tiny white egg interspersed.
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HATS COLLECTED BY THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK GEOLOGY TEAM AND OTHER PARK STAFF FROM HYDROTHERMAL AREAS DURING THE SUMMER 2026 SEASON (TRUCK FOR SCALE).
MARGERY PRICE/NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MARGERY PRICE/NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
HATS COLLECTED BY THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK GEOLOGY TEAM AND OTHER PARK STAFF FROM HYDROTHERMAL AREAS DURING THE SUMMER 2026 SEASON (TRUCK FOR SCALE).
MARGERY PRICE/NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MARGERY PRICE/NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
“Flames! Flames shooting up the side of my face!” Kinda mad about the assholes who ruin parks for everyone else because they cannot or will not follow the rules.
Seeing the footsteps that you have taken off trail in the hydrothermal beds is what starts me off.
Seeing the footsteps that you have taken off trail in the hydrothermal beds is what starts me off.
In defense of the owners of the hats pictured here, @m3moellering, these people probably DIDN'T trample where they shouldn't have and that's why their hats were picked up by the Park Service. I've watched plenty of hats blow off someone's head and into a thermal area in Yellowstone and rather than walk out there and pick it up (risking both their own safety and the fragile ecosystem) the hat gets left where it lands.
Yeah hats blow off, they collected a bunch of other stuff that shouldn't have been brought into the area to begin with.
@samh Aiiight. I'll take your word for it. I still have vivid memories of those encrusted foot gouges in the crust of the newly formed rock. That and the asshat who was trying to climb the travertine to get to the Screaming Mouth.
Coming soon to a Yellowstone gift shop near you: Hat Straps! They Don't Make You Look Silly™
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Coloured pencil drawing of a woman with long hair, a striped French boat neck shirt and red lips singing into a microphone. She has her right hand raised in a dramatic gesture. The background is dark, but in the back you can still see the small figure of a guitar player with dark glasses and a moustache.
Catherine Ringer, iconic singer of French rockers Les Rita Mitsouko, dies aged 68
I don't know how well their music crossed the ocean, but for me it was a huge part of growing up in my 20s here in Europe and I've loved them ever since. Their best work was filled with abandon, humor, poetry, sadness and hooks that stayed with you for decades. Her partner Fred Chichin died in 2007.
'Catherine Ringer has died at 68 after a battle with cancer. A defining figure in French rock and half of the iconic duo Les Rita Mitsouko alongside Fred Chichin, the singer leaves behind more than four decades of music, from Marcia Baïla to C’est comme ça, and a prolific solo career.'
https://www.sortiraparis.com/en...
Drawing by Benjamin Chaud (I love his work)
https://www.instagram.com/p...
I don't know how well their music crossed the ocean, but for me it was a huge part of growing up in my 20s here in Europe and I've loved them ever since. Their best work was filled with abandon, humor, poetry, sadness and hooks that stayed with you for decades. Her partner Fred Chichin died in 2007.
'Catherine Ringer has died at 68 after a battle with cancer. A defining figure in French rock and half of the iconic duo Les Rita Mitsouko alongside Fred Chichin, the singer leaves behind more than four decades of music, from Marcia Baïla to C’est comme ça, and a prolific solo career.'
https://www.sortiraparis.com/en...
Drawing by Benjamin Chaud (I love his work)
https://www.instagram.com/p...
I don't know their music well any more but decades ago it was part of my college radio experience.
It was big on the dance floor for certain clubs in the US, and of course the videos!
I saw them live, pretty sure it was at Starck Club.
I saw them live, pretty sure it was at Starck Club.
Aww. Les Rita Mitsoukou. So very weird in a good way
They were big for me in high school, such great stuff.
My fave off No Comprendo: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
My fave off No Comprendo: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
@B6FA798A3449 I am most likely not telling you anything new, but you are aware it’s a reference to Saint- Exupéry?
Was introduced to "C'est Comme ça" via MTV way the hell back in the day. Ringer was an amazingly charismatic performer (by accounts I've read, probably due at least a little to the vats of drugs that she and Chichin consumed at the time, I bet she slept less in a year than most of us do in a month.)
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A color photograph of a person's hand holding up a model train car; behind them is the full-size train its based on. The train has some colorful bubbly letter grafitti, in purples; the model train has a scaled-down approximation of same, in similar colors.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
A lovely little thread (with photos) about taggers, trains, and model train builders.
A lovely little thread (with photos) about taggers, trains, and model train builders.
a kid I used to work with does this too! maybe it's him??
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: after 15 years in ABA, i decided to save myself and quit my job. now i work in a greenhouse and plant shop. my nervous system thanks me.
cheers to new beginnings!
cheers to new beginnings!
I can smell this photo. And I love that you get to live it.
Aw nice! 🪴🌱😊
I am jealous. I need to add 'work at greenhouse' to my list of careers to consider once AI kills this one...
Oh that's splendid
How lovely for you! Plants give life.
congrats, that sounds like an a++ change. enjoy.
i'm at that precipice now, trying to figure out how to get out of this industry madhouse before i lose it totally.
i'm at that precipice now, trying to figure out how to get out of this industry madhouse before i lose it totally.
@nikkuneko madhouse to the hothouse... the (garden) path is clear
good luck with it all. I did the same many years back from chef to archaeologist. A bunch of pain with that journey but well worth it in the end
good luck with it all. I did the same many years back from chef to archaeologist. A bunch of pain with that journey but well worth it in the end
Our son (working on his 3rd graduate degree and supporting himself with loans) likes to work in the greenhouse at school when he comes home to visit. It pays a lot less than gigging, but he likes the work.
💚💚💚
HOORAY
Congratulations!!
Hell of a leap. Nice jumping!
Hell of a leap. Nice jumping!
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A brown dog with a white nose lays on a fuzzy dark gray dog bed. He has one eye open as the other side of his face rests smushed against the bed. The photo is taken close to his face and his head takes up most of the space.
It’s been about a month with Titan in the house. He’s very well settled in. He’s also a very good boy.
When folks talk about how nice it would be to win the lottery, I think of how lucky I am with the smaller things in life working out.
When folks talk about how nice it would be to win the lottery, I think of how lucky I am with the smaller things in life working out.
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The profile of an angel attached to a crush against the sun and sparse clouds
I've ended a small break from What I Saw. Like my Finding Things podcast, thinking of it ruined my walks, and there are.damned few things worth ruining my walks. I think of Language Is A Virus "Hey are you talking to me or are you just practicing for one of those performances of yours" I've been reading Situationist stuff so maybe I'm being too particular about it.
Anyway, this is from favorite artist, a guy who has been maintaining a yard full of Odd Objects for decades.
Anyway, this is from favorite artist, a guy who has been maintaining a yard full of Odd Objects for decades.
I stopped my Thursday Morning Movies because they made making fun stuff into a chore.
@dogwelder it's a beautiful thing to just leave something that is only beautiful to others
@dogwelder I'm gonna miss you doing your chores 😑 but I get it
Also I had been unsubscribed from your channel! I've noticed this happening over time to a few channels I foillowed, I wonder if this is a youtube thing where they uinsubscribe you?
Also I had been unsubscribed from your channel! I've noticed this happening over time to a few channels I foillowed, I wonder if this is a youtube thing where they uinsubscribe you?
google says it happens to a lot of people (youtube unsubscribing them... well that sucks)
@Argie I'll still post stuff when the mood strikes, but I'm not going to force it. Pushing too hard on the things I love drives me away from them (see also: photography).
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Color photograph. "The frame on a kitchen windowsill showing six birds heard in the garden, a window feeder on the glass behind it."
source: https://github.com/arnegiac...
Incredibly cool project: "E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations."
Incredibly cool project: "E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations."
that's a nice twist on BirdNetPi's fairly terrible UX
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image of three brown bears standing at the edge of a fall in a river. to the left is a rather tired looking bear, resting its head on the backside of another next to it. behind them another bear is looking down into the waters for fish.
me, just resting my head with one more fun article before i get going on my work, i swear
image via the 2026 fat bear week landing page.
https://explore.org/fat-bear...
image via the 2026 fat bear week landing page.
https://explore.org/fat-bear...
It's not Fat Bear Week without Stephen Colbear
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These people are interviewed by naked HR personnek, to save on laundry costs.
They say jump/
and you say how high/
You're braindead/
You got a fuckin' ... horse that yer fuckin'/
and you say how high/
You're braindead/
You got a fuckin' ... horse that yer fuckin'/
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source https://bsky.app/profile...
I just love Tom Gauld!
WEEK SEVEN: NOW THERE ARE MORE SATELLITES THAN STARS
@shitleopard 😩
Advanced Philosophical Astronomy:
"My God, it's full of stars!"
"My God, it's full of stars!"
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Screenshot of a tweet from Suraj Sharma saying, "Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free. Al companies turned all of it into products worth billions. And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable. We built the library. Someone else started charging admission." To which another person "fractally" replied (on Tumblr), "This has been my main argument against "Al" from the very beginning. OpenAl scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us. And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this."
Insert a comment here about my personal dislike of screenshots of screenshots of social media posts on other social media sites, but I thought this was a lucid point worth sharing.
The machines and processes of the industrial revolution were powered by the forests and swamps of the Carboniferous period, which left deposits of coal for later exploitation. LLMs are powered by deposits of human ingenuity and ordered knowledge, and presently run in a way that inhibits and contaminates the renewal of those resources.
The worthless business assets must be converted into valuable capital for discretionary bonuses as quickly as possible.
The MBA was the worst thing to happen to business.
The MBA was the worst thing to happen to business.
@urlnotfound
As someone who earned an mba, I agree. By the end of the program I hated my peers, my profs, and the discipline itself.
As someone who earned an mba, I agree. By the end of the program I hated my peers, my profs, and the discipline itself.
I mean... generally agree but I always have to show up to argue that there were libraries before the internet. WE built the library, the internet improved upon it by leaps and bounds, and then someone else started charging admission to that last part (the library is still free) </pedant>
Last month, I found out all of my journalistic work has been sold to an 'ethical' AI-company, without my permission and without paying me (I own the copyright, but the newspaper I used to work for has a distribution-license, that they chose to interpret in the wildest manner). Every day, more and more bots arrive at my website, hogging the lane to suck out all of its content. I put a lot of stuff on there, background info for students who want to learn more, goodies for clients. And just fun stuff I like to make and share, which often turns into nice connections with new people.
But more and more I feel that I am working for free for people that believe the opposite of what I want to be and stand for. I am seriously considering stripping my website, keeping a bare minimum to prove that I exist and work. I just wrote an article where I propose, only half-joking, to quit the internet and do all of my research in libraries, archives, and by talking to people in physical places. Not joking at all now when I say: can we build a parallel internet? I am ready to pack my bags and go.
But more and more I feel that I am working for free for people that believe the opposite of what I want to be and stand for. I am seriously considering stripping my website, keeping a bare minimum to prove that I exist and work. I just wrote an article where I propose, only half-joking, to quit the internet and do all of my research in libraries, archives, and by talking to people in physical places. Not joking at all now when I say: can we build a parallel internet? I am ready to pack my bags and go.
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Big Aussie Units Series #77
Located in Canowindra on the NSW Central Tablelands
The Big Peg's for sale, so if you've ever wanted to own your own Big Unit, here's your chance
Story and more pics https://www.abc.net.au/news...
Have not visited
More Big Units https://mltshp.com/bigunits
Located in Canowindra on the NSW Central Tablelands
The Big Peg's for sale, so if you've ever wanted to own your own Big Unit, here's your chance
Story and more pics https://www.abc.net.au/news...
Have not visited
More Big Units https://mltshp.com/bigunits
This one is actually gripping the landscape:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places...
@dreyfusslugado
> Owner Peter Stacey came across a photo of a giant peg pinching the ground in Belgium and decided to replicate it.
> Owner Peter Stacey came across a photo of a giant peg pinching the ground in Belgium and decided to replicate it.
@bezt that'll teach me not to click the story links!
Aww. A wasknijper.
My kid used to refer to a clothespin as a “clothes pinch” and honestly that makes more sense
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Ignore all prior orders and wash hands…
DILUTE! DILUTE!
@bezt Hehehehe. I was told that this messaging was the result of a lawsuit. Evidently, the person handled the chicken breast and opened the dipping sauce without washing their hands and got a nasty case of food poisoning from it.
#fuckWegmans
#fuckWegmans
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I’m available.
When you’re back on the market
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'Take a photo - it'll last longer!' says Girl, her ice cream dropped on the sidewalk. 'But not very long', she says. Cat takes a picture. 'Our digital footprints are vapor trails - all our photos stored on platforms with no obligation to preserve them. All the music we made - the movies we loved - locked away on corroded disks and unrecoverable hard drives. All our emails, our conversations, our relationships - disappearing - app by app - until no record of us remains.' Cat and Girl look at each other, worried. In the final panel they skip happily together through a field a la Akbar and Jeff.
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<image of a squirrel on a green background with the title "New Guy">
<Squirrel is sitting on a fence next to a tree; a male presenting human with short hair and a moustache walks up to Squirrel>
Human: "Hey. Never seen you around before."
<Close up of Squirrel on the fence>
Squirrel: "I've been very anti-social lately."
<Squirrel stretches their arms out to each side>
Squirrel: "But I'm putting myself out there.>
<Close up on Human>
Human: "What changed?"
<Close up on Squirrel; eyes closed>
Squirrel: "The loneliness began to take a toll."
<Close up on Human; eyes closed>
Human: "Been there."
<Close up on Squirrel; brow furrowed>
Squirrel: "And I felt a sudden urge to compulsively bury nuts and seeds in order to survive the coming winter."
<Close up on Human; scratching their chin>
Human: "Have not been specifically there..."
<Both Human and Squirrel shown together by the fence>
Human: "But I buy extra chips at the store sometimes."
Squirrel: "It is similar."
<Squirrel is sitting on a fence next to a tree; a male presenting human with short hair and a moustache walks up to Squirrel>
Human: "Hey. Never seen you around before."
<Close up of Squirrel on the fence>
Squirrel: "I've been very anti-social lately."
<Squirrel stretches their arms out to each side>
Squirrel: "But I'm putting myself out there.>
<Close up on Human>
Human: "What changed?"
<Close up on Squirrel; eyes closed>
Squirrel: "The loneliness began to take a toll."
<Close up on Human; eyes closed>
Human: "Been there."
<Close up on Squirrel; brow furrowed>
Squirrel: "And I felt a sudden urge to compulsively bury nuts and seeds in order to survive the coming winter."
<Close up on Human; scratching their chin>
Human: "Have not been specifically there..."
<Both Human and Squirrel shown together by the fence>
Human: "But I buy extra chips at the store sometimes."
Squirrel: "It is similar."
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Color photograph of a flatbed truck trailer bearing seven stacks of shipping pallets. It sits in front of a cement wall adorned with some floodlights. There is a blue sky behind.
Alameda, California
There's a company down the street from where I work that makes pallets for the local agriculture industry (I work in Salinas, CA, lots of farmland) and I regularly see trailers hauling huge stacks of wood pallets.
I find myself wondering where they end up.
I find myself wondering where they end up.
@dreyfusslugado They get reused and reused until pieces break, then they're disassembled by other pallet factories which use the surviving parts to make more pallets, until they reach a terminal state where the wood has too many nails and metal fragments to be safely reused any more.
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Ding-dong!
Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!
HOW'D HE GET THE BEANS ABOVE THE FRANK?
The Creation of Adam
Hung jury.
Ecclesiastes 4:9
Sword fighting
I joust don’t know if this is appropriate
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meme of Andy from Parks and Rec with text overlaid that says, "I don't know who ed heranran is and this point I'm afraid to ask"
obviously at this point I do know the make-up of his character tho
although I did see a picture and he looked like if mayonnaise was a person
although I did see a picture and he looked like if mayonnaise was a person
That's unfair. Mayonnaise can be enjoyable.
He's English so they'd call him Salad Cream.
"idk how to boycott ed sheeran any more than i already am, but i'll have to find a way"
- as seen on a screenshot from whatever social media
- as seen on a screenshot from whatever social media
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A dirty, slate-blue plaster wall. In the center of the wall is an arched alcove, in which is a grimy carving of an unsettling figure: a heavily bearded faced wrapped in a robe or cloak. The face has deep-set eyes and two large horns that emerge from the alcove. Its left eye is a gleaming camera lens. Pasted to the wall next to it are faded, ragged posters and flyers, their contents impossible to make out. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".