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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...
bocaj
It's so sad that they will never be able to return to Earth
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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...
most of the rest of the thread is furries good! no furries bad! back and forth, unfortunately.
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...
most of the rest of the thread is furries good! no furries bad! back and forth, unfortunately.
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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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.
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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!
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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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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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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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cropped screenshot: three MacOS notifications from Firefox, denoting that songs by Desaparecidos are being "scrobbled" from bandcamp to the last.fm service. the three songs listed, "Mañana", "Greater Omaha", and "Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)" each display a thumbnail for the originating album, "Read Music/Speak Spanish"
for some reason, after literal years of not using it, i randomly opened the iOS app, sent a pile of scrobbles to my account, and just went rolling with it. the desktop app returned to service, and then a browser extension followed shortly thereafter.
maybe i've got some weird nostalgia going on in my brain. maybe i'll do this for a few days and then forget. or maybe i'll start using it regularly again. who knows!
the notifications are thanks to the web extension for firefox, which actually recognizes my bandcamp plays.
i'm here if you want to follow my dusty account:
https://www.last.fm/user...
maybe i've got some weird nostalgia going on in my brain. maybe i'll do this for a few days and then forget. or maybe i'll start using it regularly again. who knows!
the notifications are thanks to the web extension for firefox, which actually recognizes my bandcamp plays.
i'm here if you want to follow my dusty account:
https://www.last.fm/user...
On an internet that has had so many fun things ruined by selfish jerks, I love that last.fm has remained largely unchanged for like 20 years.
@ufez I've been there forever, and yeah, it's largely the same site that it was in the early oughts.
@ufez @ffg huh, that's good to know.
i'm not a "nothing should ever change ever" person, but it's nice to have cases of a good thing that works not feeling the need to change for the sake of change.
(come to think of it, maybe that's why i came back to flickr, too. it really feels the way it did in 2006, in a good way.)
i'm not a "nothing should ever change ever" person, but it's nice to have cases of a good thing that works not feeling the need to change for the sake of change.
(come to think of it, maybe that's why i came back to flickr, too. it really feels the way it did in 2006, in a good way.)
I just checked last.fm, and I haven't scrobbled anything since 2018: https://www.last.fm/user...
I had this weird custom setup that would interrogate my Roku music server and send the playlists to last.fm. I had this running in 2009 on the grandparent of the Raspberry Pi, the SheevaPlug
I had this weird custom setup that would interrogate my Roku music server and send the playlists to last.fm. I had this running in 2009 on the grandparent of the Raspberry Pi, the SheevaPlug
@scruss Webscrobbler will log things from most of the streaming audio websites (YT, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp) and then there are ways to scrobble almost all of the dedicated music streaming apps (Sporkify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, etc)
Viva last.fm! I was paying for it forever just to help keep the lights on. Still a very useful service.
I visited their London HQ in 2008 and ate sausages on the roof after pitching them on some musictech nonsense I was trying to cook up. Really nice folks. Kinda great that CBS bought them ages ago and maybe forgot about them?
I visited their London HQ in 2008 and ate sausages on the roof after pitching them on some musictech nonsense I was trying to cook up. Really nice folks. Kinda great that CBS bought them ages ago and maybe forgot about them?
@ffg most of my listening is through VLC for Android, and it doesn't seem to have an option
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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
And they said space elevators would never work.
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A 2x2 grid of book covers:
TOP:
Communion: The Female Search for Love (bell hooks)
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith (JD Vance)
BOTTOM:
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (bell hooks)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (JD Vance)
TOP:
Communion: The Female Search for Love (bell hooks)
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith (JD Vance)
BOTTOM:
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (bell hooks)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (JD Vance)
Then there is Whitley Strieber's Communion, his relationship with aliens, (demons,) according to Vance. Vance's intellect is some kind of fantasy gizmo.
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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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The plane of the Milky Way shines across the night sky above several large human statues that face away from the camera.
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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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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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"When you ask what the product does, it prematurely narrows the solution surface."
Duly noted.
Duly noted.
This isn't even parody
oh god, this is literally a snapshot of my every day.
"we update those slides every two years"
"we update those slides every two years"
"we're working on... better autocomplete"
The last shitty job I had was working for a fortune 500 that was investing heavily in AI to improve the overall 'search and findability' toolset.
AKA, we were hoping that within 2 years we'd have a better autocomplete.
AKA, we were hoping that within 2 years we'd have a better autocomplete.
Also: Spoiler...I left that job over 2 years ago. They still don't have a better autocomplete.
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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.
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vintage sci-fi women shooting rays at each other
I see your Schwartz is bigger than mine
This would literally make a brown laser.
in the middle is a tiny explosion that says “i’m gonna post in discuss about how we should bring back the mp3 pile”
@nikkuneko ++
@nikkuneko I was thinking "HILLARY IS A LOCK"
@artwells legit out-loud snort
WHICH ONE IS GOING TO FIX THE CABLE?
@nikkuneko ++
Brave Women
I miss that mp3 thingy.
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A white sign on a telephone pole that says "No Secret Police" at the top and has an illustration of an ice agent at the bottom, wearing a red baseball cap, a gaiter around his face and neck, sunglasses and a bullet-proof vest.
Been wanting a photo of this one for a while, but I only passed it while driving a car. Snapped this while on my bike one of the nice days we've had lately.
so did you register for the youth sports?
@dreyfusslugado I did not. At least I don't think I did.
@bencmeissner No problem. I'm sure the QR code did it for you. ;)
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Coming soon! edit: in May
For those who partake in postcrossing this is very cool to see. Four triangular stamps designed by Antonio Alcalá and illustrated by Jackson Gibbs.
I am now hoping my next US postcards have one of these stuck on em. So cool.
Note: The real stamps won't have the word crossed out.
For those who partake in postcrossing this is very cool to see. Four triangular stamps designed by Antonio Alcalá and illustrated by Jackson Gibbs.
I am now hoping my next US postcards have one of these stuck on em. So cool.
Note: The real stamps won't have the word crossed out.
Well, I'm gonna have to get some of these.
WOW. Neat.
@bencmeissner /same
TIL and I'm a window clerk!
@Lockjaw I think Postcrossing made an early announement to the postcrossing community, so not sure if officially announced at the same time... maybe
I just got the release date in my email today. May 26!
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Looking down past the viewer’s legs and feet to see the gray steps of two impossibly narrow staircases converging to one impossibly narrow staircase
I just lost my retirement fund betting on "Amsterdam."
Oh my heck, and slippery socks to boot!
@ba Oh man, there are some cool & crazy staircases in Amsterdam
Sir Stairmaster, the Destroyer of Coccyxes
“Can you help me move a sleeper sofa?”
Remind me of the stairs in my grandparents' house. Not as dysfunctional as these, but they were steep and very narrow.
ah, the one that breaks all your ankles
@bencmeissner "PIVOT!!!!!!!"
Acrophobia therapy house.
Needs a stripper pole!
SOURCE: TUMBLR
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A Caucasian woman wearing an orange space suit poses for a picture in dramatic lighting
Fun fact, in 2019 a fellow MediaWiki admin at NASA who is also an EVA trainer helped Koch make the first edit to Wikipedia from space.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki...
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki...