meep meep

dream truck

A short week.

penny racer

....the set for the movie "Baroque Backrooms"

M.C. Escher on acid.

Whoaaa

Love!

There's a dog park directly across the road from my place. I love hanging on the fence to watch them. For months I was hearing this loud dog bark around 4pm every day, sounded like it had to be a Great Dane with such a loud deep bark. Popped over to see it and it turned out to be a Bassett Hound. I had no idea they barked like that

Anyways, visit dog parks gang, its good therapy

I see there are a ton of different digital and physical botany flashcards out there, and those might be helpful, though the printed ones are spendy. However, what (very) little I know about the scientific names of plants comes almost entirely from watching videos from https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/. The thickest Chicago accent in the world makes it a lot of fun.

@jer : thank u!

Hey, I've had to memorize latin names for literally thousands of species for my job . . . along with being able to recall pertinent info about each one, which I imagine would also be a useful skill for you. If you would like some tips on how I did that I'd be happy to pass them along. (When I was taking my native plant & master gardener etc. certifications those skills enabled me to learn dozens of species in half a day during field trips and classes, so I feel confident those tips would apply.) Let me know if you're interested!

@williwaw ooh! I can’t be the only one wanting to tip the vessel of Latin naming knowledge here!

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.

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...

@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.)

@ardgedee this is her live in 2020, so she’s 62 years old: https://youtu.be/-r2l-KWk...

@waa I did _not_ know that! <3 <3 <3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Does this have a smell?

“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.

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™

@m3moellering you're not wrong. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of idiots doing all sorts of idiot things and going all sorts of idiot places every summer in Yellowstone.

a kid I used to work with does this too! maybe it's him??

Oh yeah, trains are so big!

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.

@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

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!

<3

That face! I just wanna smooooosh it!

: )

Smoosh face means total relaxation

Grrrrrr....

Fascinating (and infuriating) that this poster was meant to enrage men by showing them what it would be like to be in exactly the same situation their wives were in

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?

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).

that's a nice twist on BirdNetPi's fairly terrible UX

It's not Fat Bear Week without Stephen Colbear

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!"

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.

@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.

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.

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'/

get (inside) you a brick that does both.

¿Por que no los dos?

They're the same brick.

This one is actually gripping the landscape:
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.

@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

Discount?

McDeath Punch!

GG Allin makes good on his promise?

@jive_t +++