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Fawty-one yeeaz
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A beautiful pair of homo sapiens, a woman and man in their 50s. Cheek to cheek, smiling at the camera, in bright sunshine in this vacation selfie.
Me (right) and my BFF/it's-complicated since high school, yesterday, Peaks Island, ME.
MackReed
Wuv. Twu wuv.
@MackReed the twuest.
from Rachel Lichtman's amazing Programme 4
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My friend would tell you it was originally from Pakistan
P4 seems really cool!
whip of the week
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‘59 Minsk
no further helpful info at the source, but lots of speculation about why the driver would want to arrive with a wet/cold left leg:
https://www.reddit.com/r...
no further helpful info at the source, but lots of speculation about why the driver would want to arrive with a wet/cold left leg:
https://www.reddit.com/r...
Reliability and simplicity made Minsk motorcycles a cult brand in Vietnam, which was the most extensive export market. Minsk motorcycles were among the Soviet motorcycles that were distributed by SATRA, UK, under the Minsk Saturn 125 and Cossack brand names from 1973 to 1979
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This is how you protect your hairdo.
interior
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<photo of a bicycle encased in a cube of concrete>
“If you can free it, you become king of the Netherlands”
“If you can free it, you become king of the Netherlands”
Heehee
blockchain
Strange women lying in cities distributing bicycles is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical velodromic ceremony.
my (far less impressive) "mac stack"
coptic stitch bookbinding
Non Hallucinatory Ports
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r/mac - Ports of MacBooks 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2024
weirdly, this makes me miss my 2008 polycarbonate mac (top of the stack). that was the one i actually lost (was stolen out of my car)
I managed to skip the generations with only USB-C ports, I am glad Apple took to their senses again.
I’m glad they re-added the MagSafe port, even with the unnecessary design changes over the years it’s a genuinely great idea.
Lunch
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Bowl of ramen
Clear pig back broth, with a tare of mixed animal fats, tamari, fermented garlic, and mirin. Topped with nori, bonito, salmon furikake, togarashi, roasted hatch chili and New York steak.
My 14yo during summer
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<screenshot of a series of Tumblr posts>
"31 hours deep into the insomniac's gambit and i tried to microwave a popsicle"
"31 hours deep into the insomniac's gambit and i posted on the wrong blog again"
<image of a social media post with a filter added to make it look like it is under pool water>
"Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day.
Crucially, it does not work"
"31 hours deep into the insomniac's gambit and i tried to microwave a popsicle"
"31 hours deep into the insomniac's gambit and i posted on the wrong blog again"
<image of a social media post with a filter added to make it look like it is under pool water>
"Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day.
Crucially, it does not work"
I worked swing/nights when I was 18. I'd just skip sleep Friday night.
@artwells For a couple of years I worked rotating 4-12s. Four days from 6 AM to 6 PM, then four off, then four nights from 6 PM to 6 AM, four off, rinse and repeat. Trying to sleep was impossible so we all just stayed drunk.
not enough time.
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twilight zone episode scene of man standing on library steps after the end of the world, and his glasses are broken.
my to-be-read pile keeps growing! make it stop! i need time to get through them all! i'm almost at 200 books!
Just don't do what this bloke did, and try not to break your reading glasses.
If a to-be-read list is achievable, it’s not ambitious enough.
I just watched this episode during a recent TZ marathon!
So. Many. Dongles.
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Five mac laptops stacked on top of one another and three ipads stacked on top of those. There are so many ports of various kinds facing the viewer.
Some of these are merely inherited. And some I already got rid of. I should maybe get rid of a few more.
via this and the ones he links to: https://mltshp.com/p/1RTOM
via this and the ones he links to: https://mltshp.com/p/1RTOM
hah, your title! i ALMOST put a few generations of dongles on top of my pile for shits 'n' giggles (including, yes, a firewire 400-to-800 for incredible timeliness)
I have two full bags of spaghetti, and more in a camera bag. Some isn't even bagged.
This is fine.
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A color photograph of two beachgoers on beach chairs under a sun umbrella (red and blue with the number 51 on it), surrounded by their strewn belongings. They are facing away from the camera and looking out over the lake. In the middle distance a child wearing a white t-shirt is on the shore. Across the lake, an enormous torrent of flame spews black smoke blotting out most of the sky.
source: https://www.theatlantic.com/photogra...
Beachgoers rest on the beach of Moutchic on the shore of Lake Lacanau in Lacanau, southwestern France, on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire. (Maximilien Lamy / AFP / Getty)
Beachgoers rest on the beach of Moutchic on the shore of Lake Lacanau in Lacanau, southwestern France, on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire. (Maximilien Lamy / AFP / Getty)
Who else is surprised this isn't an image from a SpaceX launch?
postcards from the Anthropocene
I’ve been on that beach many times. Stark naked. The view wasn’t this spectacular, the eye watering and lung splitting smoke wasn’t present. It was just nice, vacation.
Call me Ishmael.
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Damn I would love that one. Don't see it in their online store. Was just in the area a couple years ago, too.
They do have this one though, which would get some people wound up hereabouts...
https://store.whalingmuseum.org/collecti...
They do have this one though, which would get some people wound up hereabouts...
https://store.whalingmuseum.org/collecti...
@ardgedee +++
Angie, Extreme Grief Counsellor
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women having tea on a sofa. the coffee table in front of them is a man in a coffin with a glass top
Now Grandpa will always be a part of your Beer Pong games.
This has a "killing time before the porno shoot" vibe.
something something cheeseball
Fata Morgana
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A 4 masted sailing ship seems to hover above the ocean in a mirage
Sweet jumps, taken.
"No barnacles on THIS baby!"
Meowthuselah
Sorry Robot / Happy Human
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Upper case phrases 'Sorry Robot'/'Happy Human'
A font called " Decoy Font " has appeared that humans can read, but looks like different characters to AI.
https://x.com/i...
https://x.com/i...
This hurts my eyes/soul.
Which might explain a few things.
Which might explain a few things.
I only see "SORRY ROBOT"? What does ... oh god no, please don't let this be how I find out?!
@hertz, try squinting.
Parade
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Two guys moving a small hydraulic lift down a street, with Boston's Old North Church in the background. One of the guys is giving me some side-eye.
We had dinner in Boston's North End last night, and I tried to get a photo of the Old North Church, framed kind of nicely by the trees. These two guys were just moving this equipment down the street right then, and I shouted, stupidly "Hey, it's a parade!" That's what earned me this wonderful bit of side-eye.
Beautiful framing!
I love it just like it is, very Boston.
Looks like Steve's at it again... https://www.youtube.com/watch...
my regrets go with me!
North Station.
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Boston in a nutshell.
SOON
“I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”
THE KING OF THE NORTH
Beyond lay the realm of Elves
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"A visualisation of Architect William Bridges's proposal for a structure crossing the Avon River in Bristol, UK in 1793."
Pretty cool IMO, shame it wasn't built.
Instead they built this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... which is a pretty cool suspension bridge. Wouldn't attract elves tho
Pretty cool IMO, shame it wasn't built.
Instead they built this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... which is a pretty cool suspension bridge. Wouldn't attract elves tho
Clifton Suspension Bridge = huge suicide spot. The tidal changes in the Bristol Channel are big.
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For better or worse
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been there. paid for that.
You only need peripherals for data ownership. You aren't allowed to own data.
for some reason, something in this photo looks not-quite-right, but i can't quite place my finger on it. like that slightly-disproportionate-stretchy oddness.
that said, i definitely have my own "laptop pile" at home with which i could recreate this whole progression.
that said, i definitely have my own "laptop pile" at home with which i could recreate this whole progression.
Ace of Swords
Onya Fritz
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Photo of Frtz Zwicky
Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term "dark matter" which is impressive, but healso coined the term "spherical bastard" to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and | think that should be celebrated more.
Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term "dark matter" which is impressive, but healso coined the term "spherical bastard" to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and | think that should be celebrated more.
Zwicky was brilliant, but I’ll note that his observation was “astronomers are spherical bastards”, and he was very much an astronomer.
And I'll note that "spherical bastard" is variation on an older term "revolving SOB."
Lucy Sparrow: The Beginning of Convenience
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photo of grocery store shelf except all the products are made out of felt
A grocery store filled with felt simulacra
I've never felted this way before.
I have one of her pieces, a felted can of beans.