Sigh-o-nara.

You’re completing a captcha and you see a picture of a tortoise on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not clicking on it. Why is that, Leon?

Arrestingly beautiful, and 1954.

French engineer Louis Réard, inspired by women adjusting their swimsuits for tanning, designed the bikini, naming it after the Bikini Atoll nuclear test site.

@0y3ahSansAcut3 The nuclear option

Guerrilla art is the best art.

Magic

More Magic

Needs more Godzilla action.

oof, this one. everything is fine 😬

ENJOY COCA-COLA!

Hehehehehe

Lay's (classic)

> "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"

Which I only really know of from parodic reference in Billy Bragg's _Accident Waiting to Happen_.

You can see the Buick and BEV at work in this Pathé clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch...

@NaziPunks

Locals must be a'courtin one of them Amish gals.

END OF THE LANEWAY

@Lockjaw Ha, nice.

@wjcstp Pitter patter

/redoes stall wall ink pen illustrations to properly reflect anatomical realities.

that is impressive, wow!

Somewhat related, I don't travel as much as I used to (for work) but the different in-train announcement sounds (happy chime & the Cash-like guitar riff) for the stations at the Denver airport along with the "Hooooooold on please!" *still* appear regularly & happily in my dreams.

@williwaw Hah - I traveled SEA<->DEN frequently when I was visiting Space Force in Colorado Springs back in my startup times. I got sooo sick of that little guitar riff, but I grew to love the DEN suitcase gargoyle.

Vibraphone wins

Marimba!

Wuv. Twu wuv.

@MackReed the twuest.

Happiest of birthdays!

Or… anniversaries?

@BennyTheIcepick thanks! this summer marks 41 years of our relationship. We were 15.

Aww!

The feral stapler population that spawns on utility poles led to a collapse in local wild stationery populations.

@bezt nice

No, listen, and forgive the story. A woman who had a farm, and raised pigs, worked in one of the dietary offices, where I worked. She was thrifty, harvesting food waste to feed her pigs from there, (a whole other set of scary realities.) OK, so the stapler in the sixth floor office broke, the Acme, stapler. It broke on the weekend when I was working, I left her a note. On Monday I had reason to be in the office, when she pulled the original box for the stapler out of a drawer, she had put it there 25 years before, in case she ever needed the lifetime guarantee. She took the box down to the secretaries, and they mailed, or called it in. Acme replaced it "for free." Twenty five years ago it may have been a buck and a quarter, 1996 I don't know the cost, the involvement of 4 staffers in the replacement, on our end. The capital and labor just boggle the mind, and the time.

🖤

Lovely photo

But what’d you see?

I mean, given enough time it will be ancient! :p

Eh, he's no Ea-nāṣir.

Nice marmot!

Get off my lawn!!

ME_IRL

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.

@Davezilla +++

@Davezilla ++

My friend would tell you it was originally from Pakistan

P4 seems really cool!

60% of the time, it works every time

The grandson in question is worth the follow on insta.

When the gravel futures contract is held to expiration.

Gumby’s brief career as a union organizer

Nice coinkydink. I just recorded a segment about "gumby" used in climbing for inexperienced or naive wannabe climbers.

Don't give trump any ideas.

@jordanbrock He'd have to have some achingly blue skies for anything this pristine, and blue skies are The Anti Maga.

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.

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.

I miss my 2012, it was still upgradeable :(
My 2019 is still barely holding on but the fan screams all the time, and the usb only is a pain.
I just bought an M3 back from IT at my last job and getting set it up this week!

I had completely forgotten about ethernet ports in laptops!

Art, I'm really considering just showing up some random lunchtime 🤤

@jer you got to give me warning to make two, or be prepared to fight me for it.

@artwells Homemade ramen AND a brawl? Sir, don't threaten me with a good time.

Wide swathes of the animal kingdom in there

@jer ++

Beautiful framing!

I love it just like it is, very Boston.

Looks like Steve's at it again... https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Alas, I’ve gotten rid of most of my previous gear, or my stack would have gone back to a power computing clone and Quadra (plus the same white MacBook, my first laptop)

@wjcstp hah, honestly not having the hoard of previous gear is far far healthier IMO! that said, nice, to this day i've never seen one of those mac clones IRL

FireWire!

@patd i had legit forgotten that there were TWO on the back of that imac!


(also, hah, i had a firewire audio interface that i just KEPT trying to hold onto, hence me hoarding multiple machines that still had firewire 800 ports for way too long)

I had that bottom one. First MacBook, but still in the enclosure of a PowerBook. So many ports, and it had a removable battery, a great innovation that Steve didn’t like. (I kept it alive until 2020, with some new batteries —I always had two—and a SDD replacing the superdrive.)

@mare that first pro was such a great machine. i wish this one was still working; i really should try taking it apart someday to see if i can diagnose it.

i've done the same thing you did with the 2012 macbook in the middle of my pile, upgraded to a big SSD and making it a media device (though i kept the optical drive so i could archive CDs more easily.