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John Berkey, "Superships," Popular Mechanics, December 1988
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Cutaway illustration by John Berkey of a speculative cruise ship that's like a floating high-rise building
Cut-away marker renderings was peak humanity.
Oh man, so many happy childhood memories of perusing my dad's collection of old Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines!
Take THAT communist orcas!
yesterday
job application vibes, if you please
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a snippet of a lame assed resume, reading "Nicholas Garcia" in white and "Researcher & Content Curator" in orange
i finally saw a job listing a couple of days ago that made me go “wow, i might have a chance at that” and set out to finally update my resume.
glad that i was able to collect a handful of coworkers/bosses willing to be references, and happy that i actually spent time tonight jazzing up my entirely-too-long resume, even though the latest covid booster is trying to kill me.
i don’t think i’ll get the job, but my goal is to stop futzing with the text and finish the application before the end of the weekend.
vibe for me, pls. or gimme yr best pep talk. or something. yeah.
(and no, my resume is NOT orange text on black background. that's just dark reader inverting google docs' colors so i don't fry my retinas in the dark)
glad that i was able to collect a handful of coworkers/bosses willing to be references, and happy that i actually spent time tonight jazzing up my entirely-too-long resume, even though the latest covid booster is trying to kill me.
i don’t think i’ll get the job, but my goal is to stop futzing with the text and finish the application before the end of the weekend.
vibe for me, pls. or gimme yr best pep talk. or something. yeah.
(and no, my resume is NOT orange text on black background. that's just dark reader inverting google docs' colors so i don't fry my retinas in the dark)
yesterday too
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😳
Caught In The Beam
Legmen
They don't write 'em like this any more.
Frank Baker Holmes - Dusk Call (1975)
OFG
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a black and white linocut print of a cheese grater with the text "oh fucking grate"
source: facebork
😱😱
big garden friend
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I was watering the salvias today and ran into another of our big garden spiders. We have three at the moment.
Reasonably sure it's a 'Argiope aurantia' or Yellow Garden Spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Reasonably sure it's a 'Argiope aurantia' or Yellow Garden Spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Gorgeous!
How it ended
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I've been away for a while. Life took an unexpected turn, I learned some hard lessons, and came away with a better understanding of myself and the people around me. Grateful for the growth, and glad to be sharing things again.
Tom Kidd's 1982 cover to 'Knight of Delusions' by Keith Laumer
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"A guy in a suit with a cig in his lips lifts an eyebrow at a green hand offering a light. He's holding a glass of blue liquid, and a tiny mermaid is inside the nearby bottle. A nearby fish is swimming through what otherwise appears to be the air."
Or, never drink with those in such an advanced state of decay, they are already green, and losing fingers.
Giving real "Damnit Jim" vibes.
I can smell this image.
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Confession: I sometimes confuse Naomi Klein with Naomi Wolf
We Saw You From Across The Pool...
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Taylor and Burton looking sensational (although Burton aged 38 here looks a bit pickled) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 1963
She was just extraordinary, wasn't she?
Bowman Creek Valley, Glacier NP
Jim Steranko, 'Outland'
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A page from Jim Steranko's comic adaptation of the film 'Outland.' A fight sequence between the space-sheriff hero and two armed assailants plays out on a gantry as the angry red eye of Jupiter looms in the background. There's superimposed narrative text but it's incredibly hard to read; I'm far more drawn to the action anyway.
That’s gorgeous
The number of times I (re)read the novelization because I was too young/cheap/immature to go see the movie…
Jack then and now
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my cat Jack on the day I met him at the adoption facility, left, and now, 5 years later, on the right. He was SUPER shy and timid when i first brought him home, lived under my bed for the first 6 weeks. now he is the most affectionate boy and absolutely loves receiving it!
J A C K ! a true floofy king among men
Just in case you didn’t know the official breed is KITTY.
Most 2026 phrase you'll hear all day for $200, Alex
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Social media post with text:
BREAKING: American man accused of kidnapping Flock camera, "digitally waterboarding" it by subjecting it to 23,040 license plates per second via six 4K monitors rapid flashing images of plates.
BREAKING: American man accused of kidnapping Flock camera, "digitally waterboarding" it by subjecting it to 23,040 license plates per second via six 4K monitors rapid flashing images of plates.
Perfection.
This is the second "torturing computers" headline I've seen today, what is going on
https://www.404media.co/someone-...
https://www.404media.co/someone-...
@B6FA798A3449 for some reason i always run into a paywall with 404media, even though i must only see 1-2 articles from them a month.
here's an archive link in case others have this problem:
https://archive.ph/cAsBz
also, oy vey, per that article: some time ago i had some rando add me as a contact on LinkedIn. every time he pops up in my feed since, he's posting insanely impassioned pleas to "free AI", spouting how he's "seen proof in chats" that LLMs are sentient beings. it's... yeah, wow.
here's an archive link in case others have this problem:
https://archive.ph/cAsBz
also, oy vey, per that article: some time ago i had some rando add me as a contact on LinkedIn. every time he pops up in my feed since, he's posting insanely impassioned pleas to "free AI", spouting how he's "seen proof in chats" that LLMs are sentient beings. it's... yeah, wow.
Peanuts
4 more Twitter users with bad opinions
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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A couple of people who said that Time interview transcript was fine, and a couple who said the Pope was wrong about AI.
These are such a great bunch!
@0y3ahSansAcut3 - thank you kindly.
Update - the guy on the bottom right said he would return the favor when I shared my portrait, and posted a picture from what I presume was a colonoscopy? Not an art fan, I guess.
About a mile and a half from home
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Took this yesterday. It’s been there for about a month like this. Not sure why Flock Safety is allowed to leave litter lying on the sidewalk.
See also: https://mltshp.com/p/1RWO8
See also: https://mltshp.com/p/1RWO8
Complain to your city streets department that someone has left trash obstructing the sidewalk and should be fined.
After a month, don't you get scavenger's rights? That solar panel looks useful.
@ardgedee My first thought.
Colosseum
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Pic of the Colosseum in Rome
What it says on the tin.
Mrs roonie has been dying to come back to Italy for decades, literally.
This morning we got up too early but it was cool and pretourists.
We're not tourists, we're just hear on holiday.
wait
Not speaking Italian is proving to be an issue at times. We"re going to move about and it might get worse.
Anyway. M&D had a photo of me at the colosseum when I was 3 or 4, that I have no memory of.
The big C is big.
Mrs roonie has been dying to come back to Italy for decades, literally.
This morning we got up too early but it was cool and pretourists.
We're not tourists, we're just hear on holiday.
wait
Not speaking Italian is proving to be an issue at times. We"re going to move about and it might get worse.
Anyway. M&D had a photo of me at the colosseum when I was 3 or 4, that I have no memory of.
The big C is big.
"now THAT's what you call a seum, amirite?"
also, wow, have fun out there!
I am glad Mrs roonie is not literally dead
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fridays, amirite
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40 Years Later, Dark Night Of The Scarecrow Is Still The Best Of Its Kind - Horror Obsessive
still from "the dark night of the scarecrow", d. frank de felitta, 1981
BTW, of ALL places for it to pop up, it's now streaming on criterion channel as part of its "made for TV terror" collection:
https://www.criterionchannel.com/films...
BTW, of ALL places for it to pop up, it's now streaming on criterion channel as part of its "made for TV terror" collection:
https://www.criterionchannel.com/films...
This is a fantastic film that I saw at far too young an age to fully understand.... but believe me, I got it.
Budget Oogie Boogie costume (from The Night Before Christmas)
Criterion Channel really brings it for the October horror theme
Seed Shanty - The Perry Bible Fellowship
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<image of a ship named The Feeder with a crew of birds; many bags of seed are on the deck; banners with song lyrics are present on every panel>
"Seed, seed, seed"
"All the seed we need"
<image of the front of the ship; the bird who had been looking with the spyglass looks startled>
"On this we are agreed"
<image of another ship crewed by squirrels; pirate flag with a squirrel skull and crossed swords>
"Seed seed seed!"
"Seed, seed, seed"
"All the seed we need"
<image of the front of the ship; the bird who had been looking with the spyglass looks startled>
"On this we are agreed"
<image of another ship crewed by squirrels; pirate flag with a squirrel skull and crossed swords>
"Seed seed seed!"
source: https://pbfcomics.com/comics...
"Our cargo had been fully sacked- much of it spirited away within the bulging walls of their fleshy mouths.
The jollity of the morning hours were now a distant memory. A crestfallen lot were we who remained."
- From the Log of Captain Robin Cornwallace, The Feeder
"Our cargo had been fully sacked- much of it spirited away within the bulging walls of their fleshy mouths.
The jollity of the morning hours were now a distant memory. A crestfallen lot were we who remained."
- From the Log of Captain Robin Cornwallace, The Feeder
Every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is good
Every sperm is needed
In your neighborhood
Every sperm is good
Every sperm is needed
In your neighborhood
struggling to keep up
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Screenshot of a tweet by @sashikantsingh_ on Sept. 29, which reads "Open Al's internal benchmarks show GPT-6.1 Sol crushing Opus 5.5, with Anthropic struggling to keep up" Below it is a chart showing lines for GPT, Fable and Grok, in which the x axis is labeled "Release date" and the Y axis is labeled "Model number."
That's pretty fantastic. Wait until they see my ZZZAI 9.999, releasing in 2045!
"according to this, we're using scotch tape at a rate of 800%!"
Outlander 6.66 has them all beat.
