this is very cool

is this loss?

That table top in Friend of André colours is a bit suspect.

okay, wow, TIL:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-che...

"we'll fix it in post"

TIL it's possible for there to be a non-toxic quantity of Polonium-210.

@dreyfusslugado I think maybe what we learned is exactly how dangerous it is to not have scientists and regulations protecting us from our largest feats of idiocy.

Central-Mid-Levels escalator entrance.

The misspelling of propagation is a bummer for a neat idea.

@billturner
“Is it PO or PA in propagation?”
“I dunno, better use both”

We had a neighbor keeping chickens and a rooster for a while. The chickens would respect the low wire fence they'd put around the pen but the rooster wouldn't, and he would usually cross the woods and end up in our yard. I had to herd him back to their property a couple times.

“Caught in a Mosh” - Anthrax (1986)

This gift link has expired. I went looking, these are findable.

So does that mean beans to you? (Heh heh heh.)

Cur Veruca Salt (in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not the band) singing "I want a bean arch" instead of bean feast

I am Jack's climbing legume.

Joe Pera intensifies ...

The Sopranos ending we actually wanted.

Would it help to apply it directly to the forehead?

aka "the guy from Superchunk who ended up with a career in music that did not involve running a record company" :)

I visited the used bookstore he worked at a few times (it's gone now) but I honestly couldn't tell you whether I'd met him there because I'm more or less celebrity-blind (Mac McCaughan took my ticket at the gate for a Mergefest and I didn't know it until my wife told me later -- and that guy's like 6'5" or something). Any gossip I've heard about Wurster though always makes him sound like a pretty great guy.

@ardgedee which store? Chapel Hill became so impovershed as a place to walk around and shop in my years there, in 1994, when I came, there was a lot more than T-shirt stores and beer/burger/wings places.

Did he Rock, Rot, or Rule?

I think he'd be the ultimate argument settler for sure.

@foist he's a Libra rising, he avoids conflict like the plague haha

@snarkout ruled like GG Allin

@ardgedee Very random but he once he told me about a Marian apparition book he found at that used bookstore and that book is now one of my favorites. Also it might have been Jim Wilbur taking your ticket because Mac is close to 5'7" - very nice, all of them. P.S. Mac's daughter Oona is a reality icon on some Barstool Sports spring break show, much to her parents' chagrin.

@drurystephanie I am glad he didn't Rot like David Bowie!

@drurystephanie Well, that's how celeb-blind I am. 😅 Although to be fair it was my wife who said it was Mac.

@thelonius Nice Price Books on Broad St. in Durham. The building's a Papa John's now. And yeah I know what you mean -- a dozen years ago we'd head to CH pretty regularly and now we might go a couple times a year. Even Carrboro has better restaurants.

@drurystephanie after I read this I was doubting my own memories, because I thought Mac was of average height. Thanks for keeping us all sane.

@ardgedee @pk @snarkout ☺️

Shut the parka, Dan

Change your pants and I'll stay

Also notable for the URL: 1RUDE

So cuuuute!

I agree…
https://youtu.be/Z6E98ZRa...

I worked for an engineering firm that specialized in utilities. I got to have a tour at a coal-fired electric plant. How they work is shockingly complex and at a scale that is hard to grasp. It took hours to see and walk from the coal coming in by train all the way to the towers where water condensate reclaimed from the steam turbine was cooled for reuse. In between the coal is crushed, powdered, blown into a giant furnace, the exhaust is filtered with miles (literally) of fabric that gets washed, the water is boiled and pressurized into a turbine. They burned a half-mile of coal train every day.

Solar plant: the sun shines on there and electricity comes out of the wires in the back.

Solar beating coal? Yeah. If course it does.

@urlnotfound ++

A recent mental journey (Pub Quiz > Nixon Founded the EPA > Wikipedia EPA) resulted in me reading all about the Love Canal disaster which predated/precipitated both the EPA and the superfund list, which made me look up what fly ash was: coal combustion products, which lead me down a coal rabbit hole. I don't know what I expected but the more I learn about coal, the less I like. I cheer its decline.

@urlnotfound 🌞🌞🌞

Is this woke's fault or DEI's fault?

the world is not decarbonizing because of a lack of public appetite for it, but because selling fossil fuels makes a handful of men wealthier than the Pharaohs.

@homerj the communists

I read The Cuckoo’s Egg as an undergrad and it had a huge impact on my academic direction.

My wife bought me a Klein bottle from him! They ship with a ...wild amount of paratextual material

The organic stripper you ordered.

Get recumBENT, you pervs!

It SAYS 69!

All wrapped up and someplace to go

Couple of well placed panniers are all that's missing.

Appealing.

@bezt Heheheh

For US Diplomatic Corps, Latin America.

Looks like they've begun to split

SLIP-ONS :D

If you made banana bread, they could be loafers.

You all are a bunch of comedians.

Slipper, for scale

Hells yeah!

I absolutely love this shot!

If this is real I want one.

@poorusher https://www.ebay.com/itm...

oooOoooOOOOooooOOOOOOooooouch

@urlnotfound DAMN!

Although thinking logically my wife would absolutely hate it.

@poorusher I don't blame her. that object is Japanese horror-movie levels of cursed. Having it in your person probably turns all your video games into E.T. for Atari 2600 and will result on your house wrapped in plastic by the government.

Weren't these pulled from the market because people kept using them for, uhh, unintended purposes?

I had one of these to go along with a full-head E.T. mask

@Lockjaw Hope not since it doesn't have a flared base.

Pairs nicely with a Jar Jar Binks lollipop.
https://screenrant.com/jar-jar-...

@Lockjaw Is that what @urlnotfound meant by “having it in your person?”
Here I was naively thinking it was just a typo.

@jtj most of my comments here are typed on my phone. I am certain that autocorrect is at least 200% worse than it ever has been and it got a lot worse when the LLM stuff got shoved into everything.

If it's real, you'd expect there'd be a news article. 🤖

Clicking the link shows a bunch of people making a pretty convincing argument for it being AI.

@urlnotfound Spokes on the front wheel look blobby and irregular but that, in turn, could be a product of the "AI" image processing in the phone.

It's clankers all the way down.

@ardgedee the link has comments from loud of people who have looked for the details of this. and Their research brings up two other photos of the accident that have details that just do not match. No reliable sources for the image have been found.