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Late afternoon in a city. The sky and surrounding environment are golden yellow, with tinges of blue. In the background are a few blue skyscrapers. A person with a traffic light for a head stands on a curb next to a round blue sign with a bus icon on it. The person is wearing a dark coat. The orange bulb on the person's traffic light face is lit. Next to the person is a small paper shopping bag. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Sign urging people not to plant bamboo near data centers because it’s so invasive. Sure would be a shame.
Japanese Knotweed is another plant that you really should not plant near data centers.
@dphiffer good tip! Folks, feel free to add warnings + regions where they are most disruptive to the local habitat.
Willows & cottonwoods shouldn't be planted either, as their roots can severely destroy water lines and will travel 20-25 feet looking for water. Especially near data centers that promised not to take water out of the ravaged Colorado River but now are suing to do so.
Also when stressed they send up even more trees so they're devilishy hard to remove. Look for any trees/plants in the poplar and salix genera for natives in your area to avoid these characteristics.
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A black-and-white photo of an older woman in glasses, slightly out of focus, seated and reading "Reflections on Socialism" (which is sharply in focus).
source: https://www.spiegel.de/fotostre...
I discovered yesterday that the Communist activist and labor organizer Beatrice Lumpkin passed away earlier this month at the age of 107. Her first labor activities were in *1933* at the age of *14* (not as a school project or something; it was the Depression and she was working in a radio tube factory); her mother had been a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory worker and she soon began working for the Laundry Workers Industrial Union and the CIO.
Having moved with her second husband, a steelworker and union organizer, to Gary, Indiana, in the 1950s, she had been a resident of Chicago for almost 65 years and was on the faculty at Chicago's Malcolm X College (where she was a longtime member of the Chicago Teacher's Union). Her autobiography, "Joy in the Struggle: My Life and Love", was published in 2012. A truly remarkable life. See https://medium.com/eldeadli... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki....
Rest in power.
I discovered yesterday that the Communist activist and labor organizer Beatrice Lumpkin passed away earlier this month at the age of 107. Her first labor activities were in *1933* at the age of *14* (not as a school project or something; it was the Depression and she was working in a radio tube factory); her mother had been a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory worker and she soon began working for the Laundry Workers Industrial Union and the CIO.
Having moved with her second husband, a steelworker and union organizer, to Gary, Indiana, in the 1950s, she had been a resident of Chicago for almost 65 years and was on the faculty at Chicago's Malcolm X College (where she was a longtime member of the Chicago Teacher's Union). Her autobiography, "Joy in the Struggle: My Life and Love", was published in 2012. A truly remarkable life. See https://medium.com/eldeadli... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki....
Rest in power.
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Truly humans have been humans for a very long time.
His name is Gromit.
"...two intromittent organs called claspers..." wiki
TIL
TIL
Left shark from way back.
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A green bicycle leans against a log at the edge of a calm body of water.
I blew the winter dust off the steed yesterday evening and rode up to the top of Peters Dam on Kent Lake, in the Marin Municipal Water District land behind Mt. Tamalpias. It felt nice to work some different muscles.
Nice Rivendell!
Oh Marin!
That's an intrigueing bicycle for sure. And beautiful surroundings
@wjcstp @joost It's an Appaloosa; I got it back in 2023!
@niicholas I love their bikes, i had a Redwood for a few years, and i'm periodically tempted to get another one (currently the Roaduno)
Always wanted a Rivendell, but the money and opportunity never coincided. Also my Kogswell fit me so right it was hard to want to replace it.
Had a line on a Heron once, which iirc Peterson had some design involvement with (might be confused on that), but the seller only had a couple frames left and I only had about ten minutes to decide, and passed.
Had a line on a Heron once, which iirc Peterson had some design involvement with (might be confused on that), but the seller only had a couple frames left and I only had about ten minutes to decide, and passed.
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"I sent you to the store for WOOD GLUE, not Plexiglass!"
Ceci n'est pas une chaise.
Shake well before using.
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Album cover artwork made by the Youth Landscapers Collective. The title is WAYANNAEYINANYONNIT, which is a colloquial Derbyshire phrase which translated to 'We are not having any of it'.
The cover shows line illustrations in pink, yellow and blue, various young people, a canary over a lamp and other little sketches.
The cover shows line illustrations in pink, yellow and blue, various young people, a canary over a lamp and other little sketches.
source: https://youthlandscaperscollec...
My wife worked on this project with a wonderful Youth Arts Collective in the middle of England (pretty close to the absolute, furthest point from the sea, middle of England, Ashby de la Zouch).
The group are youth led with the adults there to facilitate. But the music is so good, and incredibly emotional. I don't know how much of the stories are told just in the songs, but it's powerful stuff.
Oh lol, there is some better text than I could write at the link.
Also if you fancy it the facilitator sent me some free download codes, so you don't have to fork out if you don't want to.
Just email me lharby[at]protonmail dot com and I can forward them on. I decided to buy but she was pretty adamant I could use the codez.
My wife worked on this project with a wonderful Youth Arts Collective in the middle of England (pretty close to the absolute, furthest point from the sea, middle of England, Ashby de la Zouch).
The group are youth led with the adults there to facilitate. But the music is so good, and incredibly emotional. I don't know how much of the stories are told just in the songs, but it's powerful stuff.
Oh lol, there is some better text than I could write at the link.
Also if you fancy it the facilitator sent me some free download codes, so you don't have to fork out if you don't want to.
Just email me lharby[at]protonmail dot com and I can forward them on. I decided to buy but she was pretty adamant I could use the codez.
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Color snapshot of a man wearing shorts, a basketball jersey, and a baseball cap seated in a crowded New York street scene at night. He's in front of a well-illuminated old-fashioned Singer sewing machine table, looking at his phone.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and as gorgeous as a Caravaggio."
Vogue did an interview with him: https://www.vogue.com/article... and this is his website: https://www.tattoodcloth.com; his embroidery machine is, he says, 104 years old.
"Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and as gorgeous as a Caravaggio."
Vogue did an interview with him: https://www.vogue.com/article... and this is his website: https://www.tattoodcloth.com; his embroidery machine is, he says, 104 years old.
This is so great.
So great.
So great.
🖤🖤🖤
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The disk of the Sun, with the Falcon rocket in silhouette
https://www.threads.com/@colchri...
Amazing detail as a Falcon leaves Earth from Florida. We can see the rocket exhaust turbulence and shape, and even sunspots.
photo by John Winkopp
Amazing detail as a Falcon leaves Earth from Florida. We can see the rocket exhaust turbulence and shape, and even sunspots.
photo by John Winkopp
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illusion of an enormous serpent of sand that stretches out behind its head - which is the head of a dark haired woman with lipstick on. She has been buried and the sand smoothed over her body so that only her head shows. the illusion is quite credible.
actually I’ll be marching with VamoLá and Bloco Pacífico in the Fremont Solstice Parade on Saturday, so maybe this is Sunday …
img src: https://www.reddit.com/r...
img src: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Oh so clever!
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A festival crowd gathers around an art car that has a cherry picker basket modified to look like a scorpions’s tail. The crowd is in the foothills of Colorado in the evening. Various lights and tents and art installations and cars are visible.
Went to Colorado’s regional burn Apogaea over the weekend; due to burn bans all fire art was disallowed, so several attendees put together a small circus show for the final evening.
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He’s absolutely fucking incredible
Leopard shoes and all...
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an elderly man with close-cropped hair wearing a light blue cardigan smiles as he holds up an electronic collage piece. It's of a stylized 1990s Ford dashboard, with a glowing green digital clock showing "3:10" and a flashing red "AIR BAG" warning.
I just found out that my friend and mentor, J.D. (Dan) Larson, passed away. He was found unresponsive by a neighbour. He was 91 years old.
Dan had a long career in high-energy physics. After a PhD at Caltech, he developed particle accelerator technology at Oak Ridge and Argonne. In the 1990s he stepped away from research to care for his elderly parents in Independence, MO. He had been in poor health for the last couple of years, and died in the home he'd been born in. Dan was my mother-in-law's companion.
This picture was taken in December 2014, and Dan is holding up a collage my partner made for him to thank him for taking her to the airport in the middle of the night (hence the "3:10" clock). Dan drove a very well-used 1990 Ford station wagon, which had many sensors broken or failing. The airbag light was constantly flashing, as did the indicator in the collage. A tremendously precise man, it didn't bother Dan that his gas gauge was broken: he knew exactly how many miles he got on a full tank.
I'll miss him.
Dan had a long career in high-energy physics. After a PhD at Caltech, he developed particle accelerator technology at Oak Ridge and Argonne. In the 1990s he stepped away from research to care for his elderly parents in Independence, MO. He had been in poor health for the last couple of years, and died in the home he'd been born in. Dan was my mother-in-law's companion.
This picture was taken in December 2014, and Dan is holding up a collage my partner made for him to thank him for taking her to the airport in the middle of the night (hence the "3:10" clock). Dan drove a very well-used 1990 Ford station wagon, which had many sensors broken or failing. The airbag light was constantly flashing, as did the indicator in the collage. A tremendously precise man, it didn't bother Dan that his gas gauge was broken: he knew exactly how many miles he got on a full tank.
I'll miss him.
I am very sorry Stewart, may his memory be a blessing.
@jessamyn Thank you!
(I was just thinking of you yesterday: I spent most of the day in a barn in rural Ontario that had an absurd collection of huge old computers in it, including some very impressive Data General big iron.)
(I was just thinking of you yesterday: I spent most of the day in a barn in rural Ontario that had an absurd collection of huge old computers in it, including some very impressive Data General big iron.)
My condolences. To live in hearts that love is not to die.
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I feel I would have liked to have met and spent some time with Dan. So sorry he is gone.
I'm sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.
Thanks, all. He was a good 'un.
@Argie It was hard not to spend a long time with Dan. No matter how hard you'd try to get him to talk about physics days (he was at Caltech while Feynman was, but Dan was all about experimental HE physics, not theoretical) or even his early computing days (he used a IBM 650 in the late 1950s), he'd want to tell you how he kept his salvaged lawn mower going out of bits he found in the neighbour's trash.
The most Dan moment I remember was when he was helping my MIL plan new railings around her roof deck. The house (1870s) had a door onto the roof, but no rails, and the city demanded everyone put in railings. Dan rolls up with a big printout of measurements, all tabulated in 8-decimal place Fortran scientific notation. They were (of course) correct, but the contractor had never seen anything like it
@Argie It was hard not to spend a long time with Dan. No matter how hard you'd try to get him to talk about physics days (he was at Caltech while Feynman was, but Dan was all about experimental HE physics, not theoretical) or even his early computing days (he used a IBM 650 in the late 1950s), he'd want to tell you how he kept his salvaged lawn mower going out of bits he found in the neighbour's trash.
The most Dan moment I remember was when he was helping my MIL plan new railings around her roof deck. The house (1870s) had a door onto the roof, but no rails, and the city demanded everyone put in railings. Dan rolls up with a big printout of measurements, all tabulated in 8-decimal place Fortran scientific notation. They were (of course) correct, but the contractor had never seen anything like it
@scruss Magnificent. Sorry for your loss, and thanks for giving us a glimpse of one of life’s originals.
Sounds like a life well lived. Sorry for your loss, @scruss
Sorry for your loss @scruss
Dan sounds like a true character, worth knowing.
Treasure the memory. Hug your partner, and the MIL.
Dan sounds like a true character, worth knowing.
Treasure the memory. Hug your partner, and the MIL.
@scruss I absolutely know that "Contractor meets engineer" energy. Was the barn full of stuff a museum or... just someone's tech hoard?
@jessamyn Kind of a tech hoard, The guy says he's selling, but unless it's something he has far too many of, he's not selling. He's fun company, though, and his farm is in beautiful countryside
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animated gif of a TV ad(?). A sun appears in the upper portion of the screen, with the words "Tomorrow is today" animated below it.
tonight is yesterday morning
makes you think
Today will be yesterday's tomorrow
and yesterday is weaving in and out
"Lemon, it's Wednesday."
Tomorrow: Now, more than ever.
Fuck. I stayed up too late again.
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
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elton john emerging among muppet crocodiles
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Organic lentils cooking on a stove somewhere out in the western US, way too close to the remains of an obliterated B52. What nation made that guidance system, and, how could they possibly be that pissed off? As Swami Beyondandonda once said, "If you take the "I," out of reality, what do you have left?"
Enough lentils for soup, and hummus. I soaked these for just under 24 hours, and they, (bless their little organic hearts,) were starting to ferment. But they were fully cooked in about 15 minutes of boiling. I bet billions of batches are cooked just like this to conserve fuel, and cut down on household heat, but I have clean water, and AC.
P.S. The hummus is really good.
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A color illustration by Moebius. It shows three people standing in tall yellow grass. The middle figure is holding a rifle and wearing a pith helmet. Behind them, completely covering the entire background is the head of a dinsaur-like creature. Its mouth seems to have a little blood coming out of it, suggesting it might have been shot by the person with the rifle.
Terrifying Monday!
Incredible as always. You’re so prolific; it’s weird to have prolific and excellent in one package.
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"Check out my torn shirt featuring famous punk band The Pretenders! Only 80 bucks at Bloomies!"
I have a love/hate relationship with band shirts from the 80's.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK
I thought this was a vintage ad …good God!
Now name three songs by the band without consulting the interwebs, ya whippersnapper!
I wonder what happened to my circa-1992 Crimpshrine t-shirt.
Broke my nose moshing at a Hüsker Dü show in an abandoned asbestos-abatement training facility in ‘84 - two years *after* catching the Ramones and the DKs live. Get off my lawn, zoomers.
@m3moellering there is no need to wear vintage tshirts when i am vintage already
Nothing punk about $187 jeans
I have a hate/hate relationship with this ad.
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Universal Manipulation Exoskeleton: Learning Compliant Whole-body Policies with Real-time Torque Feedback
https://ume-exo.github.io/...
https://ume-exo.github.io/...
I swear to god I thought he was going to cut his head off when the robot drew the sword.
AI Robots Useful Skill Training. Lesson 4, part 1.
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Today is the last day the National Park Service is accepting comment on TFG’s proposed fucking monument to himself.
Please join me in being loud about it: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document...
Please join me in being loud about it: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document...
Thanks for this
I submitted with some help from reading the comments from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Thanks. My comment is in.
Thank you, sir. Mine is in as well:
I am an American citizen. I've been one my whole life.
I would like to express my disapproval and objection to this proposal.
Effectively invented by the Roman Empire, triumphal arches are historical symbols of imperial, non-democratic leaders commemorating dubious moments of their significance: military victories and the comings-and-goings of family members into non-elected leadership.
Our national parks, along with the brave and dutiful individuals who care for them, are in dire need of funding and personnel support. I can think of countless ways our national efforts and treasure could be better spent than on this truly pathetic gesture, peddled by sycophants, to stroke the ego of a dangerous fool.
I am an American citizen. I've been one my whole life.
I would like to express my disapproval and objection to this proposal.
Effectively invented by the Roman Empire, triumphal arches are historical symbols of imperial, non-democratic leaders commemorating dubious moments of their significance: military victories and the comings-and-goings of family members into non-elected leadership.
Our national parks, along with the brave and dutiful individuals who care for them, are in dire need of funding and personnel support. I can think of countless ways our national efforts and treasure could be better spent than on this truly pathetic gesture, peddled by sycophants, to stroke the ego of a dangerous fool.
I commented yesterday as well. I invoked my dead grandfather who flew in B-24s over Germany and Nazi-occupied Poland in WWII and who would have thought the idea of having to see this fucking monstrosity on the horizon from Arlington to be intensely disrespectful.