Excellent.

I regularly ask myself this very question.

these are great! i may have to grab one soon.

@nikkuneko aww yay! and it supports a good cause!

@samh I wish more people would

@spingo much appreciated!

I wonder how they get the oil out…

Next time, Gadget.

Sun Ra Arkestra

I love that view and that building. It always reminds me that we are capable of so much more.

Lebowski vibes intensify.

@m3moellering there are some parts of this city that are still great

@urlnotfound ★

I don't have proof but I'm nearly certain I ate lettuce two weeks ago and it has been a battle since.

grave dancing is fun and healthy!

Is it speaking ill of the dead if you're just listing all the things he did when he was alive?

Interesting fact I learned last week:
Robert Bunsen, for whom the burner and this muppet is named, lost an eye in a lab explosion.

Brings new meaning to this character being eyeless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

@BennyTheIcepick O X

The Pearl with the Girl Earring.

That's no moon!

https://www.eff.org/deeplink...

The old cynicism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits.

(applause)

So insidious. There is at least some movement to get them banned from particular spaces at least.

I've heard there's already an app that will alert you if anyone near you is wearing meta glasses

I kept looking for the view of a person actually sitting inside it.

@karmakaze or with the wheels turned, yeah.

Ceci n'est pas un penis.

Future man will not need to look behind, only ahead

@karmakaze Not a problem, there's no possible way for anybody to get inside it anyway.

@ardgedee Scroll down on the source. There appear to be doors in the mix.

If Grace Jones were a car.

Cylons

@MackReed The doors seem about as practical as the front wheels. If I can get into that without bumping into the frame I'd be damned surprised.

@ang+++

I like this a lot

🤖

Brilliant/Beautiful!

Gorgeous!

WHO IS SHE?

Folks are questioning the providence of this. 1) Mexico and England only played once this tournament, and the score was 1-3 at 68:23. 2) The clock never moves. 3) All the cartoon hair.

yeah the paleness right in the center of the image around the checker-outer has my not-real-alarm beeping

@neuracnu @misslivie gdi, did I get got?

This is reacting to a series of videos where men look at women and get slapped by their partners. All at World Cup matches. All fake.

Golf courses, and country clubs everywhere.

@0y3ahSansAcut3 Don't forget the data centers.

in San Jose, "the mysterious fire set by the homeless" is how we solve the problem of Historic Buildings that're in the way of new development

I can see my house

@Argie Hehehehehe

Man, Perth is soooo spread out.

I can see @Argie's house!

@jordanbrock it's ridiculous the size it's become

"Two Rocks in the north and Singleton to the south, a distance of approximately 125 kilometres (80 mi). From the coast in the west to Mundaring in the east is a distance of approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi)."

@jpoulos waves

Their winter is our summer

It's not quite beige right now (although it was when Canada burned in 2023), but the AQI in my north side neighborhood is currently 262. So not. great.

Spouse is in Duluth. The AQI pegged out at 500 today.

“I
Am trying
To break your heart”

– the wildfires, probably

Kiddo is in Boston. She says the air is orange.

Mpls was at 500 this morning. The path of I-94 was smoky all the way north earlier.

Beyond parody: https://bsky.app/profile...

We’re at 500 up in northern MI.

Presently visiting Cleveland and it’s fucking awful. Even in the wildfire plagued southwest I can only think of one time it was as bad as this. My flight home might be delayed as a result.

Also, amazing title.

It’s hot in the poor places tonight

*Pauls

-The- Paul. Also pictured: Paul.

Not less, more

les paul > paul > mor paul

You could go get a bite and it'd still be like rrrrrrnnnnnggggggggg

@MackReed ++

beat les paul

Sharing this among friends and they’re like “it really took you ‘til almost 40 before you realized you were on the spectrum?!”

That pteranodon is totally pitted, dude, like, so pitted.

@MackReed
Dude you get the best barrels ever, dude

SETEC ASTRONOMY

Don’t those chafe?

As a younger and poorer man I used to keep wool, fingerless gloves at my computer because I kept the heat in my apartment much lower to save on heating bills. Fingerless gloves are essential for use with a keyboard IMO so the person photographed here is clearly not a power user as the vibe of the photo is intended to imply.

Lol @samh I thought the same thing when I saw it. "WFT? This aren't fingerless gloves. Clearly staged."

Of course nothing else about the photo tipped us off, @Superyeti ; )

John Boy from The Other Guys updating his .plan

If it's any help, you might be a lot better by tomorrow. The Twin Cities are back down to the mid 50s today after a couple of days in the 300s.

Yeeesh.

I would mask up for walks. Couldn't even see down the street. I remember seeing people outside a bar smoking. I mean, it makes sense, but it just seem so weird.

my supervisor (who is up around wrigleyville somewhere IIRC?) just mentioned how bad it was for her this morning.

stay safe! i'll definitely second what art mentioned; when we got bad wildfire smoke here last year, i definitely relied on an n95 when i was outside.

We were in the low 400's in central Ohio this morning, but it is starting to improve. The haze is still very obvious, and it smells like a campground outside.

Michigan beat the chart yesterday. There were no numbers high enough. It was BAD. Today, we are down from HAZARDOUS to UNHEALTHY.

Yesterday in Evanston it smelled like a campfire, but it didn't bother me too much. Today I don't smell smoke, but I can feel the air scraping my insides.

Phht! Yankees fans....

Well, that's a crock! (On the right there.)

Love the sound. No idea about the lyrics, of course.

Oh man. I have a soft spot in my heart for Cornershop. One of my best friends in undergrad introduced me to When I Was Born for the Seventh Time and I remember driving him to the record store to get Handcream for a Generation the day it came out.

A Chintan so good it could be the main character in a Tom Robbins novel.

A chintan so cool it hums Tom Waits songs in the fridge and tells you that you look hot when you open the door.

I would watch this cooking show

A chintan which convincingly lies to you about how good the sex was.

a chintan that sits by you and holds your hand in the E.R.

A chintan that both drives you to the airport and picks you up again, and has a snack waiting for you in the car.

Idiot me thinking a chintan is something you get when you finally shave off your beard.

@Davezilla +++

A chintan that says it's OK to see other chintans.
as long as you come back

guarding the Anthropic Principle

This is giving, "Lamps in video games use real electricity" vibes.

Nam June Paik wept.

@MackReed was convinced it was Nam.

So how does an installation from 1968 use a colour Sanyo VCC-3912 CCD camera from the 1980s?

@scruss i couldn't find any other info perusing the web, but the link to the whitney is legit, so either a) the installation is dated incorrectly or b) the installation changed what gear it used a few times before it was acquired by the museum (according to the page, in 1993)

@nikkuneko so, like the axe of legend, is it the same installation?

@scruss Speaking in all seriousness, you can't believe the extent to which museum curators worry over and debate this issue.

In some cases (maybe this one) it can be a relatively minor problem: Anastasi was a conceptual artist, the art was in the concept, and you can think of the installation as an execution of it. The art that's owned and preserved -- seriously -- is the artist's idea, usually in the form of the paper the concept was written and diagrammed on. Any additional material goods might be whatever was used in the initial display of the art. They might be treated as material references (for helping source the working items to be used in the exhibit) that don't necessarily have to be reused. In this case, the art is the working exhibit, so what's important is to have an operating video camera and display powered by a wall outlet rather than the original artifacts which might not work or might not even be in the museum's possession.

(sidebar: If you buy the sheet music for John Cage's 4'33", you get a page of paper with instructions written in English about how to perform the piece. There is no musical notation.)

In other cases, preservation is a serious (and really expensive) problem. The other extreme in video art might be Nam June Paik's "Dadaikseon", a 30 foot tall tower of over 1000 TVs which Paik deliberately chose to represent the breadth of South Korea's technological progress, from 60s b/w TVs to modern (ca. 1988) top of the line big-screen color. When I saw it in the mid-2010s it was not doing well, to say the least: The phosphors on most of the screens were blowing out, some TVs were effectively dead (and incidentally the heat the tower gave off was incredible). The restoration project (which started shortly after I saw it) took over 2 years, engineers combing through online sales and junk dealers to find old TV parts, and required making replicas of some of the TVs with LCD displays and heavy glass to make them look like the originals. The Wikipedia entry doesn't get into how they restored the original video when the tapes had been looping ten hours a day for almost thirty years, but I'd bet that was a challenge too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

In this case the museum was fortunate that the original installation had been made with Samsung's patronage and afaict the restoration had their backing as well. If this was owned by a US museum it would probably have been dismantled years ago, warehoused and never seen again.

@ardgedee thank you for that thoughtful reply to my throwaway comment. I know some folks in digital artwork preservation (not quite at the Nam June Paik level) and they have the world's biggest ebay watchlists. Since CRTs aren't being made anywhere, preservation's going to take a lot of difficult choices.

*"City of Gold and Lead" intensifies*

MackReed ++++++

@MackReed what a reference

@artwells @B6FA798A3449 I coulda gone HG Wells, I spose.