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cat report, 10-10-26
The Kids Are Alright-Still
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Taken by a former colleague. This is one of his Sophomores. New York state made it an educational law that any electronic device capable of sending or receiving signals was banned from the classroom. I posted a while ago about how kids are keeping their music alive in school here-
https://mltshp.com/p/1R2YN
https://mltshp.com/p/1R2YN
MackReed
I unabashedly ADORE this.
Fuck yea. There is hope.
i'm here for this!
honestly, unabashedly happy for the kids able to carry the music with them wherever they go, but: *especially* happy that this gets them to experience music on its own, without the spotify algorithm guiding them, without the ads bombarding them, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
(also, it reminds me that i have a TI cassette [drive] that i salvaged years ago but never got into working order. should pull it out and give it a proper cleanup.)
honestly, unabashedly happy for the kids able to carry the music with them wherever they go, but: *especially* happy that this gets them to experience music on its own, without the spotify algorithm guiding them, without the ads bombarding them, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
(also, it reminds me that i have a TI cassette [drive] that i salvaged years ago but never got into working order. should pull it out and give it a proper cleanup.)
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This is a thing: https://iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu/
Never mind that this war is immoral and illegal. It’s EXPENSIVE.
Sad to acknowledge that of all the horrific widespread and blatant crimes committed by this administration it took a jump in the price of gas to turn some people against him.
Never mind that this war is immoral and illegal. It’s EXPENSIVE.
Sad to acknowledge that of all the horrific widespread and blatant crimes committed by this administration it took a jump in the price of gas to turn some people against him.
What makes this so much more terrible (morality aside) is that these costs should actually be *higher*. China really saved our asses this summer but that's over now. There's going to be so many books written about the manipulation that's happened in the past few months to keep prices down in the U.S. The crack spreads are completely untenable - I'm super dreading what prices are going to be after the midterms when Shithead doesn't care anymore. It's already happening with vessel costs, which have absolutely exploded. We're talking 20x costs compared to January this year.
And then on top of it all, the Clown Prince of Saudia Arabia pulled one of the most boneheaded tactical blunders of the past 100 years in Yemen. We're paying (and will continue to pay) with the cost of oil. They might end up paying with their kingdom. Regional people are paying with their lives. Just today the Houthis managed to get the largest oil field in the world as well as Aramco facilities elsewhere. (The airport is part of this, too, but that's tourism etc.) One drone, one missle, one covert operation - they can fix pipelines and pumping stations and refineries all they want, it doesn't matter when it can get hit again the next day.
Add in El Nino and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. . . Americans are going to feel it in 2027. What makes me cry is that while we Americans just "feel" it for the most part, in other parts of the world people are going to die. And all a bunch of crappy people care about is that it costs $150 to fill their grossly huge Dodge Rams.
And then on top of it all, the Clown Prince of Saudia Arabia pulled one of the most boneheaded tactical blunders of the past 100 years in Yemen. We're paying (and will continue to pay) with the cost of oil. They might end up paying with their kingdom. Regional people are paying with their lives. Just today the Houthis managed to get the largest oil field in the world as well as Aramco facilities elsewhere. (The airport is part of this, too, but that's tourism etc.) One drone, one missle, one covert operation - they can fix pipelines and pumping stations and refineries all they want, it doesn't matter when it can get hit again the next day.
Add in El Nino and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. . . Americans are going to feel it in 2027. What makes me cry is that while we Americans just "feel" it for the most part, in other parts of the world people are going to die. And all a bunch of crappy people care about is that it costs $150 to fill their grossly huge Dodge Rams.
update
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newspaper headline: AMERICANS THICK IN
THE HEAD
Einstein Says We Are So Ignorant We Are Comic
THE HEAD
Einstein Says We Are So Ignorant We Are Comic
Wiltshire born
Wiltshire bred
Strong in the arm
But thick in the head
Wiltshire bred
Strong in the arm
But thick in the head
Thick as a brick. Dumb as a bagga hammers.
I am framing this.
We like to stop at the * shop.
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Striped Tiger Water
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An image of a Bengal tigress and her three half grown cubs, drinking, and making stripes in the water.
A female Bengal tiger and her cubs quench their thirst in Ranthambhore, India. In its latest Living Planet report, the World Wildlife Fund writes: “In 2010, only around 3,200 wild tigers remained, and the species seemed to be sliding toward extinction. By 2025, the population had grown to roughly 5,700, an increase of more than 70%”
#photography #AndyRouse WWF PA
#photography #AndyRouse WWF PA
I don't quite know why. But this positively looks like a painting.
Wonderful picture
Wonderful picture
this is amazing
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A small, filthy brick bathroom positively paved in graffiti and stickers. Two urinals are visible at left and a toilet on a stained riser to the rear with no privacy enclosures whatsoever.
The photo and the location, sure, but what’s really amazing is the source:
“ holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!!
https://pinlite.app
someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol”
Via https://bsky.app/profile...
“ holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!!
https://pinlite.app
someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol”
Via https://bsky.app/profile...
Best of the internet!
I dislike the pinterest UI so much
I dislike the pinterest UI so much
(CBGB, allegedly.)
@bezt confirmed. I’ve pissed there a few times.
loafer
🎶
GPOY: vampire driver license edition
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Zoomed-in, cropped image of the portrait of me on my driver’s license. My irises look unusually light and my pupils unusually dark and prominent, so I look like some kind of sci-fi/fantasy creature.
My new driver’s license. Something about the lighting for the photo or the printing process or the colors or SOMEthing, make my eyes look like some kind of vampire or secret werewolf or reptilian or something lol
LET'S NOT JUST GLOSS OVER WHAT APPEARS TO BE YOUR SIGNATURE THERE, DR. WOMBAT
Well, which is it?
You are walking alone in the sand of a desert.
You look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you.
You reach down and flip the tortoise onto its back.
The tortoise is left lying on its back, baking in the hot sun, beating its legs and unable to turn over without help.
Why are you not helping it?
You look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you.
You reach down and flip the tortoise onto its back.
The tortoise is left lying on its back, baking in the hot sun, beating its legs and unable to turn over without help.
Why are you not helping it?
2 of 9
FFU
whip of the week
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a low slung open seat car made of vintage sewing machine parts
no, it is NOT AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Darn! Sew it is! Someone’ll prolly surge in to needle you about this spindly comment thread.
I may be biased, but @wombatman70 's puns are leaving me in stitches!
Epic Thread!
Vale to the titan scientist Margaret Hamilton
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Margaret hamilton is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by her and the team she was in charge of, the LM [lunar module] and CM [command module] on-board flight software team for the Apollo 11 moon mission.”
Margaret Hamilton has passed away aged 90
https://news.mit.edu/2016...
also
https://www.theguardian.com/science...
https://news.mit.edu/2016...
also
https://www.theguardian.com/science...
Trails were blazed 🫡
immortalized in Lego Ideas 'Women In Space" №21312
One of my employees worked for her and is still at the lab. She has nothing but nice things to say about her.
Fall Birds
Baba Yaga and chicks
By the ballot
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Picture of a woman in a voting booth (I think), with the text: "I moved on him like a bitch. I just start voting. I don't even wait. Just vote. And when you're registered, they let you do it."
Source: Fersberk
"And when you're registered they let you do it."
See, that's what they're working on right now, though.
See, that's what they're working on right now, though.
Got mine in
Vote in person if at all possible. On Election Day.
Please... please!
My sister won a boat!?
descent
morning herald
Lady in the Lake
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An illustration in muted pastels. A small boat is passing through a lake in the fog. In the boat are two men, one in a mail shirt, brightly colored cape, and helmet, standing with his arms crossed; the other seated, wearing a cloak with hood and long beard. The boat is white with a gold animal, possibly a gryphon, at its head. Behind th boat, three swans are flying low over the lake. Immediately astern, a hand is thrust up through the lake, holding out a sword.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Illustration by NC Wyeth from the 1917 edition of Sidney Lanier's "The Boy's King Arthur" (1880): https://archive.org/details...
Illustration by NC Wyeth from the 1917 edition of Sidney Lanier's "The Boy's King Arthur" (1880): https://archive.org/details...
👋🏼
ram
these jared leto vehicles just keep getting weirder and weirder
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a vividly illustrated flyer for an event titled “KEYS TO REVELATION”, featuring a rather wild array of flying lions, angels, bears, dragons, and some kind of babylonian icon over a christian bible open to “the revelation of jesus christ” and a lock. below that, a white dude cosplaying as jesus in a robe that seems to have a mishmash of flags on it opens his arms, gesturing downward to the title text
for years now some nutty assed church has been sending out full-assed booklet flyers for their “end times” nonsense seminars, and i always get one full laugh before tossing it
previously:
https://mltshp.com/p/1N6JH
previously:
https://mltshp.com/p/1N6JH
4 horsemen = three-headed flying leopard, a dragon, a flying lion, a ring wraith? and a bear and some buff guy from the Odyssey? I'm in
don't kink shame
my kid is a student at UofI, i wonder how much i could pay her and a few friends to go to this and start speaking in tongues
Mars, 8.30am Sol 4,982
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Panorama of Martian horizon
Ironic.
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Pic of a sign that reads, "If it's called the tourist season why can't we hunt them."
Pic is taken by an old man, obviously a tourist.
Pic is taken by an old man, obviously a tourist.
Shakes fist at clouds.
I was coming out of the library today and a couple of tourists asked, “where’s the library?”
I congratulate them that they’d already arrived. “Okay but how do we go in?”
I gesture at the automatic sliding door still open behind me.
I congratulate them that they’d already arrived. “Okay but how do we go in?”
I gesture at the automatic sliding door still open behind me.
@BennyTheIcepick no need to hunt them, by the sounds of it. They will get trapped in there and perish of their own volition.
今みなさんに、カボチャにズサーする猫を見ているうちに三連休が終わる呪いをかけました🎃
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pixel animation loop of glowing green kittens on a black field sliding face-first into the backs of, then emerging from the mouths of orange jackolanterns.
Titled as found
(Translation: I have just cast a curse on all of you: your three-day weekend will end while you're busy watching a cat slide face-first into a pumpkin. 🎃)
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
(Translation: I have just cast a curse on all of you: your three-day weekend will end while you're busy watching a cat slide face-first into a pumpkin. 🎃)
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
spoopy!
that is a Maru slide
PROBABILITY THAT ONE OR MORE TEAM MEMBERS MAY BE INFECTED BY INTRUDER ORGANISM:
75%
75%
Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE
for the people who need it
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a very tiny model of a violin picked out in clear UV-hardening resin on a white background. There is a 200 µm scale bar next to the model, which is about a third the total length
from my friend Vik: one of his latest RepRapMicron prints in UV cure resin. It's a very tiny violin indeed.
source(ish): https://github.com/VikOlliv...
source(ish): https://github.com/VikOlliv...
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤪🤪🤪