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Curling!
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A man in dark blue pants and a blue top sliding on an ice rink delivering a curling stone.
That's me! Bloomberg came to our club to do a profile of us ahead of the Olympics, and this was one of the photos they used for the article.
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Wait, does that mean you're in or trying out for the Olympics?
@bencmeissner nope, we're just a recreational club. No idea how the reporter found us!
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How It Started
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photo of the author and his future wife, circa 1982
I've been in Denver for 3 weeks so far, and will be spending the majority of the next 2.5 months here, mostly without my wife. This is a photo of the first time I proposed... on our high school stage in a production of Arsenic and Old Lace. I think it was a couple of months later that I told her I was sad that we were meeting so young, because who knew where we'd be when we were actually at that stage of our lives.
impeccable penismanship
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Good message, but mostly congrats on the impressive virality of your apparent ai slop, fella.
Eyes in the darkness
Biomass
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I cannot love this enough.
sitrep
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a four-panel cartoon, featuring bialetti's mascot "the mustachioed man", a small man in a trilby hat, suit, and bowtie. in each of the panels he is adding water to a moka pot's base, spooning coffee grounds into its grounds basket, placing the assembled pot over a fire, and enjoying a cup of coffee
"l’omino con i baffi" (the mustachioed man), art by paul campani, from bialetti's marketing materials for its moka pot, c. 1958
image via bialetti's "our history" page:
https://www.bialetti.com/ee_en...
image via bialetti's "our history" page:
https://www.bialetti.com/ee_en...
TIL that they make the extremely silly Alpina coffee pot: https://www.bialetti.com/ee_en...
@scruss that Alpina pot should have a cameo in the Italian dub of "Beauty and the Beast"
@scruss cackling just imagining someone trotting that out for a daily morning cup (which yeah, i'm sure everyone who bought it put it on a shelf for display, but still a funny mental image)
I subbed today.
Hearts of Resistance - 2
big snow
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Several large six-pointed snowflakes against a black background
don't think I've ever experienced ones big enough to be clearly seen by the naked eye. This was taken by my cell phone
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
I finally saw actual snowflakes a few years ago. I was shocked at how cool of an experience it was. I didn't even know they actually were visible to the eye. I thought you needed to use a magnifying glass to see them.
Gorgeous!
@urlnotfound yup, these were about 5 mm across
mad little fellow
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a tiny bulbous 1960s Fiat-Abarth racing car charges out of a corner with its inside front wheel off the track
There's something about the front grill of the Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR that twigs my pareidolia something magic. To me, it looks like it's going "oooo I can doo this!"
Caption: The 1000 TCR shared by Godemans and Hezemans charges through the esses on its way to victory in the 1968 European Touring Car 500 kms race at Snetterton.
source: https://www.supercars.net/blog...
Caption: The 1000 TCR shared by Godemans and Hezemans charges through the esses on its way to victory in the 1968 European Touring Car 500 kms race at Snetterton.
source: https://www.supercars.net/blog...
the X's over the headlights give it a cartoony "dead" look.
@dreyfusslugado I always wondered why they did that. The story I heard was to keep the glass in place in case the lens broke from flying rocks, but that doesn't sound to me like it would work.
@ardgedee could be that. Could also have protected the bulb a little if the glass got broken. It also makes it very clear that the car isn't road legal
Oliver looking dignified
This little guy!
mfw
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This reminds me of the question I, and most likely many many others, have for the billionaire ass-kissing class: Do you think the economy will still be great when shitler has deported, jailed or killed all the immigrants, trans folk, people who disagree with him about something, etc.?
@bencmeissner more to the point: will my 401k be worth anything when i want to retire?
@wjcstp That, too (though I just assume I will never be able to retire), but my question is about Bezos and Zuckerberg and Tim Cook, etc, etc. Do they think helping the shitler administration will be good for their businesses in the long term? I'm sure as shit not going to be buying Apple products (I already don't support the other two) while I'm in a gulag because I said mean things about shitler's secret police actions.
I posted this and got distracted
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I flew out of The Kansas City airport and noticed the district shape of the neighborhood right by my house. In the dozens and dozens of flights I have taken, this is the first time I saw my house and was excited to get a free pixels of it on camera.
I live not far from the airport. I was oretty excited to notice some familiar stuff yesterday and realized I could get a photo of my house-ish.
But why is the kitchen sink a mess? Have you no shame?
I'm calling bullshit. No way an airplane could give birth to a house
@joost, you should have seen what it looked like before I cleaned it.
The before picture, cropped to just the kitchen for clarity:
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The before picture, cropped to just the kitchen for clarity:
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"playing the shlong game"
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r/Damnthatsinteresting - The physics behind ski jumping’s ‘Penis-gate’ scandal: How 2cm of extra fabric = 5.8 meters of jump distance
C R Y I N G for more context here's a guardian article about it with an amazing pull quote that was totally on purpose: https://www.theguardian.com/sport...
title stolen
source: https://www.thetimes.com/sport...
title stolen
source: https://www.thetimes.com/sport...
finally, analysis i can use
Wouldn't it be easier to just watch some porn on the way to the gate?
@wjcstp I'm guessing that when the find themselves hurtling down 80+ meters without parachute even the most manly of men find their brains prioritise blood flow to muscles.
and a rock feels no pain
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A statue made of dull gray-green concrete stands against a blue sky. The statue wears a suit coat. Instead of a head, it has a boulder, balanced on its stumplike neck. A crude red smiling face is spray-painted onto the boulder. Similarly, a red necktie is spray-painted onto its chest. There are a few white wispy clouds in the background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
amazing surface lighting and texture
Empire, New York
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A color photograph, showing a somewhat decayed art palace theater with an empty marquee. "Empire" is written across the marquee in red script letters. Underneath it's not a movie theater, but two brightly lit and overstuffed entrances, to a peep show (with neon signs) slash "video warehouse" and a small newsstand type shop, advertising "gift & tobacco shop" and "photo ID center".
source: https://trimpergallery.com/artwork...
Andrew Moore, 1996. #photography. https://mltshp.com/p/1RJP3, a dozen years later.
Andrew Moore, 1996. #photography. https://mltshp.com/p/1RJP3, a dozen years later.
Well, now I want to open a little shop called PEEP SHOW, and you pay your fee and slink inside, only to find a bunch of pastel marshmallow birds that may be fully naked or may still be in their packaging.
I remember this New York.
solve for values where “my_best” = global min
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grainy, flash-washed (definitely photoshopped or edited) image of an opossum sitting on its hind legs at an office desk. its paws are set against a cup of coffee and is staring directly at the camera with what appears to be a closed-mouth grin. a watermark credit along the desk edge reads "selflovehannah"
big thursday vibin’. salute to all of you keeping it going in this hellscape, and kudos to all of you fighting the good fight with the resources you have.
EDIT: unfortunately do not have a source for the image; it was screencapped from instagram to camera roll, and the watermarked username did not match the account, so i'll chalk this up to "just a meme floating around". if someone has the energy to find an originating creator, do let me know.
EDIT: unfortunately do not have a source for the image; it was screencapped from instagram to camera roll, and the watermarked username did not match the account, so i'll chalk this up to "just a meme floating around". if someone has the energy to find an originating creator, do let me know.
@waldopepper thanks for looking! it looks like i saved this to my phone before the post you linked was made, but i appreciate the effort.
interestingly enough, the selflovehannah account (the watermark in the bottom left) actually posted the image last year, albeit with a gerbil instead of a possum in its place:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
the mystery continues!
interestingly enough, the selflovehannah account (the watermark in the bottom left) actually posted the image last year, albeit with a gerbil instead of a possum in its place:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
the mystery continues!
@BennyTheIcepick, missed your comment last night but hang in there. some weeks just really take it out of us and we feel like we've lost the structure; i think just getting by at the global minimum is good enough when the going gets tough. we're here for you.
narrowly averted
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"You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in," says Skeletor thinking wow this won’t be too hard will it.
Until we meet again!
@crazyunclejoe ++
Young me was not expecting to grow up into a world where Skeleton was somehow a fantastic life coach.
mfw
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SMBC! One of my favorite writers. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic...
be sure to click the big red button for bonus fun
Subject's Covered
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Tom Snyder asking Joe Strummer why he prefers The Clash be identified as "a news-giving group".
Joe: "Well, I dunno, maybe we just uh . . . Too many songs have been written about love already, ya know? Subject's covered."
Joe: "Well, I dunno, maybe we just uh . . . Too many songs have been written about love already, ya know? Subject's covered."
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
FYI, it's International Clash Day over at https://kexp.org rn. Lot of entertaining covers, influenced-by numbers, and sentiment-adjacent agitprop if that's your speed.
Donald Trump Wants to Cancel the Midterm Elections
still from "Consuela Did It"
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a tiny dark grey kitten looking at the camera while being carried in a turquoise plastic dustpan. From the Bob Log III video "Consuela Did It"
There isn't a video I can post here, but go to the track's Bandcamp page:
https://boblogiii.bandcamp.com/track...
and click on the video. You'll be glad you did.
#kittens #BandcampFriday
https://boblogiii.bandcamp.com/track...
and click on the video. You'll be glad you did.
#kittens #BandcampFriday
Fearless Guardians of Democracy
off to work!
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a man in flames leaps from a parking garage roof several stories into a van below, which then explodes
I have so many questions...
In the 80s most vans had moon roofs and hot tubs full of gasolines installed in them, @ba. Masked flaming man launching from the second story is just baffling me though.
This one might reversegif it quite well
