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a flat rectangular plastic card with four large round circles arranged in an arc and a semicircular cutout in the left edge. It's clearly designed to engage with the fingers and thumb of the left hand. There is a small round hole for a knotted string in the top left corner, marked "Memory". The larger holes, from top to bottom, are numbered 1, 3, 5 (thumb cutout), 2 and 4.
All of the text is written in a delightfully retro-futuristic font (likely Data70) invoking MICR computer text. Other texts are "The Zlotnian Calculator™" and "© Fingerbrain Co. Seattle, WA 98103 U.S.A."
All of the text is written in a delightfully retro-futuristic font (likely Data70) invoking MICR computer text. Other texts are "The Zlotnian Calculator™" and "© Fingerbrain Co. Seattle, WA 98103 U.S.A."
Since everyone seems to be all about space programs, here's a very silly joke device from 50 years back: The Zlotnian Calculator.
While it was a joke, it was made by a very serious surveying instrument company, the Slope Indicator Company of Seattle, WA.
source: https://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/SpecialS...
While it was a joke, it was made by a very serious surveying instrument company, the Slope Indicator Company of Seattle, WA.
source: https://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/SpecialS...
me3dia
Potentially useful for balancing the odds in a fight, depending on finger size.
Knuckleduster?
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A streamlined turquoise motor vehicle with pinched nose, big glassed-in passenger compartment and an odd grid of vertical fins on the roof.
Aquaman
@poorusher ++++++++
I can get why it looks ungainly, for the most part, but the ribcage just flummoxes me.
@ardgedee I assume it's some kind of flying buttress-like support for that huge span of glass in the rear. I'll bet this was some kind of camera vehicle for the front of the race.
It’s a Type H Citroen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) converted as an advertising vehicle for “la Fédération des producteurs de produits alimentaires dérivés du lait.” It sounds like the ribcage would have originally been covered with an advertising livery. According to the auction site, it’s probably the work of a Rouen coachbuilder known as “Le Bastard”, and was restored for a 2001 comedy, which explains why it’s in decent condition.
https://cars.bonhams.com/auction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
https://cars.bonhams.com/auction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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a large man in a fuzzy white bunny suit with huge pink ears hunched over in a sitting position and mugs happily for the camera, surrounded by a dozen white bunny and chicken puppets
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film loop - a woman at a breakfast table with a loaf of bread startles as flames burst from her toaster. She holds up a piece of burnt toast into which someone - or someTHING - has etched the words SATAN LIVES.
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a nighttime scene in Los Angeles showing a parking sign with a palm tree, utility pole, and power lines visible in the back ground. The parking sign reads 2 hour parking, 8am to 8pm except sunday. under that is a sign made to look like a street sign posted: "No ICE Chinga La Migra At All Times" with a universal No symbol over an ice cube.
source: https://lataco.com/anti-ice...
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looking at a parking sign on a post in los angeles, with blue sky, powerlines, and a building visible in the background. under the parking sign is a sign in the style of a parking sign: "NO I.C.E. PLEASE GET A REAL JOB"
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This is a stylized, humorous comic drawn in a simple red-and-white color scheme.
Overall layout:
The image looks like a poster or PSA. Bold, all-caps text appears at the top and bottom, framing a single large illustration in the center.
Main illustration:
A cartoon person has just tripped off a curb and is shown mid-fall, sprawled awkwardly on the ground. Their body is exaggeratedly limp, with long, thin limbs stretched out in unnatural positions.
The absurd twist:
Their bones have popped out of their body and are scattered on the ground around them—arms, legs, and even a skull lying separately.
The character is looking down at the loose bones with alarm.
Two speech bubbles say:
“OH NO, ALL OF MY BONES!”
“THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INSIDE OF ME.”
Environment:
A sidewalk and curb are visible, indicating they tripped while walking down the street.
The background is minimal, with dotted shading to suggest ground texture.
Tone and style:
The drawing is simple and cartoonish, not graphic or realistic.
The humor is absurd and exaggerated, playing on an impossible scenario (bones ejecting from a body).
The bottom text continues the joke by pretending this ridiculous outcome is a real risk, warning people to “look before you step off curbs.”
It’s a parody of overly dramatic safety warnings—taking a mundane accident (tripping) and escalating it into something hilariously impossible and grotesque in a playful, non-serious way. 'I ALL HAPPENS IN A HEARTBEAT. ONE MOMENT YOU'RE WALKING DOWN THE STREET. THE NEXT YOU'VE TRIPPED AND FALLEN AND EJECTED ALL OF YOUR BONES. ALLOFMY OHNO BONES! THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BEINSIDE E OFME. OF ME. 대대국식터다다습니 / من AND ALL YOUR CLOTHES FALL OFF toO AND YOU'RE NAKED, AND EVERYONE CAN SEE YOUR FLAPPY, EMPTY SKIN. ISIT IS WORTH THE RISK? IS IT WORTH THE SHAME? LOOK BEFORE YOU STEP OFF CURBS. ALL OF THIS STUFF CAN AND WILL HAPPEN.'
Overall layout:
The image looks like a poster or PSA. Bold, all-caps text appears at the top and bottom, framing a single large illustration in the center.
Main illustration:
A cartoon person has just tripped off a curb and is shown mid-fall, sprawled awkwardly on the ground. Their body is exaggeratedly limp, with long, thin limbs stretched out in unnatural positions.
The absurd twist:
Their bones have popped out of their body and are scattered on the ground around them—arms, legs, and even a skull lying separately.
The character is looking down at the loose bones with alarm.
Two speech bubbles say:
“OH NO, ALL OF MY BONES!”
“THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INSIDE OF ME.”
Environment:
A sidewalk and curb are visible, indicating they tripped while walking down the street.
The background is minimal, with dotted shading to suggest ground texture.
Tone and style:
The drawing is simple and cartoonish, not graphic or realistic.
The humor is absurd and exaggerated, playing on an impossible scenario (bones ejecting from a body).
The bottom text continues the joke by pretending this ridiculous outcome is a real risk, warning people to “look before you step off curbs.”
It’s a parody of overly dramatic safety warnings—taking a mundane accident (tripping) and escalating it into something hilariously impossible and grotesque in a playful, non-serious way. 'I ALL HAPPENS IN A HEARTBEAT. ONE MOMENT YOU'RE WALKING DOWN THE STREET. THE NEXT YOU'VE TRIPPED AND FALLEN AND EJECTED ALL OF YOUR BONES. ALLOFMY OHNO BONES! THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BEINSIDE E OFME. OF ME. 대대국식터다다습니 / من AND ALL YOUR CLOTHES FALL OFF toO AND YOU'RE NAKED, AND EVERYONE CAN SEE YOUR FLAPPY, EMPTY SKIN. ISIT IS WORTH THE RISK? IS IT WORTH THE SHAME? LOOK BEFORE YOU STEP OFF CURBS. ALL OF THIS STUFF CAN AND WILL HAPPEN.'
source: https://www.kingofblood.com/
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two men in button down shirts, surrounded by four big 42-inch-diameter white globes inscribed with lines showing latitude, longitude, azimuth and other astrogation aids. One man is drawing on one of the globes.
scientists in 1962 planning the moon landing, according to the source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
You mean it wasn't, "Just plunk down here, y'all!" ?
I would very much like one of those models
@poorusher the globes are pretty cool, too, amirite? 😜
https://images.google.com/hosted...
Scientists studying moon phases on models in preparation for US manned flight to moon.
Location: US
Date taken: February 1962
Photographer: Fritz Goro
Scientists studying moon phases on models in preparation for US manned flight to moon.
Location: US
Date taken: February 1962
Photographer: Fritz Goro
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A graph potting the year versus the date of flowering of the cherry blossom. The years are on the horizontal scale, the month or moment of the year of flowering on the vertical scale. at the right end of the graph, approaching the year 2025 we can see the graph goes down, which means that the flowering starts earlier and earlier in the year. The moment of flowering in the year 2025 is one of the lowest/esrliest on the graph.
‘Based on the research done by Aono and Kazui in 2008, by Aono and Saito in 2010 and by Aono in 2012 the historic full flowering days since the year 812 for Kyoto in Japan where gathered.
Yearly we add the new dates and update the graph. The current version is up to date till 2025.’
Source: https://datagraver.com/kyoto-fu...
I myself have seen something similar happen with the magnolia bloom here in the Netherlands. When I was a kid, over half a century ago, I know the exact date when the white Magnolia would be exploding into bloom, because it always was exactly around Remembrance Day, May 4. We would keep our one minute of silence, while I was staring at the white Magnolia in front of our window.
Since then, I’ve seen the bloom happen earlier and earlier, starting around 1980, and now it’s a full month earlier. By the time May comes around, all the flowers are gone nowadays.
Yearly we add the new dates and update the graph. The current version is up to date till 2025.’
Source: https://datagraver.com/kyoto-fu...
I myself have seen something similar happen with the magnolia bloom here in the Netherlands. When I was a kid, over half a century ago, I know the exact date when the white Magnolia would be exploding into bloom, because it always was exactly around Remembrance Day, May 4. We would keep our one minute of silence, while I was staring at the white Magnolia in front of our window.
Since then, I’ve seen the bloom happen earlier and earlier, starting around 1980, and now it’s a full month earlier. By the time May comes around, all the flowers are gone nowadays.
I gave this a like, but I do not like this.
@snarkout yes, that. I edited the post to add a bit of my own experience.
Well, you know the saying..."April showers bring May flowers and uncapped global emissions leading to increasingly unstable global warming brings April flowers."
Here in Washingon's Skagit Valley, there is a big tulip festival every year. Last few years, it's been early to mid April. This year, I started seeing daffodils bloom early March, and the first tulips started opening up mid-March. I hope the farmers and everyone involved is able to adapt and adjust to the changes! My own daffodils have been in bloom for weeks now, and my tulips have been out for about a week. Seems so much earlier than usual.
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image of the earth from the moon, with the text, "I have two versions of Outlook and neither of them is working" as a reference to a recent incident with the Artemis II crew
title stolen
USS Enterprise Level Support
Good ol Papyrus
"... and if you can get Teams to stop working, too, I'd really appreciate it. I am in actual outer space observing the infinite."
- an astronaut, probably
- an astronaut, probably
Artemis II Astronauts Say Teams Not Working Either
https://theneedling.com/2026...
https://theneedling.com/2026...
@neuracnu actual lol, amazing
This mission could NOT have been an email.
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Film loop - a man in black spin-kicks a man in blue, who falls off a parking garage balustrade, slams into an SUV below and rumbles to the pavement
This is a totally boss stunt.
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NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.
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a picture of the shattered remains of a green mug arranged so the mug's message is still readable: "Don't let reality ruin your day"
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A dairyman in a tidy red rowboat, carries 96 ~2KG wheels of cheese, neatly stacked, to market. They are rowing and deflecting a very interested seagull. The dairyman is dressed in black, and wears classic wooden shoes. I have some just like them, I bought in Leyden, 60 years ago.
Buffet lunch … a gull eyes up a vendor’s cheese being transported by boat during the opening of the first cheese market of the season in Alkmaar, the Netherlands
#Photography #ANP/Shutterstock I
(This photo has a lot to love, cheese, wrinkly water, man who makes good cheese, seabird, boat, and potential for joy and peaceful continuity.)
#Photography #ANP/Shutterstock I
(This photo has a lot to love, cheese, wrinkly water, man who makes good cheese, seabird, boat, and potential for joy and peaceful continuity.)
[the cabbage, rabbit, fox problem, except it's one tired ferryman and 8000 seagulls]
I do like this photo, the man in black, the paddle, especially the boards in the bottom of the boat in relation to the wrinkly water, the bird, that number 4.
However, <in my brain, there is always an however> However, you have assumed the cheese is good AND that the man made the cheese.
Now it could be said all cheese is good but we all know that is not necessarily the case, AND...i'll shut up now
However, <in my brain, there is always an however> However, you have assumed the cheese is good AND that the man made the cheese.
Now it could be said all cheese is good but we all know that is not necessarily the case, AND...i'll shut up now
seize him
@roonie I like the black and white and red colour scheme
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photograph of two slices of pizza sitting on a wax paper/thin cardboard box that appears to be no way up to the job of the amount of grease contained within the pizza. one slice is completely covered in shredded oxtail meat that appears to have been stewed in onions. a normal cheese slice sits next to the oxtail slice for contrast more than anything.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
I would flip one of those over on top of the other and wolf them down before the person next to me would be able to utter, "dude what the fuck?"
And then I would die, probably.
And then I would die, probably.
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animation of artemis II's flight trajectory, with the earth rotating at a fixed point in the upper-center of frame. the craft is depicted as a red ball following a red loop, with the moon (a grey ball and grey line) coming into frame just as the craft is at its furthest extent.
animation of the flight path of artemis II, making the rounds here this morning.
source: https://community.wolfram.com/groups...
source: https://community.wolfram.com/groups...
It's so sad that they will never be able to return to Earth
Missed it by that much!
I love the moon doing a little scoot through.
@dogwelder "ope just gonna s l i d e right by ya there"
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
It utterly boggles my mind that they can calculate this so accurately as the moon passes - after an exactly 5 minute and 55 second burst of engines from Earth.
i need a remix of this as the meme with the latinx music drive-by
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Five cartoon panels.
1: Exterior shot, Hogwarts.
2: A girl in robes, wearing the sorting hat; in the background are three other students in robes.
3: Closeup on the girl, her face squinched up and fingers crossed.
4: The sorting hat says, "JK Rowling uses profits from this franchise to fund anti-trans legislation!" The girl looks upset.
5: The girl says, "Aww, I wanted Ravenclaw..." One of the background students pipes up, "I'm 39 years old!!"
1: Exterior shot, Hogwarts.
2: A girl in robes, wearing the sorting hat; in the background are three other students in robes.
3: Closeup on the girl, her face squinched up and fingers crossed.
4: The sorting hat says, "JK Rowling uses profits from this franchise to fund anti-trans legislation!" The girl looks upset.
5: The girl says, "Aww, I wanted Ravenclaw..." One of the background students pipes up, "I'm 39 years old!!"
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
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Presenting male on a cliff top holding a tiny terrier dog. They're both wearing the same white puffa jacket.
i love this suspicious lil face
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I’m experimenting with pushing Tri-X to 1600 and 3200 ISO (this shot is 3200). My masters final project is about a dream-like experience and I’m playing with heavy grain and the sense of fogginess it can illicit. I’ll be experimenting with double exposures as well.
This is the Barcelona Cathedral around 10am on a weekday during Semana Santa. The tourists hadn’t quite started to swarm yet (I mean, if I’m honest, at 8 months living here I’m still a tourist).
Shot on a Minolta XD-11 that used to be my father’s. 35mm lens. Probably f8 with a high-is shutter given the ISO.
This is the Barcelona Cathedral around 10am on a weekday during Semana Santa. The tourists hadn’t quite started to swarm yet (I mean, if I’m honest, at 8 months living here I’m still a tourist).
Shot on a Minolta XD-11 that used to be my father’s. 35mm lens. Probably f8 with a high-is shutter given the ISO.
Never did much with TriX but I loved pushing Ilford Delta to 1600 and beyond. Such gorgeous grain and contrast.
that's a lovely shot
@1f2frfbf oh i should definitely try with some delta. i have delta 3200 to experiment with, but i've never pushed delta 400 (or 100). i've also been playing with harmon kentmere 400 and really like it. i usually stick with hp5+, it's very hardy when messing with chemistry.
@wjcstp thank you!
@wjcstp thank you!
Just keep in mind this chemistry is very toxic to the nervous system, and does cause parkinson's if you do not protect yourself. No contact, ventilate, always use gloves.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 i think that's a bit of a myth. still good to be safe, though. i did some googlin' and there's no direct proof that the chemistry causes parkinsons, but sounds like that was a common thought at the time.
My professor, who is yoinger tham me, but not by much, has fairly severe Parkinson's. I was told it was common among the greats, something to do with benzene in the developer.
@0y3ahSansAcut3
Benzene is seriously nasty stuff (though my chemist mom still talks longingly about its efficacy as a solvent). Is it still used in photography?! I thought given the known health hazards it’s been more or less banned from use for decades. I know my mom said that labs had stopped using it and that was in the 90s
Benzene is seriously nasty stuff (though my chemist mom still talks longingly about its efficacy as a solvent). Is it still used in photography?! I thought given the known health hazards it’s been more or less banned from use for decades. I know my mom said that labs had stopped using it and that was in the 90s
@BennyTheIcepick @0y3ahSansAcut3 i'm just doing some surface level searching but it sounds like some common photography chemicals (used primarily for cleaning film) contained high amounts of trichloroethylene which has been linked to parkinson's. trichloroethylene has mostly been phased out.
so, my apologies for implying it's a myth! it seems it was a bigger problem historically but not as much currently. always good to handle chemistry safely no matter what, though!
so, my apologies for implying it's a myth! it seems it was a bigger problem historically but not as much currently. always good to handle chemistry safely no matter what, though!
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Armendariz and Connery
From Russia with Love was an amazing watch last night. I've really never watched the old Bond movies and holy shit, if you haven't, it will shock you in absurdity at every turn. I couldn't stop laughing at the script and loving the creativity and beauty of the cinematography. Each scene is so over the top with patterns and color schemes. But then I saw this scene (pictured) about midway through... see that arch above that guys head? The way it stays centered like a hat started seeming very Wes Anderson and then that led to reimagining the actors going full Wes Anderson and then I spent the next hour laughing even harder than I already had been.
We rewatched a handful of the earliest Bond movies when they came to Netflix a month or so ago, and totally agree, they're way more ridiculous than i remembered. You get these lush settings and lovely framing, plus hit-and-miss spy plots and some absolutely laughable dialog.
The whole plot, "If you can put up with the dumb, you get to see pretty girls, pretty men, and amazing cars!"
Worth it. Sean, Ursula!
Worth it. Sean, Ursula!
I recently rewatched this one, too. It's gorgeous, even if it doesn't make a lot of sense. I learned that Daniela Bianchi ("Tatiana Romanova") was overdubbed by British actress Barbara Jefford because her Italian accent was too thick. Jefford did an amazing job matching the VO!
Roger Moore (stunt double) running atop crocodile heads like they were stepping stones
https://youtu.be/-LrbTd69...
And all of the attempts... because actual crocodiles
https://youtu.be/EDeUzB12...
https://youtu.be/-LrbTd69...
And all of the attempts... because actual crocodiles
https://youtu.be/EDeUzB12...
Stupid ridiculous Bond movies. I could watch them all until the cows come home.
The late ones got very serious, not so many laughs, but the stunts ramped up a notch or twenty.
The late ones got very serious, not so many laughs, but the stunts ramped up a notch or twenty.
PUFF, PUFF, PASS; FRIENDO
I had this memory that they got silly with Roger Moore, but yeah re-watch will show they were all absurd.
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A 3 panel comic strip: "There's no way out of this one, Dad. Check." says a kid who is dominating his Dad in chess. Dad, slyly, angles his watch to reflect a beam of light onto the board, catching the attention of a cat. In the last panel, we see the pieces scatter as the cat pounces. Dad covers his smile from his distraught child.
source: https://pbfcomics.com/comics...
The alt text came directly from PBF! Nice that they are adding it!
The alt text came directly from PBF! Nice that they are adding it!
Love you, Gurewitch
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An otherworldly scene: a winding, rocky path carved out of rock, surrounded on both sides by indeterminate foliage. This is a mostly dark indigo scene with greenish fog rising ahead of the path. Looming up from the fog is a huge rocky pillar with a glowing white light at the top. Fog hangs in the air. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Imagining the otherworldly chorus of “happy birthday toooooo yoooouuuuu” hanging in the air, followed by a rush of foul wind, and the ensuing darkness.
@BennyTheIcepick Ooh! I wasn’t but I am now!
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A metal panel of elevator buttons. The lowest one says EARTH. Then they go up by increments (numbered 75, 95, 115, 135, 155, 175, 195, 215, 235) and the last one just says SPACE