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I stumbled on this big ass clock in the entryway of the Barcelona History Museum while exploring. It was built in 1576 and ran in the cathedral until 1864.
I’ve watched blacksmithing videos for years. I’ve always wanted to try forging but never really got around to it. Seeing this machine built almost entirely of forged steel was breathtaking. To give a sense of scale, I’m 5’10”/178cm and I was maybe crouching a little for this shot.
I thought the image was more interesting in negative so I didn’t convert to positive. Shot on a Minolta XD-11 with Kodak Tri-X pushed to 3200 and a 35mm lens.
I stumbled on this big ass clock in the entryway of the Barcelona History Museum while exploring. It was built in 1576 and ran in the cathedral until 1864.
I’ve watched blacksmithing videos for years. I’ve always wanted to try forging but never really got around to it. Seeing this machine built almost entirely of forged steel was breathtaking. To give a sense of scale, I’m 5’10”/178cm and I was maybe crouching a little for this shot.
I thought the image was more interesting in negative so I didn’t convert to positive. Shot on a Minolta XD-11 with Kodak Tri-X pushed to 3200 and a 35mm lens.
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meatloaf and tim curry on a card titled "Meat Loaf with Curry" and "Follow me for more recipes"
source: https://www.tumblr.com/...
Subscribe to my Patreon for more delicious recipes Gen-Xers love.
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Photograph of Joanna Lumley from Absolutely Fabulous. She is lighting a cigarette and looking very startled, wide-eyed with smudged lipstick, mascara and bedraggled hair.
Today’s find! Signed Joanna Lumley, otherwise known as Patsy from Ab Fab, what an icon 🤩 (£2.50, frame included) 👍🏼
https://www.reddit.com/r...
https://www.reddit.com/r...
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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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My bucket overfloweth
Your _cup_ even https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Toilet of Disinformation
Dew of Apathy
Shvitz of Don't Ask Me
The leak of the freak.
Firehouse of Trump vomit.
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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...
y e s
Fast and bulbous.
@poorusher Aquavan
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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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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...
I've been working on a 3d printed re-creation: https://xoxo.zone/@scruss...
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...
I've been working on a 3d printed re-creation: https://xoxo.zone/@scruss...
Potentially useful for balancing the odds in a fight, depending on finger size.
Knuckleduster?
absolutely CACKLING at the manual (thanks for the link!)
@me3dia @poorusher absolutely bloody not: it's thin plastic from 1976. You'd end up getting Eddie Coyle'd if you tried it.
@nikkuneko it really goes for it, doesn't it?
did it come in brass?
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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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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/
If I had a nickel for every time...
Experts Are Dubious.
@rk2z +++
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"...but it's too late. I've seen everything."
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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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A squirrel in a tree with a massive cookie
I went to talk to my wife, who was gardening next to the apple tree. I told her "There is a squirrel right behind you."
"That's the squirrel [neighbor] feeds." The squirrel looked at us a while and then climbed to the top of the tree, where it had wedged a massive cookie. It grabbed it and ran off. "And that's [neighbor]'s cookie!"
Turns out that the neighbor had bought a cookie this morning, left it on her counter, and lost track of it.
Mystery solved.
I have a feeling I won't die. I'll just transform into a children's book.
"That's the squirrel [neighbor] feeds." The squirrel looked at us a while and then climbed to the top of the tree, where it had wedged a massive cookie. It grabbed it and ran off. "And that's [neighbor]'s cookie!"
Turns out that the neighbor had bought a cookie this morning, left it on her counter, and lost track of it.
Mystery solved.
I have a feeling I won't die. I'll just transform into a children's book.
Update: https://mltshp.com/p/1RNHI
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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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A large round yellow smiley face floats through an eerie woods on a dark night. The face is glowing and slightly translucent. It casts a yellowish-green light on the trees around it. The tree trunks are dark indigo and green, looming out of the shadows. The smiley face casts an iridescent, yellowish-green glow on the cracked ground as well. To the left, a figure is pursuing the face. The figure is illuminated bright yellow by the face, and it and the trunks around it are slightly lit from another bluish light source off screen. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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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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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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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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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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Squirrel with cookie
Was relaxing in the garden when the squirrel came back.
Previously https://mltshp.com/p/1RNH9
The inversion gives it an unearthly M.C. Escher quality. Great picture