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Just Say No
The Persistence of Memory
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An arm chair covered in a llama blanket. Two sleeping beagles hang their heads over the edge of the chair. Random pillow on the top of the chair just for fun.
Dog days of summer, and the dogs have melted onto my reading chair in the front room. Bagel is the biggun who needs to lose weight. Nunu is closest to the camera.
So cuuuute!
To the trypophobiamobile!
Jon's in town
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Two middle-aged people sitting on a sofa in a hotel lobby
Semi-annual obligatory Wurster photo
aka "the guy from Superchunk who ended up with a career in music that did not involve running a record company" :)
I visited the used bookstore he worked at a few times (it's gone now) but I honestly couldn't tell you whether I'd met him there because I'm more or less celebrity-blind (Mac McCaughan took my ticket at the gate for a Mergefest and I didn't know it until my wife told me later -- and that guy's like 6'5" or something). Any gossip I've heard about Wurster though always makes him sound like a pretty great guy.
I visited the used bookstore he worked at a few times (it's gone now) but I honestly couldn't tell you whether I'd met him there because I'm more or less celebrity-blind (Mac McCaughan took my ticket at the gate for a Mergefest and I didn't know it until my wife told me later -- and that guy's like 6'5" or something). Any gossip I've heard about Wurster though always makes him sound like a pretty great guy.
@ardgedee which store? Chapel Hill became so impovershed as a place to walk around and shop in my years there, in 1994, when I came, there was a lot more than T-shirt stores and beer/burger/wings places.
A milestone
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I worked for an engineering firm that specialized in utilities. I got to have a tour at a coal-fired electric plant. How they work is shockingly complex and at a scale that is hard to grasp. It took hours to see and walk from the coal coming in by train all the way to the towers where water condensate reclaimed from the steam turbine was cooled for reuse. In between the coal is crushed, powdered, blown into a giant furnace, the exhaust is filtered with miles (literally) of fabric that gets washed, the water is boiled and pressurized into a turbine. They burned a half-mile of coal train every day.
Solar plant: the sun shines on there and electricity comes out of the wires in the back.
Solar beating coal? Yeah. If course it does.
Solar plant: the sun shines on there and electricity comes out of the wires in the back.
Solar beating coal? Yeah. If course it does.
@urlnotfound ++
A recent mental journey (Pub Quiz > Nixon Founded the EPA > Wikipedia EPA) resulted in me reading all about the Love Canal disaster which predated/precipitated both the EPA and the superfund list, which made me look up what fly ash was: coal combustion products, which lead me down a coal rabbit hole. I don't know what I expected but the more I learn about coal, the less I like. I cheer its decline.
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into Monday like
Slippers
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Photograph of a single yellow slip-on shoe against a neutral background; it's patterned with a very plausible series of dark brown spots arrayed in roughly linear patterns like a banana peel, and both the front (behind the toe, where the tongue would be) and heel have pieces curling off, the heel showing pale yellow silk "flesh" below.
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vintage packaged "E.T. Finger Light"
If this is real I want one.
@poorusher https://www.ebay.com/itm...
oooOoooOOOOooooOOOOOOooooouch
Meep meep
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The mural features Wile E. Coyote a fake tunnel opening, directly referencing the classic cartoon gag. A silver car has crashed head on into it, crumpled, with traffic cones around it.
If it's real, you'd expect there'd be a news article. 🤖
Clicking the link shows a bunch of people making a pretty convincing argument for it being AI.
@urlnotfound Spokes on the front wheel look blobby and irregular but that, in turn, could be a product of the "AI" image processing in the phone.
It's clankers all the way down.
It's clankers all the way down.
Ba Dum Tiss!
fly!
Native Copper vein in Lake Superior
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The stuff of Meth Legends
One of the coolest things I've learned in the ye' old "I didn't know that!!" variety in the last 5 years or so is about the "Old Copper Culture" in the Great Lakes region. It's so COOL and nobody talks about it (and we know why).
Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Long video: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Long video: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I expected it to be weathered green
Gillian, birthday girl
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Gillian Anderson
Chris Long, Big Gulp Cup, 2026 Oil on cradled wood panel, 6 x 6 in
kickflip
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a street photo of a skateboard mid-air with the shadow of the skateboarder below
I absolutely love this shot!
Cursed room
Hairy Chonker
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A large Hairy Woodpecker rests on a feeder. The feeder is a log with holes drilled into it. Each hole is filled with a mix of fat, nuts and mealworms.
The Hairy Woodpeckers have decided my feeder is OK. This was a particularly large one. The Red Bellied have started to visit as well, but never stay long enough for me to get a decent photo.
so ... you packed it with seed (worms?) behind ... plastic wood, or peanut butter?
The wood is real. The holes in the wood are filled with a mix of suet, peanuts, and mealworms.
Oooh! Wheredya get that feeder?
She seems nice…
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Nicola Zamboni and Sara Bolzani - bronze and terra cotta
Gives new meaning to the song "I wanna drive the Zamboni"
(I'll see my way out...)
(I'll see my way out...)
In the Heat of the Knight
BUY ARMOUR HAM
you are here
Normal Sunday
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A knife block held to a desk with a clamp with a hack saw blade in one of the knife slots. A hammer and chisel is nearby along with various other items that were shifted around due to sawing.
Had a pretty normal Sunday.
Yes. It worked. No. I don’t wish to discuss it further.
Yes. It worked. No. I don’t wish to discuss it further.
Do you mind if we do? Anyone have thoughts on where the bike pump and microscope came into play?
@hertz
I’m thinking some very particular crystallization pattern needed for the wood filler, which required active air pressure to achieve. Microscope for verification
I’m thinking some very particular crystallization pattern needed for the wood filler, which required active air pressure to achieve. Microscope for verification
@hertz Maybe you don't launch kitchen utensils into low-Earth orbit, and that's fine, but for those of us who do, the answer is obvious.
where's the gift shop
Moebius
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A color illustration by Moebius. It shows a figure wearing a classic Moebius-style tall brimless hat, standing in front of a giant floating crystal. Closer to the crystal, two figures are sitting on the ground.
Happy Monday!
Picking up a new strain
🔎🌞
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4 panel comic.
Panel 1: A pink blob character in suit tells Forg “you did a good business”
Panel 2: the pink blob in suit hands forg a dollar bill. He says “here is your pay”
Panel 3: forg holds the dollar bill. The man in suit walks off the frame. He reminds forg “don’t spend it all at once”
Panel 4: we see now that forg didn’t really listen to his advice. He stands in front of a building labeled “things you don’t need store”, dollar bill still in hand ready to be spent
Panel 1: A pink blob character in suit tells Forg “you did a good business”
Panel 2: the pink blob in suit hands forg a dollar bill. He says “here is your pay”
Panel 3: forg holds the dollar bill. The man in suit walks off the frame. He reminds forg “don’t spend it all at once”
Panel 4: we see now that forg didn’t really listen to his advice. He stands in front of a building labeled “things you don’t need store”, dollar bill still in hand ready to be spent
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
me_irl
Like I need to leave the house to buy things I don't need
I feel seen
A giant ginger bumblebee fondly known as the flying mouse
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Overhead photo-like illustration/composite of this bee. It's on a pink background. It is giner-clord, with six black fuzzy legs, and two antennae, with its wings crossed on its back
Illustration: Petra Korlević/The Guardian
Seeing videos of these big bees is really amazing. They can grow up to 4cm/1.575 in in length.
Commercial farming is causing their decline :(
NSFW because some don't like insects
source: https://www.theguardian.com/environm...
Seeing videos of these big bees is really amazing. They can grow up to 4cm/1.575 in in length.
Commercial farming is causing their decline :(
NSFW because some don't like insects
source: https://www.theguardian.com/environm...
Went out of town last weekend and got screwed over by a hotel and had to scramble to find another option. Ended up at a B&B run by a couple. The husband was super into bees, so the entire yard was a pollinator garden, and he had his hives out back. Turns out the county fair was also happening and he was president of the beekeepers club so we got to see them in action at the fair.
Anyways...bees are great. We need more of them and need to protect the ones we have better. Goal is to get more flowers in the yard next year.
Oh...also the advice I got: Do not clean up your garden in the fall. Apparently a lot of bees rely on the dead plants over the winter (at least in our PNW climate). Also a great excuse to do less yardwork!
Anyways...bees are great. We need more of them and need to protect the ones we have better. Goal is to get more flowers in the yard next year.
Oh...also the advice I got: Do not clean up your garden in the fall. Apparently a lot of bees rely on the dead plants over the winter (at least in our PNW climate). Also a great excuse to do less yardwork!