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i hope these bitches can hear me sighing every 12-15 seconds in this hourlong review meeting
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four-panel cartoon, with minimalist-styled illustrations. in panel one anthrpomorphized cat in a sweater looks at her phone while ignoring her laptop screen, saying "this meeting is so boring". in panel two, she continues "could have been an email." in the third panel, the two animals in her zoom meeting are seen, respoding "you're not on mute, everyone can hear you". in the final panel, the cat replies "i know"
via @fablenaut on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
https://www.instagram.com/p...
Sigh-o-nara.
perpetual sitrep
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Rick Deckard, a character in “Blade Runner” who questions his humanity, frowns. Overlaid on the image is a Captcha interface with a checkbox (unchecked) labeled “I am not a robot.”
I mean, we’ve all been programmed to check that box, haven’t we.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
You’re completing a captcha and you see a picture of a tortoise on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not clicking on it. Why is that, Leon?
@corbie Let me tell you about my tortoise.
Equality vs Equity vs Justice
Beach Blanket Bettie.
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ca 1954
Arrestingly beautiful, and 1954.
French engineer Louis Réard, inspired by women adjusting their swimsuits for tanning, designed the bikini, naming it after the Bikini Atoll nuclear test site.
French engineer Louis Réard, inspired by women adjusting their swimsuits for tanning, designed the bikini, naming it after the Bikini Atoll nuclear test site.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 The nuclear option
last one off the beach flip the switch
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A light switch attached to a wooden post with waves on off written on it.
Guerrilla art is the best art.
Magic
More Magic
More Magic
#ffu
This is fine
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People relax on an Odesa beach. A large Brachiosaurus statue stands on the far side of the bay. In the distance, smoke rises from a Russian missile strike.
People relax on the beach as smoke rises following a Russian missile strike near Odesa, Ukraine. | July 29, 2026
Kostiantyn Liberov / @libkos
Gettyimages
Kostiantyn Liberov / @libkos
Gettyimages
in the midnight hour
Kinky...
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A multi striped and colorful Buick. (it must have been cheap, right?) It is loaded up with the British rock band, The Kinks. This comes as no surprise...
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" is a 1966 song by British band the Kinks. It lampoons the contemporary British fashion scene and mod culture in general...
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" is a 1966 song by British band the Kinks. It lampoons the contemporary British fashion scene and mod culture in general...
A multi striped and colorful Buick. (it must have been cheap, right?) It is loaded up with the British rock band, The Kinks. This comes as no surprise...
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" is a 1966 song by British band the Kinks. It lampoons the contemporary British fashion scene and mod culture in general...
Peter Quaife, Dave Davies, Mick Amory and Ray Davies of the Kinks in a promotional image for Sunny Afternoon, painted by BEV (Douglas Binder, Dudley Edwards and David Vaughan) in 1967.
https://www.theguardian.com/music...
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" is a 1966 song by British band the Kinks. It lampoons the contemporary British fashion scene and mod culture in general...
Peter Quaife, Dave Davies, Mick Amory and Ray Davies of the Kinks in a promotional image for Sunny Afternoon, painted by BEV (Douglas Binder, Dudley Edwards and David Vaughan) in 1967.
https://www.theguardian.com/music...
> "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"
Which I only really know of from parodic reference in Billy Bragg's _Accident Waiting to Happen_.
You can see the Buick and BEV at work in this Pathé clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Which I only really know of from parodic reference in Billy Bragg's _Accident Waiting to Happen_.
You can see the Buick and BEV at work in this Pathé clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
They were such a weird band, and usually overlooked when 21st century music pundits argue over boomer music.
They were prolific with hits but I think most of their catalog slides away from view because of the heavy influence of old-timey British music hall, and Ray's and/or Dave's intense and highly specific nostalgia for the particular time and place of their childhoods.
They were prolific with hits but I think most of their catalog slides away from view because of the heavy influence of old-timey British music hall, and Ray's and/or Dave's intense and highly specific nostalgia for the particular time and place of their childhoods.
I loved dancing to their bangers.
OOO messaging
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sign reading "FUCK OFF" blocking a dirt road
Glasses for people who don't do consent
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<Screenshot of a social media post>
Abbie (@AbbieEvansXO)
Furious, I storm into the men's bathroom where an asshole wrote "call for a good time" & my number. What an utter bastard I mutter, as I take out my pen to scribble out "call" and replace it with "text"
12:10 PM • 22 May 18
Abbie (@AbbieEvansXO)
Furious, I storm into the men's bathroom where an asshole wrote "call for a good time" & my number. What an utter bastard I mutter, as I take out my pen to scribble out "call" and replace it with "text"
12:10 PM • 22 May 18
/redoes stall wall ink pen illustrations to properly reflect anatomical realities.
song of my people
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no mistakes. impressive.
that is impressive, wow!
Somewhat related, I don't travel as much as I used to (for work) but the different in-train announcement sounds (happy chime & the Cash-like guitar riff) for the stations at the Denver airport along with the "Hooooooold on please!" *still* appear regularly & happily in my dreams.
Somewhat related, I don't travel as much as I used to (for work) but the different in-train announcement sounds (happy chime & the Cash-like guitar riff) for the stations at the Denver airport along with the "Hooooooold on please!" *still* appear regularly & happily in my dreams.
@williwaw Hah - I traveled SEA<->DEN frequently when I was visiting Space Force in Colorado Springs back in my startup times. I got sooo sick of that little guitar riff, but I grew to love the DEN suitcase gargoyle.
Vibraphone wins
Fawty-one yeeaz
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A beautiful pair of homo sapiens, a woman and man in their 50s. Cheek to cheek, smiling at the camera, in bright sunshine in this vacation selfie.
Me (right) and my BFF/it's-complicated since high school, yesterday, Peaks Island, ME.
Stapler lifecycle
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A chart of the life-stages of a stapler, from the egg stage (staple) to larval stage (folded staple affixing papers) to juvenile stage (safety-pin) to adult stage (office stapler). In an anatomy diagram we can see the adult's spring-loaded ovary has more staple-eggs ready to deposit.
The feral stapler population that spawns on utility poles led to a collapse in local wild stationery populations.
@bezt nice
No, listen, and forgive the story. A woman who had a farm, and raised pigs, worked in one of the dietary offices, where I worked. She was thrifty, harvesting food waste to feed her pigs from there, (a whole other set of scary realities.) OK, so the stapler in the sixth floor office broke, the Acme, stapler. It broke on the weekend when I was working, I left her a note. On Monday I had reason to be in the office, when she pulled the original box for the stapler out of a drawer, she had put it there 25 years before, in case she ever needed the lifetime guarantee. She took the box down to the secretaries, and they mailed, or called it in. Acme replaced it "for free." Twenty five years ago it may have been a buck and a quarter, 1996 I don't know the cost, the involvement of 4 staffers in the replacement, on our end. The capital and labor just boggle the mind, and the time.
Summer in Hollywood
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The Hollywood Bowl at sunset, as seen from the cheap seats
I can’t believe it is nearly August and I just hit this particular summer milestone. It was kind of a perfect night, and we were there with friends. 100% Recommended
Build It and They Will Come
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Italian Man Jailed for Building Fake Roman Amphitheatre and Charging Tourists €40
Maybe it was the papier-mâché columns that did him in?!
https://ftnnews.com/travel-n...
Maybe it was the papier-mâché columns that did him in?!
https://ftnnews.com/travel-n...
I mean, given enough time it will be ancient! :p
Eh, he's no Ea-nāṣir.
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<photo of a bicycle encased in a cube of concrete>
“If you can free it, you become king of the Netherlands”
“If you can free it, you become king of the Netherlands”
Heehee
blockchain
Strange women lying in cities distributing bicycles is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical velodromic ceremony.
from Rachel Lichtman's amazing Programme 4
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Current Status.
mfw
Marmots
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A marmot sat on another marmot on a bed of hay.
user feedback
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Gumby with his head in his hands being covered in gravel from a dump truck
When the gravel futures contract is held to expiration.
Gumby’s brief career as a union organizer
Nice coinkydink. I just recorded a segment about "gumby" used in climbing for inexperienced or naive wannabe climbers.
dark mode
interior
This is fine.
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A color photograph of two beachgoers on beach chairs under a sun umbrella (red and blue with the number 51 on it), surrounded by their strewn belongings. They are facing away from the camera and looking out over the lake. In the middle distance a child wearing a white t-shirt is on the shore. Across the lake, an enormous torrent of flame spews black smoke blotting out most of the sky.
source: https://www.theatlantic.com/photogra...
Beachgoers rest on the beach of Moutchic on the shore of Lake Lacanau in Lacanau, southwestern France, on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire. (Maximilien Lamy / AFP / Getty)
Beachgoers rest on the beach of Moutchic on the shore of Lake Lacanau in Lacanau, southwestern France, on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire. (Maximilien Lamy / AFP / Getty)
Who else is surprised this isn't an image from a SpaceX launch?
postcards from the Anthropocene
I’ve been on that beach many times. Stark naked. The view wasn’t this spectacular, the eye watering and lung splitting smoke wasn’t present. It was just nice, vacation.
The Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
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Lhasa Tibet, the Summer Palace, I think it was called. Nice article with lots of images in AP News today.
The Potala Palace is reflected off a polished tile on a square in Lhasa in western China’s Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, as seen during a government organized visit for foreign journalists. #photography #NgHanGuan for AP News
https://apnews.com/photo-ga...
https://apnews.com/photo-ga...
Don't give trump any ideas.
@jordanbrock He'd have to have some achingly blue skies for anything this pristine, and blue skies are The Anti Maga.
Non Hallucinatory Ports
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r/mac - Ports of MacBooks 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2024
weirdly, this makes me miss my 2008 polycarbonate mac (top of the stack). that was the one i actually lost (was stolen out of my car)
I managed to skip the generations with only USB-C ports, I am glad Apple took to their senses again.
I’m glad they re-added the MagSafe port, even with the unnecessary design changes over the years it’s a genuinely great idea.
