accidentally’d the whole thing on a botched firmware damned-jumper-pin-and-everything roll back maneuver and because I have a shred of self respect I’m just gonna take the drives and memory out and then throw the entire thing in the trash rather than chase fixing it
posts from 2018
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chunk (draft)
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🌈 (draft)
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Bash in more of my old ‘79/‘80 clothes; these jeans actually have flare to ‘em. (draft)
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Mom sent us the outfit I wore home from the hospital, I posed Bash in it, and then I made a funny noise to try to get him to laugh. (draft)
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the flirt and the cheese wanter (draft)
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Yesterday morning. (draft)
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tfw they tell you the buffet isn’t all-you-can-eat (draft)
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Today’s new life skill is being on the lookout. Bash’s head control is not quite ready but he’s starting to want to know what’s around. (draft)
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Bash had been at this a few minutes so of course it had to end in a bonk and baby’s first lump on the head! (draft)
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Left: 4 weeks (draft)
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We asked everyone to stick to books for gifts for the kid, so Mom went and found a copy of the book I was obsessed with when I was learning to read but haven’t seen in 35 years and just looking at the cover I’m all hell yeah fish! https://mastodon.social/media/brXlxFnigDLluZHfuDY https://mastodon.social/media/nnMxUwikiwAlQyi_QMo
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wake n’ take (👂🏼💩) (draft)
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Today’s new life skill: thumb sucking (draft)
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The dumb tasting glass is almost older than my old cat, yikes. (draft)
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Mmm hmm, knuckle sandwiches rule! (draft)
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tfw yer shows are on the t.v. (draft)
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The kid has a good handshake! (draft)
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Last night before four vaccines vs today after four vaccines. (draft)
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Consider the Turtle (draft)
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💤 (draft)
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🌯 (draft)
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this kid again (draft)
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sunday night feels when you realize that it is in fact sunday night https://mastodon.social/media/fIEcrbJuCRnEYvThKh0
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using an unread-message indicator (bold text, red dots, stuff like that) for growth hacking is violence to the constitution, slack
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Hiccups! (draft)
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the ribbon haver has logged on
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This garage door, the entire time it is going up, and the entire time it is going down: REEEEEE!
Everyone at the coffee shop next to it: REEEEEE!
Me, the everloving wife, and the adoring baby in our apartment across the street: REEEEEE!
Ten to fifteen minutes later: REEEEEE!
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Made it out of the house! (draft)
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celebrate the discourse even when your screen is locked imo
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“Neocombat Neoliberalism”
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1 month (yesterday)! (draft)
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puke the valley
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Hiked the Saratoga Loop and then up to the rock itself at Castle Rock yesterday, v nice. (draft)
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cused image
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paternity leave is canceled
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1942 - A captured bust of Benito Mussolini is crushed in some beautifully prophetic foreshadowing to resemble what Mussolini’s actual face would look like after he was caught by antifascist partisans in 1945. [video]
A compelling illustration of the power of propaganda. Check our catalog here for related titles including multiple works focused on visual propaganda.
October 20th, 2018 7:28am
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Choose Your Own Adventure
You got a nice big head of garlic on the cutting board. You’ve mastered Jacques Pépin’s method of how to chop garlic and cracked that head open with one perfectly placed push on the board.
To fuck with peeling the little tiny cloves in the center, turn to page 64.
To not fuck with those little tiny cloves and just compost them immediately, turn to page 12.
[turns to page 64]: You dolt. You have done died.
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Dad’s burdens I’ve shouldered over paternity leave:
✅ Repaired the screen in the kitchen window.
✅ Moved stuff around in the garage
✅ Made a new pair of jorts
❌ Relived 90s rock
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Every get out the vote take flabbergasted that young people in America don’t see the point is victim blaming.
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October 16th, 2018 5:24pm
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Invisible Baby
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Ah, the ol’ Landlord’s “Do you have a minute?” snipe hunt. Love that our living situation is at the mercy of a rent seeker, it is good as hell.
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Well now that Sears is daed, I guess here’s a thread all about how I single handedly saved the famed “Wish Book” Christmas catalog when I worked there in Accounts Payables (2/2004-5/2004) from the phony dunces who mixed Marvel and DC onesies as if that was OK. 1/1890
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October 14th, 2018 8:28am
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October 14th, 2018 8:26am
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“Wow this guy doesn’t give a FUCK. And he has a beard already!” – An eleven year old who is still getting the hang of things, also proud boys (lol, I will never ever ever title case that), apparently?
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October 13th, 2018 5:08am
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JACK: Marc I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BENIOFF nods]
You KNOW I am sensitive to the Homeless
BENIOFF: Absolutely
JACK: BUT!
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Does the cat follow the sun or the sun follow the cat?
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Kill Mother Fucking Diode Motes
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The Boy has found The Sun.
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Stealthily but still tooting somehow about removing all the favs I handed out from all the “congratulations!” replies I got about being a Dad now that I have a better idea what it means and who my friends really are pause not, it’s still great.
Should I go back to work next week or nah?
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[The year is +7.203C (in 3152 CE, years are tracked by temperature rise since the revolution.)]
NeoStatistician: Great Scott! The youth of NeoMerika don’t vote!
NeoJournalist: Great Scott! Here’s a thought experiment for the upists; what if we trolled them about it?
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liberal norms gatekeeping is (un)democratic centralism, lol
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Recreating the LinkedIn account I deleted 2015-10-31 (spoopy!) with zero professional repercussions for the sole purpose of providing nearly every recruiter specific things their executive teams need to do better before I’ll even talk to them.
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If the chats yer in don’t automatically invite punners (upon community tagging) into an invite only channel that they can use to act out on their deranged urges out of sight of the rest of us, find chats that do.
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I haven’t had more than two hours of sleep at a time in a week and I am absolutely hollering at electeds on the hell site.
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wishing all the leftists I follow would publish their notes that they keep checking
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As a society, we need to bring back giving people the old hot foot. I’m talking about strike anywhere matches stuck in boots and then lit with more matches, all while breaking the fourth wall, chuckling quietly behind a hand and making shh-ing it’s-our-little-secret-for-now motions, causing our victims to hoot and holler and jump up and down holding the hot foot.
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We just used https://www.fairhotel.org/hotels-search?location%5Borigin%5D=san+francisco&location%5Bdistance%5D=20&location%5Bunit%5D=3959 to find family hotels to stay in when they are in town to help w/ the baby. Good stuff!
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“You need to install a keybox.”
Me, two weeks ago: My landlord is finally gonna lose a fight to an absolute hero.
Me yesterday: Honey, let’s head to the post office to get our god damned mail.
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How is the cat liking the new roomie sitch? A captive pette-the-catte squad that smells like milk and knows all its favorite scritches and pats forms up every two to three hours day and night and doesn’t troll to the point of needing to be bit or scratched anymore. The cat is living mas.
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the first time I got a boss to double my comp at the same job—an exempt computer job with an artificially low base entry-level comp, not like, a real job job normal people can easily get—in less than a year by making hell of demands, I immediately repeated the same trick again on principle, and was on the way to repeating it a third time furious about it when I quit that job
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my catte did head butt the bebe this morning, but for now, maximum nope zone
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an infinity of DC city councils dead on an infinity of sofas simultaneously standing and looking back at the DC city councils on the sofas behind them, holding smoking guns, and chanting together, “why would the DC city councils do this? why would the DC city councils do this? w–
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Last night the everloving wife goes to make some tea, so she opens the kitchen cabinet and there, along with all the other tea and coffee cups, she sees a full cup of coffee.
Apparently, Zombie Gravely likes his full cups off coffee snuggled with the empty cups, for safe keeping, in order to “protect them from the cat” and it is now the talk of the entire peninsula for this peculiar behavior.
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so tiny! (draft)
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We’ve discharged.
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September 30th, 2018 1:42pm
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September 30th, 2018 1:41pm
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(via Freddie Oversteegen, Dutch Resistance Fighter, Dies at 92 - The New York Times)
Freddie Oversteegen was only 14 when she became an assassin for the Dutch resistance. She engaged in drive-by shootings from a bicycle and luring German soldiers into the woods, where they were executed.
September 30th, 2018 1:40pm
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September 30th, 2018 1:40pm
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September 30th, 2018 1:31pm
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Filming explosions in the Death Star trenches for Star Wars (1977)
September 30th, 2018 1:27pm
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September 30th, 2018 1:26pm
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September 30th, 2018 1:19pm
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September 30th, 2018 1:16pm
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September 30th, 2018 12:08pm
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“I’ve sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn’t want to do it. Felt I owed it to them.” —Judge Smails
September 30th, 2018 11:38am
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September 30th, 2018 11:36am
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been a dad for a day so far and it slaps, 100% ready to join dad secret societies and take it really seriously and everything
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I’m walking through the convention center and see a big slice of a wall I’ve never seen before and I say to everyone, “that’s the Berlin Wall.”
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tfw the corporate campus art is unexpected and kinda heavy
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tired: MAC address randomization
wired: GPS location randomization
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Mentioned my preferred pronouns in a new hire training introducing myself as a facilitator out of DSA habit, mentioned them on principle in a company all hands talk I gave, realized I could do better, added ‘em to my default email signature.
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wtb iPython notebook for scraping San Francisco Socrata API data to, for example, resolve addresses to base addresses to supervisor districts.
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Dropped a full cup of hot coffee on the kitchen tile floor and it didn’t even chip the mug. My personal Keyser Söze limps free another day.
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tfw the lit matches the kit
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lammo that VC shitlord supreme, Tim Draper, now has a full page spread dedicated to his stupid, failed ballot prop to split California into three states, right in the official state voter guide.
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TDAP and blood draw test to see if I need MMR and Chickenpox boosters done. I did not look and it was OK.
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September 21st, 2018 8:24am
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lol, kinda mad how good Seven 7. Sevenson is of an antisec style handle tbh
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:birdsite: wtb a hell site cross poster that posts screenshots of my toots with markov generated dunks on them instead of truncating my toots over there
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lmao at the time when the people in IT had swag cynically commemorating the claim from a VP who was phoning it in while also doing a masters degree on the side that there would be “showers of gold come IPO time” by printing google translated latin on under the hood which reversed google translated to GOLDEN SHOWER and were instantly banned by c-staff.
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Ext. WASHINGTON, D.C. - DAY
ELMO swings his feet under a bench and cocks his head from side to side.
ELMO
Boss makes a dollar I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time!
(beat)
JAMES O’KEEFE
Pooping! At the State Department!? Why, I never!
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Dan Brown would’ve written it as “Codename Veritas, which renowned classics professor Rip Steakface knew meant truth to the Romans” but otherwise it’d be identical to our world: absurdly dumb.
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tagging myself and 9 of my big media pals into a beef in order to win at online cause I’m too busy rn
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also favs should be called boops
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Set my phone background to a picture of a red flag so that I can use my locked phone as a little red flag when I need one.
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There’s grease on the bike lane on Folsom inbound between 6th and 7th street, don’t wreck!
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If we start a spoopy halloween avatar gimmick this early it’ll flare out before October but I’m too excited by my tweaked Joan Cornellá BootyBoop to wait.
Boost if you know that candy corn is good actually, fav if you don’t.
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September 16th, 2018 12:44pm
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Further reduction applied, this can be seen as rejection of the authentic and a demand for the inauthentic.
Authenticity is the a flimsy analysis, stick to fundamentals.
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A theme I’m piecing together from yesterday is that capital has so successfully co-opted exploitative versions of grass roots organizing tactics that grass roots organizers are decried as exploiters for even broaching them as useful tactics on legitimate grounds.
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The Women’s Building perspective of the primary San Francisco tour photography corner stop at the building, at 18th and Lapidge. “This is the Women’s Building.”
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RiBMo? Yeah I RiBMo, Riker a Betazoid More!
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This window over The Boy’s litter box is doing the work: constantly yelling at people having coffee at Linea Caffe.
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Me managing a crisis at work: Calm in the eye of the storm, always three steps ahead, fail often and enjoy learning from failure.
Me doing handiwork: Non-stop stream of curses, always injuring myself, doing it backwards twice first, lost, furious. Oh, hey, it works.
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Somehow this worked on the first try even though I hated it the entire time. Months of no left channel: canceled. Knowing how to fix stuff is a curse.
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SF is hiring a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead the open source voting project: The salary is $163K / year.
https://jobapscloud.com/SF/sup/BulPreview.asp?R1=TEX&R2=5504&R3=088534
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Miguel de Cervantes, The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson ( London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1956 ).
September 11th, 2018 8:33pm
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Nice!
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That scene in Clerks where the customer with a LinkedIn account complains about LinkedIn the company, and stuff people post on LinkedIn, and recruiters using LinkedIn to pester them ad nauseum until finally Randall spits coffee in their face and deletes their account at the store.
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September 11th, 2018 11:18am
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Not so exclusive after all eh Carlos?
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Lit drop remix!
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When you fall through a kiddy pool and end up in the Coca-Cola Hellscape.
September 9th, 2018 9:18am
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__后会有期 (until we meet again), 2018
seraphina fong
acrylic on wet wipe
September 9th, 2018 9:16am
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September 9th, 2018 9:08am
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September 9th, 2018 9:08am
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Oh smurf smurf it, I’m smurfing.
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Precisely one.
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“The Management”, the organization the distributes paper toilet seat covers globally, is actually a fallen faction of Gideons International.
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2016 Old Stock peaking.
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The California Apartment Association in this interview deploys some insanely trifling arguments but, bonus: Shanti Singh from Tenants Together smashes 'em with help from Noah Arroyo. Worth a listen!
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Challenge coins! Gatekeeping that fits in your pocket!
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Furious the conference rooms at work have carpeted floors that I can’t easily super glue the challenge coins people give me to.
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s/war room/wa room/g
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Enjoying myself by the… politico piece (wtf?) about socialism in the US when I remembered instances of… basic gumption in my life.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/03/what-would-a-socialist-america-look-like-219626
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Ugo Rondinone, Erstermärzzweitausendundsechzehn, 2016
Esther Schipper GallerySeptember 2nd, 2018 8:23am
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tfw you’re ciced for the rice
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Pirate Ship Sutro bringing the Castro lit drops for Yes on C and Yes on 10.
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Justice ain’t gonna voiceline
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19th st looking good as hell as the evening fog devours San Francisco tonight.
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The morning after people from Manhattan party on yer office roof deck
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The building behind ours built their fence playing The Incident: plywood, wire shelf racks, corrugated galvanized steel, a road sign, wire grates, particle board, chicken wire, dead vines, etc.
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Méthode Alkanoise
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August 27th, 2018 7:19am
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Meritocracy, in both the original and new definitions of the word, is absolutely accountability-phobic
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The cheese wanter has logged on.
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The Upside Down
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[brushing my hands off] eh, this’ll probably work itself out, whatever it is
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Get some asiatic lilies and star jasmine into your life if you are able, but hide the lilies up on a bookshelf from your cat, they are poisonous.
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birthing class
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tfw you see someone ship a blacklist of the POC to fix their untrusted string meta programming RCE, twice on the same feature
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IFTTT keeping it real as hell.
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Meat Beat Manifesto Vs. Terry Riley - ‘In C’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5QMqKGZa10
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Shout out to the beer distributor finally getting these six packs onto the shelves at The Duc Loi.
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Comrade Water Cooler keeping it safe en route to DSA SF’s first chapter meeting in The Women’s Building.
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August 22nd, 2018 8:52am
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August 22nd, 2018 8:51am
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August 22nd, 2018 8:51am
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August 22nd, 2018 8:41am
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Follow everyone: OK
And boost their toots: OK
Don’t worry, relax, and have a dip in the TL. Don’t try to read absolutely every toot by everyone you follow: No.
👍 “Endpoint for last read toot #7418” Issue: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7418
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lofi chill beats X hip hop study X waluigi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM4J971Pv8s
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v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100; aspf=s; adkim=s; rua=mailto:re+qh4p7hbb2d1@dmarc.postmarkapp.com; ruf=dmarc-ruf@dsasf.org; sp=none;
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August 19th, 2018 8:19pm
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My coworker took out the trash and found this… via https://ift.tt/2JXJr2Q putyouinabettermood.com
August 19th, 2018 8:18pm
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This is why baby boomers think we can pay for school while having a part time job
August 19th, 2018 8:13pm
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Bird site style brand cloud-screaming-at: Fruit, please use some of that spare trillion offshore U.S.D. to sprinkle the do-not-disturb settings on entire app folders and app accounts, I want to set work email to be M-F, core hours only.
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The mods are asleep, quick, disable all app notifications and unread badges and bleeps and bloops. Silence your ringer and your doorbell.
Post, post, post.
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Cute arm crossing.
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lol they didn’t even buy a .org https://socialistcall.com I am absolutely not reading anything that makes the danged scrollbar this tiny
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toots and the boostals
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I just renewed the https://dsasf.org domain for another year. We’ve also got https://dsasf.com, what should we do with it?
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Drive through worker new best friend mixed up our 2x4 order for a 4x2 and after correcting that we ended up with 2x6s. I guess this is my new go to order now.
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August 16th, 2018 7:51am
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2015.3.30_15.47.47_frame_0002
Made with code / ProcessingInstagram // Facebook // Twitter // Ello
August 16th, 2018 7:49am
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August 16th, 2018 7:48am
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August 16th, 2018 7:48am
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"Delete & re-draft"ing toots on this website only encourages me to make things worse.
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In-N-Out punning in their cease and desist letter to a brewery for calling a beer “In-N-Out Stout” is lawful evil: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmb80oZnKfQ/
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I’m sorry once you live here long enough you should know to say the correct name, “YIMBY Socialists”, not just “YIMBY.”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/endorse-prop-10-no-sf-yimby-faces-soul-defining-choice/
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A YIMBY member arguing against Prop 10, which simply unblocks rent control in the state, but doesn’t establish any, said “We give a voice to people who are not even here yet.” Repealing Costa Hawkins in favor of rent control, he argued, would help people already here at the expense of those to come.
He continued “…one time someone who was already here gave me hell me for calling it 'Frisco, so, like, fuck all of 'em, right?”
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Reporting to the Hall of Justice for my sins after lunch tomorrow with my comrades in jury duty group #622.
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existential dread approaches
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WTB Slack compatible emotes for all the traffic light protocol levels, will share if I end up making my own. I’m picturing bold Helvetica “TLP” net to a stoplight w/ the appropriate light blinking.
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The Philosophy of Time Travel, Roberta Sparrow (Donnie Darko)
Linear? Circular?
🤔
Slinkytime™
August 15th, 2018 7:41am
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August 15th, 2018 7:40am
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GUNSLINGER: ON THE BEACH (1981) by Michael Whelan, illustration for The Gunslinger by Stephen King
August 14th, 2018 7:51am
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August 14th, 2018 7:51am
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100% of the other people in our birthing class and new parent class in San Francisco are over 30, and probably over 35.
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It turns out there are lots of, maybe a majority of (yikes), people who are “lol sportsball” about solidarity.
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I stayed close to one pair of dudes because they were clearly watching the rest of us as if we were non-player characters and I was on a security team. At one point when we were blocking traffic, and cars were honking their horns in solidarity with us, and lots of us raised our fists in support, one turned to the other, “look at them getting excited by car horns like that’s gonna do anything.”
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The streamers and passive cynics among us at A5 in Berkeley last weekend weirded me the heck out in an uncanny valley way.
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August 12th, 2018 10:11am
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August 12th, 2018 10:10am
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Russian Hill
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Paying down my Le Guin debt on “The Dispossessed” in Dolores Park.
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August 10th, 2018 5:43pm
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Hot August!
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https://twitter.com/fogcityrose/status/1027609245280161792 The SF Chamber of Commerce is a puddle of leeches.
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Dorf Freidorconor send too-No! Wait!
Ford Ronocrodierf, yes, now send toot
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Peak: landlord repaired decades of water damage in the lobby and sanded the black front door down to the quite nice wood
Pit: then they ruined it all with a new gross color scheme that is heck of ugly
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Eerie photo of the Yellow Brick Road from an abandoned Wizard of Oz theme park in North Carolina.
August 9th, 2018 8:28am
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Huge if true.
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60 Years Ago.
**Harlem Chapter of the Black Panther Party.
**“The Harlem Branch was one of the first to be formed outside California. Over the years, the Harlem Branch became the central offices for the entire state of New York.”August 9th, 2018 8:22am
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August 9th, 2018 8:21am
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Oops, the 12MB gif upload must’ve pooped out. The 1.2MB mp4 doesn’t seem to have.
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I made this animation yesterday of DSA SF’s 2018 Steering Committee Election Scottish single transferrable vote tally, animated on our election platform ( http://gitlab.com/DSASanFrancisco/membership_ui), recorded with the Giphy app for OSX.
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=== capitalists ===
[waves a magic wand]
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First post do-over.
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August 7th, 2018 8:00am
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Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin holding a dove that flew into his hand during a concert in 1973. Check this blog!
August 5th, 2018 7:04am
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Video: I just saw something crazy/hilarious. I’ve always loved how green the grass is at Yerba Buena Gardens. It turns out it’s because THEY SPRAY-PAINT IT GREEN. 😂
August 2nd, 2018 8:38pm
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August 2nd, 2018 8:36pm
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August 2nd, 2018 8:24pm
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August 2nd, 2018 8:15pm
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Robespierre guillotining the executioner after having guillotined everyone else, 18th century
July 30th, 2018 7:55am
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July 28th, 2018 5:23pm
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July 27th, 2018 8:34am
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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]
Iv never seen a hummingbird sit before lol
July 27th, 2018 8:26am
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July 27th, 2018 8:16am
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July 22nd, 2018 7:07pm
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July 22nd, 2018 7:06pm
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Beatkit™ was a brand without a product that promised to cease and desist in the year 2000, which it did. Beatkit’s mantra was “the general gloss of falsity is our only product”, which was a long-winded way of saying “Beatkit: it’s all lies.” So despite what I say it actually did have a product, the RemoverInstaller™, which was a baby rattle type of device except with no rattle and no moving parts. It had no function or utility of any kind, except to inspire an ad campaign around itself, Panic Now. Panic Now was similar to other real-world ad campaigns, except it dispensed with any pretense to romance or amuse you and instead just focused on the naked howling truth of all ads, i.e. “Stop whatever you”re doing and look at this. You don’t even know what it is but you need it. Don’t try to reason your way through it or out of it, just panic. Now.”
Shawn Wolfe (interview by Kristen Rask of Schmancy Toys, CrownDozen, 2007)
As Real As It Gets runs from November 16 till December 22. It opens on Thursday, November 15: 6-8 pm.
Apexart is located at 291 Church Street , New York, NY 10013 USA
See you there!
July 21st, 2018 9:12am
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July 21st, 2018 9:07am
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July 19th, 2018 9:06pm
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July 19th, 2018 9:04pm
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VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET
This is truly incredible.
Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.
July 16th, 2018 8:34pm
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July 16th, 2018 8:33pm
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I feel wonderful drinking beer, in a blissful mood, with joy in my heart and a happy liver.
— ancient Sumerian poet, circa 3000 BCE (via historical-nonfiction)
July 16th, 2018 8:15pm
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On this day in music history: March 2, 1983 - The Compact Disc makes its debut in the US. Research and development of the technology begins in 1974 when engineers from Philips Electronics of The Netherlands begin developing an optical audio disc designed to have superior audio quality and durability to the vinyl record. Two years later in 1976, Sony Electronics of Japan create their own prototype digital audio disc, with a 16 bit sampling rate of 44,056 hz per second. Philips and Sony Electronics begin working together in 1979 to design a new digital audio disc in a joint venture. The discs are five inches in diameter, are made of polycarbonite plastic and aluminum, and are etched with a binary code that when read by a laser turns the information back into an analog signal. The discs maintain the 16 bit sampling rate increased to 44,100 hz with a maximum running time of seventy four minutes. The first titles released by Polygram and CBS are a combination of classical and pop music titles. The format revolutionizes the music industry, surpassing sales of vinyl records and cassettes by 1985.
July 16th, 2018 8:09pm
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First And Only Test Of US Nuclear Artillery Cannon Nicknamed “Atomic Annie.” Nevada. 1953.
July 16th, 2018 8:08pm
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July 14th, 2018 9:10am
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July 11th, 2018 9:25pm
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“Vote American Labor Party Roosevelt and Lehman,” Poster by the ALP for the Presidential Election, 1936.
July 11th, 2018 8:00am
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i can’t go another day without air conditioning paper says tomorrow’s gonna be hotter hotter? like yesterday yesterday? yesterday you said you’d call sears I’ll call today you’ll call now I’ll call now
July 4th, 2018 7:16am
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cantaloupe weeks along
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#TBT: 1983
Magnificent Online Dad Face in this gif.
“Who’s ‘groovy’ now, eh kids? Look, spreadsheets.”
Obsolescence Is Virtue.™
July 2nd, 2018 10:56pm
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July 1st, 2018 7:52am
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Fabián Burgos (Argentinian, b. 1962), Sin Titulo [untitled], 2015. Oil on canvas, 59.06 × 78.75 in (150 × 200 cm). via
July 1st, 2018 7:50am
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June 22nd, 2018 11:19pm
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WOW!!! Taken by my BFF on her way through Emeryville this morning.
June 22nd, 2018 8:04am
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Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at The Greek.
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so you have a plastic wine bottle; am I supposed to be impressed?
June 20th, 2018 8:39am
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Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease
Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero. She:
- was admitted to Julliard at 8.
- was performing in top venues by 16.
- pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.
- was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.
- went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.” Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.
- refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.
She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten. But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.
Let’s un-forget her.
June 11th, 2018 8:30pm
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TIL German has a word for an improvement that makes things worse: verschlimmbesserung
via reddit.com
June 7th, 2018 10:39pm
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The One with Joey’s Mom
Ross is horrified to discover upon waking that his limbs all now bend the precise opposite directions. Frantically seeking help, he tries to get in touch with the others, but can’t figure out how to interact with any of his belongings.
Monica starts hearing the audience’s laughter and concludes she’s going insane. She tells Chandler about it but when he tries to reply coins gush endlessly out of his mouth. Through them he gurgles at her, “could I be barfing any more coins?”
Phoebe takes apart an old pocket watch in the middle of Central Perk Café and eats each piece one at a time with a little dollop of whipped cream. After each swallow she smiles delightedly at the other customers and daintily wipes her mouth with the corner of a napkin, announcing “I’m on a diet!”
Rachel is at first flattered, then alarmed when she notices increasing numbers of people sporting her exact hairstyle and referring to it as “The Rachel”.
Joey finally climbs out of his mother’s pouch.
June 7th, 2018 10:31pm
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June 6th, 2018 6:38am
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someone else voted!
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June 3rd, 2018 9:03pm
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June 2nd, 2018 7:26pm
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Woody with a Dry Finish
Sam and Woody start a contest over who can make the worst drink, and end up sending a customer to the hospital.
Norm fuses permanently with his bar seat but shrugs it off because now he’ll be able to sit down wherever he goes.
Rebecca won’t stop slamming the office door but her fury scares the others too much to ask her why she’s upset. When Paul finally works up the courage to talk to her, she bites his hand off and swallows it whole, never breaking eye contact.
Cliff brings a bear into the bar to prove to the others once and for all that he’s not a coward, but is disappointed when they still don’t respect him even after he gets mauled to death.
When a man shows up claiming to be a reincarnated Coach, Frasier tries to suss out the truth through hypnotherapy. Somehow the man knows all the details of all of their lives. When Frasier mutters aloud, “how is this possible?” the man, still in a trance, replies, “I watch the show.”
Carla stands on the bar and grins directly into the camera throughout the entire episode.
June 2nd, 2018 7:24pm
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Kittens and Cats; A Book of Tales, Eulalie Osgood Grover (and photos probably by Harry Whittier Frees), 1911
June 2nd, 2018 7:22pm
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May 31st, 2018 6:57pm
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✅ HOLLYWOOD
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May 30th, 2018 8:07pm
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May 29th, 2018 8:53pm
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Death Vally was a Star Wars filming location, go figure. Badwater at 99F, 10AM, 282 feet below sea level, Golden Canyon (where R2D2 was caught by Jawas) and Dante’s View at 73F, 5k feet looking down onto Badwater (and where long shots of Mos Eisley were taken).
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✅ The Hoover Dam
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Hiked the narrows at Zion, amazing! Zion, Bryce, and a few more parks around here are absolutely worth the road trip to Utah.
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The hand of a sea captain branded with the letters “S.S.’’ for slave stealer, as punishment for trying to help slaves escape from Florida to Massachusetts, 1845.
Mark of pride.
May 26th, 2018 8:04am
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Bryce Canyon is amazing! All the actual canyon rock formations pics are in the SLR, oops.
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May 24th, 2018 5:35pm
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May 24th, 2018 5:29pm
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Navajo Point at the Hopi inspired Desert Tower on our way out of the park.
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I call this arbitrary crop of Hopi art in the Desert Tower “The Cat’s Last Chance”
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Ooh-ah trail today, off to Zion and Bryce for a few days tomorrow
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the grand canyon is real as hell but Walkers know those railings probably aren’t
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May 21st, 2018 10:04pm
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Sequoia National Forrest!
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May 20th, 2018 10:17pm
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May 8 2018 - Sheila Hines-Brim covers LAPD Police chief Charlie Beck in the ashes of her niece Wakiesha Wilson, who was likely killed in LAPD custody in 2016.
The LAPD claims she committed suicide, but an attorney representing Wilson’s family said there were no signs Wilson was distraught when she spoke to relatives on the phone after her arrest and again the following morning, about 90 minutes before her death. She made plans to call them later in the day during their Easter celebration and talk to her 13-year-old son. [video]
May 9th, 2018 10:25pm
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Horacio Garcia Rossi (Argentinian, 1926 – 2012), Sans titre [untitled], 1979. Tempera on cardboard, 8 × 8 cm. via
May 1st, 2018 9:56am
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A sailboat wreck washed ashore in Pacifica where we were surfing today.
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and His Inimitable Stair Dance
Early in his dancing career, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson performed on a custom double staircase that added drama to his act, increasing his visibility to the audience while amplifying the sound of every step he made.
“As generations of imitators would learn to their grief, the properties of the staircase that magnified Robinson’s mastery equally magnify the slightest imperfection,” Brian Seibert, in his book What the Eye Hears, wrote. “Dancers tell a story in which he had his musicians cut out for three and a half minutes while he continued dancing. After the allotted time, the musicians came back in, cued by a metronome that Robinson couldn’t hear. He was exactly on beat.”
April 28th, 2018 5:21pm
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Dennis Dun and Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Kurt is the only human to pull off a mullet.
April 25th, 2018 6:16pm
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April 23rd, 2018 10:26pm
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A few of my posters have turned up in the strangest places.
Mostly decorating the walls of fictional 21st century film protagonists.
From top to bottom:Buying the Cow, (Destination Films, 2002)
Jennifer’s Body, (20th Century Fox, 2009)
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, (Universal Pictures, 2010)April 23rd, 2018 10:26pm
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You are BRILLIANT. Never let anyone tell you that you’re not, including yourself. Because every facet of who you are is worth keeping free from toxic, including tobacco. 💎
April 23rd, 2018 10:25pm
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April 23rd, 2018 10:25pm
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“Yow! It’s one of them roberts, or whatever you call it!”
—”Robot, you fathead! Step on the gas, stupid”
April 22nd, 2018 10:10am
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Did you know that Rube Goldberg was born in SF and went to Lowell High School? They have an exhibit on his art at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
April 22nd, 2018 7:40am
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How Ernie and Bert were made. Snaps from the workshop showing Don Sahlin at work, 1969.
On his table Jim Henson’s original sketch, which I’ve posted before HERE.
April 22nd, 2018 7:38am
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April 19th, 2018 6:23pm
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August, 1945. A billboard at Oak Ridge Facility in Tennessee warns people to keep silent about anything they see or hear there. Oak Ridge was a town built in 1942 to house workers and the laboratory that developed the Manhattan Project – the secret second world war program that built the atomic bomb. [G]
April 18th, 2018 7:22pm
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April 16th, 2018 8:56pm
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the tie caped radiator surfer
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April 16th, 2018 8:08am
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Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1964).
April 15th, 2018 3:52pm
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pump! you! up!
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My theory is that no one has ever started strava when they actually start the thing they want to track with strava, always half way through.
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April 13th, 2018 7:30am
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April 12th, 2018 9:51pm
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April 12th, 2018 7:19am
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Amnesia gypsy jazz.
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April 11th, 2018 8:16am
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April 7th, 2018 4:08pm
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climbing hella rich people stairs for yes on prop F with @chipmonkey
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April 4th, 2018 7:53pm
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Spent the afternoon tagging doors for Prop F with @vurtyou from Alamo square and back.
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Re-Coloring An Ancient Roman Bust
Ancient Romans (and Greeks) didn’t have pure marble-white art. They painted their stone art to imitate real-life color. Take this bust for example, found at the tomb of Publius Vergilius Maro in Naples, Italy. When it was first placed at his tomb, the bust would have been painted like so.
Side note: Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BCE – 19 BCE) known to most simply as Virgil, was a famous poet who enjoyed the favor of the first Roman emperor Augustus.
March 29th, 2018 8:48pm
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March 28th, 2018 8:06am
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The first hint that something might be different this time came the morning after the shootings, from a Douglas High School sophomore named Sarah Chadwick, who informed the President of the United States, via his favorite medium, in words that quickly went viral, “I don’t want your condolences you fucking piece of shit, my friends and teachers were shot.”
Their grief was raw, their rage palpable. Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Douglas, had the most searing indictment:
“The people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and are prepared to call B.S.
“Companies, trying to make caricatures of the teen-agers nowadays, saying that all we are are self-involved and trend-obsessed and they hush us into submissions when our message doesn’t reach the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call B.S.
“Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the N.R.A., telling us nothing could ever be done to prevent this: we call B.S.
“They say that tougher gun laws do not prevent gun violence: we call B.S.”
The crowd was now joining in.
“They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun: we call B.S.
“They say guns are just tools, like knives, and are as dangerous as cars: we call B.S.
“They say that no laws would have been able to prevent the hundreds of senseless tragedies that occur: we call B.S.
“That us kids don’t know what we’re talking about, that we’re too young to understand how the government works.” The crowd was now in a frenzy of anger and sadness, the people around me were tearing up as they yelled, “We call B.S.”
And then, in unison, the people gathered began to chant, “Vote them out, vote them out, vote them out.”
– Emily Witt, The New Yorker
March 24th, 2018 10:33pm
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this violates the NAP
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kids quoting Churchill, but a good crowd at the March for our lives, also cheering for Diane Feinstein, but a good crowd anyway
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March 23rd, 2018 8:03pm
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Mika Tajima, Furniture Art (Napuka), 2017
Taro Nasu GalleryMarch 19th, 2018 7:48am
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The First Pizza Joint
Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba, in Naples, Italy, is widely considered the world’s first pizzeria. It was first established in 1738 as a peddler’s stand. In 1830, it became a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the town center. Since its opening day, their ovens have been lined with lava rocks taken from nearby Mount Vesuvius.
March 17th, 2018 8:37am
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Dana Wsye, ‘Pills & Remedies’, from the series ‘Jesus Had A Sister Productions’, 1996-2003
Canadian artist creates fictitious pharmaceutical company that uses 60′s retro and kitsch imagery to sell cures and remedies that aim to dissect our utopic quest for perfection.
March 17th, 2018 8:35am
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screaming parrot screaming
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white cat white cat white cat
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Dolores Park Hummingbird
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he did this to himself
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March 8th, 2018 7:41pm
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The Best-Named Law - Ever.
When Virginia senator William B. Spong Jr. first went to Washington in 1966, he worried that the media might mistakenly pronounce his name as “Sponge.” But he observed that his Senate colleagues included Russell B. Long (D-La.) and Hiram L. Fong (R-Hawaii).
So in introducing himself at the National Press Club, he announced that the three of them would be introducing a bill to protect the rights of songwriters in Hong Kong. It would be called the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill. They never introduced the bill, but the media never mispronounced Spong’s name.
March 5th, 2018 9:26pm
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Long Exposure Photos Capture the Light Paths of Drones Above Mountainous Landscapes
March 5th, 2018 9:22pm
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The biggest ocean oil spill in history occurred in 1991, during the First Gulf War. Iraqi soldiers retreating from Kuwait opened oil wells and pipelines in an attempt to slow U.S. troops. About 240 million gallons of oil spilled into the Persian Gulf, creating a slick roughly the size of Hawaii.
March 5th, 2018 9:16pm
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March 3rd, 2018 6:32pm
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The wee tails make this pilot formation training even more excellent.
March 3rd, 2018 7:16am
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Karen Arm
Untitled (Yellow Red Sun on Black Red), 2014
watercolor on paper
18 x 15 inchesMarch 2nd, 2018 9:07pm
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March 2nd, 2018 8:59pm
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The first public demonstration of a computer mouse, graphical user interface, windowed computing, hypertext and word processing, 1968
March 2nd, 2018 8:58pm
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Safely home.
Great photo from this morning, by Bill Ingalls @nasa! (at Kazakhstan)
March 1st, 2018 8:34am
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March 1st, 2018 8:27am
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Lorenz Spring, Seerosen, 2016 - 2017
Galerie CarzanigaMarch 1st, 2018 8:25am
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We finally got a Killer Queen machine at work!
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February 25th, 2018 7:25pm
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Cliente: “Quanto tempo ci vorrà per terminare il lavoro ?”
Io: “Circa sei settimane”
Cliente: “Lo devi fare in due settimane”
Io: “Ok, provo a spiegarmi meglio”Client: “How much time will it take to finish this job?”
Me: “About six weeks”
Client: “You have two weeks.”
Me: “OK, I’ll try to explain myself better.”February 20th, 2018 8:13pm
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Dancers on a Plane, 1980-81
Oil and acrylic on canvas with painted bronze frame, 78 3/4 x 63 3/4 in
February 20th, 2018 7:24am
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Renowned Author Cyber Pioneer Cliff Stoll Mesmerizes at CrowdStrike Conference - YouTube
February 20th, 2018 7:20am
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Jade flowers.
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February 19th, 2018 11:35am
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Andy Warhol, Camouflage (pink), 1986
Richard Gray GalleryFebruary 15th, 2018 7:32am
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February 13th, 2018 8:56pm
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@vurtyou and her new rocking chair
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February 12th, 2018 8:26am
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Demolition of another building revealed this long hidden mural for the Dundalk branch of Eddie’s Market.
20 Dundalk Ave., Dundalk, Md
February 12th, 2018 8:26am
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We got to visit Grandma up in PA.
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She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses … and she thought of the time she’d opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit. The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outwards patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. There’d seemed no limit to what the printed circuit could have told her (if she had tried to find out); so in her first minute in San Narciso, a revelation also trembled just past the threshold of her understanding.
— Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (via feirett)
February 9th, 2018 7:19pm
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Oh look, two public bike racks rendered completely unusable because of a company that’s making money off of them
February 8th, 2018 7:21pm
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A Series of Ordinary Humans and Creatures Trapped Within Their Pop Culture Depictions
February 8th, 2018 4:38am
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Recently washed rugs being laid out to dry near Tehran, Iran. Circa 1972.
February 8th, 2018 4:38am
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Dolores is almost at pride levels of crowded, gorgeous!
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February 1st, 2018 11:39pm
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Yes’ 1971 Fragile album artwork by Roger Dean. Front cover, back cover, and additional paintings from the same narrative.
February 1st, 2018 7:40am
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Game of Death Japanese program (Bruce Lee & Robert Clouse, 1978)
January 29th, 2018 7:59am
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True love never goes extinct. Illustration by Ron Embleton for Omni magazine (February 1988).
January 28th, 2018 3:29pm
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Throughout Caribbean, Central America, the northern edges of South America, and even in south Florida, there can be found a pleasant-looking beachy sort of tree, often laden with small greenish-yellow fruits that look not unlike apples.
This is the manchineel, known sometimes as the beach apple, or more accurately in Spanish-speaking countries as la manzanilla de la muerte, which translates to “the little apple of death,” or as arbol de la muerte, “tree of death.”
“Warning: all parts of manchineel are extremely poisonous. The content in this document is strictly informational. Interaction with and ingestion of any part of this tree may be lethal,” write Michael G. Andreu and Melissa H. Friedman of the University of Florida in a brief guide to the tree.
This is not an exaggeration. The fruits, though described as sweet and tasty, are extraordinarily toxic. Fatalities are not known in modern literature, though it’s certainly possible that people have died from eating the fruit of the manchineel. “Shipwrecked sailors have been reported to have eaten manchineel fruits and, rather than dying a violent death, they had inflammations and blistering around the mouth. Other people have been diagnosed with severe stomach and intestinal issues,” says Roger Hammer, a naturalist and botanist who has written many books about the flora of Florida. (Source)
January 24th, 2018 9:42pm
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This makes me laugh so much
“Yeah I’m in a bouncy house, but will this country ever bounce back from our current administration?”
January 24th, 2018 7:55am
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“Wizard vs. the Wizards” competition, 1982, hosted by Catherine Mary Stewart. It was arguably the first “e-sports” competition, with video gamers going head to head.
Randy Meisner performed live. He heard it was a convention for burgundy velour tracksuit swingers only.
January 21st, 2018 9:53pm
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In 1670, Louis XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, ordered the planting of the Forest of Tronçais to provide masts for the French navy 200 years hence. His order established one of the principal stands of oaks in Europe, carefully interplanted with beeches and larches to encourage them to grow straight, tall, and free of knots. By the time they matured, in the 19th century, they were no longer necessary. Historian Fernand Braudel wrote, “Colbert had thought of everything except the steamship.”
January 21st, 2018 11:57am
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Down to the last three chapters of Ulysses. I cannot wait to be done with this book.
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January 20th, 2018 6:59pm
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I was in orbit during a US Govt shutdown. The Cdn Prime Minister tried to call, but no one was at NASA HQ to answer. I did talk to several nice people on the ham radio, though.
January 20th, 2018 6:58pm
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The sign you always want to see when you’re already late for work in the morning
January 18th, 2018 6:47pm
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Rest in peace, Dean Allen
I heard a couple of days ago that Dean Allen died last weekend. His friend Om Malik has a fine remembrance of him here.
Who was Dean? There are so many ways to answer that question. You could call him a text designer, who loved the web and wanted to make it beautiful, long before others thought of making typography an essential part of the online reading experience. You could call him a Canadian, even though he spent a large part of his life in Avignon, South of France, with his partner. A writer whose prose could make your soul ache who stopped writing, because, it didn’t matter. Or you could think of him as like an old-fashioned: sweet, bitter and strong, who left you intoxicated because of his friendship.
Dean was a web person…someone who could do all of the things necessary to make a website – design, write, code – and damn him, he did them all really well. I got to know him through a pair of sites he built, Textism and Cardigan. His writing was clever and pithy and engaging and you wanted to hate him but couldn’t because he was the nicest guy, the sort of person who would invite you to stay at his house even if you’d never even met him before. He also built Favrd, which was a direct inspiration for Stellar.
Weirdly, or maybe not, my two biggest memories of Dean involve food. One of my favorite little pieces of writing by him (or anyone else for that matter), is How to Cook Soup:
First, you need some water. Fuse two hydrogen with one oxygen and repeat until you have enough. While the water is heating, raise some cattle. Pay a man with grim eyes to do the slaughtering, preferably while you are away. Roast the bones, then add to the water. Go away again. Come back once in awhile to skim. When the bones begin to float, lash together into booms and tow up the coast. Reduce. Keep reducing. When you think you have reduced enough, reduce some more. Raise some barley. When the broth coats the back of a spoon and light cannot escape it, you are nearly there. Pause to mop your brow as you harvest the barley. Search in vain for a cloud in the sky. Soak the barley overnight (you will need more water here), then add to the broth. When, out of the blue, you remember the first person you truly loved, the soup is ready. Serve.
In 2002, when Meg and I were staying in France for a month between moves, Dean and his partner invited us down to their house for a couple of days. Like I said, we’d never actually met and he collected us at the train station all the same. We ate like kings while we were there, but the thing I remember most (aside from their house being in the middle of a beautiful vineyard in Avignon) is after lunch one day, he just left the pot with the leftover soup on the stove. (Soup, again! No barley though.) “Oh, you forgot to put the soup away. Do you think it’s still good?” we said. Dean just shrugged and replied gently, so as not imply we were idiot germaphobic Americans for always putting any leftover food into the fridge immediately, that you don’t really need to refrigerate stuff like that, not if you’re going to reheat it and finish it in a day or two. Even now, whenever I have stovetop leftovers, I always just leave them out and think of Dean whenever I do.
I hope you find some peace, my friend.
January 18th, 2018 6:43pm
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George: “There’s just no justice. This experience has changed me! It’s made me more cynical, more bitter, more jaded!”
Jerry: “Really?”
George: “Sure, why not.”January 17th, 2018 8:39pm
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January 17th, 2018 8:39pm
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January 14th, 2018 9:15pm
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Susan Kare, famous graphic artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM. (1980s)
wow
awesome.
January 14th, 2018 9:15pm
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At the Cable Car Museum
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DJ Resentment
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January 9th, 2018 7:07am
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January 7th, 2018 8:57pm
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Ssh, the house cleaners are here.
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January 2nd, 2018 8:18pm
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Happy new year! Here’s John Berkey’s cover art to the January 1, 1976 issue of Modern Medicine, along with the 1929 Norman Rockwell it’s playing on.
January 1st, 2018 8:26pm
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