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Look past the cute rats, and you see the bigger picture: clearing land so communities can live safely after conflict, and fighting TB so more people can be cured. There’s still a long way to go — but there is #hope, and we’re grateful to have you with us. #APOPO #SavingLives

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

April 8, 1926: Ruth (left), an elephant of the Al G. Barnes Circus, celebrates her 30th birthday in Los Angeles. The 4-ton animal and her friends are treated to a 150-pound cake that is 6 feet in diameter.

When Fox can't even repeat what Trump posted...

April 5, 1926: Roger Corman, the king of low-budget movies who had a hand in making more than 500 independent films, mostly in the sci-fi, horror and exploitation genres, is born in Detroit. He mentored such young talents as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda.

My most popular Sora video was “elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a hat (each duck is also wearing a hat), a llama plays a flute, prestige drama” I am not sure why OpenAI has decided their compute has more valuable uses & is discontinuing Sora. Really a mystery.

Who first?

March 27, 1926: Edwin Osbaldeston, a 93-year-old ex-soldier of fortune with a record of petty crime, is held in Asbury Park, N.J., on a charge of stealing a horse in Binghamton, N.Y., 46 years ago. The sheriff’s deputy making the arrest is 81 (not 91 as reported). The charge will be dismissed.

March 23, 1926: Harry K. Rogers, a fire prevention engineer with the Chicago Fire Department, putts along in the “Fire Clown” mini-engine to entertain children in Washington, D.C., as he gives them a safety course.

March 10, 1926: The first issue of Amazing Stories goes on sale in the U.S. Its creator and publisher, Hugo Gernsback, proclaims it “The Magazine of Scientifiction” and promises to fill it with stories of “charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.” 1/7

Sports car and Formula 1 driver Phil Hill with the MG EX181 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1959. The 1.5 litre engine produced 300 horsepower and with Hill in the driver's seat it set a Class F speed record of 254.91 mph.

Feb. 6, 1926: Rep. Clarence McLeod (R-Mich.) feeds the pigeons outside the Capitol.

BUILD IT YOURSELF in a few hours!

Feb. 5, 1926: WJAZ of Chicago, which is accused by the federal government of being a pirate station for broadcasting on unassigned frequencies, makes the most of its notoriety. Its staff dress up as buccaneers and sing from an operetta they wrote, “The Pirates.”

Yes I know, I post this one too often, but it could be worse, I'm managing to keep myself from posting it every day.

Feb. 1, 1926: Hollywood's biggest dog star, Rin-Tin-Tin, at home in Los Angeles. According to the caption he is dining with "Nanette, his wife, and six-weeks-old son."

Feb. 1, 1926: “There is no place like home to William O'Donnell and wife of Detroit, Mich., so when they go a-traveling they take their home with them. In this house motor they have just reached Washington, and they are on their way to the sunny South.” (Washington Star)

Jan. 27, 1926: “Finding an old spinning wheel among the family heirlooms, Grace Stockman, of Washington, has found a way to beat the high cost of living.” (Washington Herald)

Jan. 25, 1926: A future in which people around the world will watch events in real time, using devices that fit in their pockets, is foreseen by inventor Nikola Tesla. What sounds like "the magic crystal of fairy tales" will be made a reality by advances in radio technology. 1/2

#filmsky #moviesky #silents #dogsky Actor, Luke the Dog & Filmmaker, Roscoe Arbuckle, c. 1914 Happy Weekend

Jan. 23, 1926: Meet the mule that isn't mulish. The running, jumping beast is the property of John Thomas of Pinehurst, N.C., who races it around the racetrack at Pinehurst. Sources fail to mention the lively mule's name.

#filmsky #moviesky #biglebowski Hey, you made it to Friday, man. Cheers.

Interdimensional Portal Of The Day.

Jan. 18, 1926: The Motorcycle, Bicycle and Accessory Show opens at Madison Square Garden in New York. Agnes O'Laughlin and Lavergne Lambert demonstrate a motorcycle equipped with firefighting gear.

One of the biggest tells of how blatantly screwed up medicine's mishandling of chronic illnesses is comes from physicians who end up suffering from them pretty much all saying that it's nothing like what they were taught it's like and no one else in the profession is bothered by that.

Jan. 11, 1926: R.L. Scaggs takes his children for a sleigh ride through their Washington, D.C., neighborhood with the help of their pet German shepherds.

Book review 📚 These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them go.nature.com/3Ls2yYu

Jan. 5, 1926: James Richard with his cats that won the blue ribbon in the "mother and kitten" class at the Atlantic Cat Club Show at New York's Waldorf-Astoria.

Jan. 1, 1926: A human peacock marches in Philadelphia's Mummers Parade, a New Year's Day tradition.

Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...

Dec. 21, 1925: French inventor Charles Louvel draws rubberneckers along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice with his aerodynamic motor home. "In appearance it is like a carriage of a huge dirigible," reports a wire service. "It contains eight rooms with a bath and kitchenette."

Finally I also had to get this legend. It's of course Danuta Danielsson, who whacked a Neo-Nazi marching by with a handbag in Sweden in 1985. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wom...

Nov. 22, 1925, A roadside greeting for motorists in Sunnyside, Idaho.

The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.” Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵

Nov. 19, 1925: A new barnstorming troupe known as the 13 Black Cats, who primarily do stunts on airplanes, but also in cars and on motorcycles. Their motto: "If a Black Cat can't do it–It can't be done."

This is good news www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#filmnoir #Noirvember #moviesky #filmsky Happy Weekend from Santa Monica Beach with Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster

#BehindTheScenes: A 90s selfie on the set of 1998's 'The Big Lebowski' with Jeff Bridges and Sam Elliott.

Nov. 10, 1925: Ross Gorman gives saxophone lessons to his pupil August Sarentino, a painter, on the Brooklyn Bridge during the latter's lunch hour. According to International News Service, the bridge worker refuses to leave his scaffold, so his teacher comes to him.

Nov. 8, 1925: “Girls at Laurel Falls Camp, Clayton, Ga., take part in daily horseback drill.” (Wide World)

Oct. 30, 1925: Dramatizing how far radio miniaturization has advanced, an inventor installs a crystal receiving set on the pips of a domino at a London show.

October 1925: A dog named Toto helps his master deliver milk in a small town in Belgium.

Knights of Xentar (1995) (Source.)

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LUCASARTS PRESENTS Columbo in: SCUMM of the Earth #pixelart

Oct. 27, 1925: John Frazier, a top Westinghouse engineer who helped found the company’s pioneering radio station KDKA of Pittsburgh, with a long-distance receiving apparatus.

The prophecy has been foretold!! ;)

Oct. 25, 1925: Tennis aces, meet air aces. Barnstormers Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger go through the motions of a volley on the wings of a Curtiss biplane 3,000 feet above Los Angeles. This much-reproduced shot is taken from another plane for International News Service. 1/2

Oct. 23, 1925: An experiment is carried out at the Vanderbilt Theater in New York to measure the effect of sexy or somber acts on blood pressure. Walter Kingsley shows a distinct jump in his readings upon watching Phyllis Pierce’s “oriental dance.”