Recently I've noticed all sorts of stuff like GPS, package tracking, chat help, self serve checkouts, hand-held scanners, things I thought we had basically solved, just don't work anymore. They used to!

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Sharing again because... 👀 This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.

I captured the light shift over a day at Wells Cathedral and put it on my wall - a full day of light jam packed into my room. My image of Wells Cathedral in a day is now available as a digital print. 📍More info here🔗: andymarshallphotos.co.uk/products/wel...

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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

Illustration from Northern UFO News, Issue 133, September 1988. Via the Internet Archive.

plastic bags that hold other plastic bags are called "bag bags" and the entire nation uses them, science has proven this to be true

witness! the holiday majesty that is the s. d. ireland holiday cement truck

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

The best thing about having a cat is when he’ll walk in the room carrying a slice of ham but you don’t have any ham in the house. Where’d you get the ham little guy?

Seventeen Magazine, August 1965 #FallFashion

Thanksgiving is not a colonial/Pilgrim holiday. It’s a Civil War holiday. & we think otherwise in part because of the Lost Cause. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/

the vinyl edition of the dolly parton/emmylou harris/linda ronstadt album comea with a really incredible inner sleeve

There has been a noticeable uptick in men "correcting" me on here, they won't simply disagree with something I said, they'll start explaining the definition of words to me or say "no, what you MEANT to say was..."

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

Soo… What Thanksgiving dish or side dish did* your parents make that you have since cancelled or do not make now that it’s your turn? *Assumption is some grandparents/parents have since passed away so no one is asking for it or objecting to its absence

Maybe I'm just not in the social media mood today because the "it's all Kamala's fault" and "here's a dozen clips taken straight from Andrew Tate's channel" stuff is really getting to me

Someone said Harris "ushered in an era of fascist terror" because of her losing campaign and I would fucking love to live in their world, where the fascist era didn't start during the first Trump administration

🤞I have been holding this screenshot since '16 hoping one day this sociopath reveals himself. And what do yo know - Lizza would have been 42. A bunch of empty careerists. www.gq.com/story/inside...

Honor the Heroes

The classic hits radio station was playing Post Malone, MGMT and Modest Mouse this morning and I turned into a pile of dust

A squirrel urging me not to obey a Do Not Feed The Squirrels sign on Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow, although given the warning below it, I resisted! The sign isn't an official one, but was created by A Sign of Humour. #glasgow #kelvingrovepark #sign #glasgowhumour #squirrel #squirrels

I looked up the reason why people were saying "ew" about RFK Jr this time and I have many regrets

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

I’m howling.

Today is National Button Day in the USA, a celebration founded in 1938 by The National Button Society. This A/W 1986 blue wool knit floor-length dress features multicolored plastic buttons, a signature motif of designer Patrick Kelly. Philadelphia Art Museum. #nationalbuttonday #buttons #dress

if god is dead then who keeps smiting me

When my friends and I were alcoholic 25yos, chain-smoking and drinking steel reserve on our band-house porch, giving each other homosocial haircuts, smoking weed and watching Wim Wenders movies all day, there was no one who's approval we valued more than the morally ambiguous forest-witch Baba Yaga.

this is not just right-wing conspiracy claptrap, this is next-level completely unhinged, like raving lunatic stuff Byrne—who’s close to a billionaire, if not a billionaire—says he was in a top-secret spy agency called the League of Shadows which uncovered evidence the Bidens sought bribes from Iran

Betty Crocker Pizza ad (1961)

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

UFC fighter Brandon Royval slammed a series of cage matches set to take place at the Trump White House next June. “I don’t give a shit about fighting at the fucking White House. I don’t give a fuck about any of our political figures right now, and it’s like to fight in front of them seems…

I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days: 🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces 💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health 🗓️A very few calendars* 🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos* *Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

I had a dream last night that our house had a big screened-in back porch that we were using as a home for stray cats and I just realized it was because of this strip!

If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:

uh I've wished for [redacted] about three (3) pedos who abused numerous kids at my former high school so I guess this guy thinks that means I have stuff on my hard drive? This is such a truly bizarre thing to believe

@delchi.bsky.social was SUCH a huge cDcNSF booster and organizer. He had a tough time of it, and it affected him a lot of ways, some of which were hard for him and others, but man he put in the work. He was particularly focused on disability access and awareness at hacker cons. RIP.

The number of "well Trump sucked less than Hillary and Kamala and also Republicans are less sexist" comments and quotes to this are absolutely wild

Someone just said Trump "needs help" and I really want to post the gif of Charlie Murphy saying "WE JUST GAVE HIM SOME HELP" about Rick James in response, but also I think Bluesky would have me arrested if I did?

what people miss every time thomas jefferson discourse comes up is the key to squaring the difference between his life and choices and his eloquently-stated opinions is that he was a deeply weird, self-hating bitch and if he was alive today he'd be a 37-year-old with a discord kitten

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

When I first got here about 2 1/2 years ago Bluesky was about 80% death threats by volume; you'd see people say Bluesky was great because "you don't get death threats like on Twitter" and then they would turn around and tell someone else to "kys"

Astoria the Wild Turkey displays her magnificent tail in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🍃

Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.