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@boursier.bsky.social I haven’t dared touch the hands of your Cyberpunk Cuckoo Clock ever since I got the hands just perfectly right. So, when the clocks changed I just pop out the batteries, wait 23 hours, and and then pop them back in. NEVER SET THE HANDS AGAIN, NEVER TOUCH

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

The 'With These Hands' trail features plaster casts which reproduce artefacts from the Mohenjo-daro ruins, one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (3000-2500 BC). Sold as cultural souvenirs, these casts connect modern makers with disappearing histories.This seal was donated in 1955.

“If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design” (Source: mastodon.social/@heliographe...)

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

I NEED Louisiana photo sky to GET ON THIS

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

You can just tell this bird smokes Pall Malls

The office chairs in the street count is reaching dotcom levels.

That’s going well, now, is it?

So pleasing. 🪶

I think AR has the possibility to absorb people totally because it’s basically one step closer to having a phone in your face 24/7, a natural state for most people right now.

Tulips? Who mentioned tulips?

[tv commercial opens] [a woman comes into a kitchen and puts down her grocery bags] “as a busy mom, I’m always looking for faster, cheaper ways to launder hundreds of millions of dollars”

I don't care about Liquid Glass, but I love this development article about how to recreate it on the web (tl;dr you can't do it cross-browser rn, but the building blocks are there). kube.io/blog/liquid-...

Remember the time Putin canceled a puppet show that mocked him and then the creator had to flee the country

One of the best things I ever got from colorware was a pencil that glows bright orange under a black light. I’ve lost it in my apartment and found it by shining a black light like I was searching for scorpions in the desert.

I think I need to drive this home more: programming didn't used to be like this—even for complex, networked apps with a large amount of features and complex user interfaces. And apps didn't have thousands of dependencies like many even simple ones do now.

Much cleaner than I could have hoped.

Saw these two pieces as a kid and they’re still my favorite things at the museum.

PEOPLE’S GAS & ELECTRIC

There are many days where if it weren't for this grade school technology from the early 2000s, I would get zero words written instead of (for example) today's 2,368.

your gym teacher and your english teacher are getting married

@boursier.bsky.social Tony included also the paper label from one of the balls of yarn, shade 2185, dye lot 46977B. Tony knows that people who would buy a hat like this he happy to know about the dye lot number. Anyway, as someone who owns this hat as well, I knew you could relate to why I needed to

I still kind of want to make this. My test tiles weren’t nearly this cute.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Made a lil Assyrian-style rolling seal.

Oh let me read some perfectly plain books about stained glass before bed. I’m sure they won’t have ominous German poetry in them.

What in the Molotov/Ribbentrop is this

FLW making an art of escaping every single modern architect, but especially Gropius.

Cursed commute excerpt.

Sf is often so beautiful, and I am glad to live here.

Vinay Prasad overrode the recommendations of a panel of scientists who said that 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines should be recommended for everyone over the age of 12 years. COVID19 remains a serious public health threat. He will get people killed. He doesn’t care. His ego wins, always.

WHO WANTS SOME GOOD LEGISLATIVE NEWS!!! 😭 😭

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Love paying import duties on something I designed myself because there is no consumer level 3d printing in silver in America.

Look, I'm just saying that in 1920 people thought Zeppelins were inevitable.

Spotted in the wild.

I was in Chicago for the wet bulb event of 95’. No one warned us how dangerous it would be. Now the planet is MUCH warmer and warming faster so please be weather aware. Hydrate and don’t take long walks unless you have guaranteed, immediate access to air conditioning.

I really loved making this thing. Built it mostly „by hand“ in VR, and printed this foot tall monster in my kitchen.

“Cyberpunk Cuckoo Clock,” 2024. Here’s a cool one-of-a-kind clock, & a very kind gift from @boursier.bsky.social who designed & made this clock with the Alessi 9093 kettle bird *in sterling silver.* Make sure sound is on! Many more pics here: (Best on a laptop) alan999.homestead.com/cuckooclock....

How has the Pentagon not figured out a way to pay Raytheon $5 billion to develop high-quality frozen pizzas they can stockpile in the basement

Across from the mechanics monument, and I think about how this is where the first gaming devices were made. Somehow fitting.

Why can’t pharmacies have signs like this for their penicillin?

Long in the works iron refinement. Up to over 10 kilos, looking forward to finalizing my molds for casting.

By far, one of the best correspondence papers I’ve ever received wrapped around a prototype.