Jeremy

Hope you can get BLI online again, a true classic!

(I've had this happen to me too, by an NPO client who gave it to a big consultancy because they were a sponsor and promised to do it for free. Turned out great.)

IveGotAGuy When you’ve got a guy who can do it cheaper.

www.reddit.com/r/IveGotAGuy/

Green-tinted image showing a bowl of strawberries created by Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka that doesn’t have any red pixels in it, despite the strawberries looking red (they're actually grey, and it's just their relation to the overall green tint combined with what colour we expect to see on a strawberry that creates the illusion).

US: “I believe it when I see it! Reality is what our senses tell us! Always trust yourself!”

SCIENCE: “Here is a picture created by Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka that doesn’t have any red pixels in it, showing how easily we’re all fooled by what we think we can see. Have a lovely day.”

JK Rowling in hell, laughing in a very evil way

jk rowling: just gonna post a photo that makes it clear i’m the good person in this situation

the photo:

Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro Starlight helps you build beautiful, high-performance documentation websites with Astro.

I don't know anything SvelteKit-based but starlight.astro.build can include Svelte components.

A drawing of a pigeon with a $2 bill sayin fuck it

HEY. YOU!
Yeah! You!

A supposedly real alien mummy

I wonder what happened to those totally not fake alien mummies from 2023

Mountains in Laax Switzerland

Sorry to interrupt your doom scrolling. Here are some mountains.

In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery?

The bizarre truth:
- yes, everyone really saw these
- no, they're not faked or manmade
- they absolutely don't exist.

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Photo from an early Apple II ad in the 1970s

The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal Again

My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0

www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...

Nokia Design Archive Exploring unseen concepts of design and opportunities of design-driven transformation and change

Find of the weekend: Nokia opened their design archive nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi

Wo es wehtut Junge Männer wählen immer rechter. Unser Autor fragt: Was habe ich mit ihnen zu tun?

Im Aargauer Hinterland, wo @bluelle.bsky.social aufwuchs, gaben rechtsradikale junge Männer den Ton an. Und sie forderten Unterwerfung. Unser Redaktor fragt sich: Welche Rolle habe ich damals gespielt?

If you can only name a few "explainer graphic novels" as Zach calls them, you might be delighted at the incredible variety of the genre found in this thread!

Related:
I call 'em "explanatory comics", though just "explainer comics" might be snappier. Hm... 🤔

("Non-fiction comics" is too broad IMO.)

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

How far we are from this. Old Japanese map styles and patterns. I used Japan Search website jpsearch.go.jp

Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault!
🧵

A screenshot from the 1994 Super Nintendo video game "The Firemen". A building is pictured in the background against an ominous dark sky with fire dancing in the foreground. The text from the original game's cutscene has been altered to read "The year is 2025. Civilization has progressed little in the last 20 years."

Also, can we all agree that category10 should be banned?

Of course, a chart promoting „very happy“ marriages comes from a right-wing think tank www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/In...

Newsflash: people who are very happy are very happy

16: depressed, listening to Nirvana
43: depressed, listening to Nirvana

i love the internet

A pinhole camera photo taken from Summer to Winter Solstice. It's a bit blurry as the aperture was made with a tiny needle and no focus mechanism. There are yellow to green lines across the photo, that's the Sun moving across the sky over the course of a day. The top line is from the Summer Solstice, the bottom line from the Winter Solstice. Cloudy days don't have any lines or broken lines as the Sun was obscured by clouds. There are some trees on the left, right and in the background.

A pinhole camera photo, a 6 month exposure from Summer to Winter solstice. There are trees on the right side and background. A house with two cars in the drive are visible almost in the center of the photo. The lines are made from the Sun moving across the sky with the bottom line being the Winter Solstice and the top line the Summer solstice. On cloudy days the lines are broken or not visible as the sun was obscured by clouds. The lines show some reflections from a tree trunk. The lines are mostly a white color with some hints of blue, green and yellow in places. Some of the colors could be from rain or snow staining the paper I was using.

Happy Winter Solstice!

These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.

Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.

The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

T'is the season to wrap up your projects, so…

here's a little write-up on an extensive

🎵 audio → ✏️ transcription

journey with @miskaknapek.bsky.social for the Data Stories podcast!

observablehq.com/@moritzstefa...

a parody of spotify wrapped featuring a doodle of my dog on a pink and purple zigzag background. the rest of the image is just plain yellow. the top artist is “my dog” and the top 5 songs are variations of how he sounds when he’s barking

oh shoot i almost forgot to post my wrapped

Even Jesus himself preferred Japan, so he went to retire there. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Mastodon would not show up as a referrer anyway, but each instance?

Not seeing it as a traffic source certainly has some weight but it’s probably more that when you do social media somewhat professionally, you want to be where your peers/audience are and engage with you.

Mentioned cassettes to a 9-year-old today. He stared at me completely confused until I realized he’d never seen one in his life.