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Browsing a 1899 book on small steam engines & the preface starts with this banger.
The intention of the author in writing this work has been to furnish specific directions and correct dimensioned plans for small engines and boilers, in lieu of sketches and gossip about such machines

Old and worn frontage of a closed shop. Signs advertise 'email' and 'internet zone'.

Archaeological Ruins from the pre-smartphone era. #2000s #1990s #ancienthistory

Or a powerful enemy, depending on the disposition of that ladybug

a drawing of a sun with clouds in the sky ALT: a drawing of a sun with clouds in the sky

Well, it's three years until the big total solar eclipse that will cut across some remote parts of Australia. Time to start planning! 😄
I'm thinking I'll head for Devil's Marbles. Never been there and it's right in the path.

I reposted this last month and I'm sharing it again because it's great

Carnivore Aurelius' tweet showing a map of a single-home subsistence farm, but everything has been replaced by sloppily-drawn shapes labeled "ALGAE VATS" and one gray polygon labeled "BUGS"

I thought about it for a bit and I think I've come up with a more optimized layout for the one acre subsistence farmstead

r/tipofmytongue u/chafos • 3y • 5 [TOMT] What are those dogs that look coconuts called? Solved They're not really dogs exactly but if a dog was made of coconuts and had a different shapes head, it'd be them. Edit: Sorry for the typos on this post. It was late at night and I was trying really hard to remember what Capybaras were called.

A Swamp Wallaby. Out in the open, for once!

I saw a Swamp Wallaby! 😳😃❤️

In the decades I've lived here I kind of knew they were around. I'd heard them, caught glimpses (never with camera ready) and seen scat.

But not boldly out in the open like this 👍

This one moved decisively (and silently) over the bank towards the creek upon seeing me.

Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles

Close up picture of a pink developing eucalyptus flower showing the cap about to pop off

Close up picture of a newly opened pink eucalyptus flower showing many pink stamens with yellow tips

One feature of eucalyptus species is the cap (or operculum) that covers developing flower buds (L). As the flower develops the cap is popped off revealing numerous fluffy stamens (R)
#ozflora #wildoz #eucalyptus #nativeplants

GM was ahead of it time.

I NASA estimates it will take 20+ launches to refuel StarShip HLS for its moon landing.

It is unclear to me how they will accomplish 20+ fuelling launches in the 54 months left in this decade when they still haven’t made it to orbit.

No Moon with SpaceX this decade... and no Mars.

The one benefit of not having time to watch a lot of television is occasionally I'll watch a thing that's become inescapable, like the first season of THE BEAR, and enjoy it, and keep meaning to go back to it -- only to find out that I was in fact better off just watching the first season

Reddit post: What would happen if silverback gorillas were able to go to the gym and use it properly to build muscles and started eating more protein?

How fast could cheetahs go if they learned to drive cars?

A view directly into the front eyes of the metal jumping spider, just the top of his head and two black glass spheres. Something about the configuration of hairs and the lighting make him look happy. At least to me.

He is going to be such a good boy 🐶

Chart showing generations by birth years, including Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and Gen Beta.

I learned today that people being born this year are considered “Generation Beta,” as part of a pattern that continues to piss me off. We aren’t Gen X because we followed Gen W; this is historically conflated nomenclature. I will die on this hill.

A gorgeous Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) in the Norfolk Broads 🦋💛 The British subspecies lays eggs only on milk parsley, while caterpillars of migrating European Swallowtails feed on various umbellifers like wild carrot 🐛🌸🌿❤️
#SundayYellow #butterfly #wildflowers #nature

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

A bird with deep blue and maroon feathers clings to a thin branch, leaning forward with its long beak pointed downward and pale blue plumes fanned out from its neck. The background is a blurred mix of green and brown foliage.

More Agami Heron from today at Agami Island #CostaRica

#birds #nature

sign reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE, "GOD BLESS AMERICA"

since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

Wooden sculpture of waterbirds

Look at this artwork. My Dream by Sam Yoon. So simple and perfect.

If I pulled off this shot, I'd jump for joy. Nobody in danger and a beautiful photo of a picture perfect tornado. Maybe one day... Nice work @charnick.bsky.social

Lego art 🍳 😄

There’s an old Slavic expression:

On average we live well. Not as good as last year, but definitely better than next year

A 3d printed RC forklift the size of a large mug sits on a grubby MDF bench. Unlike most forklifts it has tank tracks and abstract black and white hub caps

Built the little Bambu Lab Cyberbrick forklift. Much fun, but also much fiddly tiny parts.
Only had blue TPU filament for the tracks so I laser cut some shiny Perspex hub caps to make it more fun looking.

Suggested modern technology holiday; algorithm amnesty day, where everyone you know gets to anonymously recommend content into your feeds and you find out what your nearest and dearest think you need to know about.

It’s shut the fuck up friday. Eyes front

San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

Another with three flowers on the stem. The flowers hold 2 petals upright, like the ears of a hare.

The Hare Orchids (Leporella fimbriata) are still flowering in Western Australia. These orchids are unusual as they are pollinated by flying male bull ants (Myrmecia sp.)
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants 🌿