James Perrin

Just saw the trippiest double feature. These are both in theaters right now and if can see ‘em back-to-back DO IT.

Italy's 'Lovers’ Arch' collapses into sea on Valentine's Day The popular tourist attraction was a proposal spot for couples and featured on postcards.

ciao, bella
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A solved Rubik's cube inside of a glass jar. How tf did it get in there?

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this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I've been re-reading Who's Who and this time through I noticed more of the small background character interactions that George Pérez detailed on the covers. Here are some examples from #1:
• Angle Man appearing in Amethyst's portal
• Abel reading to Arcane
• Abra Kadabra vs. Alley-Kat-Abra

How PFAS harm our health — and why they're everywhere - Horizons What do non-stick pans, firefighting foam and many of our couches, carpets and cosmetics have in common? They’re all made with PFAS. The so-called forever chemicals helped spur innovation, but they’re...

PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," helped spur innovation. But they're also insidious to human health. https://to.pbs.org/4qRXD2m

Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.

(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Giant backdrop of the Hobgoblin’s face with black-suit Spidey and the Black Cat swinging at lower right.

Arthur Adams - Spider-Man, Black Cat, and the Hobgoblin.

Marvel Fanfare, indeed!

In-Car Subscriptions Give Buyers The Ick And Automakers Don't Get Why - Jalopnik In-car subscriptions give buyers the ick because they already have too many subscriptions and are now being forced to pay extra for standard features.

“In addition to rising prices, the public has grown weary of monthly charges, the increasing number of features becoming paywalled, and privacy concerns surrounding collected data.”

A Rubik's cube, but each tile is multi-color instead of solid color.

Ok, this makes things a bit more complicated

Audiophiles are paying extra for these CDs made of “premium” material. They need to stop. Standard CDs are made with a little polycarbonate plastic, a splash of aluminum, and some glue. Audio is decoded by a red laser reading the microscopic pits on the disc’s

ICYMI: Audiophiles are paying extra for these CDs made of “premium” material. They need to stop. #musicnews

Madonna releases “Borderline” 42 years ago today — her fifth and final single from her debut album and her first Top 10 hit.

The iconic video carved a path for other, narrative-driven videos on MTV. “I knew what I wanted to look like. .. I knew what I wanted to be about. I had very clear ideas.”

Survivor AU: Redemption | Cast Preview – RobHasAwebsite.com Survivor AU: Redemption | Cast Preview Global Survivor host Shannon Guss is back with Mike Bloom to look ahead at the Australian Survivor: Redemption season and cast, predicting how the players will d...

Don't make us swindle you into watching the upcoming season of #SurvivorAU! @amikebloomtype.bsky.social & I took an extensive look at the whole Redemption (/RedempDon) cast before the season starts in 8 days! #RHAP #Survivor

robhasawebsite.com/survivor-au-...

A missing woman, bloodstains and a masked intruder: tantalising clues but few leads in hunt for Nancy Guthrie The disappearance in Arizona of the Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother has captivated the nation

A missing woman, bloodstains and a masked intruder: tantalising clues but few leads in hunt for Nancy Guthrie

From the Epstein community on Reddit: I mapped every connection in the Epstein files. It started with 6,000 documents. It's now 1.5 million. Here's what changed. Explore this post and more from the Epstein community

Dude on Reddit doing God's work

www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/co...

The ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fandom Is Tearing Itself Apart The breakout hockey romance has sparked legions of enthralled fans, along with obsessive, parasocial behavior that’s starting to get called out.

Haven't seen the show but apparently the fandom is exploding, best wishes to all involved:

Paleontologists Discover a Lost World: Ancient Cave Preserves Life From 1 Million Years Ago Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

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This week’s #ROCTopShots winner is Justin Ritzel 🐟🦆💥 #roc

Murder at 30,000 Feet Under the cover of turbulence, a killer strikes. With nowhere to land and nowhere to hide, who will save the passengers from this nightmare at 30,000 feet?It's a ticket to paradise. Flight 868 has non...

A book coming this week that I really liked: MURDER AT 30,000 FEET, by Susan Walter. I love a locked-room murder mystery, and a murder on a plane in flight totally works. Fun, lively, plays fair with clues and rules.

More stunning than a butterfly, more elegant than a model 🤩

The Bohemian Waxwing in full display is pure artistry. Watch those wings spread and that tail gleam like silk in the sunlight. Nature's runway model doesn't need filters—just perfect lighting and patience. ☺️💙😎

A private sale occurred involving an 8.5 copy of “Superman” #1 for $7 million and a 9.4 copy of “Batman” #1 for $6 million. A big congratulations to our good friend @aaronmeyers.bsky.social! :-P www.cgccomics.com/news/article...

Here Are Some Things I Think You Should Know About 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Out of curiosity, I visited the official website of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie to see how the people in charge of promoting this film are describing the plot. Here is what the official websi...

I wrote about some things I think you should know about NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, which is a movie I love that I’m afraid you’re not going to see

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

'Severance' acquired by Apple for $70 million, expect a 4-season run and spinoffs Apple Studios is now the owner of "Severance," with the original owners, Fifth Season, sticking around as executive producers, and there are plans to expand the IP's universe.

Apple Studios is now the owner of "Severance," with the original owners, Fifth Season, sticking around as executive producers, and there are plans to expand the IP's universe.

Cinnamon Becard.

The Cinnamon Becard (Pachyramphus cinnamomeus) is a small, rusty-colored bird found in Central and South American tropical lowlands, known for its uniform cinnamon-buff plumage, which is the same in both sexes.

📸: @abdullahbereket

Amazon Ring’s lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance Is it just for the dogs?

They badly bungled this. There are many applications of this technology (Missing child! Missing dementia patient! Abusive ex-husband kidnapped the kids! Dzhokhar Tsarnaev!) that most people would likely support if they trusted the company not to abuse the tech. 1/2

www.theverge.com/tech/876866/...

“The bees knew what human mathematicians didn’t for thousands of years.”

— Prof. Brian Cox 🐝😎🐝😎🐝😎🐝

Cracking the Code of Peru’s Serpent Mountain - Archaeology Magazine Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert

Why is there a mile-long pattern of indentations along Peru’s remote Serpent Mountain? Some have suggested the “Band of Holes” is a geoglyph like the Nazca Lines; others, an ancient fortification. Now, archaeologists have returned to crack the code.
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Byte magazine cover featuring a desktop with a screen showing a green landscape, next to a window showing the real-life version, which is ugly, industrialized, and smoky.

The original Star Trek crew are at a holographic museum of "ancient technology," watching a guy scratch his head while reading a retro computer manual.

A painting, a window, and a desktop computer are all lined up to complete the same view, a scene of a blue mountain range.

A white-bearded Robert Tinney stands near an easel with a famous Tinney illustration of a smartwatch that runs on a micro-floppy disk.

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.