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Theo Jansen still at it with full force... (life goals!)

Strandbeest evolution 2025
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA94ZqnEQ

...and obligatory re-sharing of some pics of our joint generative design workshop in 2013, incl. Theo's graveyard of older Strandbeests and mechanisms […]

@futurebird Definitely! I can still hear the exact sound and feel the unique impact of kicking those balls!

Like the Herdwick sheep in the Lake District that heft to their own fells, North Ronaldsay Sheep remain loyal to their own areas of the shore known on the island as clowgangs.

Searched for clowgangs, got an ai overview about the fbi profiling juggalos

Google: it looks like you were curious about an obscure word and wanted to learn more about the ancient folkways of the orkneys. Instead, here’s a reminder that you live on Planet Shit

From reading the musings of someone here on the Fediverse who is in the Air Traffic Control area... I would not fly while this shutdown continues, personally. #faa #aviation #FTC

Totals by Candidate 11 Zohran Kwame Mamdani 1012850 50.32% 12 Curtis A. Sliwa 144123 7.16% | 13 Irene Estrada 2575 0.13% | 14 Eric L. Adams 6182 0.31%| 15 Joseph Hernandez 1228 0.06% 16 Andrew M. Cuomo 837398 41.61% 17 Jim Walden 2128 0.11% | 18 WRITE-IN 6163 0.31% | 2012647

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer should resign their leadership positions as soon as possible.

Their failure to so much as endorse Mamdani laid bare layers of incompetence. They are why Democrats have completely failed to combat Trump. The sooner they are replaced, the better.

The Democratic Party would do well to look to the social programs of the Black Panther Party as inspiration if SNAP disappears on Saturday. Just running party-sponsored food drives and regular party-sponsored spaghetti dinners in some major cities would be both helpful and good PR.

UNMC Transmission:

NY Times: Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack

"A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease. A number of viral infections, including flu, Covid-19 and shingles, are linked to an increased risk of heart disease […]

In Canada, Halloween Moose kicks The Great Pumpkin's ass, every time.

#moose #meese #mooses #humor #humour #halloween

[description: a huge bull moose eats jackolanterns by the street.]

I’m thinking of $16,000 as an overall goal for Mastodon for Hunger Relief. That may be too ambitious but it would mean roughly $1000 each for the sixteen food banks, in each of the 16 blue trifecta states. https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/xBnCKKa/Mastodon-for-Hunger-Relief 1/2 […]

All trump news is disappointing and very boring.

But mostly boring.

We assume bad things warrant attention— but some bad things are just not interesting. He is predictable and repetitive.

Please start the government again. Do your job. Nobody wants to WORK anymore.

@futurebird Wow, that’s a great drawing! And now I know the design inspiration for the Garthim in the Dark Crystal.

@dm Walter/Wally is an excellent name for a dog! I actually met John Noble at a con once and he was absolutely charming.

@dm Walternate, lol, I love it! Also, cute pup!

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

BTW. The correct approach in this situation (which I learned from #STFUFriday ) per the National Lawyer's Guild:

"What If FBI Agents or Poli
Contact Me?

Do not invite the agents or police into your home. Do not answer any questions. Tell the agent that you do not wish to talk with him or her […]

San Francisco Whistle Protocols Form a crowd. Stay Loud. Protect each other. CODE I: ICE NEARBY BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM: PRE-PRE-PRE! → ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA. NOISE = Visibility WHY A WHISTLE ON THE STREETS? A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS. • Loud • Recognizable • Impossible to Ignore • Our Voices are Stronger Together CODE 2: CODE RED BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS: PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE! → ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.

#SanFrancisco whistle protocols.

(If you’re willing to deal with Evil Jeff, there are many inexpensive whistles available, some with next day arrival.)

#sfba #oakland #resist #icewatch

remember if you see somebody steal food: no you didn't

https://wgme.com/news/local/snap-benefits-wont-be-issued-for-november-due-to-government-shutdown-maine-mainers-supplemental-nutritional-assistance-program-ebt-cost-of-living-grocery-us-department-of-agriculture

Attention All You New Yorkers:

Please do not believe *any* poll that suggest that a candidate you approve of is winning.

Please assume any victory over anything establishment-shaped will be hard won.

I do not trust rosy polls. I will apologize later if I am wrong. Be just a little paranoid […]

Is politics weighing on you? Does it ever make you feel alone, like "everyone" is on board with awful things and "no one" cares (or close)?

Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.

Before you buy Girl Scout cookies you should know they support trans people and reject donations from anti-trans organizations, and then buy a couple more boxes!

"For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times."
...the manosphere is making a lot more sense to me now

The top DuckDuckGo result for what to do if you get coolant in your eye:

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Step 2: Neutralize the Coolant

Once you’ve flushed your eyes, it’s essential to neutralize the coolant. You can do this by applying a small amount of baking soda or white vinegar to your eyes. These […]

They canceled my work on race and media.

So I built a @resistanceschool.bsky.social instead.

Now we are teaching over 600 students.

Week 2 of Race, Media and International Affairs starts today.

We move ✊🏾💪🏾

Watched The Alabama Solution documentary. The US prison system is a goddamn travesty of justice and also Kay Ivey can fuck all the way off. #HumanRights #USPol

Beautiful piece highlighting the care and sensitivity that went into the creation of the Zohran Mamdani post about trans rights—worth reading:

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

A picture of 7,000-year-old art at Horseshoe Canyon, Utah. One of the structures portrayed looks suspiciously like a TARDIS.

Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, 7,000 years ago.

Tell me that's not a TARDIS.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)