Julia child using a mandoline bare handed, she's slicing a potato that's maybe a quarter inch thick. Closed captions read "there's one that needs evening"
Watching Julia Child use a mandoline bare handed, truly this woman would have faced God and walked backwards into hell
congress sounds cool i wish it was real
85 schoolgirls. just one is a world, a future of infinite possibilities, a universe. that america has done this atrocity to 85 of them, that it will continue to do even worse... i don't even know what to say. i condemn this with every fiber of my being, but that doesn't feel like enough.
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what if i'm just a holodeck character
HOT FUZZ scene. Pegg as a cop talking to some underage kids in a pub When’s your birthday? 22nd of February. What year? Every year.
Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all
Oh that fucking sassy little move the bobsledders are doing before they go down
a screenshot of zoom with an arrow pointing to "settings"
a screenshot of zoom settings with "my account" highlighted and a circle around "view advanced features"
zoom on a web browser, with an arrow pointing to "AI Companion" and the first 3 of many AI features listed
PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️
to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features"
it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)
every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
A reprocessed version of Voyager 1’s iconic Pale Blue Dot photo. The background is lighter than the original, almost glowing from below. The “sunbeam” in which the Earth hangs, caused by an optical artifact in the original, is still present.
A few years ago, JPL engineer @kevinmgill.bsky.social, with input from Candy Hansen and William Kosmann, used modern techniques to process the original image data and produce an updated version of the iconic photo. (3/n)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin Gill
![The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6435lftcmpvxasbkrtsw22i7/bafkreicpbthbsbsmlfm3fjysre3sbt3gyu2gjxmacrnofhibatrts2xwga)
The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
fundamentally no matter how awesome writing feels sometimes other times it feels like snowshoeing in slush and you just gotta keep going
Aw I like when people get super hype for their teammates in the Olympics... The joy is infectious
I really like the Targaryen casting & styling in Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The short hair works!
Holding my cat walking around the house singing I GOT THE MEOWER
Television is 100 years old today! 🎉
Confirmed acts for the fundraiser livestream 1/24/26 from The Elysian theater include: DeAnne Smith, Chris Fleming, Cameron Esposito, Alice Wetterlund, Adam Conover, and Guy Branum.
is anyone with any actual power going to do anything
House Democrats Draft Incredibly Powerful Social Media Post hard-drive.net/house-democr...
Does a codex count? I love a codex. If there's multi-tiered lil thing with chunks and chunks of text filling out the world I am reading it
dahliaa.jade is it a plot hole or were you intended to use deductive and inductive reasoning to fill in the blank
Apropos of general media literacy in our TVTropes-pilled times
Fancy calligraphy mss and then someone scrawled fuckin abbot in the margin and MAN do you feel that guy
And my personal favorite from a mss from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1528, added to a mss copy of Cicero’s De officiis by a monk of Osney Abbey about John Burton, the local abbot (&, according to other historical sources, an actual massive POS).
So much solidarity, dear little monk.
olde english Fuckbeggar
very important thread, here. 1/x
One of the earliest written examples of the word "fuck" is this, Fuckebegger (1286/7), part of the last name of one of Edward I’s grooms:
This is the AI bubble’s end game:
“when AI has infiltrated work processes to the point that exit costs are prohibitive, the customer base will be unable to escape and coerced into paying up. The world will be hooked on AI, and the tech firms will collect handsome profits.”
Send some
Digital painting, big brutalist blocks at night
I'm a lung with a tear in it!
So... We're officially in the back half of the 2020s??
No but I find the shift from one year to another very meaningful and I like to experience and acknowledge it
Because I go to bed at like 2am every day
