A Norfolk Southern geometry car NS 34
A Norfolk Southern geometry car NS 99 Belford, rebuilt from 1926
@jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social hey there! Saw this vintage Norfolk Southern today at the Metairie Road crossing. Google tells me it’s geometry car NS 99 Belford, rebuilt from 1926, and NS 34. It crossed eastbound, stopped, and returned west a few minutes later. @nscorp.sky.social
All those things we planned to circle back on after Mardi Gras coming in like
A person dressed as sugar cane from Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show stands in front of St. Louis Cathedral on Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Happy Mardi Gras, y’all. 💜💛💚
Awesomeness 💜💚💛
A side street scene in the French Quarter, with two brass-band musicians chatting, a guy sitting and looking at his phone, and a walking woman wearing a costume gown, all in front of a very old wooden building.
In the French Quarter on the Friday before Mardi Gras 💜💚💛
Can't decide whether Ring's ad trying to use dogs to get us to opt into their surveillance program or Amazon's "lol what if our AI killed you?" ad was the most dystopian
And as @jimnaughton.bsky.social notes here, photographers are essential to the reporting process. They see things that reporters don’t, or can’t. bsky.app/profile/jimn...
Hope you have a speedy recovery!
That first panel -- life imitates art bsky.app/profile/atru...
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
This is a spectacularly thoughtful essay by @tisserand.bsky.social.
Bonus signature page to “Our Long National Nightmare” book by Tom Tomorrow, with the inscription in a text bubble spoken by Sparky the Penguin
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social nice signature page!
Petey
Similarwise regarding the punchline to this Peanuts strip, which I read in a compilation
In 1995, my mother and I were on a bucket list trip to Paris. We went to the Ritz Paris for a cocktail ($20!). As we left through the revolving door, coming in at the same time were Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn.
Silicon Valley is, in fact, Mirkwood.
Any movie over 2:15 is getting watched in two parts, that’s just how it is.
A substantial addition to the collection! ☺️@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
Had to laugh when I saw this yesterday (after getting the subscriber preview):
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a.i.-generated text is the uncanny valley of the written word.
My friend is being booted out of her childhood home. Help her out if you can, and please reskeet.
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Baaaaa … I mean, Bah!
I got a National Tree Co one, too — pretty realistic (fooled a family member!)
So my pie take is there are no bad pies, but some pies have to be eaten a certain way:
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
Mabel insisted on sitting with me when I got my haircut which hasn't happened since my grandma did the same thing when I was in kindergarten.
Oooh, I had one like that! Tick tick tick and those radium-coated hands!
Just ten thousand reflections of my own sweet self
A 1622 Shakespeare book open to a page with a depiction of the bard.
And Shakespeare!
five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
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Some of those giant golden statues you foreshadowed, maybe on the Capitol steps à la Rocky
