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An Oscar-Winning Animation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” Painted on 29,000 Frames of Glass

openculture.com/2024/08/heming…



Some of my favorite animal's that I got to see at the #columbuszoo were the #redpanda!
I took so many photos of them that today will be all Red Panda photos. Sorry if that isn't your thing, but they're just so cute

#AnimalPhotography
#CuteAnimals
#WildlifePhotography
#ZooLife
#RedPandaLovers


in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

billionaire says that people shouldn't complain if their paycheck doesn't arrive

social security checks are paychecks for the work and money you paid in over the decades

it's the money you paid in that Elon and this chump are stealing



in reply to Ian Smith

I had to look up the magnets thing and oh god, he is indeed that fucking stupid. How does someone get such an idea in their head? How do they not notice that it doesn't match the way the world works?


*If you start seeing long, airborne fiber-optic tethers draped over the roofs in your town, better start worrying #killerdrones

wired.com/story/drone-accessor…

in reply to Bruce Sterling @bruces

In parts of Asia, kite fighting is a popular sport, using kites whose kite strings are coated with ground glass so they can sever the strings of rival kites.

Will expert Thai and Afghan kite fighters suddenly be in high demand as a last line of defense against wire-guided killer drones?


in reply to The Oatmeal

LB: Last week, when I was feeling rough, I took myself off to the day bed in our studio to give H a fair chance of getting some sleep. I didn’t take my CPAP with me.

As a result, I had a whole bunch of dreams about not being able to breathe properly. Turns out I really do need my CPAP.



Don't You Care 🧑🏽‍⚕️
#TheBuckinghams
youtube.com/watch?v=gbrgCI6XFO…


You know how in miniature painting people talk about there gray pile of shame, because usually the GW kits come in gray plastic? As a 3d printing guy I don’t have such a thing*! *=Yes I do but it isn’t gray(sometimes). 😅 I recently printed more minis and figurines which now lie around primed in black for me to never be touched again in a long time. 😱🤣 Well hopefully not. 😉 #miniaturePainting #3dPrinting #nerdlings
in reply to Spark

I just noticed from the alt text that you indeed have a Mega Man figure there! Is that Cut Man?
in reply to VanGoYo

@VanGoYo Yeah it is. I was airbrushing the pieces last night. I have wip pictures I will post later. 😄

in reply to Frankie ✅

The image is a three-panel meme featuring a scene from a TV show. In the first panel, a man labeled "The (drunken master) Monk" is pointing and saying, "And then I used Finger of Death to finish the dragon off." He is in a restaurant setting with a colorful background. In the second panel, a woman labeled "The Cleric" is sitting at a table with a margarita, looking surprised and saying, "But you can't cast-." In the third panel, the same woman is reacting with a shocked expression, saying, "Oh..." The setting is a lively restaurant with other patrons in the background.

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The last time I flew in a helicopter was in 2014. It was for a work photo/video shoot. I mounted a GoPro to get some BTS footage. All the shots of the woman next to me are her looking at her phone.

I got a little queasy leaning out of the helicopter to shoot photos but I did not get sick. (Whew!)





If you're using Mastodon through a computer, did you know you can access almost all of its functions through keyboard shortcuts? There's a complete list of shortcuts plus more info here:

➡️ fedi.tips/using-mastodon-throu…

Some of these will only make sense in Mastodon's multicolumn mode, but most of them work in all modes.

NOTE: You don't have to use any of these shortcuts, everthing can be done through the mouse too. The keyboard shortcuts are just for people who prefer them 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon

in reply to Fedi.Tips

When I click on a post it does not seem to show replies in most recent first order. I could not figure out if there was a way to sort it that way.
in reply to themak

@themak

Ahhh okay... The replies in threads are shown chronologically with oldest first. As far as I know there's no option to show newest first on the official interface.

A third party app might be able to offer this option, but I don't know of one at the moment. Sorry! 😦



In 1968, Douglas Engelbart revolutionized computing by showing the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative computing in "The Mother of All Demos". Most of his ideas are now part of everyday computing, but one device—the keyset—failed to catch on. Let's look at Engelbart's demo and the keyset. 1/N

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in reply to Ken Shirriff

In 1994, Wired writer Steven Levy wrote a book "Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything". He discussed how Engelbart influenced the Mac, calling the 1968 demo "the mother of all demos". The name stuck, ensuring the fame of Engelbart's demo.
in reply to Ken Shirriff

Engelbart's daughter, Christina Engelbart, loaned me a keyset, so I built a USB interface for it and plugged it into my laptop. I had a hard time using the keyset and I'm not surprised it didn't catch on. Supposedly it takes "only" a week to learn, too long for me.

youtube.com/watch?v=DpshKBKt_o…



Join me today at 7pm GMT as we celebrate the 20th Birthday of the @arduino with a look at the best Arduino-based robot:

youtube.com/live/Ylc84kAKSxI

#arduino #robotics #micropython



Two weeks of 3D printing has led to these successfully formed plates of steel. They are 3 of the parts that will eventually become Aragorn's coronation vambraces.
#armor #metalwork #cosplay
in reply to Hammerhand Workshop

Are you pressing the metal on the forms? How do the 3d printed forms hold up?





in case you're curious, here's a peek into the process of my dumb animations
youtu.be/0Cvw7FN7Cw8

in reply to Just Annie

very nice and springy! Happy Sunday Annie and Coach! 👍🤗💐

in reply to mcc-temp-name

@mcc Some faux meat makers (like impossible and Beyond) actually prefer/request their products be put next to the meat products as an alternative for people who buy meat. Traditional vegan/vegetarian products would be in their own area (maybe with tofu). Vegetarians/vegans aren't generally happy about having to go into the meat section, but it's aimed at converting meat eaters.



in reply to Shan

Your wigs will last longer if you store them on mannequin head or wig stand with a dust cover.



FunHouseRadio.com
#dog #dogs #pets #meme #memes


Here's Mom showing off the reverse side of the door quilt I made for her apartment.
#quilting #quilts


It's not always true. Nothing about people is.

But it's remarkable how often you hear a guy going on about The Rules For Correctly Being A Man and think, I know something true about this man that he will spend the rest of his life in a miserable struggle to not admit to himself.

in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

I'm equally confused and amused by the soup thing. And where is the line between a stew or chili con carne and soup? Who chooses? Who precides over the court of masculinity? Are they appointed by God or elected? Can non-men vote?
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

the reasons behind why this guy is spouting nonsense are worthy of examination but the nonsense formed by his particular mouth noises is not.


This launcher is about to displace the V-2 as Germany’s largest rocket
Isar Aerospace's first Spectrum rocket will launch from Andøya Spaceport in Norway.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…


Holy shit, @codinghorror is committing another 50 MILLION DOLLARS to Guaranteed Minimum Income projects: blog.codinghorror.com/the-road…

We need more people in the world like Jeff Atwood and his family.

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in reply to Marco Arment

As someone who grew up in West Virginia and has visited all 55 counties, this very much needed, thank you. WV faces many structural issues that keep people in poverty that UBI may or may not fix. Investing some of this money into quality #education with quality teachers paid a legitimate salary, would, IMO, go a long way to sustain a path out of poverty.

my unsolicited $0.02





I've traveled so much in 2024 that it took till now to catch up with all of my 2024 photos. Here they are!
flickr.com/photos/maltman23/al…
Cryptoparty, Installfest, Hackaday Berlin, L'École LDLC, University of Notre Dame, Superbooth, , EMF Camp, Electronics Goes Green, TBD Not-A-Camp, HOPE, Fri3d Camp, SEC-T, Hackfest, HCPP, Dutch Design Week, 38C3
in reply to Bobo_PK 🦄

@Bobo_PK : People are, understandably, sensitive about it. But with permission from everyone, it's nice.
in reply to Mitch

I like the "ask everyone in the frame before taking pictures" policy. That been said I also enjoy seeing pictures with a few hackers on them. Great shot


A day ago, they said that the Department of Education would continue to handle these despite cutbacks. Don’t believe a thing this administration says.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Somebody said that the government is being run by the guys who never did the group project work and it shows.