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Jim Meyer

@ohheyitspurp

He's just this guy, yano?

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Mini-Stories: Volume 19 - 99% Invisible It’s that time again—mini-stories are back! Get ready for a whirlwind tour of short, surprising, and fascinating tales. This week we have punny highway signs, a PAC funded by exercise, the explosive h...

One last @99pi.org story from me for 2024 - it’s our annual mini stories!

Topics include: how Jane Fonda’s workout tapes funded progressive causes in the 80s, aesthetically perfect feet, and a perhaps doomed effort to make highway safety fun.

99percentinvisible.org/episode/607-...

18.12.2024 05:27 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1
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Botticelli's Squidgy Feet [image_with_animation image_url=”10600″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484-86). Tempera on canvas, 67.9 in × 109.6 i...

And now, after the examples, I just can’t unsee how terrible Botticelli’s terrible toes. www.seattleartistleague.com/2018/07/25/b...

06.01.2025 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Democracy dies in darkness.

04.01.2025 01:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

04.01.2025 00:37 👍 9594 🔁 3750 💬 195 📌 326

Sometimes it's okay to enjoy the milkshake even when you know there'll be an inevitable duck.

09.12.2024 18:50 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel," the first novel of his Robot series. Fawcett Crest paperback edition.

Cover of Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel," the first novel of his Robot series. Fawcett Crest paperback edition.

2/20 #Booksky #Bookchallenge

04.12.2024 05:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Okay, I’ll hang with you on this, but it’s gonna quickly reveal how much less erudite my literary life has been. bsky.app/profile/ohhe...

03.12.2024 04:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of “Complete Poems, 1913-1962” by ee cummings

Cover of “Complete Poems, 1913-1962” by ee cummings

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #Booksky #Bookchallenge

03.12.2024 04:49 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Time once again to reiterate my most controversial opinion:

One dryer sheet is more than enough, and using dryer sheets on towels makes not a single bit of sense.

28.11.2024 00:54 👍 983 🔁 26 💬 211 📌 20

Was just trimming my beard and realized that my dad and grandfather both did this without power tools. Respect.

26.11.2024 18:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Solarian sociologist, a planet with 20k people and 200 million robots, in Asimov's "The Naked Sun" (1956).

I get the same vibes from all the Zoom meetings now. So much more easy and convenient to stay home. Time to get out more.

26.11.2024 16:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Most prominent example: news orgs. They develop an editorial style and reputation over time and people trust or don't trust according to it.

26.11.2024 15:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Makes sense. Trust is transitive and always has been.

26.11.2024 15:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A view inside a 3D printer as it is printing many "tree" supports.

A view inside a 3D printer as it is printing many "tree" supports.

This print has nearly as much material in support as in the piece.

Forest. Trees. Yeah.

#3dprinting #totalnoob

24.11.2024 06:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We got a 3D printer this week as our family holiday gift, and today was my first shot at design and print for a practical widget.

Many mistakes have been made and learned from. Many more ahead. Learning! Fun!

#3dprinting #totalnoob

24.11.2024 06:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ffs my real age is the same as my calendar age, I can't tell you how upsetting this is

21.11.2024 16:09 👍 65 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0
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Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025

21.11.2024 16:04 👍 893 🔁 166 💬 567 📌 2820

So much yes. Going to have a go at recreating this.

22.11.2024 14:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Steve! Now all we need is @ganzbot.bsky.social

22.11.2024 06:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.

22.11.2024 06:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't be a purveyor of anger and outrage. Just don't.

22.11.2024 04:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ceremony to welcome new users to Bluesky

22.11.2024 04:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Casey rules. Ask A Swole Woman and She's a Beast are incredible resources for people who want to get strong, are getting strong, currently experiencing a romanian deadlift, etc. AASW was my intro to powerlifting in 2017 and Liftoff was my spouse's intro in 2024. Excited to read this book!

21.11.2024 20:41 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

That. Is. Amazing.

@dessadarling.bsky.social can you do @marthawells.bsky.social's Murderbot next?

'scuse me while I go launch a kickstarter ...

22.11.2024 03:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GEEEEEEENNNAAAAAAA! 👋🏻❤️

22.11.2024 03:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

20.11.2024 06:08 👍 459 🔁 113 💬 23 📌 16

In short, the right people are working on this, they're not out to build a Twitter clone, they're out to reshape the web, and help us return to the original promise of an open platform, a sense of ownership, and the ability to share with each other on our own terms.

20.11.2024 18:32 👍 1622 🔁 215 💬 30 📌 20
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Congratulations on being over capacity, @bsky.app!

A throwback to a bygone era, updated for our new home, made by me as requested by @edfff.com.

21.11.2024 01:06 👍 3477 🔁 661 💬 46 📌 81
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I suppose I could have waited 40 days, but now seemed like a good time. twitter.com/purp/status/...

21.11.2024 06:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0