The first sentence of "The Great Gatsby", diagrammed in traditional style.
Offered without comment, save credit to Pop Chart Lab...
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A hospital display showing a Windows crash message.
I spent several years working hospital IT...and seeing things like this drives me bonkers.
The word "Yikes" written in the style of an illuminated manuscript.
I see that someone else offered a suitable yikesalligraphy, so here's another for paired use...
Quoting to get this into the various #entomology feeds...
βIf youβll just pull forwardβ¦β for a CUP OF COFFEEβ¦ #grrrr
A smoking gun in silhouette
TFW you wait days to get packet dumps from a customer...and they prove exactly what you had said from the start. #bithead #wireshark
Oh, look, another young #Republican group chat - apparently including local leaders of College Republicans and Turning Point USA at Florida International University - became a sewer of racist, white supremacist, and outright Nazi content within...3 weeks.
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Take a look at his record in the Texas legislature...
A petri dish with white tissue (to hold the specimen in place) and an illuminating loupe, through which I'll take pictures with my iPhone.
A mottled-brown-and-white varied carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci), photographed through an illuminated loupe.
I'm experimenting with some new kit for my #backyardnature and #entomology photographs: a petri dish with white tissue holding the specimen in place while I use my phone to photograph through a magnifying loupe. The second image is a varied carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)...
Neither you nor I would ever reach the "9 speeding tickets in 9 years" level, because our licenses would be restricted or revoked after the 3rd or 4th ticket.
Laws don't apply to rich people.
bit.ly/4st8RuN
More of this, please - it's well past time to hold parents accountable for such willful ignorance when it comes to their minor children.
bit.ly/4lcpZTh
The Pokemon Rillaboom resembles a large primate and is shown playing a drrum.
Me as a high school musician... #percussion #pokemon
OK, here's a gorgeous addition to the list of "things I wish I could do"...
Something to browse...
TeleGeography's Submarine #Cable #Map 2026 has arrived; the map documents almost 700 cable systems and 1900 landings that are either in current use or under construction. #bithead #networking
In case you were wondering...now that the US has started a war with Iran and retaliatory attacks are happening across the Middle East...the US currently has no ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait, Algeria, Libya, or Iraq.
The Trump Administration embodies ineptitude.
...thus guaranteeing that I won't be watching ESPN's NFL free agency coverage...
...plus, "Bull Cockroach" sounds like an old-school baseball manager.
The Animaniacs atop the famous Warner Brothers water tower.
#Estonia deploying prefabricated bunkers along its portion of the "Baltic Defense Line" border with #Russia. #defense
Here's a thought for @bsky.app developers...users should not be able to repost/quote any posts that restrict replies.
If posters want to define interaction on their own terms, that's fine...but they shouldn't benefit from being reposted/quoted.
Want some #history or #humor in your timeline?
Follow one (or both) of my ad-free bots:
@onthisdaybot.bsky.social - a notable event, birth and death for today's date every 4 hours
@collectedquotes.bsky.social - a (supposedly) witty, pithy, or erudite saying every 6 hours
Wow - where are you going to hang the TireRack sign? Mancave? Garage?
[ducking]
Ran across a fascinating story about a 500-year-old #cookbook commissioned by a sultan - the Ni'matnΔma, or Book of Delights (1495-1505), which include dishes still made today... #foodies
Wow, you just gave me flashbacks to when I implemented that random dungeon generator in BASIC...and I found someone who built it as a web app - have fun!
donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/
A phantom midge (Chaoborus punctipennis). It's named for the distinctive dots on its legs, wings, and thorax.
Here's a 2025 specimen from #CapeCod - the phantom midge (Chaoborus punctipennis). Its larvae are aquatic; adults do not feed and live only long enough to mate and lay eggs. Native to the USA & Canada, it was recently identified as an invasive species in Japan. #backyardnature #entomology
I recently had reason to reread this short piece, and I recommend it heartily.
Jonathan Swift, "The Art of Political Lying", 1710.
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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping
after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect [...]"
Jonathan Swift, "The Art of Political Lying", 1710.
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Yeah, but they'd better keep one hand on their medals at all times...
"Testicle tanning", as hyped by Fox News and Tucker Carlson...a naked man standing on a mountaintop, arms outstreched, as his genitals are treated with light.
Comer is an absolute embarrassment to #Kentucky and Kentuckians.
I mean, why doesn't he just wear a "Trump Toady" button?
