https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENXyZ-gUEAESuGN?format=jpg&name=small
― The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool (Sanpaku), Friday, 3 January 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UAfPEhs.gif
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2019/12/03/test/04f719964c9de37031d73389f817a60533662b1d/CoryBooker_Final.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/content/dam/journey/gb/en/private/2019/september/diet-coke-lead.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/themes/motherjones/img/impeachapalooza-1023-575.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/K0afFK5.jpg
― Darth Bambi (Sanpaku), Sunday, 2 February 2020 05:04 (four years ago) link
Is that flukeman from the x-files
― Dan I., Tuesday, 4 February 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/464DqPR.gif
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 9 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
http://www.kron4.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/02/BEARD.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 27 February 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FaQ0FNc.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 February 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
see joe, you keep asking for $5 and you just go blow it on ice cream
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 February 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FeYOF0z.jpg
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERvwaCgUYAIwwnM?format=png&name=small
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fHQoSOY.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
Close up of President @realDonaldTrump notes is seen where he crossed out "Corona" and replaced it with "Chinese" Virus as he speaks with his coronavirus task force today at the White House. #trump #trumpnotes pic.twitter.com/kVw9yrPPeJ
― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
fucking asshole
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
can't put into words how angry this made me
― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
This is just his totally grownup response to Xi calling it the American virus.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
aiui, Xi was himself responding to american attempts to call it "Wuhan virus"
whatever. the problem is people of Asian descent are being attacked (two separate stabbings in Montreal yesterday)
― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
In French, syphilis used to be called 'le mal de Naples' (the Neapolitan illness) while in Italian it was dubbed 'il mal francese' (the French illness). Nothing new, really.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
Btw only one of the stabbing victims was Korean:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/koreans-montreal-safety-warning-1.5501963
Not that it makes it any better, of course.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
nothing new except it's hundreds of years later, and we should know better
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
the "we also did this during other, even more notoriously racist times" excuse doesn't work
True, but I've never been more pessimistic about the prospect of achieving maturity as a species.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
We fucking suck is what I'm saying.
lolotm
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
pom, thanks for the correction (I'd read the previous version of the story). And yes I'm aware of those historical precedents, plus I've read some interesting stuff about the circumstances around the naming of the "Spanish flu" in 1918
But what gets me about this is that trying to rename it "chinese virus" is *not* the result of some widespread misattribution or broadly dispersed bigotry--it's top of mind for this loathsome shitstain
― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
yep, it is a rebranding campaign, and he's already got fox news onboard (is it that they got HIM onboard? there's hardly a distinction between the two)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
As long as his army of alt-right trolls is ready to pull the trigger whenever someone calls him racist by pointing out that CHiNa IsN't a RaCe, he's a totally normal president.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
And he'll get reelected. His approval rating has just shot up.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
Courtesy of Costco Canada:
https://i.imgur.com/anTjwiJ.png
https://i.imgur.com/cjmR3Ze.png
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/T2gvDq9.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kMzqDpd.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 April 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Of9uTDA.png
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/EwDB2tm.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 10 April 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GmL2kpU.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
https://static.businessinsider.sg/2020/04/04/5e9a464f8427e920c33941c3.png
― jmm, Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
that Joshua Bickel photo is quite an indelible image of the times. The composition is so perfect you'd be forgiven for thinking it's from a graphic novel or summat!
― calzino, Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWBDvtQVAAAMArA?format=jpg
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Monday, 20 April 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
yeah, just like the other protester one above, amazing.
― Nhex, Monday, 20 April 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
both excellent photos. look how fucking HUGE the Ram is! the angry dumb patriot is climbing out of it like it's a different ecosystem.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
Hadrian posted this one on a diff thread:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV6AS7XU4AA2h9B?format=jpg&name=large
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Give me mint chocolate chip or give me death
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
Hmmm
Sure is weird how these definitely homemade and definitely not astroturfed protests signs look the same, just a coincidence i guess pic.twitter.com/L7tBX2IPJn— metal dot txt (@metaltxt) April 19, 2020
― pplains, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
if they're at the same protest it would make sense, but not enough info there
― Nhex, Monday, 20 April 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
ok lol at "social distancing = communism," pick a critique and stick to it ffs
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 20 April 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
fiddle harder everyone, rome's not burning fast enough!http://i.imgur.com/FfoSh2g.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/04/germcar.jpg?resize=1200,630&quality=65
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
GERM-K!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWomM4SUwAAU2fx?format=jpg&name=small
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
a man, a pane, a kapow -- SANTA CLAUS
― discourse stu (m bison), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
A highway on the California/Nevada stateline is closed
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHvFE2IFsu1/
not due to the heavy snow in the picture but because of an out of control wildfire that is still raging despite the heavy snow/precipitation and below-freezing temps.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KuMSWqk.png
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
https://imgur.com/AKYfDY7
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AKYfDY7.jpg
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/w2c48No.png
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
welp that answers that https://t.co/3pXVxDSPTX pic.twitter.com/Yhi8ZFJjRB— nat โcops break laws to terrorize/intimidateโ puff (@LeftAtLondon) November 26, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 November 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
BREAKING: Monolith Inexplicably Returns... With Stories pic.twitter.com/If61Aj0iaC— Tim Quirino (@timquirino) November 30, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
god I haven't looked at this thread in about a month, what an embarrassing year this has been (I mean, there are worse things you could say about it of course, but ugh)
― rob, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
A very visually distinctive year, though.
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
These are iPad stations being prepared for virtual ICU end of life visits by a palliative care doc I know. Jesus. pic.twitter.com/lIgbg0FhaL— i cant drive, n95 (@roto_tudor) December 3, 2020
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
grim
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
a bit late but still relevanthttp://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/c5b/a62/733b32c0d4be5ea49a2a5adcf733a7d476-gbbo-1106-03.rhorizontal.w700.jpg
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DUOxvTt.png
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
How are these last two "2020" images, besides having been taken this year?
― pplains, Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
the pigeon is the exiting under secretary of transportation
― discourse stu (m bison), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
the first represents climate change, the second represents how we feel when an unmasked person comes too close
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
the bird one is how we all feel. they will peck your eyes out, if you look too closely
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 December 2020 06:27 (three years ago) link
the former is from internationally popular television show "who wants to bake a cake pip pip" and shows a fan favorite and a fan loathed both having stress melt-down while trying to entertain an ungrateful world in-between daily covid tests and social media kerfuffles
the latter child personifies my increasing claustrophobia and terrified madness in response to even the slightest and most benign intrusion into my bubble. the pigeon is rudy giuliani.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 December 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link
the pigeon just farted
― huge rant (sic), Sunday, 6 December 2020 07:46 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eonvjc4W4AAwpnP?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EosRt37W8AI0bl_?format=jpg&name=900x900
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dkhOC9g.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
solid
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
not as good as the footage of Trump abruptly leaving and that guy throwing his hands up in the air
― Nhex, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
http://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/everyhere-5-of-8.jpghttps://hyperallergic.com/606046/chris-ramming-rob-brill-marfa-covid/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Some good ones in this NYT roundup:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
Every time I open this thread, the first two posts remind me how quickly this year devolved to shit, even before COVID shut things down.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
as always, National Geographic is worth the subscriptionhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/2020/12/21-most-compelling-images-of-the-21st-century
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 December 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
in any case, here's their most 2020 image, by Kris Graveshttp://i.imgur.com/6CPfi8D.png
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
I just spent a good 20 minutes looking through those, thanks!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
omg, that face transplant one.
― Nhex, Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:30 (three years ago) link
the entire story there is amazing, they gave her the full issue.
i just spent an hour reading and watching the movie about the immortal woman, susan potter. utterly shook by it.https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/01/visible-human-susan-potter-cadaver/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
Those National Geographic images are astonishing. I've just subscribed - currently ยฃ25 for a year in the UK, which seems absurdly good value.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 12 December 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
This article embedded from the 2014 picture was worth revisiting:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2014/11/mindsuckers/
If the power of a gene can extend to manipulation of the physical world, Dawkins wondered, could it not extend as well to the manipulation of another living creature? Dawkins argued that it could, and he pointed to parasites as his prime example. The ability of a parasite to control the behavior of a host is encoded in its genes. If one of those genes mutated, the hostโs behavior would change.Picture of a bullfrog's limbs affected by flatworm larvaeDepending on how it changed, the mutation might help or harm the parasite. If a flu virus mutates so that its victims lock themselves away and starve to death, the virus will be unlikely to spread to other hosts, and it will disappear from the population of viruses. A mutation in a parasite that influences a hostโs behavior for the better will become more common. If a wasp acquires a mutation that compels its ladybug host to begin to act as a bodyguard, for example, its offspring carrying that trait will thrive, because fewer of them will be killed by predators.
Depending on how it changed, the mutation might help or harm the parasite. If a flu virus mutates so that its victims lock themselves away and starve to death, the virus will be unlikely to spread to other hosts, and it will disappear from the population of viruses. A mutation in a parasite that influences a hostโs behavior for the better will become more common. If a wasp acquires a mutation that compels its ladybug host to begin to act as a bodyguard, for example, its offspring carrying that trait will thrive, because fewer of them will be killed by predators.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 12 December 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
didn't they do an earlier slice / scan thing using thicker slices and, iirc, a prisoner?
ha, yes, it's in the linked article:
"The cadaver was supposed to be anonymous, but when the press found out that the first Visible Human was an executed convict in Texas..."
(i think i remember reading it in Wired at the time, ~1993. oh, https://www.wired.com/1995/05/digital-dead-man/)
― koogs, Saturday, 12 December 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9uPeTuz.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
we should prob do a poll. there's at least ten on here that are gonna be 2020 forever.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gMCm1Kt.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
everyday people
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
the guy on the right is there everyday. the people on the left, i'm not sure what their role is, and maybe they don't either
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2020/12/21/tiki-topper/73a79009e01dcd49ec2892b272ba3092a6015563/biz-yip-top.jpg
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/2020-in-photos.html
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
https://i2.wp.com/www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/123600-R1-26A-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1007&ssl=1
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
https://i1.wp.com/www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCF5905-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Last chance yall
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
Should we vote on which image is the most 2020 or would that unlock the final demon
― cat, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
i'm for it
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/BZ8GcFd/VT6-Q4-WSLPUI6-XF5-WJ247-OL7-UNM.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 31 December 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/P0G1kSX.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link