Rolling Most 2020 Images

bonus dicknose mask with that one

there appears to be a man trapped inside that glass

a man, a pane, a kapow -- SANTA CLAUS

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.

http://i.imgur.com/KuMSWqk.png

https://imgur.com/AKYfDY7

https://i.imgur.com/AKYfDY7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/w2c48No.png

welp that answers that https://t.co/3pXVxDSPTX pic.twitter.com/Yhi8ZFJjRB

— nat “cops break laws to terrorize/intimidate” puff (@LeftAtLondon) November 26, 2020

BREAKING: Monolith Inexplicably Returns... With Stories pic.twitter.com/If61Aj0iaC

— Tim Quirino (@timquirino) November 30, 2020

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)

A very visually distinctive year, though.

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

grim

a bit late but still relevant
http://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/c5b/a62/733b32c0d4be5ea49a2a5adcf733a7d476-gbbo-1106-03.rhorizontal.w700.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DUOxvTt.png

How are these last two "2020" images, besides having been taken this year?

the pigeon is the exiting under secretary of transportation

the first represents climate change, the second represents how we feel when an unmasked person comes too close

the bird one is how we all feel. they will peck your eyes out, if you look too closely

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 pigeon just farted

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eonvjc4W4AAwpnP?format=jpg&name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EosRt37W8AI0bl_?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://i.imgur.com/dkhOC9g.jpg

solid

not as good as the footage of Trump abruptly leaving and that guy throwing his hands up in the air

http://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/everyhere-5-of-8.jpg
https://hyperallergic.com/606046/chris-ramming-rob-brill-marfa-covid/

Some good ones in this NYT roundup:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html

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.

as always, National Geographic is worth the subscription
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/2020/12/21-most-compelling-images-of-the-21st-century

in any case, here's their most 2020 image, by Kris Graves
http://i.imgur.com/6CPfi8D.png

I just spent a good 20 minutes looking through those, thanks!

omg, that face transplant one.

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/

Those National Geographic images are astonishing. I've just subscribed - currently £25 for a year in the UK, which seems absurdly good value.

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 host’s behavior would change.
Picture of a bullfrog's limbs affected by flatworm larvae

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 host’s 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.

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/)

https://i.imgur.com/9uPeTuz.png

we should prob do a poll. there's at least ten on here that are gonna be 2020 forever.

https://i.imgur.com/gMCm1Kt.png

everyday people

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

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

https://i2.wp.com/www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/123600-R1-26A-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1007&ssl=1

https://i1.wp.com/www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCF5905-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1

Last chance yall

Should we vote on which image is the most 2020 or would that unlock the final demon

i'm for it

https://i.ibb.co/BZ8GcFd/VT6-Q4-WSLPUI6-XF5-WJ247-OL7-UNM.jpg