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 Β£25 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 hostβs 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 hostβs 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 hostβs 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
― π ππ’π¨ (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
― π ππ’π¨ (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
― π ππ’π¨ (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