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Taking a break ✌️

9am here in lower Alabama. 80% humidity and feels like 96 degrees. As soon as you step outside your door, it smacks you in the face and weighs you down. It's a dog's breath kind of a day.

Fotomat Drive Thru photo developing kiosks. At its 1980s peak there were around 4000 spread throughout the US. rarehistoricalphotos.com/fotomat-old-... Many now lie abandoned or converted into alternative sales points.

Fraught girl summer

Anarchists have the best PR. Politicians are always giving them credit for burning down buildings and fomenting revolution when all they really do is put almond milk in community fridges and try and find homeless people to give months-old hand warmers to

MEN. We don't need you to protect us from your creepy, predatory friends. We need you to CALL THEM OUT.

everyone shut up ok researchers are reporting whales exhibiting a friendly bubble blowing behavior around humans that they don’t perform for other whales. scientists believe this is whales attempt to communicate with us bc bubbles rise to the surface. imagine sending hellos in bubbles. oh my god. 😭

Now that's what I call art

even if it was a real thing, the "online" left has absolutely no power to be an oppositional lever. you might as well be complaining about hipsters ruining k-mart or something

This person is bad in bed.

I could spend a week deconstructing this.

Insult of the day: You are like a bug that has wings but still hops around tormenting people even though it could be flying wherever the hell it wants. [Use sparingly]

From a 1977 Honeywell ad for "office automation systems." The craziest thing to me is that the ad copy (in the full page ad I linked below) contains the name of one single guy along with his phone number as a contact for inquiries.

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Renting a party bus to @riversidecasino.bsky.social There will be strippers but I could only afford the cheap ones. Please join.

I'm just trying to live a life free from people who talk about how much soul a piece of art contains

People who don't like music creep me out.

I've been itching to leave the south again, but I don't know how I will live without the Publix caesar pasta salad. I wish I never knew him.

Rooting for you, moaner. You deserve better.

vibe check

I've done a blog on this abandoned hotel that's had some fairly big names attached to it everywherefromwhereyouarenot.blogspot.com/2025/06/burn... #urbex #urbanexploring #abandoned #wales #cymru

My style is "disheveled but trying"

Its easy to make money when you don't mind harming people

The ancient Etruscans in Italy were the first to make false teeth starting in 700 BCE. This reproduction shows their method of using gold wires for attachment.

Adrian Hanft uses old receipts as a canvas for his mesmerising animations > buff.ly/5RUqTWG

You turn off all the lights in your house and cower in fear of the termite swarms. I leave mine on and make a little something called termite soup. We are not the same.

Watching someone's story on FB and having to carefully keep from accidentally tapping the suggested reply "mailbox magic" bc there's a mailbox in the background of the video. Hell yeah, Meta AI is killing it

"There are times when the bin store does feel like an art installation, a message, or a warning."

“‘Shut up and code’ is the new management mantra in Silicon Valley, Luca Belli writes. “The (un)spoken goal is to have as few workers as possible who are as obedient as possible.” www.techpolicy.press/ai-gig-worke...

Cake tastes better if you slowly and sensually stab each bite with a fork like they do in commercials

Maybe one day it won't be comprised of senile old men who need to eat bean soup every day for their rotten colons and false teeth.

When I was growing up all you had to do to prove you were a good person was buy Newman’s Own

Whoever recommended Below Deck to me.. bless you. This is the exact flavor of escapism I need.

The revival of the 80s bully sweater over the shoulders style is tragic