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"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl) Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.

One of the first picutres to use now-routine techniques like surface shaders, the 'Road to Point Reyes' (1983) took a team of Lucasfilms engineers an entire month to render.

Dapper.

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I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

idk Boimler just seems like he’d do this #LowerDecks #fanart #comic

i really hope democrats are listening to @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-win...

The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vladimir Putin "is the main culprit for Russia's return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West," writes Serge Schmemann, a member of the editorial board and a former Moscow bureau chief for The Times. "But American arrogance and presumptions cannot be dismissed."

happy lunar new year!!

When the rail cars bearing the entire Bellevue Nikkei farming community pulled out of Kirkland on May 20, 1942, their early crops were nearing harvest and the midsummer crops were in the ground. Almost none of them ever fed anyone. 1/34

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

Salk Institute in San Diego [OC] 📸 r/brutalism

New Orleans is really hell freezes over vibes today. It’s spectacular

I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I. On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

guide to conjugating vampires yosferatu túsferatu nosferatu

2024 Year in Review

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..." J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of Anglo-Saxon at University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk and author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, born #OTD 1892. Middle-earth research @tomgauld.bsky.social

DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

Thanks to whoever went to the trouble of morphing me into a dromedary so I could finally fulfill my potential as "Mar🐫". 🙏 ❤️ 👍

Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too 👏🏾

Nobody at Turbo Button could figure out how to make an AI-generated greeting card. But we heard studios like us are expected to use AI for everything now, so we commissioned some of our favorite artists to hand draw what they think those cards might have looked like. Here's what they came up with.

Aliette de Bodard is so excellent. Even if you’ve read her latest, I’d encourage you to check her back catalog as well.