Fred BOURSIER

My favorite Appalachian fact is that, unlike the Himalayas, there are no shells on top of the Appalachians because they predate shells.

it really sucks how we’re finally seeing a US regime put people under 60 in leadership positions, and all those people are invariably both stunningly stupid and wildly evil

The 'With These Hands' trail features plaster casts which reproduce artefacts from the Mohenjo-daro ruins, one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (3000-2500 BC). Sold as cultural souvenirs, these casts connect modern makers with disappearing histories.This seal was donated in 1955.

“If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design” (Source: mastodon.social/@heliographe...)

I NEED Louisiana photo sky to GET ON THIS

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

You can just tell this bird smokes Pall Malls

The office chairs in the street count is reaching dotcom levels.

That’s going well, now, is it?

So pleasing. 🪶

I think AR has the possibility to absorb people totally because it’s basically one step closer to having a phone in your face 24/7, a natural state for most people right now.

[tv commercial opens] [a woman comes into a kitchen and puts down her grocery bags] “as a busy mom, I’m always looking for faster, cheaper ways to launder hundreds of millions of dollars”

I don't care about Liquid Glass, but I love this development article about how to recreate it on the web (tl;dr you can't do it cross-browser rn, but the building blocks are there). kube.io/blog/liquid-...

I think I need to drive this home more: programming didn't used to be like this—even for complex, networked apps with a large amount of features and complex user interfaces. And apps didn't have thousands of dependencies like many even simple ones do now.

Much cleaner than I could have hoped.

Saw these two pieces as a kid and they’re still my favorite things at the museum.

PEOPLE’S GAS & ELECTRIC

your gym teacher and your english teacher are getting married

I still kind of want to make this. My test tiles weren’t nearly this cute.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Oh let me read some perfectly plain books about stained glass before bed. I’m sure they won’t have ominous German poetry in them.

What in the Molotov/Ribbentrop is this

FLW making an art of escaping every single modern architect, but especially Gropius.

Cursed commute excerpt.

Sf is often so beautiful, and I am glad to live here.

Vinay Prasad overrode the recommendations of a panel of scientists who said that 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines should be recommended for everyone over the age of 12 years. COVID19 remains a serious public health threat. He will get people killed. He doesn’t care. His ego wins, always.

WHO WANTS SOME GOOD LEGISLATIVE NEWS!!! 😭 😭

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Look, I'm just saying that in 1920 people thought Zeppelins were inevitable.

Spotted in the wild.

I was in Chicago for the wet bulb event of 95’. No one warned us how dangerous it would be. Now the planet is MUCH warmer and warming faster so please be weather aware. Hydrate and don’t take long walks unless you have guaranteed, immediate access to air conditioning.