Me: Could you briefly explain this report to me?

Coworker: I need to give you some background first.

Me: Okay.

Coworker: Millions of years ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth…

Me: ughhhhhhhh

The odd nooks and crannies: underrated, overused, and totally deserving of art.

Where do you think “Red Canoe on Log Cabin” would fit in, in your home?

A red canoe leans against moss-covered log cabin, a striking contrast in greens and browns.

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chrisboese.photo/warehouse-ope…

#landscape #art #photography #logcabin #pinebarrens #mastoart #mastodonart #bernadettelongo #mosstodon #boesegalleries

Post-processing my photos of Lucy Dumus.

#model #postprocessing #lightroom #photography

If you're stuck on the taxiway at LGA, good luck!

#LGA #aviation #groundstop

KRON: AI could replace 99% of workers in five years, warns AI researcher

"...“We’re looking at a world where we have levels of unemployment we’ve never seen before... Not talking about 10% unemployment, which is scary, but 99%.”..."

kron4.com/news/technology-ai/y…

#AI #AIpocalypse #jobs

Many thanks to the people who boost and help this fundraiser! I'm trying to close it out ASAP so that I can repay my former roommate as quickly as possible!!!

Hoping to get $100 towards the goal this weekend. 🙏🏾🤞🏾

gofundme.com/f/moving-fundzzz

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #BlackMutualAid #TransCrowdFund #TransMutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #QueerCrowdfund #BIPOCCrowdfund
@mutualaid @crowdfunding

We need to bring back poetry fights.

3 verses.
Must rhyme.
5 turns each.
No personal attacks.
Audience decides winner.

Andrew Tate Agrees to 3-Year Restraining Order, Can't Possess Firearms in U.S.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/andrew-tate-restraining-order-guns-brianna-stern-1235421647/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Culture News @culture-news-RollingStone

Andrew Tate Agrees to 3-Year Restraining Order, Can’t Own Guns in U.S.

Andrew Tate is under a new 3-year order that bars him from possessing guns in the U.S. or contacting model Brianna Stern.

^{Nancy Dillon (Rolling Stone)}

"Publicly available government contracts show that Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has since embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes the use of American influencers widely reported on last month. It also includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for Google, YouTube, X, Meta, and other tech platforms.

“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by Israel’s foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video sharing platform in late August and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45 million (NIS 150 million) advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in late June. The contract—which is with both YouTube and Google's advertising campaign management platform, Display & Video 360—explicitly characterizes the ad campaign as hasbara, a Hebrew word whose meaning is somewhere between public relations and propaganda.

Records show that the Israeli government similarly spent $3 million (NIS 10 million) for an advertising campaign with X. The French and Israeli advertising platform Outbrain/Teads is also set to receive roughly $2.1 million (NIS 7 million)."

jackpoulson.substack.com/p/goo…

#Google #Propaganda #BigTech #YouTube #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide

Google’s $45 million contract to spread Netanyahu's propaganda

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million propaganda contract with Netanyahu’s office and was described as a “key entity” supporting Israel's messaging.

^{Jack Poulson (All-Source Intelligence)}

Does anyone still remember "FURY 3" ? As one of the earliest titles for Windows 95, it was used extensively in Microsoft's advertising campaign for the system. The game is actually fairly simple and runs smoothly even within an 86Box VM!

"Shoot 'em up!"

#Microsoft #Windows95 #RetroGaming #Emulation #90s #PCGaming #History #Retro

"Putin ha legato l'identità russa del XXI secolo al campo culturale e politico del neoconservatorismo contemporaneo, portatore di una modernità antilluminista e avversa ai valori del liberalismo"

— Andrea Borelli: Nella Russia di Putin, p. 27

Journalists Stumble Across Real Estate Listing With a Photo of a Nazi-Looted Painting Hanging Above the Couch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/journalists-stumble-across-real-estate-listing-with-a-photo-of-a-nazi-looted-painting-hanging-above-the-couch-180987284/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag

Like a little umbrella

#nature #naturephotography #mushroom #fungus #fungi

Meu atual toque de ligação:

🎶 Pourquoi ci, pourquoi ça?
Pourquoi c'est comme ci?
Pourquoi ci, pourquoi ça?
Pourquoi c'est comme ça? 🎵

music.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8x…

#MusiQuinta

Meu atual alarme no celular:

🎶 In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind, we've gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VCR 🎵

youtube.com/watch?v=LrjdpNDfZL…

#MusiQuinta

A #Brisbane landmark.

#photography #city #architecture #travel #explore

South Korea’s Depressed Art Market Puts a Damper on Frieze Seoul
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/korea-s-art-market-slowdown-casts-shadow-over-frieze-seoul-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg

Private Credit Leans on Secondaries as Investor Payouts Dwindle
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/private-credit-leans-on-secondaries-as-investor-payouts-dwindle?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Deals @deals-bloomberg

An Oystercatcher sporting a pair of Seaweed shoes.

Helsford, Cornwall

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

Vi pregherei di apprezzare il mio stoicismo e la mia profonda abnegazione.

Tutte le sere, tornando a casa, passo davanti a una pizzeria dove si mangia ottimamente (e @sabrinaweb71 e @kappazeta possono confermarlo) e riesco a NON fermarmi.

È dura, ma ce la faccio.

L’impatto delle sanzioni Usa sulla Relatrice Onu Francesca Albanese

Come le misure sanzionatorie senza precedenti disposte dall’amministrazione Trump colpiscono Francesca Albanese, Relatrice speciale sui Territori palestinesi occupati. Il ruolo del governo italiano e del sistema bancario.

Giovedì 4 settembre 2025, ore 12.00
Sala Caduti di Nassirya – Piazza Madama, Roma

#FrancescaAlbanese #gazagenocide
youtu.be/MHKnIOeyNXk?feature=s…

Haier “reinventa” la lavatrice con la Candy Multiwash a tre cestelli
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/haier-reinventa-lavatrice-la-candy-multiwash-tre-cestelli-AHRY3dSC?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Tecnologia - Il Sole 24 ORE @tecnologia-il-sole-24-ore-IlSole24Ore

Haier “reinventa” la lavatrice con la Candy Multiwash a tre cestelli

BERLINO - - Parte dalla visione di una casa “naturalmente connessa” e con al centro le persone l’affondo che il Gruppo cinese, detentore dei marchi ...

^{Il Sole 24 Ore (Il Sole 24 ORE)}

"Americans will suffer and die...".

Bro, they don't care. They don't care if you lose your house, your job, your life. They don't care if it's illegal, immoral, unneccessary, cruel or wrong.
They don't care about you now, they never have, and they never will. They don't care if your kids are killed at school or if the cops murder you. They don't care if you're sick, disabled, in constant pain...
They don't fucking care.

This is fucken Capitalism. You are livestock to them.
Do you fucken get it?

Last Flag Flying actually exceeded my very tall expectations.

And I mean tall. With a cast like Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, you’d already assume this would deliver. Add Richard Linklater—yes, the guy behind Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Waking Life—and the bar shoots into the stratosphere.

Yet what he turns in here is one of his most conventional films. Not a head trip, not a cinematic experiment—just a straight-up, well-cooked meal. Think less molecular gastronomy, more perfectly grilled steak.

The setup: it’s 2003, and a grief-stricken ex-Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Carell) reconnects with his old Vietnam buddies—ex-Marine loudmouth Sal Nealon (Cranston) and buttoned-up Reverend Richard Mueller (Fishburne)—to bring Doc’s son home after he’s killed in Iraq.

That’s heavy material, but Linklater isn’t interested in a grim war movie. Instead, he gives us a road trip comedy-drama where the fireworks come from putting a holy man and a barfly in the same car and letting them go at each other for two hours.

Cranston dials Sal up to 11—he’s reckless, vulgar, and eternally needling. Fishburne matches him with quiet fire as the Rev, exuding dignity until he finally snaps. Their banter is where the film sings.

There’s that unforgettable U-Haul scene: Sal sneers about a rapper on the radio, asking Mueller if he feels ashamed of his race. Without missing a beat, Mueller flips it—because the rapper is Eminem. Sal, now on the back foot, gets roasted. It’s Linklater’s gift: letting a scene unfold like a conversation you could’ve overheard on a long drive.

Carell, meanwhile, is the quiet heart of the movie. He plays Doc like a man already hollowed out by grief. He rarely raises his voice, but when he smiles—it’s like sunlight breaking through after days of storm clouds. It’s the kind of restrained performance that makes the louder ones pop even more.

Of course, standing in their way is the uptight Lt. Col. Willits (Yul Vázquez), who embodies the military’s obsession with appearances. He wants Doc’s son buried in Arlington with a polished story about heroic sacrifice. The vets know better. They’ve been lied to before, and they’re not about to let history repeat itself. That push-and-pull—truth vs. propaganda, dignity vs. authority—gives the film its backbone.

And yet, for all its darkness, Last Flag Flying keeps bursting back into humor and soul. There are cell phone mishaps, road trip detours, and old men griping about the modern world. Cicely Tyson even shows up for a brief scene that absolutely breaks your heart.

Linklater himself said this isn’t really a war movie—it’s a road movie. That tracks. It’s about aging vets wrestling with what their service really meant, and how the ripples of war never stop spreading.

In fact, this whole story began as a sequel to Darryl Ponicsan’s novel The Last Detail (famously adapted by Hal Ashby with Jack Nicholson in ’73). Linklater couldn’t make an official sequel—rights tangles, Navy vs. Marines, all that—but he captured the spirit. Call it a “spiritual sequel” if you will.

Sure, the film can drag when it leans too hard into the “war is hell” sermon. But it always redeems itself with lived-in humanity. It never preaches so much as lets three men argue their way through grief, faith, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive.

I’ll put it this way: if I ever met these guys in real life, I’d happily sit down, crack open a non-alcoholic beer, and let the stories roll. Because this isn’t really about war—it’s about friendship, pain, and the strange joy of finding people who can still laugh with you even when life has knocked you down.

@movies