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@DenOfEarth@mas.to
Proponent of #science, #climate, books, music, kindness, acceptance. Ally. Hello #WeirdCarMastodon and the gang.
Profile pic is of a small electric car. Banner pic is a field of tall grasses on the shore of a lake, a contrast of colours that is not a coincidence.
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Joined November 11, 2022
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social#ALT4you
A take on MC Escher's artwork "Drawing Hands".
In the original, two hands, one right, one left, come to life from the paper on which they are drawn, to draw each other.
In this variation, one of the hands is human and drawing the other, whereas the other hand is robotic and holding the other end of the pencil to erase the human hand.
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A local Subaru dealership has a well-preserved (LHD!) Sambar, which I present to the #WeirdCarMastodon community. Also ping @tikibunnyimports@weird.autos !
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#ALT4you
When my boyfriend and I moved in together, we each had a cat. Normally, mine sits with me and his sits with him. But tonight we are sitting in each other's chairs, and also with each other's cat.
It turns out the cats are attached to the spots they sit in, _not us_
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Also #ALT4you
A shrink-wrapped toy is hanging on a peg in a store. It is labeled Doctor Play Set, Ages 3+, and consists of various doctor bits like a toy stethoscope, some toy pills, etc, AND A SHOTGUN.
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Also I was alarmed that some of the strawberries actually had fingers until I realised the seller is simply holding these things in their hands... I'm ok now.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @bertman1959@mastodon.social
Incidentally I saw this article recently where makers of EV commercial trucks are now also making electric refrigeration units for EV reefer trucks, which is pretty neat.
https://electrek.co/2024/06/05/greenpower-electric-refrigerated-delivery-truck/
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Saw this poster downtown,
putting it up here for everyone
Update, here's the link:
https://saw-centre.com/club-saw/noice-vol-1-a-night-of-inuit-circumpolar-excellence
@NunavutBirder@mas.to #Ottawa #Inuit #Concert
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Maybe I shoulda said DiMaggio
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social#ALT4you
Caption:
I'm not coming to work today, I'm at the hospital getting an MRI
Boss: I don't believe you, send me a picture
The picture:
A man in red gym shorts is lying on a somewhat medically-looking table with a white cloth, and his head is indeed in a machine with a round hole, but on closer inspection the machine is a front-loading washing machine (or dryer), and the chair and window in the background further stretch the truth
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@AlexCorby@indieauthors.social @MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Writing aside, I think Mel Blank's contribution to the art cannot be understated.
To this day, sometimes when I see a Ford Maverick truck with the name on the tailgate, I break out into Yosemite Sam as the oil baron going past Bugs Bunny's warren, and placing a long distance call to his driver at the other end of an incredibly long limousine:
"Maverick?? Maverick!! Stop the car, Maverick! There's a hole upon ah my property that ain't a-gushin oil!"
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Also #ALT4you
Monk 1 "can you highlight the text you would like me to focus on?"
Monk 2 "in any particular way?"
Monk 1 "surprise me"
And there follows a mosaic of text samples from what appear to be medieval sacred texts, each with various doodles pointing to various bits of text, including hands with pointy fingers, one hand with improbably bizarre fingers, and finally one fallus in, um, a butter dish? pointing to a paragraph or other.
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I'd pay anything to see Mandy Patinkin looking for the six fingered plagiarism robot who shredded his father's bookstore.
Also Mandy Patinkin during the SAG/AFTRA strikes: You killed my residuals, prepare to pay!
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Twenty years from now they'll be watching a movie where someone counts in the air and utters "carry the one" ironically...
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I have so many questions.
And yet, it is of a beautiful simplicity...
The woofer steering wheel
The gun shifter, but also
The sofa cushion armrests
The plywood door cards
THE RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC SWITCHES
I can't even fathom what is going on forward of the firewall.
Insanity weld exhaust manifolds?
Archimedes screw carburetor?
#WeirdCarMastodon
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@virtualbri@mastodon.online @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io
BTW I love your avatar from The Black Hole.
One of my favourite composers, John Barry.
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@MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Retyping it from memory though, props!
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Noooooo I don't want to shoot monsters, I just want to sit them down in tiny chairs around a little table for a tea social and tell them that they are loved and misunderstood and how do they keep their hair so soft and glowing?
#Monsterdon @scatterkeir@mastodon.social @Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.comhttps://mastodon.social/@scatterkeir/116861383381676569
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@sackofbones@kolektiva.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I was just going to say, this looks like a
portmanteau contest to end them all
Dalmorgy?
German Corgert?
Accidental floofball?
Vote now!
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@martaczc@mastodon.com.pl @markarayner@mas.to
Want a new challenge?
RETRAIN AS A PEDANT
Go around correcting people on their swan ignorance and unscientific humour
HOURS OF FUN
POPULARITY NOT GUARANTEED
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@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social
I choose to think this is a little self-propelled exercise regimen for healthy doggo with a sausage reward at the end? And if so, is that cannibalism? Discuss!
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It seems to have passed
Ça semble avoir passé
@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca @dillyd@turtleisland.social #ottawa
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@madcollector@retro.pizza
Why this hasn't got seven hundred boosts yet I don't understand.
The tiny cement mixer!
The wheelbarrow!
The tiny patio stair forms!
Also I love the accelerated tamping - it sounds like a woodpecker in the distance
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
One of my work colleagues had a cat. The vet noticed that the cat was getting a bit chonky, so he said: stop feeding her and let her hunt for her dinner for a few weeks.
She gained two pounds.
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@poindexter@tilde.zone @sainati@types.pl @dan@discuss.systems @dev@discuss.systems
This is far more spit-take-worthy
than all the goose gags in the world.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I knew I had written something up earlier
and I found it!!
https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth/114859815670572397
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@deepmud@mas.to
I haven't checked out the website to be sure. I leave that as an exercise for the reader. Feel free to report back!
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Wow I had no idea modular construction had been done on such a scale in Europe.
It reminded me of the Tokyo Capsule Tower demolition. Built in 1972 it had always been intended for the modules to be replaceable and replaced over time but that never happened and eventually the entire tower became irreparable. I think some of the modules were kept for a museum or hopefully repurposed.
https://youtu.be/T886pUd3vQU
Demolition footage of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo | Dezeen
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Bon voilà on a tous faim maintenant.
J'espère que tu en as fait assez?!
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@neatnik@social.lol
Are they gliding or tapping? Gliding has become so fast that I use it on the phone all the time. And I went to school in the mainframe era.
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@geteus@infosec.exchange
I wonder if that was the inspiration for Philip Jennings' new car in the episode of the same name?
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I swear I am typing up this #ALT4you of my own volition and am in no way under duress:
{
madwomanlauren
Are any other women struggling to reconcile two very distinct urges: 1) to be cozy and make soup and bake treats; and 2) to form a female vigilante group and hunt down predators
c.m.manfredi
Hear me out. We start the soup in a slow cooker.
We go fuck shit up
We come back for soup and treats and cozy pyjamas
}
The above under the larger caption: "This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the internet today" by The Mouthy Ren and the rest is cropped out
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@geteus@infosec.exchange
I had to look that up! Never watched it myself.
Presume you mean _this_ Rockford?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @bertman1959@mastodon.social
Road going ice cream trucks are refrigerated. You might be thinking of the sidewalk bicycle ice cream vendors, but even they use dry ice to keep the ice cream cold and that stuff lasts for most of the day in the sunshine when ice cream is most in demand.
https://www.commercialtrucktrader.com/blog/2025/07/18/how-ice-cream-and-reefer-trucks-work/
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@temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe
Y'a toujours l'armée ou la légion étrangère?
https://bagarrosphere.fr/@caporalstrateg/116901097119427654
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