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“Owing to the difficulty of distinguishing the letter "S" by telephone, the international distress signal "S.O.S." will give place to the words "May-day", the phonetic equivalent of "M'aidez", the French for "Help me."” —"New Air Distress Signal," The Times [London], 2 Feb. 1923
Helsinki peoples: Kino Reginan aulassa (keskustakirjasto Oodissa) on esillä tekemiäni kuvituksia Stanley Kubrickin Hohto-elokuvasta, jotka tein arkkitehti Juhani Pallasmaan kirjaan The Architecture of Image. English in reply.
Source: To make up for years of meager charitable contributions, Jeff Bezos pledges to donate all the net profit he makes from MELANIA documentary.
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com
So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
Crimson Mayhem@crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · last yr.So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.
Got a very nice @briannaduggan.bsky.social painting print of one of my favorite movie opening scenes today.
Saint-Lazare Station, Exterior - 1877 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8984
“Reviewing the full period from 2013 to 2024 … the Tax Justice Network finds that millionaire migration rates consistently stood at near-0% for every year. Academic studies consistently show that the tax responses of the wealthy involves minimal levels of migration.” taxjustice.net/press/millio...
Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals - Tax Justice Network
The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.
taxjustice.net
Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵 Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/
Some modern English insults that I've heard... - He got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't watching - He has two brains cells, and both are competing for third place - He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup - He's a bit Upton Park (Upton Park station is two stops short of Barking)
I am sure Finns will agree that this is a case of "don't leave a cat cage sober"
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it? 1/x
Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.
I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character. What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy at the center of the bullseye. Warped space! 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
