Thomas
@th0ma5.bsky.social
Design, research, photography, media criticism, and unsweet iced tea
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Mounted my new Technicolor Super 8 camera for display.
Someone put a lot of love into this. Look at that incredible industrial design!
Someone put a lot of love into this. Look at that incredible industrial design!
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Mounted my new Technicolor Super 8 camera for display.
Someone put a lot of love into this. Look at that incredible industrial design!
Someone put a lot of love into this. Look at that incredible industrial design!
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Better watch out on December 1: The Best VHS Ad-vent Calendar Ever is coming to town.
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Some of the color in my friends' garden on the solstice tonight through a Soviet lens on a newer mirrorless
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Some of the color in my friends' garden on the solstice tonight through a Soviet lens on a newer mirrorless
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Christmas drawing in my sketchbook, pen and ink on paper.
I hope you are having a happy holidays.
I hope you are having a happy holidays.
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Christmas drawing in my sketchbook, pen and ink on paper.
I hope you are having a happy holidays.
I hope you are having a happy holidays.
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This is a great example of what we're trying to tell you about the breadth of information historians use to do our research.
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is a great example of what we're trying to tell you about the breadth of information historians use to do our research.
I bet our everyday contemporary financial instruments are as efficient and miserly as Scrooge could ever have hoped to have been or that was even possible in his time.
December 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I bet our everyday contemporary financial instruments are as efficient and miserly as Scrooge could ever have hoped to have been or that was even possible in his time.
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Wheat Field with Mower and a Stooping Peasant Woman - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13846
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13846
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Wheat Field with Mower and a Stooping Peasant Woman - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13846
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13846
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You take the Chip pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the Dale pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You take the Dale pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
You take the Chip pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the Dale pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You take the Dale pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I wrote a script that pops the last file off of a zip file and then shrinks the zip. I wrote this so that I could unzip a 450gb zip file on the same 512gb usb stick. It will probably destroy your data, slowly. Don't use it, and good luck github.com/th0ma5w/ZipPop
GitHub - th0ma5w/ZipPop: Pop that zip
Pop that zip. Contribute to th0ma5w/ZipPop development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I wrote a script that pops the last file off of a zip file and then shrinks the zip. I wrote this so that I could unzip a 450gb zip file on the same 512gb usb stick. It will probably destroy your data, slowly. Don't use it, and good luck github.com/th0ma5w/ZipPop
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TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!
Some of the color in my friends' garden on the solstice tonight through a Soviet lens on a newer mirrorless
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Some of the color in my friends' garden on the solstice tonight through a Soviet lens on a newer mirrorless
I read about the group who downloaded Spotify, but I read about it in French, but I'm also not very good at French, so I was like... well that isn't right I must be missing some words you can't just like download all that, but I also don't know why I assumed that either, so, lots of introspection.
December 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I read about the group who downloaded Spotify, but I read about it in French, but I'm also not very good at French, so I was like... well that isn't right I must be missing some words you can't just like download all that, but I also don't know why I assumed that either, so, lots of introspection.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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jfc
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
jfc
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Thinking about this essay again: "Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer" aeon.co/essays/your-...
Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
aeon.co
December 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Thinking about this essay again: "Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer" aeon.co/essays/your-...
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I recall reading several years ago somebody's story of meeting online & telling the family. Mom/dad objected, but grandma says "my mom and dad met online, it's fine". Turns out they were telegraph operators who'd met long distance working the same wire, transferred to be together, got married, etc.
December 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I recall reading several years ago somebody's story of meeting online & telling the family. Mom/dad objected, but grandma says "my mom and dad met online, it's fine". Turns out they were telegraph operators who'd met long distance working the same wire, transferred to be together, got married, etc.
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The fact of the matter is that even if we removed all dehumanizing immigration restrictions, the vast majority of people would stay where they are because barring overwhelming danger most people don't like uprooting themselves to move to a strange place where they don't know anybody
Despite all the noise about “mass exodus”, 51% of African emigrants move within Africa. Only 3% of the African population lives outside their home country, compared to 8.5% of Europeans living outside theirs.
publications.iom.int/system/files...
publications.iom.int/system/files...
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The fact of the matter is that even if we removed all dehumanizing immigration restrictions, the vast majority of people would stay where they are because barring overwhelming danger most people don't like uprooting themselves to move to a strange place where they don't know anybody
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Fayette, AL
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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As a professional snoop, I love the view credits option in Apple Music, but these names should all be tappable. Let me find more songs written by Irving Gordon, cowards!
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
As a professional snoop, I love the view credits option in Apple Music, but these names should all be tappable. Let me find more songs written by Irving Gordon, cowards!
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Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of A Train, 1877
July 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of A Train, 1877
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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Fury Road is a Christmas movie
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Fury Road is a Christmas movie