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Chris
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Incredible world map at a car rental booth in Nevşehir.
Backlit world map that could very well be hand-cut, with the entirely of Europe/Asia labeled as "Russia", among various other discrepancies. Japan is completely omitted, and the Suez and Panama Canals have become veritable straits.
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Share some of the best eyes in cutscenes
Fanning kid in death stranding 2 getting cuddled by higgs Fanning kid in death stranding 2 staring down higgs
August 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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NYC lookin moody
Plants growing off the side of the maritime hotel Edge of little island with one world trade off in the distance Center of little island with one world trade off in the distance Jersey across the Hudson with a single boat in the water and a helicopter in the sky
May 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Boycotts work, y'all

I liked the pizza but this place let some other people cut me in line... look at them now, they got served a slice of JUSTICE
Through the window glare we can see a very empty pizza takeout counter with an importunate mattress leaning against the bar waiting (ever so long) to be served. The mattress is old and well-used but also encased in plastic, and its presence in a food-service establishment is not explained. A very empty bar with inverted barstools resting atop the counter. Less window glare but also not a great photo, though you get the idea.
April 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Yo #mossnation wassup
Mossy waterfall coated with assorted moss types. It is small, but beautiful. A small tree is in the top right the corner.
March 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Oh just a massive tree and some lamps. And MOSSSS
Another mossy scene from Nara park. There is moss on the stone lamps, there’s moss on the tree, there were deer but they were mossless so they are not pictured.
March 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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More mossy Nara.
Gangly tree with mossy limbs near the ground. This is not the best moss I saw, but I like the tree. Overhead are dormant wisteria vines.
March 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Nara’s got some really stellar #moss
Moss, close up Wetter moss, close up Variety of moss, bit further away Moss close up with several kinds, and some fallen leaves
March 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Ah yes, the two genders:
1. male/female
2. tuxedo
Two doors, one has typical restroom icons for male and female, the other has a single icon of someone wearing a tuxedo
March 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Kyoto!
Bright orange pagoda Sunset with a lot of wires Entire kitchen of some of the best food we’ve had yet
March 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Pretentious jewelry store that fancies itself a speakeasy (but has 3.4 on gmaps) chose an intriguing shape for its dinosaur spine-spikes
Dinosaur inside kitschy jewelry shop with spikes that can only be described as “undoubtedly buttplugs”
March 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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How to convince Texans not to unalive you I guess
Multicolored print on a door with words partially overlapping from top to bottom: TRANS PEOPLE SING LIVE CRY GO TO SCHOOL WORK GARDEN GROW OKRA LOVE EAT FOOD PLAY GUITAR EXIST DRIVE CARS VOTE BELONG IN TEXAS
December 29, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Got a relatively impressive scam email riffing on SQL injection

(clever, but tbh shame on PayPal for letting people put whatever they want in these fields)
Screenshot of invoice email from PayPal, which *is* genuinely from PayPal, but which perverts merchant-settable fields to try to get the scammer's mark to call their telephone number, which presumably pretends to be PayPal customer service.
December 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Wait so how do audiobooks work on Spotify? I listen to lots but not there. I’m a ‘premium individual’ and it shows me this:
Spotify screenshot with absolutely terrible UX
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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Hey @yulairport.bsky.social here’s an idea (left=YUL, right=RAK)
A mouse at the Montreal airport. It is a small mouse but still A cat at the Marrakech airport. Note the distinct lack of mice
December 4, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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found an OCaml fan in the marrakech airport parking lot
Absolutely random scooter with a very faded ocaml sticker between a Y and Z (and under ‘be free’) on the headlight fairing. The actual camel is just barely visible if you zoom in
December 3, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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NYC: but we have the ocean at home
Europe: this ocean?
November 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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First (day’s) impression of Portugal — their (Porto’s) English accents are SO GOOD but then they forget to translate a word here and there and it is delightfully discombobulating
A large slice of bread battered in something and sitting in a soup… it’s called francesinha, and there’s actually a substantial amount of ham and steak inside
November 28, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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NYPL main branch has some cool stuff in the Treasures rn
Azor, Color etching, 1888 Henri-Charles Guérard (1846-1897) was one of the most skilled and inventive French printmakers of his day. It was to Guérard that the Impressionist painter douard Manet turned whenever he needed help making etchings, no doubt due to both Guérard's expertise as a professional printmaker and his innovative approach to the medium. Guérard often looked to the animal kingdom for his subjects, including his own pet dog, Azor. Sentimental portraits of "man's best friend" were much sought after by the middle class in the 19th century, but Guérard's treatment differs from these romantic portrayals, and his pet brims with personality as a result. This print, one of several studies the artist made of Azor, depicts him as proud and stately, with his name emblazoned above him in Roman lettering. (alt text OCR'ed from museum label)
November 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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you guys ever do wildlife photography with a 50mm prime and 16mp cmos
seagull on snowy railing, looking skeptical seagull on snowy railing, looking quizzical seagull on snowy railing, looking haughty. the piers of little island are visible in the background, albeit blurry
October 13, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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140 replies and they’re all just armchair speculations?
- making it is very easy
- the wick is just cotton and mostly burns up and cannot be tasted
- one of mine kept going out
- it is slow
- main complaint is the butter doesn’t spread much
My lit tripartite butter candle in loaf
September 27, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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huh idk it felt more like 5,000 at the time
#57,937, it purports
September 17, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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Entropy
Unused NYC subway platform. It’s very dirty.
September 15, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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Free (single) couch!

15th st b/w 6th and 7th aves
Sidewalk couch encased in plastic wrap with graffiti ‘J.D VANCE STOOD ME UP ☹️’
August 11, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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The actual patent is funnier, albeit less pretty of a thing to frame and hang. patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/cb/4a/e9/df1...
First page of patent US22186 with a VERY nondescript jar
May 26, 2024 at 5:56 AM