Is this the one in Greenwich?

The painting in question, in a museum room with visitors around it.

I had the opposite experience with this exact painting! Somehow in real life is looked so cheesy… It’s not all of them though, “Liberty Leading the People” in person was a life-changing experience.

Only humanities students getting jobs in journalism maybe? It might mean the last time they did “science” was before GCSEs.

I measured 7 minutes and 40 seconds to cross a junction in London once. Infuriating! It doubled my journey time.

Is that landscape from Teide national park?

Caveat that I’m not an artist so this might not quite apply… But in similar situations, it’s nice to give yourself some obvious constraint that means you’re not measuring yourself too directly to the past. Like a totally different style or material, or much smaller canvas, or even another medium?

I heard once that some American universities would have one part of the student registration happen in a building with a short doorway, and simply note down the names of students who had to duck going in on a second list, for the coaches to then follow up on.

Something I find bizarre about these opinions is also the idea what 16- or 18-year-olds will somehow deal better with social media… That’s if anything a time with even less of a support network and more mental health crises. How does introducing social media then help, exactly?

The vegan “egg”-plant Easter egg is pretty funny!

I’ve heard this “my only serious conviction is that I should be in charge” also.

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He’s got one where he tries the powdered one too.

The microbiology people like looking at the old lunches! I can recommend @contamclub.bsky.social to fulfil all of your forgotten lunch bag needs…

I met someone once who was convinced it was “Euro dam”!

As for me, definitely edge-you-Rome.

How many words for “this leaf is sort of hairy” do we need, really?

Its only redeeming quality is that Herald Tribune sweater…

Why Is Anime So... Weird? YouTube video by Fractal Philosophy

I’m not an artist at all, so this may be totally wrong, but I was convinced by the explanation starting at 5:36 in this video! He argues it’s a mix of smaller heads, smaller features, more eye detail and lower placement making the eyes more prominent, rather than just size.

youtu.be/sZDb3OSBylg

I’m not sure cars have that much “inherent security”; it seems like a pretty complex and expensive part of the car, between all the keys and alarms and anti-theft technology and tracking! If you spent an equivalent amount of money securing a bike, it would be similarly safe.

I played it on your recommendation and it was one of the highlights of the year for me!

If a slow part was finding the houses from the videos and you’ll be doing more work like this, tap into the GeoGuessr community! A lot of people would be keen to help a legitimate investigation. You run out of filming locations and people’s old vacation photos after a while.

I was thinking, if there’s going to be more pieces like this, tapping into the GeoGuessr community would be a great way to speed it up. It’s obviously a doxxing-adjacent skill, but it means there’s always appetite for “legitimate” uses like identifying movie locations and old family vacation photos.

Between that and the move to middle-of-nowhere Utah alone (the article mentions his wife was in another country January to March), that’s a rough combo…

I’ve also heard that it’s an unusual thing about Traitors that they play out the game, film everything and then edit the round table first, and only when they’re happy with that edit, cut the earlier sections to match.

Thank you for understanding how lanterns work and depicting their use correctly! It drives me crazy how often you see characters holding it ahead of them in their field of vision in a way that would just blind them to everything that isn’t lantern.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2867:_DateTime Transcript [Ponytail is talking to Cueball.] Ponytail: Event #1 happened at time T1. Cueball: Okay. Ponytail: Then event #2 happened at time T2. Cueball: Mhmm. Ponytail: How would you calculate how much time elapsed between T1 and T2? [The comic splits into two paths, each with a caption at the top.] [Path 1, upper right panel] Caption: Normal person: Cueball: T2 minus T1. [Path 2, lower right panel] Caption: Anyone who's worked on datetime systems: [Cueball has his arms raised.] Cueball: It is impossible to know and a sin to ask!

I’m sure it was assembled by someone(s) who had to work on digitising dates and eventually gets to this point:

Amen to that… Almost nowhere else on Earth would get away with the less than 30 seconds dwell time used pretty often in the Underground. Even the buses don’t mess around! Buses elsewhere in the country feel glacial now.

A common starting instruction on IKEA manuals that strongly encourages doing the assembly together with another person rather than alone.

What’s this if not life advice?

I’ve often thought that people who say IKEA furniture is nightmarish are really just revealing IKEA instructions are the only ones they’ve had to follow in adulthood.

That’s before you even get to better traffic modelling and monitoring making the bus routes themselves better by flexing capacity, spacing out buses that get bunched up, and modifying routes in response to demand or disruptions!

My sculpture of an acorn barnacle—a crustacean!—in steel, bronze, and sterling silver, sitting on a white background. My hand touches the steel barnacle shell and provides scale (barnacle is just a bit smaller than my hand). The barnacle’s filter feeding legs (cirri) are spread dramatically wide.

Merry #Crustmas to all who celebrate! Hoping you are firmly attached to people you love, are able to scoop up large amounts of food, and can hide in an impervious shell when the social situation requires it ❤️

I once ran to catch a London bus, and he didn’t wait for me. The next bus’s driver saw it happen, and when I got on the driver said to me he would tell off his colleague back at the depot for it!