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@lowqualityfacts "Mars is haunted."

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Too Small Not to Love (12 Photos) ## Some street art shouts from giant walls. This collection whispers from cracks, corners, weeds, bricks, drainpipes, and forgotten bits of sidewalk. These 12 tiny works prove that the smallest interventions can completely change how we see the city. You just have to slow down enough to notice them! More: Tiny Art That Makes You Look Twice (8 Photos) * * * ### 🤝 The Corner Climb — By Exitenter in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹 Exitenter turns the hard edge of a building into a tiny drama of kindness. One figure leans down. The other reaches up. Suddenly a rough wall corner becomes a beautiful story. It is all about help, trust, and taking the next step together. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Exitenter’s little stick figure is not just a cute character. According to his Street Levels Gallery biography, he sees it as both a street signature and an entity he uses to tell stories to passersby. 🔗 Follow **Exitenter on Instagram** * * * ### 🚬 A Monument to Pollution — By Slinkachu in London, UK 🇬🇧 Slinkachu makes a cigarette butt feel absolutely enormous. He places two tiny visitors in front of it with a fancy museum-style sign. It is funny at first. But then it gets slightly uncomfortable. The discarded object becomes a sad monument to what modern cities leave behind. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Slinkachu’s “Little People Project” began in 2006, and his own artist statement says the work is simultaneously sculpture, street installation, and photography. The tiny figures are remodelled model-train characters, then placed and abandoned in the street. More: **Art on a Tiny Scale (7 Photos)** 🔗 Follow **Slinkachu on Instagram** * * * ### 🍎 Small Girl and Small Apple — By Oakoak in France 🇫🇷 Oakoak barely needs to add anything here! A little painted figure reaches toward real red berries. The whole branch magically becomes her impossible apple tree. It feels exactly like a fairy tale hiding right there in the wall. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Oakoak comes from Saint-Étienne, a French city with a strong industrial past, and he has been treating the outdoors as his creative playground since 2006. Urban Nation notes that his references often come from geek culture, with the goal of “poeticizing” the urban environment. More: Lovely by Oakoak (10 Photos) 🔗 Follow **Oakoak on Instagram** * * * ### 🌼 Museum Quality Dandelion — By Michael Pederson in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 Michael Pederson treats a common dandelion like a priceless gallery object. Tiny velvet ropes and a warning sign surround it. This makes the simple weed feel precious, funny, and strangely noble. A whole magical museum appears around one little plant! 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Pederson has been making public projects since 2013, leaving small playful installations in unexpected places. His official bio says that although his practice is Sydney-based, his work has appeared in festivals and exhibitions in Hong Kong, the US, Croatia, and the Netherlands. More: **Clever Art By Michael Pederson (17 Photos)** 🔗 Follow **Michael Pederson on Instagram** * * * ### 💍 The Elopement — By David Zinn in Michigan, USA 🇺🇸 David Zinn uses a brick wall, a small opening, and real ivy to stage a tiny romance. One cute mouse climbs up with a flower. The other waits eagerly by the window. It is small enough to miss. But it is definitely sweet enough to make you smile all day! 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Zinn has been making art around Ann Arbor since 1987, but his street drawings are deliberately temporary. His official bio says they are made entirely with chalk, charcoal, and found objects, then improvised on location. More: **Happy Art by David Zinn (10 Photos)** 🔗 Follow **David Zinn on Instagram** * * * ### 🔭 The Astronomer in the Wall — By Ivan Sery in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 🇷🇺 Ivan Sery turns a broken patch of wall into a stunning secret room. Inside, a tiny astronomer stands with a telescope. You can see blue curtains, tiny furniture, and a whole private universe. It feels exactly like the city has a hidden, magical apartment just for dreamers. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** The astronomer was reportedly the first work in Sery’s “Little Worlds” series, and it only survived on Semashko Street for about one week. Russian outlet NN.RU says the series later became known for miniature rooms built into missing-brick spaces across Nizhny Novgorod. More: **A Tiny Universe: Meet Ivan Sery’s Little Man in the Brick Wall** * * * ### 🌳 Gulliver’s Bonsai — By Pejac in Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 Pejac plays with scale so elegantly here! A real bonsai becomes a giant, magical landscape. A painted figure waters it like a monumental tree. The tiny details simply pull your eye closer. It is beautiful miniature street art about miniature nature. Yet somehow it still feels completely huge. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** “Gulliver” is usually grouped with Pejac’s Tokyo interventions, but Spoon & Tamago places it in Sanmu City, Chiba Prefecture, about an hour east of Tokyo. That makes the work feel less like a big-city spectacle and more like a quiet suburban discovery. More: **Street Art by Pejac – In Tokyo, Japan** 🔗 Follow **Pejac on Instagram** * * * ### 🏙️ Follow the Leaders — By Isaac Cordal in Nantes, France 🇫🇷 Isaac Cordal’s tiny businessmen stand helplessly in a puddle of water. It looks just like a city that has already started sinking. The figures are very small. But the idea behind them is absolutely enormous! It shows power and progress reduced to miniature bodies in a fragile urban landscape. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Cordal designed “Follow the Leaders” as an installation that can radically change size. On his official Cement Eclipses site, he says its population can range from two thousand figures to just five, depending on the situation. More: **Follow the Leaders – By Isaac Cordal in Nantes, France** 🔗 Follow **Isaac Cordal on Instagram** * * * ### 🎻 The Hidden Melody — By Golsa Golchini in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹 Golsa Golchini makes street damage feel musical! A beautifully painted girl emerges from the peeling plaster. She uses the cracked wall just like a double bass. What most people would see as ugly decay becomes strings, rhythm, and a wonderful quiet concert. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Golchini was born in Tehran and is based in Milan, where she graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in 2010. BE OPEN describes her as combining painting, photography, graffiti, impasto, and miniature worlds—basically a whole toolbox of art languages in one practice. More: **You Might Walk Past These—But They’re Tiny Masterpieces in Disguise** 🔗 Follow **Golsa Golchini on Instagram** * * * ### 🎮 Nostalgic Plumbers in the Wild — By Pappas Pärlor in Sweden 🇸🇪 Pappas Pärlor turns a boring drainpipe into a secret retro game level! Mario and Luigi appear to swim straight out of the wall. They are helped by one clever blue line of painted water. It is tiny, wonderfully nerdy, and instantly joyful. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Pappas Pärlor is Johan Karlgren, and his bead-art practice has a surprisingly sweet origin story. In an Urban Nation interview, he said he started beading with his kids in an attempt to break old gender roles—then turned that family activity into pixel-powered street art. 🔗 Follow **Pappas Pärlor on Instagram** * * * ### 🐇 Peek-a-Boo Rabbit — By Adeline Yvetot in Paris, France 🇫🇷 Adeline Yvetot gives a rough wall corner a shy personality. The painted rabbit is small and very easy to overlook. But once you spot it, the whole street feels much gentler. It is a brilliant tiny surprise that rewards people who really pay attention to their surroundings. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** Adeline Yvetot also works as Adey, a French stencil artist from Caen. M.U.R de Rennes notes that she is part of the WCA stencil collective and learned the “double découpe polychrome” technique in 2008 from Artiste Ouvrier. 🔗 Follow **Adeline Yvetot on Instagram** * * * ### 🧵 Repairing the Wall — By ENDER in Paris, France 🇫🇷 ENDER does not hide the ugly crack. He actually makes it the whole point of his art! A tiny painted figure pulls real red thread right across the damaged wall. It looks exactly like she is carefully sewing the city back together. It is simple, poetic, and beautifully human. 💡 **Nerd Fact:** ENDER’s tiny repairer belongs to his “P’tits Zoms” universe. Points de Vue describes these little beings as an imaginary people, heirs to the Lilliputians, appearing where nobody expects them—and also notes that ENDER’s work often circles around time, fragility, and the fact that street art is destined to disappear. 🔗 Follow **ENDER on Instagram** * * * ## Which one is your favorite?

Some street art shouts from giant walls. This collection whispers from cracks, corners, weeds, bricks, drainpipes, and forgotten bits of sidewalk.

These 12 tiny works prove that the smallest interventions can completely change how we see the city. You just have to slow down enough to notice […]

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cartoon painting by moebius. figuresin bright clothes and tall hoods ride bottles of Perrier through space. the bottles are shooting rocket beams from their pour spouts, carrying the passengers past a cratered moon as they lounge and admire from the bottles exterior

cartoon painting by moebius. figuresin bright clothes and tall hoods ride bottles of Perrier through space. the bottles are shooting rocket beams from their pour spouts, carrying the passengers past a cratered moon as they lounge and admire from the bottles exterior

how am i just now finding out that my favorite artist (Mœbius) did an ad for my favorite beverage (bubblewater)

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@BigJackBrass ♬ There's a picture opposite me
Of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on rocky shores
And kept the beaches shipwreck-free
Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off
And countless screaming Argonauts ♬

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@cat_news *pats jade*

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Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1 Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They're vessels for our memories.

Another "the small stuff is history too": one person's quest to discover who invented the fridge magnet.

#History #SmallHistory #Kitchen

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/fridge-magnets-and-memor...

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Noted a NASA blog entry that mentioned Jeremy Hansen's affiliation with CSA and felt it needed to be spelled out ("Canadian Space Agency") for American readers, presumably because that acronym has a more prominent meaning to them.

...Which led me to idle speculation about an alternate history […]

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Breakfast & Breakfurious: 2Eggs + 2Bacon

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@BigJackBrass Brings a whole new meaning to the "go/no go" thing.

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Quote from the astronauts earlier today: "I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

They really are up there representing us all *sniff, wipe tear from eye*

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@BigJackBrass Angel: So what are we going to name this one, boss?

God: Sexy shrimp

Angel: ...

God (licking his lips): You heard me.

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@BigJackBrass I wondered too, but the first version of the article back in 2012 had the same statement...

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The header and first couple of lines from the Wikipedia article for the species Thor amboinensis "commonly known as the...sexy shrimp".

The header and first couple of lines from the Wikipedia article for the species Thor amboinensis "commonly known as the...sexy shrimp".

Known as the what now?

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@BigJackBrass It's facing 5-10 years in prison now. Which is like six months for a tortoise.

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@juergen_hubert "The Man of Dikjendäl Valley"

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@mikrotik I *said* IF I FITS I SITS

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Live countdown video of the Artemis II launch here, via NBC. 10 hours to liftoff if all goes well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTk-EKOJ6Y

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Antimatter Propulsion for Interstellar Travel via Positron Production from Potassium-40 Rich Biological Matter Anitmatter-based propulsion is often cited as a physically plausible route to relativistic interstellar travel, and thus as a potential mechanism by which technologically advanced civilizations could expand throughout the galaxy. Its difficulty may be central to the resolution of Fermi's paradox. Since the Universe should be teaming with advanced technological life, yet we see none, it may be that interstellar travel is simply too difficult. It has been suggested that the main difficulty with using antimatter as propulsion is its limited availability, assuming it must be artificially manufactured. In this paper, we demonstrate that naturally occurring potassium 40 - rich biological matter (specifically bananas) is a promising, overlooked antimatter source for interstellar propulsion.

A new paper on arXiv regarding a new interstellar propulsion method using the positron decay path of biologically derived potassium-40 as a source of antimatter.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29635

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Playful chalk street art titled “Spring Loading!” by David Zinn, drawn around a concrete sidewalk post with a small metal lever labeled “SPRING.” A green cartoon creature with long eye stalks stands beside the post, arms crossed, watching as bright green grass, tiny yellow flowers, and a slug-like form spill out from a hole at the base, as if the lever has released spring itself onto the pavement. The artwork cleverly blends the real crack in the sidewalk with the illustration, creating the illusion that nature is being “turned on” from inside the structure.

Playful chalk street art titled “Spring Loading!” by David Zinn, drawn around a concrete sidewalk post with a small metal lever labeled “SPRING.” A green cartoon creature with long eye stalks stands beside the post, arms crossed, watching as bright green grass, tiny yellow flowers, and a slug-like form spill out from a hole at the base, as if the lever has released spring itself onto the pavement. The artwork cleverly blends the real crack in the sidewalk with the illustration, creating the illusion that nature is being “turned on” from inside the structure.

🌼 Spring Loading! - By David Zinn 🇺🇸 When Spring Is Here (14 photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/01/spring-collec...

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DAD CLEARLY HAD AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR THE ANNUAL FAMILY HOLIDAY (Dad is using a pointer to highlight the Moon out a window)

DAD CLEARLY HAD AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR THE ANNUAL FAMILY HOLIDAY (Dad is using a pointer to highlight the Moon out a window)

UNFORTUNATELY, THERE WERE STILL ONE OR TWO UNRESOLVED ISSUES WITH THE DUTCH GETAWAY VEHICLE (Two cowboys "way out west" are arguing over a De Stijl inspired vehicle, including square wheels)

UNFORTUNATELY, THERE WERE STILL ONE OR TWO UNRESOLVED ISSUES WITH THE DUTCH GETAWAY VEHICLE (Two cowboys "way out west" are arguing over a De Stijl inspired vehicle, including square wheels)

IT LOOKED SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE A FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST BUT EMAIL WASN'T ABOUT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES (Emil looks to be in the French Foreign Legion, and is threatening said breakfast with the bayonet on his rifle. A chum looks on.)

IT LOOKED SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE A FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST BUT EMAIL WASN'T ABOUT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES (Emil looks to be in the French Foreign Legion, and is threatening said breakfast with the bayonet on his rifle. A chum looks on.)

UNCLE FRANK FIRST ENTERED MY LIFE ON AUGIST 12TH 1963 (The business end of the drilling machine from At The Earth's Core bursts through the bedroom wall of a sleeping young boy.)

UNCLE FRANK FIRST ENTERED MY LIFE ON AUGIST 12TH 1963 (The business end of the drilling machine from At The Earth's Core bursts through the bedroom wall of a sleeping young boy.)

Well, that's a shame -- Glen Baxter has passed away.

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Baseball season has started and my team (Montreal) ceased to exist some time ago, so it's time to pick who to watch this year.

I like teams without recent sustained success that are developing a young core that could win it all soon, and hopefully a pre-1961 team. Candidates in 2026 are the […]

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RE: https://mastodon.art/@anyachalina/116295739218369527

#cutaway diagrams

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If you want really weird, King Camp Gillette (of razor blade fame) wrote an 1894 book called The Human Drift, which is a utopian vision of a megacity built around Niagara Falls.

It's got no narrative, but it's completely fictional in that none of its proposals happened -- it being megalomanical […]

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@0xabad1dea HOORAY!

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A painting, brownish with age, of various cats being taught by an owl how to catch mice. They have various strange expressions, while a black cat facing away from us looks at a large book open to a section covered with drawings of mice. The owl is perching on top of the book. Two of the other cats are playing horns (one appearing to be a trombone), and a little demon is playing butt trumpet in the upper corner.

A painting, brownish with age, of various cats being taught by an owl how to catch mice. They have various strange expressions, while a black cat facing away from us looks at a large book open to a section covered with drawings of mice. The owl is perching on top of the book. Two of the other cats are playing horns (one appearing to be a trombone), and a little demon is playing butt trumpet in the upper corner.

Top tier art here. (Artist details unknown, apparently, but probably from northern Italy around 1700)

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A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"

A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

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Scientists just created chocolate honey packed with surprising health perks Scientists in Brazil have transformed cocoa waste into a functional chocolate-infused honey packed with antioxidants and natural stimulants. Using ultrasound waves, they enhanced honey’s ability to pull beneficial compounds from cocoa shells—no synthetic solvents required. The process is considered green and sustainable, and the product could find its way into gourmet foods and cosmetics.

Well, just inject this directly into my veins.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/2602280...

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Apollo 11 in Real Time A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

Apollo 11 in realtime -- audio and coordinated images/video of the entire mission from T-1 minutes to splashdown:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

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@BigJackBrass As a baseball fan, it's that connection which is *chef's kiss*

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Hyperart Thomasson - Wikipedia

Bruce Sterling just brought these to my attention, and I'm instantly fascinated in them as an outré kind of history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson

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