Its a White pickup truck Toyota Tacoma XtraCab pickup truck featuring custom 1990s-style Jazz graphics. From the cup!

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.

A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.

Let's talk about the science here.

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

a circuit board with a d-shell connector with only 3 sockets. there's a bit of plastic around it marked HP, so presumably it is from some test equipment.

found a DE-3 in the wild, folks

Troi looking ambivalently at a trombone slide

The face of a woman who forgot it's Trombone Tuesday and knows it's too late to sneak away now

Ok, two comments about the soundtrack. I shall have to find and try out this one. Perhaps run it in dosbox or an amiga emulator.

Wow it’s a direct ripoff of the original Populous. Never knew about this one.

If you were asked to translate Beowulf into modern English, how would you translate ‘Hwæt’?

ME: [first day as a detective] Was the robber armed?

VICTIM: No

ME: *writing ‘probably a snake’ in my notepad* Thank you.

They call it a catapult, but it can pult other animals, too.

I Did Not Tell Death Where I Lived   I did not tell Death where I lived – But he has found me all the same. I hear his knock upon my door And the calling of my name.   My Snapchat settings kept him out. On Instagram I blocked him. Facebook friend requests were spurned – Yet still he keeps on knocking.   A court injunction freshly filed, But still I sit in fear. Oh, my mistake. It is not Death – I think my pizza’s here. Brian Bilston    

Today’s poem is called ‘I Did Not Tell Death Where I Lived’.

(While the seatbelt light was still on)

i bet one of the astronauts immediately got up, grabbed their stuff and moved to get closer the exit

youtu.be/yYNrKVqoX1o

A man is chased through a tunnel by a malicious waterfowl.

John's calves burned with each step, and a sharp pain pierced his abdomen. As he neared the safety of daylight, the sound of webbed feet slapping concrete grew louder. He risked a look over his shoulder, and found himself staring directly into the beady eyes of fate. He screamed.

I love the irony of the fact that the art is physical, no actual computer graphics are shown in the ad.

(To be fair, it was actually hard to get computer graphics onto the printed page in that era, so most ads for games and software used traditional media instead of screen shots.)

In this William Geise illustrated ad, the title "Computer Graphics" appears up top, being cast from a giant Apple II monitor on an iceburg; the casts are a gradiant from purple to orange to yellow to green to blue to purple again, hewing towards neon tones. From the tan Amdek monitor flies a red biplane, a parachuting penguin, and a leaping unicorn; dolphins jump from the ice into the monitor. Around the iceberg, a sea otter peeks up, a penguin tap-dances, and a whale tale lifts a unicorn on a floe. The monitor is sitting on a giant Apple II. Down below, breathless text describes three different programming packages: "For the artist: Special Effects by David Lubar and Mark Pelezarski. Paint on your computer in over 100 colors with 96 different brushes!" "For the designer: The Complete Graphics System II by Mark Pelezarski. Everythign needed for computer-aided design." "For the programmer: The Graphics Magician by Mark Pelezarski, David Lubar, and Chris Joehumson. Add fast, smooth animation and hundreds of pictures to your programs." In the bottom left, the penguin software logo appears next to ordering information, with a sunfish floating to its left; at the very bottom it says, "All Penguin applications products are now on unprotected disks for your convenience."

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Best Star Trek Crew; wrong answers only.

You misspelled “subject yourself”.

Looks awesome!

Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop.

Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything.

It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free.

Cherry blossoms at night

Good night, Bluesky!

The Quad, University of Washington, Seattle
📸Pete Saloutos

I will die on the hill of "a version of BASIC on a 6502 will teach kids more about the uses and limits of computers than any AI ever could"

Depluralize a movie

Crow On The Orient Express

I ate your PLUMS and I cannot lie
I'm guilty and I won't deny
That when I found them kept in a pretty chilly place
yeah I put them in my face
and man, YUM, couldn't have enough
'Cause you know that my tum is stuffed,
But you were breakfast saving,
Your forgiveness now I'm craving

🌸🩷

But it’s good that you’re taking care of the little one. Stay strong!

So sorry we won’t be seeing you! We are on our way to the con and we were looking forward to your set today.

New “Blue Marble” just dropped.

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon