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Field notes from the time I scouted a decommissioned nuclear power plant...

This is the control room, and if you look closely, you'll see a dark stripe in the carpet running the perimeter of the room. This was referred to as the "velvet rope," and absolutely NO ONE was allowed to cross it without authorization. It was under constant observation from an adjacent office, and I was told that if someone did set foot inside without permission, things got VERY serious VERY quickly.

This is one of the computer stations, and to me, it's such a gorgeous encapsulation of its period of technology, the sort of aesthetic that shows like Lost will bend over backwards to recreate.

As I was scouting, I noticed the day calendar had last been torn off about when the plant closed for good...

Then we went into the nuclear reactor, and the whole damn thing was just so spooky.

Looking back, I think it came from an overwhelming feeling of utter insignificance in the face of the sheer power this colossus was designed to produce.

The scale was just so out of proportion to every day reality, the sort of place where a weight of "46000 LBS" is just casually noted on the side of a part.

Peering into where the core would've been, all I could think is that I'd never want the job where you have to climb down that ladder on the left while this thing was in operation.

If you're interested in seeing more, you can find my full tour here!

https://nickcarr.com/scouting-a-decommissioned-nuclear-power-plant/

And as always, follow for more location scouting fun...

seraphvirtual

nostalgia is funny

aukkenopsia

Jelly creature girl based on bullina lineata

liberalsarecool

The bubble is nigh.

careydraws

No, seriously,

theatsthetic

A comic about cavemen.

isuggestkillingyourself

tactfulsaboteur

psybomb

Every time I see that last pic, I have to note that the funniest line is the one immediately after the highlight

nealashitposts

I cant go to my local library anymore because last year when I stopped by a librarian was reading a book I wrote under a pen name years ago. This book sold under 10k copies and I've literally only heard people talk about this book online *if* I went looking for it so I went up to them and tried to start a conversation like "oh hey I've heard of that book is it good?" Like hoping for some real feedback and she goes "yeah I love reading things by queer writers" and in a moment of terror I was like "oh but- hold on, I thought the author was some old hetero white guy?!" A thing I thought because I used my own dead grandpa's picture for the author pic because grandpa never had internet. I fake looked it up and was like "yeah if he was queer its not public?" And without looking up this absolute unit goes "oh the author bio is obviously fake. I'd bet my left leg the author is a west coast millennial non-binary queer who has never lived on the east coast." And then proceeded to rattle off a dozen linguistic flourishes that are specific to the pacific northwest that are in the book and several that are nearly ubiquitous in the state where I said my pen name lives that are somehow completely absent from the book.

So you know. Got read for filth and didn't even find out if she liked it.

the-real-seebs

Someone linked me this beautiful poster, and I'm just really impressed.

My contribution:

tiktoksthataregood-ish

totallynotgayforyou

k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9

sleepnoises

I made a grimoire to hold my tiny e-reader and MP3 player (an XTEINK X4 with Crosspoint flashed to it and a Sony NW-A55 Walkman respectively)

Note: the ereader attaches magnetically, it's not just gently balanced atop

With sustained effort I will eventually replicate an incredibly bulky smartphone nobody can contact me on

sleepnoises

Got this thing out on the 1 and was drawn into conversation with my seatmate about it such that I did not get to read. She thinks her 15 year old would like it. I wrote her a note with the device name + firmware name + epub organizing software name