i dont want to be on my phone anymore

-- i like ikea and forests and airports and tea -- 20 yo girl • i listen to 80s yacht rock all the time • here you'll find: language related stuff and random posts

[neiljostenpussyindulgence]

I love gay people theres a guy in my neighborhood who named his one singular dog “simon and garfunkel”

[arthuntblog]

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) [Germany] — ‘8.3.86’, 1986. Oil and graphite on paper (61 x 85.7 cm).

[frenchtwist]

Érotiques by Pierre Jousson, 1968

[programmerhumour]

Anon visits webpages in 2022

[mornington-the-crescent]

As others have pointed out before, if you visited a web page 20 years ago and it acted like that, you would rightly assume your computer had gotten a virus.

[marisatomay]

this tweet has been rattling around my head all day like a pinball in a machine

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[oh-l-amour]

Started reading just kids by Patti smith, and it has really sucked me in! I'm about halfway through. I look forward to my daily commutes these last two days thanks to the book. Everything around me seems more romantic as well~~~

[oh-l-amour]

just finished it :(

[scipunk]

Miami Connection (1987)

[m0thmancore]

[schmergo]

Confession: The letter “t” key on my laptop has been broken since 2024. From what my research tells me, they can’t fix individual keys on that model, and my laptop is no longer under a warranty, but it seems foolish to fork out over $900 for a new computer, so instead I’ve trained my brain to hit ctrl+v every time I want to hit “t.”

But sometimes I have to copy-paste something else besides “t,” which means I need a readily available place to copy the “t” from.

My first thought was to search “tiger” on Google, but if you can’t type the letter “t,” you just get search results about Bob Iger.

I realized words that end with “t” are easier for Google to autocomplete, so the first one I thought of was “crypt.” But wouldn’t you know, googling “cryp” takes to you to cryptocurrency results, and I REALLY don’t want my algorithm thinking I google that multiple times per week.

Then I remembered a cool place I went in London, called Cafe in the Crypt. It’s exactly what it sounds like and located below St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. When I type in “Cafe in Cryp,” Google does indeed autocomplete it effectively! So I either keep that search result open in a tab or Google it every day.

So, that being said, if anyone works for St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church’s marketing department and has been utterly flummoxed by an IP address from Virginia that has googled their cafe hundreds of times over the past 6 months… that wasn’t a bot, that was me.

I am the Spiders Georg of Cafe in the Crypt.

Anyway, it’s a pretty cool place to check out if you’re ever in London. Just maybe not cool enough to Google it on a daily basis for months straight.

[kelly-walker]

Sound on! Set-up: - Rega Planar 1 Plus - Fiio E17K Alpen 2 - Fiio FT1 Pro (planar headphones) Sound capture is DIRECTLY from the headphones! (I put headphones on my phone, it has microphones on the bottom and top) Music: Robert Schröder - Harmonic Ascendant (1979) Target: small vibe-check. I tried to show as close as possible experience of listening vinyl in planar headphones. :)

[oh-l-amour]

This is so cool! Really enjoyed it

[zman80]

Computer Metropolis

[armengoldira]

Offshore oil rig evacuation system

[macleod]

Marine Evacuation Systems (MES) are pretty cool.

They are practically the only evacuation method that can evacuate over 700 people in less than thirty minutes, and can handle itself in extreme highwinds and even rockier waves.

You only need one person to activate, and from the moment you drop the chute and begin inflation it will only take 60-90 seconds.

The rafts will begin inflating and can hold up to, and some exceeding, 700 people. I've included some photos of what those rafts look like:

[arc-hus]

Okurayama Apartments, Yokohama - SANAA

[arc-hus]

Okurayama Apartments, Yokohama - SANAA

[uss-edsall]

every girl wants to get in a vehicle and flip 3-6 switches overhead in the process of turning it on

[cipheramnesia]

When I’m going to get frozen waffles and ramen from Walgreens.

[stirfriedweasel]

More things should be operated with big thumb switches and knobs and dials and shit.

[cipheramnesia]

Me, getting a drink of water at night.

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.