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The Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 6, 1948
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The Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 6, 1948
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Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Jan. 27th, 2026 04:07 pmpublicdomainreview_feed
A WWII propaganda film narrated as an "auto"-biography
Cool Pictures: I Picked a Strange Week to Turn 30
Jan. 26th, 2026 11:04 pmsortition_social_feedEntry syndicated from Nicky FloweRSS [feed link]
01/19/26, as my gf and roommate and I went to Chinatown // Olympus Stylus 120 // Harman Phoenix I 35mm
30! I feel quite different but that's mostly due to current events. I think we all feel different. But it's been very nice being 30, actually. I just didn't think I'd make it! 20 years ago, it felt like this impossibly distant thing for me. Here I am. Hello.
Suuure, America is dead and dying, but being in a city surrounded by all kinds of different people was refreshing enough to get me to stop spiraling into doom. I felt the pulse of Oakland under my feet and at one point it pulled me towards the MLK Jr. Day rally happening downtown. I realized this was the spark of life inside the husk of America—good people who care enough to come together and do something about it. I'm holding onto the feeling as best as I can. The next 10 years will be worth the struggle of the last 10. That's my birthday wish.
Nicky Flowers - Getting this roll and others back from the lab was the main thing that kept me going tbh. I love cool pictures!! - 01/26/26 - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)
The Washington Herald, Washington DC, January 11, 1918
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The Washington Herald, Washington DC, January 11, 1918
The Marion Times, Kansas, September 29, 1898
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The Marion Times, Kansas, September 29, 1898
Week in Review #3: Sore ribs, sore wrists
Jan. 21st, 2026 05:21 pmsortition_social_feedEntry syndicated from John Holdun [feed link]
"Sore ribs" sounds more serious than it is but I couldn't resist the assonance. This past weekend I met some friends at Topgolf, which is like a social driving range? Picture a bowling alley where the main reason to be there is drinking beer, but instead of hurling bowling balls you're whacking golf balls. Not counting mini golf, I had swung a golf club once or maybe twice before this. In the two hours I was there I had maybe thirty times at the tee. It was kind of interesting and novel, and I had a good time with the friends I saw there, but it's an activity I could easily never do again. Four or five days later now, I finally woke up not feeling the effects on my body. Unrelated (related), I am going to try to get into a daily practice of walking around the neighborhood because I am clearly not using my body nearly enough!
Speaking of daily practices and soreness, I'm on a two-week streak of practicing rhythm with Melodics! It's a rhythm game, like Guitar Hero, but rooted in education; the lessons are generally either designed to teach drum rudiments or they're real parts in popular songs. I use a MIDI Fighter to play but it works with any MIDI controller or even a computer keyboard. Some of these lessons get pretty tricky and there's a lot I still just can't do, but I can feel myself getting better! It's a really nice feeling. They also offer lessons for keys and drums, and I have a critically underused electronic drumkit which I cannot use at all, so I should try that too.
That said, I committed to one month of Melodics and I'm thinking I'd like to translate this habit into making some of my own music after it's up. I'm curious to see if any of the muscle memory I'm building for live performance might transform my own music-making and bring some variety into my rhythms. Making more music worth sharing is a goal for this year. That weird performance idea I talked about a couple weeks ago remains a goal for this year too.
I visited a book store this week to flip through a couple photography books for ideas on photo layouts, as I procrastinate on sharing all those Japan photos. I did write about the camera I used which was an important piece of context. I don't know why I'm dragging on this so much to be honest!
The Greenville Daily News, South Carolina, July 8, 1919
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The Greenville Daily News, South Carolina, July 8, 1919
Cool Pictures: Saturday Triptych
Jan. 17th, 2026 08:45 pmsortition_social_feedEntry syndicated from Nicky FloweRSS [feed link]
today, during my date with da wife // Instax Mini 12 // monochrome instant film on a sheet of paper
Nicky Flowers - The small pleasant moments that make up the day fucking rule. Shout out to the quotidian. - 01/17/26 - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)
Bonkers (1993)
Jan. 24th, 2026 08:15 amsortition_social_feedEntry syndicated from Debutniverse [feed link]
First episode title: Going Bonkers
How familiar with the show am I?: Yet another show I had no familiarity with before this project.
A spin-off from an anthology series called Raw Toonage, Bonkers is a show about a world where "toons" live alongside humans, and cartoons are filmed with cameras as if they're live-action movies. And one of those toons, named Bonkers, ends up partnered with a human police officer as they investigate crimes.
Yes, it's obviously inspired by Who Framed Roger Rabbit, except without the main gimmick of that movie because the humans are now animated characters just like the toons are. But does it work?
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The Weekly Industrial Worker, Seattle, Washington, April 6, 1918
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The Weekly Industrial Worker, Seattle, Washington, April 6, 1918
Fanart #6 - My art
Jan. 17th, 2026 07:45 amsortition_social_feedEntry syndicated from Debutniverse [feed link]
This time, I set myself a challenge. I put a list of cartoons I've covered on Debutniverse into a randomiser, had it pick two of them, and I then had to draw crossover art of that pair, no matter which cartoons were picked! So, let's see how it went...
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The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916
Jan. 21st, 2026 12:30 pmyesterdaysprint_feed
The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Jan. 21st, 2026 03:25 pmpublicdomainreview_feed
Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings.
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
Jan. 21st, 2026 03:20 pmpublicdomainreview_feed
Etchings of birds in a somewhat theatrical style.
The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916
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The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916
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I don't do media threads like that. But, for, like, that post I made where I count up all the games I played in 2025? I didn't think it was so hard.
A game you finish is one you see the credits roll on. DLC is expansion content, so finishing the base game is finishing the game. It's when the story is over.
If it's a live service game like a Genshin Impact or one of those other f2p things? I personally could not and would not mark them as "finished," unless you are confident a specific story arc has come to a close. Regardless, in the context of a year-end wrap up like I did, I would at least note you played it.
Like I write at the top of that post, "more than once, for more than 10 minutes." Because there's a difference between browsing and actually dedicating yourself to playing an entire thing. I have a bunch of games on Steam where I installed them, played once or twice, and never looked back.
That's also why that post for me is more "games I played" and not "games I finished." I am an adult with a lot going on, and I only really play games for maybe 60-90 minutes per night most nights.
For example, I started Control in September and according to the PS5 I'm about 41% through the game. I haven't touched it in over a month. I will finish it, eventually, but it's the sort of thing I play in short bursts. Similarly, I started Final Fantasy 9 in October-ish and I'm about 12 hours into the game; somewhere on Disc 2 (I just reached Cleyra).
And, most famously, it took me four years to finish Mother 3.
If I ever did do a thread like that, I would simply log games I felt like I played for long enough to have something to say. Looking at things with the distinction between a "one night stand" and something longer term, you know? Longer term relationships would be worth logging. Finishing a game is something truly special, but it's not the end-all, be-all. I own 1,700 games just on Steam. I'm never clearing that backlog. Finishing games is not my goal anymore.
But you can know what a steak tastes like without cleaning your plate, you know?
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Jan. 20th, 2026 04:25 pmpublicdomainreview_feed
Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.
The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, July 18, 1917
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The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, July 18, 1917
fluffy rambles: Could big tech please stop ruining enthusiast things
Jan. 19th, 2026 02:45 pmsortition_social_feedEntry syndicated from busybee [feed link]
Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own choice of tools to interact with the space, and it was super cool.
Then Google got into it and made Google Reader, which was a really good feed reader, but they couldn’t figure out how to make it profitable and wanted to shove everyone over to Google+, so they shut Google Reader down, and then the tech press breathlessly claimed that RSS was now dead as a result, and because RSS was (in their eyes) dead, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nowadays, RSS is seen as an obsolete thing only used by diehards, and corporate social media has become the norm, with a relatively tiny faction of people settling on ActivityPub instead, despite it being a poor match for the kinds of things that people used RSS for.
And now the same goddamn thing is happening with Virtual Reality. It was a thriving enthusiast space taken up by people who had a lot of fun seeing what they could build, and making amazing games and social environments and so on in a very DIY-friendly way. And then Facebook decided they needed to get in on that and acquired so many of the manufacturers and game producers involved in the space, pivoted hard to trying to make corporate metaverse bullshit a thing even though literally nobody wants it (Meta Horizons is basically Zoom with extra steps and even less whimsy), and shoveled so much money at it.
Now they’re realizing they have no idea how to make it profitable and are shutting down all of the companies that were making VR great, including studios that were actually profitable but just not profitable enough to offset their misplaced ambitions.
And the tech press is now declaring VR dead, meaning that those of us who are continuing to thrive in virtual spaces using enthusiast hardware and so on are likely to be left in the lurch at some point.
Thankfully, Valve and ByteDance are keeping the hardware side of things alive in ways that are actually along the lines of what people want, but I still worry that “VR is now dead” narratives will cause people at those companies to re-evaluate that as well.
VR has been super important and helpful to me, both as a multiply-disabled independent musician and as someone who cares deeply about the trans community. Hopefully VRChat survives, and hopefully there continue to be hardware manufacturers who care about VR without caring about it being hyper-profitable, but I’m already very worried about the lasting damage that will happen from this. (And I was worried when Meta decided to get into VR to begin with, because I very much saw this situation coming!)
As always, I am frustrated and horrified at how modern capitalism doesn’t allow something to just be good and sustainably profitable, it has to get All The Money or else it’s seen as a failure. This happens over and over and over again and I’m so sick of it.
#rant #VR #virtual reality #RSSAre you bisexual?
Jan. 19th, 2026 01:40 pmsortition_social_feedEntry syndicated from The Hotdog Laserhouse [feed link]
