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These are some examples of my work. Each one is custom sculpted, then cast in bronze using lost wax process.
Details on the process and how to get one are here: omahaderbycovers.com/personalized-c…
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Personal account of Jeff Miller. I'm the guy who makes bronze derby covers for Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Check them out: @OmahaDerbyCover.
Omaha, Nebraska Katılım Mayıs 2012
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This sort of thinking is exactly why everything sucks and is getting worse.
When you view the purpose of technology as "strip human interaction out of life", you lose more than you will ever know.
Benjamin De Kraker@BenjaminDEKR
What is the point of hotel check-in desk people anymore? Why isn't this 100% automated? Verify your ID, pay, get entry code. Why are humans still doing this?
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@wil_da_beast630 You're just a few cycles away from putting everyone in the world on the tracks.
What happens then, when there isn't anyone left to throw the switch, or not?
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Congratulations to Kansas City Royals and Team USA star @BwittJr on receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation and gratitude to @FrZackTOR for administering it, Baseball and Easter are metaphysically intertwined
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@mamboitaliano__ Doing something stupid for social media attention? Surely Europeans are onboard with that.
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Those roadside matchbooks are pure American highway nostalgia!
In the 1930s-50s, the big manufacturers cranking out advertising ones like these included:
- Diamond Match Company (pioneers of promo matchbooks since the 1890s, massive output)
- Lion Match Company (NYC; launched "feature" matchbooks ~1935 with full-color art continuing onto the match stems—likely the style in that clip)
- Universal Match Corporation
- Superior Match Co. (Chicago, founded 1937, ad specialists)
- Plus Federal, Maryland Match, and Match Corp. of America.
They produced billions as free giveaways for motels, diners, bars, and gas stations. Peak era before lighters and smoking decline. Cool stuff!
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These are so cool.
@grok, give me some of the details on companies making matchbooks like these in the 1930's, 40's and 50's.
Halle Gilbert@hallegilb
Matchbooks from the American roadside.
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Pretty much me walking into bingo night at a church basement in Iowa.
Nature Unedited@NatureUnedited
Samson, a breeding bull for hire, is greeted by a pasture full of cows
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Details of some sculptures I did for DC Comics in the 90's. These are the original sculptures made in polymer clay that I sold to a collector last year.
I can still do work this small, but it's not my favorite scale to work in. Hard on the eyes.
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It's not just phonics: Schools have failed to teach reading because they ignore 50+ years of findings in cognitive psychology that reading depends on general knowledge. ED Hirsch has been banging this drum for a long time but Ed Schools shut their ears because the whole idea was unromantic & had a vaguely right-wing aroma. Now he joins with Dan Willingham to make a strong case that kids can't read if they don't have the background knowledge that makes sense of the rarer vocabulary, allusions, and understandings that allow us to read between the lines - which all reading requires. educationnext.org/rediscovering-…
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Just a reminder: Before you go off on ragebait like this, give it a little scrutiny. In a world where we have Grok, there's no excuse to get suckered by bullshit like this.
The mass grave from the photo is over 2000 years old, and in Mongolia.
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Jvnior@Jvnior
🚨 BREAKING: Mass grave in Gaza containing 300 people has been discovered. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs. Many bodies missing organs.
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I find myself conflicted.
On one hand, give me a motorcycle and an open road and I'm content.
On the other hand, my livelihood depends on others with motorcycles not being content, and needing to decorate their bikes with my work.
Of course, I decorated my own bike, too...
Orson Scott Card@orsonscottcard
Being “rich” is a relative term. If everybody's rich, nobody's rich. No matter how rich you are, somebody's so much richer than you that by contrast, you are poor. The equation’s the same, only inverted, for being poor. There's always somebody worse off than you, compared to whom, you're rich. The hardest thing to have is “enough.” But for those who believe they have enough, rich and poor are descriptors for other people only. Sufficiency is the true means of being comfortable. In the Lord's Prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread” is a prayer for enough. Seeking to be rich is a denial of even the concept of enough. It is wealth that never gets over the fear of poverty. It cannot be satisfied. And for those with enough, it is not envy, but pity they feel for those endlessly hungry “rich.”
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@iowahawkblog When I travel, I just hire someone from Council Bluffs to carry. Cheap and mostly reliable.
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Drug sniffing dogs are notoriously unreliable. This is the "Facilitated Communication" of law enforcement
grokipedia.com/page/Facilitat…
Puppies 🐶@Puppieslover
A girl shared her experience of being stopped by airport security for a luggage check during her travels. While waiting at the baggage carousel, a detection dog wouldn't stop sniffing her bag. Although she knew she wasn't carrying anything illegal, her mind was racing with 7,749 scenarios in which drug traffickers might have framed her. When security opened her luggage, they discovered a package of dog treats: it turned out they were snacks she had bought as a gift for her own dog at home. 😂😂 As she was leaving, she overheard the officer scolding the dog: "Could you take this more seriously? We haven't even deducted your salary yet!"
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@GeriPerna An acquaintance of mine still makes bank in retail. He sells women's shoes at a high end department store in town, pulling in low six figures.
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When I worked at Macy's back in the 80's, people who worked there raised families on what they made. It was their career. I remember the guy in electronics retired after 30 years, and my boss in the cash office did the same. The guys who worked in the suit department did very well for themselves. Despite that, the store profited greatly every year, and we were given a beautiful Christmas party in appreciation. What changed in this country? When did it become nearly impossible to support oneself at a job that didn't require a degree or technical school?
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@creepydotorg What's not to understand?
Having just run through the gauntlet and thinking himself clear, he sees a new threat heading his way.
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Till this day I still don’t understand this particular scene…
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I was doing some research on the Joe Kent situation and @GeminiApp gave me this response. Not just fiction, but the literal opposite of reality. Absolute garbage. This is what >$150B in capex produced.
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@DrBeaVillarroel @grok, what is the significance of this? Please explain it to me as if I were a golden retriever, or a young child
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What a lovely surprise this morning! ☀️Independent detections of similar transients in European plate archives — exactly the kind of cross-validation this field needs. So it’s not just Palomar anymore.
The study was carried out by a retired NASA scientist.
This is how a signal begins to emerge from the noise.
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20407
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