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Screenshot of positive reviews on a hotel’s website, including this: “Clean rooms, great views, hospitable staff. Dumb waiter is extremely helpful! Would definitely recommend. — Michelle G.”
Screenshot of the Apple Weather app displaying a snow forecast of 6-7 inches
The bottom-left corner of the Sunday New York Times front page, with a tiny reference to the Minneapolis killing: “Shooting in Minneapolis: Federal agents shot a person in the city on Saturday, according to posts from state and local officials.”
Cover of the book “Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford” by Thomas M. DeFrank
An empty store rack labeled “thyme”
An image of a $29.97 power washer for sale in the Home Depot app
Screenshot of an online news item: “Shoplifting November 12, 2025 (Valley Road): Management at Acme reported observing an unknown man exit the supermarket with a bag full of unpaid groceries. The items consisted of produce and frozen foods. The suspect fled in a black Mercedes Benz.”
3D diagram of the Wupperfeld station on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Screenshot of the original post by @LOLGOP followed by a post from the Moby Dick bot: “And heaved and heaved, still increasingly heaved the black sea”
Still image from the Blues Brothers movie captioned with Jake (John Belushi) saying “I hate Illinois Nazis.”
Screenshot of Google search’s suggestions when I started typing “what’s the difference between” …
Screenshot of tweet from Pope Leo XIV: “Humility is really freedom from ourselves. Those who exalt themselves think that nothing is more interesting than themselves. Yet, those who know they are precious in God’s eyes have greater things of which to boast, and a dignity that shines on its own. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 14:1,7-14)”
Screenshot of United Airlines phone alert warning that a flight into EWR was delayed because of FAA staffing shortages
Screenshot from University of Chicago physics professor Dam Son’s faculty page: Research I have a broad research program encompassing several areas of theoretical physics.​ String Theory: applications of gauge-gravity duality in the physics of the quark-gluon plasma and other strongly interacting systems. Nuclear Physics: properties of the hot and dense states of matter, e.g., the quark gluon plasma and dense quark matter (color superconductors). Condensed matter physics: physics of the quantum Hall system, graphene; applications of quantum field theory. Atomic physics: many-body physics of cold trapped atoms, BCS-BEC crossover, applications of quantum field theoretical techniques.
March 1, 1962 Daily News wood: “DEATH, TRIUMPH & A BUS STRIKE”
Cover of a Strauss workwear catalog showing two men on a construction site with the caption “MADE FOR MEISTERS”
ANSI-compliant stylish safety sneakers from Engelbert Strauss. Unfortunately you really have to see them to believe it.
Screenshot of this text from the linked story: “That’s good news, in particular, for the PR industry, which gainfully employs its share of human beings, as well as some former journalists.”
“WE HAVE A POPE” over an image of the Chicago Superfans
A diamond wedding ring in silhouette with a few flashes of light from the facets.
Screenshot of online opinion poll asking whether Hurricanes Milton and Helene were “artificially created and controlled”
Slow-motion video of Pope Francis waving from the window of his Fiat as he arrived at Madison Square Garden for Mass on Sept. 25, 2015.
A circular scrawl inside an “autographed copy” of John Scalzi’s book “When the Moon Hits Your Eye.”
Bags of M&Ms on a shelf priced as two for $40. Really.
Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre at the top of stairs full of people
Wall-mounted boxes labeled “For Emergency Lockdown Use Only”
Screenshot of Google Maps page for “CIA Black Site”
News clipping: “Mayor Rick Knepp urged borough residents to consider running for council, noting that several seats will be open in the fall election. Candidate petitions are available at the borough office and must be submitted by March 11. “He also recounted an incident where a road crew painted over a dead skunk on Market Street, using it as a metaphor for decision-making and problem-solving in everyday work. To add to the humor, Knepp presented council with a tongue-in-cheek “Painted Skunk Award,” a wooden board commemorating the incident.”
Jaden Smith wearing a castle on his head
Very bad mockup of Chappell Roan as Norma Rae holding up a “UNION” sign
Whisk next to the box it came in, with the slogan “Love Me, Just Take Me Home!”
Fortune from a cookie saying “You will become a vegetarian or vegan.”
A crosswalk warning sign, knocked down in the snow with tire tracks across it
A check for 73 cents delivered in an envelope with 69 cents of postage
Raw turkey in a pan, dressed and ready for cooking
Anna Sanders bagel painting in a kitchen