Gravity Pike

@gravity-pike.bsky.social

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I will not run, climb, or jump. I will not sit, kneel, or lie down.

XKCD comic: SILICATE CHEMISTRY IS SECOND NATURE TO US GEOCHEMISTS, SO IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON PROBABLY ONLY KNOWS THE FORMULAS FOR OLIVINE AND ONE OR TWO FELDSPARS. AND QUARTZ, OF COURSE. OF COURSE. EVEN WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR IT, EXPERTS IN ANYTHING WILDLY OVERESTIMATE THE AVERAGE PERSON'S FAMILIARITY WITH THEIR FIELD.
A 4-armed gorilla with a bug's body, from the "Chimera Ant" arc of Hunter × Hunter. In two of his arms, he is holding a dagger and a hatchet. He is looking at the camera with ~murderous intent.~
A robotic triceratops Transformers toy. It's body is bulky and matte silver with "circuit board" stickers. It has a reflective silver frill, transparent head, and bright red horns. You could like unfold this guy into a humanoid robot, that was the gimmick with Transformers. Do people still know this? I guess there were the recent Michael Bay movies.
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment, bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
Google map of Greece, showing that Athens is closer to modern-day Libya and Egypt by boat than to much of Italy.
Sun graph for today in Seattle. "Night" begins at 11:31 PM and ends at 2:58 AM. "Astronomical Twilight" starts at 10:30 and ends at 4:00. Like I know we're no Nome, but 4 million people live here.
The sun looms huge in an orange-grey sky. The foreground shows the decks of a high-rise apartment, a sick blue-green in contrast. An airplane transits the sun.
Paul Ryan in a 2012 photoshoot. He is lifting weights in a formless blue void, wearing baskeball shorts, a grey t-shirt, and a backwards red baseball cap. (Note that this predates MAGA.) He looks like an absolute doofus, like a 12-year-old's idea of what a cool adult might look like.
Chart describing RIPCON 1 (It Happened.) through RIPCON 5 (Inconsequential/washed up ghouls) as well as the appropriate celebratory actions.
A 1st-2nd century egyptian funeral portrait on wood, behind plexiglass. It features a white man with curly gray hair, a short beard, and kind eyes. The art style looks very modern, despite being nearly 2000 years old
A picnic bench on the edge of a river, flanked by pine trees.
@dril famously tweets "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and tuen the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
Senator Kelly melting into a jellyfish-like puddle in XMen (2000)
Cartoon rendering of a gelatenous cube: a 6-foot cube of blue-green jello with a partially-digested adventurer inside it.
Two simpsons screenshots; both Martin and Bart are putting up campaign posters reading "A vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy!"
A 10-foot tall, 50-foot long reproduction of Monet's water lillies in oddly vivid colors.
A mobile Youtube feed. An old rich white bald guy standing next to a whiteboard that says TODAY'S LESSON: FUTA TAX Below it the video is titled "A Brief Guide to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act - Lessons in Pat..."
A half-block sized hole in the ground, with foundations being laid, big trucks, and a crane set up.
A price chart of big mac costs in major american cities. Seattle is most expensive at $7.06, Pittsburgh is near the middle at $5.49, and the cheapest is Austin at $4.36.
An early-2000's CD binder full of DVD-R's with anime titles written in black and blue sharpie. Visible are about 100 episodes of Naruto, GTO, and Gawl.
A male and female mallard duck in the grass strip between the sidewalk and road. There is an egg near (but not covered by) the female duck. Both ducks are sleeping. It is still broad daylight. If I were in the mood, I could have had two and a half free ducks and there's nothing they could have done to stop me.
A black Tesla with a custom license plate that reads "WATTPWR"
A moleskin notebook page filled with strange runes, jagged shapes, and long, long, lists of arrows. One page has a circle of circles, some crossed out, and others with numbers next to them. There is no obvious meaning to any of it.
The book cover for Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. It features a sketchy/cartoonish drawing of ferns and leaves in blues and greens in the background, and then a white deer-like creature in the foregeound with a human head, antlers, and a big chompy mouth with a tongue sticking out (also cartoony.)
A graph of the Case-Shiller Index showing that a home's inflation-adjusted cost is about 3x what it was in 1975-1990.
Elon Musk throwing up a Nazi salute on live TV.
The More You Know
Firefox update banner, "AI on your terms", prominently displays a slider labeled "Block AI enhancements"
A custom 32x32 LED matrix mounted in a wooden picture frame, hanging on a white apartment wall. It prominently displays the current temperature (54°) and weather (purple = cloudy), the daily hi/low, hourly weather trends (along the bottom) and weekly weather trends (along the side).
A photo of pouring rain, taken through a restaurant window
An e-bike odometer showing 2542 miles.
A can of "Gender Fluid" from Omega Mart, designed to look like car product. It is plastered with slogans like, "Universal HIGH Performance," "Non-Toxic!" and "Multi-Purpose." To be clear, it is a can of sparkling water.
Wikipedia entry for Turnspit Dog, showing a woodblock print of a kitchen featuring a little dog in like a rat wheel contraption that is being used to power a meat spit. The image is captioned: "A dog at work inside a wheel near the ceiling; from Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales (1800)" The following paragraph reads: With advancements in kitchen technology, the need for turnspit dogs declined. Over time, they were no longer bred for their specific function, and their numbers dwindled, eventually leading to their extinction.
A google maps screenshot illustrating the description in the post.
James Donaldson's cold, dead eyes at the Nickelodeon Kids' choice awards.
A sign at trader joe's that says CHEESE BAG only 3.99 ea
David Lynch's character from Twin Peaks. He calls Special Agent Dale Cooper "Coop." That's the joke.
A hand-made leather wallet, folded to display the brown exterior, orange interior, and white stitching
"bone hurting juice" meme but replaced with "blood stop powder"
A poster staples to a telephone pole: Tired? Bed feeling samey? 👎 Sleep in the garage! (Make new friends! 🐀) (Feel alive again!) (Legally they cannot stop you! 🏈) Try it out! (Some of the emojis above are actually clipart in the poster.)
Operating Systems Concepts Seventh Edition, a computer science textbook that features a large (mother?) dinosaur curled up around 3 smaller (baby?) dinosaurs, each of which is using a laptop, cell phone, etc.
Hank Green (of vlogbrothers) making a Youtube thumbnail face. The video is titled "I Had a Hallucination This Week"
Comic by @hausofdecline A (white man): I'm glad that we took this trip to Jordan, but hours do you expect to get along without knowing Arabic? B (black man): Don't worry, I know the universal language. B: *Reveals Dragon Ball t-shirt.* C (arabic man): Aaa... Goku! B: Goku!
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech (man in town hall meme)
Friday's press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards. At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 12:31 he said everything was perfect. At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz. At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed. At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran. At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.
Youtube comment section. @f.h.k6356 writes: "Smoking that shit that made Louis' arms strong" 6.9K likes
Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) Tweets: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse everyday. Jan 25, 2019
It is twilight. A paved bike trail runs along a river. The reflections of houseboat lights illuminate the river. A metal bridge spans overhead.
Quinnipiac Poll: U.S. Military Action Against Iran: Over Half Of Voters Oppose It, 74% Oppose Sending Ground Troops Into Iran, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Vast Majority Expects The Conflict To Last Months Or More
A 3-story tall puppet (big red man with a hat) delicately holds a human woman in his hand. It's a Cirque de Soleil show.
"Oh shit, for real?" meme. A cartoon figure propping themselves up from a laying position on a couch, looking out of frame, asking, "Oh shit, for real?" Original comic by tumblr user cooltimesonline.
Screencap of a black tshirt with the white text "FUCK the ALGORITHM" in a blocky font. Above the text, a narrow white tag might be mistaken for a capital "I".
In Target’s beauty section, for example, the company is putting the trendy Supergoop sunscreen brand on shelves for the first time. It is also adding more sports and games merchandise for kids.
A top-down photo of a rusting bollard. Someone has written "who up writing they grafitti rn?" on it with a white paint pen.
greater dog, from undertale. It is a gigantic armored buff man, but the head is a little pom head. Also, the spear has a little pom face. And the bracer has a little pom face.
a small brown dimpled cup with large spikes irregularly protruding from the sides. The inside of the cup is a beautiful rusty red with dark rings.
The power output information on a USB wall plug.
Snowy evergreens flanking a mountain road. The sky is overcast, but a narrow stripe of blue is poking out just at the top of the treeline
A 32×32 LED matrix with various wires disappearing into it. It prominently displays the current temperature (45°), in blue (indicating that it is raining.) The daily hi/lo temps are displayed below that. A series of blocks along the bottom edge of the display indicate that it will continue to rain for the next 7 hours. A series of blocks along the right indicate that it will rain tomorrow, and then have a slight chance of snow for the next several days. The board is sitting on top of layout drawings on graph paper.