Pavel

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Raised gifted; non-practicing. If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it. 🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him

The black and white fur of a skunk is barely visible through the greenery.
Heron standing in the water.
And why should the people listen to you? Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I have invincible power.
A photo from the zillow listing. Right next to the stairs there appears to be a miniature stylized mouse hole leading to a different room.
Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning.
Yoshikage Kira, a normal man who wants to live an ordinary life.
A man dressed as a car seat is sitting in a car. His face is grim as he puts on a helmet shaped like a headrest, completing his disguise.
Coca Cola text but it says Cao Cao.
Coca Cola font but it says Cloaca Cola
AQI of 69.
Campaign map screenshot from Total War Three Kingdoms.
Pierre Bezukhov, a foppish aristocrat in a top hat and purple coat holds a flintlock pistol incorrectly.
So long as we work, and work hard, without complaint, he said, there is nothing we cannot achieve. And so it was, although later scholars questioned whether it ever in fact needed to be. Clonus died before hé could see his vision of a humanity elevated by labour come to fruition, so it was his successor, Aemilis Nona Wells, who put down the first oxygen revolt.
Smoking one battery vs smoking 5 batteries diagram.
The box for Mr T Chia Pet. Moss grows out of the top of his head like a Mohawk.
Top row: 12 likes, 2 reposts. Bottom row: icon with 2 replies, icon with 2 reposts, icon with 12 likes. Arrows connect the likes and the replies on both rows to show that they have traded places.
CSS corner-shape property with options: round, scoop, bevel, notch, and squircle. Underneath are purple squares with the associated edge shapes: rounded, inverse rounded (like a round cross), diagonally cut off, square cut out (like a cross) and smaller rounded.
Croissant shaped disco ball
Map label that says Copetown.
Homer reading spoilers from a script ending with "with sexy results!"
Ji and Sarah try Jeppson's Pumpkin Spice Malort.
A double story g which is essentially made from 2 small loops connected by a stroke, a day a single story g which is one loop with a curved descender.
Kevin James shrugging meme.
Mochiko Karaage. The g is a double story variant but the descender loop is slanted so it looks like shit.
Ostap Bender, a man in a broad stripe suit, knit scarf, and sailor's cap. He wears a thin moustache and a sneer.
Billy Bishop's Flying School. Billy speaks to the students: So you want to be a flying ace? Well that's fine indeed. A new her for a new time! But most of you have a life expectancy of like a day so I'll get to the point. Your best bet is to be better than everyone else, that works for me so that's my advice. Oh and try to make sure that your plane is one of the ones that works. Student: But what do you do if you're in a fight and losing? Billy: Losing? That's a bad strategy so, plus it's gruesome. Winning is what I do, stick to that.
A plate of momos (a twisted dumpling) with a bit of spicy red sauce in the middle. The caption reads: ignore fomo, acquire momo.
Photo of an Imax theater showing the Odyssey with a soldier on screen who has a very tiny head and massive body.
A truck is driving across a bridge that falls apart under its weight, flipping the truck violently until it explodes.
View from an office building window of the Brooklyn Bridge. Nothing behind the bridge is visible.
Hipster saying the below skeet.
A kid in class passes a note to another kid. The kids are labeled Client and Server. The note is labeled 200. But when Client reads the note, the contents say: status code 400, detail: bad request.
Bilbo Baggins holding small sword.
Movie poster for Magic.
Movie poster for Vampire.
Frank Elavsky Incoming Assistant Professor of Data Science, Cal Poly SLO. I work on interactive visualization + accessibility, systems and tools. I don't call it "slop" because of arbitrary "taste." It is slop because I am a consequentialist and I observe what it does. It produces a firehose of impossible-to-follow information (worsens my experience of finding things) and because it contributes to environmental/ethical problems (makes the environment worse, IP theft, and so on). The slop is slop because it has material impact on the world, not because I think it is bad looking or low quality. I actually *love* some low resolution, janky stuff. Hito Steyerl's "In Defense of the Poor Image" is a cornerstone piece for me, in that regard. But I despise the impacts that massively-produced media has on the world. And this is also why I don't find modern LLM/genAI slop to be particularly novel kind of slop. We already had this problem! Social media had this issue in the past decade and decades before that the problem was (and still is) mass-produced plastics. It's just even worse in magnitude now. We produce immense amounts of waste and damage for our lived environment and the costs are significant. Arguments about industry or market forces are also funny because we are just getting better at hiding the damage/risks/costs or offloading them elsewhere.
Three story office building behind a fence.
Guy from the "there was a firefight" meme dramatically throwing up his hands in the air.
Part of a museum display showing a variety of farm equipment, including two overshoes meant to be worn by a horse like a human boot.
SpaceX stock price chart down 20% over the past month.
Pac Man ghosts.
A glass apothecary's vial marked 50cc air de Paris.
A stylized painting of a very chomky tiger.
Harney and sons tower of London flavored black tea.
TMNT logo that says fortune cookie writing hustle.
The cover of Bear by Marian Engel, showing a bear on its hind legs tenderly holding up a topless woman.
Newspaper cartoon: seeing new york with a cubist. The Rude descending a staircase (rush hour at the subway) - a a parody of Duchamp's The Nude Descending a Staircase.
Charcoal on brown paper sketch of an abstract head that has the long narrow chin and large round forehead of Hot Squidward.
Chili lemon crab pringles, French style chicken twister pringles, black truffle pringles.
Slow exposure photo of the Elephants Foot in Chernobyl, showing ghostly silhouettes of liquidators around a highly radioactive melted mass of core material.
A man toasting his own reflection in the mirror with a glass of beer.
< John Maeda Maggie Appleton › X Pavel Samsonov TIER 1 ANCHOR MEGAPHONE productpicnic.beehiiv.com Linkedin 71 Degree 40 Betweenness 92 Fit score High reach concentrated in one cluster a megaphone. Strong for volume in UX commentary/contrarian, but won't jump you to a new audience. Why they're on the map UX leader at AWS. Contrarian on Al-replaces-design. Al-as-coordination-problem framing sits alongside your scoring-as-lossy-compression. Details Niche: UX commentary/contrarian Platform: beehiiv + LinkedIn How to approach Path: Engage direct on their main platform. First move: Substantive comment on Tonkinwise post Where: Lives on beehiiv + LinkedIn start there. Cadence: Anchor - engage this week. One or two substantive replies; a citation in your next essay buys a credibility halo.
Canadians steer clear of U.S. travel and goods Percentage always/almost aways avoiding Percentage sometimes avoiding Total Buying U.S. produce 32% 36% 68% Buying U.S. alcohol 43% 21% 64% Traveling to U.S. 41% 56% Shopping at U.S.-owned retailers/websites 25% 30% 55% Note: Answer to survey question: "Changing the topic slightly, how often do you consciously avoid buying items from the USA when it comes to each of the following?" Source: Leger
Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) flour as an emerging functional ingredient for baking flavorful and nutritious whole wheat bread
Amount of rain per hour. The bar marked 1.86 is nearly as tall as the bar marked 17.29.
John Malkovich saying the below skeet.
>2018 wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing vidya excited to play some halo 2k19 xbox on XBOX ON "Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos Dew it right" "Doritos Dew it right" ERROR! Please drink a verification can >reach into my Doritos Mountain Dew Halo 2k19 War Chest >only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night still feeling sick from the 14 >force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot" xbox does nothing i attempt to smile "Connecting to verification server" "Verification complete" >finally boot up halo 2k19 finding multiplayer match... "ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!" >my mother just walked in the room >"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?" NO "Console entering lock state" "to unlock drink verification can" "WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card" last can drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick pour the last half out the window >PIRACY DETECTED PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE" >the mountain dew ad plays i have to dance for it >feeling so sick >makes me sing along dancing and singing >"mountain dew is for me and you" throw up on my self throw up on my tv and entertainment system router shorts ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF >"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"
A small net bag containing those chocolate coins in a golden wrapper.
The kid from the "you guys are getting paid?" meme in visible confusion.
Brutal.