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okay people 🍀

it's time 🕟

for "the opposite of doomscrolling" 😎

the latest issue of my "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped -- free to read/subscribe here 📬 : https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-42-phytomining-adversarial-poetry-and/

Includes:

🎨 aerial embroidery
⛏️ "phytomining"
🚲 popping a wheelie for 93 miles
📖 adversarial poetry
🪢 "homo cordage"
🧮 incredibly weird Excel functions
🐉 why Smaug is like Achilles
🦼 "a cross between a wheelchair and a tank"
♾️ the "noperthedron"
☠️ libelous tombstones

... and much more more!

A hand holds a circular embroidery hoop showing a detailed, textured aerial landscape with fields, roads, clusters of green trees, and a bright blue canal running vertically through the center. A small embroidered boat floats on the canal, adding a pop of color against the green terrain. The stitching varies in texture and density to mimic foliage, paths, and water, giving the scene a rich, tactile depth

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TinheadNed

@tinheadned@dice.camp 8 months ago

@clive surely I'm not the first person to say I had a TV remote watch? I had a CMD-40 rather than the CMD-10 according to the internet. Made me popular in school, although I was too much a nerd to cause trouble. And it was obvious.

Casio CMD-40 is a very chunky digital watch with number buttons, volume, power, and a red IR window at the top. Only a cool kid would own one. I thought.

This one is dirty and battered. — Casio CMD-40 is a very chunky digital watch with number buttons, volume, power, and a red IR window at the top. Only a cool kid would own one. I thought. This one is dirty and battered.

dxzdb

@dxzdb@mastodon.social 8 months ago

@clive Wow - Amazing as always!

The ants socially distancing is just😵

Obscure Excel stuff is great! Amazing it can tell the OS - oh look Numbers didn't keep that INFO function

My parents still use Casio watches - and the way they set daylight savings time - is they each have 2 watches. I remember buying them one of those pulse ones.

Stĳn van Drongelen

@stiiin@infosec.space 8 months ago

@clive The dark mode version of this page is unreadable, especially the links and text inside blockquotes.

Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)

@artcollisions@vis.social 8 months ago

@clive by the way, been playing the cross between tetris and crossword game and really enjoying it!

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