(smirking While Handing You A Hard Shell Crab) Have A Big Bite Dude. Of Course It's A Soft Shell Crab

Bruckner Expressway, South Bronx, 1958

NYC Municipal Archives

N.F. Burnham’s Water Wheel, patented on 7/16/1872. Handprint, date unknown. 

Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911

Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978

Image description: Exterior and interior views of a short, cylindrical device which has a number of moveable flaps around the circumference. 

Image description: The reverse of Page 1, with a Patent Office stamp, burns from the acidic ink on Page 3, and a large handprint, as though someone used a sticky or dirty hand to pick up the page.

The White House bragging about how many different countries have reached out to negotiate in response to the tariffs reminds me of that part of Disco Elysium where you have the option to put a loaded gun in your mouth and threaten to pull the trigger as a negotiating tactic. It is certainly one way to start a conversation!

Purple-backed Thornbill (Ramphomicron microrhynchum), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Colombia

photograph by Cristian Valencia

the sun won't consume the earth for another 5-7 billion years.. plenty of time to chill (chills for 5-7 billion years) ah - the sun!!

When you switch on a lightbulb, your eyes perceive photons, and some neurons in your brain activate. If you switch off the light, then so-called ‘off’ neurons activate. You don’t actually “stop seeing” when you’re in the dark. No; the mind physically represents nothingness in a pattern of neurons.

The phrase “nothing exists” is not a self-contradicting statement but a statement of fact. Nothing exists.

I remember Toonami. And Cowboy Bebop and Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin at 3am. Anime reruns on the screen.

[…] the word can refer to sandwiches or cigars, surrounding context is required to disambiguate it.

Today I learned that in pre-Columbian, pre-Hispanic cultures like the Aztec, women and children were frequently sacrificed. Parents often authorized the sacrifice of their own children. Some even ate their own children.

Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn