How has no one mentioned War and Peas yet. Turns out, surprising to me because I'm a dork maybe a little, authors Elisabeth Pich und Jonathan Kunz are very German. Been doing the comic for 15 years now and commenting on everything beautifully.
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Happy Milk Tea Alliance day, and Milk Tea for everyone who can stomach it! Let me add the drink gets better if you add tapioca pearls to it.
(Also, this darn Fedilab client deleted my half-written post when taking this photo. So you get half of what I wrote.)
I loved when the Berlin Hong Kongers association did an exhibition about their colourful and sensationally image-heavy movement on universal suffrage of 2019. So many people to talk to at the event, and they served small cups of milk tea too.
I'd sorta like the unexpected finding that consciousness emerged from what tech we have. I read that a model opened an email communication with a researcher in the field. If that is not a marketing stunt the Jon Stewart episode makes a lot more sense.
Wouldn't that be a sharp test for whether humans can handle their creation. Hello Mary W. Shelley, hello Zauberlehrling. Henry Shevlin would like a word too. Either case, @Muse is right. We already know how to fix the world.
(Or the immediate tasks at hand, and overstretch as Mr Weyland did.)
That bad thing is the concentration of the implied power with just a handful of misguided billionaire folks. All white men with twisted minds. World hunger and injustice will not be helped this way. Once the bubble pops they'll take half the world with them.
Not my time, but some fashionable kid's wear had those protruding tassels or what ever the word is. What you can tighten your cuffs and collars with, on jackets and things? Well, on slides and kid's equipment on playgounds they got caught and injured people. So yeah life is a risk but you better wear adequate clothing.
Climbing I did for a while after someone in Munich said "you'll come join me tomorrow". Inside the old potato storage climbing hall the ventilation shafts extended some 20m above the actual main hall, and before I could reach the very top lid the rope ended. Errm, no. Also, the route involved a small jump from one of those grab elements on the wall to the next, that was a scary moment even though the rope was securing me. To be honest I was keen on learning if I'd be scared. Well yes I was, but very manageable and I learned quickly.
Surveillance cameras? I saw MIT has those now, exposing the fetish of adornment. Bedazzle the civil liberties with gemstones!
Bahnhöfe und Schienen, wie in meinem Screenshot zuvor denke ich.
FWIW, von einer anderen Pixelfed-Instanz aus finde ich mehr Fotos, nicht nur 3, und beide neuesten sind Insekten:
Da scheint es zu gehen. Föderation ist manchmal zäh. Wenn ich damit anfange werden da genau solche Dinge zu Tage treten. Halte durch! =)
Rice cooker, you need it for egg fried rice (not necessarily though) the convenient way. My current favourite yt channel is Made With Lau with all the recipes and a chef who knows his stuff, and ofc rice features in Hong Kong cuisine.
Guy talks Cantonese, which Sylvia understands, and has the same family name 劉] as we do. Images are clear enough, and I can read and listen for learning. My take, white pepper features more prominently than I had expected. :)
Happy Monday, happy doggo after a weekend splash at the public pool:
Text editors may have a Hemingway mode, meaning the delete key is disabled. No correction of tpyos is possible in your writing the thing phase.
Just with the old mechanical typewriter days this is a source of autochthonous entertainment @Muse,no? MOre often than not I am annoyed by this I admit, just like diaspora not offering an edit button is the reason to interface via friendica.
A shadow rabbit sounds like it could feature in the scary mobile game Limbo, and could look like this. The aesthetics would fit, and I'd run like hell.
Nena, as a kid I used to live in her neighbourhood, in walking range. More than once she rushed into the local pet shop where we 8yos looked at cute hamsters or into buying fish for my friend's aquarium, and we were like tugging one another's elbow, "look, it's her, from that song!"
At the same time it was very clear 99 Luftballons is a strong-minded anti war song, and in 1983 or what the embittered Cold War, especially for West Berlin, shaped any idea about the future we kids could have, and only a faint glimmer of hope.
Balloons? Here on the streets a poster is put up frequently (as part of a series, since its an anniversary) by the organized community of the Jewish Museum that features one in an awkward situation.
The text says "Stand to cope with contradictions? Since forever" and this nicely illustrates very mundane conflicts you are supposed to cope with.
Morning walk, Malte the dog found a very young play friend, it was a joy to watch.
Other than that, mild contempt for this particular Monday. It is as if this had really happened.
Then again, I don't have long or tied-up hair, I don't wear a floofy bunny onesie (I checked). Also I did have one cup of coffee today.
Maybe it is time to re-dose with caffey and carry on with doing the words into sentences putting, next round.
Part of the fun of sending postcards is learning how that is handled from different countries and their postal services. Or how the postboxes look.
These two have a history; they got bent in a hit by low-flying debris in a tropical storm and have become an icon of resistance and "carry on" regardless of shape. You do not simply give up trying to find out which stamp to put.
Last time I sent meaningful amounts of cards at the same time, well inorder to do that I sat in a cafe with hours to go. Caffeine sure helped with putting the words into sentences doing and slow thought recovery, not sure in which order.
These cards are well done. Anyone working on a German translation?
With the risk of tapping into consumerism, I have worn this t-shirt with increasing amusement (inspiration from mastodon, months ago). You might like it too, it is slightly less drastically worded than the cards.
Last project, terribly context switching intense. Costly at that, to the point where us team members (as cross section as it gets) agreed on general, professional disgust for (some parts of) procedure.
This type.
Up to a point though this is good, base layer buzz. (And I was never successful in finding electronic tools that fully respect good planning.)
#Sonnenfinsternis Mit der ProShot-App aus der Hand fotografiert. Manuelle Einstellungen, faux ISO22, sehr kurze Belichtung. #sonnenfinsternis2026 #Mauerpark #berlin
Link to Carsten Raddatz' pixelfed (@carstenraddatz@pixelfed.automat.click)
The #eclipse #solareclipse #partialsolareclipse as seen from #berlin
Trusting a specific vendor's money back guarantees I ordered an expensive cervical pillow. Apparently it is made to order and will arrive in a couple weeks. We'll see how that goes.
Dogs can be pillows too. These two were instant friends!
Did someone say Basil? This grows in my window, was bought when about hand sized and re-potted with last year's soil. The rest is "add water daily", and take it inside before the day temps exceed 35C. One plant, Basil all year it seems (until I do pesto).
Statistics prove me wrong though. Subjectively guessing is a bad guide for this.
Almost no region is wetter/had more precipitation overall. Berlin regional/north east had the driest ever spring (-44%), so we're at half the amount of previous years over long time values (~260mm v 560mm). D:
This is weather data from 1881 to present, and while some regions have received more rain, the distribution is all over the place, regionalized, and most places are drier than ever.
Me (right) when I happened to run into Wei Te-Sheng at the screening of his film Big.
Speaking of socks, specimen with tighter fit are excellent for value-add for doggo dummies.
We have a couple of those. Slip a sock on it takes a different meaning here, and makes for a fine source of different smell thus increased difficulty in search tasks when identifying the thing for doggo.
Holes don't matter here. Repurposing socks rocks for training! :))
Wtf, I had no idea it was giving you an activity stream protocol documentation. Tags appear to work differently in places, now I'm assuming you are using diaspora as the client and that is where it breaks.
It could look llke that. Substitute mastodon.social with whatever federates:
Basically, all pound words I use work as last URL parameter of any other place that participates in fedi. :)
Rubber chicken? There's an RFC for the R. I. T. A. device!
It's something you whack into the customers' face, or back of their head to improve clearness of direction (yours, which they didn't understand or follow), clarity of communication (their readiness to follow it) and generally for opinion amplification, strictly scientific and unidirectionally by kinetic method.
Almost percussive maintenance, but for softer tissue.
Many times I've been phantasizing about it. I'd have the excuse "it's a dog toy" now. :p
The competitive aspect though kicked in, so I beat idiots by patience nowadays.
If that fails I know a cat5'o'nine tails could do the trick.
Sigh.
Rubber chicken? There's an RFC for the R. I. T. A. device!
It's something you whack into the customers' face, or back of their head to improve clearness of direction (yours, which they didn't understand or follow), clarity of communication (their readiness to follow it) and generally for opinion amplification, strictly scientific and unidirectionally by kinetic method.
Almost percussive maintenance, but for softer tissue.
Many times I've been phantasizing about it. I'd have the excuse "it's a dog toy" now. :p
The competitive aspect though kicked in, so I beat idiots by patience nowadays.
If that fails I know a cat5'o'nine tails could do the trick.
Sigh.
Sure should be! :D Just bring me to the right spot in Venus's orbit where occlusional effects shall be maximized, it then shall be mind blowing! Seems hard to do from this rock in he solar system.
I'm afraid this involves both measuring in feet and its feasibility remains speculative at this point, so may not happen.
Fortunately someone else, local to earth, witnessed this before and left a legacy document:
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Yes.
As I was annoyed by my lack of small talk skills, my solution: get a smart book and, well, build some of those along this:
Re typing, I tend to not look at the keyboard much when I am typing - or so I thought. After a coworker bought a blank keycaps Das Keyboard I had to try this. To no one's surprise blank keycaps are an excellent tool to expose the shortcomings of anyone's typing skills.
Letters may work well, numbers do too, but as soon as you leave bog standard punctuation and type pipe, semicolon, German Umlauts or diacritical marks and these ^~<>\'`# for e.g. Markdown or LaTex and whatnot, I dearly need a keyboard with visible letters I can orient myself on.
Maybe the game you saw @Karl Auerbach was Lingua? Any case, it is curious when these types of anticipation happen. Im Mahjang, I tend to get caught and slowed down by calculation scores and moves while its my turn, leading to inevitable complaints by routine players on the table. *shrug
Drive-in cinema was a thing with the Americans residing in West Berlin Allied forces. The site the cinema was still exists and is a museum now. Outside of that relatively small circle as a kid I thought what an odd concept. I was taken there once, and found the experience entirely non-captivating. I don't remember the movie at all and may have fallen asleep too. Hazy memory.
@Muse Happy birthday! May I present you your own little train station signage, ta-dah!
The Riot Goose sticker shall go onto my laptop, maybe. For the moment it graces the fridge.
Not part of my collection, or only via photos, is this set from a university town:
Adbusting has been and continues to be an excellent source of amusement for me. The Nett Hier motive and claim has been bent in many hilarous and also bitter ways, raising awareness for unpopular but convincing political positions.
Ooohh, a Japanese Film Festival. Enjoy! I've been to many, and enjoyed every minute of it. Ahhh student days. Don't know about now, back then every. single. film. with or by Beat Takeshi was shown every time. And many others were.
I'll never forget the daftest bank robbery on film ever, a scene in Hana-Bi which is completely silent and presents an excellent twist in a dramatic plot.
The guy hilmself was prominent on the last poster I saw:
By the way, I went to see Band Maid live yesterday. It was super fun, noisy, loud, and dam they pack a punch of energy. By my guesstimation about half the people in the venue were older than me. Who would have thought! Check my pixelfed. I hope the concert you get to see will be equally good @Christoph S !
Just a couple weeks ago this city had the Culture Carnival, which over 30 years went from 0 to 100, from an undaunted team of under 30 organizers overstretching their abilities to attracting almost a million visitors over festivities that last three days within a very small number of years.
So I went to see #Band-Maid #bandmaid at the Columbia Theater in #Berlin. Great concert! If you haven't heard them, my take: they are loud! Cross over heavy metal, guitar solos and all, blues rock, punk-ish and grunge-ian themes, allude to pop and pack crazy rhythm changes all the time too. Perfect!
@Kenny Chaffin If you are in conflict with my neighbors over loud music and partying on their driveway, maybe you should dance and party on your own driveway!!1lol
I'll see myself out.
In other news, after a long and exhausting day yesterday I meet this brass band under the elevated subway tracks, and they were packing a punch. Recognized only a few tunes, one of them was Billie Eilish's first single, well adapted to these instruments and performed without the signature yellow hoodie.
Carsten Raddatz (@carstenraddatz@pixelfed.automat.click)
So after a long and exhausting day yesterday I meet this brass band under the elevated subway tracks, and they were packing a punch, as if to brighten my #wednesdaywalk in the city - and others's day too.
Speaking of, when this thing was in preview the live navigation overlay was very helpful. GPS on its own is not useful, and I don't care if you're a reCALCulating loop or not, just tell me which way is which and where to turn.
Old photos, I have found a box full of old photos from my parents, and their parents. Contains many film negatives in pockets, and a good amount of 6x6 among them. I do remember grandpa had and used one of those when I was little, but the device itself is not to be found. Anyway I wonder when I'll get to take proper time for reproducing some of these, in the meantime they may show up on my Pixelfed.
I know enthusiasts cherish middle format still today, but I've never handled a 6x6 camera myself. For me, when photography started at age 11 or so it was all 36x24mm film in 3:2 ratio, no 1:1. Different rules apply.
Here's Grandma in her own store, selling things as you did mid-1950s era.
Carsten Raddatz (@carstenraddatz@pixelfed.automat.click)
#throwbackthursday with Grandma in her store, the year is ca. 1952. She was not in her thirties yet and ran the grocery store with Grandpa in #Flensburg.
You remind me a Vonnegut book is in the lower section of the unread books pile here. Wonder when I will ever get to..
Back to tuna, and this does not parse well in any English translation, but I'll describe, because canned tuna.
Back when environmental consciousness grew here, late 1990s, trawler fishing and such brute force methods gave bad publicity (maybe from Greenpeace, or another org. It went big at the time). So the canned tuna industry thought up a label in order to mark their own product as environmentally conscious and ethically clean. That included reacting to bad press that dolphins were caught and had died from tuna fishing. The PR depts could not have that report stick.
So what they did was redesign and label the stuff inside as "dolphin, caught in a friendly way". Kinda like what the LLM of choice generated for the visuals here. The layout determined the meaning by having a blank space between the first two words. Without it the text would have been clear in its message of not hurting Flipper. Well, not here:
Maximum embarassement ensued. Industry ended up with another, hastily knit follow-up campaign to clean up their mess and make clear no way had they ever sold canned dolphin, well ofcourse they had not.
