For whatever reason—and I don’t feel any particular existential dread at the prospect, nor am I feeling suicidal—I have a strong, undeniable feeling that I am not going to live to see 2024. This has lit a bit of a fire under me…
…I particularly love the work by Yuka Wada and Miyuki Sana.
In January 1928, Tom Howard of the “Daily News” smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a picture of Ruth Snyder’s final moments
https://www.cupoty.com/winners-04
The Top 100 winners gallery of Close-up Photographer of the Year 04 (2022)
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Twitter is creaking. Social media seems less fun than ever. Maybe it’s time to get a little more personal.
You’re barely beyond the grasp of our small sun refusing to let go. Wave goodbye to our last, demoted planet. Next stop: Alpha Centauri proximity, year 19600 AD. In the time it took humans to evolve from neanderthal to digital lemming you’ll cross the lawn to say hello to our next-door neighbor. If there’s life there that resembles your gold-etched humans, they’ll be more human than I. Here I carry a practical supercomputer in my pocket that can connect to Dial-a-Prayer across 13,000 miles, guided by a cranial electric storm, while mapping the walk where I tripped over a lost, tilted grave. You cross 13,000 miles in a fraction of a second, steered by a computer less powerful than a Pac Man watch. Who knows what seed you carry. I fell to Earth before you left our atmosphere. Blink three times if you miss me.
[CW: ref to violence and self-harm]
2xl: 2016-01-18 → https://fncll.org/2xl-2016-01-18/
It takes 11 lbs of force to strangle a human being.
A bit more weight than a bag of sugar or a gallon-and-a-half of milk.
Or 20 average paperback romance novels.
Or 22 hard drives with 9 million songs or 6 million books or god knows how many ones and zeroes that can be forced to squeak and bleat into the unending silence.
The Gripmaster Pro ™ requires 11 lbs of force per finger, “appropriate only for individuals requiring extreme and extraordinary grasping power.”
The NYPD modifies their service firearms to a 12-pound trigger pull.
In 2012, NYPD police officers wounded 9 bystanders outside the Empire State Building; there were no superheroes in sight.
Your choice: the Beretta Model 455 SXS Express Rifle with walnut hand-checkered grip and fore-end, side-lock action, case-hardened finish and double triggers or the Ithaca Model 37 Deerslayer II pump shotgun.
Take home that 11-lb turkey…143 minutes in the oven and 11 greasy-forks picking at the carcass.
An old rule of thumb: when a baby reaches 11 lbs they’ll start to sleep more soundly at night.
Khloé Kardashian reveals how she lost 11 lbs in a month!
I’ve lost at least 11 lbs on at least 11 diets including low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie and the cabbage soup plan.
But the 11lb bullfrog is just a myth, the Internet tells me (but the Internet tells me a lot of things).
A newly-hatched Sauropod, a dinosaur known for its immense size, weighed around 11 pounds, about as much as a housecat.
Maybe you’re more comfortable thinking of this as 5 kilograms or 3/4 of a stone.
I can curl an 11-lb dumbbell 192 times in a row…and counting.
Reported time of application to unconsciousness due to strangulation range from 7 seconds to a minute.
He nailed a rope to a beam on his patio.
She tried to drive away.
The most important things weigh nothing at all.