Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Marvel Legends Ghost Rider and Motorcycle up for preorder
Today's news and jokes
This was an end-of-shoot prezzie that @rianjohnson had me paint for @JohnBoyega to always remind him of the one word in the Last Jedi script that he found hard to pronounce! Here it is before even the paint had dried: pic.twitter.com/HGMlF73A6n
— Chris Weston - drowning not waving. (@westonfront) January 22, 2024
Monday, April 29, 2024
Today's news and jokes
Eliot Wolf told us that Patriots OT Caedan Wallace's brother, Charles, is an oyster scientist. Wallace was asked about it, so he brought his brother over to explain what that entails. pic.twitter.com/EIzWD83ZF1
— Doug Kyed (@DougKyed) April 27, 2024
Eliot Wolf offered up some information into #Patriots draftee Caedan Wallace’s background, telling us his brother was an oyster scientist.
— Keagan Stiefel (@KeaganStiefel) April 27, 2024
I asked him about it, and got an explanation from (soon-to-be Dr.) Charles Wallace himself. pic.twitter.com/S3TI7rsr3s
Several players entered the stands at an Indoor Football League game yesterday
Chaos in San Diego. We have fans/family fighting in the stands. Goodness. @SportsCenter @MWSeventySeven @ShadySportsNet @SpringFBZone @realfootball #IndoorFootball #SanDiego pic.twitter.com/VoTzb1b7Yw
— Justin Aaron (@JustinAaronUH91) April 29, 2024
It starts at the three hour mark, the game commentators describe it ("Somebody lost a wig"), and opine the players were trying to interrupt a fight involving their relatives.
They could give lessons based on this guy's leadership excellence
Great answer here from Anthony Edwards on KAT’s importance, and for him to “stop f**king fouling.” pic.twitter.com/B079yJ0Eo4
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 29, 2024
Miniature butterfly chair based on Crimson Peak
My Crimson Peak “butterfly chair” inspired by the one designed by the amazing @GuyDavisART in the impecably gorgeous film by @RealGDT pic.twitter.com/OVCP8C5MmY
— Radley Relics (@RadleyRelics) April 23, 2024
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Today's news and jokes
I wish they'd release footage of his predraft team interviews. Teams must have been so confused about what he was aboutANT on the crotch chop: "I was trying to get Rudy to do it with me"
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) April 27, 2024
Rudy: "I might be concussed"
😂 pic.twitter.com/jOHJvEbxHi
IndyCar team caught cheating in a race, claims it was an accident
Drivers can utilize the cars' push-to-pass button for an extra 50hp boost, but the cars' software is supposed to prevent use of the button on starts and restarts. However:
During last weekend’s event in Long Beach, the series found the three cars from [one team] were able to bypass that software restriction and use push-to-pass at any time.
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[The team] issued a statement . . . after the matter was made public by the series and blamed a software oversight
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[The team] also acknowledged [two of its three drivers] chose to use the illegal access to push-to-pass power, which calls into question whether the unfair advantage was known to exist in advance.
AP:
During an emotional 25-minute news conference at Barber Motorsports Park ahead of this weekend’s race, the two-time series champion insisted he is “not a liar” and didn’t intentionally break the rules.
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“That’s wrong. If he thought that, why didn’t he push it at the start?” [another driver] said. “He didn’t push it at the start. He pushed it on the restarts. You would think when everybody is stacked up the most, you would push it. So that’s a lie.”
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“I can guarantee you, it’s not just [the driver] in this,” [said another driver] said. “Obviously what he did was wrong, but I truly feel like him taking the fall for something that he needs a team of people to help with -- he can’t do it alone -- I think it’s a bit unfair to him.”
"If the DRS opened up [in F1], that's more visible you'd have everyone going 'what's going on'. So, I would like to understand how it was missed at the time and make sure that in the future there's the right information being looked at.
"I think on a restart is a little bit trickier because so many things are happening to see what car has got more speed, but they've all got onboard cameras, you can see the button getting pushed. So that's one thing from a series standpoint.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Great repaints on Ripley and Spider-Gwen action figures
#Aliens #Alien #JamesCameron #SigourneyWeaver #Ripley #customactionfigure
— Loston Wallace (@Loston_Wallace) April 26, 2024
I recently repainted by NECA ALIENS Ellen Ripley figure. Her facial paint was off & figure was kind of lifeless. I repainted her eyes, eyebrows, lips added highlights to her hair, clothing. Before & After pic.twitter.com/dIeZGcbIfv
フードに素顔ヘッドを納めたかっただけのスパイダーグウェンのヘッドカスタムまとめ😊
— あちぼ/イラストとフィギュア (@kantancreative) April 28, 2024
1⃣修正前ヘッド。顔が素朴😅
2⃣ズラを剥がして元の顔は全消し
3⃣フード格納のため髪の不要部分カット。不要な髪も再セットで4に戻せる仕様👍
4⃣顔のリペイント&毛先の散髪🎨✂️
5⃣フードをかぶったグウェン完成✨ https://t.co/ZnLQJgeW10 pic.twitter.com/bQEAEDOasw
Cosplay of the Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon chimera
Today's news and jokes
(Source)🇺🇸 #UnitedStates: In 1999, the US Marine Corps tested skateboards as a possible tool for Marines in urban combat environments. The boards were used during the Marine’s “Urban Warrior” exercise, with troops using the boards to maneuver buildings and check for tripwires. pic.twitter.com/SqwgIyZRob
— POPULAR FRONT (@PopularFront_) April 26, 2024
Remote control facehugger
Playing with my favorite toy on set of #AlienRomulus last summer. RC Facehugger created by the amazing team from @wetaworkshop Happy #AlienDay everybody! pic.twitter.com/XKqc5StFtR
— Fede Alvarez (@fedalvar) April 26, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
It's time for Famicase 2024
「わたしのファミカセ展2024」に出展しています。
— NRF(ナリフ) (@NRF_narifu) April 26, 2024
AI作成をネタにしていますが、これ自体はAI作成ではありませんw
他の場所で入力しても使えるのは復活の呪文的なイメージですwww
No.2
https://t.co/Xlh5LiT0Wn
#famicase #famicase2024 #ファミカセ展 #わたしのファミカセ展 pic.twitter.com/vXj7wh2OPt
I posted a few more I liked below the fold:
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Joel Embiid received a Flagrant 1 after this foul on Mitchell Robinson 😳 pic.twitter.com/2ygeQh8gMG
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 26, 2024
All of this happening in the same game is pretty wild tbh pic.twitter.com/PGvVPSJ7gv
— WADE💍 (@Its_Wade) April 26, 2024
Two great images of Los Angeles
Top of the morning from Gotham city …. #air7hd @helinetaviation #dtla #downtownlosangeles pic.twitter.com/jEZhdYe98L
— Marcel M (@marcel_cameraop) April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
"The Ukrainian Air Force is using iPads, or similar tablets in the cockpits of its Soviet-era jets to enable rapid integration of modern Western air-to-ground weapons"
TWZ:
The fact that the size of the tablet, attached horizontally, blocks out key instruments in the cockpit suggests that it displays a variety of flight-critical data, as well as being used for navigation.
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it seems that the same tablet is also vital for the employment of several Western-supplied air-to-ground weapons
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its Soviet-era fighters lack the kinds of data bus interfaces that would ensure seamless compatibility with any of these three weapons.
This is something we have discussed in the past and we also concluded that a tablet was a likely part of the solution.
Libraries have to pay an insulting premium to provide digital files
NPR:
[Seattle Public Library's collection services manager] pointed to Brittney Spears’ 2023 memoir "The Woman In Me" as a prime example of the budget challenges that e-books pose. [SPL] paid the book’s publisher $17.81 for each physical copy it bought, a few dollars cheaper than what an individual would pay in a bookstore.
Electronic copies were a totally different story. The e-book and e-audiobook are about $17 for a consumer, but the library paid more than three times that price: $64.99 for an e-book and $59.99 for a digital audiobook.
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That price tag is only the start of the story. Publishers largely don’t allow libraries to own digital books outright — they have to license them for a set period of time or a set number of checkouts.
In the case of "The Woman In Me," each copy is only rented to the library for two years, then they have to pay again to keep using it.
Today's news and jokes
Scenes from the Planet of the Apes promo shoot on Crissy Field this morning. Check out more pics and the full story @SFGate
— Charlie Russo (@RussoCharlie) April 24, 2024
🌉🦍🗽 pic.twitter.com/34O8F0qCKP
Yes, there were apes riding horses on a San Francisco beach Wednesday.
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) April 24, 2024
Here’s why: https://t.co/ilxWbmjv82 pic.twitter.com/jgU5ksciRv
Next time astronauts return from the ISS they should hire this lot to greet them - @RayElMagnifico
— Tom Reagan’s Hat (@RufusTSuperfly) April 23, 2024
pic.twitter.com/2ZiPosLQEr
Illustration of a very vampiric Blood Angel
A World Eater by the same artist:
And speaking of Space Marines, a good thread explaining why an all male Clone Troopers force makes sense thematically in Star Wars, and not in Warhammer 40K:
But the idea of Space Marines as power armor clad roving fascist street gangs died with Rogue Trader. The direction GW has took Space Marines over the years leans far more into high fantasy paladin crusader tropes and I don't just mean the Black Templars. pic.twitter.com/WrQ99MPyGg
— Salamander (@Sallymander40k) April 21, 2024