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Atomic town family pre-detonation (via thesoftanonymous).
(via ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Ruins of Super Science | Atlas Obscura)
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(via Hypercube)
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“DELIVERY workers tramp through tunnels under Gaza — carrying bags and buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The famous fast food has gone underground as Palestinians order the takeaways from Egypt.
Boxes and bags emblazoned with Colonel Sanders famous red and white logo move swiftly through the smuggling tunnels that run beneath the border.
The fried food has to make its subterranean journey across as there is no KFC restaurant in the Palestinian region.
Israeli restrictions on Gaza crossings make it difficult to open an international fast food branch in the area.”
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La Photo du Jour 2065 : Paris, France
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58 Territorial Army soldiers of 4 MERCIAN are training in Cyprus for United Nations peacekeeping duties.
Major Paul Walkley said: “Our primary role is to provide the public order capability. Although disorder is unlikely, we need to train for that eventuality.”
Read more: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/reservists-train-for-un-cyprus-mission -
“The animated GIF, meanwhile—whose origins go back to the antediluvian age of dial-up modems and whose natural home is the resolutely non-artistic bottom-feed of Internet image production—rudely interrupts the unbroken sheen of all the slick shit, since to GIF an image is not only to create a loop, but—in very literal terms pertaining to the effects of LZW compression—to apply a verfremdungseffekt, or distancing effect. The shiny mirror finish of HD video is dithered to dust, dots and dashes, and all the smoothing of Photoshop reduced to a crude cartography of color. The v-effekt was one of political playwright Brecht’s theatrical techniques to ensure an audience never get too comfortable: a device to make the abstract immediate and the political relatable. Here, the distancing effect allows the moving image to circulate widely on low-bandwidth connections, bringing it closer to home. To GIF is to reduce a picture to the “poor image” defended by Hito Steyerl; the conditions of its own circulation made visible. “The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities… In short: it is about reality.” -
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Space Situational Awareness (SSA) (by AstriumTV)
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kid by facemassage - Artem Shumnik - CGHUB, via @tobias_revell
