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“There is no difference between passive resistance and passive collaboration — it's the same thing.” W. G. Sebald
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Starting in 1967, experimentalists using the new 20-GeV linear electron accelerator at SLAC began a series of experiments designed to measure the scattering of electrons [“electrons” struck through; added in red pen: “alpha-particles”] off of a proton target. The great majority of the collisions of this kind lead to a relatively small transfer of momentum between the electron and the target, and it was these that had been the focus of most experiments. The SLAC experimentalists were able instead to measure scatterings that involved a large momentum transfer.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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little baby
a small black and white cat looking at the lens, long white whiskers akimbo
December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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found this in a used book. what is it? they read like cryptic crossword clues, but why have 21 of them on a card?
1 NASTIER MICHAEL BARON'S WORD LIST FORGOT "PUKED" 2 STONIER GO PROBE ROCKS: JUST HEAVENLY 3 AIR-TONE BACH'S PLAN: DART CZAR 4 ENTRIES ENTRY: CURVY FOX. MIKE'S GLAD. 5 ERASION *BAFFLING SOME DETECTIVES 6 ATONERS FRUMPS BEING NICE 7 SARDINE PROVEN SALTED GRUB 8 SERIATE HELPED MY NEW TERMS 9 EASTERN BROUGHT JOVIAL FACES 10 AIR-TOES **MJ HAD VENTURED 11 NAILERS PEGS HIT MY COVERED BOX 12 RETAILS I GET CRUMPLED STUFF? BUNK! 13 ATONIES *into-sea SCRAMBLED POND 14 SAINTED GETS IMPROVED TOUCH 15 TIRADES WOMAN-BLASTED SPEECHES 16 TONE-AID ** İMPROVES BENT MUSiCAL 17 ALE- RIOT **FIVe-DOZeN-BeeR CHAMP 18 LATRINE MOVING FUNNY SPICES 19 GAINERS DANGER WAVY STOMACH PROBLEM 20 TRAINEE GIRL'S KID CHIMP 21 RATIONS BOTTLED BOWL JUG CUPS
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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yeah
Disquiet by The Necks, in front of an old full-size CD player
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Matt Damon holding a newspaper clipping and saying “And?” Ben Affleck replying, “You have to keep reading.”
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.
light blasting through high apertures into an industrial-looking space. in the foreground a mid-century desk and chair can be discerned
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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120. don’t worry about it
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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we’ve all been there
Tolkien had used "gnome" in his earlier writing to refer to the second kindred of the High Elves—the Noldor (or "Deep Elves")—thinking that "gnome", derived from the Greek gnosis (knowledge), was a good name for the wisest of the elves. However, because of the term's association with garden gnomes, Tolkien abandoned the term.
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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hey buddy
a black cat lying in the shade of a grubby white picket fence
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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attention to detail (famed)
iPhone lock screen with jacked time display, flush left for some reason
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as "naïve" and "Laocoön" will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reelect the President. Those two dots, often mistaken for an umlaut, are actually a diaeresis (pronounced "die heiresses"; it's from the Greek for "divide"). The difference is that an umlaut is a German thing that alters the pronunciation of a vowel (Brünnhilde), and often changes the meaning of a word: schon (adv.), already; schön (adj.), beautiful. In the case of a diphthong, the umlaut goes over the first vowel. And it is crucial. A diaeresis goes over the second vowel and indicates that it forms a separate syllable. Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential. Even Fowler, of Fowler's "Modern English Usage," says that the diaeresis "is in English an obsolescent symbol." It's actually a lot of trouble, these days, to get the diaeresis to stick over the vowels. The autocorrect on my word-processing program (I was just kidding about the hole punch) automatically whisks it off, and I have to go back, highlight the letter, hold down the option key while pressing the "u," and then retype the appropriate letter. The question is: Why bother? I am not getting paid by the hour. The fact is that, absent the two dots, most people would not trip over the "coop" in "cooperate" or the "reel" in "reelect" (though they might pronounce the "zoo" in "zoological," a potential application of the diaeresis that we get no credit for resisting). And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep the cow out of co-workers. Basically, we have three options for these kinds of words: "cooperate," "co-operate," and "coöperate." Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application. The diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most. We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died. This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since.
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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it’s a hard world for little things
a large tabby lying on her side, sleeping soundly on a hardwood floor
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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not sure the government has really tamed inflation as they claim
marvel rivals boss bars with HP of many billions and multipliers well over 90,000
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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new fruit just droppped
a small black and white cat loafing in a square wooden friit bowl
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I already have Elephant
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November 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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posting something random simply for the love of the game
a map from a 4X game with the largest territory being labelled CUMANIA
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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kickin it old style
close up of a full-size CD player and the envelope for the CD it is playing, Autechre NTS Session 3
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM