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mostlysignssomeportents · 9 months ago

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You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar 9-10), then SAN FRANCISCO (Mar 13), Anaheim, and more!

If you're running a business, you can either invest at being good at your business, or good at Google SEO. Choose the former and your customers will love you – but they won't be able to find you, thanks to the people who choose the latter. And if you're going to invest in top-notch SEO, why bother investing in quality at all?

For more than a decade, Google has promised that it would do something about "lead gens" – services that spoof Google into thinking that they are local businesses, pushing down legit firms on both regular search and Google Maps (these downranked businesses invested in quality, not SEO, remember). Search for a roofer, a plumber, an electrician, or a locksmith (especially a locksmith), and most or all of the results will be lead-gens. They'll take your call, pretend to be a local business, and then call up some half-qualified bozo to come out and charge you four times the going rate for substandard work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html

Some of them just take your money and they "go back to the shop for a tool" and never return:

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/when-a-fake-business-used-a-real-st-louis-address-things-got-weird-32087998

Google has been promising to fix this since the late aughts, and to be fair, it's a little better. There was once a time when a map of Manhattan showed more locksmiths than taxis:

https://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/02/18/google-maps-proves-more-locksmiths-in-nyc-than-cabs/

But GMaps is trapped in the enshittification squeeze. On the one hand, the company wants to provide a good and reliable map. On the other hand, the company makes money selling "ads" that are actually payola, where a business can pay to get to the top of the listings or get displayed on the map itself. Zoom out of Google's map of central London and the highlighted landmarks are a hilarious mix of "organic" and paid listings: the British Museum, Buckingham Palace, the Barbican, the London Eye…and a random oral and maxillofacial clinic in the financial district:

https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1764711667663831455

Hell of a job "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful," Big G. Doubtless the average Londoner finds the presence of this clinic super helpful in orienting themselves relative to the map on their phone screens, and it's a real service to tourists hoping to hit all the major landmarks.

It's not just Maps users who'd noticed the rampant enshittification. Even the original design team is so horrified they're moved to speak out about the moral injury they experience seeing the product they worked so hard on turned into a giant pile of shit:

https://twitter.com/elizlaraki/status/1727351922254852182

Now, when it comes to locksmiths, I'm lucky. My neighborhood in Burbank includes the wonderful Golden State Lock and Safe, which has been in business since 1942:

https://www.goldenstatelock.com/

But you wouldn't know it from searching GMaps for a locksmith near me. That search turns up a long list of scams:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/locksmith/@34.1750451,-118.369948,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu

It also turns up plenty of Keyme machines – these are private-equity backed, self-serve key-cutting machines placed in grocery stores. Despite Keyme calling itself a "locksmith," it's just a badly secured, overcaptilized, enshittification-bound system for collecting and retaining shapefiles for the keys to millions of homes, cross-referenced with billing information that will make it easy for the eventual hackers to mass-produce keys for all those poor suckers' houses.

(Hilariously, Keyme claims to be an "AI" company):

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200114005194/en/KeyMe-Raises-35-Million-to-Further-Its-Mission-of-Building-the-Premier-Locksmith-Services-Company-in-the-Nation

But despite the fact that you can literally see the Golden State storefront from Google Streetview, Google Maps claims to have no knowledge of it. Instead, Streetview labels Golden State "Keyme" – and displays a preview showing a locksmith using a tool to break into a jeep (I'd dearly love to know how the gadget next to the Slurpee machine at the 7-Eleven will drive itself to your jeep and unlock the door for you when you lose your keys):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/KeyMe+Locksmiths/@34.1752624,-118.3487531,3a,75y,350.19h,90.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssHrtqjqvgFir3NBauMy13Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x80c2959cd65dbb1b:0x4b3744cf87492a71!2sBurbank+Blvd+%26+N+Hollywood+Way,+Burbank,+CA+91505!3b1!8m2!3d34.1750025!4d-118.3493484!16s%2Fg%2F11f37_3lq8!3m5!1s0x80c2951cedbf4d39:0xe8ff9fd5872e66e9!8m2!3d34.1755176!4d-118.349!16s%2Fg%2F11mw7nr4fx?entry=ttu

It's pretty clear to me what's going on here. Keyme has hired some SEO creeps and/or paid off Google, flooding the zone with listings for its machines. Meanwhile, Golden State, being merely good at locksmithing, has lost the SEO wars. Perhaps Golden State could shift some of its emphasis from being good at locksmithing in order to get better at SEO, but this is a race that will always be won by the firm that puts the most into SEO, which will always be the firm that puts the least into quality.

Whenever I write about this stuff, people inevitably ask me which search engine they should use, if not Google?

And there's the rub.

Google used predatory pricing and anticompetitive mergers to acquire a 90% search market-share. The company spends more than $26b/year buying default position in every place where you might possibly encounter a new search engine. This created the "kill zone" – the VC's term of art for businesses that no one will invest in, because Google makes sure that no one will ever find out it exists:

https://www.theverge.com/23802382/search-engine-google-neeva-android

That's why the only serious competitor to Google is Bing, another Big Tech company (Bing is also the primary source of results on Duckduckgo, which is why DDG sometimes makes exceptions for Microsoft's privacy-invading tracking):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies

Google tells us that the quid-pro-quo of search monopolization is search excellence. The hundreds of billions it makes every year through monopoly control gives it the resources it needs to fight spammers and maintain search result quality. Anyone who's paid attention recently knows that this is bullshit: Google search quality is in free-fall, across all its products:

https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf

But Google doesn't seem to think it has a problem. Rather than devoting all its available resources to fighting botshit, spam and scams, the company set $80 billion dollars alight last year with a stock buyback that was swiftly followed with 12,000 layoffs, followed by multiple subsequent rounds of layoffs:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

The scams that slip through Google's cracks are sometimes nefarious, but just as often they're decidedly amateurish, the kind of thing that Google could fix by throwing money at the problem, say, to validate that new ads for confirmed Google merchants come from the merchant's registered email addresses and go to the merchant's registered website:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security

Search is a capital intensive business, and there are real returns to scale, as the UK Competition and Market Authority's excellent 2020 study describes:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fe4957c8fa8f56aeff87c12/Appendix_I_-_search_quality_v.3_WEB_.pdf

But Google doesn't seem to think that its search needs that $80 billion to fight the spamwars. That's the thing about monopolists, they get complacent. As Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine the AT&T operator" used to say, "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company."

That's why I'm so excited about the DOJ Antitrust Division monopolization case against Google. Trusting one company to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," was a failure:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies

I understand why people want to know which search engine they should use instead of Google, and I get why, "There aren't any good search engines" is such an unsatisfactory answer. I understand why each fresh round of printer-company fuckery prompts people to ask "which printer should I get?" and I understand why "There are only six major printer companies and they're all suffering from end-stage enshittification" isn't what anyone wants to hear.

We want to be able to vote with our wallets, because it's so much faster and more convenient than voting with our ballots. But the vote-with-your-wallet election is rigged for the people with the thickest wallets. Try as hard as you'd like, you just can't shop your way out of a monopoly – that's like trying to recycle your way out of the climate emergency. Systemic problems need systemic solutions – not individual ones.

That's why the new antitrust matters so much. The answer to monopolies is to break up companies, block and unwind mergers, ban deceptive and unfair conduct. "Caveat emptor" is the scammer's motto. You shouldn't have to be an expert on lead gen scams to hire a locksmith without getting ripped off.

There are good products and services out there. Earlier this year, we decided to install a (non-networked) programmable pushbutton lock. I asked Deviant Ollam – whom I know from Defcon's Lockpicking Village – for a recommendation and he suggested the Schlage FE595:

https://www.schlage.com/en/home/products/FE595PLYFFFFLA.html

I liked it so much I bought another one for my office door. Eric from Golden State Lock and Safe installed it while I wrote this blog-post. It's great. I recommend both of 'em – 10/10, would do business again.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/05/the-map-is-not-the-territory/#vapor-locksmith

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#pluralistic #enshittification #locksmith scams #google #google maps #monopoly #doj #seo #big tech

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papillon82fluttersby · 5 months ago

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Famous Five Art Nostalgia – Character Portrait: Dick [Mick]

Introductory post

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Character profile (adapted from Wikipedia):

Dick has a cheeky sense of humour, but is also dependable and kind in nature. He is the same age as his cousin George, a year younger than his brother Julian and a year older than his sister Anne – eleven at the start of the series. Though inclined to tease his sister at times, Dick is, like Julian, very caring towards Anne and does his best to keep her cheered up when she gets upset. He uses his wits and saves the Five in many adventures but probably has the least clearly-drawn character of the four cousins.

In Claude Voilier’s continuation series ‘Les Cinq’, his cheeky nature often comes out in the form of unmannerly colloquialisms or sassy barbs, for which Julian never fails to admonish him. Dick’s sweet tooth is also legendary.

Eileen A. Soper, #01 Five On A Treasure Island, 1942

Click below for more portraits from every illustrator I could find!

(in chronological order)

Simone Baudouin, #04 Five Go To Smuggler’s Top, 1956

Paul Durand, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1957

Simone Baudouin, #10 Five On A Hike Together, 1958

Aldo de Amicis, #12 Five Go Down To The Sea, 1959

Eileen A. Soper, #18 Five On Finniston Farm, 1960

Jeanne Hives, #09 Five Fall Into Adventure, 1960

Jeanne Hives, #01 Five On A Treasure Island, 1962

Jeanne Hives, #08 Five Get Into Trouble, 1969

Jean Sidobre, #09 Five Fall Into Adventure, 1973

Jean Sidobre, #19 Five Go To Demon’s Rocks, 1975

Claude Pascal, #LC14 Les Cinq vendent la peau de l’ours, 1977

Claude Pascal, #LC19 Les Cinq en croisière, 1980

Claude Pascal, #LC20 Les Cinq jouent serré, 1980

Umberto Nonna, #02 Five Go Adventuring Again, 1981

Umberto Nonna, #08 Five Get Into Trouble, 1981

Buci, #LC21 Les Cinq contre les fantômes, 1981

Jean Sidobre, #01 Five On A Treasure Island, 1983

Annie-Claude Martin, #LC24 Les Cinq contre le loup-garou, 1985

Yves Beaujard, #20 Five Have A Mystery To Solve, 1988

Paul Gillon, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1991

Anne Bozellec, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1991

Anne Bozellec, #LC19 Les Cinq en croisière, 1995

Anne Bozellec, #LC22 Les Cinq en Amazonie, 1995

Philippe Munch and Jame’s Prunier, #01 Five On A Treasure Island, 1999

Frédéric Rébéna, #LC12 La fortune sourit aux Cinq / Les Cinq et la fortune des Saint-Maur, 2013

Auren, #14 Five Have Plenty Of Fun, 2020

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Thanks for reading!

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letsgethaunted · 1 year ago

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Welcome to the photo dump for Episode 167: Krampus & Other Alpine Folklore (+ Real Life Krampus Sightings!)!!!!! Alright, ya’ll, it’s time to get haunted AF - winter holiday style. Join Nat & Aly as Aly tells Nat about how haunted the Alpine Region of Europe is. Topics from today’s episode include: Glacier corpses, Devil landmarks, mountain demons, the Tatzelwurm, the Faeries of Val Gerina, and his highness, The Krampus! This episode also includes FIRST-HAND SIGHTINGS of Krampus from around the world, as told to Aly by the people who experienced them. You get extra Hauntie points if you made it to the end of this super-sized episode. IMAGE 01: The Fearsome Christmas Cryptic Krampus in all his glory, as pictured on two 1900s Krampuskarten aka “Krampus Cards”. IMAGE 02: The Alps! A majestic mountain range found in south-central Europe IAMGE 03: The bodies of Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin who disappeared in 1942 and were later found in a crevasse on an Alpine Glacier ~75 years later. IMAGE 04: The Devil’s Bowling Pin (left) + The rock from Devil’s Bridge (right) IMAGE 05: The original Devil’s bridge (left, in a painting) + the modern Devil’s Bridge IMAGE 06: A Tatzelwurm attacks a peasant on a hike in the Alps (left) + Otzi The Iceman dabbing on the hoes IMAGE 07: Underwood deviled ham logo IMAGE 08: 1899 video footage of mountaineers traversing the Alps IMAGE 09: Krampuslauf in 2010 IMAGE 10: 1820 painting showing St Nicholas and Krampus, who’s always creepin’

#krampus and other alpine folklore #let's get haunted #photodump #krampus #tatzelwurm #krampuskarten #devil's bridge #otzi the iceman #Instagram

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randomkiwibirds · 5 months ago

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missavagardner:

↳ MissAvaGardner’s Top 100 Classic Motion Pictures These are my top 100 favorite classic films, the films I consider every classic fan should watch, its just my list and my opinion, I tried my best I love so many films and as a classic lover you always want to include more, for those who ask for movie recommendations this is for you. Please report any broken links and enjoy!

#masterlists of doom #media

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whatilistenedtoatwork · 7 months ago

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From April 29th to May 2nd, 2024

29-04-2024

GUIDED BY VOICES “Sweating The Plague”; CAN “Flow Motion”; MICHAEL McGOLDRICK “Wired”; BILLY JOEL “52nd Street”; MIKE OLDFIELD “QE2”; SEBADOH “Bakesale”; THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS “Come With Us”; BILL RYDER-JONES “Iechyd Da”; LEE PERRY “Voodooism”; THE BEACH BOYS “Surfer Girl”; SQUAREPUSHER “Ufabulum”; ORBITAL “Orbital (1991)”; BELLOWHEAD “Hedonism”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Space Gun”; SONNY CLARK “Cool Struttin'”; LA DUSSELDORF “La Dusseldorf”; BILLY BRAGG “Workers Playtime”

01-05-2024

EARL HINES & HIS ORCHESTRA “Earl Hines 1942-1945”; NIRVANA “In Utero”; SUPERGRASS “Diamond Hoo Ha”; SERGE GAINSBOURG “Aux Armes Et Caetera”; DAVID BOWIE “Hunky Dory”; CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE “30 Something”; MIKE OLDFIELD “Ommadawn”; DIRE STRAITS “Woburn Abbey 20-06-1992”; CLIFTON CHENIER “Frenchin' The Boogie”; L.L. COOL J “Walking With A Panther”; HOUSE OF LOVE “A Spy In The House Of Love”; VAN DYKE PARKS “Clang Of The Yankee Reaper”

02-05-2024

DE DANNAN “Jacket Of Batteries”; COMMON “Be”; LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY FIVE “Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five”; THE FALL “The Light User Syndrome”; THE DELGADOS “Hate”; JOHN CARPENTER & ALAN HOWARTH “Halloween III: Season Of The Witch”; JOHNNY COPELAND “Texas Party”; THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS “Dig Your Own Hole”; THE DREAM SYNDICATE “The Days Of Wine And Roses”; DUBSTAR “Disgraceful”; VIC REEVES “I Will Cure You”; SMOG “Dongs Of Sevotion”; ERICA NOCKALLS “Dark Music From A Warm Place”; RICHARD THOMPSON “13 Rivers”

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solareclipses-lunareclipses · 9 months ago

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Eclipses Lunares e Eclipses Solares: São Paulo

1900 - 1909

12 - 13/06/1900: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 03/05/1901: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 22/04/1902: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 17/10/1902: Eclipse Lunar Total 11/04/1903: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 01 - 02/03/1904: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 14 - 15/08/1905: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 09/02/1906: Eclipse Lunar Total 10/07/1907: Eclipse Solar Parcial 24 - 25/07/1907: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 13/07/1908: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 07/12/1908: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 23/12/1908: Eclipse Solar Parcial 03 - 04/06/1909: Eclipse Lunar Total 27/11/1909: Eclipse Lunar Parcial

1910 - 1919

23 - 24/05/1910: Eclipse Lunar Total 16/11/1910: Eclipse Lunar Total 13/05/1911: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 01/04/1912: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 17/04/1912: Eclipse Solar Parcial 10/10/1912: Eclipse Solar Parcial 11 - 12/03/1914: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 31/01/1915: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 24/08/1915: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 20/01/1916: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 14 - 15/07/1916: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 08/01/1917: Eclipse Lunar Total 04/07/1917: Eclipse Lunar Total 28/12/1917: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 24/06/1918: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 03/12/1918: Eclipse Solar Parcial 14 - 15/05/1919: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 29/05/1919: Eclipse Solar Parcial 07/11/1919: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 22/11/1919: Eclipse Solar Parcial

1920 - 1929

02 - 03/05/1920: Eclipse Lunar Total 22/04/1921: Eclipse Lunar Total 01/10/1921: Eclipse Solar Parcial 16/10/1921: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 28/03/1922: Eclipse Solar Parcial 11/04/1922: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 05/04/1922: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 02 - 03/03/1923: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 17/03/1923: Eclipse Solar Parcial 26/08/1923: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 14/08/1924: Eclipse Lunar Total 08/02/1925: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 04/08/1925: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 28/01/1926: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25/06/1926: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25/07/1926: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 19/12/1926: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 03/01/1927: Eclipse Solar Parcial 15/06/1927: Eclipse Lunar Total 03/06/1928: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 27/11/1928: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 16/11/1929: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral

1930 - 1939

13/04/1930: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 07/10/1930: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 02/04/1931: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 26/09/1931: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 11/10/1931: Eclipse Solar Parcial 14/09/1932: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 24/02/1933: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 11 - 12/03/1933: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 05/08/1933: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 04/09/1933: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 15 - 16/07/1935: Eclipse Lunar Total 27 - 28/12/1936: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25/05/1937: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 18/11/1937: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 14/05/1938: Eclipse Lunar Total 29/05/1938: Eclipse Solar Parcial 07/11/1938: Eclipse Lunar Total 28/10/1939: Eclipse Lunar Parcial

1940 - 1949

21 - 22/04/1940: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 01/10/1940: Eclipse Solar Parcial 16/10/1940: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 27/03/1941: Eclipse Solar Parcial 02 - 03/03/1942: Eclipse Lunar Total 25 - 26/08/1942: Eclipse Lunar Total 19 - 20/02/1943: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 15/08/1943: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 25/01/1944: Eclipse Solar Parcial 09/02/1944: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 06/07/1944: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 18 - 19/12/1945: Eclipse Lunar Total 14/06/1946: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 20/05/1947: Eclipse Solar Parcial 03/06/1947: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 12/11/1947: Eclipse Solar Parcial 28/11/1947: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 17 - 18/10/1948: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 12 - 13/04/1949: Eclipse Lunar Total 06 - 07/10/1949: Eclipse Lunar Total

1950 - 1959

02/04/1950: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 25 - 26/09/1950: Eclipse Lunar Total 23/03/1951: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 16 - 17/08/1951: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 10 - 11/02/1952: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 05/08/1952: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 20/08/1952: Eclipse Solar Parcial 29 - 30/01/1953: Eclipse Lunar Total 26/07/1953: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 18 - 19/01/1954: Eclipse Lunar Total 15/07/1954: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 18/11/1956: Eclipse Lunar Total 13/05/1957: Eclipse Lunar Total 04/04/1958: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 24/03/1959: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 16 - 17/09/1959: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral

1960 - 1969

13/03/160: Eclipse Lunar Total 05/09/1960: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 11/08/1961: Eclipse Solar Parcial 25 - 26/08/1961: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 31/10/1961: Eclipse Solar Parcial 15/08/1962: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 09/01/1963: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25/01/1963: Eclipse Solar Parcial 06/07/1963: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 24 - 25/06/1964: Eclipse Lunar Total 18 - 19/12/1964: Eclipse Lunar Total 13 - 14/06/1965: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 04/05/1966: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 29/10/1966: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 12/11/1966: Eclipse Solar Parcial 18/11/1967: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 12 - 13/04/1968: Eclipse Lunar Total 11/09/1969: Eclipse Solar Parcial 25/09/1969: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral

1970 - 1979

21/02/1970: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 16 - 17/08/1970: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 10/02/1971: Eclipse Lunar Total 06/08/1971: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 30/01/1972: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 26/07/1972: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 04/01/1973: Eclipse Solar Parcial 18/01/1973: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 15/06/1973: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 30/06/1973: Eclipse Solar Parcial 09 - 10/12/1973: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 24/12/1973: Eclipse Solar Parcial 04/06/1974: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 25/05/1975: Eclipse Lunar Total 18/11/1975: Eclipse Lunar Total 13/05/1976: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 06/11/1976: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 03 - 04/04/1977: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 18/04/1977: Eclipse Solar Parcial 27/09/1977: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 16/09/1978: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 13/03/1979: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 06/09/1979: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral

1980 - 1989

01/03/1980: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 10/08/1980: Eclipse Solar Parcial 25 - 26/08/1980: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 20/01/1981: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 16 - 17/07/1981: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 09/01/1982: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 06/07/1982: Eclipse Lunar Total 25/06/1983: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 19 - 20/12/1983: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 14 -15/05/1984: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 04/05/1985: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 17/10/1986: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 29/03/1987: Eclipse Solar Parcial 13 - 14/04/1987: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 06 - 07/10/1987: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 27/08/1988: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 16 - 17/08/1989: Eclipse Lunar Total

1990 - 1999

26/01/1990: Eclipse Solar Parcial 09/02/1990: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 30/01/1991: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 26 - 27/06/1991: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 11/07/1991: Eclipse Solar Parcial 14 - 15/06/1992: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 30/06/1992: Eclipse Solar Parcial 09 - 10/12/1992: Eclipse Lunar Total 29/11/1993: Eclipse Lunar Total 24 - 25/05/1994: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 03/11/1994: Eclipse Solar Parcial 18/11/1994: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 29/04/1995: Eclipse Solar Parcial 03 - 04/04/1996: Eclipse Lunar Total 26 - 27/09/1996: Eclipse Lunar Total 23 - 24/03/1997: Eclipse Lunar Total 16/09/1997: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 12 - 13/03/1998: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 07 - 08/08/1998: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 28/07/1999: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral

2000 - 2009

21/01/2000: Eclipse Lunar Total 09/01/2001: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 21/06/2001: Eclipse Solar Parcial 24/06/2002: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 19 - 20/11/2002: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 15 - 16/05/2003: Eclipse Lunar Total 08 - 09/11/2003: Eclipse Lunar Total 04/05/2004: Eclipse Lunar Total 27 - 28/10/2004: Eclipse Lunar Total 24/04/2005: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 14/03/2006: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 22/09/2006: Eclipse Solar Parcial 03/03/2007: Eclipse Lunar Total 28/08/2007: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 11/09/2007: Eclipse Solar Parcial 20 - 21/02/2008: Eclipse Lunar Total 16/08/2008: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 07/07/2009: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 05/08/2009: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral

2010 - 2019

26/06/2010: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 21/12/2010: Eclipse Lunar Total 15/06/2011: Eclipse Lunar Total 04/06/2012: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25/04/2013: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25/05/2013: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 18/10/2013: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 15/04/2014: Eclipse Lunar Total 08/10/2014: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 04/04/2015: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 27 - 28/09/2015: Eclipse Lunar Total 10 - 11/02/2017: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 06/02/2017: Eclipse Solar Parcial 07/08/2017: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 27/07/2018: Eclipse Lunar Total 21/01/2019: Eclipse Lunar Total 02/07/2019: Eclipse Solar Parcial 16/07/2019: Eclipse Lunar Parcial

2020 - 2029

05/06/2020: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 05/07/2020: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 30/11/2020: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 14/12/2020: Eclipse Solar Parcial 26/05/2021: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 19/11/2021: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 15 - 16/05/2022: Eclipse Lunar Total 08/11/2022: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 14/10/2023: Eclipse Solar Parcial 28/10/2023: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25/03/2024: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 17 - 18/09/2024: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 02/10/2024: Eclipse Solar Parcial 14/03/2025: Eclipse Lunar Total 03/03/2026: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 27 - 28/08/2026: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 06/02/2027: Eclipse Solar Parcial 20/02/2027: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 17/08/2027: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 11 - 12/01/2028: Eclipse Lunar Parcial 26/01/2028: Eclipse Solar Parcial 06/07/2028: Eclipse Lunar Penumbral 25 - 26/06/2029: Eclipse Lunar Total 20/12/2029: Eclipse Lunar Total

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奧本海默的聯想：核爆時代華人與原子彈

夏烈 2024-02-11 01:20 ET

近觀兩部電影：「奧本海默」（Oppenheimer）及「媽的多重宇宙」（Everything Everywhere All at Once），引起一些回憶及感觸。

原子的概念小時就開始了，不外是癌症放射治療及原子彈，那時還沒有核能電廠。念小學時在台北市南昌街小攤子上租連環圖畫看：原子彈是一顆大炸彈在天空中爆炸後分解，產生千千萬萬顆小炸彈，每顆後面有一支白色小降落傘，鋪天漫地的大批降下……這是對原子彈原理的最初了解。能有這種想像力的連環畫家也算是別具創意了。兩顆原子彈在日本落下後超過20萬人立即死亡，所以「原子」本身是個威力強大的新物種，也進入我們的日常生活。

原子彈型的女人威力應是很強大。後來又有「原子筆」出現，取代墨水鋼筆；「原子襪」是尼龍製襪，不容易磨損；「原子褲」名出自香港；還有原子表及原子鐘，內容不詳；反攻大陸的民國40年代(1950年代)，台北有位大發明家陳永松君，研究一種可以「對抗原子彈的新武器」，一枚可以炸毀台北市，兩枚消滅共匪的上海市。作家何凡在聯副「玻璃墊上」專欄表達憂慮陳君在台北市做此偉大研究實驗：「萬一失手爆炸了怎麼辦？」

李文和被誣為間諜

我所有的學位都是工程，與核子物理無關。在德州念書時與李文和博士同學，而且同屬一個台灣留學生組的伙食團，他做一手好菜，甚至能做出全桌酒席大菜。他後來進入製造原子彈的新墨西哥州洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室工作，也就是奧本海默在沙漠中建立的原子彈聖城。

李兄在那兒不是做菜，是做原子彈。他被誤為中國大陸核子間諜，無故坐牢九個月。其實他是非常台灣本土思想的工程科學家��喜好文學及古典音樂，曾協助審閱我寫的大學教科書「近代外國文學思潮」(聯合文學出版)。

終於，法官判無罪，還在庭上向他道歉，賠償165萬美元，好像課稅及律師費用之後只拿到一半。後來我推薦他回到他母校成功大學教書一年，至今他竟已出了三本英文的核子工程有關專業書籍，也真是傑出人才了。他是台灣唯一內陸縣南投農家出身，手巧能修許多機電及木工物件，為人忠厚老實，甚至有些天真，如此才會變成美國官方內鬥犧牲品。

張憲義舉報後逃美

另外一個與原子彈有關的台灣人是張憲義上校。他是中山科學院核能研究所的副所長，因向美方舉報台灣發展原子彈狀況而逃往美國。此舉對台灣人民安全是有害還是有利？見仁見智。因為大陸曾表示攻台的三大原因之一是台灣製造出原子彈。

鑒於量子力學有機率的特質，所以多重宇宙或平行宇宙的概念出現。如果進入世界(或世間)的起源，亞伯拉罕三教(猶太教，基督教及伊斯蘭教)咸認世界是上帝(或阿拉)創造的。佛教則認為世界起源無始，乃由眾生無息無止、共業感召生成，我們在三界中生死輪迴，居住的婆娑世界，乃是一佛所化三千大千世界的中心。即使有宇宙物理學或宗教學不同的解釋，「媽的多重宇宙」並沒有表達複雜、模糊未定的天體科學理論，或是充滿幻想及神話的宗教體認。只是利用多重宇宙的背景，為一個簡單的移民奮鬥及家庭倫理故事添增情節，令這影片更有魅力，甚至離奇。

在另一個宇宙的太空翱翔，那是個無限靜寂、魅麗、遙闊、充滿綺思的世界，令人流連忘返。然而在原子彈爆炸的那一剎那，無限的火焰及紅光，巨大的聲響，則是美麗而醜陋的世界，充滿了毀滅灰煙，此種感受只能做形而上的描繪。這兩部電影給人的聯想會是歡愉還是痛苦？天堂還是地獄？或是百感交集，不能自已？

奧本海默由歐洲學成返美，在柏克萊加州大學教書，也是最先研究黑洞及引進量子力學到美國的科學家之一。「曼哈頓計畫」有18人得到諾貝爾物理獎，「原子彈之父」奧本海默被提名三次，卻未得獎。他有學問，有才華，但在物理學的研究上沒有聚焦點，無重大發現 ──物理學只是他的眾多愛好之一。這說明了什��？你能告訴我嗎？

吳健雄奧本海默「姊姊」

電影中沒提到他與李政道、楊振寧、吳健雄的關係。他曾說過：「我最喜歡看見的景象就是李政道與楊振寧並肩在普林斯頓大學的草坪上散步。」吳健雄在產生原子彈的「曼哈頓計畫」遇到連鎖反應無法延續的難題時，協助解決，否則原子彈轟炸日本勢必延緩。多久，沒人知道。奧本海默稱吳健雄院士為「姊姊」。

加州大學在地柏克萊的圖書館，亞洲部門主管是台北畫家郭雪湖先生的女公子郭惠美，和她長兄郭松棻都是台大外文系出身，所以重視文學。我被郭惠美邀請演講12次，每次500美元，講完一概掏出來請大家吃晚餐，皆大歡喜。有一次講木下惠介導演，高峰秀子主演的反戰名片「二十四の瞳」(「二十四隻眼睛」)，因我用英文講，有大批日本後裔前來聽講，場地爆滿，講台前地毯上都坐滿了聽眾。

講完問題回答時間有一位矮小、平頭，面容粗糙的老人站起用日本腔英文發言，告訴大家他曾經歷廣島原爆，因距離逃過一劫，沒說多遠，但是他說看到強烈的亮光。我請他多報告一些，同時也表達他的感想，但他英文說不好，聽不太懂，大家只能點頭稱許。這是此生唯一見到吃過原子彈的人(我忘了問他：是否見到千百顆後面戴著白色降落傘的小炸彈冉冉飄下)。

我與原爆相關者緣分

另一位與原爆有關的是蔣渭水先生的長子蔣松輝學長。他是建中(日據時代台北一中)校友，畢業入長崎醫大讀醫。後因蔣渭水留下的奠儀生活費用罄而輟學轉往上海謀生。他前腳走，後腳就是長崎原爆。所以他說是因窮活命。此事我寫在〈紅樓賦〉一文，發表在前幾年的「聯副」。

另一台中清水友人蔡寬博士(因他父親喜愛菊池寬的小說，而為他取單名寬)，當時全家住在關西，被日本政府下令疏散，以躲避美國空軍的大肆轟炸。他們決定往北遠走北海道，要是往西近處走，就進入廣島原爆，後來也不會畢業於政大新聞系，與我同在密西根州的研究所同學了。我倆不同行，聊天卻很愉快，因為我到底是新聞家庭出身。

「奧本海默」與「媽的多重宇宙」都與科技有關，都採用數個故事線交叉剪輯的製片技巧，也都摻入許多科技名詞，如量子力學、平行宇宙、連鎖反應、有機率、分子波函數……等等。片中也出現我當年在工學院念書時讀到的科學家、工程師及數學家如費米、愛因斯坦、勞倫斯、尤勒、貝塞爾、泰勒、鮑林、波爾……等等。有幾位在舊金山灣區的場合見到過，並無上前握手交談的經驗，但在影院黑暗中見到這些熟習的名字，還是很高興。

我後來轉業在新竹清華及台南成大教授近代歐洲文學及日本文學。雖仍與工程界掛勾，那只是為了有許多老朋友及從事風險性投資賺錢，實際上已與工程、數理(STEM)本體脫鉤。有一天走到地下室儲藏間清理，恰巧看到念研究所時使用已塵封的教科書及筆記。打開一看，艱深複雜的數學公式簡直就是天書，我很驚訝那時我居然這麼聰明，有這麼大的本領能看得懂這些天書──現在已經不聰明了。

有些人說原子彈轟炸日本是對黃種人的種族歧視。其實本來是準備核爆德國，因為德國的原子彈研究遠比日本成熟。但在美國試爆成功時，德國已投降。美國在日本投降前，曾對許多城市(甚至有些中小城市)做大規模、一般性炸彈及燃燒彈的轟炸，包括平民市區，死亡人數比兩顆原子彈還多許多倍，這一點奧本海默應也有深刻認知。

實際上，最先空襲日本的不是美國飛機，而是事後任空軍總司令的徐煥昇將軍。他於1938年駕機夜航空襲日本，在幾個城市投下數百萬份傳單，令日人了解中國空軍也能飛入日本領空。大名昭彰的美國空軍杜立特將軍則是四年後的1942年才開始轟炸日本，卻出了大名。

我在美國任工程師時，有一次調查加州某一老舊機場的跑道損壞情形，他們告訴我以前杜立特將軍在此起飛多次，不可能是去轟炸東京，因為航程太遠。兩顆原子彈是小心翼翼地海運去關島以北的天寧島機場，然後在1945年8月由B-29載去廣島及長崎投彈。那艘運原子彈去天寧島的巡洋艦印第安那波利斯號，不久被日本潛水艇以魚雷擊沉。

這令人想到：如果在運原子彈到達天寧島之前被擊沉，會是什麼樣的局面？要何時才能投下原子彈？但是那時美國已計畫在1945年底前共製造出九顆原子彈。8月15日日本昭和天皇「玉音放送」宣布投降，所以剩下的原子彈不需使用了，聽說現仍存在洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室，不知是否公開陳列，以招徠世界各國觀光客。當然是拔了塞不會爆炸，否則就如陳永松君在台北市試驗炸彈一樣。陳君的炸彈「一枚可以毀滅台北市」。

#＃原子彈＃中國人＃台灣

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putarmusik · 1 year ago

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merunicornwithbooks · 1 year ago

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Every October, I try to watch a horror/spoopy/Halloween movie/show/special etc. every day. I'll watch old favorites but for the most part I try to watch things that are all-new to me. I keep a list of everything I watch and I thought I'd start my list here since I can't find my journal right now.

01. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

02. Cat People (1942)

03. The Last Broadcast (1998)

04. The Love Witch (2016)

05. Halloween is Grinch Night (1977)

06. Betty Boop's Halloween Party (1933)

07. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

08. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

09. Eyes of Fire (1983)

10. Dead Silence (2007)

11. Coraline (2009)

12. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

13. The Invisible Man (1933)

14. Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)

15. The Skeleton Dance (1929)

16. The Ape (1940)

17. Noroi: The Curse (2005)

18. The Haunted House (1929)

19. Corpse Bride (2005)

20. The Raven (1963)

21. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

22. Vincent (1982)

23. Evil Dead II (1987)

24. Gretel and Hansel (2020)

25. Brides of Dracula (1960)

26. Trick 'r Treat (2007)

27. Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)

28. Saturday Night Live Halloween Episode (2023)

29. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! (1966)

30. Beetlejuice (1988)

31. Thriller (1983)

#mara's 31 days of halloween

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tintin-caps · 3 months ago

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The Adventures of Tintin - "The Shooting Star" (1942)

Page 12, Frames 01 + 02

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crescentcityhellmouth-rpg · 2 years ago

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Out of Character Information

Name/Alias: Shelby

Age: 31

NSFW Personal Preference: Fade to Black

Series/Season: Up to season 6 canon

Canon Changes: I have none other then what's already been change.

Activity Level: Other than work and occasional school work I'll pretty much be on. Sometimes i can even do replies, starters at work and post when I get up because I work 12 hour midnights every other weekend schedule.

Time Zone: EST

RP Experience: I’ve been roleplaying since 2015 also managed a few groups

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Desired Character: Damon Salvatore

Age: 24/174

OTP / NOTP: Damon x Faith

Housing: Damon will be living in Hyperion Hotel 237.

These questions are to be answered in sentence format — each one taking up three to four sentences on average.

01. Give us your thoughts on New Orleans? "I've been here before so it's great to be back, can't wait to tear it up like it's 1942. Slayers and hunters be damned."

02. Tell us how you feel about your species, and if you could change it what would you choose to be and why? "You should have asked me this a long time ago, because at one point I never wanted to be a vampire. However, after years of compilating it, It beats being a week and feeble human."

03. Please describe who is the most person important to you and why? "Elena because she makes me a better person, and I don't think I could ever be good without her. Nor do I want to be good without Elena."

04. Detail a specific point in time that has detrimentally changed you? "The death of my Father, that's when everything changed for my family. It's what changed Stefan, and in a way, it changed me. I never wanted to be a vampire originally not i can't think of anything more miserable then being human.

05. Explain (a few) bad habit(s) in detail that you’ve picked up over the years, if you remember when you started it describe that pivotal moment as well as what you’ve tried to do to cope with it? "Probably the blood lust and I'm not trying to cope with it. It's what I am why should i change what I know and love."

Playlist.

Happiness is Overrated — The Airborne Toxic Events

The song reminds Damon of Katherine, and how she basically treated him like shit, but he still loved her anyways.

High Hopes — Kodaline

This song reminds Damon and Elena and the possibility of getting back together. Once he can remind her of how great of a person he actually is.

Psycho Killer — Talking Heads

This song reminds Damon of the time that he was in New York in the '70s with Lexi before he left her on the roof when she was trying to get his humanity back on.

These songs should describe your character on emotional levels. Try to relate a song to a certain situation he / she has been through or an aspect of their personalities. We prefer you to put at minimum one sentence beneath each of your choices to inform us of your thinking on it, though it isn’t required.

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Damon was leaving out of Rousseau’s after drowning his sorrows with bourbon, and the amount that he had consumed was more than his usual amount. Damon was sick of trying to be good to please everyone especially Elena and then having the kindness that he had shown in the past mean nothing to anyone— It seemed like everyone had only focused on the bad parts of Damon such as killing Jeremy, Killing coach Tanner, abusing Caroline. Damon began stumbling around. Although he was a vampire it was still possible for him to get drunk, even though his tolerance was much higher than a human’s. Damon caught sight of a young girl walking down a dark alley. Damon took it upon himself to have a late-night snack to go along with the amount of booze he had been drinking. He quickly followed her into the alley and used his vampire super speed to speed in front of her.

He quickly grabbed her by the neck, “You are not going to run or scream,” he said as his blue eyes stared into hers—his pupils growing in size only to shrink again. Damon had compelled the unknown girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. She didn’t move or scream as Damon leaned towards her neck, and began feeding her. Damon usually preferred to play games with his victims, but tonight he had been aiming for the kill. As he punctured her neck the rusted taste had drowned his taste buds as he growled at her skin; one hand placed on her breast while the other was fastened in place on her shoulder just behind her neck to keep her from fidgeting away from him. Damon quickly pulled away and breathed out heavily as if he needed to catch his breath just before leaning back in to finish her off.

Once he heard her heartbeat begin to slow Damon counted the minutes before she finally became lifeless and dropped her body to the ground, “Well you're no fun— you sure didn’t last long.” he muttered to the dead female as he turned around and saw his brother Stefan standing behind him, “Hello brother,” He said not bothering to wipe the lingering blood from his face. A simple partial smile spread across his face.

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papillon82fluttersby · 5 months ago

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Famous Five Art Nostalgia – Character Portraits: Aunt Fanny [Tante Cécile]

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Character profile (adapted from Wikipedia):

Aunt Fanny is George's mother, and aunt to Julian, Dick and Anne. She is married to Uncle Quentin, and is, through most of Blyton's Famous Five novels, the principal maternal figure in the lives of the children. She is a very kind and easy-going woman, and shows considerable patience with her husband over his short temper and absent-mindedness.

In Claude Voilier’s continuation series ‘Les Cinq’, Aunt Fanny remains ever supportive of her husband, daughter, niece and nephews, but also takes on some hobbies such as antiquing, leading the children to some of their adventures.

Eileen A. Soper, #01 Five On A Treasure Island, 1942

Click below for more portraits from every illustrator I could find!

(in chronological order)

Eileen A. Soper, #14 Five Have Plenty Of Fun, 1955

Simone Baudouin, #02 Five Go Adventuring Again, 1955

Simone Baudouin, #06 Five On Kirrin Island Again, 1956

Jeanne Hives, #14 Five Have Plenty Of Fun, 1961

Jean Sidobre, #11 Five Have A Wonderful Time Together, 1974

Jean Sidobre, #19 Five Go To Demon’s Rocks, 1975

Jean Sidobre, #09 Five Fall Into Adventure, 1975

Claude Pascal, #LC20 Les Cinq jouent serré, 1980

Umberto Nonna, #06 Five On Kirrin Island Again, 1981

Buci, #LC21 Les Cinq contre les fantômes, 1981

Jean Sidobre, #02 Five Go Adventuring Again, 1982

Jean Sidobre, #14 Five Have Plenty Of Fun, 1983

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Thanks for reading!

#papillon82 reads #famous five art nostalgia #famous five #le club des cinq #enid blyton #les cinq #claude voilier #character portrait #illustrations #eileen soper #simone baudouin #jeanne hives #jean sidobre #claude pascal #umberto nonna #buci

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Welcome to the photo dump for Episode 175: The Skinny Bob Internet Mystery! Beginning on April 13, 2011, a user going by the name “ivan0135” uploaded a series of 4 videos purporting to show black and white clips of several longer films taken by the KGB between 1942 - 1969. The series of clips seem to show blurry antique footage, played on a projector, of a flying saucer over a rural farmhouse, a crashed spacecraft with a deceased alien, an alien autopsy, a living alien being filmed in an enclosed space, the interior of a spaceship, and a group of aliens walking towards the camera. These ominous clips have been touted as either the “realest looking fake footage” or verifiable proof that aliens really do live among us. Scroll through this photo dump to see key images from this week’s episode! IMAGE 01: Skinny Bob IMAGE 02: Ivan0135’s first video upload IMAGE 03: Ivan0135’s second video upload IMAGE 04: Ivan0135’s third video upload IMAGE 05: Ivan0135’s fourth video upload IMAGE 06: Bill Uhouse speaks on his time in Area 51 working with a real alien - could it have been skinny bob? IMAGE 07: U/BrooklynRobot found the scratch overlays used in the films IMAGE 08: u/RedDwarfBee found that one of these scratch overlays was even used in a Parks & Rec episode IMAGE 09: u/Brooklyn Robot also determined that the font at the bottom (time stamps) are Consolas, a Microsoft Font released in 2006 IMAGE 10: Skinny Bob lightened to reveal his eyes

#let's get haunted #instagram #photodump #skinny bob #the skinny bob internet mystery #aliens #area 51 #flying saucer #UFO #UAP #Instagram

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