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Those sunset winter skies are something else! Greetings from the Mesa And just like that false spring has arrived and it's back to afternoons outside with the dog playing frisbee. The fresh air feels lovely. I've fallen a bit behind in my work schedule - i'm living patterns - work really hard for a month or two and then rest for a week or more.
ungrimironfistSome friends today mentioned this curiosity I had no idea of.
From Wikipedia
In 1996 Tom Church carved a statue of Wallace called "Freedom", which was inspired by the film Braveheart.[13] It has the face of Mel Gibson, the actor who played William Wallace in the film. Church leased the statue to Stirling Council, who in 1997 installed it in the car park of the visitor centre at the foot of the craig.[13] The statue was deeply unpopular, being described as "among the most loathed pieces of public art in Scotland".[14] and was regularly vandalised[15] before being placed in a cage to prevent further damage. Plans to expand the visitor centre, including a new restaurant and reception, led to the unpopular statue's removal in 2008.[16] It was returned to Church, who, after an unsuccessful attempt to sell it at auction,[14] reportedly offered it to Donald Trump's Menie estate golf resort.[17] However, it remained in the garden of the sculptor's home, where it was incorporated into a replica of a castle, and with additions to it that included the head of the decapitated governor of York.[18] In April 2016, it was reported in local press that the statue might be moved to Ardrossan's old Barony Church.[19] In September 2021, it was moved to Glebe Park stadium in Brechin.[20]
Umbra Ludus ProductionsI'm excited! My wife and I are going to The World Oddities Expo in #houston
https://worldodditiesexpo.com/houston-tx/
#freaks #geeks #goth #art #oddities #vendors #vultures #performers #macabre #taxidermy #jewelry #weird #strange #curiosities #expo #expo2026
Roberta FidoraAside from releases and videos, I have been known to include archives dedicated to the old MTV logo and post links to photographs of abandoned Little Chefs in my newsletter. You can follow along if you like weird stuff like that. 📸
https://robertafidora.com/mailing-list
#BeYourOwnPlatform #MailingList #Newsletter #Blogs #Weird #Curiosities #FediMusic #MTV #Email #IndieWeb #Music #Musicians
VBMGZNWe have to talk about The Velvet...
https://vibesmagazine.blog/pop-culture-ufos-vol-x-the-velvet-underground/
#thevelvetunderground #popcultureufo #curiosities #bestbandever #culture #vbmgzn
eristhings the latent space rover dragged in
#StillLife #Surreal #Curiosities #Artifacts #Relics #ConceptualArchaeology #Experimental
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion
in real life: https://aieris.art/featured/things-the-latent-space-rover-dragged-in-eris-and-ai.html
Hacker NewsAll the Way Down
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/11/17/all-the-way-down-2/
#HackerNews #All #the #Way #Down #Futility #Closet #Hacker #News #Story #Interesting #Reads #Curiosities
All the Way Down - Futility Closet
The infinite series 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + … was one of the first to be summed in the history of mathematics; Archimedes had found by 200 BC that it totals 1/3. There are two neat visual demonstrations that make this fact immediately apparent. In the unit square above, the largest black square has area 1/4, the next-largest black square has area 1/16, and so on. Regions of black, white, and gray make up equal areas in the total figure, so the black squares, taken together, must have area 1/3. The same argument can be made using...