Cory DoctorowMar 15, 2023

My weird hobby is taking pictures of #signs, especially "vernacular" signs, handwritten and odd. The best kinds of signs tell you what *other* people think *you* are thinking, or what you don't understand. I've nabbed over 4,600 of 'em:

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=37996580417%40N01&sort=date-taken-desc&text=sign&view_all=1

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

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-une-guillotine/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout

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Show threadDan AnconaMar 15, 2023
@pluralistic I mentioned this one to my family the other day and got some lols. They'd never heard of it, but I think there was an actual one hanging in one of my EE labs. (many, many moons ago)
Show threadMrCopilot
@danancona @pluralistic At a printer mfg, there were hundreds of these per floor. Even though the whole building was firmware and software development, every door that had a possibly open laser printer on the other side was thus labeled. The variations propagated along the normal nerd curvature mean.
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:21pmWeb