Quark Bee

@quarkbee

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Quark Bee@quarkbee· Jun 14

Elon's next job could be in cyber.

Image of a ballerina, wearing a tutu and doing up her pointe shoes next to the slogan "Fatima's next job could be in cyber. (she just doesn't know it yet)"

This was a billboard ad from a UK Government ad campaign for vocational training from a few years ago. It was thoroughly mocked for its ridiculous slogan, and criticised for being patronising and racist (the ballerina is a brown skinned young woman).

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Jun 5

So long, Ripper 💔

Screenshot from the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer showing Buffy, Willow and Xander walking away down a school corridor in the background. In the foreground we see Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles, in a grey shirt and dark jacket, facing forwards but looking off to the side, saying "The Earth is definitely doomed".

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Mar 25

They designed an entire plane specifically to transport giant honking pieces of fuselage from production sites to assembly plants where finished planes are screwed together, then called it the "Beluga" AND PAINTED A FACE ON IT. AND IT'S ADORABLE.

Airbus Beluga plane coming in to land on a runway at an Airbus factory. It's a cargo plane with a bulbous fuselage designed to hold aircraft parts that need to be transported between Airbus factories during the construction process. The shape of the fuselage resembles a beluga whale, and the livery is kept mostly white (like the whale) with a big smiling face painted on the front, like it's a character in a children's picture books. It's the dorkiest, most adorable plane in the world.

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Mar 18

Derek!

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Jan 10

I swear by these things. 💯 spy proof and they cost less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Get the ceramic version if you don't like microplastics. The coffee you get from them is as good as the beans you use. You can grind your beans fresh if you're fancy.

simple, old-school pour over coffee filter holder of the kind that you stand on top of your mug or coffee pot, put a filter and ground coffee in, and then manually pour hot water over

The one in the image is a cheap and simple one made out of dark brown plastic, but nice ones made from ceramic are also very affordable and don't shed microplastics

I have one that cost me under ten Euros, It's quick and easy to use, it takes up no counter space, and there's no mess or laborious clean up required

Also, Palantir will never be able to use it to spy on you.

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Oct 13

anyway, this is a still of Günter Schabowski accidentally ending the Cold War during a live news conference

grainy image of the most boring looking middle aged white man in the world, in a boring grey suit, seated at a microphone during a news conference, looking a bit confused in his reading glasses as he looks down at a handwritten note he is reading from

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Jun 24

I don't know what ass cubes are, but Germany has ICE agents whose job it is to check your tickets on one of these and then apologize for forgetting to stop at Wolfsburg again

German high speed train running on tracks through a green early summertime landscape. The train is white with a red stripe running along its length, and the locomotive bears the letters ICE (which stand for Inter-City Express).

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Jun 1

The antisemitic Nazi octopus in question:

Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg holding a placard that says "Stand with Gaza". She is sitting on a chair. On the back of the chair, above her left shoulder, she has placed a popular children's toy - a cute little blue octopus plushie with a reversible happy/ sad face. She has placed it so the octopus is showing its sad face.

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Apr 18

Image of a Westmark jar opener - a red metal triangular contraption that slots onto jars and grips the lid, giving you leverage to easily twist the lid off. The one depicted here is in its packaging.

Quark Bee@quarkbee· Oct 3