Snranger Than Fiction

not exaggerating the scream thing either. my roommate sent me pictures of my wretched bingus yesterday and, as you can see, she puts her whole face into it. her body contracts like an accordion. she yells so hard that her ass gets two inches closer to her face.

RUPERT GILES in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003)

...yeah

That 10K one is engineered to perfection, think I like the clikity clack of the others better though

(halusin tietää, et millanen tekoälytiivistelmä "siperianaattori"-hakusanalla tulee ja tuli vähän jotain muuta :D

* Котячий КПП - Cat checkpoint😼

Outfit of my Dreams, Daniel B., 2021

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

Twin Peaks, beloved, in honour of my most recent rewatch.