those damn eejits!

Gamer, Fisherman, Film Lover, Fine Diner, truth seeker

[ARK: Survival Ascended @survivetheark]

When a base stops feeling like a build and starts feeling like a world of its own! ✨

From the grand architecture to all the carefully crafted little details, this creation by hachi on Discord is absolutely breathtaking!

[Nature is Phenomenal @AnimalGeoLife]

This is a wonderful video. A little hedgehog is drinking water with his mommy, their eyes are so sweet 🦔♥️

[Boiler Man 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Boilerman2019]

Morning all 😁

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

The UK Met Office has again been caught publishing temperatures from weather stations that don't exist.

An FOI revealed Lowestoft closed in 2010, yet the Met Office kept issuing official temperatures for it.

The office said they were using "well-correlated" neighboring stations, but the FOI revealed that this was a lie.

The numbers were actually coming from a model that was inventing data from 'phantom' neighboring stations.

When exposed, they quietly deleted years of readings for Lowestoft, as well as a number of other stations, and added a disclaimer saying their data is "for general interest only."

FOIs also show over one third of Met Office stations never existed, and that real high-quality sites like Colwood are ignored.

Also, more than 80% of the network is low-grade class 4 or 5, by WMO standards giving 2-5C uncertainty.

This is the foundation of the UK's climate record – closed stations, imaginary stations and synthetic temperatures. The Met Office isn't credible.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This tiny little pine martin

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

This is called “a painting within a painting”, and it was the biggest flex an artist could make in the 1600s

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Guard bees stopping ants accessing their hive

[Wildlife Uncensored @TheeDarkCircle]

That must feel amazing

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

A single sentence from Tom Cruise at a tiny screening room in America saved Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) from failure & also Matthew Vaughn's career. This is how it went down.

Matthew Vaughn struggled to find distributors for "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998). Every distributor who saw the movie, rejected it. The only offers he got were to release it on VHS. Somehow, Vaughn managed to find a distributor to show the movie in two screens in England.

He asked Trudie Styler, who had already put money into the movie to convince Tom Cruise to attend the buyers screening in the USA. The screening was conducted in a tiny room. When Cruise turned up, all the mid level executives who were sort of disinterested, started to pay attention; They rang up the senior executives & they too joined the screening.

When the film was over, Cruise got up in front of everyone and said, "This is the best movie I've seen in years, you guys would be fools not to buy it."

After Cruise's appreciation for the movie, there was a bidding war. Vaughn recalled, "We made all our money back and my film career came from nearly ending to starting."

P.S: On this day, 28 years ago, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland.

[Crystal Hope @CrystalHope1979]

This family hired professional Tom Cruise impersonator Evan Ferrante (nottomcruiseofficial), widely considered one of the best Cruise impressionists, to surprise their dad on his 50th birthday. 🎁

He’s been doing this for decades, nails the voice so well he’s done official voice-matching work, and regularly appears for birthdays, corporate gigs, and Cameos. He brought classic Jerry Maguire energy, and the birthday guy felt genuinely seen and appreciated.

Sometimes the best gift is having “Tom Cruise” show up and tell you that you complete him. 😆

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Je suis sincèrement désolé de vous partager de telles images un dimanche, mais à l'approche de la rentrée, les gens doivent savoir ce qui se passe encore sur les plages en matière de racket organisé.

[Sam🥀 @0ddsam]

Someone who was at Kurt russell’s first con commented this in a Facebook group 😭🖤

[those damn eejits! @GrumpyGamer101]

@savkyn @survivetheark Official can use?

[Bohemian Cloud @HennaCloud]

Wenn du deinen absoluten Wohlfühlort gefunden hast,
der "Ort" selbst aber noch nicht so ganz sicher ist, was er davon halten soll!
😁

[Carat @Caarat1]

He's 24. He's killing Dyson's $750 cordless vacuum with a $40 motor and a 3D-printed impeller he prints in a Shenzhen apartment - and his pulls harder

The motor is a brushless drone motor he buys wholesale in Shenzhen for $40. He prints the impeller and housing himself on a used Bambu Lab X1 he pulled from an electronics market liquidation for $600, iterating the blade geometry across 60 printed versions until it moved more air per watt than anything on the shelf. The finished unit pulls 240 air-watts of suction - Dyson's flagship V15 pulls 230 - and reverses to blow, inflating a beach ball in five seconds or clearing a plate of sunflower seeds in one pass. Total build cost per unit: $58. Weight: 340 grams, half of Dyson's

He posted a demo to Reddit r/DIY in October showing the pump suck an entire leather glove flat into a jar in fifteen seconds, vacuum a plate of seeds in a single second, then reverse and inflate a balloon until it burst. The video hit 2.4 million views in nine days. By January he had shipped 340 units across China, Southeast Asia, and to a growing list of Western buyers who found him through the demo - detailers, electronics repair shops, and one Shenzhen drone factory using them to clear solder debris off boards. $47,600 in his account. His mother, a retired textile-factory line worker, packs every order at the kitchen table

Dyson runs at $7 billion in annual revenue selling the V15 at $750 on the premise that high-suction cordless power requires their proprietary digital motor and their sealed filtration system. Shark pulls the mid-tier at $300 on the same premise. He builds a harder-pulling version on a 3D printer in a Shenzhen apartment that could pack a full week of production into a single shipping crate and have it clearing customs in Los Angeles by Tuesday

[Complex @Complex]

A stray cat in Turkey has gone viral after visiting the same shop every morning to hug the owner, Farhat Hayat.

The cat, named Sakir, started showing up after Farhat began feeding and playing with it. The sweet daily routine now attracts customers who stop by to watch the hugs in person.

[🎥: @hayat_ticaret53 ]

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Walk of the cinereous vulture

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

This skateboard trick may never be eclipsed.

Danny León, a Spanish Olympic skateboarder, set up this shot and landed it during today's eclipse in Spain.

Perfect planning!

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

That time Paul Rudd shot-for-shot recreated the "You Spin Me Round" music video just for fun 😂🔥