If You See Something (IRL), Post Something! (Part 1)

I didn’t have a camera ready.

A humming bird in the feeder, while big wet clumps of snow fall. Thought balloon: “WTF is this?”

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I took this picture last August and I can finally use it! Happy pride month, mutants!

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Heeey, how ewe doin’?
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Busker in the Esplanadi park, Helsinki, Finland this morning.

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Your buskers play harp, ours play upside-down plastic pails.

What are the odds that’s someone who normally has a job in a professional orchestra, but hasn’t been able to perform for so long that they’re practicing outside – which they need to do anyway – with a hat upturned just in case they make enough to go to the grocery store on the way back home?

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Uugh. The thundering cacophony from bucket-bangers makes me despise downtown Chicago sometimes in the summer.

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For all I know this is a totally sane valve configuration, but at the very least I’d like to know more.

Image taken from the drive-thru line at a Dunkin Donuts - which leads to a quick Consumer Alert for people thinking they’re getting a savory treat: the Snackin’ Bacon seems to be dipped in simple syrup…

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Detritus from the Metro station renovation. Somehow I don’t think this portion will be replaced…

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Local election poster of Pirate Party of Finland. That seems include every candidate they have in Finland.


“Surveillance of politicians, not the people.” Or “Let’s do surveillance on politicians, not citizens.”

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I believe those would be connections for the fire department to boost the water pressure in the fire suppression system. Just how big was this Dunkin donuts?

Edit: I’m probably wrong. But there is some serious pipe behind that wall

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This was on one of our usual walking routes. It occurred to me this could have been some kind of lure but I like to believe it was purely playful:

Found during the spring cleaning stay-cation:

Also:

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Just look at this banana lamp!
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Not sure what’s going on here?

Birmingham, AL

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That’s an unusual pairing of business streams too

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It looks like some bully hung a pre-teenage mutant ninja turtle on an exterior wall hook by his underwear.

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It is 6 separate 4 inch fire dept connections. The system must be zoned for 6 different tenants in the building. Never saw them arranged radially before.

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