Punctilious internet killjoy debunks fake viral images and attributes uncredited real ones. Not actually a cat. (he/him)
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Top comment on Reddit thread from which #historyinmemes copied this: "I am Chinese and I can confirm this is NOT what we do for drivers license exam" reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying…
PicPedant retweeted
No he did not. This Oath was invented in the 20th century by Christos Zalokostas in his book 'Alexander the Great, the forerunner of Jesus'. #BadAncient
Alexander the Great used to say: "See whole world as your homeland, with laws common to all, where best will govern regardless of their race".
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#archaeohistories
This is the water deluge system at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B, for sound suppression and ignition overpressure protection. It is not primarily a fire extinguisher. youtu.be/1SYla1BwFlc
As usual #fasc1nate copied wrong info from Reddit: reddit.com/r/interestingasfu…
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Guess #SpaceHubSL has pivoted to boosting cryptocurrency scams from hijacked verified accounts?
wow #SpaceHubSL stopped posting stolen photos and went full throttle on ripple spam for a day before getting their account "temporarily restricted"
That's Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Photo by @daniel_kaufman_: instagram.com/p/CewKzLYuMSk/
#viewpxrn
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Update: sorry, it was #viewspxrn, not "viewpxrn" (which only tweeted uncredited photos once in Jul 2021 and gave up). Also they deleted so here's a cached screenshot for posterity, I really should be better about screenshots.
Funny thing about this #avatardomy / #avatardomy2 tweet is if you do a phrase search you find the source of the caption is a 2017 @mashable article, so it's really been 16 years: mashable.com/article/chongqi…
teapaw.org/AvatarDomy/status/1587…
ALT two tweets in a row from duplicate accounts showing an elevated train passing through an apartment building tunnel, caption "residents of this apartment block in china have lived with an actual train going through the building for 11 years now"
That's Greenland. Cropped from a photo by @daniel_kordan: danielkordan.com/portfolio-i…
#earth_locations
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This photo by @lukesergent3 was a composite of two shots, and was taken in the Namib Desert, not the Sahara. flickr.com/photos/lukesergen…
As usual, #uhd2020 probably copied erroneous info from Reddit: reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comme…
Video has been sped up significantly. Original Shinkansen vid at 1x and with sped-up versions: youtu.be/1BeYCj2KolE
#historyinmemes
Clone stamp fuzz with duplicated clouds around center of image where Photoshopper covered the sun before pasting in a full moon aligned with the sun's reflection.
#moxnlover
I like how in this one the crescent moon is REALLY high up at sunset, with the lit side facing *away* from the sun.
#themoonpics_ teapaw.org/themoonpics_/status/15…
Okay, looks like others are also noticing the #fasc1nate content strategy
Recycling 10 year old news for cheap clicks, while including no details = spam tactics. Spammers have no reason to live.
nationalgeographic.com/scien…
remember Dory, girlposts, and the other "common white girl" accounts that were actually being run by skeevy dudes doing social media marketing by just plagiarizing other people's viral tweets?
welp now we have "gradient accounts"
i wrote about "relatable" content and gradient accounts, related to my ongoing fascination with "girl culture" and how all of social media is about girls
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
It may be a silphium leaf. Or a butt. Or actual mammal hearts: artandobject.com/news/histor…
—The idea that it's 2 hearts fused together has no real historical precedent and appears to be sourced from some random meme i.redd.it/wsnhllin11821.jpg
#Learns0methLng_ teapaw.org/LEARNS0METHlNG_/status…
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PicPedant retweeted
That’s not a real prehistoric scorpion having dinner with cats. It’s a composite photo by Kevin Wisbeth putting the size of massive things into perspective. See: petapixel.com/2016/09/30/com… #RespectArtists
Thinking about this photo, I remembered that most Shuttle missions had publicly available postflight presentation videos. Here was the one for STS-90: youtu.be/2vyJOrlTeEU
The @NSS has a library of all these Space Shuttle postflight presentations: space.nss.org/space-shuttle-…
Reminder that this is not a real image of Shuttle SRB separation. In the original STS-90 Columbia launch photo the boosters were still attached: flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchi…
#stem_feed
