#whatisthis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whatisthis, aggregated by home.social.
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I’m late coming back with the mystery answer! It’s giant TACTICAL black rubber bands! I think about 65 in 4 sizes. I use them often to close up bags of food that need to be tightly closed for freshness and often things put in the freezer or refrigerator.
I’ve always just used miscellaneous rubber bands, often the ordinary beige ones. But as I added to my list of things to order I had the thought maybe there are heavy duty large rubber bands and there are! Check out the screenshot. If you look at the Amazon product page the comments cracked me up. Manly men happy to have “tactical” rubber bands. And use them in ways I am not acquainted with. Some are, um, yikes?#Mystery #WhatIsThis #GoodMorning #Today #INeedCoffee #RubberBands
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My funny moment of the day so far: received a box packed full of things I ordered from Amazon and of course since it was very early I couldn’t think well. So first I pull out a plastic packaging bag of box padding. Or is it! Ha, took me a few minutes to realize it’s something I ordered for household use. Can you tell what it is? I’ll reply to guesses and Bingo for the winning guess.
#Mystery #WhatIsThis
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I looked for this crazy old wrench in the basement — but it won’t fit ;-)
I don’t remember where I got it and don’t think I ever knew where it came from???
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We found this articulated shell today, on a beach on Vancouver Island. Anyone know what it was? Maybe a marine isopod?
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I've got another #WhatsThis for you.
This thing sat outside the garage. It's cast, open on the bottom, has a rectangular groove for sliding something into and three holes in the groove. It's somewhat heavy. There's also a flange at the bottom.
Obviously it has been used as anvil/cutting surface, but what is its original purpose? If it's a T-40 tractor part, I don't know where it goes on that.
#Mystery #WhatIsThis #Wotsit #Identification #WhatIsThisThing #WhatsThisThing
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Well it looks like I’ve got this new server all set up, but just need to do some final tweaks #mastodonserver #selfhosting #whatisthis #amidoingitright
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What is this contraption attached to a telephone pole in South Jersey? There were two at 90 degrees around the pole from each other.
Is this a survey prism? Is it in active use? If these are reflective, are they on the pole to prevent people from hitting it? Or is it just decoration? Why is it here?
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Can anyone identify these caterpillars that have been dining on our kale in the garden? First noticed them a couple of days ago, and only "just" saw them. They are camouflaged very well!
#yycGarden #yyc #caterpillar #insects #insectidentification #WhatIsThis #gardenPest
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What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image and the whole post body just consists of the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance, empty menus and all that... It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life but the fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis #Enshitternet #ContentFarms #Curation #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film @film -
What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image and the whole post body just consists of the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance, empty menus and all that... It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life but the fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis #Enshitternet #ContentFarms #Curation #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film @film -
What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image and the whole post body just consists of the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance, empty menus and all that... It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life but the fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis #Enshitternet #ContentFarms #Curation #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film @film -
What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image and the whole post body just consists of the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance, empty menus and all that... It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life but the fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis #Enshitternet #ContentFarms #Curation #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film @film -
What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image with and the whole post body just the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance (empty menus and all that...). It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life. The fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis #Enshitternet #ContentFarms #Curation #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film @film -
I was at the main cabin of a state park this past weekend, and found this unusual #gameTable. I presume it was for some particular game, like #dominos or #mahjong. They playmat looks like it has been played on and loved a lot. Anyone have any ideas?
#TurkeyRunStatePark #Indiana #HoosierMast #games #WhatIsThis
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#Help #Thingamajig #WhatIsThis #GateRepair #FloodDamage #Farm #Fence #ChainFastener #Flood #FloodDamage
I could use some help. What is this thingamajig called? We lost one when this spring's floods tore out some fence. The fence is fixed now, except we need one of these for the fishermen's gate. I've been searching online but no luck yet. Surely someone from this knowledgeable group can help? It's abt 2 1/2 inches long.
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People of Mastodon I desperately need your help. My son insists that this is a rabbit. I believe it is a dog. I need an answer and only the collective wisdom of the internet can help me. Please boost. 😆 #whatisthis #mysteryanimal #stuffedanimal #helpme
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Woooow! I've been looking for this bit of lost tech in my house for years and I finally found it! You'll never guess what this is. It's apparently so #rare that I can't find a single photo of it online!
One clue: Andy Rubin will know.
#retrotech #mystery #techmuseum #whatisthis #collectible #retrocomputing