#whiteelephant — Public Fediverse posts
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Black Bear Boards Horror Title ‘White Elephant’ Starring Nick Jonas & Kathryn Newton — Cannes Market
#News #BlackBear #CannesMarket #WhiteElephanthttps://deadline.com/2026/05/black-bear-white-elephant-nick-jonas-kathryn-newton-cannes-1236898291/
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Black Bear Boards Horror Title ‘White Elephant’ Starring Nick Jonas & Kathryn Newton — Cannes Market
#News #BlackBear #CannesMarket #WhiteElephanthttps://deadline.com/2026/05/black-bear-white-elephant-nick-jonas-kathryn-newton-cannes-1236898291/
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KJ Apa, Madeleine Arthur, Josh Brener, Ashley Park, Alexandra Shipp & Justice Smith Round Out Cast Of Holiday Horror Film ‘White Elephant’
#Casting #AlexandraShipp #AshleyPark #JoshBrener #JusticeSmith #KJApa #MadeleineArthur #WhiteElephanthttps://deadline.com/2026/04/white-elephant-nick-jonas-movie-cast-1236782717/
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KJ Apa, Madeleine Arthur, Josh Brener, Ashley Park, Alexandra Shipp & Justice Smith Round Out Cast Of Holiday Horror Film ‘White Elephant’
#Casting #AlexandraShipp #AshleyPark #JoshBrener #JusticeSmith #KJApa #MadeleineArthur #WhiteElephanthttps://deadline.com/2026/04/white-elephant-nick-jonas-movie-cast-1236782717/
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Nick Jonas & Kathryn Newton Set For Holiday Horror Film ‘White Elephant’ From MRC, Radio Silence & Project X; ‘Clown In A Cornfield’s Eli Craig Directing
#Casting #EliCraig #KathrynNewton #MRC #NickJonas #ProjectX #RadioSilence #RSPX #WhiteElephanthttps://deadline.com/2026/04/nick-jonas-kathryn-newton-to-star-white-elephant-1236771896/
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Nick Jonas & Kathryn Newton Set For Holiday Horror Film ‘White Elephant’ From MRC, Radio Silence & Project X; ‘Clown In A Cornfield’s Eli Craig Directing
#Casting #EliCraig #KathrynNewton #MRC #NickJonas #ProjectX #RadioSilence #RSPX #WhiteElephanthttps://deadline.com/2026/04/nick-jonas-kathryn-newton-to-star-white-elephant-1236771896/
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#whiteelephant around #namur
for the #uglybelgianstatues project
Not all of them are really ugly... but !
More info on: https://www.charleslemaire.eu/Travaux/uglybelgianstatues -
#whiteelephant around #namur
for the #uglybelgianstatues project
Not all of them are really ugly... but !
More info on: https://www.charleslemaire.eu/Travaux/uglybelgianstatues -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
White Elephant:
🎵 Lovers#WhiteElephant
#newRelease 🆕 single -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
White Elephant:
🎵 Lovers#WhiteElephant
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#SriLanka battles wild jumbos to save #whiteelephant #airport
"The #PRC-funded & constructed airport, located in home constituency of fmr pres #Rajapaksa & named aft him, has failed to earn enuf since its 2013 inauguration. Te airport lies on a #migratory route for #birds.. Attempts by successive #governments to privatise te US$210mil project hv failed.. Te 1st foreign #airline to operate fr the facility was #AirArabia but it pulled out aft 6 weeks of scheduled services"🤦♂️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka-battles-wild-jumbos-to-save-white-elephant-airport -
The 747 aircraft the Qataris want to give to Trump is a white elephant that they can't sell, and that they'll be glad to be rid of the storage and maintenance charges for.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/05/14/qatar-747-trump/#trump #airforceone #dumbpresidenttricks #whiteElephant #pigInAPoke
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The 747 aircraft the Qataris want to give to Trump is a white elephant that they can't sell, and that they'll be glad to be rid of the storage and maintenance charges for.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/05/14/qatar-747-trump/#trump #airforceone #dumbpresidenttricks #whiteElephant #pigInAPoke
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This year whoever gets my #WhiteElephant gift (none of them are on fedi dw) will receive a devious item of my own design: the Kintsugi Kit, also known as a broken ceramic tealight holder and a bottle of gold glitter glue lovingly sealed in a cookie box with super glue (a thing I do to a lot of white elephant gifts for some reason). Update on its reception to follow later this week.
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Alright, decided to take some time off from social for few days to detox. Enjoyed some McRib, had nice time at cocktail party, and got some gifts at white elephant.
But, time to get back to work.
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Alright, decided to take some time off from social for few days to detox. Enjoyed some McRib, had nice time at cocktail party, and got some gifts at white elephant.
But, time to get back to work.
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Greece "is the 8th country to drop out after initially planning to participate in the [Osaka] expo...amid concerns about the event's ballooning costs"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241130/p2g/00m/0na/009000c
#Osaka #NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant #Japan -
"#Japan is planning to build an automated cargo transport corridor between Tokyo and Osaka...to make up for a shortage of truck drivers"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241102/p2g/00m/0bu/030000c
🔸Haven't heard any explanation why existing railroads are not sufficient for cargo transport & yet govt mumbles about loss of revenue when asked about raising tax thresholds for minimum wage workers.
Hope a hung parliament can smoke out all the wasteful pet projects LDP & Keidanren has been pushing thru up to now
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@primonatura
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Wondering why Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) seems to have forgotten that Japan already has an extensive railway network; so why does it want to reinvent the wheel?
#Japan #WhiteElephant -
"...govt aims to launch [an automated freight network] in select areas by 2034 before introducing it on the busy Tokyo-Osaka route, PM Kishida announced on July 25"
"...estimated construction cost per 10 km is 25.4B yen ($165M) for above-ground infrastructure and 7B to 80B yen for the underground tunnels"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15363084
🔸Ignoring existing freight trains allows excuse to spend billions of taxpayers' money?🤔
#Japan #infrastructure #WhiteElephant -
"...govt aims to launch [an automated freight network] in select areas by 2034 before introducing it on the busy Tokyo-Osaka route, PM Kishida announced on July 25"
"...estimated construction cost per 10 km is 25.4B yen ($165M) for above-ground infrastructure and 7B to 80B yen for the underground tunnels"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15363084
🔸Ignoring existing freight trains allows excuse to spend billions of taxpayers' money?🤔
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🔸Meanwhile:
"Japanese govt on Dec. 19 [2023] unveiled the overall cost of hosting the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, putting infrastructure development at some ¥9.7 trillion (approx. $67.5 billion)"
🔸That's about ¥78,295 ($489) per person living in #Japan
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231220/p2a/00m/0na/002000c🔸It's puzzling why people keep voting in the guys who keep dipping into taxpayers' wallets to push White Elephant projects. Old habits are hard to kick?
#Japan #WhiteElephant -
🔸Meanwhile:
"Japanese govt on Dec. 19 [2023] unveiled the overall cost of hosting the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, putting infrastructure development at some ¥9.7 trillion (approx. $67.5 billion)"
🔸That's about ¥78,295 ($489) per person living in #Japan
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231220/p2a/00m/0na/002000c🔸It's puzzling why people keep voting in the guys who keep dipping into taxpayers' wallets to push White Elephant projects. Old habits are hard to kick?
#Japan #WhiteElephant -
"[Japan's] Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has proposed [transporting] goods on median strips or through underground tunnels along expressways"
"According to a survey of construction companies...a system linking Tokyo and Osaka would cost up to ¥3.7 trillion"
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/business/economy/20240623-193996/🔸Why reinvent the wheel when you get to spend trillions reinventing railroads?😬
#Japan #WhiteElephant #infrastructure -
"[Japan's] Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has proposed [transporting] goods on median strips or through underground tunnels along expressways"
"According to a survey of construction companies...a system linking Tokyo and Osaka would cost up to ¥3.7 trillion"
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/business/economy/20240623-193996/🔸Why reinvent the wheel when you get to spend trillions reinventing railroads?😬
#Japan #WhiteElephant #infrastructure -
🎬 Just watched #BruceWillis in #WrongPlace and #WhiteElephant! 🥳 He keeps delivering those action-packed performances we love. Have you seen them yet? What did you think? 💥🔥
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"International expositions...have been used...for increasing national prestige"
"As that...came to an impasse, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)...redefined the expos in 1994 as venues for resolving global issues"
"But [2025 #Osaka Expo theme] “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”...is so vague that few [have any idea] what that means"
"...authorities have yet to outgrow the 1970 way of thinking"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15229636
#Japan #NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant -
"For decades, Japanese business and govt leaders, as well as much of the media, have hyped the ...Linear Chūō Shinkansen [maglev]"
"JR Central’s president admitted that #maglev won’t turn a profit domestically"
"the Linear will...[use] 3 to 4 times as much energy per person to power as the current Tōkaidō Shinkansen"
- Justin Aukema (Assoc. Prof., Economics Faculty, Osaka City Univ)
https://globalvoices.org/2024/01/31/the-true-cost-of-japans-linear-bullet-train/
🔸Probably only major construction firms will profit
#Shizuoka #Japan #WhiteElephant -
"For decades, Japanese business and govt leaders, as well as much of the media, have hyped the ...Linear Chūō Shinkansen [maglev]"
"JR Central’s president admitted that #maglev won’t turn a profit domestically"
"the Linear will...[use] 3 to 4 times as much energy per person to power as the current Tōkaidō Shinkansen"
- Justin Aukema (Assoc. Prof., Economics Faculty, Osaka City Univ)
https://globalvoices.org/2024/01/31/the-true-cost-of-japans-linear-bullet-train/
🔸Probably only major construction firms will profit
#Shizuoka #Japan #WhiteElephant -
The White Elephant sale is just so much fun! Too bad my kid has about outgrown the vintage kid's clothing section. There was a nice blue dress, but nothing I would want to have to hem.
Some departments are getting cleared out, but they still have new stuff incoming.
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A mess that is shoved aside and ignored is still a mess. :) #WhiteElephant -
Today's money-saving tip for the #frugal
May also make a great #WhiteElephant gift as well! -
Today's money-saving tip for the #frugal
May also make a great #WhiteElephant gift as well! -
Little table for gift exchange. Also started branding my work, first one with the stamp.
#woodworking #walnut #whiteelephant #handmade #madeincanada #endtable
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Little table for gift exchange. Also started branding my work, first one with the stamp.
#woodworking #walnut #whiteelephant #handmade #madeincanada #endtable
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For those of you who need something kitschy to pass on for your holidays: An Official White Elephant, 8x10", printable and suitable for framing. To be passed on perpetually at all those holiday parties in your future. Complete with Certificate of Authenticity you can tape to the back.
Here's a HD version:
https://www.playbook.com/s/coreyartus-imagery/2Q8aCKGevSW9Cj9teNF5YUTLLet the holiday season commence!
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For those of you who need something kitschy to pass on for your holidays: An Official White Elephant, 8x10", printable and suitable for framing. To be passed on perpetually at all those holiday parties in your future. Complete with Certificate of Authenticity you can tape to the back.
Here's a HD version:
https://www.playbook.com/s/coreyartus-imagery/2Q8aCKGevSW9Cj9teNF5YUTLLet the holiday season commence!
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@David Tokyo Olympics & Osaka Expo may have drawn public attention in #Japan away from the casino-centred integrated resort controversy, but plans are proceeding for turning the Expo site into an IR by 2030.
"...IR is scheduled to open on Yumeshima island in Osaka Bay around autumn 2030, following the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15017160
#NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant -
"Japanese govt has revealed that it will bear at least 83.7B yen (about $565M) for the construction of the #Japan pavilion and other expenses for the 2025 [#Osaka Expo]"
"This amount is in addition to up to 235B yen (approx. $1.59B) to build the site, which is 1.9 times the original plan"
#NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231128/p2a/00m/0na/004000c -
"Japanese govt has revealed that it will bear at least 83.7B yen (about $565M) for the construction of the #Japan pavilion and other expenses for the 2025 [#Osaka Expo]"
"This amount is in addition to up to 235B yen (approx. $1.59B) to build the site, which is 1.9 times the original plan"
#NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231128/p2a/00m/0na/004000c -
"Corporate leaders and govt officials in Kansai have emphasized that the expo is a national, not a local, project and that other cities and prefectures should prioritize it, even over their own needs." #Osaka #Japan
https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/111221389419198543
🔸Déjà vu of Tokyo2020 'Recovery Olympics' which sucked up nationwide construction workers, thus delaying recovery work for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami for yet another white elephant.🙄 #NoMoreExpos #NoMoreOlympics #WhiteElephant -
"...overall expenses are now certain to run over even the revised estimate [rumoured to be] around 230 B yen ($1.54B, 1.8x original estimate)"
"...first proposed [in 2014] by Toru Hashimoto, then mayor of #Osaka and founder of the Osaka Ishin party [which now wants central govt, i.e. taxpayers, to bear the increased costs]"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15018939"...the seriousness of the situation...is raising serious questions about the wisdom of hosting the expo"
#Expo2025 #WhiteElephant #NoMoreExpos -
"...overall expenses are now certain to run over even the revised estimate [rumoured to be] around 230 B yen ($1.54B, 1.8x original estimate)"
"...first proposed [in 2014] by Toru Hashimoto, then mayor of #Osaka and founder of the Osaka Ishin party [which now wants central govt, i.e. taxpayers, to bear the increased costs]"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15018939"...the seriousness of the situation...is raising serious questions about the wisdom of hosting the expo"
#Expo2025 #WhiteElephant #NoMoreExpos -
The thread about the “Galloping Sausage”; promising a lot but delivering a little
On this day (July 31st) in 1930, the curious LNER (London & North Eastern Railway) locomotive No. 10000 left Waverley station in Edinburgh at the head of the up Flying Scotsman. Hush Hush, as it was known, was an experimental prototype, fitted with a high-pressure water tube boiler: technology that ultimately proved more trouble than it was worth.
LNER locomotive no. 10000, leaving Waverley station at the head of the Flying Scotsman on the morning of July 31st 1930.This engine known as “Hush Hush” on account of the great secrecy that surrounded its design and construction; it was kept covered in sheeting whenever prying eyes were around to try and conceal what secrets lay beneath. Its internal company class name was the more mundane W1. The LNER and its designer hoped that its efficiency would make it the next great thing.From some angles it looked undeniably cool: sleek and furutistic.
No. 10000 from The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders by Harry GoldingFrom other angles it looked like the mutant offspring of a wide-mouthed frog and a white pudding (it was painted light grey, initially). A great, wallowing, temperamental, steam-powered sausage.
No. 10000 at Darlington, June 1930The great technological secrete beneath its sausage-like exterior, and the reason for its curious appearance, was the custom-built water-tube boiler. These sorts of boilers were usually for high-end marine applications, so its construction was contracted out to the Yarrow & Co. shipyard in Glasgow. Without turning this story into a lecture about boiler design, in simple terms a traditional steam locomotive boiler is of the fire-tube type; hot combustion gasses go along tubes through a pressurised tank of water to hear it. By by its nature this structure has many built-in weaknesses where the tubes penetrate the boiler. In a water-tube boiler, it is the small tubes that contain the water, under pressure, heated by combustion gases from the outside. This allowed operated at 450psi vs. the usual 180-200psi of a typical railway fire-tube boiler of its time.
No. 10000’s boiler under construction at Yarrows, from “Gresley and Stanier” by F. J. BellwoodBecause it works at a higher pressure, the steam is hotter within a water-tube boiler, therefore its potential do do work is greater. In theory, compared to a lower-pressure boiler, it can produce more power from the same amount of fuel (or the same amount of power for less fuel) and therefore will be more efficient. The theory was all well and good, but at the business end the engineers did not understand how to exploit the high pressure steam in a “compound” system (that is, one where steam is used first at a high pressure to drive one set of pistons and then at lower pressure to drive another, to extract as much of the work from it as possible.)
10000 on the Forth Bridge, 1930No. 10000 was the brainchild of the LNER’s Chief Mechanical Engineer, Nigel Gresley; not usually a man associated with making engineering mistakes. Gresley, coincidentally and relevantly for this sites main themes, was an accidental son of Edinburgh: his family were from Derbyshire, but he entered this world early on a visit by his expectant mother to see a gynaecologist in the New Town.
Plaque dedicated to the memory of Nigel Gresley at Waverley Station, CC-by-2.0, Rod Smith via FlickrA cross-sectional illustration of “a Unique New Engine” with “a War-Ship Boiler” was printed in the Illustrated London News in January 1930. It shows just how tight a squeeze things were on the inside. One of the only design efficiencies that No. 10000 ended up having was a 14% smaller fire grate than a comparable locomotive.
Cross-section illustration of No. 10000, from Illustrated London News – Saturday 11 January 1930A water-tube boiler has no steam dome, so that familiar feature of a steam locomotive was missing. To accommodate the unusual size and profile of the water-tube boiler, the engine’s outer casing was carried all the way to the maximum permissible height, with the safety valves and whistles were recessed into the side. The odd-looking front end was designed to scoop air into the casing, to pre-heat it before entering the firebox, and to throw exhaust smoke clear of the cab
No. 10000 during construction at Darlington Works. From Illustrated London News – Saturday 11 January 1930With no visible chimney or dome and that big, silvery, pudding of an outer casing, No. 10000 looked odd enough. But as the boiler had to hang further back than usual it needed an extra pair of wheels for support, on a double-articulated rear truck, giving a highly unusual 4-6-2-2 configuration (4 leading wheels on a bogie, 6 driving wheels, 2 trailing wheels on a Cartazzi axle and then a futher 2 wheels trailing on a separate Bissel truck). No. 10000 was never officially named – name plates to christen it “British Enterprise” were optimistically cast – but these were never fitted, and it was probably a good thing on account of the technical headache and operational embarrassment that it turned out to be. As well as “Hush Hush”, the less than flattering nickname of “Galloping Sausage” was unofficially applied.
No. 10000, from “The steam locomotive : its form and function” by William Alfred TuplinNo. 10000 was tested on the mainline for quite few years, with various tweaks and changes being made to try and improve its performance. In some aspects it showed promise, but these were offset by its heavy coal consumption, high build and running costs, lower power and poor reliability. Its fundamental problem however, was that it was a totally unique design, when every other locomotive on the LNER had a fire-tube boiler; there was reduced commonality and no economy of scale. It was quietly rebuilt with a fire-tube boiler and new outer casing into an approximation of a standard A4 Pacific in 1937 (also designed by Nigel Gresley). In this guise it served the railway for longer than its original form, all the way into British Railways days as No. 60700.
No. 10000 on the right, with a line-up of standard A4 Pacifics. You had to look very closely for the extra pair of trailing wheels (not shown in this image) to tell it apart from the others. From “Foreword” by E. Royston Pike (1938) Our Generation, London: Waverley Book CompanyThe only major blot on the otherwise unremarkable and reliable service of its second life was an ignominious slow-speed derailment at Peterborough in September 1955 which saw No. 60700 end up sprawled on its side. There were no serious injuries, and the three men on the footplate were thrown clear and unhurt. The damage was not significant and the locomotive was righted, repaired, and put back in service for a further decade before being withdrawn for scrap. Its tender survived into preservation with the A4 Pacific No. 60009 “Union of South Africa“
The aftermath of the Peterborough derailment, Peterborough Advertiser – 2nd September 1955Note to readers: unfortunately in April 2026, a third-party plug-in more than exceeded its authority and broke many of the image links on this site. No images were lost but I will have to restore them page-by-page, which may take some time. In the meantime please bear with me while I go about rectifying this issue.
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#Lochend #Logan #Restalrig #StMargaret -
It's a shame really, I have a busy day of avoiding the TV and anything coronation related ahead, do won't get to see Charles wear his self aggranising hat
#CR3 #coronation #oldBigEars #WhiteElephant -
Using the #Chrysanthemum Bundt pan to make Dad’s Carrot Cake #recipe for family Christmas tomorrow.
The pan is a thrift store find for our #WhiteElephant gift exchange.
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Every #Christmas my family plays the right/left #game with our #WhiteElephant gift. We sit in a circle and my mom reads a custom Christmas short story that she writes. As she says the word right or left, the listeners pass the gift they are holding in that direction.
I just convinced my mom that this year we're going to use a story written by #ChatGPT. It's surprisingly compelling. -
One reason I love the #WhiteElephant app is WE are the author of our tooting and WE should be responsible for our tooting.
So, IF you want to upload some pictures that may cause people to react with "a disgusted face" like this 🤢, you can tick the box "Mark media as sensitive" before you toot OR add some additional information "Media containing information sensitive to some people".
VERY easy, right?
Our SMARTPHONE is controlled by SMART BRAIN and FINGERS, not a zombie.