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Taken at the dump in Livermore, California. Tried to make good use of a not so fun time.
Taken with the Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim. Kodak Elite Chrome 100 speed slide film, cross processed.
Moc for a Lug's contest. The theme was city vehicles. I gave a try at 8w! Here is the result! Besides the working bucket, the main feature wich I like the most is the working rear pendular suspension.
Cheers people!
Clothes from Riverbank wall photo. Black M&S Cardigan, white pretty jumper, brown woolly cardigan, grey woollen top.
Over 500 people gathered in Vero Beach, Florida in deep red Indian River County to speak up on Labor Day. Hundreds of "Workers Over Billionaires" protests were held nationwide on Labor Day 2025, with organizers highlighting extreme wealth inequality and advocating for improved conditions for working-class families. Led by organizations like May Day Strong and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the demonstrations target corporate power and the influence of the ultra-wealthy in politics.
Class 321 diesel loco 321044 in the old RENFE green & yellow livery sits dumped at Miranda de Ebro stabling point on 27/Dec/2018.
From what I have read elsewhere this loco has sat here since at least 2007 and looks unlikely to be going anywhere soon, except for scrap, if it hasn't rusted to the rails!
Photo copyright © R. Chilton
Let's go to Lego City. One of my oldest project - dump truck. Enjoy :)
Visit my Lego Ideas page -> ideas.lego.com/projects/416d8d9e-eb83-4b52-b5c0-1601f3295aa8
Why am I dumping so many seagull shots on my photostream? Two reasons: One: I really like seagulls. At least when they are in the air. On the ground they are noisy winged rats fighting for rotten scraps of vile, stinky garbage. But in the air they are pure soaring grace. And two: I'm working on a Jonathan Edwards Seagull type video. After staring at so many of these things for so long I'd love to get some other opinions on which I should chose to do some Ken Burnsy things with. Love to hear your top 3 to 5 if you have a thought. Thanks!
I saw one of Elon Musk's crap trucks driving through Villa Park the other day, and I feel compelled to take a picture every time I see one just to commemorate the stupidity of it. You know, they say now that the side panels have been flying off these things on the road, and that you can pull those cheap plastic fenders off with your bare hands. The stainless steel rusts if you don't clean it every day, but you can't get them wet without destroying the battery. Water collects in the button that operates the trunk cover and shorts it out so you can't open it, but that's okay because raccoons can easily chew through it. The interior door panels pop off if you slam the doors, but if you have a wreck and the battery explodes, the doors automatically lock and trap you inside unbreakable glass. They're crap cars, which makes sense, because everything Elon Musk touches is crap. You can follow the trail of it. Pay-Pal ... Tesla ... Twitter ... the Federal Government of the United States of America ...
There was recently a small hubbub about that on Robin's Facebook page, when people who often post political stuff got mad because Robin posted political stuff. (This is not an uncommon reaction.) Robin posted something about Musk's wild and slash-and-burn rampage through government agencies he knows nothing about and has no actual legal authority to affect, and the Facebook reaction was eye rolling. "Do you honestly think they are not consulting on these things?" one of them said. "Do you really think they are so absolutely stupid that they are just arbitrarily doing things?"
The answer is, of course, an emphatic yes, and everything in Musk's history proves it. That truck up there serves as a microcosm of his entire career. Dude comes up with a dumb idea, does absolutely no research to figure out how to make the idea, rushes some half-ass version of it to market with almost no testing to see if it works, and dares anybody to call him on it. His motto is "move fast and break things," and he doesn't care what gets broken or how costly it is to fix. He just likes blowing shit up for no reason, and then running around some stage somewhere with a chainsaw looking like a dumbass.
I've been ranting about the guy for more than a decade, and I've seen this kind of thing from him time after time. People think he's some supergenius because he made a lot of money, but none of his cash came from anything inside his own brain. The seed of his wealth came from his dad's blood emeralds (though he denies that now), which he used to buy ideas off other people. He's never invented anything. He bought Pay-Pal, then used Pay-Pal money to buy Tesla, then used Tesla money to buy SpaceX and Twitter and the presidency. (I'd say he bought Donald Trump, but he only rents Trump from Vladimir Putin.) He came up with none of that on his own, and his only real skill has been convincing people that he did. He has been masterful at marketing himself as some once-in-a-lifetime beautiful mind, but everything he ever says is some of the dumbest shit you'll ever hear. I've seen it said that he's what stupid people assume a smart guy would be, and that's the most apt description of him I've ever heard.
I first remember hearing about him early in the Tesla era, when he got all the techies excited with talk of robot cars. I tend to be skeptical of anything that gets techies excited, so I rolled my eyes, made a few disparaging comments on the internet (starting around 2012 or so -- that's how long I've been onto the guy), and mostly ignored him. What really caught my attention was when he started talking about this idea of his called a "hyperloop," some kind of Star Trek train running through vacuum tubes at a thousand miles an hour that would supposedly get you from New York to Washington in 20 minutes. The concept is absurd for any number of reasons that should be obvious to anyone with even a little knowledge of the current state of physics and engineering -- "how you gonna maintain a vacuum in a tube a thousand miles long?" was one of many questions I frequently asked on the boards -- but Musk fans are very gullible, and they ate it all up. They attacked anybody who questioned the man with religious zeal and ignored every failure, every missed deadline or forgotten promise. According to Musk's acolytes circa 2015, the roads would be full of fully autonomous robot cars by 2020. Musk promised that his rockets would carry people on trips out past the Moon by 2018. He promised to have a hyperloop up and running between downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport before the mayor two mayors ago left office.
That last one is a perfect example of one time when Musk's lack of knowledge or expertise in ... um, anything was made very obvious to me. Musk came Chicago in about 2017 with this scheme to build a hyperloop tunnel that would let people ride robot pods to O'Hare from downtown in about 20 minutes. I got curious about his tunnel technology (mostly for an internet argument), so I took a look at his tunneling company's web site to see what it had to say about drilling through glacial sedimentary geology like you find around Chicago versus the types of rock he'd have to drill in places like Los Angeles or Las Vegas. There was a question in the FAQ section about the safety of tunnels in earthquakes, and while the exact quote has long vanished from the internet, the gist of it was, "Tunnels are perfectly safe during earthquakes, because it's the ground that moves, so the tunnel just moves with the ground! People inside tunnels barely notice!" Which is among the dumbest things I've ever read. The idea he had in his head was that the entire ground moves as a unit, like a giant block of solid concrete, I guess, because he'd never heard of compression or shearing. It's a baby's understanding of earthquakes, something you might see on a cartoon. And of course, he's a genius, so he never thought to check with a geologist on that. He was talking about running a vacuum tube from Los Angeles to Las Vegas at time, and I thought about how he'd have to run that across the San Andreas Fault, and how that fault had slipped 16 feet along a stretch north of San Francisco in 1906. You're going to notice 16 feet of lateral movement in a tunnel cutting across a fault, especially if you're in a space pod traveling at a thousand miles an hour.
I made a post on the Facebook back in 2018 that said, "Though the competition is fierce, I believe the worst human currently alive is Elon Musk." I stand by that statement. Donald Trump is a horrible waste of human flesh, but he's little more than a puppet these days. Elon Musk is doing this crap because he wants to, hoping to remake the world into whatever screwy vision he has in his brain. He knows how nothing works and has no interest in learning. He just wants to blow everything up, and anybody who falls for his shit gets what they deserve.
Mama loves to go to the dump!
Not just for all the smells and different people.
We always go somewhere after, campgrounds, beach, horse trails...today was the fishing pond :-)
A lot of the snow and ice is gone and it was great to hear the Sandhill Cranes in the background!
There was also a Heffalump (very long story). Normally Mama pays no attention but it was obnoxiously loud and she paused to take notice a couple times.
It seemed like picking up my camera for the first time in a while was a breeze, everything came back to me no problem...until I tried to find continuous focus! I finally got it but was stumped for the longest time!
Pocket Dump:
• GME TX655 1 Watt Radio on a TAD Retractor
• Sunwayman V11Rn on a TAD Retractor (Custom modified by Vinh Nguyen from candlepowerforums - 900lm 4000k)
• Maxpedition Micro Slim Wallet (Contains cash, bank card, a few bandaids and a frenzel lens) • Triple Aught Design Dauntless MOD1 with a NiteIze Eclipse clip
• Sherpa Sharpie cover
• Go tube wrapped in black and white electrical tape (white for labelling things with the Sharpie) and 1” Gorilla Tape - contains a Protected 14500 lithium battery, a couple of tightly folded tissues for first aid, emergency toilet paper, hearing protection etc. • TAD Fisher Space Pen
• Keychain (See below)
• TAD Rexford Rut with a carbon fibre lanyard bead and a glow pull
• Olight box containing Etymotic HF3 Headphones with handsfree (trimmed down to fit into Lifeproof case without adaptor) and a HeartMath Inner Balance sensor
• iPhone 6 Plus 128gb - Jailbroken, holds 5000+ searchable books and offline topographical maps of the whole of Australia
• Ultimate Survival Technologies Trekker Stormproof Lighter
• Casio Protrek Triple Sensor Solar Power Watch PRG-510
Keychain:
• Modified NiteIze Eclipse self locking clip (sadly discontinued, luckily I bought 10 before the stopped making them)
• Piece of tourmaline set in sliver
• Silicon Power Jewel J10 64GB USB3.0 Flash Drive - waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, 90 Mb/s, lifetime warranty AU$40
• Maratac Stainless Steel AAA Flashlight with a GITD Diffuser running a protected 10440 lithium
• Victorinox Rambler (like a classic but with an awesome super tough phillips head screwdriver and bottle opener)
• PDW SPD Dog Tag Tool
• TAD Dog Tag
• 4 TEC Accessories Python Clips
Kenworth will provide a $2,000 savings to fellow National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) members on qualifying purchases of new Kenworth T880S, pictured here in a dump application, plus the Kenworth T880, W900, T440 or T470 vocational trucks through the association’s Member to Member (M2M) Benefits Program.
Loadmaster dumping @ Croton, N.Y. Sanitary Landfill,
on the banks of the Hudson River - Aug. 1973
Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives
This a Matchbox truck Dan found underwater at Baywood Park in Los Osos, CA November of 2010. It is missing the dumper part and has chipped paint, rust and bent wheels.
The marking on the underside is:
Matchbox ©1989 Mattel
Dump Truck 1:140
Thailand
The Dump (77,675 square feet)
124 Newmarket Square, Newmarket South, Newport News, VA
This location opened in fall 1993; it was originally a Miller & Rhoads, which opened in August 1963 and re-located here on March 26th, 1975. It then became a Hechinger's hardware store, which opened in 1977 and closed in December 1990.
This is my reworked LEGO MAN dump truck. It took me about 60h to finish. See a video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmM9Omoue0