Post B2mGiXH7F9TWShcp72 by detondev@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #AxsGvjAJmEsAwcVFwG by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-04T21:00:46Z
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"Guryong Village (Korean: 구룡마을) is a shanty town in Seoul, South Korea. It is just across a six-lane motorway from Dogok-dong of the affluent Gangnam District. The area it is on has been inhabited since October 1925, although it only turned into a shantytown beginning in 1988. This was due to the city's rapid development prior to the 1988 Olympic Games, in which people in low-income areas were evicted from their houses and became squatters at the site."
(DIR) Post #AyIU3079eVx9HedKme by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-17T12:30:16Z
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For about an hour on July 17, 1955, Arco was lit by electricity generated solely by nuclear power from Argonne National Laboratory’s BORAX-III reactor at the nearby National Reactor Testing Station (now the Idaho National Laboratory). NRTS made further history on January 3, 1961, when the SL-1 reactor was destroyed through an operator maintenance error, the steam explosion killing all three personnel present. It was the world's first and the United States' only fatal reactor accident.
(DIR) Post #AyIV9uYUoqAg1YHUVE by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-17T12:42:43Z
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For about an hour on July 17, 1955, Arco was lit by electricity generated solely by nuclear power from Argonne National Laboratory’s BORAX-III reactor at the nearby National Reactor Testing Station (now the Idaho National Laboratory). NRTS made further history on January 3, 1961, when the SL-1 reactor was destroyed through an operator maintenance error, the steam explosion killing all three personnel present. It was the world's first and the United States' only fatal reactor accident.
(DIR) Post #AytqszG2HGBCwH7tGi by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-05T13:10:31Z
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Photos of Shinjuku in the middle of Tokyo's 80's economic boom.
(DIR) Post #Aytuj7U1EvsLN3DWoy by exchgr@mastodon.world
2025-10-05T13:53:30Z
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@detondev arco today:
(DIR) Post #AyvzCh0D30Z83vYD8y by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-06T13:53:06Z
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In the rural Iranian Sohrol village stands St. John Church, a Catholic establishment in Sasanian style. The original was built around the 5th century by Russian and French architects, then rebuilt in brick on those ruins in 1840 by Samson Khan (formerly Makinetev), a general who defected from the Imperial Russian Army in favor of Qajar Iran.
(DIR) Post #AyyN2kWDuC7NHwEifI by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-07T17:06:51Z
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"Erlang Town is the original place of Langjiu Liquor, one of the two most prestigious soy-sauce scents Baijiu in China that produced alongside the Chishui River. In 2009, Langjiu Group initiated its upgrading plan to create a world-class liquor estate in Erlang Town, and the Liquor Storehouse is the first project to be built in Langjiu Estate."
(DIR) Post #Az8pv2zQBfoUVfAkl6 by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-12T18:40:20Z
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Cape Jason, located in Turkey's Ordu Province and named for Jason of the agronauts, "harkens back to ancient times when a temple of Jason stood at the edge of the sea, protecting the sailors of Black Sea's treacherous waters." A Greek Orthodox church, pictured below, later replaced the temple with a similar mission. It now sits, in total solitude, in an overgrown cornfield next to a lighthouse overlooking the roaring waves of the Pontus. Ancient ports and fish breeding pools can also be found amid the region's ruins.
(DIR) Post #AzRBkbmuAD4t5N1YrQ by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-21T15:09:46Z
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One of the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station's telescopes is used to survey the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) to look for distant galaxy clusters.
(DIR) Post #AzRf0gaiy9p5HtLTXc by BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-21T20:37:37Z
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@detondev look up Green Bank Observatory and more radio telescopes
(DIR) Post #Azk7sX1p8CidxTux6m by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-30T18:25:53Z
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Pyramiden (literally 'The Pyramid' in English) is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago. Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since remained largely abandoned, with most of its infrastructure and buildings still in place, the cold climate preserving much of what's left behind. In 2012, Aleksandr Romanovsky became the first person to return to live in Pyramiden. He has since been joined by five others. Romanovsky, a musician and tour guide in the settlement amid efforts to make it a tourist attraction, has called himself the "world's most northern head-banger".https://www.loveproperty.com/galleryextended/119342/pyramiden-the-abandoned-soviet-ghost-town-in-the-arctic?page=1
(DIR) Post #AzlCMEwdWZWzXEsAhU by ownlife@mastodon.social
2025-10-31T06:50:38Z
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@detondev I love Cecilia Blomdahl's channel for everything Svalbardhttps://youtu.be/aQowGCVAgYE
(DIR) Post #AzlWTiBPDKCbKHcZ7Y by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-31T10:36:11Z
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Kawamata Dam, an arch dam located in Japan's Tochigi prefecture, is the longest in the nation. I just found this incredible Japanese blogpost from a guy who bumbled around it.https://dampedia.com/list/kanto/tochigi/0563.html
(DIR) Post #B0JpUkROx1MkYhp8y0 by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-16T23:49:32Z
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"Ellison Wonderland", the Los Angeles home of Harlan Ellison.
(DIR) Post #B0PRplfeiKJN3fQ1tA by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-19T16:52:40Z
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The Okhotsk Sea's Berkut platform, designed for harsh subartic conditions, is the biggest oil and gas platform in the world. The total project is estimated to cost 10-12 billion dollars, making it the largest direct investment in Russia from foreign sources.http://williamjacob.com/html/ExxonMobil_Sakhalin_Island_summary.html
(DIR) Post #B0THXZ0X6V9eKlt0W8 by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-21T13:16:11Z
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Although the Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater was opened in 1960, its current brutalist building, which drastically distinguishes it from the classical-inspired architecture of the state's drama and puppet theaters, was designed in 1985 by architects R. Begunts and V. Teneta.
(DIR) Post #B0TtROjwA8KP0gbvUW by karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-11-21T20:20:50Z
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@detondev Yikes, that a scary looking building for a performing arts space.I once had to work on shows in a theatre complex designed by "an architect" - one who clearly was dyslexic and read Louis Sullivan's advice that "form follows function" as "form! Who cares about function". It was a horrible space for mounting shows, and also dangerous for the crew. (Things like stage-wing ladders up to the catwalks that had 90 degree bends that required a crew person using that ladder to make a 90 turn in the dark and step over a long drop.)Over the years I have too much contact with other abominations by "architects" such as F. Gehry. (If I remember correctly we once shared office space with him in Santa Monica around 1980.)
(DIR) Post #B0aB2QkdnewQDtozx2 by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-24T21:06:18Z
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Pamukkale, Turkish for "Cotton Castle." The region is situated on a fault line, where hot springs rich in calcium carbonate emerge from the Earth's interior. As the spring water flows down the slopes, it cools and deposits mineral-rich travertine, forming the distinct terraces that give Pamukkale its surreal appearance. Over time, this process has shaped the cascading pools and terraces, creating a breathtaking natural spectacle.Additionally, it is home to the ruins of the Hellenistic period's Hieraopolis, which flourished as a spa destination due to these thermal waters.
(DIR) Post #B0aDTdAzuZtIUCFPTE by yujiri@freeradical.zone
2025-11-24T21:33:35Z
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@detondev whoa...
(DIR) Post #B0sc5viVK24Ojmzgae by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-03T18:34:16Z
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The Realmonte Salt Mines, 50 miles of tunnels made at 300 feet under the sea level. The temperature at which a solution's evaporating can affect the type of salt which precipitates, meaning the light and dark salts seen on the wall represent summer vs. winter deposits.Additionally, the mine also contains a church complete with altar, steps, frescos, and crucifix all painstakingly carved from the salt face by mine workers, which can accommodate up to 800 people. Each year in early December, ceremonies are held to celebrate Santa Barbara, the protector of mine workers.
(DIR) Post #B0scaVpTcaDXQSq1gm by yujiri@freeradical.zone
2025-12-03T18:39:47Z
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@detondev whoa. that's cool stuff
(DIR) Post #B0siumUTz3XKcJ4B4C by telmii_poo@jorts.horse
2025-12-03T19:50:34Z
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@detondev i know people who have stuck in here and taken drugs/camped out. Ultimate jealousy
(DIR) Post #B0vAMq4bLMNYumU47k by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-05T00:07:44Z
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Tsoi-Pede (Цӏайн-пхьеда, "Abode of Divinity" translated from Chechen), one of the largest medieval necropolises in the Caucasus.https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6780/
(DIR) Post #B14hc0mupmXXOqh49Q by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-09T14:32:38Z
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Photo of an office that belonged to graphic design firm ATTIK, just before the dotcom crash heavily damaged them.
(DIR) Post #B16UQpsi8MZbIgfH3g by nerthos@shitposter.world
2025-12-10T11:14:24.339210Z
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@detondev Christ is present even in the otherwise god-forsaken bad korea :mariapray:
(DIR) Post #B16UeoIsnU4QSdZP5E by teto@cawfee.club
2025-12-10T11:16:41.012496Z
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@nerthos @detondev those oldass maria emojis bring me back. I made them in like 2017 lol
(DIR) Post #B16UfyLWway9thMXCq by nerthos@shitposter.world
2025-12-10T11:17:08.755204Z
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@teto @detondev Your legacy
(DIR) Post #B1flSPi3B56yvjMvXU by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-27T11:40:02Z
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Belgrade's 36-story Western City Gate, designed in 1977 by Mihajlo Mitrović, was met with fierce opposition even after being greenlit. From causing a decade long rift with one of the city's urban planners, to an Ivo Kušanić caricature showing gallows next to the building and the text "Who are these gallows for? For the architect!" It's reputation has since improved, getting officially categorized as a cultural monument in 2021. By the mid 2020s it was still described as "more progressive than almost anything new built in Serbia."After the owning company went bankrupt in 2015, a lengthy and occasionally controversial series of sale attempts for the building's commercial part ensued. Many wildly different visions of it's future were pitched, but eventually Aleksandar Kajmaković, the entrepreneur behind "Eureka Bar", successfully purchased it in 2023. Kajmaković is connected to multiple major Serbian criminal clans. He is a close associate of Predrag Ranković Peconi, who was briefly arrested in 2003 for strong ties to the clan that assasinated the then-prime minister. He was also apprehended by police as part of the process against top Serbian kingpin Veljko Belivuk, as he was suspected of acting as the legal owner of Belivuk's properties, using gang members for security after seemingly-unidentified assasins planted a bomb under his Montenegro Mercedes in 2002, and for good old money laundering. Because of his history, the opposition accused Kajmaković of at best desecrating a city symbol with his business and at worst being a front for another even shadier owner, and called for the state to cancel the sale because it's "illegal". His company filed a last-minute extension motion, but it was denied and he is now the owner, despite announced lawsuits from the residential section's upset tenants.
(DIR) Post #B1fxxFFjIwz8vTae1I by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-27T14:00:04Z
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yall better appreciate this one, i spent two hours up late last night doing nothing but getting sucked into random english-translated articles and blog posts about various details of this building and also serbian gang meta. i think if i had to show one it'd be this, the journalistic contempt hits different when ur not slowly saturated in it to the point its conpletely defanged like with trump https://vreme.com/en/vreme/tri-grozda-protiv-dva-bela-goluba/
(DIR) Post #B1gMQI5aEgtP1LE95c by cyb3rm0shp1t@social.xenofem.me
2025-12-27T18:34:14.888100Z
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@detondev this building looks like a hotline miami level
(DIR) Post #B1gNLftCQ55VLGnUlE by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-27T18:44:37Z
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@cyb3rm0shp1t i wonder what sorts of things inspired hotline miami 🤔🤔
(DIR) Post #B1gPwjnp26IE6N5Cme by serverlessaoife@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T19:13:41Z
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@detondev This is one of my favorite buildings ever
(DIR) Post #B2KO18zBauAupf5JRY by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-16T02:00:34Z
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Potato sorting stations are common in Ukraine's agricultural regions. However, this one 1 km from Krasnosilka appears abandoned, partially dismantled, and unusually designed.
(DIR) Post #B2KOuki32ZCvkzaJQu by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2026-01-16T02:10:34.744706Z
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This was in one of my really old desktop wallpaper folders. I always assumed it was just art (either drawn or rendered). I just looked it up to find out more, and it turns out, it's real, but this version had the other support structures photoshopped out (yep, back before AI when you had to do it all by hand!). It's a pretty old image .. at least the one on the right. The first image I've never seen before. It looks rendered.
(DIR) Post #B2M7ruprcqtpOBDp2m by Ospring@mamot.fr
2026-01-16T22:08:58Z
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@detondev une ambiance un peu Makoto Shinkai, La Tour au-delà des nuages...
(DIR) Post #B2OPWCHwF7K2dd4CzQ by annewalk@tootsweet.social
2026-01-18T00:36:04Z
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@detondev that looks surreal!
(DIR) Post #B2SZ9g0r3oTi4oMlv6 by zuki@snac.pinkro.se
2026-01-20T00:42:36Z
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i find blaming the SL-1 incident purely on user error is a bit cruel to the guy that got impaled and stuck to the ceillinghaving a user stand right above the reactor manually lifting and lowering a control rod that is also prone to jamming is a fucking insult to reactor engineering and definitely carries the brunt of the fault
(DIR) Post #B2SaYHfwmaVvn1stsG by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-20T00:47:40Z
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@zuki many such cases!
(DIR) Post #B2SaYIs2L7mLUoY4MC by zuki@snac.pinkro.se
2026-01-20T00:56:00Z
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ok yea thats true. its basically standard procedure for all nuclear accidents
(DIR) Post #B2mGiXH7F9TWShcp72 by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-20T00:19:48Z
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Part of the Diavik Diamond Mine of northwest subarctic Canada's distinctive look is because it was partly beneath the lake (Lac de Gras) and they had to build a dike around it to start open pit mining.
(DIR) Post #B2mGief7mHq5NBub0S by detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-29T12:23:28Z
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Abandoned house in Mirlo Beach, a once prosperous seaside town located on North Carolina's Outer Banks.