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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • That’s a tram with a unique history! It’s works car 02 of Seaton Tramway in England. I found this video on YouTube that has a ton of photos and a few videos of this tram, and snippets of its history. It was ordered by the Air Ministry in 1952, but they didn’t want it after all, so it became a regular service tram. In 1968, it got its first major overhaul to make it compatible with a different track gauge. It also got a platform for workers to work on overhead lines, I assume. After getting blown over by strong winds in 1980, it was turned into an unpowered wagon and got a new paint job (it was red and yellow before, then it got a blue-ish grey colour). 02 was rebuilt into a powered car again in 1993. The result of this rebuild is the photo in the OP: they added a yellow line (very stylish, but I don’t know what its purpose is), a new platform, and a guardrail (hard to believe they didn’t have one before!). From what I can tell, it’s still operational and in regular use.

    The years might be off a bit, though. According to tram.co.uk, the rebuild was in 1992, not 1993. I also found a lot more photos of 02 on britishtramsonline.co.uk (CTRL+F “02”). It’s a very cute tram!







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    Looks like someone made this for fun :3

    Happy smiley face constructed out of urine samples in plastic bottles. Brave scientists have to stay positive while testing the health of other people.
    This picture was created for my precious friend epSos.de and can be used for free, if you link epSos.de as the original author of the image.
    This creative art was created by the happy employee of the month. It is very motivating for the other scientists in the lab.
    The red eyes of the smiley face are the urgent samples.
    Thank you for sharing this picture with your friends !

    From the Wikimedia description. I think epSos.de is meant to be a username, not a link, because it leads to a very weird website.









  • That sounds like such a cool job. When I was younger, I used to binge-watch so many videos on Forgotten Weapons, even the really obscure ones like the lecture about firearm markings from 1880 to 1945. Then I lost my interest in the subject because I had other things to do, but if I had had the time and opportunities to keep following it, this would’ve been my dream job. Getting paid to nerd out about your favourite niche hobby. There’s probably also a lot of boring stuff he needs to do, paperwork and such, but that’d be worth it.


  • Some of my sunflowers are getting to the point where I can harvest their seeds. That’s super exciting because it’s my first time collecting seeds. This’ll sound very dumb, but until earlier this year, I thought sunflower seeds were a bit like apples and grew out of the little things that bees collect pollen from, but then I saw that the seeds grew underneath the pollen. I always thought I had seedless sunflowers. I’ll leave plenty of seeds for the birds, but growing sunflowers from seeds that I harvested myself sounds so cool, and I’m really looking forward to spring now.