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It’s Sunday, mein mouth-breathing mavens of the monsterous! Time for a visit to the HorrorHouse™! Today’s selection, for the pedantic 200 of you out there, isn’t strictly a horror film but a sub-genre, a member in a cross-section in your Horror ∩ Science-Fiction Venn diagram: the monster movie. And what an example of...

I’d like to thank @wilberfan for posting this article from the L.A. Times over at !moviesandtv. A hot topic with some interesting (and less interesting) takes on the subject. This was going to be a mere cross-posting but, of course, you’re always going to get your mouth-breathing audience in any discussion regarding...

Wie wäre es, hier dieses https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solarpunk_Flag.jpg als “Quasilogo” für die Solarpunk-Community zu verwenden. Es ist etwas deutlicher bzw. aussagekräftiger als das hier bisher verwendete Logo.

Forse leggermente off topic, volevo però segnalare questa fantastica collezione di mappe antiche digitalizzate, frutto di una collaborazione tra Wikimedia e “Geographicus Rare Antique Maps”. La maggior parte sono anche di pubblico dominio mentre per le più recenti (fine '800) magari va capito caso per caso. Ci sono anche...

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/2690855...

Air India owned several A320 aircraft with double wheels. By default, all A320s are delivered with a singe-wheel setup by Airbus. Back in the early 90s, Air India wanted to operate A320s to airports in India which could not carry the weight of an A320 on the ramps and taxiways. To help distribute the weight more evenly, Air...

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/2586624...

I am starting a small series on the “odd variants” of some aircraft types. This is the first post 🙂 Please upvote if you would like to see more ✈️...

Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Random question but does anyone know if the Lemmy logo is trademarked?

Modern media portrayals of the Wild Hunt have a fairly consistent portrayal - a huntsman on his steed, surrounded by his hounds. But when you actually start looking into European folk tales of "Wild Hunt"-type phenomena, you quickly notice that the portrayal is rather more diverse than you'd think. Here is one of my favorite...