#skin

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I used to work in the head office of a major UK health and beauty retailer (yeah, that one). A skin chart for suncare came across my desk that equated white skin with “normal skin”. I queried this, and was told that it was for use in the backshop only, so should shut up and get back in my lane. It ended up on the shopfloor and in the papers, of course. They genuinely couldn’t see what was wrong with it.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/03/sunscreen-advice-should-factor-in-ethnicity-and-skin-colour

289-Million-Year-Old System Preserves Oldest-Known Fossilized Skin
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/captorhinus-aguti-skin-12605.html

cave system preserves oldest-known evidence of amniote skin https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01663-9

"The newly-described fossilized skin belonged to aguti, a species of early that lived during the period... The fragment, which is smaller than a fingernail, has a pebbled surface and most closely resembles skin."

Photos of the fragments of fossilized reptile skin

The or might have closed down, but there is something to learn from the team and community: theme it and build your own identity!

This is the new look of https://pebble.social based on the mainline software.

It gives the instance it's amidst the countless instances powered by mainline Mastodon.

The theme ported to mainline Mastodon's default UI by @blobcat and is available here https://github.com/blobcatz/pebble-mastodon-theme if other instances wants to install it.

@t2pub @t2

A screenshot of pebble.social's new default theme.
A screenshot of pebble.social's new default theme.
A screenshot of pebble.social's new default theme.
A screenshot of pebble.social's new default theme.

The launch vehicle has evolved over the many years. The first Atlas SM-65 was a nuclear missile modified to launch spacecraft. Upper stages were added like Agena and Centaur.
The of the was made of stainless and thinner than a US . The tanks could not support their own weight and had to be pressurized with gas to prevent them from crumpling.
This was true from Atlas, to Atlas-Centaur, to Atlas I, Atlas IIAS, and Atlas III.
The ’s skin is made of isogrid aluminum; this being a type of machined aluminum that removed triangular sections from the inside of the tank walls, saving weight while preserving strength.
A copper-colored outer cladding is added.

Get a print or other merchandise with this image at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/modern-atlas-skin-heron-and-fox.html

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An outdoor, cloudy photograph of a copper-colored metal cylinder. On the left side of the image is a black metal tower with 4 logos designed on, the top is a blue circle surrounding an image of the globe, with a rocket taking off from the surface. The words, “Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.” The next logo is simply composed of the letters USAF in white. Below that is a white rectangle with the blue text ULA, United Launch Alliance. The lowest logo is the NASA blue meatball logo. The sky beyond is a hazy gray.