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@pluralistic I love the texture of all the rusty metal staples left all over the post from years of posters.

@tdriley @pluralistic Someday the timing will be exactly right for me to stand at the corner of some urban intersection with a pair of pliers and very carefully remove EVERY STAPLE from a telephone pole. It won't just be OCD. It'll be useful work!

@SidFudd @tdriley @pluralistic Careful! On some of those poles, they're now load-bearing staples.

@paramnesiac @SidFudd @tdriley @pluralistic

It's the pole of Theseus, There's no original pole under the staples. It's all metal and rust now.

@thedansimonson @TonyJWells @paramnesiac @tdriley @pluralistic Looove the Seattle poster poles. Given enough time a cross-section of this pole is going to go from circular to a five-pointed star

@hteasley @thedansimonson @TonyJWells @paramnesiac @SidFudd @tdriley @pluralistic

Here in Seattle, theStranger.com/slog sticker patrol blogs about the latest seen on poles, etc. This was one of my favorites.

@karabaic entirely possible—and just to throw another hypothesis out there, it could be the flyers are evenly distributed, but rain captured by the whole flows downward after more layers have been added, causing a bulge.

@thedansimonson We must immediately apply for a grant and do core samples. We will gain unprecedented knowledge of early grunge culture in the lower layers.

@karabaic

@thedansimonson I'm serious, I bet we get published in the Annals*

* of Improbable Research