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A non-plussed brown dog lies upon a couch with a haphazardly placed sauna hat stop it's head.
Someone randomly mailed us a two-pack of sauna hats from Amazon.
Banya time!
Now I need sauna hat, to wear with my theoretical Bolivian dress, to roam my neighborhood.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 Now *I* want a Bolivian dress. dammit
I may need a sauna hat for AZ summers.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 @spingo me three!
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Photo of a model's bottom half; she's wearing leggings that are printed to look like shiny metal armor.
source: https://loricaclothing.com/products...
"Our Scudamore leggings are based on the field armor of Sir James Scudamore, currently on view at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sir James was a prominent Elizabethan soldier, courtier, and enthusiastic jouster; he was praised in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (published 1596) as an example of chivalry personified. Channel knightly nobility in our take on this gorgeous armor!"
"Our Scudamore leggings are based on the field armor of Sir James Scudamore, currently on view at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sir James was a prominent Elizabethan soldier, courtier, and enthusiastic jouster; he was praised in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (published 1596) as an example of chivalry personified. Channel knightly nobility in our take on this gorgeous armor!"
this is giving Sorayama
Oh, perfect. My niece's wedding is coming up and I don't have my outfit yet.
You'll never cut through this armour!
I have friends that will lose their minds over this.
underarmor
@MackReed https://www.etsy.com/listing...
Sir James had lovely legs!
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The 1960 Pininfarina Model X: https://www.tumblr.com/itscolos...
Would.
This should be trundled out from underneath a zeppelin.
That would look SO good towed behind an airstream.
A couple decades ago, when China was initially modernizing its auto industry, they shipped a bunch of concept cars to the Detroit Auto show.
I distinctly remember one of the cars being the same 1-2-1 wheel configuration except with the middle two perfectly centered, roughly where the passenger's feet would be. And that the designer's hadn't modeled the interior of the vehicle so it had hand-me-down seats and you could see the bent wood laths running from stern to prow for the body shape, spackled over with clay or plaster to look seamless from the outside.
The Chinese auto industry has improved a lot more across the century so far than the US auto industry has.
I distinctly remember one of the cars being the same 1-2-1 wheel configuration except with the middle two perfectly centered, roughly where the passenger's feet would be. And that the designer's hadn't modeled the interior of the vehicle so it had hand-me-down seats and you could see the bent wood laths running from stern to prow for the body shape, spackled over with clay or plaster to look seamless from the outside.
The Chinese auto industry has improved a lot more across the century so far than the US auto industry has.
@ardgedee In their electrics in particular. They have one (i can’t recall the make) that has an onboard gas-powered generator to recharge the batteries should you run dry out in the sticks. Such basic ingenuity, completely unavailable outside the Chinese market.
Given that the engine block is on the side, I do wonder how that thing would handle. Right-hand turns would be significantly different than left-hand turns.
nyowmmmmmm
@mackreed The slate electric pickup has that genny feature in its forthcoming model, and I'm incredibly enthusiastic about it.
Just don’t turn fast
@zeitgeist ooooo! I’m not there yet in terms of planning to buy - I worry that it’ll be poorly adopted/supported or even vaporware - but I’m very keen to see how Slate does.
@zeitgeist Cool. I knew that the new Scout had that option, but not the Slate. TIL.
@MackReed The BMW i3 REX had a gas generator to top up the EV battery, but it was hamstrung by a small tank in the US. I always thought they looked like a cool eraser on wheels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
@ang I stand corrected. And educated. Thanx!
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That is not a septum ring.
I was wondering WTF was going on with the bling on her teeth. It looked like she had her incisors decorated with spikes, which would have been fine and cool and all. But this finally got me to look into what was going on and I was not prepared...
This appears to me to be a Labial Frenulum piercing. And if I bet my life on "Is a labial frenulum piercing in your mouth?", I would have been dead before today.
I was wondering WTF was going on with the bling on her teeth. It looked like she had her incisors decorated with spikes, which would have been fine and cool and all. But this finally got me to look into what was going on and I was not prepared...
This appears to me to be a Labial Frenulum piercing. And if I bet my life on "Is a labial frenulum piercing in your mouth?", I would have been dead before today.
@TRONboy I saw an interview with her about it, and yes, it's a frenulum piercing. She did it herself, and said it was basically painless.
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Middle-aged doofus wearing a brown corduroy jacket with St. Paul across the chest in large navy blue block letters. The collar, cuffs, and bottom hem are all edged in a red/blue striped knit.
I saw a couple of people wearing this jacket during Stump Party at our neighborhood gay soccer dive bar and had to get one. They're merch for the St. Paul Saints baseball team, but it only has a small team patch on the sleeve, the back is a huge embroidered city flag logo. A bit of city pride in a cool retro jacket.
Ah man, I miss Saints games! I never did make it to the new stadium. Will have to on my next trip back.
Also, which bar is the neighborhood gay soccer dive bar? That's new!
That's a fine looking jacket!
@homerj The Black Hart: https://www.blackhartstp.com/about-feed
The bar has been there for decades, was previously a gay dive bar (the Townhouse), and when the owners were ready to retire a guy from the neighborhood bought it, added soccer and changed the name but kept everything else the same.
The bar has been there for decades, was previously a gay dive bar (the Townhouse), and when the owners were ready to retire a guy from the neighborhood bought it, added soccer and changed the name but kept everything else the same.
show the back SHOW THE BACK!
@MackReed done! https://mltshp.com/p/1RL88
@homerj ha! That is awesome! AND they have bocce!
I just did street view. Holy crap has University ave changed! Looks like a great spot!
/want
@wjcstp That’s *great.*. Anything with winged wheels is always a winner.
@wjcstp Oh, @redfox picked up a Black Hart shirt in solidarity when they shut down during the strike!
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a four panel comic strip, depicting a young male presenting person talking to the camera.
in frame one, he says "lately, menswear afficionados [sic] have been embracing a playfully sleazy, "slutty" style. mustaches are back in a big way!"
in frame two, he now sports a curly mullet and a mustache, saying "thanks to tiktok influencers, mini mullets are now de rigeur as well. bonus points if it's got some curl to it!"
in frame three, he is putting on a pair of aviator frame eyeglasses with his right hand and a hawaiian shirt with his left, saying "small, tasteful glasses are SO 2019 - go BIG or go home with a vintage-inspired pair that really frame your face."
in the fourth frame, he buttons up his shirt while looking into a mirror, saying "i like to top it all off with a subttly patterned shirt and - ah SHIT, we all look like WEIRD AL now."
in frame one, he says "lately, menswear afficionados [sic] have been embracing a playfully sleazy, "slutty" style. mustaches are back in a big way!"
in frame two, he now sports a curly mullet and a mustache, saying "thanks to tiktok influencers, mini mullets are now de rigeur as well. bonus points if it's got some curl to it!"
in frame three, he is putting on a pair of aviator frame eyeglasses with his right hand and a hawaiian shirt with his left, saying "small, tasteful glasses are SO 2019 - go BIG or go home with a vintage-inspired pair that really frame your face."
in the fourth frame, he buttons up his shirt while looking into a mirror, saying "i like to top it all off with a subttly patterned shirt and - ah SHIT, we all look like WEIRD AL now."
i mean, all respect to weird al and the youths of today, but… yeah.
via luke mcgarry on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
via luke mcgarry on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
I came up in the disco and punk era so I can't talk about the youth of today.
I enjoy watching my niece's long time boyfriend go through these trends since I don't know that many young people.
I enjoy watching my niece's long time boyfriend go through these trends since I don't know that many young people.
Well, it's a step up from Charlie Brown.
I cannot love this enough!
@dad i mean, i can't either, especially since the "retro" of the moment is being mined straight from the era of my ridiculous teens/20s. i live in a college town AND live around the corner from the local high school, so i get to observe it all in perpetuity.
it's a fun two-way street:
i get to soak in what the kids are into and get a kick/chortle out of it; they get to see me waddling down the street and snicker at my dadwear*.
*(my favorite, reaction last summer was a full exaggerated eyeroll and out-loud "guh" from a kid walking out of the high school as i strolled down the block in my usual middle-aged-record-shop-weirdo regalia)
every generation is ridiculous and worth enjoying.
it's a fun two-way street:
i get to soak in what the kids are into and get a kick/chortle out of it; they get to see me waddling down the street and snicker at my dadwear*.
*(my favorite, reaction last summer was a full exaggerated eyeroll and out-loud "guh" from a kid walking out of the high school as i strolled down the block in my usual middle-aged-record-shop-weirdo regalia)
every generation is ridiculous and worth enjoying.
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album art for OLHAVA's 2026 album "Memorial":
heavily-inked lines give a sense of aged texture, with a deep blue-black filling most of the frame.
a forest of tall, mostly-barren trees fill the dark frame, but in the lower center a small splash of yellow light emanates from a single window of a small cottage.
heavily-inked lines give a sense of aged texture, with a deep blue-black filling most of the frame.
a forest of tall, mostly-barren trees fill the dark frame, but in the lower center a small splash of yellow light emanates from a single window of a small cottage.
released today!
seas of atmospheric dreaminess, giving way roiling waves of black metal aggression. this one feels like a direct continuation of their amazing 2020 album "ladoga", going so far as to pick up with the numbered "ageless river" interludes. worth your time if you enjoy dreamy post-rock explorations, waves of shoegaze guitars, or sustained black metal intensity.
stream // purchase // download:
https://olhava.bandcamp.com/album...
physical 2xLP or CD available here:
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album...
album artwork: Margot Makletsova (https://www.instagram.com/margoat_...)
seas of atmospheric dreaminess, giving way roiling waves of black metal aggression. this one feels like a direct continuation of their amazing 2020 album "ladoga", going so far as to pick up with the numbered "ageless river" interludes. worth your time if you enjoy dreamy post-rock explorations, waves of shoegaze guitars, or sustained black metal intensity.
stream // purchase // download:
https://olhava.bandcamp.com/album...
physical 2xLP or CD available here:
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album...
album artwork: Margot Makletsova (https://www.instagram.com/margoat_...)
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A deep blue quilt with an embroidered penguin on it and the words HANDS OFF. Many of the things the creator would like hands off of are embroidered into the quilt with the same color thread, so it can be hard to see the words but they include things like libraries and science and vote and parks.
A stunning quilt that I saw at our local music hall which also has a small gallery. All the things that you should keep your hands off of are written with the thread. Here's the artist's website
https://www.lindadiakquilts.com/
https://www.lindadiakquilts.com/
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this was the origianl alt text: "Photo by Alf Lokkertsen | The Present Psychologist in Amsterdam, Netherlands."
I need to do better
I need to do better
tag yourself: I'm "Feeling useless but also satisfied"
source: https://mastodon.social/@MakeAug...
perhaps original source: https://www.instagram.com/p...
source: https://mastodon.social/@MakeAug...
perhaps original source: https://www.instagram.com/p...
What if I'm not on this chart?
This sums up how I feel about teaching.
@ardgedee you're always off the charts
@scruss My cardiologist said the same thing.
Top-right/bottom-right for me. What’s this “paid” thing all about?
@ardgedee me too. The first time I heard a medical specialist exclaim "WHOAH!" was when my cardiologist first saw my ECG and its very fucked-up QT timing.
I don't need fulfilment, I have comfort
What if you're good at what the world needs, but you don't love it and can't get paid for it? Or if you love what you get paid for, but you're not good at it and no one needs it?
FEELING COMFORTABLE BUT EMPTY this is extremely accurate
What if your cardiologist says that you are okay but you aren’t comfortable and feeling empty?
@mare put down that radiohead cd
@ardgedee Right? Where's the "useless and empty" section?
I'm what the world needs
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Inside of a cup, with these words: THIS TOO SHALL PASS
BUT FUCKING HELL
BUT FUCKING HELL
Mmhmm
I initially read that as "this poo shall pass" which being at the bottom of a coffee cup is funnily deterministic to me.
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A displeased woman stands with crossed arms beside a dinosaur in a USA hockey jersey. The text: "Not Pounded by This T-Rex on the USA Men's Hockey Team Because It Turns Out He's a Maga Dork" is at the top.
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Grr. I had a description of this and it went bye-bye. I saw this post on the r/atari2600 subreddit. Someone had going this beautiful custom box full of copied Atari 2600 ROMs from the 80s. I spent two years at National Semiconductor as a develop inspector. It was my job to stare into a microscope for 12 hours a day to make sure the dies were lined up and focused before the wafers went to acid etch. We made 64k EEPROMS. The odds of some of these being under my microscope are pretty high, and I couldn't be more proud!
@gwint
@Lockjaw :o
Holy shit.
Source??
Source??
@Robotron_smith https://www.reddit.com/r...
Tips hat and adjusts monocle, hello good Sir
That is a great story! Thank you for sharing.
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Doesn't look like yer average dealer.
Licking toads!
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A photo of the USS Patoka, the tallest ship in the Navy for a number of years due to the mast at the rear that dirgible airships could dock to be towed around.
The digible the Shenandoah is shown docked to the mast.
The digible the Shenandoah is shown docked to the mast.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
This is the ship + dirgible that was supposed to be able to pass under the Rainbow Bridge (but never did).
https://mltshp.com/p/1RL7K
This is the ship + dirgible that was supposed to be able to pass under the Rainbow Bridge (but never did).
https://mltshp.com/p/1RL7K
led zeppelin
@davidl godDAMNit
Tsk. The USS Shenandoah is clearly pushing the Patoka.
@davidl oh my gosh
@davidl took me literally 5 mins. Bravo.
@davidl Best of the Shp ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm imagining little "pfft pfft pfft" footpump noises coming from the ship.
(If you ever played Balloon Kid on the Gameboy, you'll know the noise I mean)
(If you ever played Balloon Kid on the Gameboy, you'll know the noise I mean)
@davidl Nice.
@scruss ++
@david Holy shit.
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Photo of bridge in Texas that rises 20-stories with a very steep incline. The guardrails on the sides appear to be very minimal and would not keep a car from going over the edge.
Source: https://texascooppower.com/the-scar...
The Rainbow Bridge between Port Arthur and Orange, on Texas Highway 73. It's 20 stories tall.
The "builders wanted the tallest ship in the Navy at the time, the USS Patoka, to be able to pass easily beneath it, pulling a dirigible."
The Rainbow Bridge between Port Arthur and Orange, on Texas Highway 73. It's 20 stories tall.
The "builders wanted the tallest ship in the Navy at the time, the USS Patoka, to be able to pass easily beneath it, pulling a dirigible."
😬😬😬
"You must be this tall to ride this bridge ---->"
I grew up in Southeast Washington/Northwest Oregon and we crossed over the Astoria Bridge regularly. To this day I'm still a little intimidated driving over it. https://www.youtube.com/watch...
@WikiAdam I drove over it a few weeks ago, and it wasn't as intimidating as it had been in the past. But I was driving a much lower vehicle, and I think that helped.
The Burlington Skyway in Ontario is a similar height. True to it's name, it always gives me the feeling that I'm driving straight up into the sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Gets a bit scary when it's really windy. High winds knocked over a transport truck like 5 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Gets a bit scary when it's really windy. High winds knocked over a transport truck like 5 years ago.
@KMAlexander Yeah, certain conditions make it more intimidating (foggy days where the upper half of the bridge disappears or, even worse, super-windy days where you can feel the bridge sway).
@otaman yeah, scary enough in good weather. The only good thing then is if a huge ship is going underneath it at the time. The novelty is nice.
But having driven over it any combination of daytime, nighttime, high winds, winter storms, heavy traffic, and locusts, definitely not a fave.
Buffalo's 110 ft tall Skyway isn't great fun in bad weather either (https://www.youtube.com/watch...). Someone with car trouble was blown off not too long ago. Heading out of Buffalo is probably a little more of a fear inducer since there are no tall buildings, and most of your view is of Lake Erie.
But having driven over it any combination of daytime, nighttime, high winds, winter storms, heavy traffic, and locusts, definitely not a fave.
Buffalo's 110 ft tall Skyway isn't great fun in bad weather either (https://www.youtube.com/watch...). Someone with car trouble was blown off not too long ago. Heading out of Buffalo is probably a little more of a fear inducer since there are no tall buildings, and most of your view is of Lake Erie.
@otaman for a different view, try the Eastport Drive lift bridge. Best done at night when you have to wait for a huge laker to loom through
@bubbalumpkis +++
When people say their pet went over the rainbow bridge, is this what they're talking about?
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Hit up the Vineyard Haven USPS after 2:00 on a Friday in August... it's a lot like that.
My favorite thing is to walk past the line to the completely open Automated Postal Center and send my package in like 3 minutes. Every once in a while someone will bail on the line after i'm done and try it, mostly they continue to wait.
@wjcstp Canada had these machines briefly. They took them away because they allowed people to mail too much stuff.
I made the mistake of trying to go to the post office the first day it was open after Christmas. Huge queue of Amazon returns
I made the mistake of trying to go to the post office the first day it was open after Christmas. Huge queue of Amazon returns
I worked in a station that had one of those. It was a near constant struggle to keep it working. I'm glad my office doesn't have one, because is he the one having to constantly fix it. It's bad enough trying to keep the two POS systems running like they should.
@LocalStain
Well the next time I head to the Vineyard Haven post office, on a Friday, in August, I'll be sure to get there 1.30ish. Thanks for the heads up! :-)
Well the next time I head to the Vineyard Haven post office, on a Friday, in August, I'll be sure to get there 1.30ish. Thanks for the heads up! :-)
@LocalStain, just kidding.
I never go to the post office on a Friday.
I never go to the post office on a Friday.
I always wonder what the hell people ahead of me are doing because I typically put an item on the counter, tell them I want to mail it, they charge me and that's it I'm outta there.
@dad As somebody who, until recent government made it unfeasible, would be periodically mailing packages internationally, I can say that the staff at some post offices are very good at their jobs, the staff at other post offices are not, and when you live where you can choose which post office to go to you find out that everybody who's serious about mailing things all congregate at the post office where the staff are good at their jobs so you have a long queue that moves fairly quickly, and you avoid the post office where the queues are not long but move very slowly.
We have a few chatty postal workers. They are good for morale generally so everyone is patient while Bruce chats with people because you know you're going to get to chat with Bruce next.
I believe that this is one of the most universal things I have ever seen.
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Back of a brown corduroy jacket showing a blue and white logo for the St. Paul Saints baseball team on the sleeve, and a large red, yellow, and blue logo for the city of Saint Paul, which includes a log cabin, cathedral dome and a winged wheel on a shield with blue star at the top.
Back of the jacket with left sleeve, there's gotta be 10 miles of embroidery thread in this thing.
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A blue cargo bike with a pizza strapped to the front basket.
I picked up an 18" pizza on my cargo bike yesterday. Don't worry, it was only a few blocks so it was still plenty hot when I got home. I do wish I had one of those big insulated bags like the doordash people have, though.
As a fellow longtailer, may I ask what rig you’re riding? Looks like maybe a Yuba?
@BennyTheIcepick Yeah. It’s a Yuba Kombi. I’ve put a lot of kms on it and it’s still pretty much like new.
I just retired my Xtracycle after 18 years of service. It was such a good bike to me.
The new steed is a Lectric Xpedition 2. So far it’s been fantastic. An upgrade over the Xtracycle in almost every way. Hoping for many years of dutiful service. I will have to post photos here soon.
The new steed is a Lectric Xpedition 2. So far it’s been fantastic. An upgrade over the Xtracycle in almost every way. Hoping for many years of dutiful service. I will have to post photos here soon.
Those look like pretty nice bikes. I wanted to get the ebike version of the Kombi, but it's just so expensive. Maybe some day.
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A paper form in the style of typical government form. The Form of Longing (Form WNT-1S), a seven-step process for naming, identifying, and processing your want, craving, or desire. Presented as part of the Department of Emotional Labor (2019, returning 2026).
"There are no Forms of Closure".
tell me about it
tell me about it
@roonie... I clicked, too
Option B
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This is kind of silly and kind of brilliant. A device that tells you the weather via quotes from books https://www.authorandco.com/products...
(I like it, but don't $209/$369 like it.)
Oh I LOVE this!
But yeah, that's a trifle expensive. OTOH it seems like it'd be relatively easy to code up on your own, though it wouldn't be as nice looking.
But yeah, that's a trifle expensive. OTOH it seems like it'd be relatively easy to code up on your own, though it wouldn't be as nice looking.
This idea would make a great new-browser-tab plugin or phone home screen widget, too.
Toilers. TOILERS of the sea. NOT toilets.
Neat concept. Someone gets excited to build special purpose information display screens like this every few years. A couple of examples from the now distant past here https://mltshp.com/p/1RL8E and here https://mltshp.com/p/1RL8H
I'd pay that sort of money as long as each forecast was unique, no repeats.
"We get it Victor! Sunny. Again."
"We get it Victor! Sunny. Again."
If it did email, I could move units.
@jessamyn As the kids say, THAT part!