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The End...
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Retired?
After 12 years of working in the same place, I have finally left. It came as I was getting despondent and really getting mentally tired from the role that I was doing. I asked for some time off which was rejected and in turn they came to the idea that leaving was best for business. I have so many fond memories there and made so many friends so it was hard to decide that but that means I can forge another chapter in my life...
escape velocity! i'm sorry that it was such an unceremonious end; i mean that's such a bad sign when all you want is some time off and they say "no". glad you're able to move on though; good luck in the next stage of things.
i'm in that phase now too; also passing 12 years at the same place and feeling burnt out, trying to get the energy to start looking around. solidarity!
i'm in that phase now too; also passing 12 years at the same place and feeling burnt out, trying to get the energy to start looking around. solidarity!
The next chapter will find your soul improved. Rush into its arms for it is your place to level up. Source: I just did this in November.
Here...
chapter 13: the mechanics of li’l guy propagation in a reg’lar-assed medium
Marjane Satrapi
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Portrait of writer, illustrator and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi wearing a long coat, platform boots stood on a tree stump.
Great portrait. How it evokes her drawing style.
So sad how her life ended.
So sad how her life ended.
@joost
I actually don't know much about her work. But I'm obsessed with this look, badass.
Also the spirit of punk is incredibly important even if like me, you were a bit young when punk crested.
I actually don't know much about her work. But I'm obsessed with this look, badass.
Also the spirit of punk is incredibly important even if like me, you were a bit young when punk crested.
@poorusher sorry to be obtuse: how does this relate to punk? The shoes?
Another day stripping copper..
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Green grass and grey rocks with a grey cylinder and a disk of metal. 2 men are standing in the cylinder. The whole scene is populated by fluffy white butterflies
Kazakh scavengers stripping copper off the second stage of a Soyuz rocket that plummeted back to Earth. The men are surrounded by giant clouds of white butterflies. Taken by Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen, 2000.
https://www.threads.com/@hungrym...
https://www.threads.com/@hungrym...
What did you do today honey?
Oh me and Sergie stripped a space rocket
Oh me and Sergie stripped a space rocket
this is incredible.
Bendiksen is pretty amazing. Check out The Book of Veles.
inside you right now
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animation loop of an anatomically correct drawing of a human heart in red, beating.
almost as creepy as it is miraculous, if you think about it long enough
source: https://www.tumblr.com/stephenl...
source: https://www.tumblr.com/stephenl...
Tag yourself! I'm Brachiocephalic trunk.
My first mural update
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Two photographs, the top one features the outside wall of a building, with a half finished mural, with a painting of flowers and insects. The bottom picture shows two people working on the mural with brushes in hand.
I've been hard at work in the last two weeks together with my colleague Ivonne (in the background). But we've been slowed down a little bit. Last week there was a heatwave of more than 30°C and this weekend it's been raining a lot. But we've got some extra time. So I'm not too worried. We're not nearly finished, although some people might think it is done :-)
By the way, the design is basically a watercolour I did a couple of years ago, with some minor alterations: https://mltshp.com/p/1N5L6
The official opening is on Saturday afternoon June the 13th. If you're in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, drop by!
#art #painting
By the way, the design is basically a watercolour I did a couple of years ago, with some minor alterations: https://mltshp.com/p/1N5L6
The official opening is on Saturday afternoon June the 13th. If you're in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, drop by!
#art #painting
whoaaaaaaaa nice work!
it's amazing to see how your linework translates so beautifully to such a large scale!
it's amazing to see how your linework translates so beautifully to such a large scale!
@nikkuneko Thank you! Yes, the line work is kind of the same as in my small drawings. I was quite confident I could enlarge this because my lines are kind of an extension of my anatomy (or at least that's what it feels like to me). But it was a nice surprise to see it worked out as well as I hoped it would!
Yesssssssss
Peruvian textile fragment
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textile fragments show fantastical creatures (a big blue face and I'm thinking llamas?)
People everywhere through time love their dogs and cats, even llamas.
for those who celebrate
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poster for The Omen movie pointing out that "Today is the 6th day of the 6th month of 1976"
The book (not sure if it was a horror novel made into the film, or a "noverlization") scared the crap out of me, age 9.
The number of the beast is 6/6/76?
@thelonius apparently a concurrent novelization of the screenwriter's own screenplay!
Dead Duck Day 2026
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Dead Duck Day marks the fateful 1995 crash of a male mallard duck into the Rotterdam Museum of Natural History's glass facade, which was subsequently followed by 75 minutes of homosexual necrophilia - the first scientifically documented case of its kind, earning researcher Kees Moeliker an Ig Nobel Prize. And worldwide fame and virality.
Ever since, the day has been celebrated/commemorated each year on June 4, 4:55 pm, by Kees in front of the window of the Rotterdam museum where the duck met its end. I've been to a couple of editions and I didn't want to miss this one! Especially because Dead Duck Day is now going to travel around the world, because Kees has retired. I hopped on my bike and got there just in time. I didn't get him to pose with me for you guys (I didn't wear a Mltshp shirt anyways), but I did get to talk to Marc Abrahams from the Ig Noble Prize who was there as well. He's super nice.
If you know of a place, bar, museum or other kind of venue where Dead Duck Day should be held next time, let Kees know. Seriously, by the way. Or give me a shout and I'll pass it on.
https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/bezoek...
Ever since, the day has been celebrated/commemorated each year on June 4, 4:55 pm, by Kees in front of the window of the Rotterdam museum where the duck met its end. I've been to a couple of editions and I didn't want to miss this one! Especially because Dead Duck Day is now going to travel around the world, because Kees has retired. I hopped on my bike and got there just in time. I didn't get him to pose with me for you guys (I didn't wear a Mltshp shirt anyways), but I did get to talk to Marc Abrahams from the Ig Noble Prize who was there as well. He's super nice.
If you know of a place, bar, museum or other kind of venue where Dead Duck Day should be held next time, let Kees know. Seriously, by the way. Or give me a shout and I'll pass it on.
https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/bezoek...
weekend plans
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Was floating two days ago, so I appreciate it
sleep tight
lamp
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photograph of a lamp with floral-crest patterned wallpaper in the background
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Don't make me tap the sign..
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Industrial machinery with sign -
DANGER
NOT TO BE
OPERATED BY
FUCKWITS
DANGER
NOT TO BE
OPERATED BY
FUCKWITS
A Proposed Law: To alter the Constitution to establish that fuckwits shouldn’t be operating things.
@bezt Agreed
@bezt I’m on board as long as it includes operating the government
e-spliff
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Giant rolled cigarette/spliff as a giant lamp
Brooklyn Bridge
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It's been a while since I've had a banana split. I should fix that.
I thought about that very dessert yesterday, when gazing at a post here.
Great photo
Zabriskie Point
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Poster art by Milton Glaser for the 1970 film 'Zabriskie Point' (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni). The film's title along with several abstract shapes, the wreck of a car, a hamburger, a toothbrush, a safety razor, a tin can, and an American flag, all appear to be floating above a desert. The shadow of these floating objects sits on the desert floor below.
I saw this in a theater, back in the day. Pretty people, pretty alienated people.
loved her in Twin Peaks
infinite money glitch
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CDN media
it forgot AMD but yeah
))<>((
@nikkuneko I understood and appreciate that reference. Forever.
When in Boulder…
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Artist pointing at painting of Artist Point.
Hehehehe
Ferdinand is 90!
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A black-and-white pen-and-ink drawing shows a young bull sitting calmly in the shade under a cork tree at the top of a hill as he watches two other young bulls in the field below butt their heads together.
I had read this book to my children at bedtimes over 1000x. The illustrations, inkwork and high contrast never got old.
Gift Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026...
Gift Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026...
Didya know there was a song?
https://mltshp.com/p/1RR3O
https://mltshp.com/p/1RR3O
Someone I knew went to school with the son of the guy who wrote this book.
I still have my tattered childhood copy, it was a library discard when I got it. The drawings of the Spanish ladies and the picadors are divine.
My Favorite Liminal Space
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A blue lit room with a shower at the end, a bench, a shelf and a door to a closet like space.
Since Backrooms is out there, I thought I'd share this. I go into sensory deprivation for ninety minutes every other week or so.
Over the years, I've done it about 150 times. Last week I did my last annual double float, which is 3.5 hours (right after COVID it was five hours). It's my last annual, because I intend to do it every other month going forward.
This is room 4 in Float On in Southeast Portland Oregon. It helped me keep my job much longer than I would have otherwise. It's guided my greater decisions . It's allowed me to revisit memories I didn't know I had
The door to the right is like a closet with the floor covered with water with so much salt in it that I can float with my face above the water. It's warm enough that I quickly forget what is water and what is my skin and the warm air around it. It's dark and silent.
Just walking into the room, just getting the reminder email, removes everything from my head and the tension in my shoulders melts.
When I get in and turn off the light, visions start almost immediately. Today it was a massive eye with a dark green iris. Sometimes, once I see something, words come to me. They nearly never relate to the image. The last hundred or so floats, I've tried to remember at least three of these. When the float is done, I walk to my local and get a pint and a shot and write them down. I have no idea why I record them. Rereading them is very, very boring. I think it's just how I return.
Over the years, I've done it about 150 times. Last week I did my last annual double float, which is 3.5 hours (right after COVID it was five hours). It's my last annual, because I intend to do it every other month going forward.
This is room 4 in Float On in Southeast Portland Oregon. It helped me keep my job much longer than I would have otherwise. It's guided my greater decisions . It's allowed me to revisit memories I didn't know I had
The door to the right is like a closet with the floor covered with water with so much salt in it that I can float with my face above the water. It's warm enough that I quickly forget what is water and what is my skin and the warm air around it. It's dark and silent.
Just walking into the room, just getting the reminder email, removes everything from my head and the tension in my shoulders melts.
When I get in and turn off the light, visions start almost immediately. Today it was a massive eye with a dark green iris. Sometimes, once I see something, words come to me. They nearly never relate to the image. The last hundred or so floats, I've tried to remember at least three of these. When the float is done, I walk to my local and get a pint and a shot and write them down. I have no idea why I record them. Rereading them is very, very boring. I think it's just how I return.
the backrooms of your psyche
I’ve often wondered what a sensory deprivation tank would be like for me. I have aphantasia, so I normally can’t see mental images, but it’s possible that time in a tank could jump start imagery. As for the journals: I read a book about writing where the author talked about journaling every day, but not to be read later. They were just to keep the words and ideas flowing. Maybe your journals aren’t something similar.
@dogwelder I hear a lot that floating is like last meditation, and I get that. If you can get mental images during disciplined meditation, then floating will probably bring it on.
I have had periods in my life where hallucinations come to me out of the blue during normal times, so floating is like turning on the TV.
Regardless, it's worth a try. If you come to Portland, the float is on me.
And I totally get that unread diary idea. It is more ritual than record for me.
I have had periods in my life where hallucinations come to me out of the blue during normal times, so floating is like turning on the TV.
Regardless, it's worth a try. If you come to Portland, the float is on me.
And I totally get that unread diary idea. It is more ritual than record for me.
take some time away from the rest of it
New "Spiderman Pointing" meme just dropped
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rules of thumb
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source: https://www.rulesofthumb.org/
via Kevin Kelly’s indispensable Cool Tools newsletter: https://us5.campaign-archive.com/...
via Kevin Kelly’s indispensable Cool Tools newsletter: https://us5.campaign-archive.com/...
The bit about the rental property is certainly dated, and completely off for urban properties. For instance, if the second half of this duplex were rented out, for what they are asking, then $2030, multiplied by 100, it would be down $150,000 from what it would sell for right now.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 - That stuck out at me, too. The house I rent would be undervalued by about half of its actual market value if 100 months of rent being market price held true.
Rule of thumb: to generate engagement, try a list of assertions that will get people talking.
Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
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a young girl in a headscarf is apprehended by two older women in full black coverings. The back of the young girl's shirt reads "Punk is not Ded"
Hate to hear this.
just saw nate powell memorializing her on instagram and was shocked to hear. RIP to a real one.
Sooooo sad.
“Arabesque” Daniel Adel Oil, on Linen
So much Younger than today
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Screenshot of a baseball game between the Mets and the Mariners, showing Mets first basement Eric Young #29 standing in front of first base, occupied by Cole Young #2, with Mariners first base coach Eric Young, Jr. #53 behind them.
Obviously.
Sort of how ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is the only one in the band that doesn't have a beard.
I mean the real question is how a toddler is good enough at baseball to make it to first.
