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Sorry for the horrible clipping masks doing this in between things on a call
https://mltshp.com/p/1RPM7
Sorry for the horrible clipping masks doing this in between things on a call
heyitsal
Stunning!
is it because i'm a good boy?
That's amazing
<3
This is better than anything I've clumsily hacked together in ms paint
Every Good Boy...
hanging this over my desk as a daily affirmation ™
ASK YOU
WHY ME
DESERVE
CHEESE
ASK CHEESE
WHY YOU
DESERVE ME
WHY ME
DESERVE
CHEESE
ASK CHEESE
WHY YOU
DESERVE ME
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James Dean with bunny ears Echo & the Bunnymen Tour 1984 shirt, front & back
Old & dingy, much like myself, but wearing it to the SF show on Friday nevertheless.
I actually only listened to this show from the hall outside the theater—I think I both did not have a ticket (sold out) and was not old enough to attend (16). Let's Active opened.
I actually only listened to this show from the hall outside the theater—I think I both did not have a ticket (sold out) and was not old enough to attend (16). Let's Active opened.
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Detailed carvings on the wall of an Egyptian temple. A man stands in a shaft of sunlight
Aziz! More light!!!
1968. It's by Kees Scherer, one of @joost's lot.
@bezt It's a great picture.
I looked up some of his work. Apparently he lived from 1928 - 1993. So pre internet.
This picture he took in New York is nice https://www.flickr.com/photos...
Or this one of NL in the 1950s https://www.flickr.com/photos...
I looked up some of his work. Apparently he lived from 1928 - 1993. So pre internet.
This picture he took in New York is nice https://www.flickr.com/photos...
Or this one of NL in the 1950s https://www.flickr.com/photos...
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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vintage van with Dungeon and Dragons art on it.
I would, without d single doubt, fail.
If this van's a-rockin', my character's warlockin'
@bezt Ugh. Thanks.
@dreyfusslugado *
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black and white image of kids looking at the AD&D DM Guide with the caption Dungeons and Dragons: Just harmless fun - or sorcery?
I remember back when I played D&D, the guy who usually DM'd decided once to make the players chant a devil-worshiping spell, just because of all the Satanic Panic in the news.
We all thought it was dumb, but we were also very uncomfortable doing the chanting.
No demons were summoned.
We all thought it was dumb, but we were also very uncomfortable doing the chanting.
No demons were summoned.
This is funny to me. Just this week my wife took our 11 year old daughter to a Girls DnD event hosted by a local bookstore. Such a stupid moral panic.
Also, hail satan. :p
Also, hail satan. :p
Why not both?
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meme format from a movie in which Micheal Sheen dressed as a British aristocrat gazes down on everyone with a look of contempt and smugness, with the words "Gen Xers who kept all their physical media"
I have to laugh, there was no foresight involved but am happy to have saved all I had and have even bought more physical media:
a) CDs: Mostly did it because I drive a vehicle that still has a CD changer (and I was dragged kicking and screaming into a smart phone more after I had already owned it for over ten years) but damn am I glad now. Ordered a CD player for the house recently and it's been really nice.
b) Vinyl: Have a lot of power outages, want music when the power's out, and a record player can run off even a fairly small battery for a really long time. However, due to limited room it makes us super curate which albums to get, which has been an interesting process.
(not quite a gen X, not quite millenial tho)
a) CDs: Mostly did it because I drive a vehicle that still has a CD changer (and I was dragged kicking and screaming into a smart phone more after I had already owned it for over ten years) but damn am I glad now. Ordered a CD player for the house recently and it's been really nice.
b) Vinyl: Have a lot of power outages, want music when the power's out, and a record player can run off even a fairly small battery for a really long time. However, due to limited room it makes us super curate which albums to get, which has been an interesting process.
(not quite a gen X, not quite millenial tho)
Happy to say that when my hard drive failure a few years ago ate one third of my music, i was able to replace nearly all from hard copy.
That said, CDs are only slightly more archival than cloud services.
That said, CDs are only slightly more archival than cloud services.
There's never been a better time to pirate stuff
I still regret the one CD and vinyl purge i did in the early 2000s, but now we have more of both than ever.
And relating to power outages, one project that i need to get back to is the battery- and solar-powered portable 78 player that i started. It's sitting half done in the basement somewhere.
And relating to power outages, one project that i need to get back to is the battery- and solar-powered portable 78 player that i started. It's sitting half done in the basement somewhere.
@MackReed Notes from having re-ripped around 1k CDs recently:
1) Polishing grubby, scratched CDs with toothpaste, and then rinsing and drying, made them playable far more often than I expected. Like more than 90% of the time.
2) Box sets with CDs that should have been pristine, having probably only been ripped once and then put away in jewel cases stored inside boxes (a opposed to discs that probably banged around on the floor of my car for years), were frequently unplayable until being washed. What's up with that??
3) Self-burned backup data CD-Rs were 100% trash.
1) Polishing grubby, scratched CDs with toothpaste, and then rinsing and drying, made them playable far more often than I expected. Like more than 90% of the time.
2) Box sets with CDs that should have been pristine, having probably only been ripped once and then put away in jewel cases stored inside boxes (a opposed to discs that probably banged around on the floor of my car for years), were frequently unplayable until being washed. What's up with that??
3) Self-burned backup data CD-Rs were 100% trash.
Also part of the Xennial/Oregon Trial Generation. The only physical media I ever got rid of were dud albums back in the days before you could try before you buy. Still have hundreds of CDs in a couple of big tubs in the basement, dozens of tapes, and plenty of vinyl I've been buying since the 90's (when vinyl wasn't cool). Digitizing all the CDs and tapes has been on my to-do list for many years, I'll get to it eventually.
Also probably a few hundred more CDs, and a couple dozen more tapes still at my parent house. I should probably finish moving out of there sometime (I last slept there in 2003).
Also probably a few hundred more CDs, and a couple dozen more tapes still at my parent house. I should probably finish moving out of there sometime (I last slept there in 2003).
@poorusher *
Left my records on the street when I left NYC (INSTANT vanishing in between bringing armfuls downstairs), sold off my CDs when I left SF in 2006, no regrets. Ebooks over paper, too.
Left my records on the street when I left NYC (INSTANT vanishing in between bringing armfuls downstairs), sold off my CDs when I left SF in 2006, no regrets. Ebooks over paper, too.
I have a beefy desktop gaming computer with CD player, lots of usb ports, fire wire ports, 32 gigs of ram. All kinds of card readers, and a very old printer which prints off of many sizes of film cards.
@katiefox valuable tips - thanks!
i'm at the tail end of the "oregon trail generation"/"generation catalano" divide, just young enough to be a proper Elder Milllennial time-wise but culturally teetering, hah. (don't @ me, i'll make up as many microgenerational nicknames as i like and you can't stop me!)
i'm so glad i never gave up on my CD/LP collection. aside from the occasional trade-sell-lend, i have almost everything i've bought since the 90s. (apologies to the tapes that disappeared into the maw.) it's really come in handy with albums that fell out of print, weren't licensed to stream or download, or only got re-released with a weirdly different master or a different tracks sequence.
also, heck yeah on the CD player! i also recently got a proper CD player again for the first time in ages. an old macbook plugged into the stereo receiver sufficed for a long time, but damn it feels and sounds good to have a dedicated machine that's not connected to All The Internets And Distractions. both the CD player and the turntable are so great for active, focused listening, which is something i really need more of in my life.
i'm so glad i never gave up on my CD/LP collection. aside from the occasional trade-sell-lend, i have almost everything i've bought since the 90s. (apologies to the tapes that disappeared into the maw.) it's really come in handy with albums that fell out of print, weren't licensed to stream or download, or only got re-released with a weirdly different master or a different tracks sequence.
also, heck yeah on the CD player! i also recently got a proper CD player again for the first time in ages. an old macbook plugged into the stereo receiver sufficed for a long time, but damn it feels and sounds good to have a dedicated machine that's not connected to All The Internets And Distractions. both the CD player and the turntable are so great for active, focused listening, which is something i really need more of in my life.
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title screen for Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Ungabunga!
When I looked this up I figured it was an anthology show and did not expect that Captain Caveman would be interacting directly with the Teen Angels.
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I'm back
It's been a while since the Double Scoop but I am back supporting the site that's given me so much joy and enjoyment for many a year now.
That's it for this post...see you all around the place!
That's it for this post...see you all around the place!
welcome back to the double-scoop club! + 🍨
Welcome welcome!
Re-howdy!
@nikkuneko Thanks! 🤩
Welcome back!
Now if only we could get Fabulous52 back it would truly feel like the good old days
[obligatory Kotter reference]
Welcome back!
Welcome back!
@BennyTheIcepick OG rage bait
Welcome back!
@BennyTheIcepick LOL! I was thinking about them yesterday.
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man in a placard and hat that says "Ask me why you deserve hell"
Had to zoom in, hat says the same thing as the sign.
Sneaky marketing for Blank Generation
Because you are dumb enough to ask me why you deserve hell.
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Black-and-white photo of a man with a topkot wearing a kimono. He's behind the wheel of a white convertible car, driving away from another car and a dirt lot. There is a sword on the dashboard.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Toshiro Mifune, in costume, leaving the set of "Yojimbo" in his MG convertible. He's got a katana on his dashboard, because he is the coolest motherfucker alive.
Toshiro Mifune, in costume, leaving the set of "Yojimbo" in his MG convertible. He's got a katana on his dashboard, because he is the coolest motherfucker alive.
added to https://mltshp.com/culater
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If you had told me back in the day that in the year of our lord 2026 I'd be spending significant amount of time futzing around on the command line, I'd have laughed and laughed.
SunOS screengrab via http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
SunOS screengrab via http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
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Color photograph of a large roadside sign--really a scumpture--mounted on poles amidst telephone/electrical wires. It shows a shrimp (with hands) "standing" on its tail, wearing a red and white polka-dot bandana and cowboy hat, brandishing two six-guns.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
You telling me a *shrimp* fired this rice? "christie's restaurant sign, houston, texas, 1983" Yee-haw!
You telling me a *shrimp* fired this rice? "christie's restaurant sign, houston, texas, 1983" Yee-haw!
On my lap at all times
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someone photoshop Obama in place of Trump and present it as outrageously unamerican behavior
@artwells or at least make his fist tinier.
"And when I win the lottery
Gonna buy post 306
American legion, paint it red with five gold stars
When I win the lottery"
Gonna buy post 306
American legion, paint it red with five gold stars
When I win the lottery"
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Gold eyeglasses with Trump's open eyes on the glass slumped trump wearing the same
Comes in various shades of orange to match the bad makeup jobs.
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Film loop of a flurry of silver flying saucers crossing a starry sky from left to right
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a filmmaker in jacket and turtleneck discusses something with a man wearing a ribbed aluminum giant robot costume minus the headpiece, who is looking at two miniature heavy trucks bearing missile launchers
Oooooh! Crab claws!
The Mysterians!!!
great Ishiro Honda film
great Ishiro Honda film
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Drinks await in a charming pub
A drink of Irish whisky awaits in the Olde Starr Inn, the 'oldest' pub in York (1663)
we used to have a summer apartment across the road from that pub. It was up an absurd flight of stairs. Lovely city, though you weren't going to get a Sunday lie-in with the Minster bells being less than 100 metres away ...
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...that was a demonstrably bad business model.
Good enough for a while for a football team and a stadium.
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Bar charts showing the causes of death vs reported deaths by cause in 3 media outlets.
Actual causes of deaths are massively underreported and causes such as terrorism and homicide are over reported by more than 600%
Actual causes of deaths are massively underreported and causes such as terrorism and homicide are over reported by more than 600%
What American's die from vs What US Media reports on..
https://vis.social/@infobea...
https://vis.social/@infobea...
Whenever I see some new life extension hype, I go and see how people are actually dying and what can be done to prevent it and it comes down to wearing seat belts, not climbing ladders, not smoking, controlling blood pressure and similar. If you are doing those boring things you are already in the top percentiles of life extension activities.
@ang same. I mean, bacon and sugar aside, I seem to be doing all the not dying correctly.
Regarding news: If it bleeds, it leads.
Source: I'm a recovering journalist.
Regarding news: If it bleeds, it leads.
Source: I'm a recovering journalist.
None of them mention fatness...
I am having the most trouble with the part of me that wants to do the household jobs that require climbing ladders. My rational part is fighting this, but not winning yet.
MAYBE WE OUGHTA ADD "MEDIA BULLSHIT" AS A PROXIMATE CAUSE
What we experience is what "happens" most often. And we're special creatures that can experience stories told to us. With a 24-hour newscycle, we can experience the same event many many times over. The %ages here are likely how many unique stories told by these news outlets, and not the frequency of stories heard by a subscriber. I believe that frequency would skew the fractions even further from the truth.
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This is a picture of a small banner, at a local restaurant, with "Its Okay Ask For Help" written on it.
Found at a local mom-n-pop restaurant.
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Image from The Onion. Gas station price sign with a price listed in scientific notation as 4 * 10^5
I love a good nerd joke. via the onion
Hehehehehe
Please! I am so sick of the 9/10ths nonsense
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Me and my partner in our academic regalia.
congrats!
Well done!
Congratulations. So, you went to W?
HOORAY
@0y3ahSansAcut3 Yes! I did the distance program, but UW-Madison.
Congratulations!!!
Badass! 😎
Welcome to the club!
the few the proud
woo!
May I ask what field your partner’s doctorate is in?
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Remixed webcomic of stick figure dad walking into a room asking "Are ya winning, son?". The stick figure boy sitting at a compute replies "I'm making 11 people laugh on mltshp". The original comic used Mastodon in the punchline.
Original: https://mltshp.com/p/1RPBC
<3
worth it
Count me in for an even dozen.
Oh yes
That's 11 appreciative people.
Oh no we overshot it. I might have to unlike it
It's at 68 likes. Almost nice.
@ardgedee fixed it for ya
ps nice
ps nice
+1
lol
I'm one of them! <3
:handshake: &emoji& $69420