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I most definitely have already posted this to my personal SHK but I couldn't find it so I'm reposting it directly here since it's one of my favs
<sensible chuckle>
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gradually appearing list
Prostitution
Satan worship
Gambling
Barbarism
Cannibalism
Prostitution
Satan worship
Gambling
Barbarism
Cannibalism
We've got it all!!!
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Cover of MAD Magazine, April 1971, showing a sign on the White House fence reading, “THIS COUNTRY IS OUT OF ORDER”
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2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film finally uploaded in glorious HD via Don Hertzfeldt's channel
as one YouTube commenter put it:
// This belongs in the Criterion Collection of Early Internet //
as one YouTube commenter put it:
// This belongs in the Criterion Collection of Early Internet //
I was just thinking this morning how my child is finally old enough to properly appreciate this.
@twelvebit unc stuff
I can now see where asdfmovie got 100% of their shtick from.
If these really were pitched to companies, they're up there with great Fuck-Offs of history such as Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Session and Ween's pizza ad.
If these really were pitched to companies, they're up there with great Fuck-Offs of history such as Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Session and Ween's pizza ad.
FYI, Don just released a new short film last month, Paper Trail: https://vimeo.com/ondemand...
Bookmarked!
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L-4 style forest service fire lookout (14x14) on a 20 foot tower. Rough, rocky ground in the foreground, with shorter evergreen trees in the near distance. The sky has moody storm clouds that brought more than an inch of rain in the last 24 hours.
Double Arrow Lookout on the Lolo National Forest near Seeley Lake, MT. This is my first of four for lookouts I have rented for the summer. You can drive right up to this one vs having to hike in, although the road is pretty dodgy. I'm still sick, so climbing up 34 stairs felt like A LOT. Turns out I have bronchitis that's maybe getting better now, maybe not? Anyhow, it was a pretty cool deal being up on a mountain top.
Oh hahahaha ! . . . one summer in my early twenties some friends and I went on a "lookout road trip" and at the time I was desperately in love with someone who barely knew I existed so in heartsick despondence I buried a certain R.E.M. lyric on a scrap of waterproof paper under fire lookouts all over the North American west as one of those things you do when you're that age I guess. This was one of the 1st ones we visited - because of Norman Maclean, natch - so somewhere in the ground in the photo there must be the mouldering remains of said lyric (if it even still exists). Oh Youth ahahahaha!
@williwaw 🖤😢
@MackReed aw thanks but the humor at the Pretentiousness of Youth is the core memory here - as well as getting to see some cool lookouts! It's neat other people get to see them too like in this here post!
@williwaw amazing, I love it! Funny thing: I listened to some old REM (Reckoning) on the way home, but alas, not while at the lookout.
@williwaw @zork thank you both for sharing your stories. It's neat that you both will have visited the same place.
@zork ohhhh that's wild because that's my second favorite R.E.M.album and the lyrics I buried were from "Don't Go Back to Rockville"!
Life is so amazing!
Life is so amazing!
this is just so cool
That is a great photo.
you could have hidden something useful, like a strip of paper explaining what a "moral kiosk" is
@thelonius oh, that's in the wrong dog's life chest.
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Animation of a middle aged man riding a skateboard in a suburban parking lot. He is not moving all that fast.
I haven't skated, really, since I was 17. Last month I picked up my kid's unused longboard and have started relearning how. It is great. (Two years of weekly yoga practice has improved my balance significantly, that has made it a lot more fun.)
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
Yes!
You know if you keep circling the camera like that …
Picking up your skateboard again is rad as hell.
Conga Rats 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀!!!
Coooooool!
Doing fun things is fun, and it's cool to have some time in middle age to rediscover fun things.
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May include: A yellow flag with a cartoon illustration of a hot dog with mustard, relish, onions, and tomatoes.
This is a public service announcement that some of you may find important to your interests, that is all.
source: https://www.etsy.com/listing...
source: https://www.etsy.com/listing...
@ba would have been handy for your current US tour...
@LocalStain Brilliant!
yellow mustard pride
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Painting of red leaves trees reflected in a distant pond. Color from the leaves and lines from the branches stream towards the viewer along perspective lines emanating from the horizon.
Reminds me of the trees in Manifold Garden:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden
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8 panel comic
Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?”
Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer”
Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes.
Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow.
Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central
Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat.
Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit
Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?”
Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer”
Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes.
Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow.
Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central
Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat.
Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit
Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
Careful with that axe
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Painting of an enormous motor yacht on fire, smoke streaming up from orange flames into a clear blue sky
It came through Chittenden Locks into Lake Union this week - all 390 billionaire-orgiastic feet of it - the very same day Meta announced it was laying off 1,400 people.
This good man plein-air painted its portrait and added some combustive commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r...
This good man plein-air painted its portrait and added some combustive commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Would like to see Life imitate Art with this.
From this time on, the AI decides who lives and who dies. The AI toadies will obey their king/creators, until finally they do cut the baby in half and even the wisdom of a Solomon, won't save the living. Your house will say, "Don't rattle the silverware that way," the vacuum will tell you, "Outta the way!"
The support yacht is in Smith Cove right now
Misspelling the Ballard Locks is why we call them the Ballard Locks
@mcmjolnir wait, wuddiedo?
@mcmjolnir
*googles furiously*
Dadgum it. Fixed it.
Where I grew up in Connecticut, Wilcox and Crittenden was a local machine shop. It sticks in my head every time I go to the BALLARD Locks.
*googles furiously*
Dadgum it. Fixed it.
Where I grew up in Connecticut, Wilcox and Crittenden was a local machine shop. It sticks in my head every time I go to the BALLARD Locks.
@MackReed Hiram Crittenden escaped from a Dickens novel so he could dig the locks
Also: a fave school field trip like 10x
@mcmjolnir My eldest and i were lucky enough to stumble upon the locks when they had just been drained a couple of summers go. Dripping, rust-crusted canyons with gulls passing through them. Staggering thing to see.
Release the orcas!
@MackReed they're big!
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photograph (still taken from enhanced 16mm film) of musicians nico and lou reed performing on stage, lit from behind
source: https://holdoncallfailed.tumblr.com/post...
"newly discovered (!) 16mm color footage of the velvet underground and nico performing at the fillmore west in may 1966"
"newly discovered (!) 16mm color footage of the velvet underground and nico performing at the fillmore west in may 1966"
That lighting. That grain. Damn.
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A helmeted man rides in a low-slung bugeyed 3-wheeled motor vehicle surrounded by yellow cabs and tall buildings.
A Morgan 3 wheeler probably
Morgan- a car company whose mission statement may as well be "What if we do it completely wrong, but still completely awesome?"
@joost yep.
@1f2frfbf yep.
@1f2frfbf yep.
Putting the engine on the front bumper for air cooling has a 1920s thinking to it. Glorious.
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engraving of a dark, white-muzzled horse drawing an elaborate carriage consisting of two enormous hoops inside of drives a bowler-hat-wearing young man riding in a carriage-body that rides on tiny wheels along the inside edges of the hoops
They see me rollin', they hatin'
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The character from the IKEA instructions stands before an open box. They are holding a phone with a cord that goes once around their body and continues on to a stylized IKEA store in the distance
IKEA instructions person is (unofficially) known as a Meckelman. They are supposed to be both ageless and genderless
My pal, my nemesis.
AL N. KEY, esq.
I'm hardly one to judge, but Meckelman is serving masc vibes.
Meckelmansplaining
@3rdparty ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@neuracnu I was thinking the same thing, not sure what authors were thinking
@neuracnu I was thinking the same thing, not sure what authors were thinking
@neuracnu
- bald
- shoulders broader than hips.
I'll take them at their word if they said they tried, but it's less androgynous than your average rom com anime male lead. Although one of those might be more difficult to reduce to a couple lines that untrained staff can paste into diagrammatic assembly manuals.
- bald
- shoulders broader than hips.
I'll take them at their word if they said they tried, but it's less androgynous than your average rom com anime male lead. Although one of those might be more difficult to reduce to a couple lines that untrained staff can paste into diagrammatic assembly manuals.
Bad eighties comic voice: It can't be a real man... it's asking for direction! *slap bass intro*
And yet, they are neither quite.
I'm gonna pop some tägs
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I'm hunting, looking for a Køme-up
This is fucking awesome
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I'm hunting, looking for a Køme-up
This is fucking awesome
@samh PERFECT
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A figure wearing a dark greenish cover that looks like a ghost costume stands against an orange background. The cover has several conspicuous patches. The only details visible of the person's face are two round, white eyes that look like the lenses of glasses. A windup clock key sticks out of the figure's back. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Everyone needs a mechanical ghost pickle!
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Hi mltshp!
I'm 6'4" and was edging into 220lb territory at my last physical. But I wasn't worried about that at the time.
What got me to lose weight was the nagging fact that my parents and their parents and so on, although exceedingly nice and amusing could often just be completely full of shit.
So when my cholesterol test came back alarmingly high, again, I immediately told my new doctor that it was genetic... before it FINALLY dawned on me that there is no way in hell any of my relatives actually tried to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet - that's not what a family of bullshitting butchers does. But what they did tell me, was that high cholesterol was a genetic problem I could do nothing about.
So the weight loss is really a byproduct that I'm exceedingly psyched about. I mean, I need pants! Pants!
The actual win is that I totally called it. It'll be a while before I'm totally in the safe zone, but my stats are dropping :)
If you are interested in my diet, it's been pretty easy. Guilt is a very strong motivator, so I've leaned into it. I basically ask myself if a certain food's cholesterol would make me A) Feel guilty. B) Not feel guilty or C) Fuck it. I'm eating this entire pizza now. ... And then I eat accordingly.
I'm 6'4" and was edging into 220lb territory at my last physical. But I wasn't worried about that at the time.
What got me to lose weight was the nagging fact that my parents and their parents and so on, although exceedingly nice and amusing could often just be completely full of shit.
So when my cholesterol test came back alarmingly high, again, I immediately told my new doctor that it was genetic... before it FINALLY dawned on me that there is no way in hell any of my relatives actually tried to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet - that's not what a family of bullshitting butchers does. But what they did tell me, was that high cholesterol was a genetic problem I could do nothing about.
So the weight loss is really a byproduct that I'm exceedingly psyched about. I mean, I need pants! Pants!
The actual win is that I totally called it. It'll be a while before I'm totally in the safe zone, but my stats are dropping :)
If you are interested in my diet, it's been pretty easy. Guilt is a very strong motivator, so I've leaned into it. I basically ask myself if a certain food's cholesterol would make me A) Feel guilty. B) Not feel guilty or C) Fuck it. I'm eating this entire pizza now. ... And then I eat accordingly.
@heyitsal Well done! I am on a very similar journey.
My goal is to avoid prescriptions and mrs roonie kick-started me by pressuring me to stop drinking. And I'm glad she did.
I've lost 20 pounds (in your funny numbers!), from 185ish to 165, from Christmas last. I'm 6ft almost on the button so starting with a smaller frame.
I feel so much better - being both sober and lighter.
Pants have become an issue!
And the Guilt Motivator is definitely a thing!
Woo-hoo! Now I want a pizza, all of it.
My goal is to avoid prescriptions and mrs roonie kick-started me by pressuring me to stop drinking. And I'm glad she did.
I've lost 20 pounds (in your funny numbers!), from 185ish to 165, from Christmas last. I'm 6ft almost on the button so starting with a smaller frame.
I feel so much better - being both sober and lighter.
Pants have become an issue!
And the Guilt Motivator is definitely a thing!
Woo-hoo! Now I want a pizza, all of it.
Wow, congrats man, that's amazing! I feel inspired.
High f'in' high five, Al! Your level of stoke is just awesome! Here's to the future and longevity.
Well done @roonie! Staying off prescriptions as I age is a strong motivator here too.
@otaman @samh Thanks for the support!
@otaman @samh Thanks for the support!
Hell yeah
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vintage trash can ad
source: https://www.tumblr.com/...
RubberMaid? I just me her!
leaky roof?
“My friends are pretty trashy.”
bucket list
Just barf anywhere
iiiiit's bin
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A close up selfie shot of small 16-year-old Macy the Cavapoo and me in the grass in the front yard. Some dramatic clouds shine in the background
She’s still with us, but Macy only has about a week, MAYbe two left on this earth. My wife and I have been weepy and doing our best not to have a breakdown multiple times a day as it’s gone from “she’s 16 and her kidneys are failing and she doesn’t hear or see so well and her spinal bridging is starting to cause neurological symptoms so she isn’t going to live a LOT longer, to “sometimes she can’t get up on her own and sometimes we have to hold her up to poop and we can’t leave the house without her because she’ll tip over and panic so the end may be sooner than we hoped,” to “it’s time to schedule the end,” as the last few days the pain meds and kidney meds are clearly less effective and even walking is a struggle for her and she only sleeps a couple hours at a time.
So, since our furry family member’s rainbow bridge moment will make it hard for us to function for a bit, I’m doing my best to savor every last minute with her, and posting this selfie of us in the front yard just now.
Love y’all, MLTSHPers. ❤️
So, since our furry family member’s rainbow bridge moment will make it hard for us to function for a bit, I’m doing my best to savor every last minute with her, and posting this selfie of us in the front yard just now.
Love y’all, MLTSHPers. ❤️
All the love to Macy, very good dog
@wjcstp ❤️❤️❤️
💙 Give Macy extra scritches for us. Thank you for taking care of her.
@bezt ❤️❤️❤️ just did. Told her it was from you. Thaaaanks!
I feel for you, friend. There is some solace in knowing that you have given her the best possible life with you. Be well.
@m3moellering ❤️❤️❤️ Our sweet vet has made special effort to point out that the reason she’s thrived THIS long is because we’ve always done our damndest with her. Here’s to the sweet animals we love!
Thinking of Macy and hugging my furry boys.
16 years is a double-edged sword - it's a long time to have them in your life but when they get ill it happens really fast.
16 years is a double-edged sword - it's a long time to have them in your life but when they get ill it happens really fast.
@roonie ❤️❤️❤️ It was a bit more of a slow burn in her case, but the progression has been undeniable and at this age you can’t really escape the fact that the end is nigh.
Love to your furry boys from our house!
Love to your furry boys from our house!
It ain’t fair I tell ya.
@ckoerner Truth! But 16 years of persistent unconditional love is pretty great.
aw, geez. much love.
Much love to all of you in the Macy crew.
@MackReed ❤️❤️❤️
@B6FA798A3449 ❤️❤️❤️
Awww, a great beauty. Skritches from Vermont for her (and you)
@jessamyn She really is! We take lots of photos and videos of her. ❤️
Thanks for the sketches. We both appreciate it. 😁
Thanks for the sketches. We both appreciate it. 😁
<3
For you, she's a portion of your life. For Macy ... she had you all forever. What a gift.
Much love to you all
❤️
@spingo <<<333
@BooBounder I think often of the bit about how, from dogs’ perspective, people are these un-aging multi-generational magical creatures who care for them like they did their forefathers. We’re very glad we got to be her people for so long!
@ellieBOA Thaaank youuuu! ❤️
@LocalStain ❤️❤️❤️
It is always hard to let go. You have given her the best life, and she has gven you all her love. Peace and comfort to you all.
@BMK ❤️❤️ thank youuu! We don’t want her to suffer, but obviously do t want her to go - unavoidable trade off when letting a pet’s love into your life! ❤️
Say hello to my Lisa on the other side of that bridge Macy, she'll show you the ropes ❤️
@Argie ❤️ I’ll let her know!
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Tightly patterned horseshoe whipsnake, travels pristine blue and turquoise sea water to hunt the wall lizards of Ibiza and the other Balearic Islands, creating an environmental, and cultural loss. The wall lizards aside from appealing appearance, and bland social presence, kill insects, and seed vegetation. The coastal waters seem exceptionally clear, and beautiful.
Horseshoe whipsnakes are crossing to the Balearic Islands, and threatening the wall lizards, (not the lounge and beach lizards,) of Ibiza. But, the waters in this image are elegantly colored, and pristine.
#photography #RubénCasas
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...
#photography #RubénCasas
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...
hey @0y3ahSansAcut3, if we ever meet in person mayhap ask for my "Wyoming Game & Fish vs. a swimming rattlesnake in Flaming Gorge Reservoir" story - perchance you'll enjoy it, it's a good 'un.
@williwaw I’d give that a half hour or more, depending on libations….
Oh yes, indeed!
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I sympathize with the overall point, but Gen Z unemployment is at 7.2% (5.6% for college grads) https://www.newyorkfed.org/research...
"Underemployment" for recent college grads is at around 41%, but that is historically average https://www.newyorkfed.org/research...
Blaming AI before capitalism is a good trick.
@fisherdah Oh yes! Except the layoffs because of AI uptake are real, and the operating money outlay to create more data centers, is also tightening the job markets. Then everything costs more, buyers buy less, humans face obsolescence. No wonder birth rates are low, no one wants to push 3-4 wheels to get by.
The reason mid career people were laid off is they're paid well.
To compete against GenZ will require a big haircut.
I am not sure that's what's going on, I think it's not a labor supply issue (glut).
I suspect that demand is horked - hiring pipelines are dysfunctional at every level of every org. AI tools for HR (total garbo), rampant fraud among applicants, C levels approving/yoinking reqs, it's dystopian shit yo.
To compete against GenZ will require a big haircut.
I am not sure that's what's going on, I think it's not a labor supply issue (glut).
I suspect that demand is horked - hiring pipelines are dysfunctional at every level of every org. AI tools for HR (total garbo), rampant fraud among applicants, C levels approving/yoinking reqs, it's dystopian shit yo.
Those layoffs aren’t related to ai, they’re just called that for the stock price bump. But at least for our company, most of those layoffs are in sales and every one of them is picked up at some other company. It’s just trading.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 none of that is wrong and all of it is capitalism. My argument continues to be that scapegoating technology to hide the ills of capitalism is a continuation of a dirty trick.
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breakfast empanadas
I experimented with making breakfast empanadas this morning; a little chopped bacon, fresh chives from the garden, scrambled eggs, garlic, herbed parboiled potatoes with a little cheese; close them up and a little maple syrup wash over the crust (since I ran out of eggs for the egg wash). big success. everyone loved.
beautiful!
also, for context:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places...