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Motion-blurred, fish-eyed photo of a tiger *leaping* out of the back of pickup truck, where a carrying container has been opened, onto hard-packed earth, its enormous front paws just slightly off the ground; a few other parked trucks are visible at the horizon
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"What a photo! A female Amur tiger is released into the wild in Kazakhstan."
Video at the link.
"What a photo! A female Amur tiger is released into the wild in Kazakhstan."
Video at the link.
davidl
Title!
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a street photo of a skateboard mid-air with the shadow of the skateboarder below
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A clear desktop
This is the first time this desk has been clean in about ten years. It normally has my 3D printer, but I made way for a snapmaker u1 I ordered, which should arrive tomorrow if I refresh the delivery status page enough.
A custom-built standup desk that weighs 1000000000 pounds empty
A custom-built standup desk that weighs 1000000000 pounds empty
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album art: a black and white photo on a white background, repeating in overlapping layers of partial transparency. the photo itself is of a barren tree and a dead end sign at the end of a road, with a fog-covered barren field behind it.
happy friday, and happy mediocre-at-best-archival-release day!
as mentioned previously (https://mltshp.com/p/1RTWO), i've got three new-old/old-new ones out today, just in time for bandcamp friday.
these were early song sketches from a 2015 windmills recording session, rescued from the digital void by my dear friend / lifelong collaborator dereck, all cleaned up and sent out into the world.
not much else to say that i didn't already say in the last post, but as sloppy as they are, i hope there's a little spirit of what i'm trying to do in these tracks. it's been an inspiration to pick up the guitar and start writing again. maybe that will translate into some new-new tracks down the road.
until then, enjoy! or don't!
stream // purchase // download:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com/album...
as mentioned previously (https://mltshp.com/p/1RTWO), i've got three new-old/old-new ones out today, just in time for bandcamp friday.
these were early song sketches from a 2015 windmills recording session, rescued from the digital void by my dear friend / lifelong collaborator dereck, all cleaned up and sent out into the world.
not much else to say that i didn't already say in the last post, but as sloppy as they are, i hope there's a little spirit of what i'm trying to do in these tracks. it's been an inspiration to pick up the guitar and start writing again. maybe that will translate into some new-new tracks down the road.
until then, enjoy! or don't!
stream // purchase // download:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com/album...
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<Bob the angry flower is pictured in a huge crowd with a nice seat at a concert. He looks happy. Wistful, even>
<the below lyrics are shown piece by piece over four panes while Bob's expression changes from happy toward boredom>
...invisible airwaves crackle with life… …sailing into destiny… …closer to the heart… ...ill-equipped to act with insufficient tact… …fly by night away from here…
<close up shot of Bob's face; eyes bugged out in shock>
150 minutes into this 3-hour Rush concert, bob comes to a startling realization:
<Bob's thought bubble reads>
I DON'T LIKE RUSH!!!
<the below lyrics are shown piece by piece over four panes while Bob's expression changes from happy toward boredom>
...invisible airwaves crackle with life… …sailing into destiny… …closer to the heart… ...ill-equipped to act with insufficient tact… …fly by night away from here…
<close up shot of Bob's face; eyes bugged out in shock>
150 minutes into this 3-hour Rush concert, bob comes to a startling realization:
<Bob's thought bubble reads>
I DON'T LIKE RUSH!!!
source: https://angryflower.com/1672...
Just had lunch with a friend who flew in from Denmark just to see them
@scruss Just saw a video last night of local news interviewing people waiting to attend a BTS concert. The stadium was in eastern Massachusetts. People interviewed were from Canada, various parts of the US including Hawaii, and Europe. I'd say two thirds of them mentioned having seen them in other cities on this tour which were each at least a thousand miles away.
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<a dog is sitting in a nondescript room looking contemplative>
The dog isn't fun anymore.
<closer shot of the dog, brow is furrowed>
All he does is contemplate the future.
<a person with short hair and a grey tshirt stands, arms crossed>
It was cute at first. Him contemplating the future.
<an orange and grey cat sit on the floor of a nondescript room looking contemplative>
Then the cats started doing it.
The dog isn't fun anymore.
<closer shot of the dog, brow is furrowed>
All he does is contemplate the future.
<a person with short hair and a grey tshirt stands, arms crossed>
It was cute at first. Him contemplating the future.
<an orange and grey cat sit on the floor of a nondescript room looking contemplative>
Then the cats started doing it.
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album art for the mountain goats' 2026 LP "days". a tomato red cover with a 70s-inspired white artist+title text across the top, below a thin delimiter, and below that a series of minimal rectangular illustrations of a sun rising over a mountain range and clouds before descending again
john darnielle just don't quit, i tell you hwut.
i know quite a few of you here are mountain goats fans, so thought you might want to know that this popped up for sale this morning, including some physical releases.
stream // purchase // download:
https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album...
i know quite a few of you here are mountain goats fans, so thought you might want to know that this popped up for sale this morning, including some physical releases.
stream // purchase // download:
https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album...
He's done a great job of building more instrumentation around the songs while keeping them absolutely his own, it's a really good album. Also contains probably the poppest song ever written about a shallow grave.
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Screenshot of a Tweet.
*Watching tv*
4yr old: Sorry, I parted
Me: Do you need to go potty?
4yr old: No, sometimes I fart because I'm watching a great show or movie, or I'm having a great day.
*Watching tv*
4yr old: Sorry, I parted
Me: Do you need to go potty?
4yr old: No, sometimes I fart because I'm watching a great show or movie, or I'm having a great day.
Same, young friend.
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Hoopoe bird with it's striped wings folded, and crown of feathers raised. They are a pleasant soft earthen shade with black and white, striped wings and details. They hunt insects both in the air and on the ground.
The stuff of Sufi teaching stories...
https://www.cambridge.org/core...
A Eurasian hoopoe carries an insect in its beak while perched at the entrance to its nest in a tree trunk in Denizli, western Turkey
#photography #DoganEvsan Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
https://www.cambridge.org/core...
A Eurasian hoopoe carries an insect in its beak while perched at the entrance to its nest in a tree trunk in Denizli, western Turkey
#photography #DoganEvsan Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
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Odysseus and his men look upon a giant emerging from a cave whose large eye peers at them. The greek soldiers run away in fear, each of them having just one eye. It turns out that the giant "biclops" (freakish to them) has two eyes.
source: https://pbfcomics.com/comics...
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Photo of Patrick McGoohan as The Prisoner, with the caption [crime jazz music]
We’re enjoying yet another rewatch of The Prisoner
Later this episode they had [tense waltzing music]
Later this episode they had [tense waltzing music]
i just added that to my list to rewatch too! such a great series.
also, next time i reorganize my record Cole ton, i am labeling at least one section tag “crime jazz”
also, next time i reorganize my record Cole ton, i am labeling at least one section tag “crime jazz”
One of my favorite Japanese jazz bands is Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, self-described "death jazz". It's probably the crimey-ist jazz I know.
Some examples if you're interested:
https://youtu.be/bMV0p3cXz-0
https://youtu.be/ESojJ6JI_RU
https://youtu.be/AGFyEknHoIs
https://youtu.be/gTYCSTHpbHw
Some examples if you're interested:
https://youtu.be/bMV0p3cXz-0
https://youtu.be/ESojJ6JI_RU
https://youtu.be/AGFyEknHoIs
https://youtu.be/gTYCSTHpbHw
@mikenmar ooOOoo!
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A photo of a set of five small brown stairs leading down from a gray retaining wall. At the top of the stairs is a small, black chicken.
Last year we had a new deck, driveway, and patio built. It kind of changed the pathways into our backyard, necessitating these steps. Over the course of a couple days my wife and I built them. I’m sore and tired, but I think they turned out pretty well (and mostly level and square😅).
Wise move to let the chicken test them first.
excellent work!
(that said, we all know i'm here for the bonus yard guardian strut)
(that said, we all know i'm here for the bonus yard guardian strut)
Yes to home improvement.
I will always high five and hurray a DIY project. Well done! High five and hurrah!!!
@ufez I think I have made it easier for them to get up on the driveway! Not sure that’s a good thing.
Saved to https://mltshp.com/homeimpr...
Nice stairs! Ditto the chook.
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A photo of a man wearing a mlkshk shirt and drinking coffee, the mug obscuring some of his face. In the background are trees with green leaves.
The temperature has dipped in Denver for the last few days and the back deck has been the best place for morning coffee.
Nice shirt
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Barred owl perched on a tree branch.
Barred Owl has been hanging around the cottage this week. Let us get quite close today.
whoaaaaaaa you have been bless't by his presence
who?
a superb owl!
@jive_t cooks for you?
Love these guys, miss seeing/hearing them as often as we used to at the old place
Love these guys, miss seeing/hearing them as often as we used to at the old place
They're very attacky at night, ask me how I know
@mcmjolnir shouldn't have tried to talking to his gal, dude
We've got one or two in our neighborhood (according to Merlin, anyway) and I haven't been able to see them yet but they're audible all hours of the day and night. They can get crazy loud when they feel like it.
@ardgedee this one's still juvenile (i think) so screeching call has indeed been waking me up at various times throughout the night. Far fewer ocurrances of the more pleasant "who-cooks-for-you"
@pk pretty sure it was the mama
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large jack-o-lantern in traffic
walgreens already has their halloween stuff out.
I saw a place setting up their *Christmas* displays already.
why do i feel like old man yells at clouds?
Spirit Halloween is already operating in the vacant Big Lots near me
Happy Happy Halloween! Silver Shamrock!
it's now all holidays forever.
I remember working in a design/marketing shop where Christmas started sometime in late January/early February for the packaging designs on games and gifts, since the overseas printers needed final copies in March for production, assembly, packaging, and shipping back to the US by July in time for national distribution in August-September.
'Weenermobile
SOON
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We sent this as our invitation... in a tube. It's 3 feet tall. We have it in a frame in our living room and everything :). My friend, Brodsky, who is the bravest graphic artist I have yet to meet helped me crush the design. A friend of ours, Elke was a CD at an agency where she had these printed for us. We stuck them in tubes and USPSed them out for a couple of bucks each.
It was a wonderful wedding. We had $0 to spend on it. Most of the money wound up going to the New Leaf Cafe. They were in Fort Tryon Park in way north NYC. They hadn't opened yet, so we cut a deal with them using us as a practice event with a buffet with a pay-bar. We put goldfish in take home bowls on the tables instead of flowers. Heather found a gorgeous thrift store gown. We used the venues speakers with a random playlist and that was that.
A friend of ours who was a freelance philosopher and now teaches at Oxford, gave a dissertation on marriage that I cannot remember a word of because I was holding my new wife's hand and sweating in my suit jacket in the usual sweaty August of the city. Fuck it was hot. But that just led to people giving up the usual wedding stuffiness. A lot of clothes went missing almost immediately.
We gave everyone point and shoot cameras, called in a favor for some portraits and table shots. The photographer completely failed, saying "I've never been at an event where I couldn't get people to stop laughing long enough to take a group photo". He was pretty drunk when he said it.
We had a cake with Wonder Woman and The Tick on top that we brought. We had totally forgotten about it, but saw it when we started happily saying goodbye to everyone.
It was a wonderful wedding. We had $0 to spend on it. Most of the money wound up going to the New Leaf Cafe. They were in Fort Tryon Park in way north NYC. They hadn't opened yet, so we cut a deal with them using us as a practice event with a buffet with a pay-bar. We put goldfish in take home bowls on the tables instead of flowers. Heather found a gorgeous thrift store gown. We used the venues speakers with a random playlist and that was that.
A friend of ours who was a freelance philosopher and now teaches at Oxford, gave a dissertation on marriage that I cannot remember a word of because I was holding my new wife's hand and sweating in my suit jacket in the usual sweaty August of the city. Fuck it was hot. But that just led to people giving up the usual wedding stuffiness. A lot of clothes went missing almost immediately.
We gave everyone point and shoot cameras, called in a favor for some portraits and table shots. The photographer completely failed, saying "I've never been at an event where I couldn't get people to stop laughing long enough to take a group photo". He was pretty drunk when he said it.
We had a cake with Wonder Woman and The Tick on top that we brought. We had totally forgotten about it, but saw it when we started happily saying goodbye to everyone.
A billion congratulations, my friend. What a glorious artifact.
Yes much love, forever!!!!
That's just so lovely. Thank you for sharing!
This tale of amazing-ness is simply wonderful! Happy anniversary.
That's awesome. I love interesting weddings. I am pretty sure that interesting weddings require a certain amount of poverty to properly happen.
What a great story. Thanks for sharing.
Congrats!
Yay to continued love!
congratulations!
SPOON! Happy Anniversary!
Fantastic design and wedding planning. Here’s to a long shared life filled with many more such delights.
Thanks everyone!
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3.5 year old in a green dress with ice cream on her forehead
mmmm, tasty tasty sweat
Oh summer dresses!
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wait, what happened to the passenger door?
@ardgedee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
The 67 Suburban came in an “Action-Line” configuration- one door on the driver side, two on the kerb.
The 67 Suburban came in an “Action-Line” configuration- one door on the driver side, two on the kerb.
My grandpa had one of these, then later he had an 80s version that was all tricked out. Kind of spoiled me as a kid for what a 'big serious car' was supposed to be, everything else seemed smaller, lesser. Also, my granparents always had Wintergreen Lifesavers in the car, so this photo smells and tastes like that to me :)
@kokogiak ++
This photo makes me think of Tim Powers’ Last Call. I really love that series.
This photo makes me think of Tim Powers’ Last Call. I really love that series.
@kokogiak- Ah Wintergreen Lifesavers, the best!
The most brutalist truck this side of the Dodge Power Wagon.
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Rainbow colours seen in mist rising from black rocky ground
Gorgeous!
👏👏👏
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Out walking my friend's chihuahua a couple weeks ago! This is Goomba 🩷
This is a cool photo
oh no the chihuahua has The Dots 😍
Looking forward to your and Goomba's album.
Whatcha, whatcha, whatcha want?
Shirt/hat combo = 🔥
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A three-panel image of my basil garden. The bottom panel is a distant shot encompassing all of the large leafy basil plants and the lemon balm plants on the right.
The top left is just a top-down shot of their bushy leaves, and the top-right photo is from the side, with a tape measure sticking out above the basil leaves to show that the plants are about 30 or 31 inches tall at the highest.
The top left is just a top-down shot of their bushy leaves, and the top-right photo is from the side, with a tape measure sticking out above the basil leaves to show that the plants are about 30 or 31 inches tall at the highest.
Another bumper crop of basil this year!
I let the front two plants flower and flower without nipping any of it off until today because I felt bad about taking flowers from pollinators (we have other flowers, so I didn’t need to feel guilty), and although those ripped taller than the rest at first, they didn’t really feel like keeping up the pace since I let them bloom.
Since we were out of town for two weeks (and had a lot of rain) I only just now finished trimming all the flowers off all of them, and they’re beautiful. As you can see, at their tallest they’re about 30”-31” high now.
At the far side, past the anemic looking basil, are my thriving lemon balm plants, that are lower than the basil. Watering and mowing over here is great. Lemon & basil all the way!
I let the front two plants flower and flower without nipping any of it off until today because I felt bad about taking flowers from pollinators (we have other flowers, so I didn’t need to feel guilty), and although those ripped taller than the rest at first, they didn’t really feel like keeping up the pace since I let them bloom.
Since we were out of town for two weeks (and had a lot of rain) I only just now finished trimming all the flowers off all of them, and they’re beautiful. As you can see, at their tallest they’re about 30”-31” high now.
At the far side, past the anemic looking basil, are my thriving lemon balm plants, that are lower than the basil. Watering and mowing over here is great. Lemon & basil all the way!
This is impressive. I only have one basil plant on the deck but this was the first year I figured out proper cultivating and now have a nice bush.
@homerj Three cheers! 🍃🍃🍃
The firat year we had a basil jungle like this we made enough pesto (froze it into cubes) that we still have a few bits left these five years later. I recommend it. 😂
The firat year we had a basil jungle like this we made enough pesto (froze it into cubes) that we still have a few bits left these five years later. I recommend it. 😂
Big Basil is trying to control you and doesn't want you to know.
@grantbarrett I accept their control. May the pesto be with you! Death to aphids!
omg. this is just from them going to seed/flowering in one season!?
@misslivie I planted I think 8 plants this year, and try to keep up with pinching off the flower buds as they appear to encourage them to grow more leaves & branches - we were out of town for a couple weeks so they all had some big flowers I had to cut off, so they’re a bit smaller than they were before I did that, but yeah, planted them mid-April and this is where they are now. We’ve had some years where they’re even bigger, but this height is pretty normal for us.
Basil has always thrived in this spot for us for some reason. No complaints from me! ☺️
Basil has always thrived in this spot for us for some reason. No complaints from me! ☺️
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Looking through old Halloween decor I cam across these skull cutouts from Beistle. They are remakes from at least 50 years ago: https://www.beistle.com/vintage-...
In fact, there's tons of vintage Halloween stuffs going back 100 years here. Most of it is on Amazon too: https://www.beistle.com/holiday...
In fact, there's tons of vintage Halloween stuffs going back 100 years here. Most of it is on Amazon too: https://www.beistle.com/holiday...
Halloween Nears is a term that can be applied from the day after Halloween. Every dam year.
That does not mean that we must start a deep dive focusing in on bloody Halloween IN EARLY AUGUST!!!!! ffs
That does not mean that we must start a deep dive focusing in on bloody Halloween IN EARLY AUGUST!!!!! ffs
Ooohhh look Christmas is coming!
bah humbug
bah humbug
@roonie a Spirit Halloween just opened near us. It is end times
Eh... It's just a cool skull. It'll be fine
My partner and I collect Halloween stuff, so this link is awesome/a curse. Thank you!
@the_adriator same... the season's beginning is a big deal for us.
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back of a woman's shirt reads "pabst powered fuck machine"
she seems nice!
corporate merch is getting spicy
Dress for the job you want?
The shirt really should be made from blue velvet.
is she looking for sponsorship?
@robotmachine Heineken?! FUCK THAT SHIT!!!
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A good friend of mine dropped by and wanted to take my picture.
Cannot <3 this enough!
@jasperzelf dank jeeee😘
♥️❗❗❗
Shoes 👠👀
@poorusher 💗💗💗
How nice it is to see you in frame with your work!
@m3moellering and wearing the same palette... perfect 😊 @waa
@waa Kathryn (Katyusha) wanted me to let you know that you look great and that she says “Hey!”
:)
I also agree that you look great. ❤️
:)
I also agree that you look great. ❤️
Amazing! Every part of this!
This is just all kinds of lovely
@m3moellering @kokogiak @waldopepper Thanks!!!!
@robotmachine Please do say HEY back :-) And thanks for the compliment!
It's so good and your outfit is cute.
(applause)
@waa Message relayed!
excellent.
@robotmachine Please tell @Katyusha that I said hi!
And @waa you and you work look incredible.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
And @waa you and you work look incredible.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
@LocalStain Message relayed!
Art personified!
gahhh all of this is gorgeoussss
@drurystephanie thank youuu 😘