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two cats are partly visible out of a basement window: a grey striped one glaring directly out at the camera, and a marmalade cat turned directly at the first cat.
my favorite window cats of late, peeping out the windows of a basement apartment in my building.
i call the orange guy “sleepy boy” because he’s always sitting at another window sill looking half asleep and/or zooted AF. (he made a previous cameo here, center right: https://mltshp.com/p/1R2J3 ) today he was apparently monitoring his friend’s monitoring and/or posing for an album cover
iPhone 14 Pro Max | cropped in Photos app
i call the orange guy “sleepy boy” because he’s always sitting at another window sill looking half asleep and/or zooted AF. (he made a previous cameo here, center right: https://mltshp.com/p/1R2J3 ) today he was apparently monitoring his friend’s monitoring and/or posing for an album cover
iPhone 14 Pro Max | cropped in Photos app
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Color illustration; a woman wearing a drapy russet skirt and pink top is standing in on a garden path amongst greenery, holding a string of bells. Her torns and head are in fact a birdcage, and she is surrounded by a half-dozen flying birds.
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Carole Emshwiller, the great science fiction writer (largely of short fiction, for which she won the Nebula twice and the World Fantasy Award for her collection "The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories") was born on this day in 1921.
Her first novel, Carmen Dog, wasn't published until she was in her 60s; I highly recommend her *deceptively normal* novel The Mount, in which aliens come to earth and treat humans exactly like horses.
You can read about here here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... — and as a side note, her husband, the sci-fi illustrator and computer animation pioneer Ed Emshwiller, frequently used her as a model; there are a lot of his pieces on MLTSHP, and I believe this one is Carole: https://mltshp.com/p/1FYLV.
Illustration by Gervasio Gallardo for Emshwiller's story "Looking Down" (OMNI magazine, 1990).
Carole Emshwiller, the great science fiction writer (largely of short fiction, for which she won the Nebula twice and the World Fantasy Award for her collection "The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories") was born on this day in 1921.
Her first novel, Carmen Dog, wasn't published until she was in her 60s; I highly recommend her *deceptively normal* novel The Mount, in which aliens come to earth and treat humans exactly like horses.
You can read about here here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... — and as a side note, her husband, the sci-fi illustrator and computer animation pioneer Ed Emshwiller, frequently used her as a model; there are a lot of his pieces on MLTSHP, and I believe this one is Carole: https://mltshp.com/p/1FYLV.
Illustration by Gervasio Gallardo for Emshwiller's story "Looking Down" (OMNI magazine, 1990).
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My hand holds a teeny tiny terra cotta pot with a little bitty plant in it.
The plant shop had these $0.99 tiny terra cotta pots and I couldn’t resist. Immediately planted this tiny wood strawberry from our yard and topped the soil with a couple pinches of moss.
ITS SO CUUUUUTE
ITS SO CUUUUUTE
wmo
so cute
so cute - but if you asked "How do you like your strawberries?", tiny and wood are not the first thoughts that come to mind.
@wmo Agreed!
@roonie Yes and the berries that wood strawberry plants make are not nice. They’re not horrors or anything… just like “what if we took all of the flavor out of a strawberry and made it little and the wrong texture?”
Aka tiny wood strawberries do not come to mind if someone asks how I like MY strawberries, either. Hahaha
Aka tiny wood strawberries do not come to mind if someone asks how I like MY strawberries, either. Hahaha
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An Image split into four panes, showing four plant tags for four different types of tomato:
“Mortgage Lifter,”
“Pink Delicious,”
“Old German,” and
“San Marzano.”
“Mortgage Lifter,”
“Pink Delicious,”
“Old German,” and
“San Marzano.”
We like to have half our tomatoes be cherry/grape types because we like how they grow and look and taste, etc., but the other half we’ve started doing as all biggins. These are the four varietals we picked for this half this year. Woohoo!!!
Nice! These looks tasty!
No matter what kind of vegetable it is, I'm always a sucker for any varietal called Mortgage Lifter.
No matter what kind of vegetable it is, I'm always a sucker for any varietal called Mortgage Lifter.
@williwaw I thought so, too! And while I’m doubting it’ll actually pay our mortgage, I certainly won’t complain if these bumpy maters find a way to do so!
Our CSA includes some heirloom tomatoes every summer, and past batches have included both Mortgage Lifter and Pink Delicious.
Speaking as somebody who's not even big on tomatoes, they were really great.
Speaking as somebody who's not even big on tomatoes, they were really great.
@ardgedee yussssss I’m looking forward to it even more, then!
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Photograph. A young(ish) man stands in a parking lot next to a retail establishment which a sign identifies as "Henry the Hatter" 2472 Riopelle Street, Detroit, MI. The man is wearing a tan button-vest and khaki pants, brown leather shoes, a dark brown sport coat, a bow tie, and a brown bowler hat. He is bespectacled. His left hand rests on his hip, his right knee is slightly bent. A fine gentleman indeed.
https://www.reddit.com/r...
titled as found, rest of the outfits (which are all amazing in their own way) at the link
titled as found, rest of the outfits (which are all amazing in their own way) at the link
Oh this guy needs to watch Chris Fleming’s new standup show on HBO.
Elementary, my dear Watson...
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Image of Trump's face merged into a Sun Tzu meme, so that Trump has Tzu's face, with the words, "Break an enemy blockade by blockading their blockade. - Don Tzu"
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
reminds me of the (current?) cover of the Economist, with a blurry bloviating TFG in the foreground but the focus on a wry-looking Xi Jinping further back. The text is an abbreviate Sun Tzu quote: "Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake".
this'll teach 'em to mess with the United States.
O wait, they already know how.
O wait, they already know how.
@scruss This one: https://mltshp.com/p/1RNAQ
Now, now! Cap'n Donny has worked out that if them I ran (so far away) Ian's, are charging millions of dollars then it makes economic sense to collect that revenue for himself... I mean for the greater benefit of USA!
@roonie gotta get his beak wet with tolls too
@bezt thank you. Didn't know it has been posted
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The backside of a wrist watch with its battery panel open and to the side. The panel shows the manufacturer (Skagen from Denmark). The watch's battery and some mechanical components are visible. The band is in rough shape.
Mrs. PatD got me this watch 20 years ago and I'm intrigued by the idea of a watch that's not connected to a data center. Battery replacement was a success - there is movement! Now trying to get the case back on again without smashing the face.
Bon chance!
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A truck with a capybara on the cargo area
Should this also be in Big Units?
Temu CatBus from My Neighbor Totoro
@poorusher we're currently not accepting Hybrids 😁
Ooooooh, Capybaracuda.
@Xedrik godDAMNit
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We are hosting our friends from Stockholm this week. We drove to Niagara Falls and walked across the border for the views. This is Celia and Sarah recreating a photo of them from five years ago. It’s so lovely to have her and her beau (not pictured) here.
Very cool to see one of my old haunts
@BooBounder Well, the U.S. side certainly looks haunted.
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woman saying something
source: https://www.tumblr.com/...
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Me in sunglasses
Clearly you are doing everything right. 🫡
Aqui no mas.
Always gets the replay, never seen him fall
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DAING.
nice glasses. wherelight?
@cristin free box. I was going to take of the limbs and bridge, and.make them into clip.ons,.but I don't think.they are worth it. I'm just going to let the family have them for fun
Beeteedubs, Elton would be proud.
@m3moellering Came here to say that! +++
@dad ++
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A bicycle on a dirt road with a snowy mountain peak in the distance.
The high country is starting to allow passage. Middle section of my ride had a fair amount of snow and mud on it but well worth it for some quality time in the wild.
man, that looks worrisomely dry (for this time of year)
I should absolutely not have been able to ride this section of road until mid-May at the earliest, @williwaw.
Annnnnd as you probably know you've got a super el nino warm pattern incoming - one of my weather colleagues told me this could be the strongest el nino on record, they're seriously freaking out about it.
Holy shit this summer is going to be bad for fire - especially with the essential dismantling of the USFS on top of the shit fuckery at FEMA. . . . I think we're going to see another Paradise/Lahaina/Marshall Fire situation somewhere. :( Keep your head on a swivel, my friend.
Holy shit this summer is going to be bad for fire - especially with the essential dismantling of the USFS on top of the shit fuckery at FEMA. . . . I think we're going to see another Paradise/Lahaina/Marshall Fire situation somewhere. :( Keep your head on a swivel, my friend.
On Friday afternoon there was a huge plume of smoke rising up from the Madison Valley, @williwaw. It's already here : (
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My wife's Easter eggs, made with mint and celery leaves, and red onions.
Celery and mint leaves, steeped in red onion skin broth. On weird Chinese country-shaped (Poland) plate, on contemporary imported Polish table runner.
Beautiful!
I’m curious about the process if you are willing to share the technique
Likewise, those are really cool.
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Metallic space capsule with 5 large red balloons on top, floating in the ocean
Successful splashdown for Artemis II
Okay I've got my chimp suit on, everyone else?
uh oh, space hemorrhoids.
@roue arse grapes .... FROM SPAAAAACE!
So much risk, so much time and money, wasted on that pick up yesterday. If they were going to haul the capsule up onto the ship, why didn't they just haul it up, with the astronauts in it? I really do not want any snarky answers to this question. Just so many more elements of risk introduced in their wonky business. Then all those people out on the ocean at sunset, had yo strip the enormously expensive stabilizing ring, and porch, to clear the capsule and pick it up.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 I had the same question. Apparently it’s to keep people and the capsule safe. It’s 10 tones in the middle of the wavy ocean. NASA wants to evaluate how well it performed (like the heat shield) in space and if they scrape/bonk it while trying to load it they have to ask, “Did that happen while we were trying to load it onto the ship or when it was out by the moon?” The ship that picked it up has a bay they can flood and then pump the water out of. Neat stuff. Here’s a video of Artemis I’s recovery https://youtu.be/_4FbuN-Q...
@0y3ahSansAcut3 @ckoerner I've been reading the same discussion elsewhere, and some reasons...
1: Because it’s way too heavy, bulky, and unstable once it’s in the water. (weighs 10 Tonnes)
2: Space travel takes a long time and things are done precisely, 2 hours at the end of a mission is a blip
3. The craft is documented/photographed underwater, this is so they can see the state of the heat shield and other b ase parts of the craft as it landed. It may not look the same after its been carted around a bit. This is the best way to understand how it all went because science
4. Safety, it's done like this because it's safer
and a bunch more reasons but that's all i kinda remember
1: Because it’s way too heavy, bulky, and unstable once it’s in the water. (weighs 10 Tonnes)
2: Space travel takes a long time and things are done precisely, 2 hours at the end of a mission is a blip
3. The craft is documented/photographed underwater, this is so they can see the state of the heat shield and other b ase parts of the craft as it landed. It may not look the same after its been carted around a bit. This is the best way to understand how it all went because science
4. Safety, it's done like this because it's safer
and a bunch more reasons but that's all i kinda remember
10 tons! What? I get out of this chair just fine, several times in a day.
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A sign, in Letter-sized paper, pinned in a cork board. The board is labeled at the bottom "City of Shoreline". At the top, in large print, the sign reads, in all caps "Is your 3D printer haunted?" then assorted pictures of 3D printers where the printing went massively wrong. The pictures show weird tangled artifacts where the filament has gone in all directions, forming blobs and just very weird, maybe of dreadful shapes.
In small font, next to the pictures, there is a paragraph of text reading: " Bring Your 3d printer or any haunted prints. Feel free to bring snacks. I will bring crystals to trap up to 8 spirits."
Then, in medium size, all caps font: "Join the seance to banish the spirits causing your 3D printer to misbehave. 1pm april 25th 2026 Carkeek Park Fire Pit, Seattle"
Then a picture of a funny guy with a quote suggesting a review "I have done this before and it works".
One of the pictures has a caption, in yet a different color and size font, "If you have any energy imbalances, be careful of excised spirits taking over your body, please protect yourself".
Then "Email for questions: zeitlicht@gmail.com".
In small font, next to the pictures, there is a paragraph of text reading: " Bring Your 3d printer or any haunted prints. Feel free to bring snacks. I will bring crystals to trap up to 8 spirits."
Then, in medium size, all caps font: "Join the seance to banish the spirits causing your 3D printer to misbehave. 1pm april 25th 2026 Carkeek Park Fire Pit, Seattle"
Then a picture of a funny guy with a quote suggesting a review "I have done this before and it works".
One of the pictures has a caption, in yet a different color and size font, "If you have any energy imbalances, be careful of excised spirits taking over your body, please protect yourself".
Then "Email for questions: zeitlicht@gmail.com".
source: https://social.coop/@marsipo...
So many times, I did things far more futile than this.
I would have traveled states for this when I had my Velleman monster
I would have traveled states for this when I had my Velleman monster
spoiler: the crystals were also 3d printed
[ominous droning increases]
[ominous droning increases]
@nikkuneko Hehehehehe
Having recently tossed my Creality 3D printer into the abyss (because man was not meant to spend every weekend leveling things), I wish I had known that faith-based healing was an option.
WHICH Carkeek Park fire pit tho??
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Aligators all the way down
PHWOAR
That's not a croc, _this_ is a croc.
@bezt However, this is probably ML generated, and it's simulacra all the way down - the legs on the furniture in the background don't quite make sense. AI-ligator, not alligator. This does seem to have happened in 2019, though on a smaller scale. https://www.clickorlando.com/news...
Nothing about that patio furniture looks out of the ordinary to me. Not saying this isn't generated but it looks very much like an unkempt AirBnB would look after a big storm to me.
Lars and the Real Girl
Ideas about the thing and the thing itself
this one is 100% simulacra, the real one has a different gator, different pool https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news...
I hate living in a timeline where we have to debate about whether an image is real or not. Fuck you, AI.
if not wife, why wife shaped?
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vintage ad with illustration of fruits and vegetables with human faces on them that don't seem particularly happy, captioned "WE GREW FROM O.K. SEEDS"
I'm getting an acid flashback from this
In what universe were seeds like this OK?
"We grew from seeds that look to the left for some reason"
@poorusher /same
If these are OK seeds I'd hate to see the bad seeds
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Beetlemoses is coincidentally in Austin, TX this weekend for https://staple-austin.org/ guessing he thought of this trying to leave the airport earlier.
I have a worse problem. I drive a right hand drive van in the USA.
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Translation: Can we get ice cream later?
My daughter working on blowing up a floaty.
My daughter working on blowing up a floaty.
This would have been so perfect if only one leg was sticking out :D
this is also how i beach.
@Xedrik aaaahhhhhhhh perfect! if we end up reshooting it we'll do that!
took me a bit to see the flamingo head, and I first thought "Kirby?"