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a cartoon with sound effects in Japanese. A human moved a remote to keep a cat from knocking it over. The cat then cuddles with the human until it can get close to the new location of the remote in order to knock it to the floor.
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Three panel gag strip with an owl called Hibou.
Panel one: Hibou is in a tiny little boat at sea, perfectly content and singing/mumbling 'la-di-da, la-did-da'
Panel two: Hibou put out a fishing rod. Says out loud: 'such blissful solitude'.
Panel three: Hibou catches a fish, and reels it in. The fish looks scared, with a hook in its mouth. Hibou looks angrily at the fish and says 'Leave me alone'
Panel one: Hibou is in a tiny little boat at sea, perfectly content and singing/mumbling 'la-di-da, la-did-da'
Panel two: Hibou put out a fishing rod. Says out loud: 'such blissful solitude'.
Panel three: Hibou catches a fish, and reels it in. The fish looks scared, with a hook in its mouth. Hibou looks angrily at the fish and says 'Leave me alone'
For the past 25 years, I've been making this gag strip with an owl called Hibou. It gets published about four times a year in Dutch underground Comix magazine Zone 5300. I still have to make my first book, but now and again, I managed to get a translation done. This is the latest one.
Also: watercolour, no retouch, apart from slight cleanup of the text.
Also: watercolour, no retouch, apart from slight cleanup of the text.
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This is why you should buy a boat
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vintage ad for a product called "KABOB-IT" with the caption "come and see a lot of delicious new ways to entertain"
Title!
I always wanted to do a cenobite-themed Halloween hors d'oeuvres on a plastic head with squares of meat on toothpicks.
But seriously I love the conceit of assuming that if you jam a heating element through some chunks of beef, the meat's going to taste just as good as if you had roasted them over a fire pit.
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Psychedelic cutaway view of a human head in profile, with a colorful abstract representation of the brain and spine. Some wires extend down from the bottom of the image.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Gene Szafran's 1972 cover to "Fun with Your New Head," by Thomas M. Disch.
Gene Szafran's 1972 cover to "Fun with Your New Head," by Thomas M. Disch.
One two three FOUR FIVE six seven eight NINE TEN eleven tweeeeeeeeelve!
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woman from dirty dancing striking a pose
I've always been fascinated by the idea that getting a nose job was a significant factor in her fall into obscurity.
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Pictures of a brick bbq
After seeing the pit that is Kreuz Market(s) in Lockhart years ago, I've been dreaming of building something like it if the bricks ever materialized - and they did! $25 for around 900 last fall. Wanted a smoker / grill combo. Grill found online for $600 from a small manufacturerr in Argentina. I'd done very minimal masonry work, but this gave me a new level of respect and awe for brick masons.
Cooks have been predictable and delicious Holds heat like a mofo.
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media...
edit: Poured the slab last fall..otherwise took 3 months to complete
Cooks have been predictable and delicious Holds heat like a mofo.
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media...
edit: Poured the slab last fall..otherwise took 3 months to complete
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It's not the first time this has happened by far, but this was the most beautiful one. Gosh, do I hate cleaning it up afterwards.
Like a pressed-tin ceiling.
Oof!
This is most definitely the only case where my "mural" would be as good as yours.
@bocaj Oh my goodness. I immediately imagine some kind of microwave splatter gun I could use to make a mural :-) (also: best kind of compliment! Thanks! )
it's giving Studio 54 dance floor
@Argie 👏👏👏👏 that zaps me right back to a club here in town with cocaine dealers in leather jackets, low ceilings, slippery floors and the smell of cigarettes, sweat and beer in your clothes the next day.
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black and white photograph: a row of tall enclosed booths with privacy curtains partly drawn. inside the first booth is a woman, and the second booth, a man. they are both using the bell labs "picturephone", which featured a cone-shaped cathode ray screen enclosure and an attached handset. on the screens, an image of the person to whom they are speaking is visible.
(photographer unknown; will add a credit if i find it)
originally found here:
https://ethw.org/Picturephone
higher-res image sourced from the piece here:
https://flashbak.com/the-fant...
originally found here:
https://ethw.org/Picturephone
higher-res image sourced from the piece here:
https://flashbak.com/the-fant...
I think maybe it’s Garry Winogrand from his 1967 roadtrip?
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Variant of the Gadsden flag has Jimothy, a mutant raccoon with no neck, chopping down a surveillance-camera-festooned pole with a handsaw above the inscription “DON’T SPY ON ME” on a yellow field.
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Chinese/English sign saying 'no flirting', crossed out image of couple having sex
Well, that escalated quickly!
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NATO HQ opposite the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Built 1952 demolished in 1960
Exterior view https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images...
Exterior view https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images...
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Film loop of a panicked man at the wheel checking in front, left, right, behind for something he clearly fears
I have to turn across 4 lane highway traffic leaving my office everyday, so I am very much Leonardo
Me, in Los Angeles, trusting Google Maps navigation.
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Photo of the author (with added agony)
AI render of a photo of me, representing the feeling when I pulled out the stent that had been keeping my left kidney from being blocked by 2 kidney stones for over 3 months. It should have been removed by a nurse, but the string on the outside end had come loose and pulling down undies partly pulled out about 8cm of the stent. The stent itself was about 25cm (10 inches) long with spirals at both ends.
Not shown - the two post-op bouts of extreme pain when drugs wore off. Now I know what a '10' on the pain scale feels like..
Kidney stones are no fun. It's now 6 weeks in the past, thankfully!
NSFW for representation of pain
Not shown - the two post-op bouts of extreme pain when drugs wore off. Now I know what a '10' on the pain scale feels like..
Kidney stones are no fun. It's now 6 weeks in the past, thankfully!
NSFW for representation of pain
Argh. Oof. Glad you're better!
Yikes, here’s hoping you won’t have to do that again
When an ER nurse says to you "I've had two kids and one kidney stone and the kidney stone was far more painful" you stop pain vomiting momentarily to reflect on how terrible your karma must be before screaming "MORE FUCKING DILAUDID WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!???".
Kidney stones are the worst. Lesson I just learned is that eating a bunch of Tums can lead to them. I have a couple of (thankfully) small ones floating around thanks to Tums.
Requiem for a Gleet
@ian_whitney Oooooh, useful hint, thank you.
I feel your pain. I once had a kidney stone block urination for three days by lodging in the urethra. The relief when it was removed!
Stay hydrated.
i had my appendix out last year, learned in the ER that i was immune to morphine.
Wishing quick recovery for you!
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<Turtle and Snail stand with Mouse in an open field; Mouse is holding a skull>
Mouse: "Hey friends, check this out!"
<Turtle and Snail look shocked>
Turtle: "Oh my god, Mouse, did you kill a guy??"
<Mouse puts the skull down>
Mouse: "No, no. It was already like this."
<Close up on the skull who now speaks>
Skull: "I killed a guy once. It cost me everything."
<Turtle and Snail are shown again>
Snail: "And so you were cursed to an existence between life and death-- one that is no life at all-- to dwell forever on the mistakes of your mortal coil?"
<Back to Skull>
Skull: "Wow, making a lot of assumptions about the talking skull here."
<Still on Skull>
Skull: "But essentially yes, that is the situation."
<Mouse and Skull are shown>
Mouse: "Good guess, Snail."
<Turtle and Snail are shown>
Snail: "Stereotypes exist for a reason."
Mouse: "Hey friends, check this out!"
<Turtle and Snail look shocked>
Turtle: "Oh my god, Mouse, did you kill a guy??"
<Mouse puts the skull down>
Mouse: "No, no. It was already like this."
<Close up on the skull who now speaks>
Skull: "I killed a guy once. It cost me everything."
<Turtle and Snail are shown again>
Snail: "And so you were cursed to an existence between life and death-- one that is no life at all-- to dwell forever on the mistakes of your mortal coil?"
<Back to Skull>
Skull: "Wow, making a lot of assumptions about the talking skull here."
<Still on Skull>
Skull: "But essentially yes, that is the situation."
<Mouse and Skull are shown>
Mouse: "Good guess, Snail."
<Turtle and Snail are shown>
Snail: "Stereotypes exist for a reason."
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A picture of Sugar's Copper Blue on (for some ridiculous reason) ORANGE vinyl.
@nikkuneko recently posted about their recent colored vinyl record purchase: https://mltshp.com/p/1RUO6
and @jpoulos recently posted a mini-doc on Sugar's Copper Blue: https://mltshp.com/p/1RU9M
Which made me realize I didn't have that album on vinyl in my collection and I really should so ordered a copy.
And here it is.
In orange.
Rant time: If you're gonna make a colored vinyl release, PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO IT PEOPLE. Orange? WTF!? The album is named after TWO colors. COPPER. and BLUE. And the album artwork is colored in... (you guessed it!) BLUE and COPPER!
HINT HINT? Maybe, I dunno... GO WITH A BLUE OR COPPER COLORED RECORD?
GTFO with this orange.
Anyways, still a great album.
and @jpoulos recently posted a mini-doc on Sugar's Copper Blue: https://mltshp.com/p/1RU9M
Which made me realize I didn't have that album on vinyl in my collection and I really should so ordered a copy.
And here it is.
In orange.
Rant time: If you're gonna make a colored vinyl release, PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO IT PEOPLE. Orange? WTF!? The album is named after TWO colors. COPPER. and BLUE. And the album artwork is colored in... (you guessed it!) BLUE and COPPER!
HINT HINT? Maybe, I dunno... GO WITH A BLUE OR COPPER COLORED RECORD?
GTFO with this orange.
Anyways, still a great album.
I'm guessing they were going for a complementary thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
[FP colors intensify]
I will say, I am less enraged about this than my copy of "David Gray's White Ladder" which was released on a vinyl color that sure looks like gray...but which they named 'silver'.
They were SO close to getting it right on that one.
They were SO close to getting it right on that one.
You can listen to it when you’re hunting
Once you pop on your Grados and close your eyes, it can be any color you want.
i always liked bob mould (my frame of context mostly being husker du) but i never gave any of his other stuff a very deep dive. need to go back for this band someday.
it's funny how often LPs are either "we carefully matched the wax to the album art / title / theme" or "this is what the plant had that wasn't black, deal with it". i'm sure i have plenty of both in my collection, but i can't think of any egregiously off-the-mark ones off the top of my head.
i, for one, love the off-the-wall random ones that i pull out for the first time and go "why is it pepto-bismol-vomit colored?".
it's funny how often LPs are either "we carefully matched the wax to the album art / title / theme" or "this is what the plant had that wasn't black, deal with it". i'm sure i have plenty of both in my collection, but i can't think of any egregiously off-the-mark ones off the top of my head.
i, for one, love the off-the-wall random ones that i pull out for the first time and go "why is it pepto-bismol-vomit colored?".
@nikkuneko I once bought Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown xmas on "Festive Green and Red vinyl!"
Someone failed to remember what happens when you mixed green and red together.
I ended up with "chunky holiday diarrhea brown colored!"
Someone failed to remember what happens when you mixed green and red together.
I ended up with "chunky holiday diarrhea brown colored!"
"it's the great plopkins, charlie brown!"
also LOL i really love this level of the design team thinking ahead, @homerj
@dreyfusslugado +++
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screenshot of video: against a purple background, a gift wrapped in a green ribbon and bow is on the right; on the left, text reads "For The Person Who Likes Sex & Violence"
Sax and Violins
@tonyb +++
[Stone Temple Pilots intensifies]
I can’t be the only old fuck who thought of Janes Addiction?
@fisherdah not the only one
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a dense poster diagraming the components of the curta mechanical calculator, a hand-sized cylindrical device with a crank on top. the diagram shows the numerical selector switches along the side, the pins and other moving components within the device, as well as explanatory text (too voluminous to transcribe here at the moment)
someone/something here sent me down a rabbithole that led to learning about the curta, a hand-sized crank-operated mechanical calculator designed by curt herzstark
image source, with tons of resources about the curta:
https://www.vcalc.net
they also sell a poster:
https://www.vcalc.net/poster...
some additional info:
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en...
image source, with tons of resources about the curta:
https://www.vcalc.net
they also sell a poster:
https://www.vcalc.net/poster...
some additional info:
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en...
Saved to https://mltshp.com/volvelle
It shows up in one of Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy, maybe Spook Country. (I just looked it up, and it's the first one, Pattern Recognition.) I initially thought it was invented for the purpose of the book.
@snarkout After reading Ifrah's Natural History of Numbers, I was in the process of costing one of these out on ebay. Then Gibson's book dropped, and they all moved well out of affordability. Dammit!
I have got to play with one once. Imagine if a Leica could do sums ...
I have got to play with one once. Imagine if a Leica could do sums ...
@poorusher I may have pointed you to the pleasantly eccentric Chris Staecker, but I don't remember this particular vid.
Could have been @ardgedee, I was asking about recs for maths adjacent videos via Mastodon.
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CDN media
source: https://www.reddit.com/media...
Only because “SHUT THE FUCK UP” didn’t fit on the card.
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A black bear asleep in an evergreen tree, sprawled so that most of its face is obscured except for the muzzle, seen from the underside.
A black bear has been wandering near the neighborhood for a couple days, and early this morning climbed a tree in my back neighbor's yard and fell asleep. Taken with a zoom lens from a very respectful distance.
We had one in the tree nextdoor for a few days straight a couple years back and one time when I was walking past it it decided to take a big ol' piss and I nearly got golden-showered by a bear.
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Caption of photo showing artist in front of their portrait of Trump: Wendy Chartrand had no idea that her portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, painted using horse manure mixed with water, would attract international attention after it sold at this year's Sooke Fine Arts Show, VIA WENDY CHARTRAND
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Ciudad Juárez, 1892. Juan holds up a burrito and saysỗẠbehold luis, I call it: the burrito." Luis eats it and says "this is delicious Juan, but how on earth does this look like a little donkey?" Juan thinks and surmises "it looks like the ones I grew up with." Juan takes Luis to a field of small, bow-legged cylindrical donkeys who appear to me in great distress. Luis looks on in terror as one of the donkeys repeats
"kill me. kill me."
"kill me. kill me."
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
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An oil portrait of a small brown and white dog with a studded collar on a table. The table has a pink tablecloth. On the table, to the right of the dog, are a large white porcelain cup with a floral design, a broken piece of bread, and what is maybe a biscotti. The dog is slightly plump and has a smug expression.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Dog with a Biscuit and a Chinese Cup by Giovanna Garzoni, 1640s #painting #paintings
Dog with a Biscuit and a Chinese Cup by Giovanna Garzoni, 1640s #painting #paintings
also, hah, this one has the vibe of "i only want to live life, plant potatoes, and dream!"