that about sums it up today, yeah

house of

That’s gorgeous.

good luck; i hope it goes well.

i know it's tough navigating these things, especially when you're balancing empathy for an ex and protecting yourself at the same time.

beautiful work, by the way. i think she'll really appreciate it

@m3moellering Thank youuuuu

@nikkuneko Thank you! Because of the chemo, our relationship got under a lot of stress quickly - and our differences probably got even bigger. She said quite a lot of things that hurt me and I truly don't know if it was her or the chemo or anything else. And I didn't see or respect some of her boundaries.

I'm trying to let go and build a new relationship with her, but it's not so easy. (thanks for letting me vent)

As someone who has built some wonderful and meaningful relationships with exes, let me just say that it takes work but it is possible and it’s often tremendously rewarding.

@BennyTheIcepick Oh, I Agree! I have good, if not great relationships with almost all of my exes. This is an outlier. But I have some faith in our mutual willingness.

Lovely all around.

as true today as it was then

A.I. "I can help with that!"

Sounds great!

Also a big fan of Pam Wishbow's art. Love the style so much!

It might be helpful to check https://expressobeans.com/public... from time to time.

So handsome!

whenever i see it spelled "MARIHUANA" i feel compelled to say it out loud in a hank hill voice

@nikkuneko “Cahn-nabis and cahn-nabinoid accessories”

I'm still waiting for my first marijuana orgy...

@tonyb You likely have had many. They're basically a bunch of stoned folks sitting around waiting for the sex to happen and then getting distracted by something else.

I never get invited to the parties where they shoot up marihuana.

It always has been in its way.

I haven't been following and missed that Olivia Jaimes retired from the strip last year, good to see Caroline is continuing the high quality

@wjcstp People seem to think that Jaimes maybe published a book under her real name (which I've already forgotten) and no longer had time to do the comic.

"I saw a job post the other day.

It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI.

I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing.

Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that 'years of experience = skill level'."

https://www.reddit.com/r...

It's been like this forever. I can remember seeing ads in 1997 for programmers with 5 years of Java experience. And ads in 1988 for 10 years of experience in MS DOS.

@ardgedee ++

A More Mellow Monday! That's very welcome here in Crazy-land.

The Parklife greyhounds could not be reached for comment.

Let's go party with the Jar of Flies.

The Blind Melon bees have asked through their manager to be left alone.

(Courtney Barnett enters the chat)

Odelay!

Nice image with the reflections.

🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

@artwells I'm up to playtest if you're looking for anyone. I have both a frustration with sunglasses v. normal glasses and lot of daytime free time as of a bit ago.

@foist it's tricky because the plastic bridge needs to be snug and minimal, or it gets up in your brows and heavy.

I fit these to Courtland Ultra-G from Eyeglass Boy, using Goliath II shade lenses from Fuse. I don't think they'd fit anything else.

I could work with other combos I suppose.

Jeepers peepers, where’d you get those creepers?

Sock/shoe combo on point

@MackReed I came here to say that.

Hotness

y e s

I look forward to never unseeing this.

The old slack logo was better and it's not even close.

@samh Hehehehehehe
@Mr_Encyclopedia +++

I saw something a while back that said it looked just like the desk setup in Severance. And that's all I see now.

@billturner Hehehehehe

I may, or may not, remember that blotter.

If a photographer printed a photo of me or my family out in the wild I can only imagine it would just be the most delightful feeling!

Long view down a narrow alley festooned with Vietnamese flags (a yellow 4-pointed star on a red field) at a woman in a conical straw hat sweeping the pavement between doorsteps and parked motor scooters

Either I can't count or you made a typo.

@rogrtheshrubber Fat-thumbing it here in the rideshare to the airport for the jump to Hanoi.

Which is why it’s in an uneditable comment instead of the alt txt as originally …. yeah.

@0y3ahSansAcut3 i tend to leave my online errors in place to remind myself to stay humble.

Well, really nice picture. A friend told me there is a nice statuary monument to the monk who self immolated during the war, somewhere over there. Have a great trip.

/same

I met Rien Poortvliet, the Dutch artist who painted this, once (he was a friend of my foster family) and he was pretty strange.

@mare I disliked him, for multiple reasons. But my God, could he paint. I've seen a couple of his originals and more than any artist I have ever seen, the colour he used were so reproducible and exactly within the range of printed media that you could not see the difference between reproduction and original art artwork. Unless you came really, really close.

I hate it and it’s brilliant.

Sewing in space, a whole differ'nt thing, but for now...

I want to believe that the spinny handle thing at the bottom has been converted so that it adjusts the brightness.

@dreyfusslugado *

I guess I know what I'll be doing as soon as my wife's sewing room is repainted.

Better screw that thing directly into a stud.

Bukaty is so good. I featured his work from Maine is a photo story a few years back: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo...

@kokogiak Those photos are truly wonderful.

Maine is nice, but that is clearly grass, not pine needles :)

@cristin I just copied over the text, thinking the same thing. The reason I have become indifferent to text, is the glut of it. I read copiously, and at the same time I don't read about half of what I do read, while I am reading it. Off hand mischaracterization has become normal opps in web writing at every level. Inspired partly by the über liars, currently running the show, and the barely literate making a cacophony of comment.

Recipes have become biographies. AI feel-good vignettes of brave and beautiful bikers, rescuing pretty little girls, created with some kind of rosy flesh syrup, wrapped in leather abound, I never saw this faux hero kink coming. With the glut to wade through, the errors are many and increasing. So like the well paid editor is looking at a fine photograph by a very accomplished artist, and misspeaks basic facts about the image. Then I pick the image up because it is great, and leave the descriptive text as is, because I glossed over it, and made the same mistake. It is definitely grass, the writer got paid anyway, and called it pine needles, or, maybe, in Maine, even the grass is pine needles.