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Floating wife, happy life
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Everyday cannibalism
massive organ
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a young person takes a photo of the red-and-gold-painted console of a pipe organ in the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ
"The massive red‑and‑gold console of the Chicago Stadium pipe organ now sits in MIM’s United States / Canada Gallery with six manuals and 800 stop tabs. ... Installed at Chicago Stadium in 1929, the organ was the first of its kind in a sports venue."
I absolutely heard this thing in action at the Barnum & Bailey Circus at Chicago Stadium when I was a kid.
"The instrument, which provided the soundtrack for many opening faceoffs and tips, was the largest built by the Maxcy‑Barton Organ Co. The behemoth cost $250,000 in 1929 dollars, nearly $5 million today."
The Musical Instrument Museum is fully worth the visit if you're ever in Phoenix.
source: https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyl...
I absolutely heard this thing in action at the Barnum & Bailey Circus at Chicago Stadium when I was a kid.
"The instrument, which provided the soundtrack for many opening faceoffs and tips, was the largest built by the Maxcy‑Barton Organ Co. The behemoth cost $250,000 in 1929 dollars, nearly $5 million today."
The Musical Instrument Museum is fully worth the visit if you're ever in Phoenix.
source: https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyl...
dphiffer
Also visit: https://organstoppizza.com/
[Phantom of the Opera theme intensifies]
This is worth seeing if you’re ever in San Diego https://balboapark.org/arts-cul...
Thinking Space
what I bring to the conversation
just grocery shopping
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jayne mansfield in an evening gown in front of grocery store pineapple display holding pineapples
Is that Jayne Mansfield?
@0y3ahSansAcut3 You mean hiding behind those pineapples?!?
@m3moellering o b HAVE.
A deer I encountered
Things I’ve learned about Willem
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A sleeping Lagotto Romagnolo pup resting his head on the shiny tube of a chair.
He likes to sleep. A lot.
Blep.
which way is it shifting?
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interior of a british train, looking out the window at a stop. in the foreground is a table with four red seats, a marks & spencer bag on the table, and someone's hands are visible holding a phone. Out the window is a hedge, blue sky, and the signage for the train station that reads "Overton"
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
I sent this to a colleague yesterday. He was irritated.
Well, all this cleverness on the web, and none nearby
Are we not men?
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A street sign: "This dimension protected by houses who walk like men; For more information call: 1-844-517-4445 Ext: 781". The sign hass ome stickers and graffiti. There are three stylized logos of red houses with little feet and an eyeball.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
Art In The Air
Water Caltrops Harvest
Whip
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A cute, futuristic looking car.
https://www.tumblr.com/scavenge...
1960 Zar Car — the only one known to exist. Built in Windsor, Ontario by a tiny startup called Zar Auto of Canada
1960 Zar Car — the only one known to exist. Built in Windsor, Ontario by a tiny startup called Zar Auto of Canada
...Windsor is literally across the river from Detroit and might be the center of Canadian auto manufacture (it was at one time, dunno if it still is), so the location for the startup isn't that weird.
That design tho... It's like a 3D rendering of one of those gestural, cartoonish googie-style magazine illustrations from the period, rather than something designed and built by people with experience making cars.
That design tho... It's like a 3D rendering of one of those gestural, cartoonish googie-style magazine illustrations from the period, rather than something designed and built by people with experience making cars.
It looks like a car that cows would drive in a Gary Larson cartoon.
@ardgedee yup, we made a lot of engines and transmissions in Windsor (aka South Detroit). Not sure how it's doing under fuckhead's trade war, but there are a lot of US-made cars that won't be built if Windsor shuts down
#streetpoker
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My hand holding a card
Pokemon Nosepass, pushes out card titled Region Question with a globe between and the question “by law what does the term ‘reserve’ mean for a U.S. wine?”
#streetpoker
#streetpoker
I googled; is the answer "nothing"?
"nosepass" has got to be burned-out business-bro language for free coke in belize
@snarkout yes
doin’
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meta
@MackReed Rip (them tires) In Peace.
Miss him too, my favorite video is him teaching his teenage daughter how to do donuts:
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
Miss him too, my favorite video is him teaching his teenage daughter how to do donuts:
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
@lamnatos dawwwww.
Me and my mural
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A good friend of mine dropped by and wanted to take my picture.
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tuesday
There Will Come Soft Rains
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A nine-panel comic book grid showing a house in the future. The first panel has the caption, "Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked… memory tapes glided under electric eyes…" and shows a speaker reciting, "Today is August 4, 2026! Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday! Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage! Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas and light bills…" The second panel ("Eight-one o'clock! Off to school! Off to work!") shows an rainy-day exterior of the house with a skull visible on the ground. The house and its environs are the remainder of the page, with no people visible anywhere.
source: https://dochermes.livejournal.com/405625...
"Today is August 4, 2026." Welcome to the future, everyone. From Weird Fantasy no. 17, art by Wally Wood (1953). Whole comic at the link; read about this Ray Bradbury story at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and you can read the story itself here: https://short-stories.co/@raybrad...
"Today is August 4, 2026." Welcome to the future, everyone. From Weird Fantasy no. 17, art by Wally Wood (1953). Whole comic at the link; read about this Ray Bradbury story at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and you can read the story itself here: https://short-stories.co/@raybrad...
The future our billionaires are working toward.
To paraphrase Doctor Who, "where do the eggs come from?"
Personification
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A friend called me a Morton Salt girl recently because I was wearing bright and shiny yellow rain boots. Being from Europe I had never heard of her and was disappointed to find out she wasn’t even wearing boots. But apparently the association between rain and yellow made the boots appear in my friend’s mind.
I, too, had imagined her wearing wellies.
@mare don't think I ever clocked what type of shoes she was wearing and have been seeing this since I was a kid
I did a thing yesterday
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A cyclist on a gravel road at dawn with a misty river in the distance
I am visiting Minnesota for a week. Yesterday was the culmination of my year-long bicycle training and my brother and I rode The DAMn - the day across Minnesota gravel bike race. Starting on the South Dakota border at midnight, Aug 1st we had 24 hours to get across the Wisconsin border on a set course consisting of 80% gravel roads through river bottoms and expansive ag fields.
You got to Wowsville! At least in my estimation!
DAMn that's some serious riding, hope it all went smoothly and you're getting some good rest today. I've done many gravel rides, but the longest was just over half of the DAMn, and nothing at all recently. I'm out for a much shorter and easier ride around Mpls today.
It was awesome getting to explore a part of MN that I've not really spent much time in, @wjcstp. The Minnesota River valley is gorgeous and I had the pleasure of being down in there at misty sunrise. And your bicycling community eats sleeps and breathes "Minnesota Nice" really well. Didn't hurt they offer up a cold pint of Spotted Cow at the finish line too.
from above
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View though the windshield of a small plane just above the clouds under a blue sky
😶🌫️
i see you didn't upgrade the amateurpeller
Lurk.
Lunch
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Bowl of ramen
Niban broth with fresh noodles, tare of mixed fats, tamari, fish sauce and mirin, topped with eel jerky, jalapeno brined egg, and rib meat leftover from last night's grillin', toaster-roasted nori, and nori furikake
DAMNIT
Good golly!
Under the Milky Way tonight
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Nightside view of Earth and Milky Way
Astronaut Don Pettit took this photo from the ISS using a modified tracking camera. See linked comments for more info. Not AI
https://www.threads.com/share...
https://www.threads.com/share...
This is what I’ve always imagined the view to be from Straylight in “Neuromancer.”
@MackReed I can smell the inside of the tug from memory
@MackReed YES! So clear.
And @idogcow, 'Mute be playin' a righteous dub.
And @idogcow, 'Mute be playin' a righteous dub.
I did not know anybody with a truck...
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Can confirm: It is delightful.
One of those moments where you realize you need outsiders explaining you to yourself.
A mltshp post of a Reddit post of a series of Twitter screenshots, marveling over neighborliness.
Meanwhile in 1982
endorse me for "bonafide sludgesicle man" on linkedin
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https://www.kexp.org/media/filer_public/6a/6a/6a6ac083-7fe4-434e-8d54-9006d860c030/michael-stipe-scrummy.gif
per my "adventures of pete & pete" rewatching over the weekend (see: https://mltshp.com/p/1RTSB)
of all the wondrous cameos dotting the series (iggy pop! juliana hatfield! marshall crenshaw! kate pierson!) i had completely blanked on the fact that michael stipe himself popped up in one of the (pre-series) specials - "what we did on our summer vacation", which aired in 1991
also, important addendum, i need that "captain scrummy" cap ASAP
of all the wondrous cameos dotting the series (iggy pop! juliana hatfield! marshall crenshaw! kate pierson!) i had completely blanked on the fact that michael stipe himself popped up in one of the (pre-series) specials - "what we did on our summer vacation", which aired in 1991
also, important addendum, i need that "captain scrummy" cap ASAP
"sludgesicle" is a subgenre of metal that deserves to be invented.
IIRC the band at the school dance is Luscious Jackson.
@ardgedee LOL, would 100% be at the forefront of this very gooey movement