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Are we not men?
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.
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.
Me and my mural
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A good friend of mine dropped by and wanted to take my picture.
Jurassic nerdery
Breakfast
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Toast on a plate
Toasted Grand Central Bakery potato sourdough, with alderwood smoked salmon from the Warm Springs reservation (paid a lot extra to help with their fire recovery), freshly boiled eggs from Deck Farms and ground mustard from our garden.
Ground mustard!
I have an unused pepermolen I just found a use for!
I have an unused pepermolen I just found a use for!
@joost I use it on everything particularly when I learned the health benefits
Meet Willem
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A Lagotto Romagnolo pup, white-brown (roan) curly with a brown head and a white streak on his forehead
Our newest member of the household. He’s 8 weeks old and the cutest.
So cute!!!
Very wiggly I bet!
jesus christ what happened to you?
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christ statue face mostly torn up
Your task today
some new-old (old-new?) music next week
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square instagram photo, somewhat low res: OP (left) sitting on a couch, hunched over a nylon string guitar, with one side of a stereo pair of mics in front of him. to his right, a second person fallen asleep on a pile of mic cases on the other side of the couch. behind them is a studio sound diffuser on the wall
something coming down the pipeline, thought i’d let MLTSHP know about it first.
a few months ago, when i moved to a new laptop, i found an intriguing session bounce, labeled only “windmills - nick - acoustic”.
it turned out to be a long, uncut stereo recording of me in 2015, noodling through some song ideas for the windmills drummer while we took a break from recording a full band track. (photographic evidence above; i lulled him to sleep)
in between the noodling, the rambling, and the joking, there were a few songs i played all the way through in somewhat-coherent form. they were rough, but at least somewhat complete, so i thought “why not release ‘em?"
god bless my friend dereck, who engineered the original sessions. (https://www.quiethouserecording.com/) he not only found the original session files in his archives, but he was able to extract them, do some basic mixing/mastering, and turn them into usable tracks in less than an hour. bless him, he’s too good.
so! next week, probably on the next bandcamp friday, i’ll release a few scruffy tracks. listen for free, pay a few bucks for a download if you like ‘em. i’ll consider it motivation to work on new music, which i’ve been kind of missing (and lightly dabbling with again) lately.
will post when they’re out in the wild, but you can keep an eye on my page if you like:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com
a few months ago, when i moved to a new laptop, i found an intriguing session bounce, labeled only “windmills - nick - acoustic”.
it turned out to be a long, uncut stereo recording of me in 2015, noodling through some song ideas for the windmills drummer while we took a break from recording a full band track. (photographic evidence above; i lulled him to sleep)
in between the noodling, the rambling, and the joking, there were a few songs i played all the way through in somewhat-coherent form. they were rough, but at least somewhat complete, so i thought “why not release ‘em?"
god bless my friend dereck, who engineered the original sessions. (https://www.quiethouserecording.com/) he not only found the original session files in his archives, but he was able to extract them, do some basic mixing/mastering, and turn them into usable tracks in less than an hour. bless him, he’s too good.
so! next week, probably on the next bandcamp friday, i’ll release a few scruffy tracks. listen for free, pay a few bucks for a download if you like ‘em. i’ll consider it motivation to work on new music, which i’ve been kind of missing (and lightly dabbling with again) lately.
will post when they’re out in the wild, but you can keep an eye on my page if you like:
https://nmgarcia.bandcamp.com
Backstage Pass
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Photo of a disembodied hand holding a backstage pass that reads :
Styx
AFTER SHOW
2026
AUG 01 2026
With an image of a bird ion the background
Styx
AFTER SHOW
2026
AUG 01 2026
With an image of a bird ion the background
Last night I was pretty much Jenny Wright's character in The Wall—except the old man up past his bedtime version.
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were a star
Wishing secretly you were a star
long light
Marilyn street collage
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A black and white print of a 1954 photograph of Marilyn Monroe, "Ballerina Sitting," Milton Greene, has been cut into 4 or 5 (one of the pieces is upside-down) pieces and left by the stone steps of an apartment building next to some other trash and brown leaves.
my own photo
saved to /marilynmonroe!
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On the Grill at Chez Wells
Buttpoems
Prehistoric Forest, Marblehead, Ohio
today at the Repair Fair
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a 3D printer with a little printed orange boat inside sits on a wooden stage in an old town hall building in front of a painted curtain which has a tableau of the floating bruidge (which is right outside)
I went to help people with tech at the Repair Fair today, It was in Brookfiend Vermont (pop. 900-ish), one town over from where I live which has as its claim to fame, a floating bridge. The event was at the local town hall building which has been lovingly restored including a painted theater curtain which has a view of the floating bridge. I brought my friend Matt and HE brought his 3D printer. Not a lot of people needed tech help but a lot of people had questions about the 3D printer. The whole time I was thinking "Damn, I really should have brought my mending"
workhorse of a printer. only problems I've had with mine is occasional filament breaks inside the AMS which required a annoying amount of disassembly to fix.
I also only use it in local mode, because fuck cloud connected devices that can catch fire.
I also only use it in local mode, because fuck cloud connected devices that can catch fire.
Rest In Plastinstion
All the characters, all the colors...
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A drawing in pencil on paper, it consists of a lot of text and primitively drawn characters. Beyond that, words fail me.
My current project at work is framing works for the upcoming student works show for the local school district. This one was this week's favorite.
I might have to contact the artist and try to purchase it.
I might have to contact the artist and try to purchase it.
Tag yourself
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a list of reasons why employees stated they were fired
from the Chicago Tribune, October 15, 1905.
I'm "Impudent to employer"
I joined the wrong church.
Wash woman objected to me.
blow the magic wiener whistle for the secret song
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vintage ad for oscar meyer with instructions on "How to play the secret little oscar song on the magic wiener whistle"
cut “ocarina of time” content
@nikkuneko , what a lost opportunity
My baloney has a first name it's Z-W-I-B-I-G-N-E-W
My baloney has a second name it's B-R-Z-E-Z-I-N-S-K-I
My baloney has a second name it's B-R-Z-E-Z-I-N-S-K-I
I Want My...
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45 years ago today (1st August) at 12:01 AM
Born 45 years ago. Died...25(?) years ago?
My radio station used this picture/motif for some of our t-shirts...
https://kwmr-radio.myshopify.com/collecti...
They're really comfy t-shirts, just saying
https://kwmr-radio.myshopify.com/collecti...
They're really comfy t-shirts, just saying
VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
5 of Cups
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5 of Cups, for my Feral Path Tarot is finished. Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator. No AI. ©2026 Davezilla. Al rights reserved.
5 of Cups, for my Feral Path Tarot is finished. Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator. No AI. ©2026 Davezilla. Al rights reserved.
Is that the Edmund Fitzgerald?
I have to admit it does look bigger than most big freighters.
@jer Tis! Good eye.
everything everywhere all at once
Ace of Disks
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Another card done for my upcoming Feral Path Tarot: Ace of Disks. Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator. No AI. ©2026 Davezilla. All rights reserved.
This is going to be my favorite deck ever
mfw
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If you haven't read this classic you should:
https://web.archive.org/web...
https://web.archive.org/web...
@ardgedee This is what Peter Thiel stole from us.
@ardgedee oh, this is golden
i read on the internet that
Johnny and Bobby
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Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan posing
Trouble, but a good kinda trouble brewing
I enjoy the clip where they’re sitting together at a piano and Johnny lightly smacks Bob in the chest….Bob’s like “owwww”
215 High Street, Glasgow
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A lone 1890s Victorian building stands on an otherwise empty street with modern buildings in the background.
I want this. ♡♡♡
Reminds me of Chris Hytha's work: https://www.hythacg.com/rowhomes
“inverted spite house”