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me3dia

we noticed your vibe from across the garden

vintage photograph of a couple wearing matching purple and yellow floral short-sleeved shirts and very short shorts, with scrunched up socks and brown leather shoes. They are standing in front of a lavender and green house, with a flower garden behind them and a small rose bush to their right. They're smiling at the camera, and the woman seems more pleased than the man.
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vintage photograph of a couple wearing matching purple and yellow floral short-sleeved shirts and very short shorts, with scrunched up socks and brown leather shoes. They are standing in front of a lavender and green house, with a flower garden behind them and a small rose bush to their right. They're smiling at the camera, and the woman seems more pleased than the man.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/groovela...
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crazyunclejoe pro an hour ago
I liked it, but I don't like it.
jive_t pro 29 minutes ago
🎶who wears short shorts? 🎶
Davezilla

The Tower

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Not part of my upcoming deck. But accurate af.
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cristin

exactly!

shiny black sticker that says in all caps, "why would I ask ChatGPT when I could ask my local queer ADHD autistic bike mechanic"
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shiny black sticker that says in all caps, "why would I ask ChatGPT when I could ask my local queer ADHD autistic bike mechanic"
Seriously, any bike mechanic will have better answers than an algorithm.
if they are queer and neurospicy, the answers will be even better!

source: https://mastodon.social/@kayseri...
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samh pro 3 hours ago
This is awesome! I'm sending this to my queer, ADHD, autistic bike mechanic friend, Mason right now.
csilverman

nervous energy

A person stands on a rocky promontory under an eerie green night sky. Blazing down upon them is a fireball of green, yellow, and white. It's either a comet approaching them, or an enormous amount of energy they are releasing into the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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A person stands on a rocky promontory under an eerie green night sky. Blazing down upon them is a fireball of green, yellow, and white. It's either a comet approaching them, or an enormous amount of energy they are releasing into the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
#notesArt
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urlnotfound

getting phở-cked up in San Jose

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I needed to go to San Jose for work. I just finished a12 hour day with a UAT kickoff with two separate presentations to cover time zones. Several marathon meetings on New with requirement gathering, and fixing a bunch of issues the users reported already.

I'm about to feast at Pho Bel Air.
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ang pro 14 hours ago
In front of pho in San Jose is a happy place to be.
m3moellering 5 hours ago
Decent pho is one of the dishes I miss most about not living on the West coast.
ffg pro 2 hours ago
@m3moellering the are “phở islands” in the oddest places sometimes, though. When I was living in Madison Heights (Michigan) there were three decent places serving it within walking distance of my apartment.
snarkout

The Problem We All Live With

Norman Rockwell's oil painting "The Problem We All Live With", showing a young Black girl carrying her books and a yellow ruler, wearing a white dress and sneakers, walking on a sidewalk past a wall covered by a large racial slur and the remnants of a hurled tomato. In front of and behind her are four white men in gray and tan suits and yellow "Deputy US Marshall" armbands escorting her; the composition is such that they are visible only from the chest down. Rockwell's signature is at the bottom center of the painting.
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Norman Rockwell's oil painting "The Problem We All Live With", showing a young Black girl carrying her books and a yellow ruler, wearing a white dress and sneakers, walking on a sidewalk past a wall covered by a large racial slur and the remnants of a hurled tomato. In front of and behind her are four white men in gray and tan suits and yellow "Deputy US Marshall" armbands escorting her; the composition is such that they are visible only from the chest down. Rockwell's signature is at the bottom center of the painting.
source: https://magazine.byu.edu/article...

Yesterday was Ruby Bridges' 72nd birthday; she's still alive and living in Louisiana and still working for civil rights. The past isn't dead; it isn't even past.

#painting by Norman Rockwell, 1964. #paintings
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cristin pro 20 hours ago
I was so lucky to have been able to see this painting last month, it is currently on loan to the lucas museum in los angeles.

powerful painting of a powerful girl who became an amazing woman.
snarkout pro 5 hours ago
It's worth noting, on the same point, that Barbara Henry, the Bostonian teacher at William Frantz Elementary School who was the only teacher willing to have Bridges in her classroom (having had experience teaching integrated classrooms to children in the military), is also still alive at 94. She spent every morning of the 1960-1961 teaching Bridges and Bridges alone, because every white child transferred classes. Here's a photo of them in 2014: https://i.guim.co.uk/img...
semillama

Nigerian food in Columbus

A plate of delicious jollof rice, fried plantains, and riast goat
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A plate of delicious jollof rice, fried plantains, and riast goat
We live in the northeast part of Columbus, which is where a lot of immigrants set up shop. Found this place on Cleveland Ave, Pat's Delicious African Restaurant. It is real-deal Nigerian food. It felt like going to someone's Nigerian mom's house for dinner. Give it a try if you are in town!
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cwhartman pro 4 hours ago
I'll put that one on our list!

I'm constantly impressed by the variety of amazing food we have around Columbus, especially in that part of the city. Last year my wife came up with an "eat through the alphabet" idea where we pick a restaurant or cuisine style starting with a different letter of the alphabet every week. We found some great places, and it was no problem finding something for each letter. One of the favorites was Brazilian Grill & Bakery, also on Cleveland Ave.
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Argie pro 10 hours ago
Find yourself somebody who doesn't look at you like Robert F Kennedy Jnr looks at Cheryl Hines.

Clearly lizard people
roonie

They keep me young

Pic of grandchildren on a slide.
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Pic of grandchildren on a slide.
I'm 70 now
These two keep me on my toes.
Embiggen for fun verging on panic.
Did I mention 70?
Mrs Roonie and I are off to Italy for 3 weeks to sort of celebrate.
Changing planes in Doha. Views of the scenic Straits of Hormuz. What could possibly go wrong?
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roonie

Miss Determined, the daredevil

Photo of a toddler on a rope climbing playground.
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Photo of a toddler on a rope climbing playground.
Lydia is 2.
She is brave and tries to keep up with her older brother.
I love them both dearly and want to keep them safe. I also know that you have to let them experiment, have fun and graze an occassional knee.
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urlnotfound pro Yesterday
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
bencmeissner pro Yesterday
@urlnotfound 100%. I like that phrasing.
urlnotfound pro Yesterday
@bencmeissner It was on a poster than hung in my classroom when I was in the fourth grade (age 9-10). It is a quote from some person of note.
wmo pro Yesterday
i come from the hot stove school of education... you tell them that it is hot and let them figure out what that means.
thelonius 19 hours ago
I went to check out a street closure fair in Carrboro a couple of years before the pandemic. They had all kinds of stuff, and one of those things was a climbing wall. These two little girls, maybe 7 or 8, were just flying up that thing, totally fearless, like about 40 feet in the air. It was impressive.
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scruss

Very sneaky, VoxPop Labs ...

survey question:

Most modern theories of decision making recognize that decisions do not take place in a vacuum. Individual preferences and knowledge, along with situational variables can greatly influence the decision-making process. To facilitate our decision-making research, we are interested in knowing certain factors about you. Specifically, we are interested in whether you actually take the time to read directions. To demonstrate that you have read these instructions, please select only \u201creading instructions\u201d from the list below, instead of any of your actual hobbies.
Fishing
Watching movies
Gardening
Reading instructions
Walking
Exercising
Listening to music
Other (please specify)
None of the Above
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survey question:

Most modern theories of decision making recognize that decisions do not take place in a vacuum. Individual preferences and knowledge, along with situational variables can greatly influence the decision-making process. To facilitate our decision-making research, we are interested in knowing certain factors about you. Specifically, we are interested in whether you actually take the time to read directions. To demonstrate that you have read these instructions, please select only \u201creading instructions\u201d from the list below, instead of any of your actual hobbies.
Fishing
Watching movies
Gardening
Reading instructions
Walking
Exercising
Listening to music
Other (please specify)
None of the Above
I saw what you did there
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roonie pro 18 hours ago
All of the above, except Fishing and Reading Instructions.
Other: You can't tell me what to do.
hertz pro 17 hours ago
Joke's on you VoxPop Labs! Reading instructions was *already* my favourite way to avoiding addressing my crippling self doubt
jessamyn pro 12 hours ago
@hertz Saaaaaame!
semillama

Installing the new front wildflower bed

A garden bed in progress, waiting for soil, mulch, and plants
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A garden bed in progress, waiting for soil, mulch, and plants
Knocking off a few yard goals here: less lawn, more space for native plants, and I hate mowing under the Redbud tree.
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samh pro 16 hours ago
Team less lawn high five!
0y3ahSansAcut3

In Patagonia

In Patagonia, Chile, a tree perpetually bent by persistent winds.
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In Patagonia, Chile, a tree perpetually bent by persistent winds.
Pie Aerts’s striking images of horsemen who live an extremely solitary existence reveal hidden stories of loneliness, alcoholism and a fading heritage

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...

#photography #PieAerts
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scruss

Aww yiss!

Nottinghamshire Police A mountain bike which has been customised with rudimentary wiring, a battery held on by tape and a small, solid back wheel.
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Nottinghamshire Police A mountain bike which has been customised with rudimentary wiring, a battery held on by tape and a small, solid back wheel.
source: https://www.bbc.com/news...
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samh pro 17 hours ago
Super mullet
davidl pro 16 hours ago
Penny farthing?
LocalStain pro 15 hours ago
/sweetjumps
MackReed pro 15 hours ago
Police undercover vehicle?
travis pro 15 hours ago
that pedal looks like a rendering error
0y3ahSansAcut3 12 hours ago
Low clearance.
hertz pro 9 hours ago
@travis the daily grind
travis pro an hour ago
lol @hertz ++
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MackReed

earlier

Panoramic photo of a crowd gathered on a dusty desert beneath a stormy sky before a massive stage set made of two immense wooden sculptures representing the SS Titanic ripped in half by an iceberg.

An orchestra of 30 or 40 musicians sits on risers in the left half of the sculpture, and a few dozen choir singers in white clothing stand on the right half. 

The white-bearded photographer of the image is seen at far right in an aluminum firefighter’s helmet and red kerchief.
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Panoramic photo of a crowd gathered on a dusty desert beneath a stormy sky before a massive stage set made of two immense wooden sculptures representing the SS Titanic ripped in half by an iceberg.

An orchestra of 30 or 40 musicians sits on risers in the left half of the sculpture, and a few dozen choir singers in white clothing stand on the right half.

The white-bearded photographer of the image is seen at far right in an aluminum firefighter’s helmet and red kerchief.
It was the best of the burns, it was the worst of burns.

Gorgeous times and a lot of hard work (building the observation tower for Hobo Camp, six 6hr shifts on Gate/Perimeter/Exodus) and a suicidal shortage of sleep wrapped around a gooey core of deep conversations with old friends (👊@zeitgeist) and new acquaintances - and three straight days of utterly shit weather.

Bonus: I got to join the Playa Choir (https://playachoir.com - right, and me at far right) and the Black Rock Philharmonic (https:/blackrockphilharmonic.org - left) to perform “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s Requiem atop the tippy-top of the vertiginous risers out at “Titanic’s End” for an audience of easily 1,200 people in a stiff dust storm.

I thought it was pretty epic … until El Pulpo Magnifico (center) rolled up to play propane percussion, somebody started triggering the two gut-punchingly colossal flame poofers in the Titanic’s funnels, and the whole scene went straight off the hook and into fking orbit.

Re-entry right now 5 days later in a dusty, trash-filled car heading north towards Seattle past the asphalt stench of road crews repaving I-5 is kinda … awful by comparison.

I still can’t entirely believe I got to do that.
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m3moellering Yesterday
Epic.
heyitsal pro Yesterday
That's all exceedingly cool and exciting, but I am awaiting some answers about a certain mythical creature's underwear?
bug138 Yesterday
Memories of the early days when they used to do an opera
MackReed pro Yesterday
@heyitsal uhhhh … wha?

@bug138 Yep, those were equally nuts - a costumed cast of hundreds dancing around blazing 25-foot/high flame chimneys built from rebar and playa mud. (Ref: http://www.burningmanopera.org/)
heyitsal pro 16 hours ago
@MackReed https://mltshp.com/p/1RUVW
MackReed pro 15 hours ago
Hah! Came home with a head cold and my brain is mud rn.

I joined Hobo Camp. We built a Petticoat Junction water tower atop our shipping container and draped the massive chonies (along w a couple of petticoats) over the sides.

Chuckles were had.
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bencmeissner

Powderhorn Park

Various trees lit by the morning sun against a blue sky with small clouds in it. The whole scene is reflected, and slightly blurred, in the water below.
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Various trees lit by the morning sun against a blue sky with small clouds in it. The whole scene is reflected, and slightly blurred, in the water below.
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wjcstp pro Yesterday
that tree looks like a giant green Scotty walking on the water
Argie

Lucky Fried Grandma Skewers

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mcmjolnir pro Yesterday
Not lucky for her
jaybee

This Is Fine

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via: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim...
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MackReed pro 15 hours ago
Can we also get a graph of Elon flowing disinformation into the election season using the voter data that DOGE stole during the 2025 criming season? We’ll need to nip that in the bud if we ever hope to combat global warming from the US.

kthxbai
Mr_Encyclopedia pro 14 hours ago
I used to read the ENSO blog on noaa.gov that regularly posted writeups about the current predictions and possible future outcomes. It went away thanks to DOGE cuts, and just in time for a record-breaking La Niña
williwaw pro 13 hours ago
*grimly* I'm doing a lot of [redacted for self-doxing] research which involves this and because of what I'm seeing I'm so scared of what's happening and what's GOING to happen that I've literally been VOMITING out of fear. I've lost 10 pounds. I can't sleep. And I've never seen my colleagues this frightened, either. This El Nino is SO BAD. And to top it off with the way this ridiculous war is affecting fertilizer/diesel. . . .
williwaw pro 13 hours ago
But maybe on the plus side we're going to find out what it's like living in a 2+C world as a result of this El Nino, and maybe, just maybe, that might spur some action.
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artwells

all shag everything

catalog featuring a bathroom with shag carpet and uncleanable textured surfaces
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catalog featuring a bathroom with shag carpet and uncleanable textured surfaces
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Superyeti 20 hours ago
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF MY GRANDMOTHER'S BATHROOM
octaneTom pro 20 hours ago
Imagine the smell
Superyeti 19 hours ago
Even the colored toilet paper.
Argie pro 17 hours ago
@octaneTom imagine the damp, moist, texture
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scruss

oneko -tora

a small blocky striped cat runs to the right
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a small blocky striped cat runs to the right
while I can run oneko on this computer and rock it like a 90s Sun workstation, the little cat is far too small to see

source: https://xoxo.zone/@scruss...
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bitslayer 23 hours ago
I love that cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
roue 22 hours ago
I worked for a college and managed their web server. One april fools day I modified the config to inject javascript time that would plant oneko on the page chasing the user's mouse ~1% of the time for on-campus users. There'd been some windows virus in the news around the same time and I was asked to take it out pretty quickly. Ah well.
scruss pro 19 hours ago
@roue best of intentions, worst of timing
Argie

We Saw You From Across The Valley

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Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney. 'City Streets'. 1931
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BennyTheIcepick pro 12 hours ago
Super duper!
0y3ahSansAcut3 12 hours ago
I'll have what she's having!
jessamyn

58

Me wearing a sweatshirt that says "Read books. Drink coffee. Fight evil."
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Me wearing a sweatshirt that says "Read books. Drink coffee. Fight evil."
I'm down at my sister's place for my birthday, being an extra set of hands while she recovers from surgery (she's doing well! it's a weird bone thing not a "get the cancer out" thing) and we did a very low key birthday hang here. Jim got me this sweatshirt and I really like it.
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vosechu pro 4 days ago
Congratulations!

But also, what’s the story with the weird wooden device clearly meant to torture cats behind you?
wjcstp pro 4 days ago
Happy birthday. I’m just a few weeks older, 58 is alright.
jessamyn pro 4 days ago
@vosechu It's a large loom with a small cat tunnel in front of it.
crazyunclejoe pro 4 days ago
Happy birthday, @jessamyn! You are an amazing human, and I’m glad to know you!
Sailormom pro 4 days ago
Happy Birthday!
samh pro 4 days ago
🎂
Argie pro 4 days ago
Happy birthday and I hope my card arrived safely 😊
caitlinburke pro 4 days ago
@vosechu considering how much my cats hated being extricated from my weaving, “device to torture cats (by not letting them inside it)” is exactly right!
roonie pro 4 days ago
Happy Birthday
Great Shirt!
B6FA798A3449 pro 4 days ago
Many happy returns of the day!
0y3ahSansAcut3 4 days ago
Happy Birthday!
joost 4 days ago
Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!
m3moellering 4 days ago
Happy bidet!
niicholas 4 days ago
Buon compleanno!
wombatman70 4 days ago
I am happy you are here. Keep it up! Happy birthday times!
Lockjaw pro 3 days ago
Happy birthday!
bezt pro 3 days ago
🦛🦜
ellieBOA 3 days ago
Happy birthday!
pheezy 2 days ago
Happy Birthday!!
david_adams 2 days ago
It's kind of cool how reading books and fighting evil tend to correlate.
readery 2 days ago
Looking good!
Happy birthday!!
jessamyn pro Yesterday
@Argie I just got home and got my mail after a few weeks of being at my sister's and it was there, thank you! The funny joke is that of the two of us, she's the llama fanatic but the person on the card looks a lot more like me. Thank you :D
Argie pro Yesterday
@jessamyn hahaha just covering all bases 😁
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artwells

euphemism

Ad for the Coney Island Steamer, a hot dog cooker, with Shirley Jones
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Ad for the Coney Island Steamer, a hot dog cooker, with Shirley Jones
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nikkuneko pro Yesterday
"a gentleman never kisses and tells, but i will suggest that a coney island steamer was on the table"
snarkout pro Yesterday
This morning
I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it
And didn't I go and shout it
When you walked into my room
"I want a hot dog!"
(I want a hot dog.)
ba pro 22 hours ago
@nikkuneko +1
corbie 22 hours ago
mmm, just like they make them in Albany
samh pro 21 hours ago
Hello, Cleveland!
roonie pro 17 hours ago
@snarkout ****
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snarkout

Labor Day

The Ricardo Levins Morales "8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will" poster, only done as a Nancy comic by Caroline Cash (work is drawing Nancy comics, apparently; what we will is being rowed in a boat by Sluggo while reading a union newspaper).
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The Ricardo Levins Morales "8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will" poster, only done as a Nancy comic by Caroline Cash (work is drawing Nancy comics, apparently; what we will is being rowed in a boat by Sluggo while reading a union newspaper).
source: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy...
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LocalStain

me_irl

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caitlinburke pro 13 hours ago
Highly relatable!
scruss

far too many Chris Yaneff logos

a grid of 12 striking typographic logos:

Newman Steel - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas - Chris Yaneff
Cooper - Chris Yaneff
Commodore - Chris Yaneff
The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Canada Trust - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Fisons Canada - Chris Yaneff
Towers Merchants - Chris Yaneff
Blue Mountain Pottery - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Association of Canadian Distillers - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Thomas I. Hull - Chris Yaneff
Rogers Broadcasting - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
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a grid of 12 striking typographic logos:

Newman Steel - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas - Chris Yaneff
Cooper - Chris Yaneff
Commodore - Chris Yaneff
The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Canada Trust - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Fisons Canada - Chris Yaneff
Towers Merchants - Chris Yaneff
Blue Mountain Pottery - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Association of Canadian Distillers - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
Thomas I. Hull - Chris Yaneff
Rogers Broadcasting - Chris Yaneff, Manfred Gotthans
not shown: Conko the Clown, the scary geometric clown used at The Ex midway, because it's more than one colour.

source: https://logobook.com/designer...
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LocalStain

🌞

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bencmeissner pro Yesterday
What a lovely photo😊
LocalStain pro Yesterday
@bencmeissner Thanks Ben!

It was a lovely morning and a fitting end to one of the longest weeks I've had in a long time.

Be well.
robotmachine

 

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waa

ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ and ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ

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A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.

Nearly two millennia ago, a wealthy Roman commissioned an intricate, multicolored floor mosaic that depicted two beloved household animals: a cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean. The mosaic was a key feature of a villa, which archaeologists recently unearthed from beneath the ancient city of Adramytteion on Turkey's Aegean coast.

The impressive villa included three mosaic-paved halls, a number of secondary rooms, and a network of pipes and drains that may have connected to a latrine. Visitors approaching from the courtyard of the villa would have been greeted by the largest, most elaborate mosaic in the residence.

Only two of the animals depicted in the mosaic are named. As someone entered the room, the first mosaic panel they would have seen to their left was a pale cat seated on a blue-green cushion. Above the cat are the Greek letters ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ (Zmaragdin), meaning emerald. The relaxed cat sitting on a cushion suggests that Emerald may have been a pet rather than a stray.

On the right side as someone entered the room was a mosaic panel depicting a running or leaping dog. This animal is labeled with the Greek letters ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ (Okeanos), meaning ocean.

Emerald and Ocean were likely familiar to the villa's residents, even if they weren't specifically pets.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/archaeol...

#roman #archaeology
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scruss pro 2 days ago
at least they're better drawn than The Wonky Wolf of Aldborough — https://mltshp.com/p/1QPU4
mcmjolnir pro 2 days ago
@scruss but we all love Wonky Wolf
gwint

Calder's studio circa 1955

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Roxbury, CT
via https://www.nytimes.com/2026...
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