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So, years ago my oldest bestest friend in the world gave me this wicked cool mug, dedicated to the bestest car show in the world.
For all those years I simply chalked the slogan up to the sort of denigrating label that Ray and Tom Magliozzi might use to describe the sort of idiocy that car mechanics and their customers might indulge when trying to figure out why the damn car was broken.
But I just googled it, and – in this week in my life when I'm about to make a pretty big leap of faith away from startup work and into art – I found it to be much more beautiful and inspirational than that.
Please enjoy this, the Magliozzi bros' joint 1999 MIT commencement address: https://www.awakin.org/v2...
And if you don't know them and you care about cars, here's a great place to catch up: https://www.npr.org/podcasts...
RIP Tom (more than a decade ago)
For all those years I simply chalked the slogan up to the sort of denigrating label that Ray and Tom Magliozzi might use to describe the sort of idiocy that car mechanics and their customers might indulge when trying to figure out why the damn car was broken.
But I just googled it, and – in this week in my life when I'm about to make a pretty big leap of faith away from startup work and into art – I found it to be much more beautiful and inspirational than that.
Please enjoy this, the Magliozzi bros' joint 1999 MIT commencement address: https://www.awakin.org/v2...
And if you don't know them and you care about cars, here's a great place to catch up: https://www.npr.org/podcasts...
RIP Tom (more than a decade ago)
ardgedee
When "Car Talk" was at its peak it could be a masterclass in the analytical/debugging process. I loved the show, not just for the laughs, but because when they got serious, it was amazing to witness them grinding down through the problem. Learned so much from those guys.
I don't like cars. My experiences with car repairs were only out of dire necessity when I didn't have money to pay a mechanic.
I still listened to them every time I could.
Great luck on your jump.
I still listened to them every time I could.
Great luck on your jump.
Don't drive like my brother!
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Maggie and I in the hospital.
it took 45 years, but that bastard appendix finally decided it was done with me. most excruciating amount of pain I've ever had.
I woke up Thursday morning last week with a slight pain in my abdomen, and just chalked it up to gas; so I went about my day, which was a bit of a busy one, I had a few meetings, I had some things to do around the house, and then I had to pick up a kid from school. once I got home, I considered, perhaps.. I may die.. so off to the ER!
I woke up Thursday morning last week with a slight pain in my abdomen, and just chalked it up to gas; so I went about my day, which was a bit of a busy one, I had a few meetings, I had some things to do around the house, and then I had to pick up a kid from school. once I got home, I considered, perhaps.. I may die.. so off to the ER!
Glad you got it taken care of! Rest well.
Feel better soon!
woof! hope you feel better soon.
Speedy recovery!
That's offal! Feel better soon.
oof, glad you made it through that one in one piece! get well soon
Who doesn't need a vestigial body part? _You_ don't!
A very cute appendicitis. I had chronic appendicitis. Mild abdominal pain, came and went for two, three months. Lost 30-40 pounds, which I thought I was just doing really good at low-carb... Then the fevers started to kick in. After a few days of 102+ degrees, decided i should probably go to the ER. They admitted me to the hospital then gave me the option to just take some heavy antibiotics and keep it, so i still have the sucker.
@jxyzn Doctors rubbing hands together: "He'll be back, (chortle).".
@ba 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Feel better soon!
Feel better soon!
speedy recovery!!
@roonie I've wondered that more than once in conjunction with a random lower gut ache...
Oooh boy, I remember that pain... Glad the hard part is over! (Protip: eat yogurt)
Here’s to not dying!
Praise science. I am glad you are safe.
Heal up sooooon
Glad it went quickly and that you didn't die! Here's to a quick recovery!
Hugs to your wife too
Hugs to your wife too
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a woman making a face meme, with the disgusted face opposite text "weird AI music" and the yes I'm interested face has her photoshopped as Weird Al Yankovich opposite the text "Weird Al music"
All abbreviated mentions of artificial intelligence should be required to use a serif font.
Just got me two lawn seats for next summer’s local stop
mother fucking tech stole my name
@bencmeissner ...or stops: A.I.
@heyitsal I feel your pain. We adopted our dog on Nikola Tesla's birthday and she was very, very energetic so we called her Tesla. It was great for about 6-7 years.
Then that fucking asshole Elon Musk came along and absolutely RUINED our dog's name. The most minor of the things he's destroyed, of course, but now we have to verbally attach A Statement About Elon Musk And His Car Company every time we introduce her.
Then that fucking asshole Elon Musk came along and absolutely RUINED our dog's name. The most minor of the things he's destroyed, of course, but now we have to verbally attach A Statement About Elon Musk And His Car Company every time we introduce her.
@d09m4t1c I bought a pair of tickets to his show yesterday!
👏👏👏
The mockementary he made was OOTW
The mockementary he made was OOTW
@williwaw Ha! Your dog has a disclaimer! I love it.
@ardgedee Good point, though I like the idea of people having to switch to Georgia or Baskerville in order to talk about it.
@poorusher AGREED
@williwaw Seems like your dog and I can gripe about the same guy :)
@d09m4t1c @urlnotfound He's going to be at Red Rocks next summer and I'm extremely tempted. It's the cost + 5 hour drive on a Tuesday that's stopping me from immediately grabbing them. :( OTOH, it's Weird Al at fuckin' RED ROCKS man!
@williwaw - oh HELL yeah
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digital illustration: a cat nervously paws at a coffee cup perched near the edge of a table, exaggerated sweat beads around its concerned face.
love her digital illustrations.
published in an NYT piece (which i have not yet read):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025...
artist's site:
https://www.mariajesuscontreras.com/
artist's instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/mariajes...
published in an NYT piece (which i have not yet read):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025...
artist's site:
https://www.mariajesuscontreras.com/
artist's instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/mariajes...
also a fan and never thought to seek her out! thanks for the good rabbit hole!
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The image shows a man sitting at a window. He has a high forehead and a mustache. In his hands is a cup of tea with the string hanging out of it. It is evident from the many little dots that it is snowing, and he is looking outside.
Although my forehead is at least as exposed….
I love Josh Mecouch’s style. I miss when he used to post comics to Formal Sweatpants.
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Illustration of an owl with a large wingspan flying over a snowy city at night.
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Film loop of A dry-erase marker and eraser chasing each other in a circle on a board, infinitely drawing and erasing a circle
Every day at work.
one must first imagine Sisyphus happy
Vibe Coding vs the guy who has to fix the Vibe Coding.
Each generation destroys what the previous generation builds
Mandala
Leonard Nimoy: […] The cosmic ballet goes on.
Marge vs. the Monorail
Marge vs. the Monorail
Again! Again!
Is this what you all mean when you say “pair programming?”
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The first Calvin and Hobbes newspaper strip.
PANEL 1: [Calvin is in the lower right of the panel, wearing a pith helmet and his usual stripey shirt, addressing his dad, who is washing the car] So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!
PANEL 2: [Just Calvin] I rigged a tuna fish sandwich yesterday, so I'm *sure* to have a tiger by now!
PANEL 3: [Calvin's dad turns back to the car, as Calvin turns to depart] Calvin's dad: They like tuna fish, huh? Calvin: Tigers will do *anything* for a tuna fish sandwich.
PANEL 4: [Hobbes, dangling upside down with one foot in the trap, eating a tuna fish sandwich] We're kind of stupid that way.
PANEL 1: [Calvin is in the lower right of the panel, wearing a pith helmet and his usual stripey shirt, addressing his dad, who is washing the car] So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!
PANEL 2: [Just Calvin] I rigged a tuna fish sandwich yesterday, so I'm *sure* to have a tiger by now!
PANEL 3: [Calvin's dad turns back to the car, as Calvin turns to depart] Calvin's dad: They like tuna fish, huh? Calvin: Tigers will do *anything* for a tuna fish sandwich.
PANEL 4: [Hobbes, dangling upside down with one foot in the trap, eating a tuna fish sandwich] We're kind of stupid that way.
source: https://www.gocomics.com/extras...
"Calvin and Hobbes" turned 40 this week. (This strip, the first, is also the origin of the name of the very good Rose Melberg pop band Tiger Trap.)
"Calvin and Hobbes" turned 40 this week. (This strip, the first, is also the origin of the name of the very good Rose Melberg pop band Tiger Trap.)
I recently re-read all my old Calvin and Hobbes books. So good.
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I left FB at the end of last year, but I signed up for this suit while I was there. I can't believe they paid up.
Did you have to use a business profile on Venmo? I had ~$50 from a health plan settlement but the only way I could get it was to setup a business profile which made it not worth it.
@bencmeissner No. There was a sketchy thing about getting the payment though. There weren't any notes about it in any of the emails received from the Facebook lawyers (all of which looked like spam from 1998). I got an email that I was being paid by Venmo, but the money didn't show up, I did some research and for no reason I can understand in a connection between the settlement and Venmo, I had to request a verification of my email address from my Venmo account itself. 30 seconds later I got the payment.
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White Jesus standing behind an older woman playing an organ. He’s saying, “You know, you could sequence this on a modular synth and then your hands would be free to tweak the filter.”
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photograph of the decks (reel-to-reel tape, 8-track tape (?)), mixer, microphone, and phone line at the DJ desk of a radio station
My first radio studio indeed looked a lot like this.
@grantbarrett Same. Missing bulky turntables built into the desk with awkwardly-shaped tonearms. Also we didn't have a reel-to-reel. Used to, before my time, but apparently students kept trashing it through misuse so they gave up.
I love rotary mixers
Cart players always give me warm feeling. And by warm I mean: white hot rage. Maybe the ones at my shoestring station were poorly maintained but those things NEVER worked right. I have so many stories, and they all end with dead air, at best.
@1f2frfbf When I saw Negativland in, I think, '89, one of their first east-coast shows, they had maybe four or five cart machines and racks and racks and racks and racks of carts. Two band members pretty much did nothing but swap and cue carts for the show.
@ardgedee I guess if you have enough driven a/v geeks they are pretty reliable. But my experience: this station had the desk set up backwards - A was broadcast, B was audition, not the most well-run joint.
There was one cart (Heard's Auto Dealership! I still remember!) that would cause some harmonic distortion and I'd have to reset the (Tube! Not solid state! It took time to warm back up!) transmitter. Carts in the hands of incompetents, man.
There was one cart (Heard's Auto Dealership! I still remember!) that would cause some harmonic distortion and I'd have to reset the (Tube! Not solid state! It took time to warm back up!) transmitter. Carts in the hands of incompetents, man.
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The Superb(l) and Açaíb(r) variants, I see.
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4 sections of a mural featuring AI beasts
'..the mural, which is prominently displayed above the Côte Brasserie restaurant on Kingston upon Thames’ Riverside Walk, a popular stretch lined with local businesses, appears to have been hastily generated by an AI, resulting in horridly disfigured people, animals — and even a snowman.'
https://futurism.com/artifici...
https://futurism.com/artifici...
I'm actually a bit nostalgic for this crappy version of AI from yesteryear. It was so bad it was kind of interesting.
@poorusher Same. I enjoyed using AI to generate weird abstractions that couldn't be mistaken for anything other than AI generation. The shit now is no fun, on top of being bad and ethically wrong.
Agreed x2.
There is a headline article in my town newspaper this week about the graphic designer who won the annual "Christmas Stroll" poster contest. Local artists utterly tore apart the applicants winning entry an the somewhat obvious clues that it was AI but the designer has taken a hard stance that it was his own creation although he has refused to produce any proof.
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Nerdy kid at keyboard:
Hi guys, I've noticed that it is International Men's Day today, and I'm confused. Why do we need a day to talk about men? We're not a marginalised group like women, queer people, or people of colour. The media is already full of stories about men.
Big buff shirtless dude at keyboard:
I'm glad you asked, champ. Whatever your view on men's place in society, it's still true that we face a lot of issues - like social isolation, risk of suicide, health problems, and attitudes towards sex and child rearing. Having a day to talk about those doesn't take away from anyone else's problems. In fact, having a day to talk about them helps us be more mindful, and listen better at other times.
Second shirtless buff dude on a couch at his laptop:
The chief here is really on to something. I want to echo what he said, and also point out that the idea we should remain silent about our problems actually contributes to a lot of our issues. We are human beings, with human needs. Seeking mutual support and understanding isn't the same thing as placing a burden on others. Especially if we're providing it for each other.
Third buff dude at his laptop:
Right on, my fellow kings. We've inherited a social legacy of competition and division, and a lot of what makes a man in our era is under question. IMD is a chance for us to examine and rethink what we are together, and build the bonds of solidarity and support that will make a better way possible - like in this meme. Because in our hearts, we're all curious kids and buff guys on keyboards.
Hi guys, I've noticed that it is International Men's Day today, and I'm confused. Why do we need a day to talk about men? We're not a marginalised group like women, queer people, or people of colour. The media is already full of stories about men.
Big buff shirtless dude at keyboard:
I'm glad you asked, champ. Whatever your view on men's place in society, it's still true that we face a lot of issues - like social isolation, risk of suicide, health problems, and attitudes towards sex and child rearing. Having a day to talk about those doesn't take away from anyone else's problems. In fact, having a day to talk about them helps us be more mindful, and listen better at other times.
Second shirtless buff dude on a couch at his laptop:
The chief here is really on to something. I want to echo what he said, and also point out that the idea we should remain silent about our problems actually contributes to a lot of our issues. We are human beings, with human needs. Seeking mutual support and understanding isn't the same thing as placing a burden on others. Especially if we're providing it for each other.
Third buff dude at his laptop:
Right on, my fellow kings. We've inherited a social legacy of competition and division, and a lot of what makes a man in our era is under question. IMD is a chance for us to examine and rethink what we are together, and build the bonds of solidarity and support that will make a better way possible - like in this meme. Because in our hearts, we're all curious kids and buff guys on keyboards.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
via: Scalzi
via: Scalzi
Listen boss, if you could just get over your male exceptionalism, it might be a better planet and you’d feel included in a more empathetic world.
Welcome to my TED Talk.
Welcome to my TED Talk.
Broseph speaks to power.
off-topic, I wonder what their genitalia looks like...
ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ < Hrrg Hrrg my Alphas, you should have all received your International Male catalogs. Let's begin.
@ba so do they
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4 panel cartoon - pink man figure labelled BRAND says Have you seen our new Christmas ad? Yellow mouse says 'I can't afford to eat this month's Man pauses, then says 'We made it with AI'
By @igdoods
https://www.tumblr.com/bruceste...
https://www.tumblr.com/bruceste...
speaking of Xmas ads, has anyone posted this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Bit soppy but fun too.
@roonie Awww. Just my kind of soppy.
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The cover of a comic book, dominated by its title in red and yellow: "NEW GODS". Above that, "Kirby is here! When the old gods died--there arose the..." It shows the character Orio, in a colorful red and blue costume, riding some sort of complicated green space scooter through a black-and-white crosshatched space, with a planet behind him. "Orion fights for Earth!"
source: https://capnscomics.blogspot.com/2020...
Now is the time of monsters. The New Gods no. 1 (1971). #kirbythursday
Now is the time of monsters. The New Gods no. 1 (1971). #kirbythursday
I know I've mentioned this before, but a student of my parents' had four long boxes of golden-age Marvels stored in their attic one summer, and I devoured them all. I had no idea WTF New Gods was, or (through Kirby's bombastic dialogue) WTF was happening in it, but it seemed INSANELY COOL.
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1 - While dad is wiping his car, Calvin, wearing a colonial helmet, tells him "So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!"
2 - Calvin: I rigged a tuna fish sandwich yesterday, so I'm sure to have a tiger by now!
3 - Dad: They like tuna fish, huh?
Calvin: Tigers will do anything for a tuna fish sandwich!
4 - Hobbes, tied by a rope upside down in a tree, eating the tuna fish sandwich: "We're kind of stupid that way. - munch munch"
2 - Calvin: I rigged a tuna fish sandwich yesterday, so I'm sure to have a tiger by now!
3 - Dad: They like tuna fish, huh?
Calvin: Tigers will do anything for a tuna fish sandwich!
4 - Hobbes, tied by a rope upside down in a tree, eating the tuna fish sandwich: "We're kind of stupid that way. - munch munch"
"Exactly 40 years ago today (Nov 18,1985), a 6-year-old & his best friend tiger began exploring the mysteries of childhood with humor (& tuna sandwiches)."
source: https://masto.ai/@cybeard...
source: https://masto.ai/@cybeard...
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Sticker on a small truck's back window, says,"Tell your dog I said hi."
Hello dog!
counterbalanced by the often-seen TELL YOUR CAT I SAID PSPSPS
Also the merchandising slogan for the excellent We Rate Dogs, who do a lot of really good work and also showcase some amusing pups: https://www.youtube.com/@dog_rates
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Screengrab from "Nirvana: Unplugged." Kurt Cobain (seated, his guitar in his lap, a lit cigarette in his hand) is telling someone in the crowd "Shut up."
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A logo that reads "MA±H C%UNT$".
My next punk band: Math Cunts.
Math Coounts
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A bizarre, dark-colored chunk of something hangs in a dismal drab-green and orange vacuum. The something looks like a large fragment of a building or infrastructure; maybe several fragments combined. It has numerous pipes and beams sticking off it at odd angles. Part of it is a large boxy chunk that contains a glowing yellow-green arched window. A figure wearing a suit and tie stands in the window, looking out. Attached to the left side of the box is a tall smokestack. A dish antenna is on top of the box. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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photo of the side of a food truck, with fake brick paneling across the bottom of the screen. above it is a menu whiteboard on which the phrase “EAT OUR ASS” (surrounded by five-point stars) and “12 hours smoked over applewood”
spotted on a long walk in a neighborhood i rarely pass through, just sitting out on the street. let the people have cake, i guess?
edited to add: feel free to mark NSFW if the language is bothersome enough for anyone at work
edited to add: feel free to mark NSFW if the language is bothersome enough for anyone at work
The color options on the left are an interesting marketing choice
What is this, donkey bbq?
Pork butt?
@jessamyn Gotta be.
Funny enough, pork butt is technically the shoulder, so calling it "ass" is a choice unless they're referring to smoked ham, I guess.
Funny enough, pork butt is technically the shoulder, so calling it "ass" is a choice unless they're referring to smoked ham, I guess.
All-
Smoked
Specialties
Smoked
Specialties
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man with a giant bald-eagle's head wearing a blue sportscoat and holding a top secret folder talking in an office with wood-paneled walls. The image is from the tv show "Danger 5"
the caption reads "as always, fuck ICE"
the caption reads "as always, fuck ICE"
A gif I can hear
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Song I've been returning to the better part of my life. I play the 10 minute single version on the radio regularly -
https://www.discogs.com/release...
https://www.discogs.com/release...
100% an automatic-like whenever I hear/see it. A favorite for decades
It's not a song, it's a total vibe.
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a vintage ADAM-12 lunchbox showing a picture of a kid with his head stuck in a fence
it always disturbed me
The fact that I can remember this episode is an indication that I was very disturbed too.
Officer Jim Reed's posture disturbs me.
now that Adam-12 and Emergency! run daily on one of the cable retro channels, I was able to consume a heck of a lot of it while stuck in a dumb bartending/hillbilly casino job for a year where TV watching was suddenly like...necessary. In addition to the absolutely wacky depictions of law enforcement and crime, the game of "where are we in Los Angeles now?" as a former Angeleno is extremely engaging.