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A red text-based public artwork by Frank Riot displayed in a JCDecaux advertising panel outside Holborn Station in London, UK. The poster reads: "When you've got rid of all the mosques but the costs of life still rise and you'e built your fortressed borders but the NHS still dies and the Muslims are all gone and your town's a wall of white but corporate vultures are still pillaging every facet of our lives who will you blame then? What will you have gained? A badge for barbarism against a backdrop of decay." Pedestrians walk past the bus shelter on a busy city street.
dreyfusslugado
Oh, there will be no lack of scapegoats.
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square phone pic: a closeup of a light blue shirt and royal blue hoodie, folded so their logos are adjacent. the light blue shirt has the cursive MLKSHK logo, and the royal blue has the MLTSHP deelux logo.
happy anniversary, you weirdos!
on this day in 2017, we went live thanks to the time and energy of so many wonderful people.
nine insane-assed years later, MLTSHP is still a source of daily joy, support, and discovery for me. i have art, music, and goodies from MLTSHPers all over my home. i’ve shared meals and adventures with many of y’all; i’ve commiserated and goofed with even more of y’all. here’s to many more.
(BTW, i happened to wear my lovely ol’ MLKSHK shirt to the farmers market this morning. tried to get a selfie in it for my celebratory post, but i was not lookin’ particularly sassy. instead you get an even older MLKSHK shirt and said beloved hoodie sans me. the hoodie and a bunch of other great stuff designed by heyitsal is still up in the webstore:
https://mltshp-store.creator-spring.com
for shits ’n’ giggles, my first post after we went live:
https://mltshp.com/p/1BFXC
on this day in 2017, we went live thanks to the time and energy of so many wonderful people.
nine insane-assed years later, MLTSHP is still a source of daily joy, support, and discovery for me. i have art, music, and goodies from MLTSHPers all over my home. i’ve shared meals and adventures with many of y’all; i’ve commiserated and goofed with even more of y’all. here’s to many more.
(BTW, i happened to wear my lovely ol’ MLKSHK shirt to the farmers market this morning. tried to get a selfie in it for my celebratory post, but i was not lookin’ particularly sassy. instead you get an even older MLKSHK shirt and said beloved hoodie sans me. the hoodie and a bunch of other great stuff designed by heyitsal is still up in the webstore:
https://mltshp-store.creator-spring.com
for shits ’n’ giggles, my first post after we went live:
https://mltshp.com/p/1BFXC
i need more of youse artwork fuckers
I think I still have the black on black shirt
I know I still have the black on black shirt
We should try to organize something for the 10th anniversary, maybe a global MLTUP day?
@wjcstp a great idea; i would love that!
Out of curiosity, when did MLKSHK launch?
@BennyTheIcepick i can’t remember an exact date, but i remember it being in beta late 2010 or early 2011? i think it did publicly launch in 2011
I know I discovered it at my first job, which I left in 2012, so your timeline fits with that.
@nikkineko @BennyTheIcepick I was going to say it was already a habit of mine when I started a job in 2011. I decided to check!
Archive.org has:
May 17, 2010
Two bad gateway captures. Probably Andre et al beginning work
https://web.archive.org/web...
February 2, 2011
An opening soon page:
https://web.archive.org/web...
May 23, 2011
First result with an open sign up page
https://web.archive.org/web...
As a whole, our 15th is one week away!
Archive.org has:
May 17, 2010
Two bad gateway captures. Probably Andre et al beginning work
https://web.archive.org/web...
February 2, 2011
An opening soon page:
https://web.archive.org/web...
May 23, 2011
First result with an open sign up page
https://web.archive.org/web...
As a whole, our 15th is one week away!
ps: Donate to Archive.org, who made this possible: https://archive.org/donate...
@pk ah, thank you for the sleuthing! to pin it down. (and for the donation link, that is important!)
i knew it was still in beta when i started posting (jan. 2011) and that other pilers had been using it for image embeds for a few months before i asked for an invite, but could not pin down better dates. i appreciate that framework!
i knew it was still in beta when i started posting (jan. 2011) and that other pilers had been using it for image embeds for a few months before i asked for an invite, but could not pin down better dates. i appreciate that framework!
pps: their blog shows they were open for some by the end of 2010: https://web.archive.org/web...
I know we could just ask them, but this is the way of the internet
I know we could just ask them, but this is the way of the internet
Still awesome.
My stealth shirt is so stealthy I cannot find it in my pile of dark tshirts
Y'all rule.
Never forget: https://mltshp.com/mlkshktheme
Been lurking around since the mlkshk days and so grateful.
Thanks to all who make this work. This place has been one of my internet homes since early mlkshk.
15 years?? Wow
Plate of shrimp: I grabbed my old mlkshk stealth logo tee to wear today for the first time in at least a couple of years.
BTW, I love y'all, but we need a member drive.
BTW, I love y'all, but we need a member drive.
@foist we've talked about membership drives in the past but it's never really solidified into anything. it would be good to get the conversation going again, see if we can capitalize on the growing demand for "unenshittified" web communities.
I also still have that black on black shirt. it's wonderful.
@foist Someone needs to build the code for a "have an account, give an account" widget. I think Al has the designs ready to go. I'd love to do that. Also let's be clear: we are fine with money. A member drive would just be to get new folks in here, share the love etc. <3 everyone.
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an e-ink display at a supermarket donut display, showing NaN (not a number) in large letters. in the bottom corner in smaller text, it reads "NaN per LB"
local supermarket chain likes to use these e-ink price tags, which occasionally leads to pure magic.
Priceless
NaN is the price on the contract that Satan hands you with a brimstoney flourish
Means they're free, then
Baked fresh by
So go up to the counter and ask them what the change is if you pay with your grandmother.
It just means you have to pay in "favors"
Not flat enough to be naan
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black and white photograph of a bull bison standing on snow.
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Kinda wish I'd had something like this when I was younger.
Too many years of taking the bus and having my Walkman (remember those?) cranked up to high volume to overcome the roar of the bus engine.
There was one bus driver who told me not to listen to music on the bus, but I think it was because he was an asshole, not out of any concern for my ears. Like, somehow he could hear the sound from my headphones over the sound of the bus.
Nowadays, everything I hear us underscored by a tinnitus "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". :(
Too many years of taking the bus and having my Walkman (remember those?) cranked up to high volume to overcome the roar of the bus engine.
There was one bus driver who told me not to listen to music on the bus, but I think it was because he was an asshole, not out of any concern for my ears. Like, somehow he could hear the sound from my headphones over the sound of the bus.
Nowadays, everything I hear us underscored by a tinnitus "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". :(
@dreyfusslugado same, but i think mine is more a mix of live rock shows and not enough ear protection around power tools
Reminds me tangentially of a thing I saw recently about a kid who always complained that the hand dryers in bathrooms hurt her ears. She eventually went in and measured the decibels in a whole bunch of bathrooms and discovered that they were, in fact, dangerously loud. Silly kids these days, valuing their health and safety! 😂
They used to have us do annual hearing screenings when I worked at a pipe factory. There's nothing like sitting in a dark, quiet room with headphones on to really make the tinnitus sing. I also, somehow, consistently aced those things.
@dreyfusslugado Nope. Fuck this, fuck this, may it burn in hell and whoever came up with it suffer tinnitus the rest of their days.
My phone throws this alert up regularly while I listen to podcasts, which is almost always while the volume is at its lowest possible setting. I am inclined to believe it will throw this alert even if the volume is muted, but haven't felt arsed enough to try.
This alert only comes up when I have a headphone adaptor plugged into the USB port. It has never popped up when I'm using wireless. Which is usually with the phone's volume setting entirely maxed out. (and volume controlled independently by the bluetooth device)
The alert is accompanied by a loud BWONG which momentarily drowns out the boring people I was listening to talking. It is a pointless widget that exists only to drive people to buy expensive wireless headsets.
I hate it. It is beyond worthless. It has to die.
My phone throws this alert up regularly while I listen to podcasts, which is almost always while the volume is at its lowest possible setting. I am inclined to believe it will throw this alert even if the volume is muted, but haven't felt arsed enough to try.
This alert only comes up when I have a headphone adaptor plugged into the USB port. It has never popped up when I'm using wireless. Which is usually with the phone's volume setting entirely maxed out. (and volume controlled independently by the bluetooth device)
The alert is accompanied by a loud BWONG which momentarily drowns out the boring people I was listening to talking. It is a pointless widget that exists only to drive people to buy expensive wireless headsets.
I hate it. It is beyond worthless. It has to die.
Agree, it is highly inaccurate in my own experience
Incidentally, there's a setting for this in the Settings app. When you click on it, you'll see there is no way to turn it off. All it does is tell you how many times the alert was generated over the past 6 months.
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tet an cartoons from a diner paper placemat:
"UH Oh! The crossing guard is telling a story from their youth! Circle an old-timey artifact to distract them with!
two small round confused creatures are at left, while an arm with crossing guard sign extends from the right with speech bubble "... I remember when the Internet was invented ..."
There are drawings of a CD-ROM, a 5¼" floppy disk, a flip phone, a VHS tape and a disposable camera.
"UH Oh! The crossing guard is telling a story from their youth! Circle an old-timey artifact to distract them with!
two small round confused creatures are at left, while an arm with crossing guard sign extends from the right with speech bubble "... I remember when the Internet was invented ..."
There are drawings of a CD-ROM, a 5¼" floppy disk, a flip phone, a VHS tape and a disposable camera.
Real placemat from IHOP intended as marketing ragebait, with what's almost certainly AI generated art. They have another one teaching the youth of today how to draw the Cool S. "Fun fact: The S Thing was really popular in the 1900s!"
Pretty funny
I very much like this. But shouldn't it be Lollypop?
@m3moellering As far as I know, Lollipop Person is very much an Oz/UK/Ireland thing.
If this is AI, it is at least AI being used by an actual graphic designer. The text is legit typefaces and not AI generated slop.
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Thanks I hate it
Death to fascists and their enablers.
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"... and now we have an AI app on our phone that humiliates us for a monthly fee! Progress!"
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More than 350 years after his death, Galileo’s middle finger is displayed at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.
Since the Catholic Church put him under arrest for the last nine years of his life—for stating the earth orbits the sun—it’s fitting his middle finger is on display.
https://www.threads.com/@rodthor...
Since the Catholic Church put him under arrest for the last nine years of his life—for stating the earth orbits the sun—it’s fitting his middle finger is on display.
https://www.threads.com/@rodthor...
Serious question: it makes sense as a quip *now*, though 350 years ago what was the significance of the middle finger?
@hertz Galileo wanted to be buried in the same basilica as his father, but because of his Heliocentrism, the Catholic Church thought people would be scandalized, so instead, they buried him in a heretic grave. About a century later, they DID move his remains to the basilica, and a few people attending that transfer were interested in matters of science, and took pieces of his remains as “relics.” it wasn’t just his middle finger… His index finger and thumb were lopped off, too (among other bits). The person who took his fingers said at one pint that it was because such wonderful things had been written with them. Eventually the various parts were given/sold to others, so this lone digit ended up apart from the others. Flipping the bird is a convenient application of modern cultural significance. Fitting!
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in this Perry Rhodan nr. 1010 'Der Computermensch' cover illustration by Johnny Bruck, a man who to me looks an awful lot like Robert de Niro in 'The Deer Hunter' is strapped to a machine that resembles the memory implant device from the 1990 film 'Total Recall.'
source: https://www.flickr.com/photos...
With tiny face...
Johnny Bruck, the workhorse illustrator of the Perry Rhodan series.
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2025...
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2025...
Ich bin ein Komputermensch
I too work with computer
Ich bin der Erbe des Universums ebenfalls!
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9 McDonalds cups with global village coffeehouse illustration of a burger, fries, and Ronald McDonald Foundation logo printed on the side. All are arranged on a wooden floor. This is clearly a Facebook Marketplace listing photo.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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A scene that looks like a clumsily assembled stage set. Two-dimensional colored stars hang from strings against a blue-purple canvas. The canvas has several visible patches. The stage is a curved yellow-green surface that resembles a hill, with visible seams and a round hatchway in the middle from which a brown ladder is protruding. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Excellent art. Three stars!
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Reminds me of Czech illustrations. Like Elisabeth Ivanovsky https://www.stnicholascenter.org/media...
Maybe this link works better https://www.knightsoftheholyeu...
The Subscription of the Torturer
@joost well that's sent me down a rabbit hole all morning. Thanks!
@otaman :-)
The App of the Conciliator
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Pic of a very good boy.
Sam wouldn't eat any dinner, which is not normal and would not go out for a last wee before I went to bed.
He had been whining at me a bit more than usual but I could not find a way to make him happy.
He is getting on and we are naive regarding pets aging. I really thought he was going to pass away over night.
Mrs roonie is away and I had to contemplate telling her over the phone what had happened.
I had to brace myself this morning when I woke up. It was so quiet.
When I found He was not only alive but seemingly quite happy, I cried.
He had been whining at me a bit more than usual but I could not find a way to make him happy.
He is getting on and we are naive regarding pets aging. I really thought he was going to pass away over night.
Mrs roonie is away and I had to contemplate telling her over the phone what had happened.
I had to brace myself this morning when I woke up. It was so quiet.
When I found He was not only alive but seemingly quite happy, I cried.
The bestest
Aging pets are hard, all you can do is pay attention and keep them as happy and comfortable as you can.
@wjcstp We've had like thousands of aging pets. And until these two, every single one of the MFers have died on us!!!
My skin has not grown thicker over time.
My skin has not grown thicker over time.
Oh goodness. So much love going out to y'all as you're working through this. : (
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a light colored cat sits at a counter top with a tiny laptop in front of it. across the top is the text “ever since she was a kitten she has wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights”
Heehee
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World map showing human migration from Africa, starting at 200K years ago and finishing about 10K years, with colours used to show approximately 15 K year segments
Except for the pretty well evidenced 30k year old human settlement in Brazil!
Shame nobody ever migrated to the British isles. I hear they were nice back then.
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A very tired looking woman holds up a copy of the book Infinite Jeffs. It has a cover like The Infinite Jest only all the words on it are "Jeff"
I had to explain to the woman at the post office what The Infinite Jest was and why I was laughing so hard.
Next on the shelf: Gravity’s Rambo
this is amazing. i am cacking.
also, obligatory "the cringing of lot 49" or "finnegans wanks" or something like that
also, obligatory "the cringing of lot 49" or "finnegans wanks" or something like that
I was actually thinking of Finnegan's Waaaaaaah
Two words: Moby Duck
My sister just sent this to her friend Jeff.
@joost I do so love Tom Gauld!
@MackReed
Yes!!! Picturing a cover of Ahab and his men yelling and pointing off the bow at a monstrous huge rubber ducky cresting a wave.
Yes!!! Picturing a cover of Ahab and his men yelling and pointing off the bow at a monstrous huge rubber ducky cresting a wave.
COULD REALLY USE AN INFINITE JESS REMIX
@shitleopard ++
@ba icymi
@jessamyn Yay! (and also this comment thread delivers!)
@jessamyn When I saw this I immediately thought you needed it. Maybe you can do some public readings...?
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A photograph from the southeast part of Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis. The foreground is all green grass. The middleground features two trees on either side of the frame. The background has many more smaller trees and a bit of the lake showing through them.
Its been a very weird time and I've been in a funk the last couple months processing the trauma of the ice surge here, the state of our country, the ever-closer end of my current job, the need to find a new one and some personal stuff.
But this morning, sitting in the park, things felt good and I liked it so I took a picture.
But this morning, sitting in the park, things felt good and I liked it so I took a picture.
. . . and that’s about all we can ask for. big hugs to you, friendo
It's a beautiful day to walk in the park and see the good bits among the mess.
Link the good moments, hold onto that chain of events. ♡♡♡
@tweedlydo @0y3ahSansAcut3 @wjcstp Thanks, friends
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I would lose my ever-loving mind if a lying rapist crook and pedophile got in my face and insulted me. I don't give a flying fuck if he works for the government.
I'm so sick of this shit.
So sick of it.
I'm so sick of this shit.
So sick of it.
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Pic of a nature lover.
He loves to bring nature indoors. Usually when it is dead and he has finished playing with it.
He loves to bring nature indoors. Usually when it is dead and he has finished playing with it.
Maxie Taxi.
Big Goober.
Big Goober.
Oooooh big old cutie pie goober.
That was my response! Oooooooooh cuddly wuddly snuggle buddy, the best kind of goober.
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An early
Nintendo DS photoshopped to look like it’s running Microsoft Excel.
Nintendo DS photoshopped to look like it’s running Microsoft Excel.
Via the always excel-lent Nanoraptor account on Mastodon: https://bitbang.social/@NanoRap...
See the #nanoraptor tag for more of Dana’s stuff. https://mltshp.com/tag...
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Illustration of a family in a house, captioned "The city is a man-made environment. Science and industry have changed all nature except the weather."
From Useful Science for High School by Weed, Rexford & Carroll, 1935.
https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog...
Via the lovely Yesterday’s Weather category from Abdcedarian: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog...
https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog...
Via the lovely Yesterday’s Weather category from Abdcedarian: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog...