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Remixed webcomic of stick figure dad walking into a room asking "Are ya winning, son?". The stick figure boy sitting at a compute replies "I'm making 11 people laugh on mltshp". The original comic used Mastodon in the punchline.
Original: https://mltshp.com/p/1RPBC
spingo
<3
worth it
Count me in for an even dozen.
Oh yes
That's 11 appreciative people.
Oh no we overshot it. I might have to unlike it
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A woman with grey-brown hair pulled back in a brain and a green plaid flannel shirt stands behind a man who is seated. He is wearing a grey toque and black glasses and has a full white beard. He has one eye open for some reason. The woman has a hand on his shoulder and holds a piece of a cookie in her other hand. The woman is me and the man is the mister.
Not a great photo of either one of us but somehow I love it. This was before we sat down to watch the town talent show.
i love this
It's all in the eyebrows: 🤨
(Also, the classic box cover for MasterMind™ — https://boardgamegeek.com/image...)
What's not to love? This is fantastic!
American Gothic (2026)
Comfy folk, and ♡ your hair came back!
This is lovely. They better have brought their best talent
COME TO VERMONT poster right there
This is superb and also I think I have that shirt you're wearing 😂
Y'all are one of my favorite couples.
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dad: are you winning, son?
kid: I'm making 11 people laugh on mastodon
kid: I'm making 11 people laugh on mastodon
source: https://ohai.social/@redsad...
kid's an influencer
That's 10 more than me.
I'm usually at 1, if I count myself.
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Kids drawing To relax my mom likes to smoke
Don't harsh Mommy's mellow.
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animation loop of a modern engine design in which eight counter-opposed pistons are driven through intake, ignition, combustion, and exhaust - two pistons in each of four cylinders - by cams beneath each piston mounted on the wavelike surfaces of two counter-opposed flywheels. the ignitions appear as bright yellow flashes when each pair of pistons kisses at the top of their cycle.
I love this madness. Mechanically brilliant: https://www.theautopian.com/the-weir...
zoom zoom v2
Swashplate boxer engines come and go. My favourite is the Selwood engine from the 1950s, a football-sized thing that spun madly on its mounts. Disappeared without trace, of course.
@scruss I'm probably simple, but I love how much this reduces the number and complexity of bearing surfaces. No pushrods, crankshaft or rockers. Overhauling this one might even be downright pleasurable.
back and forth forever...
@MackReed yes, It's going to be small and light, but every part is really jammed in there. The roller/swashplate interaction is going to have some fierce friction loss.
TBH, no matter how nice it is, the world can't use a new internal combustion engine this century
TBH, no matter how nice it is, the world can't use a new internal combustion engine this century
@scruss Nor ever, should we expect to survive to the next century.
RIP the gas era.
RIP the gas era.
I see the specs in that article, but also I look at the roller pushing down a ramp and I just can’t see this generating much torque. Interesting design exercise though.
Informative article about a cool invention but, man, the Internet needs editors.
MWYA
MWYA
MWYA
💋
MWYA
MWYA
💋
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The new Indy 500 t-shirt has all that and more: https://www.motortrend.com/news...
@heyitsal Holy shit. The only people who thought that was a good idea were the people who knew exactly what the "accidental" message was and liked it.
Also: My city just hosted its first major through-the-city marathon this past weekend and it was a fiasco. Not as far as the runners were concerned but organizationally it was a trainwreck, with thousands of residents left stranded because their nearest streets had been blocked off and they hadn't been notified.
Okay, the runners hated the part where the marathon finished in a track-and-field stadium and the organizers had designed the traffic flow for runners so that everyone who had just run twenty-six-and-fucking-something-miles had to climb to the top of the bleachers to exit. There was a lot of swearing on the local socials about that.
@heyitsal I mean it... it... wow.
@heyitsal Oh, it's The Stig from Top Gear mashed up with Planet Of The Apes reboot, that's cool …oh, er, what's that at the bottom? OFFS!
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Sam the Eagle peers out of a door, mutters "You are all weirdos", then retreats behind the door
source: https://media1.tenor.com/m...
from The Great Muppet Caper, apparently
from The Great Muppet Caper, apparently
I'm a creep.
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I love that you used a title that accurately reflects the picture but also makes a call to another improv group which itself was named for the writers of the Jack Benny show.
Maybe comedy troupe would have been better than improv group.
Although now I see that it was also used to refer to the writers of the Sid Caesar show.
@grantbarrett I didn't know that! Fun fact
I fear that I may have to turn in my maple syrup card, as I cannot for the life of me figure out who the long haired, hippy stylin', Rainn Willson lookin' mother effer is in the bottom right.
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A forest service cabin on the USFS rental program surrounded by a grassy area in the foreground, then a forest of lodgepole pine in the background. The cabin in located on the Kootenai National Forest in NW Montana. My bicycle is leaning against the cabin in the porch.
I rode 76 miles out to this cabin last weekend for my birthday. This is Fairview Ranger Station in one of the lesser traveled areas of NW Montana. The route takes ALL the backroads to get here and back and has somewhat of a railroad theme, including following the bits and pieces of original alignment of the Great Northern RR, now converted to rails to trails and just actual roads. Day 2 was 84 mi and mirrors a good part of the later/current realignment, as well as following the Old Fort Steele Trail, which is a pretty rough and tumble jeep track. I'm happy to say that I'm still able to pull off this overly ambitious route at 54, although I'm definitely still feeling it mid-week.
Happy birthday. An excellent way and place to celebrate it.
Happy Belated!
Sounds like a great way to get away on your birthday.
even at your age :-)
Sounds like a great way to get away on your birthday.
even at your age :-)
Happy bidet!
Nice trip, and happy birthday
Happity-hap-haps. Keep riding and you'll be as old as me!
0h to be 54, Happy Birthday!
That sounds incredible, I am envious, and happy birthday!
Happy Happy!
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Stylish stone building framed by a pub window
Edinburgh council offices, from the Malt Shovel pub
Pixel 8, edited in Lightroom
Pixel 8, edited in Lightroom
after a while the view gets blurry
The way you lined the mullions up perfectly with the corners of the building is 😘👌
TIL "mullions"
Great shot!
Great shot!
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A Lord of the Rings meme. Galadriel says, "You have seen Sauron." Frodo replies, "Yes." They each look at each other silently, then Galadriel says, "He's weirdly sexy, right?" and Frodo responds, "Oh my god. Thank you. Yes. I thought I was the only one."
He’s got Betty Davis’s eye
@Davezilla *Bette
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A pale green earthenware coffee cup shaped with the bulging eyes, wide mouth and web toed feet of a frog
What’s the matter, babe? You’ve barely touched your hot toady
@BennyTheIcepick ++
Jugorum, jugorum.
@BennyTheIcepick ++
@BennyTheIcepick +++
@BennyTheIcepick /chefskiss
@BennyTheIcepick Coffee spewed. Well done!
Yes!!!
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup
@BennyTheIcepick A+
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an enormous three-masted, triple-jib sailing yacht plies a calm ocean
Apparently Jeff Bezos doesn't want it any more because it's too big: https://www.yacht.de/en...
This nauseates me so severely that I had to create a new SHK just to contain it.
Please join the tomato-throwing rabble of your fellow poors at https://mltshp.com/eattherich and add your own exemplars of wretched excess.
Edit: to be honest, I couldn't believe this SHK didn't already exist.
This nauseates me so severely that I had to create a new SHK just to contain it.
Please join the tomato-throwing rabble of your fellow poors at https://mltshp.com/eattherich and add your own exemplars of wretched excess.
Edit: to be honest, I couldn't believe this SHK didn't already exist.
Does it come with garlic sauce? It covers for a lot of poor quality meats.
Everyone tried to tell him it was too big.
@KMAlexander he just wanted someone to say that about at least one thing he owned
@mcmjolnir Oof!
@mcmjolnir Zing!
thanks for the SHK invite but I like my MLTSHP full of <3 as I get enough hate everywhere else.
@samh Fair.
It’s not intended as h8 so much as TRVTH for the love of (nearly) all humans. 🖤
It’s not intended as h8 so much as TRVTH for the love of (nearly) all humans. 🖤
I'm in.
I did hesitate though. I'm rich in so many ways - all the good things.
However, I am not a parasitic capitalist (despite what my kids say), so in for a penny, in for a pound! sorta
I did hesitate though. I'm rich in so many ways - all the good things.
However, I am not a parasitic capitalist (despite what my kids say), so in for a penny, in for a pound! sorta
Is this the ship that was so large they planned to dismantle a bridge in the Netherlands? https://interestingengineering.com/culture...
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a stained glass window featuring the two aliens from sesame street. one is red and one is blue, they have large googly eyes and antennae. They are both staring at a telephone.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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A ghastly pale zombie with headphones on grimaces in pleasure at what he is hearing and slowly touches his ears
One of the most beautiful wordless takes in film.
Bub forever.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
Bub forever.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
Say "hello Aunt Alicia"
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A rocky sphere of a planet hovers like a balloon in a bright yellow sky. The planet is tethered to a small booth with a window, like those guard stations you see in parks. A path leads up to the booth, and is then blocked by a barricade. The booth sits in the middle of a green meadow. Someone is dimly visible in the window. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Same as in town
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A black-and-white illustration of a gorilla's head made out of a complex pattern of black lines of various widths forming resembling engraving lines or a moiré interference pattern, with the label "GORILLA".
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A door knocker in the shape of a metal face, with flaming hair and huge staring eyes
This is a Hellmouth, on the door knocker at Durham Cathedral, England. It's meant to scare away the Devil
Pixel 8, edited in Google Photos
Pixel 8, edited in Google Photos
Thank you! New wallpaper for my iPad.
little dude is skipping rope
@scruss now I can't unsee it
@scruss …and leg day, it would seem
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Young man at the wheel of an open convertible paying attention to the young woman beside him whom he is embracing instead of the road
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3 boxed bottles of Tabasco sauce.
Habanero
Jalapeño
Classic (pepper)
Habanero
Jalapeño
Classic (pepper)
I also love the Chipotle version but we have to source that from another supplier
AN EXTRA 3ML BECAUSE FUCK YOU, I AM HABAÑERO!
The jalapeno one is sublime...
Probably repeating myself, but, if you're ever in the Baton Rouge area or traveling along I-10 in Louisiana (it's south of Lafayette), taking the tour of the Avery Island salt dome where they used to grow all the peppers and mine the salt for Tabasco is super cool . . . if you're into that kind of thing (and if you are, scheduling the guided tour is worth it). The last time I was there they still grew all the seed stock for their peppers on-site! It's a semi-protected bird sanctuary now with lots of wildlife, too, and if you go there from Baton Rouge you get to drive across the Atchafalya river/basin, a pretty unique area . . . which one day will be the new path of the Mississippi (possibly in our lifetimes).
It's kind of surreal seeing Avery Island rise from the delta like a low bubble as one gets closer.
It's kind of surreal seeing Avery Island rise from the delta like a low bubble as one gets closer.
@poorusher *genuine belly laugh* !!! hahahahaha apparently this is my version of a bat signal ahahahaha!
They make a sauce with garlic.
@0y3ahSansAcut3
Oooh never seen this in the UK:
https://www.tabasco.com/products...
But I'm glad the Tabasco food boffins are beavering away in their lab.
Oooh never seen this in the UK:
https://www.tabasco.com/products...
But I'm glad the Tabasco food boffins are beavering away in their lab.
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The image is an artistic rendering of a bicycle, where two rolls of masking tape exist as the wheels and one of the rules of masking tape has some tape coming out of it, forming the front fork of the bicycle, and the rest of the bicycle is painted in white on a black background.
That's so well done.
@poorusher If I was in front of the actual art, I would be there for hours.
gah! My brain
@spingo It’s awesome, innit?!?
Is this by Christoph Niemann? It certainly smells like his work, so to speak.
@waa I couldn’t find an attribution. 😕
@m3moellering Wouldn't you know, it actually IS by him. In case he's new to you, just look at this page:
https://www.christophniemann.com/detail...
https://www.christophniemann.com/detail...
@waa Thank you, so much!! New art to ogle!
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an abstract red and black image that suggests components of a mainframe system
Computer Design Magazine, January 1968. They don't make 'em like this any more.
via: the Timex-Sinclair online user group
source: https://archive.org/details...
@bezt notes that the art director is none other than Jim Flora
via: the Timex-Sinclair online user group
source: https://archive.org/details...
@bezt notes that the art director is none other than Jim Flora
When I was young I used to love these magazines from second-tier publishers or for professional specialties because the covers were always fascinating to stare at. Then I'd open them up and the contents were usually bollocks to a little kid who could barely read. Still ended up setting me on my life's path, though.
Oh man, this is so good
How was an illustration like this accomplished in 1966? Rulers, ink, and color separations, I presume?
@owl Somewhat.
There are a couple ways to have done it. How I would have done it is to pencil in the drawing on a board, and trace the red and black squared-off lines on two different acetates (one for black, one for red) using precision-width ruling tape, and draw outlines of the remainder with a ruling pen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and fill them with a brush and ink.
This way there was no original artwork as such, it only existed as a sketch and a couple sheets of plastic with black ink and tape on them. It's how we would have been taught to do it when I was in design school, pre-desktop publishing era.
Now after saying that I've zoomed in on the pic, and it's pretty clearly all drawn by hand and ruler, no tape, on a single board and the printer made their own separations. Which sounds wild to me (way more expensive this way) because the back-cover ad is black-and-white. But who knows what was going on at the time.
There are a couple ways to have done it. How I would have done it is to pencil in the drawing on a board, and trace the red and black squared-off lines on two different acetates (one for black, one for red) using precision-width ruling tape, and draw outlines of the remainder with a ruling pen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and fill them with a brush and ink.
This way there was no original artwork as such, it only existed as a sketch and a couple sheets of plastic with black ink and tape on them. It's how we would have been taught to do it when I was in design school, pre-desktop publishing era.
Now after saying that I've zoomed in on the pic, and it's pretty clearly all drawn by hand and ruler, no tape, on a single board and the printer made their own separations. Which sounds wild to me (way more expensive this way) because the back-cover ad is black-and-white. But who knows what was going on at the time.
For the dismayed face right above the remains of the shipping label!
@ardgedee thank you!
@ardgedee thanks for that insight. I was wondering how they'd done that too
@ardgedee @scruss Digging in to the table of contents, the art director is listed as James Flora. Unless I miss my guess, that's Jim Flora of minor jazz album cover art fame- checking his wikipedia page, yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
https://mltshp.com/search...
https://mltshp.com/search...
@bezt Oh damn, great catch!
@bezt ooh, added your Jim Flora fact to the description so the search can find it. Thank you!
@bezt Irwin Chusid, curator of the Jim Flora Archive website, has a couple of Computer Design magazine covers on the site, so it's confirmed.
Jim was Art Director for at least a decade, possibly longer
Jim was Art Director for at least a decade, possibly longer
@scruss 17 years, according to his wiki article.
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May include: A black and white sticker with the text "SAVIOR SELF" in white bold letters. The sticker has two white thumbs up on either side of the text.
source: https://www.etsy.com/listing...