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A picture of Sugar's Copper Blue on (for some ridiculous reason) ORANGE vinyl.
@nikkuneko recently posted about their recent colored vinyl record purchase: https://mltshp.com/p/1RUO6
and @jpoulos recently posted a mini-doc on Sugar's Copper Blue: https://mltshp.com/p/1RU9M
Which made me realize I didn't have that album on vinyl in my collection and I really should so ordered a copy.
And here it is.
In orange.
Rant time: If you're gonna make a colored vinyl release, PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO IT PEOPLE. Orange? WTF!? The album is named after TWO colors. COPPER. and BLUE. And the album artwork is colored in... (you guessed it!) BLUE and COPPER!
HINT HINT? Maybe, I dunno... GO WITH A BLUE OR COPPER COLORED RECORD?
GTFO with this orange.
Anyways, still a great album.
and @jpoulos recently posted a mini-doc on Sugar's Copper Blue: https://mltshp.com/p/1RU9M
Which made me realize I didn't have that album on vinyl in my collection and I really should so ordered a copy.
And here it is.
In orange.
Rant time: If you're gonna make a colored vinyl release, PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO IT PEOPLE. Orange? WTF!? The album is named after TWO colors. COPPER. and BLUE. And the album artwork is colored in... (you guessed it!) BLUE and COPPER!
HINT HINT? Maybe, I dunno... GO WITH A BLUE OR COPPER COLORED RECORD?
GTFO with this orange.
Anyways, still a great album.
bezt
I'm guessing they were going for a complementary thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
[FP colors intensify]
I will say, I am less enraged about this than my copy of "David Gray's White Ladder" which was released on a vinyl color that sure looks like gray...but which they named 'silver'.
They were SO close to getting it right on that one.
They were SO close to getting it right on that one.
You can listen to it when you’re hunting
Once you pop on your Grados and close your eyes, it can be any color you want.
i always liked bob mould (my frame of context mostly being husker du) but i never gave any of his other stuff a very deep dive. need to go back for this band someday.
it's funny how often LPs are either "we carefully matched the wax to the album art / title / theme" or "this is what the plant had that wasn't black, deal with it". i'm sure i have plenty of both in my collection, but i can't think of any egregiously off-the-mark ones off the top of my head.
i, for one, love the off-the-wall random ones that i pull out for the first time and go "why is it pepto-bismol-vomit colored?".
it's funny how often LPs are either "we carefully matched the wax to the album art / title / theme" or "this is what the plant had that wasn't black, deal with it". i'm sure i have plenty of both in my collection, but i can't think of any egregiously off-the-mark ones off the top of my head.
i, for one, love the off-the-wall random ones that i pull out for the first time and go "why is it pepto-bismol-vomit colored?".
@nikkuneko I once bought Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown xmas on "Festive Green and Red vinyl!"
Someone failed to remember what happens when you mixed green and red together.
I ended up with "chunky holiday diarrhea brown colored!"
Someone failed to remember what happens when you mixed green and red together.
I ended up with "chunky holiday diarrhea brown colored!"
"it's the great plopkins, charlie brown!"
also LOL i really love this level of the design team thinking ahead, @homerj
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screenshot of video: against a purple background, a gift wrapped in a green ribbon and bow is on the right; on the left, text reads "For The Person Who Likes Sex & Violence"
Sax and Violins
@tonyb +++
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a dense poster diagraming the components of the curta mechanical calculator, a hand-sized cylindrical device with a crank on top. the diagram shows the numerical selector switches along the side, the pins and other moving components within the device, as well as explanatory text (too voluminous to transcribe here at the moment)
someone/something here sent me down a rabbithole that led to learning about the curta, a hand-sized crank-operated mechanical calculator designed by curt herzstark
image source, with tons of resources about the curta:
https://www.vcalc.net
they also sell a poster:
https://www.vcalc.net/poster...
some additional info:
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en...
image source, with tons of resources about the curta:
https://www.vcalc.net
they also sell a poster:
https://www.vcalc.net/poster...
some additional info:
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en...
Saved to https://mltshp.com/volvelle
It shows up in one of Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy, maybe Spook Country. (I just looked it up, and it's the first one, Pattern Recognition.) I initially thought it was invented for the purpose of the book.
@snarkout After reading Ifrah's Natural History of Numbers, I was in the process of costing one of these out on ebay. Then Gibson's book dropped, and they all moved well out of affordability. Dammit!
I have got to play with one once. Imagine if a Leica could do sums ...
I have got to play with one once. Imagine if a Leica could do sums ...
@poorusher I may have pointed you to the pleasantly eccentric Chris Staecker, but I don't remember this particular vid.
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A game box called "Celestial Pursuit" The Ultimate in LDS Trivia
To be fair, I was a pretty academic Mormon as a kid, before I abandoned the whole thing.
How did my relatives never try to get me to play this?
oh gracious, today i learned about this:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgam...
also, apologies, i kept reading this as "the ultimate LSD trivia" and spent a good minute trying to figure out why winning against mormons in lysergic acid trivia would be such a feat 🥴
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgam...
also, apologies, i kept reading this as "the ultimate LSD trivia" and spent a good minute trying to figure out why winning against mormons in lysergic acid trivia would be such a feat 🥴
Oh dear. Here are some of the questions. I'm ashamed of the ones I got right, but am comforted by how much I have forgotten
https://www.theideadoor.com/church-c...
https://www.theideadoor.com/church-c...
I was SO good at that game. Such a nerd and now? SUCH an apostate heathen.
(and, congrats on also escaping!)
I love this one. Because the people I played against knew very little about the Bible, this is the sort of thing they couldn't get:
In what book of the bible can we find the story of Job?
In what book of the bible can we find the story of Job?
We had a couple of MoGames growing up. Seek was played I think once that I remember. It - wasn't good. I've been out almost twice as long as I was in now.
I live in Kansas City, so one day I heard this joke that I will get some details wrong, but is very Mormon trivia related:
An important phone call came in to the LDS Church that was routed to the head office in Salt Lake City. The secretary goes into his office and says,
"Sir, I have good news and bad news."
"Give me the good news."
"I have a call for you from our Lord, Jesus Christ Himself."
"That's fantastic! What's the bad news?"
"It is a collect call from Missouri."
An important phone call came in to the LDS Church that was routed to the head office in Salt Lake City. The secretary goes into his office and says,
"Sir, I have good news and bad news."
"Give me the good news."
"I have a call for you from our Lord, Jesus Christ Himself."
"That's fantastic! What's the bad news?"
"It is a collect call from Missouri."
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An oil portrait of a small brown and white dog with a studded collar on a table. The table has a pink tablecloth. On the table, to the right of the dog, are a large white porcelain cup with a floral design, a broken piece of bread, and what is maybe a biscotti. The dog is slightly plump and has a smug expression.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Dog with a Biscuit and a Chinese Cup by Giovanna Garzoni, 1640s #painting #paintings
Dog with a Biscuit and a Chinese Cup by Giovanna Garzoni, 1640s #painting #paintings
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Dolly Parton saying something to Miss Piggy
"Let's have a three-way by Wednesday, okay?"
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Ciudad Juárez, 1892. Juan holds up a burrito and saysỗẠbehold luis, I call it: the burrito." Luis eats it and says "this is delicious Juan, but how on earth does this look like a little donkey?" Juan thinks and surmises "it looks like the ones I grew up with." Juan takes Luis to a field of small, bow-legged cylindrical donkeys who appear to me in great distress. Luis looks on in terror as one of the donkeys repeats
"kill me. kill me."
"kill me. kill me."
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
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CDN media
source: https://www.reddit.com/media...
Only because “SHUT THE FUCK UP” didn’t fit on the card.
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Caption of photo showing artist in front of their portrait of Trump: Wendy Chartrand had no idea that her portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, painted using horse manure mixed with water, would attract international attention after it sold at this year's Sooke Fine Arts Show, VIA WENDY CHARTRAND
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I’m pretty sure that I have the Heavy Metal this was in.
@m3moellering I useta, but got rid of my collection decades ago, like a dope.
The man had a 3D-renderer in his head before they existed. (Just like Winsor McCay)
@waa ++
@waa YES
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I've been giving a friend of mine pool lessons every week. She recently went up in rank because she's been practicing all the drills she's learned like mad. The other day she ran a 3 ball drill. All 3 positioned in order without the cue ever hitting the other balls. She also owns the local Lego resell shop. It's a very thoughtful gift that refers back to this post: https://mltshp.com/p/1RC3C
wow, this is wonderful
The tubas really make it.
I wanna rock all night, and polka every day.
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I made my first ever seamless pattern! I want to start a spoonflower account, or some other pattern shop for making wallpaper and textiles. Working on the second one in this series now 🍄
Can you share your Spoonflower account once you have it up and running? My spouse makes things and she uses a lot of prints from Spoonflower. <3
@robotmachine aw that’s so nice! Of course 😊
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*uncontrollable 2-phase snickering*
@MackReed /same
as a scot, they're fucking welcome to it.
pipes are not meant to be enjoyed.
they are meant to scare the living shit out of your enemies
pipes are not meant to be enjoyed.
they are meant to scare the living shit out of your enemies
guy can't even unclench his hand after that.
I guess I'm the weirdo that enjoys the sound of bagpipes. :(
For me it's the drones that really do it for me.
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two stacks of cards, showing front/back of a red card with white text.
front: (all caps, large) Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"
(all caps, small)You Make Me Long For The Sweet Embrace Of Death
back: By using AI, you have given a pass to
* the staggering climate and ecological impact
* The outright attack on labor by capital
* The systemic disregard of consent
* The basis in wholesale theft and plagiarism
* The assault on the very concept of objective truth
* The enrichment of the most cringe billionaire fascist motherfuckers the world has ever seen
There is no ethical use of AI
If you ignore all of that, you are trying to negotiate what level of harm to others you find acceptable for your personal, selfish benefit. You advance the agenda of these hollow-eyed joyless money-ghouls who resent art, creativity, and life itself.
The machine is disgusting and must be destroyed
front: (all caps, large) Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"
(all caps, small)You Make Me Long For The Sweet Embrace Of Death
back: By using AI, you have given a pass to
* the staggering climate and ecological impact
* The outright attack on labor by capital
* The systemic disregard of consent
* The basis in wholesale theft and plagiarism
* The assault on the very concept of objective truth
* The enrichment of the most cringe billionaire fascist motherfuckers the world has ever seen
There is no ethical use of AI
If you ignore all of that, you are trying to negotiate what level of harm to others you find acceptable for your personal, selfish benefit. You advance the agenda of these hollow-eyed joyless money-ghouls who resent art, creativity, and life itself.
The machine is disgusting and must be destroyed
source: https://mastodon.social/@jwz...
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Two four-color comic book panels. In the first, our youthful protagonist is arguing with a server at a drugstore counter or possibly ice cream shop. "Five bucks for this malted? Hey, Mac, quit your kidding!" "Wish I *were* kidding, Frank, but you wanted an egg in it and eggs are selling for $2 apiece—then there's the milk—" In the second, he's scratching his head outside a theater. "What's going on around here? Has everyone gone nuts?" The theater advertises tickets: $10 adults, $6 children.
source: https://comicbookplus.com/...
From "Inflation is Your Fight!", a 1951 comic book about the terrors of inflation published by the National Association of Manufacturers. (Interestingly, they don't seem adamantly opposed to taxes, just deficit spending.)
From "Inflation is Your Fight!", a 1951 comic book about the terrors of inflation published by the National Association of Manufacturers. (Interestingly, they don't seem adamantly opposed to taxes, just deficit spending.)
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a blister-packed fake toy with a busily-designed cardback. the toy itself is a molded plastic clamshell in the shape of a nintendo DS, with a sticker for the dual screens showing 1) a hand pointing a gun at a barn and 2) a title screen reading "barn harmer" with a "player 1" icon of a bald shirtless man below that.
the cardback reads: "super jeff fun boy" and "handheld game toy". below it is an illustration of a CG-rendered shirtless bald man kicking toward a barn, with another barn aflame in a star-shaped insert behind him. below that is more text: "blow up and destroy several barn!" and "barn harmer - you hate barns in this game"
the cardback reads: "super jeff fun boy" and "handheld game toy". below it is an illustration of a CG-rendered shirtless bald man kicking toward a barn, with another barn aflame in a star-shaped insert behind him. below that is more text: "blow up and destroy several barn!" and "barn harmer - you hate barns in this game"
via obviousplant on instagram [second image at source]:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
i'm sure it'll be gone by the time i post the link, but it looks like one (of four!) may still be on the obviousplant store:
https://obviousplant.com/products...
https://www.instagram.com/p...
i'm sure it'll be gone by the time i post the link, but it looks like one (of four!) may still be on the obviousplant store:
https://obviousplant.com/products...
Good URL - 1RUNT
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a young 18 year old boy was killed in the basement of a house in France by an artillery shell. That boy was my Great Uncle George and I've only recently learnt his story. It's a sad one, but it has some lovely bits too.
That's him in France, likely near Villers Bretonneux.
He was known as the Baby of The Battalion, so once I read that little titbit I had to know why and learn his story. I've been researching him for the past month or so and I've written down some of it here if you're keen
https://yelpar.blogspot.com/2026...
"War is started by old men, fought by the young, and paid for by the innocent"
That's him in France, likely near Villers Bretonneux.
He was known as the Baby of The Battalion, so once I read that little titbit I had to know why and learn his story. I've been researching him for the past month or so and I've written down some of it here if you're keen
https://yelpar.blogspot.com/2026...
"War is started by old men, fought by the young, and paid for by the innocent"
Thanks for sharing this.
I'd like to find out more about my grandfather's WW1 service - my brother said that he was in the calvalry, but I don't know where he learned that from.
@samh thanks for taking the time to read it 😊
@thelonius I'm not sure which country you are in but most have an online war record search service, so if you have the full name and dates of service you should be able to search for their military records
@Argie right - in usa - will try
@thelonius I think this could be a good place to start https://www.archives.gov/veterans
Best of luck
Best of luck
@Argie I think I can find enough information to do that search, although it seems that a fire in 1973 destroyed a lot of material.......it would be interesting to at least know if my grandfather was in combat, or not, in WW1. In WW2, he was on Gen. MacArthur's staff, analyzing photos and making maps and training crews to do that sort of work. In the rear, with the gear! They were planning the terrible island invasions that younger men had to carry out.
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A person walks across a tightrope high in the sky. The ground is not visible, just blue sky and clouds. The person is holding a balancing pole. They have arrived at the other end of the tightrope, which is anchored to a yellow sign planted in a chunk of earth that is hovering in space. The sign says "Closed" in black letters. A bird is perched on top of the signpost. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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rectangular collage of four images: the physical color LP discs, booklet, and gatefold jacket for phoebe bridgers’ third LP “lost weekend”. top to bottom, left to right: 1) the bluish disc held up to light to reveal the blue and black marbling, 2) a disc sitting atop a black inner sleeve and the black embossed lyric booklet, which is designed in the style of an illuminated manuscript, with a comet and other astral bodies visible through an arched doorway, 3) the booklet opened to reveal more of the illuminated style booklet, with the pages for “the governor’s wife” and “bobby” visible 4) the album jacket sitting atop a turntable dust cover as the album spins below it
i’ve been listening to the album digitally on repeat since it released on friday. the physical LPs i preordered finally made their way to my door. (this is the "neptune winds" color variant)
such a dense, dreamy, heavy-yet-joyful album that deserves seated, attentive listening right at the turntable. i’m delighted at the amazing lyric booklet that accompanied this version of the album (see photos 2-3) as well as a punchy, dense vinyl master that really pushes every detail into a tightly-woven soundscape.
and yeah, the “glittery” finish on the disc does make for a little bit of surface noise but thankfully not nearly as much as i thought! it thankfully is sparse enough that it drops away when the songs kick in
listen along // purchase:
https://phoebebridgers.bandcamp.com/album...
such a dense, dreamy, heavy-yet-joyful album that deserves seated, attentive listening right at the turntable. i’m delighted at the amazing lyric booklet that accompanied this version of the album (see photos 2-3) as well as a punchy, dense vinyl master that really pushes every detail into a tightly-woven soundscape.
and yeah, the “glittery” finish on the disc does make for a little bit of surface noise but thankfully not nearly as much as i thought! it thankfully is sparse enough that it drops away when the songs kick in
listen along // purchase:
https://phoebebridgers.bandcamp.com/album...
and ADDENDUM! / SPOILERS!
whoa, there's a (not so subtly hidden) secret track on side D of the album!
you can listen to it here:
https://youtu.be/r76bMcjm...
whoa, there's a (not so subtly hidden) secret track on side D of the album!
you can listen to it here:
https://youtu.be/r76bMcjm...
Picking this up is on my weekend to-do. It’s a really great record, near masterpiece.
@fisherdah agreed, damn near a masterpiece of an album. good record hunting this weekend!