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the last pear
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a pear on a plate on a blue linoleum tabletop
when we moved here I planted a pear tree and a plum tree and this year the pear tree finally produced some fruit, which I picked and we ate, but at the time I left this one on the tree because it was small and not quite ready but then yesterday I was out in the field near the pear tree and lo the runt pear had become the most interesting pear of all, so I brought it inside and took a portrait of it
samh
That pear's a real peach I tell ya'.
facts
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@SHAGGY
Fuck rape culture. Fuck toxic masculinity. Fuck the patriarchy. The news continues to be so devastating and depressing and enraging
I work with victims and if this isn't the goddamn truth.
the death of cool
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I hadn't noticed until I spotted this, but goddamn, this is hurting my childhood heart: https://www.instagram.com/p...
Obvious-mix: https://mltshp.com/p/1RXS9
@dreyfusslugado Heh - well-played, you.
Cars these days do tend to have covers along the undercarriage, but this is pure enshittification.
Titan
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A multicoloured sphere
" Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and the only other body in the Solar System known to possess a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere and stable surface liquids. Captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the observation reveals Titan’s hazy global atmosphere in infrared wavelengths that pierce the thick organic haze layers produced by complex photochemistry."
https://www.threads.com/share...
https://www.threads.com/share...
autoresponse
marshall ave
RIP Captain my Captain
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This is objectively the best one and cannot be bested.
If you don’t get the reference:
https://bash-org-archive.com/...
If you don’t get the reference:
https://bash-org-archive.com/...
I put on my robe and my wizard hat...
IRC, IRC. Now there's a name I have not heard in a looonng time ...
This unlocked a deep memory
Lemon, it's Wednesday
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Lengthy rant about this week's internet security issues, beginning "So, basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without logging in, which is bad" and ending, "Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 257. Anyway, it's Wednesday."
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
I help manage 2 websites with wordpress installations, and as of this morning neither of the hosts have the patched versions of PHP available to select.
I backed up two of my 3 DBs, not sure why I can’t do the third, and the host (Dreamhost) finished patching around 11pm PDT last night. So …?
@wjcstp who do you host with? We use WPEngine and SiteGround and both were patched yesterday. Of the two, I prefer WPEngine.
Fairy Stump.
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Herring Creek Rd. Vineyard Haven.
This is a little over a mile from my house on the road to Tashmoo Pond.
This is a little over a mile from my house on the road to Tashmoo Pond.
Love it
new addition plus two bbs
Even Deathier Death of Cool
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a remix of a photo of the undersides of Hot Wheels cars, showing the loss of detail, but the bottom image is the underside of the so-called Flying Car from Tesla.
a remix of https://mltshp.com/p/1RXS6
😠
That particular clown car will never fly.
BTW, "Musk" is a bit overlong and, while it paints a decent portrait of the ugly trillionaire, it doesn't go for the jugular like I wish it had.
"You Can See Everything," on the other hand, is astoundingly good and will leave you gasping - that's NOT an exaggeration. It's insane.
That particular clown car will never fly.
BTW, "Musk" is a bit overlong and, while it paints a decent portrait of the ugly trillionaire, it doesn't go for the jugular like I wish it had.
"You Can See Everything," on the other hand, is astoundingly good and will leave you gasping - that's NOT an exaggeration. It's insane.
me_irl
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My new workout routine is pontius
Don't forget to wash your hands after...
@dapete++
Happy 88th Christopher Lloyd
delivering eyeballs to your promo
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case of glass eyes
I saw her from across, down, and diagonally the room.
The ayes have it
https://www.bidsquare.com/online-a...
Prosthetic Glass Eye Collection. Group of 171 Brown Glass Eyes in a Wooden Grid Drawer. German. Early 20th Century. Drawer 13 x 26 ¼”. Eyes approx. 1 1/2 x 1" each. Blown glass, wood case with metal drawer handles and inscribed # 21 in ink script on paper.
Prosthetic Glass Eye Collection. Group of 171 Brown Glass Eyes in a Wooden Grid Drawer. German. Early 20th Century. Drawer 13 x 26 ¼”. Eyes approx. 1 1/2 x 1" each. Blown glass, wood case with metal drawer handles and inscribed # 21 in ink script on paper.
Ferdinand and Isabella
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Patricia and I at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival 2026
Taken by: https://www.facebook.com/profile...
Taken by: https://www.facebook.com/profile...
Lovely!
The coolest!
Tubes for the People
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Election billboard from the Toronto municipal election of 1909.
We did not yet have Tubes.
https://7078.sydneyplus.com/archive...
via
https://bsky.app/profile...
We did not yet have Tubes.
https://7078.sydneyplus.com/archive...
via
https://bsky.app/profile...
🤔
me_irl
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Current status: https://mltshp.com/p/1DY7E
My brain immediately shouted “Negative, I am a meat popsicle,” before I looked closer.
Sylvia
Gone, gone, the form of man!
made a thing
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Soooo, I've been banging away on this crazy thing (first with tools, then with fingers and mallets) since last February when I first sketched the design.
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near their Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near their Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
kick your local patriarchy in the groin
Sunn O)))
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The drone-noise duo Sunn O))) performing on stage, wearing hooded cloaks and drenched in fog.
Went and felt Sunn O))) perform last night. Very loud and weird and an interesting experience to help usher in spooky season.
Delmar Hall, STL, Oct 20, 2026
Delmar Hall, STL, Oct 20, 2026
I guess something like this
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hell yeah to all of this but especially rodan, shellac, and polvo
Couple of notes
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
Also I probably cheated as I think both Lysol and Celebrate the New Dark Age are EPs
*gasps*
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https://www.threads.com/@mollyin...
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
