You have something against the Polish?

Just kidding, a great idea, nice drawing. Nice to get together with like minded people.

@0y3ahSansAcut3 ??

The pole, the pole isn't in the sketch. Just being silly.

@billturner Hah! Wonderful!

I was so confused there for a minute, but that's so funny! I usually do a pencil sketch before I add ink, and I put the pole in there in the preliminary draft. But after starting with my pen I decided to leave it out.

Welp, that was meant to mention @0y3ahSansAcut3. :)

(we need an edit option here. heh.)

This is awesome. I love every part of it.

Nice!

(very loud voice) "A new blade touches the beacon!"

I love the business of nerds.

https://mltshp.com/p/1PSCH

@bezt second! also, squeeeee!

What is this? A plane for ants?!

Geology, or mycology?

nm, I read the alt text. mycology.

Hell yeah. Enjoy!

Ahhhh... I can hear the quiet

Criss cross water! Lovely!

That sign is inaccurate.

@dogwelder Right? Not seeing near enough no-hand mudprints.
Where are the butts and feet’s and faces?

No, mud handprints!

bill stickers is innocent

Tank Toman: HAMMER!!

ceci n'est pas un drill

rare photo of the Predator

I just want to hammer the point home ...

@me3dia+++

Title

DUGGA DUGGA DUGGA https://www.youtube.com/watch...

there's always a dril tweet

Insane picture ++

Wow!

Now that's how you do a push-up.

i couldnt do that in my wildest dreams

@ardgedee ++

i would get this on a t-shirt.

It’s in the archives here somewhere

#tweetrot

OMFG

hahah

What am I missing here?

@ardgedee https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Only partially germane to the topic, but I feel Whiplash is actually a film about codependency and abuse, not about any actual musical skill. I know a very skilled drummer who feels the same way. JK's character is pure and simply an asshole, and Miles Teller should be read as the victim.

Making my way downtown
Tunnel fast
Through the grass
And I’m homebound

Hard same.

And yet, you wear pants.

shirt is ai/shopped but I’m not mad

No this king who turned out to be a SA apologist recently.

We-R-Hungry. R-U-Noon-Meal?

Lol my other car is a bikes!

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?

Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two Lambrettas at the same time, man.

(slaps fender) just think how many mirrors you could mount on this baby!

@dreyfusslugado ++

@dreyfusslugado ha!

That looks like pickled red onions. Dang!

The Norwegians are also the largest consumers of frozen pizza

Bleh bleh bleh, this is vair de magic heppens

This photo immediately made me nostalgic for state parks in the northern Appalachians in a way that scenic photos usually don't. Guess I'm not that outdoorsy of a person.

The WPA built millions of less impressive but very necessary outhouses across the southern USA. They are hilariously under-documented because it was seen as rude and embarrassing to take pictures of shitters.

I guess a brick one was not quite enough

Edwardian babies did not tolerate stuttering.

Fuck off forever, Wilbur.

jebus.

They loved big butts...

if we ever have public media outlets again..

the song of my people

¡Hace frio!

Warning: ice.

Wow.

This is an incredible photo.

So I've always found Irish history super fascinating and have read quite a few books about it; of course the Troubles loom large as part of it. (I particularly liked "The Troubles" by Tim Pat Coogan if one is looking.)

Now - I read hundreds of books a year (no kids + no T.V. for the win!) so for books to lodge in my head they have to be pretty special. But there are certain books that I can't get *out* of my head and I brood over them for *years* after reading them; such books I refer to as "books that changed my DNA". There aren't that many.

ANYWAY maybe 5-6 years ago I read "Say Nothing" by Patrick Raden Keefe, which on the surface (and also underneath - it's a masterful bit of storytelling architeciture) was about the murder of Jean McConville in 1972, weaving in the story of a few notorious Troubles era folks like Gerry Adams and particularly the Price sisters, who are most well-known for going on a hunger strike in prison. But really, it's about the most holistic coverage of the entire Troubles era I've ever read, and it's also about *Ireland*. (It also engages the reader with the problems of how to document certain kinds of history.) Just fantastic stuff.

And it just knocked my fucking socks off while also slapping me in the face. I would have read it in a day if I hadn't had to keep stopping and go take a walk so I could thinking about what I just read. I immediately re-read it and have several times since. And still, though it's been years, I regularly think about it - it was truly a book that changed my DNA. Tldr: read it!

*Cough* circling back, a huge part of the book - and one of the themes and he framed it that I've been unable to stop thinking about ever since concerns how protest and then radicalization happens, and especially how it happened in Ireland. It asks some very huge questions about violence - how it's framed & narrated; particularly the morality of (including *forgetting*!); and the spaces in which both condemnation and condoning occur and circle around each other. Which might not seem like new subjects but he definitely makes the reader ask questions of themselves in very interesting ways. (All of this very much hit home in the wake and then re-election of The Shithead.) And from that viewpoint this photo is *everything*. It's about half the book in one image. Incredible.

^Uh, sorry that's so long, I'm very tired

Williwaw, London Falling is on my TBR list, and I’ve been meaning to read Say Nothing for ages.

Thank you both, I am always keen for a recommendation, I shall add to my list.

Also I went to Derry last year and it really made an impression on me. Could easily live there if things were a bit different.

@williwaw Let me also recommend Keefe's "The Snakehead" (about human trafficking from China) and the absolutely rage-inducing "Empire of Pain" (about the Sacklers and the opiod crisis).

@williwaw did you see the 8 part mini series about the Jean McConville killing? It was fascinating.

@mkerbaj no, hadn't even heard of it, don't watch much t.v. . . . but I just looked it up and it's based on the book!! So if you liked it you'd like the book! Hooray for books!

@snarkout already read em! :) both filed under "incredible books I'm emotionally incapable of reading again"

(Rage inducing is right - I started Empire of Pain and then saved it until wood chopping time, which probably prevented me from punching a wall or something similarly awful.)

@williwaw At least those people remain disgustingly rich. Proof that America works!

@williwaw I read and enjoyed "Say Nothing" as well, but have since read that there are a lot of folks that say it's not the best telling of the story or what was happening. I think mainly because the author wasn't present during that time, and is only putting together a story after the fact.

I've been looking for other books on the troubles to offer different perspectives. I've seen "Making Sense of the Troubles" by David McKittrick recommended a few times, so I may try finding a copy of that.

Of course, something with such a contentious history will have many speaking out about where to find the truth in what's published.

@billturner oh no someone who wasn't there wrote a book about it

guess we can never read a book about WWII again unless the historian was there when hitler killed himself or saw the attack on Pearl Habor 1st hand

all those journalists writing news articles are so wrong unless they're in the room when the corruption happens or on the exact beach the exact second the environmental disaster occurs

Some people just love shitting on things that are good or what other people like.

As I was getting into birdwatching, a colleague of mine gave me this incredible book on bird eggs from around the world. You might appreciate it.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp...

@BennyTheIcepick oh neat! thanks!

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