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That is not a septum ring.
I was wondering WTF was going on with the bling on her teeth. It looked like she had her incisors decorated with spikes, which would have been fine and cool and all. But this finally got me to look into what was going on and I was not prepared...
This appears to me to be a Labial Frenulum piercing. And if I bet my life on "Is a labial frenulum piercing in your mouth?", I would have been dead before today.
I was wondering WTF was going on with the bling on her teeth. It looked like she had her incisors decorated with spikes, which would have been fine and cool and all. But this finally got me to look into what was going on and I was not prepared...
This appears to me to be a Labial Frenulum piercing. And if I bet my life on "Is a labial frenulum piercing in your mouth?", I would have been dead before today.
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Middle-aged doofus wearing a brown corduroy jacket with St. Paul across the chest in large navy blue block letters. The collar, cuffs, and bottom hem are all edged in a red/blue striped knit.
I saw a couple of people wearing this jacket during Stump Party at our neighborhood gay soccer dive bar and had to get one. They're merch for the St. Paul Saints baseball team, but it only has a small team patch on the sleeve, the back is a huge embroidered city flag logo. A bit of city pride in a cool retro jacket.
Ah man, I miss Saints games! I never did make it to the new stadium. Will have to on my next trip back.
Also, which bar is the neighborhood gay soccer dive bar? That's new!
That's a fine looking jacket!
@homerj The Black Hart: https://www.blackhartstp.com/about-feed
The bar has been there for decades, was previously a gay dive bar (the Townhouse), and when the owners were ready to retire a guy from the neighborhood bought it, added soccer and changed the name but kept everything else the same.
The bar has been there for decades, was previously a gay dive bar (the Townhouse), and when the owners were ready to retire a guy from the neighborhood bought it, added soccer and changed the name but kept everything else the same.
show the back SHOW THE BACK!
@MackReed done! https://mltshp.com/p/1RL88
@homerj ha! That is awesome! AND they have bocce!
I just did street view. Holy crap has University ave changed! Looks like a great spot!
/want
@wjcstp That’s *great.*. Anything with winged wheels is always a winner.
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a four panel comic strip, depicting a young male presenting person talking to the camera.
in frame one, he says "lately, menswear afficionados [sic] have been embracing a playfully sleazy, "slutty" style. mustaches are back in a big way!"
in frame two, he now sports a curly mullet and a mustache, saying "thanks to tiktok influencers, mini mullets are now de rigeur as well. bonus points if it's got some curl to it!"
in frame three, he is putting on a pair of aviator frame eyeglasses with his right hand and a hawaiian shirt with his left, saying "small, tasteful glasses are SO 2019 - go BIG or go home with a vintage-inspired pair that really frame your face."
in the fourth frame, he buttons up his shirt while looking into a mirror, saying "i like to top it all off with a subttly patterned shirt and - ah SHIT, we all look like WEIRD AL now."
in frame one, he says "lately, menswear afficionados [sic] have been embracing a playfully sleazy, "slutty" style. mustaches are back in a big way!"
in frame two, he now sports a curly mullet and a mustache, saying "thanks to tiktok influencers, mini mullets are now de rigeur as well. bonus points if it's got some curl to it!"
in frame three, he is putting on a pair of aviator frame eyeglasses with his right hand and a hawaiian shirt with his left, saying "small, tasteful glasses are SO 2019 - go BIG or go home with a vintage-inspired pair that really frame your face."
in the fourth frame, he buttons up his shirt while looking into a mirror, saying "i like to top it all off with a subttly patterned shirt and - ah SHIT, we all look like WEIRD AL now."
i mean, all respect to weird al and the youths of today, but… yeah.
via luke mcgarry on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
via luke mcgarry on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
I came up in the disco and punk era so I can't talk about the youth of today.
I enjoy watching my niece's long time boyfriend go through these trends since I don't know that many young people.
I enjoy watching my niece's long time boyfriend go through these trends since I don't know that many young people.
Well, it's a step up from Charlie Brown.
I cannot love this enough!
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Inside of a cup, with these words: THIS TOO SHALL PASS
BUT FUCKING HELL
BUT FUCKING HELL
Mmhmm
I initially read that as "this poo shall pass" which being at the bottom of a coffee cup is funnily deterministic to me.
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A deep blue quilt with an embroidered penguin on it and the words HANDS OFF. Many of the things the creator would like hands off of are embroidered into the quilt with the same color thread, so it can be hard to see the words but they include things like libraries and science and vote and parks.
A stunning quilt that I saw at our local music hall which also has a small gallery. All the things that you should keep your hands off of are written with the thread. Here's the artist's website
https://www.lindadiakquilts.com/
https://www.lindadiakquilts.com/
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A displeased woman stands with crossed arms beside a dinosaur in a USA hockey jersey. The text: "Not Pounded by This T-Rex on the USA Men's Hockey Team Because It Turns Out He's a Maga Dork" is at the top.
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Back of a brown corduroy jacket showing a blue and white logo for the St. Paul Saints baseball team on the sleeve, and a large red, yellow, and blue logo for the city of Saint Paul, which includes a log cabin, cathedral dome and a winged wheel on a shield with blue star at the top.
Back of the jacket with left sleeve, there's gotta be 10 miles of embroidery thread in this thing.
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this was the origianl alt text: "Photo by Alf Lokkertsen | The Present Psychologist in Amsterdam, Netherlands."
I need to do better
I need to do better
tag yourself: I'm "Feeling useless but also satisfied"
source: https://mastodon.social/@MakeAug...
perhaps original source: https://www.instagram.com/p...
source: https://mastodon.social/@MakeAug...
perhaps original source: https://www.instagram.com/p...
What if I'm not on this chart?
This sums up how I feel about teaching.
@ardgedee you're always off the charts
@scruss My cardiologist said the same thing.
Top-right/bottom-right for me. What’s this “paid” thing all about?
@ardgedee me too. The first time I heard a medical specialist exclaim "WHOAH!" was when my cardiologist first saw my ECG and its very fucked-up QT timing.
I don't need fulfilment, I have comfort
What if you're good at what the world needs, but you don't love it and can't get paid for it? Or if you love what you get paid for, but you're not good at it and no one needs it?
FEELING COMFORTABLE BUT EMPTY this is extremely accurate
What if your cardiologist says that you are okay but you aren’t comfortable and feeling empty?
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Hit up the Vineyard Haven USPS after 2:00 on a Friday in August... it's a lot like that.
My favorite thing is to walk past the line to the completely open Automated Postal Center and send my package in like 3 minutes. Every once in a while someone will bail on the line after i'm done and try it, mostly they continue to wait.
@wjcstp Canada had these machines briefly. They took them away because they allowed people to mail too much stuff.
I made the mistake of trying to go to the post office the first day it was open after Christmas. Huge queue of Amazon returns
I made the mistake of trying to go to the post office the first day it was open after Christmas. Huge queue of Amazon returns
I worked in a station that had one of those. It was a near constant struggle to keep it working. I'm glad my office doesn't have one, because is he the one having to constantly fix it. It's bad enough trying to keep the two POS systems running like they should.
@LocalStain
Well the next time I head to the Vineyard Haven post office, on a Friday, in August, I'll be sure to get there 1.30ish. Thanks for the heads up! :-)
Well the next time I head to the Vineyard Haven post office, on a Friday, in August, I'll be sure to get there 1.30ish. Thanks for the heads up! :-)
@LocalStain, just kidding.
I never go to the post office on a Friday.
I never go to the post office on a Friday.
I always wonder what the hell people ahead of me are doing because I typically put an item on the counter, tell them I want to mail it, they charge me and that's it I'm outta there.
@dad As somebody who, until recent government made it unfeasible, would be periodically mailing packages internationally, I can say that the staff at some post offices are very good at their jobs, the staff at other post offices are not, and when you live where you can choose which post office to go to you find out that everybody who's serious about mailing things all congregate at the post office where the staff are good at their jobs so you have a long queue that moves fairly quickly, and you avoid the post office where the queues are not long but move very slowly.
We have a few chatty postal workers. They are good for morale generally so everyone is patient while Bruce chats with people because you know you're going to get to chat with Bruce next.
I believe that this is one of the most universal things I have ever seen.
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Photo of bridge in Texas that rises 20-stories with a very steep incline. The guardrails on the sides appear to be very minimal and would not keep a car from going over the edge.
Source: https://texascooppower.com/the-scar...
The Rainbow Bridge between Port Arthur and Orange, on Texas Highway 73. It's 20 stories tall.
The "builders wanted the tallest ship in the Navy at the time, the USS Patoka, to be able to pass easily beneath it, pulling a dirigible."
The Rainbow Bridge between Port Arthur and Orange, on Texas Highway 73. It's 20 stories tall.
The "builders wanted the tallest ship in the Navy at the time, the USS Patoka, to be able to pass easily beneath it, pulling a dirigible."
😬😬😬
"You must be this tall to ride this bridge ---->"
I grew up in Southeast Washington/Northwest Oregon and we crossed over the Astoria Bridge regularly. To this day I'm still a little intimidated driving over it. https://www.youtube.com/watch...
@WikiAdam I drove over it a few weeks ago, and it wasn't as intimidating as it had been in the past. But I was driving a much lower vehicle, and I think that helped.
The Burlington Skyway in Ontario is a similar height. True to it's name, it always gives me the feeling that I'm driving straight up into the sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Gets a bit scary when it's really windy. High winds knocked over a transport truck like 5 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Gets a bit scary when it's really windy. High winds knocked over a transport truck like 5 years ago.
@KMAlexander Yeah, certain conditions make it more intimidating (foggy days where the upper half of the bridge disappears or, even worse, super-windy days where you can feel the bridge sway).
@otaman yeah, scary enough in good weather. The only good thing then is if a huge ship is going underneath it at the time. The novelty is nice.
But having driven over it any combination of daytime, nighttime, high winds, winter storms, heavy traffic, and locusts, definitely not a fave.
Buffalo's 110 ft tall Skyway isn't great fun in bad weather either (https://www.youtube.com/watch...). Someone with car trouble was blown off not too long ago. Heading out of Buffalo is probably a little more of a fear inducer since there are no tall buildings, and most of your view is of Lake Erie.
But having driven over it any combination of daytime, nighttime, high winds, winter storms, heavy traffic, and locusts, definitely not a fave.
Buffalo's 110 ft tall Skyway isn't great fun in bad weather either (https://www.youtube.com/watch...). Someone with car trouble was blown off not too long ago. Heading out of Buffalo is probably a little more of a fear inducer since there are no tall buildings, and most of your view is of Lake Erie.
@otaman for a different view, try the Eastport Drive lift bridge. Best done at night when you have to wait for a huge laker to loom through
@bubbalumpkis +++
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A blue cargo bike with a pizza strapped to the front basket.
I picked up an 18" pizza on my cargo bike yesterday. Don't worry, it was only a few blocks so it was still plenty hot when I got home. I do wish I had one of those big insulated bags like the doordash people have, though.
As a fellow longtailer, may I ask what rig you’re riding? Looks like maybe a Yuba?
@BennyTheIcepick Yeah. It’s a Yuba Kombi. I’ve put a lot of kms on it and it’s still pretty much like new.
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Grr. I had a description of this and it went bye-bye. I saw this post on the r/atari2600 subreddit. Someone had going this beautiful custom box full of copied Atari 2600 ROMs from the 80s. I spent two years at National Semiconductor as a develop inspector. It was my job to stare into a microscope for 12 hours a day to make sure the dies were lined up and focused before the wafers went to acid etch. We made 64k EEPROMS. The odds of some of these being under my microscope are pretty high, and I couldn't be more proud!
@gwint
@Lockjaw :o
Holy shit.
Source??
Source??
@Robotron_smith https://www.reddit.com/r...
Tips hat and adjusts monocle, hello good Sir
That is a great story! Thank you for sharing.
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Doesn't look like yer average dealer.
Licking toads!
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A photo of the USS Patoka, the tallest ship in the Navy for a number of years due to the mast at the rear that dirgible airships could dock to be towed around.
The digible the Shenandoah is shown docked to the mast.
The digible the Shenandoah is shown docked to the mast.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
This is the ship + dirgible that was supposed to be able to pass under the Rainbow Bridge (but never did).
https://mltshp.com/p/1RL7K
This is the ship + dirgible that was supposed to be able to pass under the Rainbow Bridge (but never did).
https://mltshp.com/p/1RL7K
led zeppelin
@davidl godDAMNit
Tsk. The USS Shenandoah is clearly pushing the Patoka.
@davidl oh my gosh
@davidl took me literally 5 mins. Bravo.
@davidl Best of the Shp ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm imagining little "pfft pfft pfft" footpump noises coming from the ship.
(If you ever played Balloon Kid on the Gameboy, you'll know the noise I mean)
(If you ever played Balloon Kid on the Gameboy, you'll know the noise I mean)
@davidl Nice.
@scruss ++
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This is kind of silly and kind of brilliant. A device that tells you the weather via quotes from books https://www.authorandco.com/products...
(I like it, but don't $209/$369 like it.)
Oh I LOVE this!
But yeah, that's a trifle expensive. OTOH it seems like it'd be relatively easy to code up on your own, though it wouldn't be as nice looking.
But yeah, that's a trifle expensive. OTOH it seems like it'd be relatively easy to code up on your own, though it wouldn't be as nice looking.
This idea would make a great new-browser-tab plugin or phone home screen widget, too.
Toilers. TOILERS of the sea. NOT toilets.
Neat concept. Someone gets excited to build special purpose information display screens like this every few years. A couple of examples from the now distant past here https://mltshp.com/p/1RL8E and here https://mltshp.com/p/1RL8H
I'd pay that sort of money as long as each forecast was unique, no repeats.
"We get it Victor! Sunny. Again."
"We get it Victor! Sunny. Again."
If it did email, I could move units.
@jessamyn As the kids say, THAT part!
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Photo of a display of coffee mugs, taken from an angle that makes it look like the mugs are glitched, or blurry or duplicated in a weird way.
when the acid kicks in and you're still at the bookstore...
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POTHOLES: It seems a pity that road surveyors have annexed the word pothole to denote the small dints made in our roads by motor-cars, for the word has long been in use in a far more classic way. All round the base of Ingleborough there are mighty pits, apparently bottomless, that have been worn out of the rock by the action of the water extending over hundreds of years. These, and these alone, are potholes, many of them known by some distinguishing name in addition. The greatest of all is the huge chasm of Gaping Ghyll, situated on the southern slope of Ingleborough. Why not call the holes in our roads "motor holes," for to the motor alone is their evil presence due.
somebody suggested "Cars'-holes", which probably doesn't work for many readers here
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
@grantbarrett
Pretty sure most Americans would get "cars'-holes", various British media's popular here.
The Prairie Pothole Region has entered the chat.
So shhhhh! While the glacial morphologists are bad enough - and they're going to start throwing around words like "kame" and "pingo" and using the phrase "knob and kettle" - do you want to attract fluvial morphologists? Because this is how you attract fluvial morphologists.
So shhhhh! While the glacial morphologists are bad enough - and they're going to start throwing around words like "kame" and "pingo" and using the phrase "knob and kettle" - do you want to attract fluvial morphologists? Because this is how you attract fluvial morphologists.
@williwaw familiar with pingos, having worked with northern Canadian meteorologists.
Ass-faults.
"fluvial morphologists," this sounds terrible, like the specialist who comes in while you are "out," for a colonoscopy.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 I will now be unable to look at my gastro-enterologist in the same way again.
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Bezos and his wife - she has 2 bald Bezos heads on her chest
Via Threads
🤪🤪🤪
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A paper form in the style of typical government form. The Form of Longing (Form WNT-1S), a seven-step process for naming, identifying, and processing your want, craving, or desire. Presented as part of the Department of Emotional Labor (2019, returning 2026).
"There are no Forms of Closure".
tell me about it
tell me about it
@roonie... I clicked, too
Option B
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Billboard on the side of a building with the message:
Injured?
Go fuck yourself
You injured piece of shit
Jacob Ernup, attorney
Injured?
Go fuck yourself
You injured piece of shit
Jacob Ernup, attorney
The archives are still there, and you can still get a calendar, but i miss being amazed by a new Liartown post.
This is maybe my all-time favorite, and one that @tweedlydo and i quote all. the. time.
via https://liartownusa.com/injured-...
This is maybe my all-time favorite, and one that @tweedlydo and i quote all. the. time.
via https://liartownusa.com/injured-...
Hard same. I bought the book & calendar last year.
the absolute very best
Some of the most highbrow shitposting in the history of the internet
Craphound is still a going concern at least
I loved liartown too but that guys anti-trans tweets were beyond awful. Seems to have deleted all tweets, but shit. Anyone else see his terrible trash back when it was live?
@Ed_Ringtone I never saw that, but extremely disappointing to hear
@Ed_Ringtone Unfortunately yes. Tarnished his whole legacy of creating some of the most delightful images on the web.
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A sticker on the back of a street sign that reads
"No Hot
Dish for
Fascists"
The sticker has a pink background with a black border. The words are hand lettered in a dark orange with a black stroke and are written in all caps.
"No Hot
Dish for
Fascists"
The sticker has a pink background with a black border. The words are hand lettered in a dark orange with a black stroke and are written in all caps.
Seen on the backside of a street sign where I was posted for school watch.
Strangely, even though my city is still reeling from a federal invasion by untrained, masked goons and the company I work for is being slowly dismantled and is still very very messy, I feel good tonight.
Part of that is that I've found a lot of meaning in helping people more affected by both those things than me.
Part of it is that I've met lots of really great folks that live in the neighborhood.
Part of it is that I have better learned to find the small joys in the world, despite the world's many many flaws.
One of those joys is this place, Mltshp. As I meet new people in the physical world, I find myself referencing things I've experienced through all you wonderful folks and vice versa.
Part of that is that I've found a lot of meaning in helping people more affected by both those things than me.
Part of it is that I've met lots of really great folks that live in the neighborhood.
Part of it is that I have better learned to find the small joys in the world, despite the world's many many flaws.
One of those joys is this place, Mltshp. As I meet new people in the physical world, I find myself referencing things I've experienced through all you wonderful folks and vice versa.
@bencmeissner +++++
♡♡♡
This place remains sustaining for me. ❤️
@bencmeissner 🖤🩶💙🩵🩷❤️💚💜🤎💛🧡
💜 Thanks all
good on you for volunteering your time and energy when it seems like so much is already being taken up by the world being on fire. i wish i had that kind of drive. truly, the small joys are the pebbles that build the fortifications to hold back the tide; it is a joy to have people like you bringing positive intent and awesome content to make a place like this awesome. much love
@nikkuneko Thanks 💜
To be transparent, a lot of what I'm doing in the community is walking and watching, which helps me with the anxiety from having these predators here. On the work side, while I would help the wonderful folks I have worked with anyways, I do hope some of them can repay the favors when my time comes later on.
To be transparent, a lot of what I'm doing in the community is walking and watching, which helps me with the anxiety from having these predators here. On the work side, while I would help the wonderful folks I have worked with anyways, I do hope some of them can repay the favors when my time comes later on.
@bencmeissner Good onya, Ben. You're a good man.
🧡 🧡 🧡 🧡 🧡
Keep on keeping on Ben, you're doing fine.
Keep on keeping on Ben, you're doing fine.
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Headline from extremetech.com reads: James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus
Why does it look like reflections of overhead lighting in each image?
@0y3ahSansAcut3 cut back in the special effects budget?
@0y3ahSansAcut3 maybe aurora type behaviour? Article mentions them.
I'm very excited to see what (and if) conclusions they come to regarding how its weird axial tilt and ionosphere and goddamn weird tilted/asymetmagnetic field affect the rest of the atmosphere, particularly its composition.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 those are probably aurora - they seem in the wrong location to what we're used to because its magnetosphere is at a very odd orientation in relation to both its equator and the solar plane, something like 60 degrees, and its also not just unusually strong but also asymmetrical
@0y3ahSansAcut3 those are probably aurora - they seem in the wrong location to what we're used to because its magnetosphere is at a very odd orientation in relation to both its equator and the solar plane, something like 60 degrees, and its also not just unusually strong but also asymmetrical
To put it another way, its magnetic equator is not just "wrong" but also bulges out on one side.
The funniest joke in the English language
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A storefront rolling gate is covered in a mural with the words "Protect our Elders". There is a person in the background embracing the letters. A tree sits to the right. Rocks and grass are in the foreground. The person is wearing a 3-finger ring that says respect on it.
February 8, 2026 - Oakland, California. Just east of 15th and Broadway.
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A photo of the blade on a wall in a museum.
Inspirational!
I should have been a pair of ragged claws...
Cool!
Still looks serviceable.
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USTOUR🤞🏼USTOUR🤞🏼USTOUR
Many more amazing photos of Radiohead by Greg Williams at the source: https://old.reddit.com/r...
Many more amazing photos of Radiohead by Greg Williams at the source: https://old.reddit.com/r...
TOUR???
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A fashion pin from the 80’s with Adam Ant in full regalia leans against a cracked, painted window hasp.
And they want me to visit Seattle again.
So, my spouse and I are travelling to the PNW next week. We’re going to spend a couple of days in Seattle and then train up to Vancouver and spend a few days there. And then we are training to Toronto from B.C.
I haven’t been to Seattle or Vancouver for forty years. Any tips?
So, my spouse and I are travelling to the PNW next week. We’re going to spend a couple of days in Seattle and then train up to Vancouver and spend a few days there. And then we are training to Toronto from B.C.
I haven’t been to Seattle or Vancouver for forty years. Any tips?
@m3moellering Loads has changed in both towns, Vancouver probably moreso
If driving, check the weather in case any of the passes you’re using are threatened.
Also, come get a beer with those of us who are around!
Also, come get a beer with those of us who are around!
I still have a large iron on patch with an antmusic logo that I never used.