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A white van with elements of The Far Side comic "Cat Fud" on the back.
for @otaman re: https://mltshp.com/p/1RWG4
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Animated gif: Black cat leaps at the camera, claws bared
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LEGO model of Barcelona's Segrada Familia cathedral
It's a little Gaudí for my tastes.
(sí, ja sé que no es pronuncia així.)
(sí, ja sé que no es pronuncia així.)
@bezt well-played!
@bezt +++
@bezt bezt iz best!
@bezt ++
You can start it and then just pass is down to your children to finish in another lifetime.
@homerj and @bezt ++
Oops! All tan!
@bezt godDAMNIT
@bezt ⭐️
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source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Terminal Gonzolitis
I am in the 1991 Hofstra U. senior yearbook as Juan C. Valdez, with a degree in Agriculture. I wasn't a senior. There is no agriculture department. I just gambled that no one involved was actually checking and showed up in a suit. Regardless, I still make the finest coffee available in my kitchen every morning according to the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia.
He would have fit in with my lunch crowd.
that is a good high school prank
@heyitsal A friend of mine who had a photographic memory discovered the yearbook staff didn't check IDs and wore the same shirt and claimed to be a several dozen people whose id numbers he'd memorized in my freshman class. I kept that yearbook mostly for that story for a long time after I moved on from that chunk of my life. Good on you, and good on him. A story with published proof is always amazing.
Henry's bio is pretty funny but yours is funnier, @heyitsal
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A man wearing magnifiers, holding a power tool, looks into a miniature barn.
Man working on miniature barn, Shelburne, VT, 2004
From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
What is this? A barn for ANTS?!
@dreyfusslugado What else would you have on your ant farm?
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Soft pink creature walks along ocean floor
Pink Barbie Pig, a new type of sea cucumber.
https://mastodon.social/@appassi...
https://mastodon.social/@appassi...
I'm gonna keep on dancin' at the
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We saw #JRAD tear up the MGM in Boston last night. First night of 4 for my birthday run. We pick up again next week in Madison, WI after Andrea and I spend a few days driving around in southern Wisco seeing the sights and spending some time with friends. Then Chicago and Grand Rapids to close it out.
Stay tuned for more from the road.
Stay tuned for more from the road.
Looking forward to your The House On The Rock photos from Spring Green, WI!
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I SEE NO FLAWS.
You could take a page from the Jimmy Carter playbook and steadily work towards SALT II
blessed be the taste is fine. ?guess what imma take to the potluck tomorrow.
bread without salt is like kissing a man without a beard.
These are beautiful loaves!
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Scan of a magazine, a two-page spread. On the right are three columns of text. On the left is a black-and-white illustration, somewhat abstracted, of a hulking naked fat man sitting cross-legged. He has a beard and is wearing a cap, and is holding sheaves of grass. His tongue is sticking out luridly and he is staring, crazy-eyed. His feet are enormous.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"Very fitting WTF illustration for Stephen King's 'Lawnmower Man' from a 1975 issue of the Cavalier men's magazine." (If you've never read the story, it bears no relation to the movie but is instead about a guy who hires a lawn care service and has the Great God Pan show up.)
"Very fitting WTF illustration for Stephen King's 'Lawnmower Man' from a 1975 issue of the Cavalier men's magazine." (If you've never read the story, it bears no relation to the movie but is instead about a guy who hires a lawn care service and has the Great God Pan show up.)
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A spider web glows in prismatic colors in an early fall sunset. It is framed by the columns of my porch, and set against the dark background of my neighbor's junipers.
I have news of an elderly relative reaching the end of her life. 97 years is a life to celebrate, yet every sunset is a passing moment to be considered. So it goes.
I have news of an elderly relative reaching the end of her life. 97 years is a life to celebrate, yet every sunset is a passing moment to be considered. So it goes.
Summer quietly slips away here in NEGA, and the joro spiders weave the fall light into fantastic displays. Unless you see them in person, the golden color of their silk is hard to capture.
Ah yes, spider webs. The harbinger of autumn
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Photo of a vintage book cover featuring a bearded man chopping planks of wood in half. Title and copy read
Defeating Wood
Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved
Gary Arkanasse
Defeating Wood
Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved
Gary Arkanasse
Heehee
Somebody’s gotta stand up to Big Wood.
I blame the trees.
I'm stumped as to why there is so much ingrained hostility towards wood. I would have thought the wood-haters were just a splinter group.
We must get to the root of this
Some people like to go against the grain.
@dreyfusslugado
Right? I swear, as this sort of malignince grows more poplar, the willow the people will be like a baum going off. Son of a beech.
Right? I swear, as this sort of malignince grows more poplar, the willow the people will be like a baum going off. Son of a beech.
I'm sorry, but attacking wood as a policy plank just compromises the whole platform.
@BennyTheIcepick (chef's kiss)
"Go against THIS grain, you son of a birch!"
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Photo of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy entering the UN headquarters with two body guards. He is turning a corner so the side of his face is illuminated while the other faces are in shadow. Coincidentally the colors of the walls are blue and yellow like the Ukrainian flag. He looks extremely serious and careworn.
this shot looks so darkly cinematic that my brain just keeps waiting for a DIRECTED BY DAVID LYNCH to materialize over it
@nikkuneko right?! Like, it's so cinematic that if it was in a movie they might edit it out for being too on the nose.
So interesting that artists make pretty good politicians. Zelensky, playwright Vaclav Havel; founder of the German Green Party Joseph Beuys and others.
Oh, and Reagan. Strike my comment.
Oh, and Reagan. Strike my comment.
@mare Reagan was not regarded as much of an artist, so no worries, there.
@mare Donny is an artist!
A bullshit artist.
A bullshit artist.
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an illustrated chart of several winter squashes: Butternut, Acorn, Red Kuri, Kabocha, Sweet Dumpling, Koginut, Delicata, Spaghetti, Hubbard, Autumn Frost, Turban, Carnival, Buttercup, Honeynut, Banana
I could have used this two days ago, when I was expecting something like a honeynut or buttenut, but it was a spaghetti!
Red kuri is our go-to for all things squash. Favorite flavor out of all of them by a mile.
I like butternut, and those big Castillas, you can buy in sections.
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Angine de MOOtrine Adult/Youth/Kids T-shirt: a black t-shirt with two polka-dotted cows dressed at the Angine de Poitrine aliens
Cows is an Atlantic Canada ice cream chain. It's very good. Their parody t-shirts have been a thing for a while now.
source: https://cows.ca/products...
source: https://cows.ca/products...
I could go for some Angine de Poutine...
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My daughter's 30th birthday came up and we are doing a family trip to places.
Today and tomorrow it's Portland. I like this one pizza place and we got it for dinner tonight. I haven't found anything quite like it in Kansas City. I'm the luckiest man in the world.
Today and tomorrow it's Portland. I like this one pizza place and we got it for dinner tonight. I haven't found anything quite like it in Kansas City. I'm the luckiest man in the world.
happy to contribute advice or a beer!
Of course it's when I'm out of town
Just in time for the I5 closure! - Hope you don't need to drive anywhere; but Happy Birthday to your daughter
I see East Glisan pizza is still open, they do a solid Detroit style ontop of the regular variations. Was my go to when I was living there (in case you’re up for pizza two nights in a row).
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A herd of goats in my back yard.
When we bought our house in 2012, the backyard was full shade.
Right behind the house is a steep hillside, which had three tall hemlock trees and a few other evergreens - all in various stages of dying. Once those were removed, the sudden full sun exposure caused an explosion of weeds. It's too steep/rocky to just keep mowed. I've tried various methods to keep it looking somewhat managed, including something that looks like a hedge trimmer on a long pole, and at other times ignoring the problem. Ignoring at least brought some now large-ish self-seeded redbud trees, but the rest of the slope continued to be a mix of thorns, tall weeds, invasives, and poison ivy. It also has a bad tendency to look fine, and then go completely out of control in a matter of days.
I got a few prices over the years for brush removal, most wanted a lot of money to cut it all down or spray everything. Then I found out we had a local company that used goats for brush removal. Much to my surprise, our otherwise fairly restrictive village has nothing against temporarily keeping livestock right in town. The price was almost half what anyone else wanted to do the job - and we get a yard full of goats!
The crew of 22 has been hard at work since yesterday evening, and there is nothing leafy remaining within six feet of the ground. They don't seem to be interested in the black raspberry canes themselves, but most everything else is gone. What is left looks a lot more managed, and will easily be removed with the tools I have. I think we'll have these guys back early next summer when everything explodes again.
At some point we should figure out what to plant back there to keep the weeds under control.
Right behind the house is a steep hillside, which had three tall hemlock trees and a few other evergreens - all in various stages of dying. Once those were removed, the sudden full sun exposure caused an explosion of weeds. It's too steep/rocky to just keep mowed. I've tried various methods to keep it looking somewhat managed, including something that looks like a hedge trimmer on a long pole, and at other times ignoring the problem. Ignoring at least brought some now large-ish self-seeded redbud trees, but the rest of the slope continued to be a mix of thorns, tall weeds, invasives, and poison ivy. It also has a bad tendency to look fine, and then go completely out of control in a matter of days.
I got a few prices over the years for brush removal, most wanted a lot of money to cut it all down or spray everything. Then I found out we had a local company that used goats for brush removal. Much to my surprise, our otherwise fairly restrictive village has nothing against temporarily keeping livestock right in town. The price was almost half what anyone else wanted to do the job - and we get a yard full of goats!
The crew of 22 has been hard at work since yesterday evening, and there is nothing leafy remaining within six feet of the ground. They don't seem to be interested in the black raspberry canes themselves, but most everything else is gone. What is left looks a lot more managed, and will easily be removed with the tools I have. I think we'll have these guys back early next summer when everything explodes again.
At some point we should figure out what to plant back there to keep the weeds under control.
Assuming they are taken care of they have a pretty good life, from one big buffet to another, lots of variety.
@dad They are definitely well cared for, all of them have names. She predicted they would be super excited by the low branches of our bald cypress tree since they've not seen one before, and sure enough, that was the first thing gone.
I have seen crews of hired out goats at job sites I've worked at in the past. They're super fun to have around. That's awesome you get them in your yard!
22 goats? Imagine the smell…
(We had a couple of Billy goats when I was young and the female family members thought their stank was unbearable, while the male family members —including me back then— had no issues with them, and must have had a very different sense of smell. Hormonal, probably.)
(We had a couple of Billy goats when I was young and the female family members thought their stank was unbearable, while the male family members —including me back then— had no issues with them, and must have had a very different sense of smell. Hormonal, probably.)
@mare Our yard smelled like a petting zoo. Luckily they were only here for 24 hours, and all of our neighbors thought it was really cool.
Now that's the kind of Instagram fodder that my feed needs, @Argie
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Guitar body clamped in a vise, hand-held drill with an absurdly long drill bit making a very oblique hole in the middle of the body
I've been working on this for a couple of weeks now, and getting into the home stretch. This is from last night, drilling the last of the relatively dicey holes that it needs for electric connections. I got that ridiculous drill bit at an estate sale earlier this summer for $2 - i was planning to start this project, and i grabbed the bit as soon as i saw it, knowing i'd need it for this.
(ignore all the dimples in the neck pocket: they aren't holes, just centers from a forstner bit used to open up most of that space)
I'm grateful for our local tool library, which has a really nice wood shop. I did all the initial planing and jointing work there, then the drum sander on the glued-up slab, and spindle sander for shaping after roughing out the body. Their tools saved me dozens of hours and massively improved the result.
I should be able to post a complete shot in a few days, after a few coats of varnish and the slow drying time in our otherwise perfect early fall weather.
(ignore all the dimples in the neck pocket: they aren't holes, just centers from a forstner bit used to open up most of that space)
I'm grateful for our local tool library, which has a really nice wood shop. I did all the initial planing and jointing work there, then the drum sander on the glued-up slab, and spindle sander for shaping after roughing out the body. Their tools saved me dozens of hours and massively improved the result.
I should be able to post a complete shot in a few days, after a few coats of varnish and the slow drying time in our otherwise perfect early fall weather.
Man, you're always up to something!
Go man, go!
@ba it’s my whole deal!
@MackReed It’s super fun to make something with nice wood, I’m excited to play it. I swear my next project is going to use a faster-drying finish so I don’t have to wait around at the end.
@MackReed It’s super fun to make something with nice wood, I’m excited to play it. I swear my next project is going to use a faster-drying finish so I don’t have to wait around at the end.
@wjcstp You know what dries in 24-48 hours? https://www.acehardware.com/departme...
@ba sold!
i miss building guitars, but i do not miss drilling those holes. my hole puckers just thinking about it. good luck, it looks fantastic!!
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a sad eyed little grey kitten, sitting in a bubble bath, with a cluster of bubbles atop his head, on the verge of a very sad meow
from one of the many zillion cat rescue accounts i am fed on instagram. this sad eyed li’l dude who popped up recently is my heart of hearts
original post (two additional pics) from charlies__army on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
original post (two additional pics) from charlies__army on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
his face is how i feel after yet another 80-minute meeting about “ai workflow”
Can you have a cat in your "new" (I know it's been awhile) place?
@williwaw i could but would have to put down an additional deposit IIRC.
i think about getting a cat now and again, as i really do miss having them around, but i'm just not in a good place to care for an animal, for a variety of reasons.
i think about getting a cat now and again, as i really do miss having them around, but i'm just not in a good place to care for an animal, for a variety of reasons.
@nikkuneko our workflow is for people to yell "FIGURE OUT TO USE AI" at us in our dev meetings
1) Just use AI!
2) Also, you have a quota of...100 tokens
3) Also, we have sacked all of your other teammates, Claude is your team now.
2) Also, you have a quota of...100 tokens
3) Also, we have sacked all of your other teammates, Claude is your team now.
@B6FA798A3449 oh god, it's like you're in the zoom meeting with me
@pk srsly, it's so frigging exhausting, getting policed daily for not wanting to rely on a deeply faulty tool.
[tl;dr, the exhausting daily whiplash between "just train claude to replace you" and "can you make it good like when you do it by hand, except faster like chatgpt?"]
@pk srsly, it's so frigging exhausting, getting policed daily for not wanting to rely on a deeply faulty tool.
[tl;dr, the exhausting daily whiplash between "just train claude to replace you" and "can you make it good like when you do it by hand, except faster like chatgpt?"]
Ah, understandable - so much better to know you are in that place than try to force it, a thousand times over. But whenever you are ready, hopefully you can get a very distinguished gentleman (or lady!) :)
Yesterday I got 2 work emails about AI: one revising my goals for the rest of the year to find 2-3 uses for AI in my workflow (I will not) and the second telling people how to choose the cheapest AI model to use, because the manager doesn’t want to have to explain cost overages for tokens.
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photograph of a brown bear laying on its back in the green grass, one paw extended up above the top of the screen, as it looks lazily toward the camera
evening palate cleanser!
from a gallery of the albino brown bears "salt" and "pepper" living at polar park in norway:
https://www.norwaysbest.com/en...
https://www.norwaysbest.com/en...
https://www.norwaysbest.com/no...
from a gallery of the albino brown bears "salt" and "pepper" living at polar park in norway:
https://www.norwaysbest.com/en...
https://www.norwaysbest.com/en...
https://www.norwaysbest.com/no...
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a 3x3 grid of numbered, illustrated geese. Text at the top of the image "On a scale of medieval goose how are you feeling today?"
I'm number 8 for today.
also 8
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999
9, still waiting for this mfer to finally bite my head off and be done with it.
1 at work, 5 on projects
SEVEN WITH THE GOOD DRUGS
Got a cold, so 4
9 squad all day long
2️⃣
Number 9?, number 9?, number 9?...
It's a gray goose, almost pigeon, day. so 4.
2
5, always and forever.
Day started off at a solid 9, but jumped up to 2 somehow.
Goose was not valued.
3 all day, and all of the night
It's Friday so it's def 9
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CDN media
early onset comb-over syndrome
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A door with the message: "Even though its all been unplugged a constant hum" (found in a derelict factory)
a 60 Hz hum or.....
Hum:
5. (intr) slang Brit and Irish to smell unpleasant
6. (intr) slang Austral to scrounge
5. (intr) slang Brit and Irish to smell unpleasant
6. (intr) slang Austral to scrounge
Tinnitus
Quantum fields
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Stack of various board games
On Salt Spring Island and staying in a tiny cottage which still has room for this stunning selection of games.
After a few beers I might create Battle of Bieber Dirty Mind
After a few beers I might create Battle of Bieber Dirty Mind
go40 puzzle
"you scrabbled my biebership!"
You drew "Piss in a mop bucket", go back 5 squares.
GINNY-O
We read through many of the cards of the Bieber game, some of them are toxic, more of them are trivial, but omg a good number of them probably really helped thousands of kids report trauma or at least support friends. What a game.
We own Dirty Minds. I'd never seen my late father so embarrassed about chewing gum in my life.
Lovely island, hope to return someday.
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It’s good to be home.
What a good looking family.
@jpoulos Thank you!
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
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Glurge Instagram image: "Ohio's Dolly Parton License Plates Help Send Free Books to Children", only the license plate (with a picture of Dolly on it) is the vanity plate "LUV DP".
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This reminds me of an old 1970s pinball cabinet.
the king
how's it... uh... hanging
our lad may have been tripping balls
I think I met this guy in Alberto's maloca on my third aya journey... a close relation at least.
@Lockjaw That was my very first thought on seeing this.