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One of my 5 new jobs
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A computer monitor displaying the text
Training will start at 12:05
Please stay on mute
Camera is optional, most people keep it off
Training will start at 12:05
Please stay on mute
Camera is optional, most people keep it off
Of the many new jobs I've gotten in the last few weeks, writing and running training sessions for people interested in protecting the residents of Minneapolis is probably the most rewarding.
bencmeissner
Thank you
❤️
My council member is the best
The Cliterati
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Post from Threads. The text reads
BREAKING: The feminist mafia group that calls itself "The Cliterati" says they are currently collecting all the sexually explicit texts that Republican members of Congress have sent to female staffers, and will publish them in a giant exposé in March.
BREAKING: The feminist mafia group that calls itself "The Cliterati" says they are currently collecting all the sexually explicit texts that Republican members of Congress have sent to female staffers, and will publish them in a giant exposé in March.
Also, certain none of the agents could find them.
@bencmeissner H ha ha ha!
@bencmeissner perfect!
Brass Solidarity and friends
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A photo of people gathered to listen to a brass band. The foreground is filled with various folks in winter gear standing on the street. The band is on the sidewalk. Several tuba bells are visible. There are houses in the background. A few bare trees are lit by the police lights from vehicles helping to direct traffic in the area.
Brass Solidarity* and friends playing at the site of Renee Nicole Good's murder by an ICE agent.
I love this city.
*Previously: https://mltshp.com/p/1QMHI
I love this city.
*Previously: https://mltshp.com/p/1QMHI
I finally found an instance where the MPD was helpful. A cop handed out hand warmers to people in the crowd. Though it was a balmy 33 degrees and I, at least, didn't even have a hat or gloves on as I watched.
It’s encouraging that the local police are at least trying to look helpful
I listened to the interview on the Daily with Chief O'hara today. While some of it was questionable (violent crime rates post 2020), I want to believe he's on our side. At the very least, he understands these goons are putting all cops in the crosshairs.
What I saw
Outside the US Embassy in London*
me_irl
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The guy who was purposefully and carefully cutting a chainsaw with a hacksaw looked around, got mad, and left.
@urlnotfound 🤣
Chicken dinner.
Final Humiliation
Better to choose the bear
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Woman wearing a bear costume
having spent some of my teens sharing a mascot costume with other teens, i can only imagine that thing is funky.
the funk is why i will not perform as Santa Claus
That's not Nastaaaja....
St. Cuthbert
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A stained-glass window showing two otters with detailed, stippled fur, one on its hind legs and the other lying down and looking at the viewer, against a golden circle (possibly a saintly aura). Below the otters, there is text: Do not judge each day by the harvest your reap. There is a decorative border to the window, which the otters and golden circle are in front of, a purple knotwork-y dragon motif.
source: https://cdn.bsky.app
Stained glass window by Helen Whittaker, St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North Yorkshire (2020)
"The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea."
Stained glass window by Helen Whittaker, St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North Yorkshire (2020)
"The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea."
Those look like river otters. Get it straight, St. Cuthbert.
off to work
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Oh good golly! What a find!
A New York plate no less. 30 years later and the joke keeps going
It's likely a fake plate due to a MO Statute: // Trucks with a GVWR of 12,000 pounds or higher are only required to have a front plate, under the assumption that the rear will be covered by something being towed. Note that the GVWR is the weight capacity of the vehicle, not the actual weight of the vehicle, so a truck still qualifies to only use one plate even if the owner never intends to pull a trailer. For reference, I think some of the more powerful models of F-250 might hit that GVWR, and all of the F-350s and F-450s do. //
Kaiju wisdom
Singing vigil
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A group of people stand on a street corner singing.
Was a part of a really cool “Singing vigil” in Minneapolis today. Normally I’m not a “spend Sunday afternoon walking and singing with strangers” kind of guy, but this sounded like a good way to put some positivity into the world. The route went past a couple abduction sites and through some hard hit neighborhoods, the songs were about love and solidarity and abolishing ICE. It seemed very well received by Latino and Somali neighbors.
There were lots of people shooting video, so I'll post a link when I find one.
Edit: This FB video is the only one I can find so far. Thankfully accessible without a login.
https://www.facebook.com/watch...
There were lots of people shooting video, so I'll post a link when I find one.
Edit: This FB video is the only one I can find so far. Thankfully accessible without a login.
https://www.facebook.com/watch...
Thank you.
That’s a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon
Bringing this kind of solidarity and beauty and positivity and community into a space, in acknowledgement of unjustice, and in the face of it, is the best example of what I can only call blessing something.
beacon
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A figure stands on a craggy point overlooking the ocean, one hand on its hip. The sky is the deep blue of a cloudy late evening or early morning. The figure is wearing a dark coat, and has a traffic signal for a head. The yellow light is illuminated, casting a dim yellowish tinge on the rock in front of it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
The personification of “caution: slippery when wet”
Sketches of postage stamps, pt. 1
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Sketch of a US postage stamp, with the stamp next to the sketch. Stamp is titled Fire Pumper 1860s. USA 20c. All in red.
I recently dug out my childhood stamp collection, and thought it would be a fun exercise to sketch some of them. This is the first, of hopefully many, attempts.
There was once an art professor, who painted stamps on his envelopes.
Okay, that's really cool! Do you have one of the first Christmas stamps from 1962? That's the year I was born and it's one of my favorites.
@Lockjaw Do you recall what was on the stamp? It's possible I have it. I have more than 1,000 loose stamps cut from letters in my collection box.
In the Minuteman collection book, it looks like the Christmas stamp from 1962 is a circular wreath and a couple of candles next to it (but I don't have the stamp mounted on that page). There may be others, though, and I may have it in my pile of loose stamps.
In the Minuteman collection book, it looks like the Christmas stamp from 1962 is a circular wreath and a couple of candles next to it (but I don't have the stamp mounted on that page). There may be others, though, and I may have it in my pile of loose stamps.
Loaves
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Two loaves of sourdough bread sit on a cooling rack.
I've been at the Sourdough game for the past year and a half or so and my flavor has always been quite good (IMO) and I'm now starting to make the loaves look good too!
Nice! I dabbled at sourdough over the pandemic and quickly moved on to other hobbies, respect for refining your form.
Beauties!
Loved experimenting with sourdough but the effort/reward ratio wasn't there for a household of two people that eat more rice than bread. If the house was full enough to justify baking a couple times a week I would probably still be in the game.
Remaining protest
Busytown is lit
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illustrated scene from Richard Scarry's Busytown that shows animals walking on the streets, working in shops, buying groceries, driving interestingly shaped vehicles, and flying aircraft. In big red letters where the book's title would be, it reads "ICE Is Not Welcome In My Town"
I wonder, why does Huckle wear leiderhosen? fashion forward cat?
Always wondered the same about the Euro influences. He evidently traveled a lot and emigrated to Switzerland later in life.
Pershing Square
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A color photograph of a young white woman with long hair, standing on a street, wearing a tiara and a shoulder bag and staring directly at the camera. She's draped in a trans pride flag. Behind her is an office building with people milling around. She's holding something that looks a bit like a crystal glass, emitting huge plumes of smoke.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Hundreds of people showed up to Pershing Square in LA to protest at the ICE facility. (She's burning sage.)
Hundreds of people showed up to Pershing Square in LA to protest at the ICE facility. (She's burning sage.)
Pretty picture, but I went to the rally downtown yesterday and left early because I couldn't take the smoke from people burning stuff like this.
That's My Kiddo!
the signs
me and my shadow
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A person walks in a gray, featureless space, holding a small dark blue-gray cloud on a string as though it's a balloon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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you know who else worked to take over the central bank?
@wjcstp No, I don't, bets, Nixon, Reagan.
@wjcstp I’m sure the announcement of the Trump Youth program is coming any day now.
Dead Kennedys - "California Uber Alles"
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Official music video for the Dead Kennedys "California Uber Alles"
Van Eileen Eats
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I just stumbled on this pic of local landmark, Van Eileen Eats burger spot.
She arrived here in 1950 as a caravan via a Mr. Bower and his mother, Eileen. Then in 1967 someone stuck a stick of gelignite under her and blew her up (I'll have to research why that happened). So they rebuilt her into this metal version and she stood there until 1998.
Pretty much everyone of a certain age in Perth has rolled through there for a hamburger or fillet steak burger (if you were posh). I fed there many times after a nearby surf.
Sadly as this area - Cottesloe - built up, the council wanted it gone (rumour has it that a councillor lived across the road and didn't like the late night crowds). So they increased the rent massively and eventually shut her down as she no longer met health regulations.
A Perth/Cottesloe icon, sadly missed
She arrived here in 1950 as a caravan via a Mr. Bower and his mother, Eileen. Then in 1967 someone stuck a stick of gelignite under her and blew her up (I'll have to research why that happened). So they rebuilt her into this metal version and she stood there until 1998.
Pretty much everyone of a certain age in Perth has rolled through there for a hamburger or fillet steak burger (if you were posh). I fed there many times after a nearby surf.
Sadly as this area - Cottesloe - built up, the council wanted it gone (rumour has it that a councillor lived across the road and didn't like the late night crowds). So they increased the rent massively and eventually shut her down as she no longer met health regulations.
A Perth/Cottesloe icon, sadly missed
Cottesloe councillors being total cunts? What are the odds of that?
@jordanbrock Who woulda thought?!
and pokey was mean to me too, dog
New guys
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A couple new guys running around the place. Doc in the background, Little Guy facing away in the foreground.
Also hi mltshp!
Also hi mltshp!
kafkaesque! hello! good luck with your chaos quadrupeds
Sibs? I have brothers. They are awesome (despite the fact they're hunting each other right now at 2am).
And congrats to you all!)
Pole's apart
mshltp
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sorry for the bad clipping masks.
did it with a track pad and I'm high.
did it with a track pad and I'm high.
Omg
Cheesus ball.
