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Instagram screenshot of a smug-looking green parrot bundled into a towel as though it were a baby, being held like a man.
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"Everything is terrible, but the SF Fire Department recently assisted in a wild parrot rescue and the *photos*"
https://www.instagram.com/p...==
"Everything is terrible, but the SF Fire Department recently assisted in a wild parrot rescue and the *photos*"
https://www.instagram.com/p...==
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An old mill building with a clock tower in the background. A river runs in front of it and a great blue heron is on a rock in the middle of this river.
Apparently that heron (lower left) is just always hanging out around there. I remember this building from when it was Digital Equipment Corporation HQ and I moved away before it became anything different. It's now some well-maintained office park.
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Orange and black whistles
Orange is a lovely choice.
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Been a rough week. First she losses her nemesis, Dolly. Now she's on her 5th wash and still smells a little like skunk.
But she’s exotic!
She could have any man she wants.
My happiness depends on you, Jolene.
@BMK well, any man with an impaired sense of smell
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a picture of the ground which is asphalt except for two slabs of granite one of which says STOW and one of which says HUDSON
Staying with my sister for a little bit and the rail trail by her house (like, can literally walk to it) opened. It's nice.
https://www.masscentralrailtrail.org/
https://www.masscentralrailtrail.org/
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Three pictures of plated food. The first shows slices of fish arranged in a circle around rice. The second shows thick noodles with beef, grated daikon, thin slices of egg, green onions, a tomato, and half a green citrus fruit. The last image shows a bowl of thin noodles with a dark fish on top, and above that there is a plate with three pieces of sushi with the same fish on top.
Yoko and I visited a town near Lake Biwa, Japan the past two weekends.
1. Funazushi. This is a fish from the lake that has been fermented. It tastes like fish salami. I like it. This one has eggs in it, which makes it about 4x as expensive as without eggs. The stuff in the middle is the rice that it is packed into to ferment. That tastes good, too.
2. Cold udon noodles with local beef. The beef is warm and tender and slightly rich. I'm not sure if the broth picks up flavor from the beef, or if the broth is made from beef, but it is delicious and sticks to your lips. The citrus fruit is a sudachi; it adds a lot to the whole dish.
3. Grilled saba (mackerel) somen and sushi. Also delicious. This restaurant is popular and this somen dish is pretty much all they sell.
Not pictured: Ayu (smelt) so fresh it is still kicking when brought to your table for you to grill and eat. I thought it might be too graphic to include.
1. Funazushi. This is a fish from the lake that has been fermented. It tastes like fish salami. I like it. This one has eggs in it, which makes it about 4x as expensive as without eggs. The stuff in the middle is the rice that it is packed into to ferment. That tastes good, too.
2. Cold udon noodles with local beef. The beef is warm and tender and slightly rich. I'm not sure if the broth picks up flavor from the beef, or if the broth is made from beef, but it is delicious and sticks to your lips. The citrus fruit is a sudachi; it adds a lot to the whole dish.
3. Grilled saba (mackerel) somen and sushi. Also delicious. This restaurant is popular and this somen dish is pretty much all they sell.
Not pictured: Ayu (smelt) so fresh it is still kicking when brought to your table for you to grill and eat. I thought it might be too graphic to include.
The funazushi intrigues me.
These look delicious. What's the texture of the rice the fermented fish was packed into?
@WikiAdam it's a soft, moist mush. Very salty. IIRC, there's not much to chew. The rice is cooked before it is combined, but I don't know if it looks like what you'd have for dinner or what. I'm guessing it breaks down more during the fermentation.
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A pencil sketch of a nude woman with long dark hair seen from behind, on her knees, giving a bear a hug. The bear is frowning but accepts it.
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Edvard Munch, Sketch of Woman and Bear. Undated. (I really love the kind of Jules Feiffer line on this!)
Edvard Munch, Sketch of Woman and Bear. Undated. (I really love the kind of Jules Feiffer line on this!)
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Fart free water?….. don’t think that’s solely water.
Surely a tribute to turn of the century industrialist turned cult leader W. Fart Freewater
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comic panel with a woman saying "THAT SOUNDS AWFUL, HOW MANY OF THE CLOWNS DIED?"
"The count keeps rising. They've been pulling them out of the car wreck for hours now."
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In Re: https://mltshp.com/p/1RV7L
I can't remember when I started this. Sometime in January maybe? Anyway,I decided to make a big ball from the wax at work just so when customers ask me what that is, I can say "That's the whole ball of wax!"
I'll see myself out.
I can't remember when I started this. Sometime in January maybe? Anyway,I decided to make a big ball from the wax at work just so when customers ask me what that is, I can say "That's the whole ball of wax!"
I'll see myself out.
I've made much smaller versions of this, and it's satisfying, respect for carrying it through to this size.
After a few more pounds, make a sculpture of the cow's head.
^ what Art said.
I love this.
Scrolling down, I thought the title said, "Baby Eel Cheese," which sounds perfectly disgusting.
@shitleopard I saw that the other day. Made me snort coffee!
@shitleopard the comments on that have made my September worth living
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May I suggest *5* am for a wake up time?
@bencmeissner My alarm is set for 5 AM. For over two decades I have been waking up before the alarm.
@ardgedee Nice! I love the morning time to do stuff for me before the world gets a hold of me.
5am wake up, walk at dawn with podcasts and cold brew and sending voice notes back and forth with friends, then bath at 6pm and bed at 7pm is how I'm navigating menopause and healing my lifelong jacked-up cortisol levels.
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Bundles of dried flax awaiting processing into yarn. Among the bundles are 2 flaxy bird nests, one with a blue egg in it.
A weaver on Facebook shared a discovery in her flax pile. These bundles will be retted (waterlogged to loosen the outer layer) and then cracked to access the thin golden fibers inside. The end result will be linen fabric.
This just delights me.
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Several figures photographed from high up in a street scene. Everyone has a green rectangle around them with the corresponding text "Person". A man in the middle of the image is wearing a bright, dazzling shirt which helps him remain undetected by the AI camera surveillance system.
"No, I don't have terrible taste in clothing, I just don't want to become part of someone's dataset".
Of course, Flock, et al will just adjust their pattern-recognition to accommodate this sort of thing. It's sort of like how using hand-sanitizer supposedly results in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Of course, Flock, et al will just adjust their pattern-recognition to accommodate this sort of thing. It's sort of like how using hand-sanitizer supposedly results in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Yeah he says he only knows this working against a single model and I assumed it would require updating at some point, still it's nice that someone is trying.
Brb. Heading to Dan Flashes.
this only works on certain datasets, but please, more of this
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Image shows the Knight of Wands card. The Knight is shown as a young Welsh man walking through a forest. He is using a witch’s stang as a walking stick. The stang is made from Blackthorn and is flowering. There is a flame floating between the stang’s prongs. There are forest creatures watching him, including crows, foxes, salamanders, and Will-‘I-the-Wisps.
Another card completed for my upcoming Feral Path Tarot. The Knight of Wands starring Benjamin Stimpson, author of one of my favorite books on ancestral magic (Ancestral Whispers), and distantly related to me in Lukumí. I hope you enjoy my take on this card. I heard one tarot reader call the Knight of Wands the “Official fuckboy card of tarot”. 🤣 Do with that knowledge what you will.
Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator. No AI. ©2026 Davezilla. All rights reserved. #tarot #tarotdesign
Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator. No AI. ©2026 Davezilla. All rights reserved. #tarot #tarotdesign
brilliant
Saruman! Your daffodils are broken!
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Dolly Parton in "9 to 5," measuring out lengths of chain at a hardware store.
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Don Martin illustration of a man dancing with a lampshade on his head with a bored audience of three watching from a couch
Come *on*, Luanne, you know what this is!
Potrzebie
Made me what I am today.
@snarkout ++
Potrzebie X 2
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A dark, crumbling castle rises from a shadowy blue-green landscape. The sun blazes behind it at the base, casting a blur of yellow light into the sky and reflecting off the side of the castle. A small arched doorway near the base glows bright green. In front, a winding gray path curves toward the foreground, the greenish light from the doorway reflecting off it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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sigorney weaver smiling with the alien
not a cellphone in sight
"Cheese!"
"We saw you from across the bar, and..."
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the kid from the weird kazoo video saying "fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun" but instead it says "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck"
a serendipitous coincidence that this gif was posted in our local discord after watching this https://mltshp.com/p/1RVCI
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My son and I in a kitchen holding bags of peppers
Skinned, chopped, and bagged a bushel and a half of hatch chilis with my son
I don't remember this episode of Breaking Bad.
The best smell on the planet is Hatch, NM on a crisp morning when you fire uo the propane burner and roast up a bag in a random parking lot.
@1f2frfbf they were roasting up a bushels down by the tracks in Portland Oregon today. Brought me back to Santa Fe
WTAF - who is that ADULT to your right?
(And how did you — and I! — end up with all this white hair??)
@caitlinburke ha! He's 21. It's crazy
Wow!
Waaaay up here in the PNW, our local grocery store has Hatch Week, and they roast in the parking lot. It is bliss.
Great idea. I need to suggest that to the local stores here ...
omggggg easy-e is a whole-ass adult!
@caitlinburke @robritz for reference https://mltshp.com/p/1RVC0
@artwells I still remember the album covers you made with him and F many many years ago.
jfc, is your kid like 6'7"? I do remember him being a lot smaller than that
@cristin 6'2"
The picture is a bit deceiving
The picture is a bit deceiving
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Three Calvin and Hobbes strips repurposed to be Paul undergoing the test of the gom jabbar from "Dune". In the first, Calvin on the examination table at the doctor's office is approached by the doctor, bearing a box. "What's in the box?" "Pain." In the second, Calvin's mom in the waiting room recites the litany against fear. In the third, in the first panel Calvin yells, "You can contain my body but you can't chain my spirit! Walls can't confine it! Laws can't restrain it! You can try to leave a message but my spirit screens it calls!" In the second panel, loud screaming is heard; Calvin's mother jumps out of her chair. In the third, she asks a disgruntled Calvin, "What did the Reverend Mother say?" He replies, "All history up to this point has been spent preparing the world for my presence."
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Based on how expertly the text is arranged, I’m guessing this is the work of Jeff Rupp, legendary and prolific contributor to the Spiffposting Facebook group
@BennyTheIcepick i love this intel!
Amazing
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baby's face
the guy with me in this photo only, like, yesterday
https://mltshp.com/p/1RVAW
https://mltshp.com/p/1RVAW
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A 3D printer on pavers on a bench.
Decided to see if many pounds of concrete would suppress the sound the vibrations getting to the bench surface, cutting the noise.
Results: Worth the fifteen bucks and all the old man noises I made setting it up.
Results: Worth the fifteen bucks and all the old man noises I made setting it up.
Damn, that's some disco macrame.
takes care of cd jitter, too
Did you start with one slab and keep adding until you were happy with the results? Just curious because this is totally something I would do
@jive_t I went to buy one, put one in the cart and looked at it. I put another on top of it. Then another. Then another. Then another. Then I thought "now you are just being silly". I put two back.
I put them all in and was happy with the vibrometer readings. I might take one out, because it's a bit high. We'll see what it's like when I get the top.
I put them all in and was happy with the vibrometer readings. I might take one out, because it's a bit high. We'll see what it's like when I get the top.
you kids and your turntable mounts are just taking things too far
Printer on a paver
I know, I know
It's serious
I know, I know
It's serious
Many years ago I built speaker stands on my computer desk to get the speakers up to ear level. They were those cheezy little Koss speakers that were included with every PC computer purchase and ubiquitous at yard sales back in the day -- they sounded surprisingly pretty good and detailed, considering.
Anyway, the speaker stands were made out of bricks I sourced from the city's reuse store. About fifty pounds worth, which I know because they were sold by the pound, and because I bicycled home with them in a big nylon canvas courier bag and my shoulder and back hurt for fucking days after.
So, twenty five pounds of bricks per channel. I don't know if the stability and inert mass improved fidelity but having them at ear level was pretty nice.
Anyway, the speaker stands were made out of bricks I sourced from the city's reuse store. About fifty pounds worth, which I know because they were sold by the pound, and because I bicycled home with them in a big nylon canvas courier bag and my shoulder and back hurt for fucking days after.
So, twenty five pounds of bricks per channel. I don't know if the stability and inert mass improved fidelity but having them at ear level was pretty nice.
"because it's a bit high"
Aren't we all...?
Aren't we all...?