Found the same thing in the condenser at my old house once, except it was more intact and mummified.

Surprising lack of scorch marks on the wire insulation.

It happens. We had a press go down a few years ago and when I opened the panel, the rats had been nesting in an unfortunate place.

"That's right, Robin, they're mushrooms."

@me3dia ++

aaaaaand, i guess i can use this joke post to poll MLTSHP people:

what is your desktop and/or mobile browsing experience these days?

i guess it's come to front of mind setting up a new(-to-me) laptop lately and cleaning up configurations migrated from an ancient machine.

would love to know your preferred desktop and mobile browsers, your search engine prefs, readers/aggregators, extensions and hacks - all the good stuff that keeps your internet firehose palatable.

have at!

For extensions: Ublock Origin all day, and I've recently added this "Staight to Web" extension that forces Google to default to Web Results: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... As the dev says "This won't improve search results, but should give you a better access to the information you are actually looking for, without being drowned in recommendations, AI generated content, etc." I'm happy with it so far.

@ufez i love uBlock Origin! it absolutely save my life.
and whoa, thank you for the google addon! this will make things so much easier when i use google.

@ufez Thx!

Pi-Hole all day, every day, three times every weekend. A part of this nutritious breakfast.

Firefox with uBlock Origin, Orion with uBlock Origin as backup. Orion is the Safari browser core modified to support both Chrome and Firefox extensions, is fully featured in its free mode; subscriptions only provide access to Kagi for bug reports and developer resources.

noai.duckduckgo.com as default search engine everywhere.

Greasemonkey (Javascript) and Stylish (CSS) plugins for tweaking individual websites to my will. They work in both FF and Orion. Greasemonkey scripts in FF don't always copy and paste cleanly into Orion, but otherwise things work mostly OK.

Can email you my blocklist resources if you'd like. A pastebomb here would not be nice.

Diving into the Greasemonkey scripts...

A bunch for handling Youtube:
* Adds "before:2999" to search queries because for some reason that prompts Youtube to stop inserting unrelated "recommendations" into search results.
* Removes "start_radio=1" from URLs to prevent autoplay.
* Redirects Youtube Shorts to Youtube video UI
* Strip Youtube tracker/referrer strings in links

Redirect Wikipedia mobile UI to desktop (for desktop browsers)

Insert links in Google and DDG to retry the current query in the other search engine.

Various tweaks to Bandcamp pages: Displays album's total playtime, makes the currently-playing track a little more noticeable.

@ardgedee this is great, thank you! TIL about pi-hole. i think i will try setting that up when i get home.

i've been finding myself using the no-ai DDG far more often at home and it has become my default in FF. orion sounds great and i may give it a try to see how i feel about it.

I run DIVERSION off a USB stick on my router (ASUS flashed with Merlin). That keeps our household and my workplace generally ad-free. Search results enshitification still needs improvement.

@samh nice! that sounds like such a clean setup for the whole house.

Desktop: uBlock Origin
iOS: Wipr 2 (I bought it during a sale)
Misc: been meaning to get around to setting up PiHole on my NAS

@spoetz ooh, Wipr 2 looks GREAT! thank you, i'd been looking for a good mobile blocker and this fits the bill perfectly.

i still don’t know what that looks like.

I have a friend / cousin, an editor. They gave me an interesting description of editing a ~memoir whose author used an AI in the writing process, and then went back and forth between the AI and my, extremely able editor cousin, to finish the manuscript. The author prompted the AI that he was deferring to the editor, for some things, and also took valid suggestions from the AI with regard to including more human and personal feelings about remembrances.

I found this to be revelatory.

I've never had a chance to use it because my job isn't that kind of a job but I imagine the temptation to use it for people who struggle with ideas or aren't good writers (but want to be) would be hard to resist.

I concur

miso butter, sansho, green onions

There was a place here that made a pizza potato. It was damn good.

Which raises the question...what led to a decision being made that 18 is definitely the minimum age to be buying fish?...

gen alpha is all right

My boys are borderline GenZ/GenA and, while I'm glad they're both really good kids, I just gotta say they don't crime nearly enough.

title!

I've been to Boba Burger. It's legit.

holy fuck i love this so much

@tweedlydo Apparently this was one of his favorite songs. There are a LOT of great recordings of him playing it.

man, yet another reminder that i really need more sun ra in my life

@nikkuneko If you have Xfinity, the PBS American Masters episode on Sun Ra is available to stream for free. If not, I think you can stream it on PBS websites.

Maybe slightly tangential but this is a wonderful Sun Ra album in a similar vein.

https://www.discogs.com/release...

@poorusher Cool!

For years there was no document of Sun Ra’s 1989 “Disney Period” outside of bootlegs. That all changed in 1999 with the release on Leo Records of Second Star to the Right (Salute to Walt Disney), featuring tracks from a show in Ulrichsberg, Austria. This is an audience recording, and someone close to the taper can be heard throughout the show laughing aloud in disbelief at what’s unfolding onstage.

https://www.covermesongs.com/2024...

steady diet of nothing

This Isn't Happiness vibes

Mercury tears.

wins again

double cheeked up

TIL the ps5 still uses discs!

Land O Lakes butter eat your heart out
(Please tell me someone else had a weird aunt who relocated the woman’s knees to look like boobs)

fantastic!

@tonyb thank you! 😬

Cool as heck.

It's true. He's an idiot.

Dunno about the first time. Twenty years ago it was much the same.

I saw someone's Bluesky skeet that was like, "Oh this fucking idiot (pulse increases) had absolutely no long-term strategic plan (pulse increases) and now we're all faced with the existential threat (pulse increases dramatically) that West Ham will get relegated (pulse returns to normal)"

and "is he dead yet"

Nice! Have we already bugged you to join https://mltshp.com/shutterbubs ?

Lovely!

@bezt ooooh I shall!

That you can see the wood grain on that makes me shiver at heavy this board must have been (to modern boards).

He's got those guns not from surfing/swimming but from hauling that board around.

It looks like a giant spear head.

@williwaw looks huge and heavy for sure

@poorusher there's a cool interactive 3D model of one used at Leighton beach , the next beach to the south of Cottesloe, that lives in our state museum
https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/toothpic...

Artie! The longest board…
In the world!
#p&p

I absolutely would have wiped on that board. So jiggly!

@Argie, oh I LOVE the photo of it in the collection on the little dolly

https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/sites...

Hilarious. And I read that in his voice.

Reuters recently DID unmask him. Two guys that work together. One was Robin Gunningham, who started out as a stencil artist under the name Robin Banks, which became Mr. Banks, which became Banksy. The other is Robert Del Naja (frontman of Massive Attack). They worked together and separately. Banksy says that De Naja is the better illustrator, by far. So does Banksy’s former agent.

@Davezilla “ I'll stand in front of you
Take the force of the blow, protection”

@Davezilla I maintain that there is a secret army of "Banksy's" trained in secret by Damien Hirst. It's like James Bond or the Dread Pirate Roberts. The original Banksy sold out years ago, now Hirst is gleefully living out his Warhol fantasies funded by his ill-gotten millions. I have no proof and I'm trying to make conspiracies fun again. Thank you for picking up my poorly xeroxed newsletter.

@d09m4t1c I appreciate you

@1f2frfbf I Iike this theory. A lot.

INCONTHEIVABLE!

would

death on a stick

Half tempted to flag as nsfw because droooool

i think this photo just clogged my arteries

Sadly a MAGAt fundamentalist. So long and thanks for all the memes/fish

His absolutely unhinged articles in the nutjob rag World News Daily were a source of constant amusement in the atheist groups I was part of at the time.