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Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Dolomites
Photo by Alessandra Mas
source: https://apod.nasa.gov
source: https://apod.nasa.gov
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A photo of a finisher’s medal from Nashville Zoo’s 20th anniversary ZooRunRun 5k fundraiser race is held in my hand.
The weather was perfect, the course was beautiful, it was well-staffed and so well-organized. A great race.
And freaking miserable.
My boy was maybe (MAYbe) 200ft in when he asked “How long IS this?! Can we stop?”
We then walked the rest of the course, with him crying and whining and fuming and so on.
Mostly I think it was because of the ol’ ADHD facing a big task that feels insurmountable, but in the end he was so proud of himself for finishing (I was proud of him, too, of course!) and has been FaceTiming basically everyone he knows to tell them that he finished his first 5k race. So good job Wesley, and hopefully it will be a long time before I have to do another one with him. 😂
And freaking miserable.
My boy was maybe (MAYbe) 200ft in when he asked “How long IS this?! Can we stop?”
We then walked the rest of the course, with him crying and whining and fuming and so on.
Mostly I think it was because of the ol’ ADHD facing a big task that feels insurmountable, but in the end he was so proud of himself for finishing (I was proud of him, too, of course!) and has been FaceTiming basically everyone he knows to tell them that he finished his first 5k race. So good job Wesley, and hopefully it will be a long time before I have to do another one with him. 😂
MackReed
Go dad. Go kid.
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A collage of four photographs all taken at a local Costco. The first image is a cartoon girl selling milk tea. The second is a red Lego suitcase. The third image is a 240 count Big red cup package, and the fourth image is the bread and pizza oven inside the kitchen at the front of Costco
Set of 4 pictures from my new Knockoff Kodak Charmera dupe I dropped into Canva.
For now, having a camera the size of your thumb is def encouraging photos I'd never take with a phone
For now, having a camera the size of your thumb is def encouraging photos I'd never take with a phone
You're influencing me.
where did you get this $8 lens of fun?
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A Sinar large format camera photographed from the front. There is a small lens on a custom made lend board plugged in with a cable release and a flash sync cable.
Recently got made redundant so I'm looking for my next gig.
But we're paying rent on the studio plus I've got a bucket load of Fuji Instax so the studio is a nice place to be. Trying to work on a new project.
But we're paying rent on the studio plus I've got a bucket load of Fuji Instax so the studio is a nice place to be. Trying to work on a new project.
Onward and upward! You got this.
Enjoy the freedom to work on projects of your choice, and good luck with next steps! 💪
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A rack of smoked ribs and sausages lying on a cutting board.
Pork spare ribs and a small rack of beef ribs. Ribs got six hours. Sausages were from Uli's—uncured bacon (fine) and heavy garlic chicken (excellent)—they got two and were finished in a braise of beer w/ onions.
well cooked
Dang!
I can taste the magic from here.
Hell yes 🤤
Aw yeah and the weather just turned right to fire up the smoker again here.
damn, I just had dinner, and now I'm hungry again
Hot damn. On my way
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A photo of an old door and wall covered with graffiti.
This is such a niche thing, I’m not really sure how to pitch it, heh.
I recently released TRUE TAGS: A GRAFFITI BRUSH SET. One-click graffiti for Photoshop projects to add some authenticity and life to a scene. The idea was born out of my need to add graffiti to the scenes I built for my Old Haunts and Quiet Corner projects.
Everything in here I’ve photographed over the last six or seven years, and it comes from actual tags from Edinburgh, New York City, Oslo, Paris, Porto, Lisbon, Reykjavík, Santa Fe, Seattle, Vashon, and Zurich.
Maybe it’ll be handy for you? It’s free to download and is royalty-free like all my stuff. No credit required. Yada, yada, yada. :)
https://kmalexander.com/2026...
I recently released TRUE TAGS: A GRAFFITI BRUSH SET. One-click graffiti for Photoshop projects to add some authenticity and life to a scene. The idea was born out of my need to add graffiti to the scenes I built for my Old Haunts and Quiet Corner projects.
Everything in here I’ve photographed over the last six or seven years, and it comes from actual tags from Edinburgh, New York City, Oslo, Paris, Porto, Lisbon, Reykjavík, Santa Fe, Seattle, Vashon, and Zurich.
Maybe it’ll be handy for you? It’s free to download and is royalty-free like all my stuff. No credit required. Yada, yada, yada. :)
https://kmalexander.com/2026...
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i have found my people
also one of the best tsums that a beginner gets(see also aids to addiction)
ITS FUCKING REAL..
https://religion.fandom.com/wiki...
https://religion.fandom.com/wiki...
In the words of my Lord and Savior Maria Bamford, sure I'll join your cult!
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A living room with a numbered path taped on the carpet
Gonna have easy too many people and their cakes over for a cake walk tonight
As an ignorant foreigner, I have some difficulty envisioning what you are planning on doing.
A cakewalk is something that is easily accomplished, or so I thought.
Some research uncovered a form of dancing, "...performed with comical formality.". Which I can only think of as a good thing.
You seem to be gearing up for something "else".
Please, may I/we have some more detail. Thank you in advance.
A cakewalk is something that is easily accomplished, or so I thought.
Some research uncovered a form of dancing, "...performed with comical formality.". Which I can only think of as a good thing.
You seem to be gearing up for something "else".
Please, may I/we have some more detail. Thank you in advance.
@roonie everybody brings a cake and puts it on a table, then they dance along the numbered path. The music is stopped randomly and a number is drawn. If you stand on that number you get to select any cake on the table as yours. After few cakes are selected they are served to the crowd. If you win late, you don't get the beat selection, but you're more likely to have cake to bring home.
Thank you. That sounds like great fun!
I'm guessing this is a traditional form of behaviour?
Created recently or does it go back some way?
I'm guessing this is a traditional form of behaviour?
Created recently or does it go back some way?
@roonie a couple of friends did it for decades, growing it to a size that required renting halls. Then they left.
My wife wanted one for her birthday, so here we are.
I remember cakewalks in school fundraisers about fifty years ago. Parents would bring cakes and then everyone was welcome to walk (paying for the chance).
My wife wanted one for her birthday, so here we are.
I remember cakewalks in school fundraisers about fifty years ago. Parents would bring cakes and then everyone was welcome to walk (paying for the chance).
My kids' school used to do one as part of their yearly carnival. It can be a good fundraiser if everyone buys a ticket for each cakewalk. Also every family was asked to bring a cake so that was fun, too as kids would help bake or even make a cake themselves. And for the non bakers there's nothing wrong with a store bought cake or package of cookies.
It's a great thing at a carnival because anyone can do it from old to young, it takes absolutely no skill and someone wins every game.
It's a great thing at a carnival because anyone can do it from old to young, it takes absolutely no skill and someone wins every game.
A Dogville themed party, how lovely!
OMG
So
much
cake
So
much
cake
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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A bowl of pasta, with sweet red pepper, yella squash, garlic, anchovies, basil, salt, soy sauce, angel hair pasta, yah broccoli, garden variety organic tomato basil marinara.
Since I can't go out for comfort food, I am reduced to cooking for myself. Recipe description in alt text.
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Two sportscasters on a set for a show called "Big Saturday" - however, they are blocking the letters "Sa" and "ay", so it looks like the sign says "Big Turd"
source: https://mastodon.social/@adr...
Designer: Maybe we should mock it up and test before airtime
Producer: It'll be fine! Hurry up
Producer: It'll be fine! Hurry up
Truth in advertising.
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A page from a comic book. The grayish-green Swamp Thing, feet rooted in the soil and arms spread wide, stands beneath a lavender sky and orange sun, with scribbly herons and jagged, Spanish-moss-covered trees in the background.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Karen Berger, the founding editor of DC's Vertigo line: "So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC & Vertigo series. She was truly one of a kind and a special friend. May her memory be a blessing."
Wood, who started at EC and began her career at DC in 1969, was the colorist on Barr and Bolland's Camelot 3000, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, and (as seen here) Alan Moore's Saga of Swamp Thing, as well as hundreds of covers throughout the '70s and '80s. RIP.
Karen Berger, the founding editor of DC's Vertigo line: "So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC & Vertigo series. She was truly one of a kind and a special friend. May her memory be a blessing."
Wood, who started at EC and began her career at DC in 1969, was the colorist on Barr and Bolland's Camelot 3000, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, and (as seen here) Alan Moore's Saga of Swamp Thing, as well as hundreds of covers throughout the '70s and '80s. RIP.
swamp thing is a nudist
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Illustration featuring Cthulhu/Flying Spaghetti Monster, Stonehenge and a warlock. Text: HONESTLY, GO AHEAD AND BE KOOKY AND GET INTO WEIRD MYSTICAL SHIT OR WHATEVER
LIFE IS SHORT, REALITY IS FAKE
FUCK THE HATERS
GO BECOME A WARLOCK, YOUVE EARNED IT
LIFE IS SHORT, REALITY IS FAKE
FUCK THE HATERS
GO BECOME A WARLOCK, YOUVE EARNED IT
What made the FSM so wrathful all of a sudden?
Had a product distributor visit yesterday and he was waxing about 'Tartaria' and finished up with "I don't care if it's true or not I just think it's interesting".......faaak. He's 60. closet maga. fucking bonkers.
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It has been a long time since I have stood at my decks…
Sept 29, 2023 to be exact.
Far, far too long.
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Sept 29, 2023 to be exact.
Far, far too long.
🥺
Looks great!
w00t!
Hold me close now, tiny laptop.
reppin' the linux apache mysql php stack for maximum groove
@pk I'll be honest, I haven't opened Serato for so long I might as well be using Linux...
It'll probably pop up in your YouTube feed as recommended to watch, but if it doesn't I checked out a cool video tour of Ritchie Hawtin's performance gear earlier today on Native Instrument's channel.
Welcome back!
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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 non-plussed brown dog lies upon a couch with a haphazardly placed sauna hat stop it's head.
Someone randomly mailed us a two-pack of sauna hats from Amazon.
Banya time!
Now I need sauna hat, to wear with my theoretical Bolivian dress, to roam my neighborhood.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 Now *I* want a Bolivian dress. dammit
I may need a sauna hat for AZ summers.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 @spingo me three!
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Music video, animated in a variety of styles but predominantly anime-ish. The members of Gorillaz are traveling in a fantasy version of Indian jungles and various mystical and spacey things happen. Kind of hard to describe without being literal about it in a way that makes the description useless, so please forgive me for this one.
New Gorillaz album just dropped.
I assume you all already know and I'm just late to the news.
Interesting theme this time: The band's all grown up and dealing with death and loss. Features samples of contributors to their previous albums who'd passed on. Hopefully just samples and not, like, "AI" recreations.
I assume you all already know and I'm just late to the news.
Interesting theme this time: The band's all grown up and dealing with death and loss. Features samples of contributors to their previous albums who'd passed on. Hopefully just samples and not, like, "AI" recreations.
Mmmm YES, did not know this either
(I did all the graphics (in Illustrator) for my dissertation and some of my theses listening solely to a Gorillaz album for each one, over and over again, and to this day can't hear some of their songs without automatically breaking out in the Adobe Sweats (tm). So, it would be nice to listen to a Gorillaz album that doesn't give me *associations*.)
(I did all the graphics (in Illustrator) for my dissertation and some of my theses listening solely to a Gorillaz album for each one, over and over again, and to this day can't hear some of their songs without automatically breaking out in the Adobe Sweats (tm). So, it would be nice to listen to a Gorillaz album that doesn't give me *associations*.)
Oasis may be having a moment but they haven’t accomplished nearly as much artistically as Damon Albarn/Blur
@williwaw I never went to grad school but I really identify with having particular sets of music permanently associated with particular jobs or tasks that will destroy any possible of nostalgia I could've had for the music.
this was lovely.
i didn't know about this new release until today either. i was perusing youtube this afternoon and this was at the top of my stuff, even though i hadn't thought about, let alone listened to, gorillaz in years.
i didn't know about this new release until today either. i was perusing youtube this afternoon and this was at the top of my stuff, even though i hadn't thought about, let alone listened to, gorillaz in years.
Did my honors thesis to exactly two albums: Sandinista and Tubular Bells. I can never not hear the sound of my electric typewriter when I hear tracks from either.
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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.
@wjcstp Oh, @redfox picked up a Black Hart shirt in solidarity when they shut down during the strike!
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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!
@dad i mean, i can't either, especially since the "retro" of the moment is being mined straight from the era of my ridiculous teens/20s. i live in a college town AND live around the corner from the local high school, so i get to observe it all in perpetuity.
it's a fun two-way street:
i get to soak in what the kids are into and get a kick/chortle out of it; they get to see me waddling down the street and snicker at my dadwear*.
*(my favorite, reaction last summer was a full exaggerated eyeroll and out-loud "guh" from a kid walking out of the high school as i strolled down the block in my usual middle-aged-record-shop-weirdo regalia)
every generation is ridiculous and worth enjoying.
it's a fun two-way street:
i get to soak in what the kids are into and get a kick/chortle out of it; they get to see me waddling down the street and snicker at my dadwear*.
*(my favorite, reaction last summer was a full exaggerated eyeroll and out-loud "guh" from a kid walking out of the high school as i strolled down the block in my usual middle-aged-record-shop-weirdo regalia)
every generation is ridiculous and worth enjoying.
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A view of an office floor cleared down to the studs. Three workers are visible in the distance highlighted against bright sunshine coming in from a bank of windows. The flooring has been ripped up. In the foreground is a stepladder and a trashcan and, at left, a blueprint of the layout of the office as it had been before demolition.
A year ago now I took the elevator up to the lobby of the design agency where I had worked until it got sold. Here we see some construction workers going about slowly transforming it into condos.
"Excuse me, just getting the rest of my stuff from my desk."
Wow
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Drove down to Cincinnati to see Wussy for a rare full-band show. First time seeing them, and first show I’ve been to since before the kid was born.
Where is the snow?
Yay!
@0y3ahSansAcut3 Mostly melted other than parking lot piles.
Is that Vine st?
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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.
@TRONboy I saw an interview with her about it, and yes, it's a frenulum piercing. She did it herself, and said it was basically painless.