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a fake toy in a plastic blister-pack on a custom-made cardback by artist ObviousPlant. the bright, colorful illustrated cardback has the feature title "GET IN LOSERS" and the subtitle below it "WE'RE GOING TO...". in the center is the toy itself, a red molded plastic steam engine with a simply drawn cartoon man with a hat. below that is more text, reading "GO LIVE A SMALL AND QUIET LIFE THAT IS unremarkable yet meaningful to ourselves and the chosen few who shared it with us." in the background of the cardback is an idyllic countryside with a number of characters, saing "toot toot!" "tickets please", "all aboard" and "do not lick the train!"
via obviousplant on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
main insta page:
https://www.instagram.com/obviousp...
website/shop:
https://obviousplant.com/
https://www.instagram.com/p...
main insta page:
https://www.instagram.com/obviousp...
website/shop:
https://obviousplant.com/
bezt
I can't figure out why Obvious Plant's stuff sets my teeth on edge, but I dearly love stuff like nanoraptor. Brains are weird. (This is a _me_ issue, not any fault of yours, nikkuneko.)
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The "Calvin's dad talks about rotational velocity to Calvin, leading to a freaked out sleepless night" comic, but it's been 'shopped.
PANEL 1: Calvin's dad, alone. "Playing a record? I'll show you something interesting."
PANEL 2: Calvin's dad, sitting with Calvin. "The two types of meme are this one and Loss. American Chopper? This one. guy pointing to butterfly? Loss. Expanding brain? This one." Calvin: "Yeah...?"
PANEL 3: Closeup on Calvin and his dad. "Rick roll? Loss. 'Change my mind?' This one. Zendaya is Meechee? Loss. Grant Gustin at the grave? This one. 6 7? Loss. Despite me being your dad and this being this one, this is Loss."
PANEL 4: Calvin horizontal in bed at night, eyes open, looking distraught. Behind him and at the left, making a visual "L", is Hobbes, holding his chin and looking thoughtful/concerned.
PANEL 1: Calvin's dad, alone. "Playing a record? I'll show you something interesting."
PANEL 2: Calvin's dad, sitting with Calvin. "The two types of meme are this one and Loss. American Chopper? This one. guy pointing to butterfly? Loss. Expanding brain? This one." Calvin: "Yeah...?"
PANEL 3: Closeup on Calvin and his dad. "Rick roll? Loss. 'Change my mind?' This one. Zendaya is Meechee? Loss. Grant Gustin at the grave? This one. 6 7? Loss. Despite me being your dad and this being this one, this is Loss."
PANEL 4: Calvin horizontal in bed at night, eyes open, looking distraught. Behind him and at the left, making a visual "L", is Hobbes, holding his chin and looking thoughtful/concerned.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
damn it.
I only understand this enough to know that it's making me feel bad.
Spiffposting is one of the few things keeping me on facebook, and that is one of the most brilliant posts I’ve seen from that group.
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Hens and chicks? They will endure anything.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 no, something else. I don't know what. It dies when a drop of water splashes on it but dries if the soil gets too dry. Its finicky.
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Text: “Turns out I wasn't sick of hearing about space, was just sick of hearing about Elon and Bezos’ above two pictures: one an artist's conception of the Orion capsule deploying solar panels, the other of the Artemis 2 astronauts standing in front of their launch vehicle.
Hells Yeah
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A screenshot of an Onion article with title, "Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto."
The Onion remains undefeated. https://theonion.com/man-who-...
Ded.
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A meme. On the left, a caption reads "How you remember your friend from highschool." above a photo of Sean Penn in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." On the right, a caption reads "When you find them on Facebook." over a photo of Sean Penn in "One Battle After Another."
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Angine De Poitrine but they are cats
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A large orange robot, with an iridescent greenish sheen to it, stands in a dark space. Its head is placed on a green pedestal in front of it. The head is plugged into a wall outlet, and the eye displays a green "charging" lightning bolt icon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Perhaps the photo of the century, sums it all up really.
Woman gets a job as a Doordasher Grandma to help pay for the medical care of her sick husband. You couldn't make this shit up
By far not the only takeaway (pun intended) from this image
https://abcnews.com/Politics...
Woman gets a job as a Doordasher Grandma to help pay for the medical care of her sick husband. You couldn't make this shit up
By far not the only takeaway (pun intended) from this image
https://abcnews.com/Politics...
And eff ABC News for not covering the part about trans people.
@m3moellering oh serious? I didn't even know that was discussed. See, this is why the media sucks so much... far out
Her name is Sharon Simmons. She's not from DC, and she has testified before congress. https://www.facebook.com/johnsmit...
Excuse me- not congress. GOP field hearing.
as dogwelder points out, she is well-known to the gop. this was 100% staged.
@cristin @dogwelder cheers guys, funny how findng out she wasn't doing it tough and it's more staged than I thought it was, doesn't make it even one iota better. What a world eh?
That place looks like a low rent beauty parlour. The gold spray paint budget must be through the roof.
@not_copinghagen They bought home decorations from Home Depot and spray painted them. People have been comparing the recent trim additions inside the Oval to items for sale at HD
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A screenshot from Google Maps. Dollar General and Food Lion are highlighted with square icons and big text. Underneath Food Lion is "Thicker Than the Rest" and under Dollar General "Absorbs Into Your Skin Quickly"
"thicker than the rest" also chiseled on my tombstone
@nikkuneko can’t read without Tina Turner’s voice
All your Fairvalue are belong to us
@John-Mike wow. thank you
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Image that's composited from dozens of smaller photos, of the white brick and glass facade of what looks like a massive quonset hut that served as the volunteer fire department's meeting hall and hosted weekly bingo games. There's an aluminum-canopied entryway and three tall rectangular windows from ground to near the roof, made of glass blocks occasionally punctuated with smaller red or orange tiles. The white brick pattern has random bricks jutting forwards a couple cm. To the left is a brick tower slightly taller than the arch of the building, with an old-fashioned yellow klaxon siren mounted on top that would sound every Thursday night for the volunteer meeting and practice session. It was audible literally for over a mile across rolling hills and a tree-lined ravine. The gravel parking lot is empty and to the left, just out of view, is the new volunteer fire house that (at the time) had recently replaced the old one, already removed.
Due to the way the photo is composited, the building seems solid but the windows weave slightly in different directions as if tossed by wind, and the siren is wobbling on top of its tower.
Due to the way the photo is composited, the building seems solid but the windows weave slightly in different directions as if tossed by wind, and the siren is wobbling on top of its tower.
Been sorting and cleaning some old hard drives before disposal and found the sources and final files for a years-long photo project that I thought I'd lost over a decade ago.
I have a lot to say about this but it'll have to be for another time.
I have a lot to say about this but it'll have to be for another time.
old hard drives can fetch a coin on ebay in this economy.
I am a teller of stories of the lost things I've eventually found on hard drives. I can't wait to hear yours.
Vibing with this image.
@intervalometer These are not leaving the building. They'll be repurposed as backup drives.
@BooBounder Not an adventure worth recounting. An old NAS was being used for low-priority long-term storage but was at the end of its useful lifespan. Kind of a nuisance to copy (because of slowness) but it's done now and once I've finished validating the fresh copy the drives will be pulled, wiped and reused, and the empty NAS unit will go to charity.
Aside from this project and some files from companies I worked for in the previous millennium, there wasn't much on the NAS that wasn't already kept redundantly elsewhere. Well, also a variety of pre-OS X fonts files that are totally useless now... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hardly do any graphics work any more so their loss hasn't been missed for a couple decades now.
@BooBounder Not an adventure worth recounting. An old NAS was being used for low-priority long-term storage but was at the end of its useful lifespan. Kind of a nuisance to copy (because of slowness) but it's done now and once I've finished validating the fresh copy the drives will be pulled, wiped and reused, and the empty NAS unit will go to charity.
Aside from this project and some files from companies I worked for in the previous millennium, there wasn't much on the NAS that wasn't already kept redundantly elsewhere. Well, also a variety of pre-OS X fonts files that are totally useless now... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hardly do any graphics work any more so their loss hasn't been missed for a couple decades now.
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two cats are partly visible out of a basement window: a grey striped one glaring directly out at the camera, and a marmalade cat turned directly at the first cat.
my favorite window cats of late, peeping out of a basement apartment in my building.
i call the orange guy “sleepy boy” because he’s always sitting at another window sill looking half asleep and/or zooted AF. (he made a previous cameo here, center right: https://mltshp.com/p/1R2J3 ) today he was apparently monitoring his friend’s monitoring and/or posing for an album cover
iPhone 14 Pro Max | cropped in Photos app
i call the orange guy “sleepy boy” because he’s always sitting at another window sill looking half asleep and/or zooted AF. (he made a previous cameo here, center right: https://mltshp.com/p/1R2J3 ) today he was apparently monitoring his friend’s monitoring and/or posing for an album cover
iPhone 14 Pro Max | cropped in Photos app
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Love it in two places!
That hairdo is unreal.
Also--if God is real, God is gender fluid
For those unfamiliar with Trixie Mattel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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A chart in Japanese which shows the complicated relationships between penguins at the Kyoto aquarium
From the toot https://toot.cat/@devopsc...
“The Kyoto Aquarium in Japan keeps a wall-sized flowchart tracking the romantic relationships, breakups, and drama between their penguins. They update it every year.
Red hearts mean couples. Blue broken hearts mean it’s over. Purple lines with question marks mean it’s complicated. Yellow means friendship. Green means enemies.
One female penguin reportedly ended six relationships in a single year. The comment under her photo, translated from Japanese, described her as “basically demonic.” Another penguin was caught dating someone 17 years older who also turned out to be their great aunt. And penguins who get broken up with sometimes refuse to eat.”
https://www.kyoto-aquarium.com/special...
English version:
https://www.kyoto-aquarium.com/special...
“The Kyoto Aquarium in Japan keeps a wall-sized flowchart tracking the romantic relationships, breakups, and drama between their penguins. They update it every year.
Red hearts mean couples. Blue broken hearts mean it’s over. Purple lines with question marks mean it’s complicated. Yellow means friendship. Green means enemies.
One female penguin reportedly ended six relationships in a single year. The comment under her photo, translated from Japanese, described her as “basically demonic.” Another penguin was caught dating someone 17 years older who also turned out to be their great aunt. And penguins who get broken up with sometimes refuse to eat.”
https://www.kyoto-aquarium.com/special...
English version:
https://www.kyoto-aquarium.com/special...
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My hand holds a teeny tiny terra cotta pot with a little bitty plant in it.
The plant shop had these $0.99 tiny terra cotta pots and I couldn’t resist. Immediately planted this tiny wood strawberry from our yard and topped the soil with a couple pinches of moss.
ITS SO CUUUUUTE
ITS SO CUUUUUTE
so cute
so cute - but if you asked "How do you like your strawberries?", tiny and wood are not the first thoughts that come to mind.
@wmo Agreed!
@roonie Yes and the berries that wood strawberry plants make are not nice. They’re not horrors or anything… just like “what if we took all of the flavor out of a strawberry and made it little and the wrong texture?”
Aka tiny wood strawberries do not come to mind if someone asks how I like MY strawberries, either. Hahaha
Aka tiny wood strawberries do not come to mind if someone asks how I like MY strawberries, either. Hahaha
want!
@infini Id give you mine, but I’m using it. 😂
@wombatman70 ☺️
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A silver 2012 Cadillac sits in a driveway and wears its scars with a certain kind of quiet dignity. Its best days are behind it, but it is not done yet. May we all age so gracefully.
For whatever reason we just keep getting the cars that people age out of driving. This is a 2012 Cadillac that a little old lady parked by feel and only scraped curbs on one side. It's... tired. We'll give it a spit polish, straighten it up, make it safe, and pass it along. It'll stay out of the junkyard and keep someone rolling. In a 2012 sort of comfort. There was an old Peter Egan article about fixing up an elderly relative's 1960 Caddy. This ain't that. We've nicknamed it Scruffy. Like the janitor from Futurama.
My newest car is from 2008... mid 2010 cars fascinate me with their tech :)
@frothywalrus My daily driver is from 1993. It all feels like the future to me. I'm like a wide-eyed child at things like CarPlay and AndroidAuto.
A little Caddy convertible might be nice.
Parked by feel is a great turn of phrase.
I just really want a car without a touchscreen. Both of ours are paid for and approaching their end times. So, we're juggling how to pay for upkeep versus having a car that has a touchscreen and still meets our needs.
I've been keeping an eye on https://www.slate.auto/ . I much prefer a simpler vehicle with less to break, easier to fix, reliable to packing in every feature under the sun. I'm not saying I want to go back to manual roll up windows, but seats where you pull a lever and slide to position them, doors you open and close by hand instead of pressing a button make a lot more sense to me.
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Loved The Banana Splits. I had a model of their six wheeler buggy.
One banana two banana three banana four
This show and H.R. Pufnstuf are proof you can be creative on LSD
@Argie Yup, and Lidsville (which had LSD in the name), Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.
Aw.
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An Image split into four panes, showing four plant tags for four different types of tomato:
“Mortgage Lifter,”
“Pink Delicious,”
“Old German,” and
“San Marzano.”
“Mortgage Lifter,”
“Pink Delicious,”
“Old German,” and
“San Marzano.”
We like to have half our tomatoes be cherry/grape types because we like how they grow and look and taste, etc., but the other half we’ve started doing as all biggins. These are the four varietals we picked for this half this year. Woohoo!!!
Nice! These looks tasty!
No matter what kind of vegetable it is, I'm always a sucker for any varietal called Mortgage Lifter.
No matter what kind of vegetable it is, I'm always a sucker for any varietal called Mortgage Lifter.
@williwaw I thought so, too! And while I’m doubting it’ll actually pay our mortgage, I certainly won’t complain if these bumpy maters find a way to do so!
Our CSA includes some heirloom tomatoes every summer, and past batches have included both Mortgage Lifter and Pink Delicious.
Speaking as somebody who's not even big on tomatoes, they were really great.
Speaking as somebody who's not even big on tomatoes, they were really great.
@ardgedee yussssss I’m looking forward to it even more, then!
Love a San Marzano
@poorusher Same! We love our cherry & grape varietals for salads & general noshing (caprese with mozzarella pearls & little tomatoes makes for perfect bites!), and big types for sandwiches, etc., but I’m excited to have one for sauces, specifically!