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"About twenty-five years ago, I made an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There was no malice intended, it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then to piss people off. I was a troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irritant. Perhaps it’s an Australian trait among people of my generation, I don’t know, but that comment has followed me around for the last quarter-century. But the most interesting aspect of all this is not what I said about the Chili Peppers, but rather the response from Flea, their bass player. On Facebook, Flea expressed how hurt he felt by my remark, but went on to say, in great detail, that he loved my music regardless. He wrote a profoundly generous and open-hearted love letter to Nick Cave. I remember being genuinely moved by his words and thinking what a classy guy Flea was, and feeling on some subterranean level that I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre, indeed, of a higher order.
Over the years, I would run into Flea at music festivals where both our bands were performing and see him backstage when we played in Los Angeles. Although we didn’t become close friends, my encounters with him were always pleasant – there was a presence to Flea that felt genuine and oddly affecting. On the Push the Sky Away tour, we asked Flea if he could assemble a children’s choir, from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music he founded, to accompany the Bad Seeds at the Coachella Festival. When Warren and I were on the Carnage tour, we asked Flea to join us and play the song ‘We No Who U R’. Watching Warren and Flea perform together with such heart and mutual regard was a glorious sight.
Last week, Flea sent me a song and asked if I’d like to add some vocals. It was for a “trumpet record” that he is making. It is not for me to divulge what the song was, only that it is a song I cherish more than most, with arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to. I went into the studio on Wednesday and recorded my vocals. The track emerged as a beautiful conversation between Flea’s trumpet and my voice, filled with yearning and love, the song transcending its individual parts and becoming a slowly evolving cosmic dance, in the form of a reconciliation and an apology.
My friend, the artist Thomas Houseago, recounted a story involving Flea. A couple of years ago, Flea, his daughter, Thomas, and a guide were hiking through the backcountry of Yosemite. They had been hiking for five days and were walking along a densely forested trail when a bear appeared on the path before them. Everybody froze. The bear was about ten feet away from them. It was a large black bear with a reddish hue. Thomas and the guide gripped their tent poles, perhaps to defend themselves in case the bear attacked. Flea, however, stepped forward, stood before the bear, and spoke to it. He acknowledged they were visitors in the bear’s territory, expressed his love for the bear, and requested permission to continue along the trail. The bear stepped off the path and allowed them to pass."
Nick Cave
Over the years, I would run into Flea at music festivals where both our bands were performing and see him backstage when we played in Los Angeles. Although we didn’t become close friends, my encounters with him were always pleasant – there was a presence to Flea that felt genuine and oddly affecting. On the Push the Sky Away tour, we asked Flea if he could assemble a children’s choir, from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music he founded, to accompany the Bad Seeds at the Coachella Festival. When Warren and I were on the Carnage tour, we asked Flea to join us and play the song ‘We No Who U R’. Watching Warren and Flea perform together with such heart and mutual regard was a glorious sight.
Last week, Flea sent me a song and asked if I’d like to add some vocals. It was for a “trumpet record” that he is making. It is not for me to divulge what the song was, only that it is a song I cherish more than most, with arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to. I went into the studio on Wednesday and recorded my vocals. The track emerged as a beautiful conversation between Flea’s trumpet and my voice, filled with yearning and love, the song transcending its individual parts and becoming a slowly evolving cosmic dance, in the form of a reconciliation and an apology.
My friend, the artist Thomas Houseago, recounted a story involving Flea. A couple of years ago, Flea, his daughter, Thomas, and a guide were hiking through the backcountry of Yosemite. They had been hiking for five days and were walking along a densely forested trail when a bear appeared on the path before them. Everybody froze. The bear was about ten feet away from them. It was a large black bear with a reddish hue. Thomas and the guide gripped their tent poles, perhaps to defend themselves in case the bear attacked. Flea, however, stepped forward, stood before the bear, and spoke to it. He acknowledged they were visitors in the bear’s territory, expressed his love for the bear, and requested permission to continue along the trail. The bear stepped off the path and allowed them to pass."
Nick Cave
homerj
That "Trumpet Record" was one of the nicer music surprises as of late.
Flea and Chad seem cool
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<image of an alignment chart with the names of AI companies; all of the columns are “CHAOTIC” and all of the rows are “EVIL”>
ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude
Meta AI | Perplexity | Grok
Copilot | Deepseek | Midjourney
ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude
Meta AI | Perplexity | Grok
Copilot | Deepseek | Midjourney
They're all dreadful. but something really innocuous about Perplexity. Maybe the others followed suit.
@poorusher No idea what you’re talking about.
@robotmachine All of the companies have made their ip addresses public.
This means if you are a website admin or host your own site, you can edit configuration files that either block, redirect or serve 404 pages to specific incoming requests. Essentially website owners can prevent AI bots scraping their servers with this configuration (probably the block or redirect as traffic can have an effect on bills for hosting).
However Perplexity lied about their IP addresses. So blocking what they published as their ip address range did not work.
See
https://www.wired.com/story...
https://rknight.me/blog...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexi...
My favourite quote from the first article
"The magic trick that’s made Perplexity worth 10 figures, in other words, appears to be that it’s both doing what it says it isn’t and not doing what it says it is."
I also think that seeing as these companies are so rampant to ingest everything and maybe after the PerplexityAI horseshit, they might also have found ways to try and bypass protocols, firewalls, server rules and so on. A race to the bottom.
Sorry for such a long rant.
This means if you are a website admin or host your own site, you can edit configuration files that either block, redirect or serve 404 pages to specific incoming requests. Essentially website owners can prevent AI bots scraping their servers with this configuration (probably the block or redirect as traffic can have an effect on bills for hosting).
However Perplexity lied about their IP addresses. So blocking what they published as their ip address range did not work.
See
https://www.wired.com/story...
https://rknight.me/blog...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexi...
My favourite quote from the first article
"The magic trick that’s made Perplexity worth 10 figures, in other words, appears to be that it’s both doing what it says it isn’t and not doing what it says it is."
I also think that seeing as these companies are so rampant to ingest everything and maybe after the PerplexityAI horseshit, they might also have found ways to try and bypass protocols, firewalls, server rules and so on. A race to the bottom.
Sorry for such a long rant.
I completely disagree on the modifying prefix. I believe that they are Lawful in nature.
@poorusher I get a lot of residential networks scraping constantly. Pretty hard to block a Comcast /8 without blocking some legit users and staff.
The sooner this dumb gold rush ends the better off we will all be.
The sooner this dumb gold rush ends the better off we will all be.
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3 Screenshots from the movie "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991): First, a man in a suit sits in a clinical, white-walled room watching a TV monitor that displays a woman in a white tank top sitting at a table across from another man; the subtitle reads "- I'm sure it feels real to you. - On August 29, 1997...". Second, a close-up of the TV monitor shows the same woman and man in the interview room, with the subtitle "anyone not wearing two-million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day. Get it?". Third, the terminator is driving a car through a desert looking at a passenger with the subtitle "The computer becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29."
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A trophy with a gong and text inviting acts to audition for The Gong Show, including a phone number and hours, on a blue background.
I lived for the days I got to stay home sick from school and watch The Gong Show.
You can just imagine the mountains of coke done by the participants of that show.
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This is me and Patricia. We are performing as King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival this year. I make my costumes, and you are looking at an unbelievable amount of my free time over the last few months.
Our theme is "heroes and villains" and our characters started the Spanish Inquisition, so our costuming is very Disney-villain inspired.
Our theme is "heroes and villains" and our characters started the Spanish Inquisition, so our costuming is very Disney-villain inspired.
this is really fantastic and intricate costume design; kudos to you!
You look Majestijtelijk
That’s freaking amaze-dogs!
Incredible!
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All Seasons Orchard near Woodstock is paying tribute to Dolly Parton with its corn maze in 2026.
A nearby apple orchard revealed their 2026 corn maze depicting Dolly Parton on Tuesday, hours before her death was announced. It's one of 20 Dolly-themed mazes around the country, all planned and designed months ago to be ready for the fall harvest season.
https://allseasonsorchard.com/pages...
source: https://www.shawlocal.com/northwes...
https://allseasonsorchard.com/pages...
source: https://www.shawlocal.com/northwes...
That is absolutely magnificent.
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A photograph of seed art piece for the Minnesota State Fair, styled after Picasso's Guernica. Multiple cubist figures are seen including one, a bearded man holding a cell phone lying on the ground. To the right of the piece an anguished figure throws her hands up holding a sign reading "ICE OUT". A loon, its wings spread, dominates the left side of the work.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Work by Jennifer Nelson.
“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”
More seed art for the Minnesota state fair on similar themes at https://www.cropart.com/Resist....
Work by Jennifer Nelson.
“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”
More seed art for the Minnesota state fair on similar themes at https://www.cropart.com/Resist....
Going to look at all this in person today!
MN State Fair crop art is going harder than ever this year, i hope to get over there next week
I'll be there Saturday. If you see a guy with a where's waldo "Find Yourself" shirt feel free to stop me and say hi. It might not be me, but that'd probably be even more fun.
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Much more here:
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life
https://publicdomainreview.org/collecti...
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life
https://publicdomainreview.org/collecti...
ahhh, i bought a book of these book just yesterday
@shfitz Really?! I would've bought it on the spot as well.
I bought a book of these for my sister, who is a data analyst, and she was enchanted :D
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phone selfie: grumpy mostly-white middle-aged dude in glasses and a cap, sporting a navy blue shirt that reads WTFWJD (What The Fuck Would Jesus Do?)
re: https://mltshp.com/p/1RT5B
got this shirt from @drurystephanie’s campaign a while back but never got the chance to show it off.
took a day off, spent the morning wandering across the university campus whilst clutching a breakfast bagel and slowly realizing it was becoming too warm for corduroy pants.
was not raised evangelical but was surrounded by that conservative-supply-side brand of christianity. i spent most of my teen years slowly trying to break free of it… so yeah, the shirt spoke to me. i don’t know if it’ll ever help me win an argument with family when they scowl at me for giving a person change but it’s worth rattling a cage or two.
got this shirt from @drurystephanie’s campaign a while back but never got the chance to show it off.
took a day off, spent the morning wandering across the university campus whilst clutching a breakfast bagel and slowly realizing it was becoming too warm for corduroy pants.
was not raised evangelical but was surrounded by that conservative-supply-side brand of christianity. i spent most of my teen years slowly trying to break free of it… so yeah, the shirt spoke to me. i don’t know if it’ll ever help me win an argument with family when they scowl at me for giving a person change but it’s worth rattling a cage or two.
You are looking good Nick.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
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Map of Lake 34 Fraud Convictions
Rename it yourself!
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario
source: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeonta...
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario
source: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeonta...
TIL Mapquest is still around.
fwiw Google Maps also still has it as Lake Ontario
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closeup of a red baseball cap with white stitching and a white patch with the old international harvester “ih” logo, sitting on a blue couch
re: https://mltshp.com/p/1RUY1
further down the nostalgia rabbit-hole, found an old international harvester cap, almost exactly like the umpteen harvester and deere caps my maternal grandfather had. for some reason i had to have it, even though it’s snowing flakes of desiccated foam innards everywhere.
further down the nostalgia rabbit-hole, found an old international harvester cap, almost exactly like the umpteen harvester and deere caps my maternal grandfather had. for some reason i had to have it, even though it’s snowing flakes of desiccated foam innards everywhere.
This hat gives me childhood flashbacks. My dad wore many of these until they literally fell apart.
I thought this was the tank avatar from the Bolo video games https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Had one.
I love this, reminds me of growing up rural.
I've always enjoyed the fact that the International Harvester logo is a stylized man sitting on a tractor. Once you see it... you can't unsee it.
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jello mold with various vegetables in it
i quivered
@wmo ++
Super messed up pareidolia
I don't know why I am liking this, when I can't conceive of eating it. Maybe I would taste the surface with my good eye.
I was, as they say, not ready for this jelly.
@wmo in antici……..pation?
@m3moellering so did the Jelly
Suspended life
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illustration of a person with their hands up with downward motion arrows and then the person with their hands crossed in front of the their crotch with arrows indicating a hip thrust forward, captioned "suck it"
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activation.
Fantastic paid promotion for a car chase flick and you know why
wedge issue
@scruss Hehehehehe
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View from beneath looking up at the station building supported on pillars #thisiscivilengineering
Rather than demolishing the old subway ticket office when the system was being rebuilt, it was raised up and the new tunnels built under it. The old St Enoch's railway station next to it wasn't so lucky: it was demolished and became a fairly terrible glass-walled shopping centre.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Lovely photo I wonder what date it's from.
@poorusher 1977-79. They used the rubble from the railway station to fill in part of the harbor so they could build an exhibition center on top.
@bezt you are literally the bezt. Always helping me out with my daft enquiries.
“Underground”
Clearly NOT
Clearly NOT
@BennyTheIcepick ah, but if it had been underground, why does it have a roof?
@bezt I'd forgotten that the original SECC was built with the fill from St Enoch. I don't remember it being a working station, but I do remember it being a car park
@bezt I'd forgotten that the original SECC was built with the fill from St Enoch. I don't remember it being a working station, but I do remember it being a car park
Raised up is better than razed down
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"In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5,' I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder."
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
She's up there with Mr. Rodgers and Jim Henson on my list of "Just really decent human beings that made the world a better place."
Yes, the universe wanted her back.
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A cinema here used to play the Rocky Horror every Friday night at midnight and 18/19 year old me and a couple of friends decided to go along, not even really understanding what it was all about. When we arrived we found half the cinema was dressed like the characters. They had umbrellas and they threw rice in the air (IYKYK) and yelled out dialogue at certain points along the way.
The crowd sang along and interacted with the film as if it was scripted. We we're blown away!
So months later we all decided to go again and this time we'd dress up too, which was a huge extroverted thing to do for this bunch of introverts. When we arrived, pretty impressed with our efforts, we discovered that nobody else had dressed up that night just us. Worst best night of our 18/19 year old lives thus far 😁
Vale Tim Curry and thanks for the shows
also could we not just have one day to mourn Dolly alone
The crowd sang along and interacted with the film as if it was scripted. We we're blown away!
So months later we all decided to go again and this time we'd dress up too, which was a huge extroverted thing to do for this bunch of introverts. When we arrived, pretty impressed with our efforts, we discovered that nobody else had dressed up that night just us. Worst best night of our 18/19 year old lives thus far 😁
Vale Tim Curry and thanks for the shows
also could we not just have one day to mourn Dolly alone
My favorite memory is 4 of us showing up with 10lbs of rice each.
@dapete hahaah perfect
@Argie great story
Your first experience mirrors my own. Friend took me to a midnight showing without explaining what I was about to witness. And it was wonderful.
I have lived in Transylvania but actually (somehow) never seen this movie.
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Took Kusama too! These are some times.
My wife said she wants to be in heaven’s waiting room this week with those three. “Imagine the chitchat!”
The Grim Reaper is emitting strong male Instacart shopper energy.
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Selfie of me3dia wearing a mlkshk t-shirt
Recently dug this back up from the bottom of my t-shirt drawer. It’s a good summer shirt.
Vintage!
yay! is that one of the cotton bureau ones?
i think i have the same one! (https://mltshp.com/p/1RPSZ, https://mltshp.com/p/1BTI1) i love it but am always afraid i'll ruin it if i wear it too much!
i think i have the same one! (https://mltshp.com/p/1RPSZ, https://mltshp.com/p/1BTI1) i love it but am always afraid i'll ruin it if i wear it too much!
“It’s an older code, sir, but it checks out.”
@MackReed 👏👏👏
@nikkuneko yep! It slowly made its way down the stack (I don't often wear bright colors) but I dug it out for a few spins before fall weather returns.
I still have my black on black shirt
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a green felt pennant with upward and downward curving layers of yellow text, reading:
"ope 'scuse me
*i'm just*
"gonna sneak right past ya"
"ope 'scuse me
*i'm just*
"gonna sneak right past ya"
my old supervisor messaged me this morning with this extremely targeted content
in her words, "I saw that and I was '....nick'"
purchase link (lots of great stuff from this shop!):
https://www.wonderfairhomeshop...
in her words, "I saw that and I was '....nick'"
purchase link (lots of great stuff from this shop!):
https://www.wonderfairhomeshop...
I'm from the south but I'm also like this
On more than one occasion I've used "gonna sneak right past ya" IRL.
I saw one of those animated LED open/closed signs while at a stoplight today. It read OPE and I was like... wow I get it, but here in the PNW? and then the N lit up...
@Xedrik there’s a nail place nearby with a flashy closed sign and it always cracks me up. C L O S E D CLOSED CLOSED
@Xedrik if i had a dollar for every minute i spent in front of a sequential flashing “open” sign, waiting to photograph the “OPE”…
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Dear Imagination Library Graduate,
My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.
Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.
You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
(signed)
Dolly
My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.
Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.
You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
(signed)
Dolly