30 Recently Popular Files
MLTSHP
I love to save the best stuff on MLTSHP! Like more things to let me know what’s good!
Join MLTSHP! »
Join MLTSHP, support the site and post something yourself!
REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT (Official HD version, uploaded May 2026)
Double Arrow Lookout
alt text
L-4 style forest service fire lookout (14x14) on a 20 foot tower. Rough, rocky ground in the foreground, with shorter evergreen trees in the near distance. The sky has moody storm clouds that brought more than an inch of rain in the last 24 hours.
Double Arrow Lookout on the Lolo National Forest near Seeley Lake, MT. This is my first of four for lookouts I have rented for the summer. You can drive right up to this one vs having to hike in, although the road is pretty dodgy. I'm still sick, so climbing up 34 stairs felt like A LOT. Turns out I have bronchitis that's maybe getting better now, maybe not? Anyhow, it was a pretty cool deal being up on a mountain top.
williwaw
Oh hahahaha ! . . . one summer in my early twenties some friends and I went on a "lookout road trip" and at the time I was desperately in love with someone who barely knew I existed so in heartsick despondence I buried a certain R.E.M. lyric on a scrap of waterproof paper under fire lookouts all over the North American west as one of those things you do when you're that age I guess. This was one of the 1st ones we visited - because of Norman Maclean, natch - so somewhere in the ground in the photo there must be the mouldering remains of said lyric (if it even still exists). Oh Youth ahahahaha!
@williwaw 🖤😢
@MackReed aw thanks but the humor at the Pretentiousness of Youth is the core memory here - as well as getting to see some cool lookouts! It's neat other people get to see them too like in this here post!
Back on that grind, 30 years later
alt text
Animation of a middle aged man riding a skateboard in a suburban parking lot. He is not moving all that fast.
I haven't skated, really, since I was 17. Last month I picked up my kid's unused longboard and have started relearning how. It is great. (Two years of weekly yoga practice has improved my balance significantly, that has made it a lot more fun.)
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
Yes!
You know if you keep circling the camera like that …
Picking up your skateboard again is rad as hell.
TIL you can get a Chicago style hot dog flag
alt text
May include: A yellow flag with a cartoon illustration of a hot dog with mustard, relish, onions, and tomatoes.
This is a public service announcement that some of you may find important to your interests, that is all.
source: https://www.etsy.com/listing...
source: https://www.etsy.com/listing...
@ba would have been handy for your current US tour...
yehan wang
alt text
Painting of red leaves trees reflected in a distant pond. Color from the leaves and lines from the branches stream towards the viewer along perspective lines emanating from the horizon.
Reminds me of the trees in Manifold Garden:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden
get. in.
alt text
A helmeted man rides in a low-slung bugeyed 3-wheeled motor vehicle surrounded by yellow cabs and tall buildings.
GO GAY EUGENE
alt text
8 panel comic
Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?”
Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer”
Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes.
Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow.
Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central
Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat.
Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit
Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?”
Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer”
Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes.
Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow.
Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central
Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat.
Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit
Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
Careful with that axe
👋🏼
going into the week like
alt text
A figure wearing a dark greenish cover that looks like a ghost costume stands against an orange background. The cover has several conspicuous patches. The only details visible of the person's face are two round, white eyes that look like the lenses of glasses. A windup clock key sticks out of the figure's back. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Everyone needs a mechanical ghost pickle!
Spanish Water, With Snake
alt text
Tightly patterned horseshoe whipsnake, travels pristine blue and turquoise sea water to hunt the wall lizards of Ibiza and the other Balearic Islands, creating an environmental, and cultural loss. The wall lizards aside from appealing appearance, and bland social presence, kill insects, and seed vegetation. The coastal waters seem exceptionally clear, and beautiful.
Horseshoe whipsnakes are crossing to the Balearic Islands, and threatening the wall lizards, (not the lounge and beach lizards,) of Ibiza. But, the waters in this image are elegantly colored, and pristine.
#photography #RubénCasas
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...
#photography #RubénCasas
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...
hey @0y3ahSansAcut3, if we ever meet in person mayhap ask for my "Wyoming Game & Fish vs. a swimming rattlesnake in Flaming Gorge Reservoir" story - perchance you'll enjoy it, it's a good 'un.
@williwaw I’d give that a half hour or more, depending on libations….
zuck’s yacht in flames
alt text
Painting of an enormous motor yacht on fire, smoke streaming up from orange flames into a clear blue sky
It came through Chittenden Locks into Lake Union this week - all 390 billionaire-orgiastic feet of it - the very same day Meta announced it was laying off 1,400 people.
This good man plein-air painted its portrait and added some combustive commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r...
This good man plein-air painted its portrait and added some combustive commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Would like to see Life imitate Art with this.
From this time on, the AI decides who lives and who dies. The AI toadies will obey their king/creators, until finally they do cut the baby in half and even the wisdom of a Solomon, won't save the living. Your house will say, "Don't rattle the silverware that way," the vacuum will tell you, "Outta the way!"
The support yacht is in Smith Cove right now
nico and lou reed, may 1966
alt text
photograph (still taken from enhanced 16mm film) of musicians nico and lou reed performing on stage, lit from behind
source: https://holdoncallfailed.tumblr.com/post...
"newly discovered (!) 16mm color footage of the velvet underground and nico performing at the fillmore west in may 1966"
"newly discovered (!) 16mm color footage of the velvet underground and nico performing at the fillmore west in may 1966"
That lighting. That grain. Damn.
hangin with friends
alt text
vintage trash can ad
source: https://www.tumblr.com/...
Lynda
Meckelman
alt text
The character from the IKEA instructions stands before an open box. They are holding a phone with a cord that goes once around their body and continues on to a stylized IKEA store in the distance
IKEA instructions person is (unofficially) known as a Meckelman. They are supposed to be both ageless and genderless
My pal, my nemesis.
AL N. KEY, esq.
I'm hardly one to judge, but Meckelman is serving masc vibes.
Oh no! Safety protocols are offline!
alt text
Playing with the title card generator at https://trek.epicrandomness.com/
Moriarty!
"Ship in a Bottle" is essentially The Matrix told from the opposite viewpoint
-25 lbs. today
alt text
Hi mltshp!
I'm 6'4" and was edging into 220lb territory at my last physical. But I wasn't worried about that at the time.
What got me to lose weight was the nagging fact that my parents and their parents and so on, although exceedingly nice and amusing could often just be completely full of shit.
So when my cholesterol test came back alarmingly high, again, I immediately told my new doctor that it was genetic... before it FINALLY dawned on me that there is no way in hell any of my relatives actually tried to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet - that's not what a family of bullshitting butchers does. But what they did tell me, was that high cholesterol was a genetic problem I could do nothing about.
So the weight loss is really a byproduct that I'm exceedingly psyched about. I mean, I need pants! Pants!
The actual win is that I totally called it. It'll be a while before I'm totally in the safe zone, but my stats are dropping :)
If you are interested in my diet, it's been pretty easy. Guilt is a very strong motivator, so I've leaned into it. I basically ask myself if a certain food's cholesterol would make me A) Feel guilty. B) Not feel guilty or C) Fuck it. I'm eating this entire pizza now. ... And then I eat accordingly.
I'm 6'4" and was edging into 220lb territory at my last physical. But I wasn't worried about that at the time.
What got me to lose weight was the nagging fact that my parents and their parents and so on, although exceedingly nice and amusing could often just be completely full of shit.
So when my cholesterol test came back alarmingly high, again, I immediately told my new doctor that it was genetic... before it FINALLY dawned on me that there is no way in hell any of my relatives actually tried to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet - that's not what a family of bullshitting butchers does. But what they did tell me, was that high cholesterol was a genetic problem I could do nothing about.
So the weight loss is really a byproduct that I'm exceedingly psyched about. I mean, I need pants! Pants!
The actual win is that I totally called it. It'll be a while before I'm totally in the safe zone, but my stats are dropping :)
If you are interested in my diet, it's been pretty easy. Guilt is a very strong motivator, so I've leaned into it. I basically ask myself if a certain food's cholesterol would make me A) Feel guilty. B) Not feel guilty or C) Fuck it. I'm eating this entire pizza now. ... And then I eat accordingly.
@heyitsal Well done! I am on a very similar journey.
My goal is to avoid prescriptions and mrs roonie kick-started me by pressuring me to stop drinking. And I'm glad she did.
I've lost 20 pounds (in your funny numbers!), from 185ish to 165, from Christmas last. I'm 6ft almost on the button so starting with a smaller frame.
I feel so much better - being both sober and lighter.
Pants have become an issue!
And the Guilt Motivator is definitely a thing!
Woo-hoo! Now I want a pizza, all of it.
My goal is to avoid prescriptions and mrs roonie kick-started me by pressuring me to stop drinking. And I'm glad she did.
I've lost 20 pounds (in your funny numbers!), from 185ish to 165, from Christmas last. I'm 6ft almost on the button so starting with a smaller frame.
I feel so much better - being both sober and lighter.
Pants have become an issue!
And the Guilt Motivator is definitely a thing!
Woo-hoo! Now I want a pizza, all of it.
Wow, congrats man, that's amazing! I feel inspired.
High f'in' high five, Al! Your level of stoke is just awesome! Here's to the future and longevity.
breakfast was delicious.
alt text
breakfast empanadas
I experimented with making breakfast empanadas this morning; a little chopped bacon, fresh chives from the garden, scrambled eggs, garlic, herbed parboiled potatoes with a little cheese; close them up and a little maple syrup wash over the crust (since I ran out of eggs for the egg wash). big success. everyone loved.
beautiful!
No, they aren't lazy.
alt text
I sympathize with the overall point, but Gen Z unemployment is at 7.2% (5.6% for college grads) https://www.newyorkfed.org/research...
"Underemployment" for recent college grads is at around 41%, but that is historically average https://www.newyorkfed.org/research...
Blaming AI before capitalism is a good trick.
Savoring every moment
alt text
A close up selfie shot of small 16-year-old Macy the Cavapoo and me in the grass in the front yard. Some dramatic clouds shine in the background
She’s still with us, but Macy only has about a week, MAYbe two left on this earth. My wife and I have been weepy and doing our best not to have a breakdown multiple times a day as it’s gone from “she’s 16 and her kidneys are failing and she doesn’t hear or see so well and her spinal bridging is starting to cause neurological symptoms so she isn’t going to live a LOT longer, to “sometimes she can’t get up on her own and sometimes we have to hold her up to poop and we can’t leave the house without her because she’ll tip over and panic so the end may be sooner than we hoped,” to “it’s time to schedule the end,” as the last few days the pain meds and kidney meds are clearly less effective and even walking is a struggle for her and she only sleeps a couple hours at a time.
So, since our furry family member’s rainbow bridge moment will make it hard for us to function for a bit, I’m doing my best to savor every last minute with her, and posting this selfie of us in the front yard just now.
Love y’all, MLTSHPers. ❤️
So, since our furry family member’s rainbow bridge moment will make it hard for us to function for a bit, I’m doing my best to savor every last minute with her, and posting this selfie of us in the front yard just now.
Love y’all, MLTSHPers. ❤️
All the love to Macy, very good dog
@wjcstp ❤️❤️❤️
💙 Give Macy extra scritches for us. Thank you for taking care of her.
Card from older child
alt text
Ballpoint pen drawing of a child on the shoulders of a man
Flora made a card from based on a photo of us. I think she's added a lot of feeling to it that accurately describes us
I love it.
don't
alt text
public service announcement sign in a public park showing two alerted, unhappy fish.
text reads: "'Ahhhh!! You scared us!' Throwing rocks + and sticks at us scares us and makes it harder for us to find a mate before we die"
text reads: "'Ahhhh!! You scared us!' Throwing rocks + and sticks at us scares us and makes it harder for us to find a mate before we die"
Sticks and stones may make it hard to bone.
same for me
A better world awaits
alt text
Scan of a book or magazine article, showing a woman with three children around her, all looking at an early-2000s laptop. "Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one." Below that in smaller letters, "There is always another fun new blog to read online."
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Keep them in check
alt text
Photograph of a store front with text:
YOUR
NEW
FAVORITE
HOES
YOUR
NEW
FAVORITE
HOES
Source: the missus (also pictured)
A love of footwear is different than the love for other clothing
The love of hoes is for gardeners.
South Bend, Indiana
alt text
An undressing in South Bend, IN
Much much more of thos sort of thing please
More Then & Nows here https://mltshp.com/thenandnow
Much much more of thos sort of thing please
More Then & Nows here https://mltshp.com/thenandnow
Lava Lands
alt text
Old dude and teenage son in background of selfie by proud mom/wife. They are all on an asphalt path through a lava field under a blue sky with puffy clouds.
One of my favorite areas in Oregon, so cool to walk around there
i’ve watched him grow up, but only in pictures
HEY THAT PLACE!!!!! I love that place too.
Ahhh Memories...
*witchy chuckles*
alt text
a tiny witch stands behind an open pot of raspberry jam. Her hands and arms are covered in jam and she looks immensely pleased with herself. The caption at the bottom is "*witchy chuckles*"
the Tiny Angry Witch is in all of us.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
via: https://www.metafilter.com/213355...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
via: https://www.metafilter.com/213355...
These are so cute!
I just discovered this and made sure NOT to watch them all because I might need an infusion of cute later.
see ya later snapchat
alt text
^ Pictured above: Billionaire Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel went to Coachella with his supermodel wife, and then two days later laid off over 1,000 employees. I was one of them. So was my entire team of about 40 people.
We were the Bitmoji team at Snapchat, and except for a few people in LA, our team was completely eliminated. Acquired by Snapchat, Bitmoji remained, at least in spirit, a somewhat semi-autonomous republic within the larger company. But eventually the Bitmoji founders departed or were ousted, along with some long-time artists, and the corporate tech tentacles slowly creeped in to smother what was once a quirky creative team. I joined part way through the process, so I got to taste that fun/creative culture, but also witness its decline.
Honestly, we were all there by accident - artists, animators, and illustrators hiding in the corner of a Tech Company, quietly shocked at the generous salaries and benefits (and free lunches) we received, a contrast to the poor-paying studios and freelance illustration gigs that had come before.
The 5 years I spent there were amazing and horrible. Amazing because (1) Big Tech Salary, and (2) I got to work with some of the most fun, creative and intelligent people. No dead wood on this team. It was also horrible, because ultimately I was just making digital crap to keep users' eyes glued to an app and its advertisers. The pressure to perform and scale production was really high. I lost sleep and gained weight, and got to suffer from anxiety for the first time.
And now suddenly it's done. We're all out. Ostensibly "because AI", despite the fact that we barely used any AI in our creative pipelines, and only for non-creative tasks. I didn't lose my job because of AI, I lost it because of the *idea* that AI could do it all. And of course because Snap's stagnating stock price needed a boost.
It's honestly a relief. I've spent the last month relaxing and decompressing; I had accumulated a month's worth of unused vacation anyway. I'll eventually try to figure out what's next, but for now I have a generous severance to give me some breathing room. I'm free now, as are my fellow artists. I'm happy they can go use their creative gifts for things that are hopefully more meaningful to our society and culture.
thanks for reading my brain dump mltshp friends. That concludes my ted talk.
We were the Bitmoji team at Snapchat, and except for a few people in LA, our team was completely eliminated. Acquired by Snapchat, Bitmoji remained, at least in spirit, a somewhat semi-autonomous republic within the larger company. But eventually the Bitmoji founders departed or were ousted, along with some long-time artists, and the corporate tech tentacles slowly creeped in to smother what was once a quirky creative team. I joined part way through the process, so I got to taste that fun/creative culture, but also witness its decline.
Honestly, we were all there by accident - artists, animators, and illustrators hiding in the corner of a Tech Company, quietly shocked at the generous salaries and benefits (and free lunches) we received, a contrast to the poor-paying studios and freelance illustration gigs that had come before.
The 5 years I spent there were amazing and horrible. Amazing because (1) Big Tech Salary, and (2) I got to work with some of the most fun, creative and intelligent people. No dead wood on this team. It was also horrible, because ultimately I was just making digital crap to keep users' eyes glued to an app and its advertisers. The pressure to perform and scale production was really high. I lost sleep and gained weight, and got to suffer from anxiety for the first time.
And now suddenly it's done. We're all out. Ostensibly "because AI", despite the fact that we barely used any AI in our creative pipelines, and only for non-creative tasks. I didn't lose my job because of AI, I lost it because of the *idea* that AI could do it all. And of course because Snap's stagnating stock price needed a boost.
It's honestly a relief. I've spent the last month relaxing and decompressing; I had accumulated a month's worth of unused vacation anyway. I'll eventually try to figure out what's next, but for now I have a generous severance to give me some breathing room. I'm free now, as are my fellow artists. I'm happy they can go use their creative gifts for things that are hopefully more meaningful to our society and culture.
thanks for reading my brain dump mltshp friends. That concludes my ted talk.
Onward and upward!
When I left my job at JP Morgan the sudden drop of cortisol in my system turned into losing ~10lbs in as many days.
Hopefully the break is refreshing and fulfilling and leads quickly and easily into the next project which is hopefully more fun and fulfilling than the last! Lachaim!
Hopefully the break is refreshing and fulfilling and leads quickly and easily into the next project which is hopefully more fun and fulfilling than the last! Lachaim!
oof, man, i'm so sorry, but also... escape velocity! i'm glad you have some runway to consider your options now. vibing for a much more fulfilling next stage for you.
The Truth Hurts, P'Takh
alt text
Parody of a Star Trek: The Next Generation title card showing the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) orbiting a planet with the text "44 Minutes, Troi Gets One Line"
Holodeck Divas has taught me a lot about the legacy of Maurice Hurley.
"Captain, I'm sensing . . ."