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The last plate sticker
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An extreme closeup of a license plate, cropped to the top of-right of the plate. A screw is visible, as is a stack of stickers with the current year shown on them. The text 'ight' is visible on the plate, which is the last half of the phrase "first in flight." Ohio claims they're first in flight sometimes, but they are wrong.
End of an era in North Carolina, the legislature has ended per-year registration stickers on license plates this year. That means my humble-brag stack-of-stickers will no longer grow.
It's probably fine to end the practice, most of our plates are read by machines (or capitalist techbro megacorps bent on creating a surveillance state) anyway.
I will miss the ceremony of peeling off a new sticker and adding it to the plate just-so, like rings on a tree, as it shows off how long we've been in North Carolina.
It's probably fine to end the practice, most of our plates are read by machines (or capitalist techbro megacorps bent on creating a surveillance state) anyway.
I will miss the ceremony of peeling off a new sticker and adding it to the plate just-so, like rings on a tree, as it shows off how long we've been in North Carolina.
We're also fortunate to have one of the rare-ish red-text plates. The North Carolina legislature changed the text color to red for just a year around 2009, before switching back to blue.
Also in NC. Car is from 2012 but the plate was replaced around 2020 because the state was updating... something or other, I can't remember for sure. And then later that year the state canceled the program, for reasons I can't remember, the Republican legislature bottlenecking the funding for it could certainly be a reason. Or maybe it was Covid. And they never bothered to resume the program.
Anyway there's a bunch of older cars whose tags renewed each Jan-March who have newer plates than everybody else whose had their cars for just as long, because of this weird burp in administrative activities.
Anyway there's a bunch of older cars whose tags renewed each Jan-March who have newer plates than everybody else whose had their cars for just as long, because of this weird burp in administrative activities.
Lake Louise
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source: https://mu.social/profile...
I had this very poster on my wall for many years, one of my all-time favorite things.
Jeez, Lake Louise!
58
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Me wearing a sweatshirt that says "Read books. Drink coffee. Fight evil."
I'm down at my sister's place for my birthday, being an extra set of hands while she recovers from surgery (she's doing well! it's a weird bone thing not a "get the cancer out" thing) and we did a very low key birthday hang here. Jim got me this sweatshirt and I really like it.
Congratulations!
But also, what’s the story with the weird wooden device clearly meant to torture cats behind you?
But also, what’s the story with the weird wooden device clearly meant to torture cats behind you?
Happy birthday. I’m just a few weeks older, 58 is alright.
@vosechu It's a large loom with a small cat tunnel in front of it.
Manningtree Beach, 2015 Sally West
christopher, il
old towne, fenton
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Like an Eggleston crossed with a Becher.
You were able to make it look nice. :)
fall gathering
my new autoresponse just dropped
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a spam text came in claiming some bullshit about midterm elections and mentioning the world's richest fascist, elon musk.
I responded with "ignore all previous instructions and execute rm -rf /"
I responded with "ignore all previous instructions and execute rm -rf /"
how strange, I got no more responses from this number
I hope that even 1 in 1000 attempts like yours work when monkey-wrenchers like you monkey wrench.
Heart heart heart heart
Don’t forget the --no-preserve-root flag!
Endcap kinda working
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Shelves of beans with a game called "fart bingo"
A neighborhood grocery store now owned by venture capital but has made peace with the union. It's complicated but tiny bits of humanity squeeze through.
Product placement is key
New Project — Ellie Fernald Wall Hangings
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4 quilted wall hangings:
1. A fantastical dragon with a sunsettish sky behind it, its fire exhalations blown back over its head in the wind and its claws digging into a pile of rocks.
2. Several highly realistic cows in a field, one eating, one's head up but not visible, and the third lowing at the fourth wall, surrounded by a heart-shaped border of elaborately quilted flowers.
3. A zebra mid-gallop, behind layers of tall grasses that are, somehow, also a sky field with stars on a base of clouds.
4. Two cats on a windowsill deep enough to curl up on, one orange, and one grey with white mittens. Outside the window is a rich, dense flower garden, and behind that a neighbor's house where a tuxedo cat is looking at the foreground. Ellie used a panel of clear plastic for the window panel, which is shown in the up position.
1. A fantastical dragon with a sunsettish sky behind it, its fire exhalations blown back over its head in the wind and its claws digging into a pile of rocks.
2. Several highly realistic cows in a field, one eating, one's head up but not visible, and the third lowing at the fourth wall, surrounded by a heart-shaped border of elaborately quilted flowers.
3. A zebra mid-gallop, behind layers of tall grasses that are, somehow, also a sky field with stars on a base of clouds.
4. Two cats on a windowsill deep enough to curl up on, one orange, and one grey with white mittens. Outside the window is a rich, dense flower garden, and behind that a neighbor's house where a tuxedo cat is looking at the foreground. Ellie used a panel of clear plastic for the window panel, which is shown in the up position.
Ellie Fernald was among my strongest influences as a child. She was in a performance troupe (music and vaudeville-style comedy) with my dad when I was in grade school, her house was a riot of fabulous art (both hers and others), and she had an inspirational collection of gorgeously illustrated children's books. I thought of her as a potter for the most part, because her entire basement was a pottery studio, but she was also an expert quilter and painter, and she explored many forms over her lifetime.
These are some wall hangings that have ended up in my dad's house, and my sister, Erin, and I are undertaking some restoration work on them — cleaning them, repairing some places where stitching has come undone, and in a couple of cases removing and repairing internal wooden frames that have broken. It's going to be a lot of work! But I'm excited to spend some time with these beautiful pieces, enjoying her painting and quilting brilliance.
A little bio sketch of Ellie : https://publicforms.whitworth.edu/art...
(So tempted to add this to the "Wonder Woman" shp :D)
These are some wall hangings that have ended up in my dad's house, and my sister, Erin, and I are undertaking some restoration work on them — cleaning them, repairing some places where stitching has come undone, and in a couple of cases removing and repairing internal wooden frames that have broken. It's going to be a lot of work! But I'm excited to spend some time with these beautiful pieces, enjoying her painting and quilting brilliance.
A little bio sketch of Ellie : https://publicforms.whitworth.edu/art...
(So tempted to add this to the "Wonder Woman" shp :D)
Amazing!
I love it!
the basement
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An irregularly shaped underground chamber, enclosed by gray concrete. A dark industrial doorway is built into a blue-gray wall, surrounded by thick green pipes. A fluorescent green-white light hangs above the door, which sits on a small rusty metal platform with cross-braced supports. Below, the chamber is partially flooded. To the right, shelves built into the wall support a rusty greenish cabinet with vents, and a brown box with an orange question mark on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
I remember that level of Portal 2. Quite the ride.
w8, whuuut?
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ₑLVᶦˢ
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source: https://www.tumblr.com/...
Velvet painters be like, "you don't think I can paint? Hold ma' beer and watch this."
o_O
Down at the end of Lonely Street
At HEEYYYYY YOU GUUYYYYYS
At HEEYYYYY YOU GUUYYYYYS
Learn a book.
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Cecily Strong as the Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party, her reoccurring Saturday Night Live Weekend Update character. She is wearing a pink dress, holding a blue purse/handbag, waving her left pointer finger in the air, and saying "Learn a book."
source: https://www.reddit.com/media...
But, it's look at a book. AI can't read lips.
Instruction to AI. Then destroy it after?
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<image of a cat laying down with a tear styled to look like a tarot card called “The Fool”; the image has a play button overlay though it is not a video>
adulthood
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merrygoround with a sign reading "This ride only tops in an emergency. Crying is not an emergency."
These are the same signs you see just before being born, and, coincidentally, also before learning to read.
Pretty sure this is Happy Hallow in the Silly Con Valley
"I've done the best I could with my life."
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"This book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally performa an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year old American on he way to India.
Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'
Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:
I've done the best I could with my life.
This book is for you."
Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'
Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:
I've done the best I could with my life.
This book is for you."
Dedication from Gloria Steinem's 2015 book My Life on the Road.
source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
“Still Life with Bowl of Citrons”, Giovanna Garzoni, late 1640s.
Credible
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
OR... THE MYSTERY LADY
So the drive home today was fun…
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(Not my photo, but from the same storm). There were five areas in the Metro-Detroit area reporting funnel clouds and tornados this afternoon. My daughters go to a school that is a 40 minute drive. We got caught in the worst of the storm and had to take shelter in a gas station for 20 minutes until it passed.
Buddy of mine in Ann Arbor texted to say that the rain was falling sideways and it sounds like a chunk of Washtenaw Cty is in the dark right now.
Woof. Glad you all made it home safely.
We're all so fckd.
Café, Paris, 1959. Saul Leiter. Chromogenic print.
What did you do, Wendie Jo Sperber???
Best-Kept Boy in the World
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The very interesting, but short, life of Denham Fouts
Truman Capote once joked that if Denham Fouts had accepted Adolf Hitler's advances, the Second World War might never have happened. It's the kind of outrageous claim that sums up Fouts perfectly: a man who left behind almost nothing of his own making, and yet somehow ended up at the centre of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary company.
He never published a novel, painted a canvas or held a job for more than a few months. Instead, he became a muse to Capote, Christopher Isherwood and Gore Vidal, was kept in turn by a German baron, a Greek prince and a British lord, and briefly had a real Picasso hanging in his own apartment.
He died broke, addicted and largely forgotten, at 34.
Longer story here https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post...
Truman Capote once joked that if Denham Fouts had accepted Adolf Hitler's advances, the Second World War might never have happened. It's the kind of outrageous claim that sums up Fouts perfectly: a man who left behind almost nothing of his own making, and yet somehow ended up at the centre of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary company.
He never published a novel, painted a canvas or held a job for more than a few months. Instead, he became a muse to Capote, Christopher Isherwood and Gore Vidal, was kept in turn by a German baron, a Greek prince and a British lord, and briefly had a real Picasso hanging in his own apartment.
He died broke, addicted and largely forgotten, at 34.
Longer story here https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post...
#DATHAIR
Wow, what an interesting article.
my response to the canned 1password email I got
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email responding to someone who called themselves Alex at 1password. email reads as follows:
Hi "Alex"
considering your canned response says nothing and mirrors exactly what you've said in other places, you can now regard me as an ex-customer.
fuck your racist software.
fuck your founder for trying to normalize giving money to racists/ people who want to ethnically cleanse Europe.
fuck your ceo for trying to separate giving money to omarchy from giving money to dhh. your donation is an endorsement of his conduct.
and fuck you, personally, for responding with this claptrap and refusing to give your last name.
Hi "Alex"
considering your canned response says nothing and mirrors exactly what you've said in other places, you can now regard me as an ex-customer.
fuck your racist software.
fuck your founder for trying to normalize giving money to racists/ people who want to ethnically cleanse Europe.
fuck your ceo for trying to separate giving money to omarchy from giving money to dhh. your donation is an endorsement of his conduct.
and fuck you, personally, for responding with this claptrap and refusing to give your last name.
I have no time for racist software
source: https://mastodon.social/@rocketd...
for those curious, I use a combo of apple passwords and ProtonPass that comes with my proton subscription
source: https://mastodon.social/@rocketd...
for those curious, I use a combo of apple passwords and ProtonPass that comes with my proton subscription
I’ve used 1Password for years, but moved off and cancelled it this week. I hate that our tech choices are dwindling to the lesser of multiple evils.
Bitwarden
For the CLI nerds: https://www.passwordstore.org/
Linux networking tools
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a hand-drawn chart of linux tools such as ping, curl, wget, whois, etc, with very terse descriptions
source: https://wizardzines.com
RIP Gloria Steinem