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aurora and two bears
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(from last night) embiggen slightly for ursas major & minor, both beautiful
The big dipper is right above the skyline/fencepost if you need to orient yourself - it was so clear you can even resolve the second star above Mizar (aka the Horse & Rider) in the handle if you embiggen.
I was super pleased this one turned out; hopefully it motivates all you better photographers to get out there tonight and outdo this! :)
The big dipper is right above the skyline/fencepost if you need to orient yourself - it was so clear you can even resolve the second star above Mizar (aka the Horse & Rider) in the handle if you embiggen.
I was super pleased this one turned out; hopefully it motivates all you better photographers to get out there tonight and outdo this! :)
3rdparty
gorgeous. Nothing but clouds here in Southern Ontario
dang!
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Text says: MOST OF THESE PEOPLE WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT SOCIALISM IS EVEN IF THE MAILMAN DELIVERED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK ON A ROAD JUST PLOWED BY THE CITY, PAST A FIRE STATION FUNDED BY THEIR TAXES, ON THE WAY TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL WHERE THEIR GRANDKIDS GET A FREE LUNCH, WHILE THEIR MEDICARE-COVERED AMBULANCE WAITED AT A STOPLIGHT MAINTAINED BY PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS.
yep.
New bass day
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A retro-styled bass guitar with a dark fretboard and red sparkle painted body and white pick guarsd, standing on end vertically.
I've been trolling around for another bass and found this one that ticked a lot of boxes: i love the Mosrite-like shape, it's lightweight, and it was cheap, so it'll be fun to tinker with.
This was a weird model for Danelectro, part of their short-lived Danoblaster series that featured a built-in effect circuit. For the bass, it's a chorus and it does sound pretty good, but it's a bit noisy. It's also weird in having pretty standard Precision bass-style pickups instead of the chrome lipstick pickups that are more typical Dano style.
This one has seen a lot of play but it's in good shape and clean. I'm planning to try another pickup in it, and maybe swap out the chorus board for a small overdrive or see if i can fit both with a different switch. To start I added a thin shim to the neck to bring the action down a bit, new strings, and a setup. Looking forward to trying it at practice tomorrow night.
This was a weird model for Danelectro, part of their short-lived Danoblaster series that featured a built-in effect circuit. For the bass, it's a chorus and it does sound pretty good, but it's a bit noisy. It's also weird in having pretty standard Precision bass-style pickups instead of the chrome lipstick pickups that are more typical Dano style.
This one has seen a lot of play but it's in good shape and clean. I'm planning to try another pickup in it, and maybe swap out the chorus board for a small overdrive or see if i can fit both with a different switch. To start I added a thin shim to the neck to bring the action down a bit, new strings, and a setup. Looking forward to trying it at practice tomorrow night.
this is a cool find!
i remember those danoblaster guitars and basses being in one of my hometown's guitar shops, and they were surprisingly fun to play. agree that those effects were kinda noisy circuits though.
i remember those danoblaster guitars and basses being in one of my hometown's guitar shops, and they were surprisingly fun to play. agree that those effects were kinda noisy circuits though.
I had one of the guitars and it weighed seventy-three pounds. It was cool that the effects were built in like an old Vox, tho.
Play it in good health!
Play it in good health!
Always wanted a Dano Longhorn. They were cheap, sound great and play great, and I'm not sure why I never got around to it. I mean, they're still available but currently not cheap.
Stick Library @genxcess.co.uk
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A homemade looking stick rack with "Stick Library for Good Dogs" etched at the top. Each stick is engraved:
Moby Stick
Fetch-22
The Handmaid's Tail
198🐾
The Count of Mighty Stick Throw
Moby Stick
Fetch-22
The Handmaid's Tail
198🐾
The Count of Mighty Stick Throw
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
see also: https://mltshp.com/p/1OZ6R
For those who celebrate
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Picture of an explosion on a beach
My brother making friends...
I think I got my memes mixed up
bumper sticker
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A screenshot from Bluesky featuring a post by user @skeet.best, which is itself an image of the text "BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPING UNKNOWN GODS - DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172"
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Every few years I dip into Dwarf Fortress's patchlists. I'll never play the game but the documents are full of gems...
https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves...
"Hospital patients and babies don't shut off the brains of people carrying them, again."
"Stopped babies born in fort from worshipping extra deities."
"Fixed necromancer experimentation."
In wiki form (organized, easier to read, but can't be mindlessly scrolled forever): https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index...
https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves...
"Hospital patients and babies don't shut off the brains of people carrying them, again."
"Stopped babies born in fort from worshipping extra deities."
"Fixed necromancer experimentation."
In wiki form (organized, easier to read, but can't be mindlessly scrolled forever): https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index...
Like this? https://mltshp.com/p/1RE3O
Shadowrun
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A painting in realist mode, showing three figures (an elf with mohawk in black leather; a woman in bikini and trenchcoat, her face painted and hand glowing, holding a shotgun; a man in facepaint and fatigues carrying two Uzis) standing on an urban street. Steam is rising from a grate. The elf is doing something to a computer terminal mounted into the building. The Uzi-carrying man is firing at three fantastic figures (orcs or trolls) emerging from a car at the corner, who are returning fire.
source: https://cdn.bsky.app
Larry Elmore, 1989. The cover to the first and second editions of the cyberpunk-meets-elves TTRPG. #paintings
Larry Elmore, 1989. The cover to the first and second editions of the cyberpunk-meets-elves TTRPG. #paintings
> probably 1989
I think that's probably a good guess, given the '89 next to Elmore's signature, unless Larry decided to mess with us.
I think that's probably a good guess, given the '89 next to Elmore's signature, unless Larry decided to mess with us.
@bezt Man I didn't even notice his signature.
@snarkout Also note the smeared graffiti FASA immediately to the right of the signature.
Northern Lights out the window tonight
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These might have been the best aurora I've ever seen in the continental U.S.
I thought my favorite autumn star Aldebaran was just peeking out in this shot but I don't see it here, shoot.
I thought my favorite autumn star Aldebaran was just peeking out in this shot but I don't see it here, shoot.
Hoping for a repeat tonight, ideally a little earlier. We had just enough breaks in the clouds to see the sky was pink. I also couldn't get our space-loving kid to wake up and see.
Fantastic! I might have to try for a view tonight, it takes some driving to get away from the city lights here.
I didn't get out last night to see it (surrounded by a dense cover of trees, too lazy to get out any farther) but last night people were taking clear pics of it from the center of our city. It was BRIGHT.
that’s not a triangle
earlier
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A white wheelless vehicle pulls up with the driver in yellow silk shirt black cowboy hat and sunglasses pumping his fists out of the open following hatch as another man, stocky and wearing puffy sheet armor and sunglasses lumbers up nearby to confront the camera.
The straight-to-VHS release of Back to the Future 4 failed to live up to expectations
Preach
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Photograph of an older woman with white hair, holding a plump baby in blue pajamas, sitting in a book-lined office. "Judith Wishnia, 94, retired professor of history and women's studies, Setauket, New York: 'I'm 94, and I told my doctor I hope I live to see him in jail.'"
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"From a Washington Post story titled 'How women feel about Trump’s presidency'"
"From a Washington Post story titled 'How women feel about Trump’s presidency'"
from your lips to god’s ears
I was talking to my 84 year old uncle just last night who had very similar wishes.
My first thought was, why would she want that cute kid put in jail.
whip of the week
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Gray station wagon with roof windows and a super elongated hood standing in front of a corrugated green wall
“The Beast.” Powered by a 27-liter v12 Rolls Royce Merlin.
o_O
more pix n bits at the source : https://www.tumblr.com/carsthat...
o_O
more pix n bits at the source : https://www.tumblr.com/carsthat...
when you need those groceries in a hurry
I think I'd prefer this if the front was the back.
you could fit more bodies under the hood than the back!
Aurora
Dymaxion Earth
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3 versions of this projection of the world map - as an unfolded icosahedron, as a 'photographic' image and as a traditional map showing national borders
'The Dymaxion projection was created by American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller in the mid-20th century. Unlike traditional maps, it unfolds Earth’s surface onto an icosahedron, a shape with twenty triangular faces, which can then be laid flat with minimal distortion of landmass size and shape.
'Fuller’s design emphasized the idea of a single interconnected planet. By arranging the continents as one nearly continuous landmass, the map visually downplays national divisions and highlights the unity of Earth’s geography. It avoids the east-west bias seen in most traditional projections, removing the notion of “up” or “down.”'
@Amazing Maps via Facebook
Note: New Zealand is on top for a change!
'Fuller’s design emphasized the idea of a single interconnected planet. By arranging the continents as one nearly continuous landmass, the map visually downplays national divisions and highlights the unity of Earth’s geography. It avoids the east-west bias seen in most traditional projections, removing the notion of “up” or “down.”'
@Amazing Maps via Facebook
Note: New Zealand is on top for a change!
New d20 just dropped
bedazzled
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A young woman poses in a dark room, hands flared at her sides, starbursts of white lights covering her head to toe
dazzle hips
@tweedlydo 💰
Paul Evans - Wonderful Winter Evening
Look where the sun's shining!
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Monochrome tattoo showing a peaked-roof house with snow on the roof and the sun above - otherwise could be a bent-over naked man
'Always obtain a second opinion before going ahead with a tattoo depicting the sun melting snow from your garden shed.'
source: https://www.facebook.com/
source: https://www.facebook.com/
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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pinball
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Photograph of a long row of pinball machines at the Double Bull Taphouse, January 2024.
memories of the sound of ringing bells, pinballs knocking around, the smell of beer and cigarettes.
there's a retro-arcade near me (Zed-80) that has a few good tables. I am still not very good at pinball, and I'm now old enough that it hurts if I play for more than 10 minutes
Come to Santa Clara next summer!
https://caextreme.org
https://caextreme.org
like really weird
it'sa me
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An image grid of 112 self portraits in black and white depicting the process of introvert burnout.
This is phase one of a master's project on identity. I chose to describe the process of introvert burnout. As an "outgoing introvert" I often get overstimulated if I don't take the right precautions, especially over a longer period of time. This was a fun sketch and lead me to the feedback I needed to take it in a direction that feels right.
This will evolve into a book, sort of a diary, of my experience with introversion. Our class is participating in a public exhibition in February. Whatever this turns into will be my first exhibited piece in a fine-art photography show!
This will evolve into a book, sort of a diary, of my experience with introversion. Our class is participating in a public exhibition in February. Whatever this turns into will be my first exhibited piece in a fine-art photography show!
love it! keep it going!
What i saw
Strandbeest evolution 2025
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Autoluv this mad genius. I'm waiting for his walking city to arrive. You just know he'll go there.
technology
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Man drinks from a straw protruding from the inflatable transparent puffy jacket he wears, which is full of golden beer and logo’d “Tsingtao,” a popular command of Chinese lager. It is framed by the social media thread in which the image appears. The commenters say:
= Reposted by maili ceej@ceej.online • 5h
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
unioncity.bsky.social @unioncity.bsky.social - 7h
I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao
TSINGTAO
= Reposted by maili ceej@ceej.online • 5h
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
unioncity.bsky.social @unioncity.bsky.social - 7h
I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao
TSINGTAO
source: https://www.tumblr.com/nem23...
mmm, body temperature beer
6-pack abs... and arms; and shoulders.
@tweedlydo just like the Brits intended!
My view this week
ancient runes
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exploded diagram of a carburettor, with many tiny components, all numbered
Catherine got me a book from the college library that was in the free pile. It's full of fiddly diagrams and tuning procedures for 1970s Solex carburettors
The Solex, as in bicycle with helper motor? Very 60s / 70s
I love exploded views. So much information about construction.
I love exploded views. So much information about construction.
[90s cyberpunk anime intro fades in]
@joost yes, same company. But they were also a major manufacturer of carburettors, mostly for European cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
FINE I WILL DO ONE
FFS
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orange letters on a blue background, spelling "Oh for fuck's sake"
saved to /FFU
Haha! I was just looking for a link to create this exact thing. Now I don't need to!