Doesn't look like yer average dealer.

Why does it look like reflections of overhead lighting in each image?

@0y3ahSansAcut3 cut back in the special effects budget?

@0y3ahSansAcut3 maybe aurora type behaviour? Article mentions them.

I'm very excited to see what (and if) conclusions they come to regarding how its weird axial tilt and ionosphere and goddamn weird tilted/asymetmagnetic field affect the rest of the atmosphere, particularly its composition.

@0y3ahSansAcut3 those are probably aurora - they seem in the wrong location to what we're used to because its magnetosphere is at a very odd orientation in relation to both its equator and the solar plane, something like 60 degrees, and its also not just unusually strong but also asymmetrical

To put it another way, its magnetic equator is not just "wrong" but also bulges out on one side.

The funniest joke in the English language

I have a pair of Asolo hiking boots that have seen many miles, they make good stuff.

All I have ever warn for the past 10 years. I like mine so much I sent them to the Asolo factory in Italy to be re-soled. The two pairs came back looking like new.

I used to have some dove gray Asolo hiking boots, yes I did!

Inspirational!

🙏

I should have been a pair of ragged claws...

Strangely, even though my city is still reeling from a federal invasion by untrained, masked goons and the company I work for is being slowly dismantled and is still very very messy, I feel good tonight.

Part of that is that I've found a lot of meaning in helping people more affected by both those things than me.

Part of it is that I've met lots of really great folks that live in the neighborhood.

Part of it is that I have better learned to find the small joys in the world, despite the world's many many flaws.

One of those joys is this place, Mltshp. As I meet new people in the physical world, I find myself referencing things I've experienced through all you wonderful folks and vice versa.

@bencmeissner +++++

♡♡♡

This place remains sustaining for me. ❤️

@bencmeissner 🖤🩶💙🩵🩷❤️💚💜🤎💛🧡

💜 Thanks all

good on you for volunteering your time and energy when it seems like so much is already being taken up by the world being on fire. i wish i had that kind of drive. truly, the small joys are the pebbles that build the fortifications to hold back the tide; it is a joy to have people like you bringing positive intent and awesome content to make a place like this awesome. much love

@nikkuneko Thanks 💜

To be transparent, a lot of what I'm doing in the community is walking and watching, which helps me with the anxiety from having these predators here. On the work side, while I would help the wonderful folks I have worked with anyways, I do hope some of them can repay the favors when my time comes later on.

@bencmeissner Good onya, Ben. You're a good man.

🧡 🧡 🧡 🧡 🧡
Keep on keeping on Ben, you're doing fine.

Hard same. I bought the book & calendar last year.

the absolute very best

Some of the most highbrow shitposting in the history of the internet

Craphound is still a going concern at least

J'adore

I am Locutus of Bear. Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been is just beginning. From this time forward, you will snuggle us.

@BennyTheIcepick +++

@Panjandrum
Kicking myself for passing up the opportunity for So-cute-us

The shits for the shits

Dave Bidini has some thoughts: https://www.facebook.com/share...

OH BOY.

I've been a hockey fan almost my entire life. I've played - one of my teeth is offset due to being hit in the mouth with a puck. Huge Avs fan their entire existence. Legit cried when Roy became their coach because he was my favorite all time player and if I couldn't see him play live I could at least see him coach because by then I lived in the Denver area. Bought *good* season tickets and play-off games seats. Bought memorabilia. Bought sweaters. Paid extra to stream. Turned my husband into a huge fan. Turned friends into fans! Listened to the podcasts and watched the videos and read all the articles - even had my favorite writers! Cared about the minor leagues too. Supported youth hockey. Supported university hockey. Etc. etc.

And until I quit a high paying corporate industrial job to do research I was in *exactly* the income bracket the NHL courted heavily with calls and personal "sales connections" blah blah blah. I was The Fan. But I was also a woman of a Certain Age: I was more than just a wallet, I was a demographic they VERY much needed to Grow The Fanbase. And they KNEW IT.

I wasn't naïve - I know we live in a capitalist driven society and sports aren't any different. But I LOVED the game. I love athletes in general and these were my favorites. I would drive an hour sometimes just to watch practices! My faves usually weren't the best players - they were the guys who seemed happy just to be able to play.

But then some events happened. It became more public what happened with Patrick Roy and his wife (not just don't meet your heroes, don't learn about them, sigh). The stupid Denver Post writer and what he did. The Chicago Blackhawks and the NHL: both how they dealt with what happened with Patrick Kane's charges and then the sexual assault with the Hawks trainer. How they were dealing with head injuries. The Avs brought out fucking "ICE GIRLS". What was happening with women sportswriters. Then the horrific scandal in Canada. And on and on. Despite being a demographic they needed, I felt more and more like a demographic not wanted, not even cared about, and began to drift away. How could I support such attitudes, such actions? At some point I realized for the first time in 30 years I didn't even know the standings and who some of the players were - that's how much they lost me.

But some exciting things happened. I fell in love with Cale Makar as a player and wanted to watch his brilliance. I started paying attention again, even got excited. The NHL seemed to be doing some progressive work, and even if it was profit driven, okay, it's still work. I started drifting back again. It wasn't ever going to be the same obsessiveness, but I was watching a game here and there. Perhaps they could partially win me back.

I was SO excited for these Olympics, both women and men. I took off work to watch games! I paid money! There was so much interest due to some t.v. show with a lot of new fans - what a great time to welcome some women new to the sport! How exciting! I had watch parties! I screamed myself hoarse, which I haven't done in a very long time! What a good time!

I'm not stupid - hockey itself is a game that nowadays comes from background of privilege; these players aren't coming from pond hockey with basic cheap equipment from Canadian Tire anymore. But geez, right now with that t.v. show and an Olympics with some super exciting games and 2 Gold Medals: what an opportunity to grow the sport with everything going on! This is how you grow your fanbase with a diverse background! This is how you get youth leagues funded for folks who can't afford it! This is how you form new generations to carry over the love to *Pay Their Fucking Salaries and Profits!* THIS IS HOW YOU GROW THE SPORT.

And then, in the space of 20 seconds, the NHL completely lost me and thousands of others as a fan. One 5 year old FBI director, one phone call, one misogynist joke, one White House visit, one doubling down, all that adds up: I'm not ever going to watch an NHL game again. They've lost me permanently. No WAY am I going to pay another goddamn dime to support those athletes. And how many other people out there are like me? How many potential fans did they lose? How many potential *players*? It makes me so sad, and so angry. Fuck those guys forever.

And they don't care. They don't give a shit. They don't see it. They offer up crap like, "Politics don't belong in sports." Oh, you assholes! That's the worst part of it.

They may have won a gold medal, but they became the biggest losers.

I am sure it is the worst food they have eaten in weeks. It's crappy enough they had to show, then get medaled by fearless leader.

Sorry guys. America can't afford to buy you a decent meal. This is exactly how much we care.

And yeah, I know: this is a trivial thing with everything going on. But at the same time: that fucking misogyny being treated as okay goes *everywhere* and becomes very non-trivial very fast.

Hockey in Canada has a lot to answer for itself and the culture is generally bad (I've long given up, am an NBA guy now though some comments during all-star game put a damper on that too... thanks Hebron James) but yeah USA hockey has been especially tone-deaf this week.

Fucking pathetic

Gross!

Needs a Looney Tunes-style Xylophone sound effect.

Also, ouch.

Professional Driver On Closed Course Do Not Attempt

I’m impressed he got them horns through.

I have a feeling this is gonna get a lot of future use

Who knew Darren McGavin could be so spicy.

Just drove by strawberry fields on my way down to Monterey last week!

...forever!

@ba you beat me to it.

Wow, where is the loop? I guess the choppiness of the video makes it easier to hide, but it has to be somewhere between when he comes out of the hall and the guy smacks the wall. I can't see it.

MY CABBAGES!

@williwaw ++

another machine translate puts the upper right text as "it contains the pure heart of a farmer who only focuses on growing healthy and fresh cabbage in Jeonnam"

under the farmer says "Moon Ho-il Cabbage Juice"

Send the Québécois there because that’s not French!

I had a Canadian friend also respond to this.

The "No Smoking" sign should be all you need to keep the french away.

i mean, same:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RKLH

… and sometimes the screen stares back into you.

and then after I'm tired of looking at Good Screen (desktop), I retired to my bed and start looking at Smaller Good Screen (laptop).

One point of discipline I have maintained is I don't have electronics in my bedroom, never look at screens in bed.

This guy got a haircut on the way home.

@dad I'm on your side! We'll fight them on the beaches.

Ha, being self-employed, it's all the same screen, but I have a Chrome window for work tabs and another for 'fun'!

"Voyeurs licking moistened lips," Bruce Cockburn

Title

paraphrasing a comment i saw elsewhere, he wants a model he can control and block from refusing unlawful planning scenarios and acts of war.

I have beheld the sunsphere

Wigsphere

STAYED AT A HOTEL AND LOOKED RIGHT OUT AT THIS THING, HAD NO CLUE WHAT IT WAS

THAT'S RIGHT, I STARED DIRECTLY AT IT

Apparently Tennessee drivers licenses feature notable buildings throughout the state, like the Memphis Pyramid. The silhouette of this one is front and center and looks positively obscene

"We're parked under the Sunsphere."

Adorable and hilarious!

they were writing Xanax prescriptions like it was nothing, for a while, there......just like was once done with Valium.

Xanax makes you feel like instead of walking on feet, you are skating on marshmallow wheels, and breathing with marshmallow lungs, and thinking with a marshmallow brain.

DGAF pills
You know the house is on fire and you will leave but it's ok.

Benzos in combo with opiate for surgery, make me a "surprise monster," in the OR, ripping out lines, off the table, and on the attack...

Yeah…. They don’t do much to me. Sedating me is a “nightmare” according to my proctologist.

@m3moellering Do they do the “rectum?! Damn near killed ‘em!” Joke? Or pull a thermometer out of their breast pocket and say “ugh. This means some asshole’s got my pen”

@wombatman70 Hehehehe..... No, he's a nice young man and quite serious. Now my urologist on the other hand, he makes sure to shake your hand before he leaves but after he has checked one's prostrate. He's also quick with a joke about size, smell, or placement.

@m3moellering 😂👏👏👏