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I dislike the pinterest UI so much

(CBGB, allegedly.)

Wiltshire born
Wiltshire bred
Strong in the arm
But thick in the head

Thick as a brick. Dumb as a bagga hammers.

I am framing this.

I don't quite know why. But this positively looks like a painting.
Wonderful picture

I unabashedly ADORE this.

Fuck yea. There is hope.

i'm here for this!

honestly, unabashedly happy for the kids able to carry the music with them wherever they go, but: *especially* happy that this gets them to experience music on its own, without the spotify algorithm guiding them, without the ads bombarding them, etc, etc, ad nauseam.

(also, it reminds me that i have a TI cassette [drive] that i salvaged years ago but never got into working order. should pull it out and give it a proper cleanup.)

They have everything

Saved to https://mltshp.com/asterisk

AI warehouse?

Hey, what's your star sign?

(Sacramento 6 Drive-In)

Darn! Sew it is! Someone’ll prolly surge in to needle you about this spindly comment thread.

I may be biased, but @wombatman70 's puns are leaving me in stitches!

Epic Thread!

@idogcow my head is bobbin’ in agreement.

That Singer is a zinger!

Sorry, couldn't come up with a decent pun.

Kinda sad to see old sewing machines taken out of service, but these sure are beautiful. If they're not being used for sewing, at least they're still being appreciated.

i can only hope reverse gear is called backstitch

Put the treadle down and RIDE

I wanna buy one.

Does it operate with a pedal on the floor?

Treadle to the metal

Trails were blazed 🫡

immortalized in Lego Ideas 'Women In Space" №21312

One of my employees worked for her and is still at the lab. She has nothing but nice things to say about her.

Woah. What a hero

"And when you're registered they let you do it."

See, that's what they're working on right now, though.

Got mine in

Vote in person if at all possible. On Election Day.

@MackReed I dropped my ballot off in the dropbox by our local library. A few days later I got confirmation from the election board that they'd received it.

Vote early. Vote often.

Ballots delivered yesterday, making plans

@MackReed Same library experience (CA)
Verified online that it was received the next day.

Hooray for all VOTERS!

or vote before Election Day. Election Day is the last day vote, not the only one

In before "moistened bint"

Watery tart …

Lobbed a scimitar

Comments

Let the repressing begin!

This seems like a good basis for a system of government.

@samh lolllllll

great to see the Wyeth room at the Lucas Museam

Cutlery dispensed

now we see the violence inherent in the syste!

4 horsemen = three-headed flying leopard, a dragon, a flying lion, a ring wraith? and a bear and some buff guy from the Odyssey? I'm in

don't kink shame

my kid is a student at UofI, i wonder how much i could pay her and a few friends to go to this and start speaking in tongues

Man, I remember these. For some reason I don't see them here in North Carolina. Plenty of promotions for Shen Yun though, and somehow they manage to be even more wingnutty than your average apocalypse fetishist.

I used get those, but they stopped a few years ago.

They were worth a sensible chuckle

fan fiction

In UT we have a guy called Parowan Prophet. Every once in a while he scrapes up enough for a print ad. All end-of-the-world stuff, funny, and not too offensive.

Sweet!

Added to /How-low-can-you-go 🥸

hell of a largemouth!

Congratulations!!

Like a boss!

Now she needs a pony. Congrats!

I was coming out of the library today and a couple of tourists asked, “where’s the library?”

I congratulate them that they’d already arrived. “Okay but how do we go in?”

I gesture at the automatic sliding door still open behind me.

@BennyTheIcepick no need to hunt them, by the sounds of it. They will get trapped in there and perish of their own volition.

Mars or Arizona

That's a lot of Sols.

spoopy!

that is a Maru slide

PROBABILITY THAT ONE OR MORE TEAM MEMBERS MAY BE INFECTED BY INTRUDER ORGANISM:

75%

@danelectro : perfect. Couldn’t put my finger on what it reminded me of

Wienerphone

@mcmjolnir hello dog?

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤪🤪🤪

I have to ask if the weenie tattoo was part of the original or if it was an embellishment

@BennyTheIcepick - that’s artistic interpretations, just as I have done on many hats and sunglasses previously.

One wonders what tattoo boy’s terrible opinions encompass …

Three of these people have pointy down hair fronts. I wonder if their opinions are genetic? Number one regrets his left eye is falling out, (he knows it is a punishment for looking at "filth".)

@MackReed - he paid Elon to advertise his terrible music to me. Not obvious from his look, it’s modern country.

@0y3ahSansAcut3 - one of the caricature things I do is exaggerate hairlines. This batch happened to have mild widow’s peak type looks already.

@colintheriot I couldn't remember widow's peak.

I can’t believe I never noticed before. Going back through your oeuvre and I am appreciating your work in a whole new light. Brilliant.

expecting a troubled rivulet?

I've used sketchup for a long time but my 9-y-o is asking for lessons and I hesitate to feed her into an evolutionary dead end. My neighbor has a 3d filament printer as does our local library and I hope someday to get a resin printer! Do you recommend software for this sort of noodling in a format that lends itself to fdm? Teaching her seems like a jumping-off point for me to learn, too!!

@comotellamas I've used a lot of different modeling software, Rhino, Blender, FreeCAD, Sketchup, etc.

The one I landed on was Fusion360. There's some learning curve but it's very worth it for me, since I do a lot of things that are helped by parameters. I still use blender for some rigging and sculpting.

I've used a ton of slicers too. The one I just started using, and by far the best, is Orca.

I've wanted to get into resin, but I'm not willing to commit to the chemicals.

Is this for the tree?

@0y3ahSansAcut3 yes, for the low stump

@artwells Thank you for the thoughtful response! We have some rain coming over the weekend, so I'll post up on the couch and work my way through a couple videos with her on Blender3D. They have a pretty active community and I like working with FOSS solutions because they tend to stick around and work well on older hardware. Between her infectious enthusiasm and my list of "ideas we could try 3D printing some day" it might be a good push to finally get into it!

Oh my gosh but now Fusion is free for home use! Maybe we'll check out both. If you hadn't mentioned it I probably never would have noticed; I have some old AutoCAD copies on CD and there are several (unlicensed, probably) old F360 installers lying around, but I had it in my brain that it was super expensive to license and use.

"Oh, @artwells grills delicious meats and pays for Fusion 360, pinkies out everyone!" *tease*

@comotellamas Fusion 360 is free for personal, non-commercial use, but it is rather de-featured from the paid version, and limits your number of active project files. There is also no great way to get it running on Linux, if that's a concern.

FreeCAD does do things a little bit differently than most other CAD packages out there, but if you're not already used to a diffrent workflow, it's a lot less of a hangup, and there are lots of very good tutorials out there. Just make sure the tutorials you're using are for the version of FreeCAD you got, as quite a lot changed leading up to the 1.0 release, and then a little bit in the 1.1 release as well. I finally landed on FreeCAD, because AutoDesk has clawed back features on the free 360 licence twice now, and I don't trust them not to do it again. I don't want to have all my stuff locked in a dead-end (for me) ecosystem.

3D CAD (like Fusion 360, or FreeCAD, or Sketchup) is good for precision parts, where you're trying to make a thing fit another thing. Blender is better for more organic shapes, like mini figures and such.

Noticed you across the infinite corridor and liked your vibe.

One of them takes your insurance and is taking new patients. You have to find them in a lunch break.

Welcome to the Hilbert Hotel! Your room is at the end of the hall.

Ironing Day at The U.S. Institute of Steam, Feb. 13, 1951

"We are all very disappointed with you."

“Only one doctor wearing spectacles per doorway, please, folks”

Superior Intelligence Institute

Be afraid....

"How does Budget Proctology make money while keeping our prices so low? One word: Volume."

"Who wore it best?"

New Jersey.

https://research.hrc.utexas.edu/erwittDC...

(Elliot Erwitt, 1967. The photo is of workers at Allied Chemical, is occasionally mislabeled as Bell Labs.)