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fake coyote stands in a curbed triangle on a plaza before a sign reading “FAKE COYOTE - GOOSE DETERRENT,” behind which two geese waddle back and forth.
ardgedee
Stupid humans think geese can't read.
I PLAYED DULCIMER FOR GOOSE DETERRENT, '93-'99 ASK ME ABOUT THE TOURBUS ON THE POWER VACUUM TOUR
@shitleopard +++
It's working great!
ACME
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square 2x2 image collage: unphotogenic flour tortillas 1) being rolled out, 2) cooked on a griddle, 3) piled in a kitchen towel and 4) sitting on a plate with black beans, red rice, roast squash, and tofu scramble.
my fourth of july tradition in recent years is making tortillas, beans, and rice at home. i always try to do everything by hand the way my grandma would do; it's a time suck but well worth it.
not the best or best-looking this year, but comfort food nonetheless. this time around i threw in roasted summer squash, peppers, and zucchini, as well as some leftover tofu scramble.
not the best or best-looking this year, but comfort food nonetheless. this time around i threw in roasted summer squash, peppers, and zucchini, as well as some leftover tofu scramble.
Grandma would be proud. I can say this because I am a bona fide grandpa.
I think they look fantastic!
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Nighttime photo of a priest in a car looking at the GPS; in the passenger seat is a skull in an elaborate reliquary.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
"SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Fossanova Abbey. What a name. Now I've got this image stuck in my head of Bob Fosse doing the Bossanova in monk's robes.
Hot priests are driving around in your area with articles of sainthood in the passenger seat. Dial 0800 HOLY GHOST
Weekend at Bernie's: The Prequel
i had an idea for a story about a Necromancer who went village to village with his undead brothers head trying to find the person who killed his brother and left him without a body. but then @johnny introduced me to https://imagecomics.com/comics...
Brother Maynard, bring out the holy hand grenade of Antioch.
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#MV26
Not every trip back to the mainland is sunrises and smooth sailing. The weather for the last week has been a ride. T/F/S including the holiday it was hotter than Satan's taint. On Fri we lost power, 7 brownouts and a full shutdown for 45 min from around 7:00 on. We closed at 8:30 as we were unable to accomodate most of our reservations.
Since late Saturday night it has been raining. Last night, right around the last half mile of my walk home, the skies decided to say fuck it and have not stopped since.
Heh.
I'm hoping things will improve by the time I reach Boston. Currently the boat I'm on is pitching worse than a third string reliever and packed with recovering revelers...
I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday weekend!?!
Thank you all for being here.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
Not every trip back to the mainland is sunrises and smooth sailing. The weather for the last week has been a ride. T/F/S including the holiday it was hotter than Satan's taint. On Fri we lost power, 7 brownouts and a full shutdown for 45 min from around 7:00 on. We closed at 8:30 as we were unable to accomodate most of our reservations.
Since late Saturday night it has been raining. Last night, right around the last half mile of my walk home, the skies decided to say fuck it and have not stopped since.
Heh.
I'm hoping things will improve by the time I reach Boston. Currently the boat I'm on is pitching worse than a third string reliever and packed with recovering revelers...
I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday weekend!?!
Thank you all for being here.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
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Based on this: https://mltshp.com/p/1RSMD
I put a copy here: https://drive.google.com/file...
It's almost all of the characters in the original set (I couldn't figure out where to put "hook" and "chair"), plus a couple of guesses I made about some other characters. I'm still playing with it, and I'll replace the current version with updated ones as I go.
I put a copy here: https://drive.google.com/file...
It's almost all of the characters in the original set (I couldn't figure out where to put "hook" and "chair"), plus a couple of guesses I made about some other characters. I'm still playing with it, and I'll replace the current version with updated ones as I go.
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Cat & dog make an evil monster
Source & video: https://www.threads.com/@isabell...
Hahaha that took a bit longer to parse than it should have.
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child looking at a moth about to fly away from hatching
That’s just so lovely.
My six year old, Orchid, says Luna's moth is "SO BIG" and "PRETTY". Please let Luna know.
@robotmachine she was so excited!!!
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A meme with the top text BORN TO PICK FONTS FROM THE FONT MENU and the bottom text CURSED TO LEAD USERFLOW WHITEBOARDING WORKSHOPS
Nostalgia for when I was 8 and graphic design consisted solely of "this font looks cool"
I still miss WordPerfect
when computers were fun
It's legitimately funny that Apple chose the name "San Francisco" as their modern system font.
I was a Toronto guy.
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a trim, older, barefoot man stands on a short stepladder filing an LP into an immense wall of albums
Hero of mine.
His show is here, and it’s a reliably tasty cornucopia of sound: https://www.kcrw.com/shows...
img source: https://www.tumblr.com/maddaddy...
His show is here, and it’s a reliably tasty cornucopia of sound: https://www.kcrw.com/shows...
img source: https://www.tumblr.com/maddaddy...
Wow, Rob Gordon. THE Rob Gordon.
WHATEVER YOUR OPINION OF HR, +100 FOR HIS KCRW SHOW
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"Oh no! Another hideous generative AI flyer. Looks like they:
-Don't care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-Devalue human artists and creativity
-Are fine with theft
-Lined a billionaire's pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-Wanted everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
How Embarrassing"
-Don't care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-Devalue human artists and creativity
-Are fine with theft
-Lined a billionaire's pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-Wanted everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
How Embarrassing"
Lucy Knisley doing the work for us. Link for it formatted for sticker printing: http://www.lucyknisley.com/oh-no-st...
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source: https://www.tumblr.com/thevault...
Two decades earlier, much more elegant, and no less dangerous than https://mltshp.com/p/1RSDR
One would hope he sued the crap outta those guys.
Two decades earlier, much more elegant, and no less dangerous than https://mltshp.com/p/1RSDR
One would hope he sued the crap outta those guys.
not built for high speed turns
More golf carts should have tail fins.
Just follow the trail of golf clubs
Kermit.
Why sue? There are lots of three-wheeled vehicles
@scruss I dunno - white fiberglass fairing, open-cockpit invitation to decapitation upon rollover ...
@scruss Also, it's not my hill to die on, I just like to agitate sometimes.
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Four-panel comic of an angry girl in a skirt and bow, shouting in frustration. She complains about transitioning from an upbeat song to a sad story about a dog.
I ❤️ Casey outtakes
Kids, and pets, and everyone.
Is this Loss?
...and what happened to the pictures I was supposed to see?!?
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https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
The Red Hand Files both entertains me and vexes me, well mostly Nick vexes me (of late - but we're working through it), but sometimes there's a few gems in there 😁
The Red Hand Files both entertains me and vexes me, well mostly Nick vexes me (of late - but we're working through it), but sometimes there's a few gems in there 😁
you leave Warren Ellis out of this! https://eastwoodguitars.com/collecti...
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Every year during the early summer, my youngest and I went berry picking. We have driven into the surrounding counties, we have picked in the rain (including this morning). And we have our cleanup and storage down to an art.
Sadly, we were incapable of picking strawberries this season. My daughter had a life altering surgery and I had walking pneumonia just before and during the season opened here. While she’s still not back at work, her fiancée joined us this year in picking blueberries. It was just lovely.
It was a light rain, 20C and no bugs. We picked a little over a peck (~10 L) and delighted in hearing all of the wee ones there make exclamations regarding the size and sweetness of the berries that they were alternately picking for the basket and eating.
And, yes, I was one of those who purchased this shirt from a member of this fine collection of electronic contributors.
Sadly, we were incapable of picking strawberries this season. My daughter had a life altering surgery and I had walking pneumonia just before and during the season opened here. While she’s still not back at work, her fiancée joined us this year in picking blueberries. It was just lovely.
It was a light rain, 20C and no bugs. We picked a little over a peck (~10 L) and delighted in hearing all of the wee ones there make exclamations regarding the size and sweetness of the berries that they were alternately picking for the basket and eating.
And, yes, I was one of those who purchased this shirt from a member of this fine collection of electronic contributors.
Around these parts we call that hand movement the "Hopoate finger"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
During a 2001 game with the North Queensland Cowboys, Hopoate inserted fingers in three players' buttocks and anuses. The first incident occurred during the seventh minute of play. The matter was referred to the rugby league judiciary on 28 March. Hopoate was suspended for 12 weeks for what one commissioner described as "disgusting, violent, offensive behaviour".
Hopoate claimed, in front of the panel of judges, that he was just trying to give all three players a wedgie with his fingers, denying he had done anything wrong and that he was "a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
During a 2001 game with the North Queensland Cowboys, Hopoate inserted fingers in three players' buttocks and anuses. The first incident occurred during the seventh minute of play. The matter was referred to the rugby league judiciary on 28 March. Hopoate was suspended for 12 weeks for what one commissioner described as "disgusting, violent, offensive behaviour".
Hopoate claimed, in front of the panel of judges, that he was just trying to give all three players a wedgie with his fingers, denying he had done anything wrong and that he was "a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there"
@Argie Bwahahahahaaaa!!! How MANY fingers?
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Cobalt
Yvonne McKague Housser
1931
via https://bsky.app/profile...
Mentioned in this curatorial talk by Dr. Catharine M. Mastin, "Picturesque Ruins: Cobalt’s Modern Artists, 1900-1940"
https://youtu.be/upOLGOsu...
Yvonne McKague Housser
1931
via https://bsky.app/profile...
Mentioned in this curatorial talk by Dr. Catharine M. Mastin, "Picturesque Ruins: Cobalt’s Modern Artists, 1900-1940"
https://youtu.be/upOLGOsu...
I once covered the little hamlet of Cobalt, CT for the Hartford Courant. Nothing happened there, and the pay sucked.
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A sign in the window of an auto parts store that clearly had more to it before the sun faded it. Now all it says is "When it has to work" and then a big white space and then "Trans-tune Motor treatment deep creep"
Seen in the window of an auto parts store today. I guess they are products made by this company.
https://seafoamworks.com/
https://seafoamworks.com/
Seafoam is something you put into your gasoline if all else has failed to pep up your elderly auto, after tuneup. I did this once to my van, long ago, the mechanic put it in but didn't recommend it as a regular practice. I had been missing the siphon break hoses off the top of my van's gastank, long enough for splashvwater and whatever else to infiltrate the gas tank.
Playing sousaphone right now for Deep Creep
WHAT THE HELL AM I
DOING HERE? I DON'T
BELONG HERE
DOING HERE? I DON'T
BELONG HERE
I'm guessing the Seafoam logo was printed using a fugitive pigment that faded away to invisibility
Excuse me, I expect to be bought dinner first.
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A man with a large, unidentifiable pet. It looks to weigh ~120 pounds, speckled like a jackel, ears like a lion, raised fur on the upper back, like a smallish mane. The owner is in traditional Nigerian dress of his tribe. This is from a very broad show of photographs in Arles, France.
This pet is a creature I have never seen before. Perhaps I was lunch in some last life.
Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007
(Animal Model: Forms of Life show)
Together, these representations form a visual panorama of exceptional diversity, inviting us to rethink the boundaries between human and animal, gaze and image, as well as reality and its representation
#photography #PieterHugo/Stevenson Cape Town/Amsterdam
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007
(Animal Model: Forms of Life show)
Together, these representations form a visual panorama of exceptional diversity, inviting us to rethink the boundaries between human and animal, gaze and image, as well as reality and its representation
#photography #PieterHugo/Stevenson Cape Town/Amsterdam
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
@bezt You are the Bezt!
I have only ever seen images of hyenas, or jackals, where they seem between fox, and coyote sized.
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A selfie from the top of one of the towers of Melbourne's Bolte Bridge
A selfie from the top of one of the towers of Melbourne's Bolte Bridge.
See more:
https://www.abc.net.au/news...
See more:
https://www.abc.net.au/news...
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horizontal diptych, featuring two images of the ground. on the left, a discarded baby doll, face down in the grass as if it has passed out. on the right, a large rock in a yard that has been painted in vibrant blues and aqua green, depicting ducks floating in a pond, with the text “ducks and snakes” along the bottom edge
my standup for the extra long holiday weekend, padded with PTO on both sides.
hot damn, i love the “ducks and snakes” stone, which is just down the block from my neighborhood coffee shop.
this afternoon i’m simmering some arroz rojo, roasting down some summer squash, and putting on some records.
hot damn, i love the “ducks and snakes” stone, which is just down the block from my neighborhood coffee shop.
this afternoon i’m simmering some arroz rojo, roasting down some summer squash, and putting on some records.
that sounds like a delightful day off
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Hornet for lookout, a square log cabin with a cupola up top back when this was used to spit forest fires. There's a few small trees in the foreground and then a wonderfully blue sky with wispy clouds throughout.
I had a busy 4th of 5 weekend. Started with calling at Apgar at Lake McDonald in Glacier. Then up to Polebridge and backpacking trip up to Quartz Lake. Beautiful, quiet campsite and managed to catch the northern lights around midnight. Saturday, I took a different way back to the trailhead, and holy wow, that was a bad idea. So many downed trees to climb up, over, around, all of the above. Oh, and I managed to drop my phone navigating over of the downed trees, but which one? Took me about an hour, but finally found it. I was pretty well exhausted by the end. But wait, there's more! Finally capped Saturday by hiking up to this little gem in a mountain top. I've of my favorite spots, and I've been lucky to grab a reservation most years.
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Poster advertising Mexico vs. England in the style of an Aztec codex; a coterie of Mexico players holding down an England player and ripping out his heart. "July 5th / Gameday specials / Cold drinks / Good vibes / Watch the game love on the patio from 12pm / 2614 W Cary, Richmand, Va"
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night."
"I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night."
the conquest of new england
That was one helluva match!
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source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Most French people learn English in school these days, at least in the major population centers. However, it's polite to try to speak French first, then ask if they can speak English instead.
What happens if I just walk around saying "écoutez et répétez"?
Honestly, I hate to be 'that guy' but I'd be okay if every civilization adopted these norms.
Most of these look like good general purpose guidelines anywhere.
Every person I spoke to in Paris (in 2023) heard my French and immediately switched to English. I think it was more for their sake than mine.
Most of these are overstated junk. Basically worthless.
I’m fluent in French but have some of a British accent and people switch to English all the time. It’s getting easier to be vegan in Paris but elsewhere it can be hard to even be vegetarian.
My mother got pickpocketed in Paris, and the cops asked if she was from Quebec - they could tell there was something a little off about her French accent, but the idea that an American could speak French like that was not on their screen.
Every person I spoke to in Paris in January of this year heard my French and spoke French back to me until they saw the look of incomprehension on my face, THEN switched to English.
@fnerg Parisians were a helluva lot more tolerant, nay, nice about my high school French than I was led to believe when we visited way back in ‘99.
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Pope Leo, in red robes, is surrounded by incense smoke. His eyes are averted and his mouth is closed, almost as if he were holding in a bong hit
No stems no seeds that you don't need
@dad Jesus hits like the atom bomb
What a bogart
Heaven is full of clouds
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Art by Richard Nadler showing thousands of people gathered at a stadium. They are abstracted in the distance but in the foreground are drawn with some detail; they appear to be the same 4 or 5 character models repeated. The sky above is red, white and blue.
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clip of a commercial for Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey. People on sleds of some sort come flying over a jump and land mostly off screen after getting several feet of air
If you have not seen the documentary "Class Action Park," it's worth seeking out.
https://classactionpark.com/
source: https://www.tumblr.com/tvneon...
https://classactionpark.com/
source: https://www.tumblr.com/tvneon...
Seen the documentary.... I left skin on the Alpine Slide and slipped a disc on the Cannonball Slide.
Been there as a kid. The documentary is dead on. Total mayhem.
If you have not heard the album "At Action Park," it's worth seeking out.