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The Problem We All Live With
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Norman Rockwell's oil painting "The Problem We All Live With", showing a young Black girl carrying her books and a yellow ruler, wearing a white dress and sneakers, walking on a sidewalk past a wall covered by a large racial slur and the remnants of a hurled tomato. In front of and behind her are four white men in gray and tan suits and yellow "Deputy US Marshall" armbands escorting her; the composition is such that they are visible only from the chest down. Rockwell's signature is at the bottom center of the painting.
source: https://magazine.byu.edu/article...
Yesterday was Ruby Bridges' 72nd birthday; she's still alive and living in Louisiana and still working for civil rights. The past isn't dead; it isn't even past.
#painting by Norman Rockwell, 1964. #paintings
Yesterday was Ruby Bridges' 72nd birthday; she's still alive and living in Louisiana and still working for civil rights. The past isn't dead; it isn't even past.
#painting by Norman Rockwell, 1964. #paintings
Powderhorn Park
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Various trees lit by the morning sun against a blue sky with small clouds in it. The whole scene is reflected, and slightly blurred, in the water below.
that tree looks like a giant green Scotty walking on the water
In Patagonia
euphemism
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Ad for the Coney Island Steamer, a hot dog cooker, with Shirley Jones
"a gentleman never kisses and tells, but i will suggest that a coney island steamer was on the table"
This morning
I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it
And didn't I go and shout it
When you walked into my room
"I want a hot dog!"
(I want a hot dog.)
I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it
And didn't I go and shout it
When you walked into my room
"I want a hot dog!"
(I want a hot dog.)
@nikkuneko +1
Miss Determined, the daredevil
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Photo of a toddler on a rope climbing playground.
Lydia is 2.
She is brave and tries to keep up with her older brother.
I love them both dearly and want to keep them safe. I also know that you have to let them experiment, have fun and graze an occassional knee.
She is brave and tries to keep up with her older brother.
I love them both dearly and want to keep them safe. I also know that you have to let them experiment, have fun and graze an occassional knee.
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
@urlnotfound 100%. I like that phrasing.
@bencmeissner It was on a poster than hung in my classroom when I was in the fourth grade (age 9-10). It is a quote from some person of note.
They keep me young
oneko -tora
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a small blocky striped cat runs to the right
while I can run oneko on this computer and rock it like a 90s Sun workstation, the little cat is far too small to see
source: https://xoxo.zone/@scruss...
source: https://xoxo.zone/@scruss...
I love that cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
I worked for a college and managed their web server. One april fools day I modified the config to inject javascript time that would plant oneko on the page chasing the user's mouse ~1% of the time for on-campus users. There'd been some windows virus in the news around the same time and I was asked to take it out pretty quickly. Ah well.
earlier
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Panoramic photo of a crowd gathered on a dusty desert beneath a stormy sky before a massive stage set made of two immense wooden sculptures representing the SS Titanic ripped in half by an iceberg.
An orchestra of 30 or 40 musicians sits on risers in the left half of the sculpture, and a few dozen choir singers in white clothing stand on the right half.
The white-bearded photographer of the image is seen at far right in an aluminum firefighter’s helmet and red kerchief.
An orchestra of 30 or 40 musicians sits on risers in the left half of the sculpture, and a few dozen choir singers in white clothing stand on the right half.
The white-bearded photographer of the image is seen at far right in an aluminum firefighter’s helmet and red kerchief.
It was the best of the burns, it was the worst of burns.
Gorgeous times and a lot of hard work (building the observation tower for Hobo Camp, six 6hr shifts on Gate/Perimeter/Exodus) and a suicidal shortage of sleep wrapped around a gooey core of deep conversations with old friends (👊@zeitgeist) and new acquaintances - and three straight days of utterly shit weather.
Bonus: I got to join the Playa Choir (https://playachoir.com - right, and me at far right) and the Black Rock Philharmonic (https:/blackrockphilharmonic.org - left) to perform “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s Requiem atop the tippy-top of the vertiginous risers out at “Titanic’s End” for an audience of easily 1,200 people in a stiff dust storm.
I thought it was pretty epic … until El Pulpo Magnifico (center) rolled up to play propane percussion, somebody started triggering the two gut-punchingly colossal flame poofers in the Titanic’s funnels, and the whole scene went straight off the hook and into fking orbit.
Re-entry right now 5 days later in a dusty, trash-filled car heading north towards Seattle past the asphalt stench of road crews repaving I-5 is kinda … awful by comparison.
I still can’t entirely believe I got to do that.
Gorgeous times and a lot of hard work (building the observation tower for Hobo Camp, six 6hr shifts on Gate/Perimeter/Exodus) and a suicidal shortage of sleep wrapped around a gooey core of deep conversations with old friends (👊@zeitgeist) and new acquaintances - and three straight days of utterly shit weather.
Bonus: I got to join the Playa Choir (https://playachoir.com - right, and me at far right) and the Black Rock Philharmonic (https:/blackrockphilharmonic.org - left) to perform “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s Requiem atop the tippy-top of the vertiginous risers out at “Titanic’s End” for an audience of easily 1,200 people in a stiff dust storm.
I thought it was pretty epic … until El Pulpo Magnifico (center) rolled up to play propane percussion, somebody started triggering the two gut-punchingly colossal flame poofers in the Titanic’s funnels, and the whole scene went straight off the hook and into fking orbit.
Re-entry right now 5 days later in a dusty, trash-filled car heading north towards Seattle past the asphalt stench of road crews repaving I-5 is kinda … awful by comparison.
I still can’t entirely believe I got to do that.
Epic.
That's all exceedingly cool and exciting, but I am awaiting some answers about a certain mythical creature's underwear?
Memories of the early days when they used to do an opera
new LinkedIn bio
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spam ad with the caption "HAPPIEST MEAT FOR CASSEROLES"
I'd been wondering what the happiest meat for casseroles was
Contrast it with the saddest meat for casseroles - Vienna sausages.
"Thrust in half-slices of SPAM" *fans self*
Lucky Fried Grandma Skewers
far too many Chris Yaneff logos
Unsane
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What a lovely photo😊
@bencmeissner Thanks Ben!
It was a lovely morning and a fitting end to one of the longest weeks I've had in a long time.
Be well.
It was a lovely morning and a fitting end to one of the longest weeks I've had in a long time.
Be well.
me_irl
Labor Day
your old street
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It's weird to see my friend's house when browsing mltshp. That's a block from me and next to one of my favorite restaurants.
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.
ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ and ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ
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A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.
Nearly two millennia ago, a wealthy Roman commissioned an intricate, multicolored floor mosaic that depicted two beloved household animals: a cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean. The mosaic was a key feature of a villa, which archaeologists recently unearthed from beneath the ancient city of Adramytteion on Turkey's Aegean coast.
The impressive villa included three mosaic-paved halls, a number of secondary rooms, and a network of pipes and drains that may have connected to a latrine. Visitors approaching from the courtyard of the villa would have been greeted by the largest, most elaborate mosaic in the residence.
Only two of the animals depicted in the mosaic are named. As someone entered the room, the first mosaic panel they would have seen to their left was a pale cat seated on a blue-green cushion. Above the cat are the Greek letters ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ (Zmaragdin), meaning emerald. The relaxed cat sitting on a cushion suggests that Emerald may have been a pet rather than a stray.
On the right side as someone entered the room was a mosaic panel depicting a running or leaping dog. This animal is labeled with the Greek letters ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ (Okeanos), meaning ocean.
Emerald and Ocean were likely familiar to the villa's residents, even if they weren't specifically pets.
Source: https://www.livescience.com/archaeol...
#roman #archaeology
Nearly two millennia ago, a wealthy Roman commissioned an intricate, multicolored floor mosaic that depicted two beloved household animals: a cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean. The mosaic was a key feature of a villa, which archaeologists recently unearthed from beneath the ancient city of Adramytteion on Turkey's Aegean coast.
The impressive villa included three mosaic-paved halls, a number of secondary rooms, and a network of pipes and drains that may have connected to a latrine. Visitors approaching from the courtyard of the villa would have been greeted by the largest, most elaborate mosaic in the residence.
Only two of the animals depicted in the mosaic are named. As someone entered the room, the first mosaic panel they would have seen to their left was a pale cat seated on a blue-green cushion. Above the cat are the Greek letters ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ (Zmaragdin), meaning emerald. The relaxed cat sitting on a cushion suggests that Emerald may have been a pet rather than a stray.
On the right side as someone entered the room was a mosaic panel depicting a running or leaping dog. This animal is labeled with the Greek letters ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ (Okeanos), meaning ocean.
Emerald and Ocean were likely familiar to the villa's residents, even if they weren't specifically pets.
Source: https://www.livescience.com/archaeol...
#roman #archaeology
at least they're better drawn than The Wonky Wolf of Aldborough — https://mltshp.com/p/1QPU4
@scruss but we all love Wonky Wolf
4 more bad opinion tweeters
Calder's studio circa 1955
Fire Chief the turtle
FFU
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he finally became an Adrienne Barbeaubot.
Spinal Tap cancelled
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My daughter invited me to her puppet show
If I've told them once, I've told them a thousand times...
Haaaaa. Did you go?
what were the little red dots up to?
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!
Help!
Ice
Deborah Poynton (b. 1970), “To Be Possessed” (2025), oil on canvas, 190 x 230 cm.
el tiburón
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A young girl holds her hand up against an aquarium wall, behind which a few sharks and several fish can be seen. The overall scene is deep blue, and the girl’s details are obscured by the backlighting of the aquarium.
I took a bunch of photos at the Oceanogràfic de València yesterday, but this one is my favorite by far.
Went to Valencia in the spring. What a city!!!
"Are we the baddies?"
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trump unveils the new Space Form uniform, with no sense of irony saying they are inspired by the canonically fascist forces in Starship Troopers.
"But stop calling us fascists!"
Big Spaceballs vibes.
I worked with Space Force officers for a couple years. I doubt they’ll want to give up their standard-issue camo khakis for this Empire Nazi horseshit.
powerful painting of a powerful girl who became an amazing woman.