I equally love and hate that https://idiocracy.wtf exists

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I'm on an Amtrak train heading to my first strike. I'll be picketing all day at 155 6th Ave for anyone who wants to come support us in NYC!

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If you haven't read Jon Bois' "17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future", let me recommend it. Genuinely one of the greatest and most heartwarming pieces of science fiction from the last decade.

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TRS-80s in the 70s

The dark side of the moon, eclipsing the sun.


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Following on from my previous post... https://mltshp.com/p/1RNNX

Now this is an energy bar I would like to eat (rum is not optional)

This one was from the same article, another Ballarat lad who was a bit of an Aussie legend. A marathon runner who won Gold, 2 x Silver and a Bronze medal at various Commonwealth Games and a heap of other marathons around the world. I used to see him jogging around the Ballarat lake when he was around 50 years old, still fit as a fiddle.

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#notesArt #artemis

April 7, 2026 - A variant of the voicemail and emails I sent to my three congressional representatives this morning. Alt text contains the text as well.

Okay, not to trivialize the real and awesome science here, but I'm a very visual person (I know, go figure), and this (incredible) real Artemis photo of the moon eclipsing the sun triggered some deep memory, ("I know there's a similar image somewhere in my brain... what is it?"), then it just dawned on me - Han Solo to the rescue at the end of Star Wars.

A picture of the Earth and, way up in the left corner, the moon, as seen from Artemis's window.

Hokay, so…

Working toward starting a print club because I really like the idea of making accessible art, and I’ve been experimenting with some processes and materials toward that end.

This is the first experimental image - I took a photo near Spital, Austria, and after some editing I converted it to halftones, because I’ve long been a sucker for vintage offset printing in comic books (grew up around Archie and Sad Sack comics from the 60’s) and Roy Lichtenstein and screen printing, etc.

When I was a photography student in undergrad I was always drawn to alternative photo processes, especially those where I got to remove intermediate machines/tools, etc., and feel like I was working more directly with the image with my hands.

Here I pushed that a little farther, with a rubber stamp of the halftone dot pattern. Felt like I was pushing a photograph into existence with my bare hands, which was fun.

This print of the Austrian sky I sent to my friend and longtime beloved critic JD in Michigan both because he deserves nice things and as thanks for his insight and opinions as I’ve thought through things around this print series.

When I finally get around to it in the hopefully near future, my first print club image will be related to this image and will be free (as a promotional effort to hopefully land on folks’ radars again with my art). I’ll let y’all know when that happens so you can check it out.

Until then, I’m just pleased with and proud of this li’l experimental piece.

Just Garry and his microwave

I found this piece years ago when I was living in Ballarat, Victoria. Garry I think was a local restaurant worker/minor celebrity or something. I'm still too frightened to try this recipe.

Feeds 4, good luck

Spent the weekend in a Yurt near Newport, Oregon. It was a super low tide weekend with lots of beach to comb and tide pools to explore!

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Robert Smalls' birthday was yesterday; Smalls, who became one of the most remarkable figures of the Civil War, was born into slavery on April 5, 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina.

After working as a sail-maker and longshoreman, Smalls achieved a position of responsibility as a pilot in Charleston Harbor. On the evening of May 12, 1862, Smalls and the enslaved crew of the CSS Planter, a small Confederate transport, had been left aboard the ship overnight.

They arranged for their families to visit and bring them dinner, then hide on the wharf. In the pre-dawn hours of May 13, they picked up their families and, with Smalls mimicking the Planter's captain (wearing his uniform and a straw hat) and delivering the correct hand signals, sailed out through Charleston Harbor past Fort Sumter. They then raised a white flag and delivered the Planter, four artillery pieces, and a naval code book into the hands of the US Navy.

Smalls, with his excellent knowledge of the harbor (including mine placement), began serving with the Navy as a consultant and civilian pilot. In August, 1862, he traveled to DC to help convince Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to allow Blacks to enlist in the US Army.

In 1864, Smalls was invited to Philadelphia to serve as an unofficial delegate to the Republican National Convention; following the war, he purchased his former enslaver's house in Beaufort after it was seized for non-payment of taxes. He used his savings, including significant prize money from the capture of the Planter, to form a short-haul horse-drawn railroad (with an almost entirely African-American board of directors) and start a newspaper in 1872.

Beginning in 1875, Smalls, who had learned to read while in Philadelphia, served five non-consecutive terms in Congress as a Radical Republican, including sponsorship of a (failed) amendment to integrate the Army.

Smalls is commemorated in a number of ways, including the Army transport vessel USAV Major General Robert Smalls and the Robert Smalls House, a National Historic Landmark in Beaufort. Smalls died of complications from diabetes in 1915.