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Grey-haired old man, his pretty wife and genius son take up a row of an airplane, in flight.
My kid just graduated HS, and will be bussing tables and interning at a chemistry lab at NU this summer, before heading to University of Illinois in the fall (Chemical Engineering with a music minor). My wife starts a 6 month contract in a week from Monday that will involve a lot of travel. I’m slammed at work with 50-60 hour weeks likely through October.
But first, a week in Central Oregon!
But first, a week in Central Oregon!
What a delightful crew!
Have a great time!
enjoy! the vibes are immaculate out there, and i loved hiking in deschutes national forest. hopefully it’s a good brain reset out there.
also congrats to atticus! now he has a weird internet uncle biking around his campus who will not report his misadventures to dad (for a modest fee)
also congrats to atticus! now he has a weird internet uncle biking around his campus who will not report his misadventures to dad (for a modest fee)
*waving from south canada*
Bon voyage!
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A sunny rural pasture with several horses grazing in the distance. In the foreground, a brown mare stands beside a young foal near a wire fence, while the long shadows of three people stretch across the grass under a bright blue sky.
While on vacation in central Oregon we watched some horses eat, including babies.
To be clear, it was baby horses eating, not horses eating babies.
To be clear, it was baby horses eating, not horses eating babies.
I love this! Shadow portraits, so fine! Fade-proof family memories.
More interested in the horses that're eating babies, tbh. Found any of those?
The babies you feed to the horses, where do they come from?
asking for a friend
asking for a friend
Also curious about this baby eating business.
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Black and white single-panel cartoon.
A three-eyed fanged monster wearing a graduation cap and gown is standing behind a lectern with a university crest on it, addressing an audience of students (visible only as tasseled mortarboards) at a commencement ceremony.
Caption: "And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords -- wait, why are you all booing?"
By Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.
A three-eyed fanged monster wearing a graduation cap and gown is standing behind a lectern with a university crest on it, addressing an audience of students (visible only as tasseled mortarboards) at a commencement ceremony.
Caption: "And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords -- wait, why are you all booing?"
By Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!
Is this the Jerry Seinfield speech?
@homerj I think it's a reference to academics and tutors who are addressing students on what looks like graduation day. They all mention AI and how pivotal it will be. All get booed (I've seen 3 so far).
The kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
@poorusher 👍
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Photograph of a blank wall on the side of a housing block. The wall is about 3 stories high.
More than two years ago, one of my neighbors suggested to me that I should paint a mural on an ugly wall at a square down my street.
It took me forever to scrape enough courage together to get funding from various kinds of places. But I managed. I got the money. I got the permits. I got the scissor lift. I got the wall renovated and plastered. I got the paint and a colleague that is going to help me. And it should be ready by June 13, because then it’s going to be officially opened.
I found the whole process rather nerve-racking because all in all it’s about €18,000. But my goodness, will I be happy and relieved once it’s done.
It took me forever to scrape enough courage together to get funding from various kinds of places. But I managed. I got the money. I got the permits. I got the scissor lift. I got the wall renovated and plastered. I got the paint and a colleague that is going to help me. And it should be ready by June 13, because then it’s going to be officially opened.
I found the whole process rather nerve-racking because all in all it’s about €18,000. But my goodness, will I be happy and relieved once it’s done.
This is awesome! I can't wait for updates!
Ooh, this is exciting!
This is going to be massive! I hope you have fun while working your arse off!
This is fantastic! Looking forward to seeing it.
Fantastic! Congratulations are in order!
Hell yes! We 👏🏻 want 👏🏻 updates! 👏🏻
That wall is about to look SO MUCH better!
Woop!
tabula rasa!
i'm hopping up and down with excitement - can't wait for updates :D
Amazing!
Congratulations! This is exciting!
Post pix in progress, looking forward to seeing this
Wow this is cool!
Yes!
YAY
THRILLED FOR YOU!
This is excellent!
So fun!!
Timelapse Timelapse! Looking forward to it!
Oooh. So cool!
Soooo excited for this
That is incredible.
Oh my goodness, thanks for all the comments everybody!!!! I can’t respond to you or even tagging. All of you seems way over the top.
Yes, I will totally post updates here 🙂
@kokogiak will try to do a time lapse of parts of the process!
Yes, I will totally post updates here 🙂
@kokogiak will try to do a time lapse of parts of the process!
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
huzzah!
Yay!
Wotta canvas! so excited Really looking forward to seeing what you do, @waa !!
Ooh
!!!!!
Amazing, so proud of you and happy for you!
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A woman standing in front of a building in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, wearing the "Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" medal.
Melanie, my sister who has lived in Japan for 30+ years, received the "Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" the other day. It's the highest honour that can be given to a civilian (non-politician). She received it for "Contributions to the Australia Japan relationship and economic development". As part of the ceremony she had an audience with the Emperor, who she said "was very short".
Melanie is the little urban overachiever of our family. She's on the boards of Asahi, Mitsubishi Estate and Kawasaki Heavy Manufacturing, in addition to knowing just about everyone in the world. She regularly sends photos when she's out with various Heads of State.
I just happened to have a trip to Japan planned when the award was announced, so I got to represent the family. Unfortunately not allowed to be part of the official events, but we had plenty of drinks with friends afterwards.
Melanie is the little urban overachiever of our family. She's on the boards of Asahi, Mitsubishi Estate and Kawasaki Heavy Manufacturing, in addition to knowing just about everyone in the world. She regularly sends photos when she's out with various Heads of State.
I just happened to have a trip to Japan planned when the award was announced, so I got to represent the family. Unfortunately not allowed to be part of the official events, but we had plenty of drinks with friends afterwards.
Congrats to your sister!
おめでとう!
BTW, for someone who is both (1) a woman and (2) a foreigner to achieve that level of corporate success in Japan is truly impressive. (For example, here's the Board of Mitsubishi Estate: https://www.mec.co.jp/en... )
Wow that is neat, thank you for sharing that news.
@mikenmar It's very impressive.
That said, I have been drunk with Yoshida-san (the Chair) after we both drank too many highballs at a dinner at their private club.
That said, I have been drunk with Yoshida-san (the Chair) after we both drank too many highballs at a dinner at their private club.
Hi five Melanie, this is cool.
In an ideal world there would be very little happening and an Aussie winning Japan's highest honour would be in the news here.
In an ideal world there would be very little happening and an Aussie winning Japan's highest honour would be in the news here.
that’s positively inspiring! 😍
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Teal colored low-poly ass overgrown hatchback of an electric car
I have been seriously researching and shopping for a couple of months, and closed the deal yesterday on a new (to us) EV, a 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5.
We had our Honda Fit for just a few months short of 10 years, and it was a total champ. That Fit took us from MN to as far as Oregon and Toronto and back. We loved the small size and large cargo space, the purple color, the utter reliability, but the spike in gas prices, the flood of good options fresh off of 3-year leases and good trade-in value for the Fit made it feel like the right time to make a change.
Not enough miles with it yet to be past the honeymoon period, but so far it's total blast to drive and i'm hopeful it'll be as good to us for the next many years as that Honda.
We had our Honda Fit for just a few months short of 10 years, and it was a total champ. That Fit took us from MN to as far as Oregon and Toronto and back. We loved the small size and large cargo space, the purple color, the utter reliability, but the spike in gas prices, the flood of good options fresh off of 3-year leases and good trade-in value for the Fit made it feel like the right time to make a change.
Not enough miles with it yet to be past the honeymoon period, but so far it's total blast to drive and i'm hopeful it'll be as good to us for the next many years as that Honda.
Congrats! The Ioniq 5 is one of my upgrade pics over the Kona EV I've had for the last 3+ years.
Friend of mine bought one new and really likes it, though he gets frustrated with the all-touchscreen dashboard.
Ooo! We’ve been thinking next year we switch to voltage and that one’s on the list. Curious to know how it goes on every level!
Our neighbor has one and loves it
Salute!
My parents have one as do my sister and brother-in-law and they all love them!
@BMK This has dashboard buttons for a few core things, which was one of my requirements. I love the overall design of the Polestar 2, and it was at the top of my list until i test drove it and literally everything is controlled through the touch screen. It took 3 of us in the car a full 2 minutes to find and change the vent fan speed. I feel like the controls on this Ioniq are a pretty good compromise so far.
Coming up on our first year with a 2025 model (same color), easily one of the best purchases we've ever made
@fins Nice! Part of me wanted to wait another year until the 2025 model starts showing up used because i've owned enough hatchbacks to know the value of a rear wiper. I think that year is a real sweet spot in mix of features.
@MackReed One early observation, coming from a pretty small car, is that i'm consistently surprised at the size. It looks like a hatchback in photos and from a distance, but up close it has some heft to it. I love the interior space (the rear leg room is incredible), and it's not that large in the overall scheme of current cars, but it's not small.
@MackReed One early observation, coming from a pretty small car, is that i'm consistently surprised at the size. It looks like a hatchback in photos and from a distance, but up close it has some heft to it. I love the interior space (the rear leg room is incredible), and it's not that large in the overall scheme of current cars, but it's not small.
@wjcstp yep, I rode in a friend’s 5, and that was my first impression too.
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a small dark blue station wagon with cartoonishly oversized rear wheels and a massive chromed-out v8 engine sticking up through its hood
Oh hell yes
“Where’s the Supernova, kid?”
The only thing it's missing is wheelie bars
I think the sign in the window says For Sale but I can't make out the number.
This appears to be a dragster. Exhaust exits in front of the rear wheel and no muffler apparently. Blacked out rear windows suggest there is a mattress in the back. Or a coffin!
This appears to be a dragster. Exhaust exits in front of the rear wheel and no muffler apparently. Blacked out rear windows suggest there is a mattress in the back. Or a coffin!
@wjcstp and/or a chute
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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christopher walken growling
Sleepy Hollow is my favorite Burton flick. (And might be his last good one.)
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I love this. 😆
@jpoulos me too! Haha
Literally me this past weekend (once I acclimatized to Lake Huron's chilly waters)
I misread the trunks in the top image as a censor bar and was confused.
there was a reservoir (Millerton) that sometime had bermuda grass about three feet under the surface. one could duck down, grab fistfulls of gras and hand run very fast long distances, and pop up like a coot.
@otaman the big lake they call Gichi-Aazhoogami-Gichigami?
@wmo I want to do this
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A Japanese street at night, with shops on the side, and an illuminated apartment building in the background. A man is walking away from the camera in the distance, just about to turn the corner.
After finding a restaurant near where I was staying in Tokyo that was serving whisky highballs for 199 yen, I went for a bit of a photo walk.
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A full hour of Colbert (guest) hosting a public access TV show, the day after his CBS show ended.
Here’s the same video from his personal (!) YT channel: https://youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4
Here’s the same video from his personal (!) YT channel: https://youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4
Glorious
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photograph from a highway of a dissipating thunderstorm cloud "raining out." the storm has been shot from some distance so it appears to be a cloud touching the ground.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
loud cloud
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Book exchange in the entryway of a shuttered old building in downtown Ventura
There are less than a handful of properties in downtown Albuquerque that still have the address inlaid in terrazzo like this (I can think of only two) but damn its such a classy look.
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Painting of 2 black Swans posed among red. Orange and yellow flowers
That we are, that we are, that we are to know
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video loop pov a train conductor speeding down the tracks at 10x speed
every now and then i’d like to experience what my dog experiences while having zoomies, only in the city.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
you should feel what I feel
you should take what I take
you should take what I take
@O_C I can now hear this gif
Ah, so THIS is the "high speed rail" I've been hearing about!
@O_C @lamnatos duly added now to /audiblegifs !
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The Lorax, standing before a cartoonishly ghastly guillotine, beckons the reader with crooked furry finger and says, “UNLESS someone like you brings out the chippity chop, nothing is going to get better.
It's not.”
It's not.”
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Photo shows an image of a medium small brown short-haired dog with her ears flapping in the wind as she gets all the smells on her way to the Rainbow Bridge.
We gave her the best life we possibly could. The unfairness of living longer than our companions is not lost upon me this day.
Peace and sweet memories to you.
<3
The hurt of having to make that decision never fully goes away, but if you did it right -- and it sounds like you did -- the joy and love of your life with her will always chase away the sad moments. Godspeed, best girl.
Good good girl.
I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm sorry for your loss.
"I'm like a dog ear on the wind..."
ouch.
that baby had the best life possible. 🌈💜
that baby had the best life possible. 🌈💜
Vibes and hugs. This part always sucks.
Thank you for taking such good care of her.
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Oof. Not fair at all. Take care.
🖤🖤🖤
Aw, geez. It’s not easy. Wishing you solace.
Thanks to you all. There will be many firsts in the coming days. This morning was like that.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Huge hugs to you and your wife. What a good girl. No doubt she loved you, loved her life with you, and loved her life. We don't know deserve dogs, so it seems like the tradeoff is to do as right by them at the end as we can even though it's so hard. I know the ache is terrible, the empty spaces are terrible, and the quiet is terrible. We just want them back. May you find some peace in the upcoming days as you adjust and find solace in your memories.
much love to you and your family as this lucky girl passes on. may the joy of her spirit stay with you always.
We offer you hugs in meat treats on this day
My son and I wonder if we seem god-like to them, because we don't age much in their lifetimes. It is horrible for us that they pass so quickly; but wonderful for them that we do not.
Thanks again to all. Yesterday was tough. I was not ready for the hole she left in our lives. But having been to the bottom, I can see the way forward.
Hugs to all of you, she looks like such a good sweet girl❤️💔
I'm not so good with the words with this stuff but I did want to say what a beautiful, apt, joyful albeit melancholy photograph.
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vintage illustration of a couple in a low tiny car that is mostly windsheild titled "The New Urban Car"
I want the future we were promised!
Syd Mead saw a tiny, crushable future
ShuttlePod to Enterprise, permission to dock?
@idogcow misread this as "permission to dork?" which also seems to work
Not that far from the Citroen Ami tbh
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square phone pic: a closeup of a light blue shirt and royal blue hoodie, folded so their logos are adjacent. the light blue shirt has the cursive MLKSHK logo, and the royal blue has the MLTSHP deelux logo.
happy anniversary, you weirdos!
on this day in 2017, we went live thanks to the time and energy of so many wonderful people.
nine insane-assed years later, MLTSHP is still a source of daily joy, support, and discovery for me. i have art, music, and goodies from MLTSHPers all over my home. i’ve shared meals and adventures with many of y’all; i’ve commiserated and goofed with even more of y’all. here’s to many more.
(BTW, i happened to wear my lovely ol’ MLKSHK shirt to the farmers market this morning. tried to get a selfie in it for my celebratory post, but i was not lookin’ particularly sassy. instead you get an even older MLKSHK shirt and said beloved hoodie sans me. the hoodie and a bunch of other great stuff designed by heyitsal is still up in the webstore:
https://mltshp-store.creator-spring.com
for shits ’n’ giggles, my first post after we went live:
https://mltshp.com/p/1BFXC
on this day in 2017, we went live thanks to the time and energy of so many wonderful people.
nine insane-assed years later, MLTSHP is still a source of daily joy, support, and discovery for me. i have art, music, and goodies from MLTSHPers all over my home. i’ve shared meals and adventures with many of y’all; i’ve commiserated and goofed with even more of y’all. here’s to many more.
(BTW, i happened to wear my lovely ol’ MLKSHK shirt to the farmers market this morning. tried to get a selfie in it for my celebratory post, but i was not lookin’ particularly sassy. instead you get an even older MLKSHK shirt and said beloved hoodie sans me. the hoodie and a bunch of other great stuff designed by heyitsal is still up in the webstore:
https://mltshp-store.creator-spring.com
for shits ’n’ giggles, my first post after we went live:
https://mltshp.com/p/1BFXC
i need more of youse artwork fuckers
I think I still have the black on black shirt
I know I still have the black on black shirt
We should try to organize something for the 10th anniversary, maybe a global MLTUP day?
@wjcstp a great idea; i would love that!
Out of curiosity, when did MLKSHK launch?
@BennyTheIcepick i can’t remember an exact date, but i remember it being in beta late 2010 or early 2011? i think it did publicly launch in 2011
I know I discovered it at my first job, which I left in 2012, so your timeline fits with that.
@nikkineko @BennyTheIcepick I was going to say it was already a habit of mine when I started a job in 2011. I decided to check!
Archive.org has:
May 17, 2010
Two bad gateway captures. Probably Andre et al beginning work
https://web.archive.org/web...
February 2, 2011
An opening soon page:
https://web.archive.org/web...
May 23, 2011
First result with an open sign up page
https://web.archive.org/web...
As a whole, our 15th is one week away!
Archive.org has:
May 17, 2010
Two bad gateway captures. Probably Andre et al beginning work
https://web.archive.org/web...
February 2, 2011
An opening soon page:
https://web.archive.org/web...
May 23, 2011
First result with an open sign up page
https://web.archive.org/web...
As a whole, our 15th is one week away!
ps: Donate to Archive.org, who made this possible: https://archive.org/donate...
@pk ah, thank you for the sleuthing! to pin it down. (and for the donation link, that is important!)
i knew it was still in beta when i started posting (jan. 2011) and that other pilers had been using it for image embeds for a few months before i asked for an invite, but could not pin down better dates. i appreciate that framework!
i knew it was still in beta when i started posting (jan. 2011) and that other pilers had been using it for image embeds for a few months before i asked for an invite, but could not pin down better dates. i appreciate that framework!
pps: their blog shows they were open for some by the end of 2010: https://web.archive.org/web...
I know we could just ask them, but this is the way of the internet
I know we could just ask them, but this is the way of the internet
Still awesome.
My stealth shirt is so stealthy I cannot find it in my pile of dark tshirts
Y'all rule.
Never forget: https://mltshp.com/mlkshktheme
Been lurking around since the mlkshk days and so grateful.
Thanks to all who make this work. This place has been one of my internet homes since early mlkshk.
15 years?? Wow
Plate of shrimp: I grabbed my old mlkshk stealth logo tee to wear today for the first time in at least a couple of years.
BTW, I love y'all, but we need a member drive.
BTW, I love y'all, but we need a member drive.
@foist we've talked about membership drives in the past but it's never really solidified into anything. it would be good to get the conversation going again, see if we can capitalize on the growing demand for "unenshittified" web communities.
I also still have that black on black shirt. it's wonderful.
@foist Someone needs to build the code for a "have an account, give an account" widget. I think Al has the designs ready to go. I'd love to do that. Also let's be clear: we are fine with money. A member drive would just be to get new folks in here, share the love etc. <3 everyone.
Keep Circulating the Tapes
I always get the reminder on this day as my scoops renew
Hells yeh!
Happy MLTSHP/MLKSHK Day. Thank you for nearly ten years of happiness in this community that is so appreciated.
<3 <3 <3
I just re-scooped after I canceled my membership in a bout of cost cutting measures somewhere during last year. Mea culpa.
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screenshot of a photo of a cat napping inside an accordion file, below which tumblr user @coolcatgroup writes "An important document" and @unclefeather writes "I want him on my desk by tomorrow morning"
Glad to see they're properly cataloged.
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A visual chart of dough-wrapped dumplings type foods from the world’s cuisines including mandu, samosa, gnocchi, etc.
I’m not the type to run/manage such a competition, but if you are, go for it.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysi...
source: https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysi...
I think your top seeds are empanada, samosa, pierogi and ravioli. (Gyoza gets denied a top seed and uses that resentment to win it all.)
Tiny issue of scale: your pasty should be roughly burrito-sized, while gnocchi are about the size of a fava bean
Don’t make me choose among my beautiful children
My wife's nightmare, she can't eat gluten.
Big fan of Momo.
Big fan of Momo.
@wjcstp "I love them all, even the runts".
Pierogi is a mid-major and thus underrated.
@scruss
Scale isn’t an issue; just means you get to eat more! Though my issue with the inclusion of gnocchi is that it isn’t stuffed. I might suggest swapping it out for supplì/arancine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Scale isn’t an issue; just means you get to eat more! Though my issue with the inclusion of gnocchi is that it isn’t stuffed. I might suggest swapping it out for supplì/arancine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
This fried kibbeh erasure will not stand
The perogi cartel at work:
Perogi (classic), Polish Perogi, and Varenik are all the same thing (weird AI images notwithstanding). Oh, and toss in an extra fried version of the same thing, and the fix is in.
Perogi (classic), Polish Perogi, and Varenik are all the same thing (weird AI images notwithstanding). Oh, and toss in an extra fried version of the same thing, and the fix is in.
@otaman Also, pelmeni are basically pierogi.
Even though I'll stan for pierogi every day, it looks weird to me for this pic to basically have pierogi entered four times while ignoring khinkali, every baked dumpling other than pasty (I mean, China alone has more than this chart could fit), and practically the entirety of Mexican cuisine.
Even though I'll stan for pierogi every day, it looks weird to me for this pic to basically have pierogi entered four times while ignoring khinkali, every baked dumpling other than pasty (I mean, China alone has more than this chart could fit), and practically the entirety of Mexican cuisine.
Ugh, this is a good meme, and I'm sorry to be a downer, but the source tumblr account, boomer mythology destroyer, follows and reblogs posts white supremacist content.
@enfa that *is* a downer. I don’t follow the original poster, just reposted it from Cory Doctorow’s repost.
*nods* they're insidious, and I want to be clear that I'm not making an implication of you or Cory. I run across accounts like this on tumblr every once in a while that are mostly generic, neutral memes then a calculated percentage of fashy stuff. I reported what hate speech content I saw to tumblr and suggest other tubmblrinas do the same.
everyone’s a winner, baby, that’s the truth
Food inside of food is the best food.
@poorusher same! And also I’d eat all of them. Bring me a steamer of those Xiaolongbao to start!
@enfa ugh
@wjcstp *
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Vintage photo of a woman pushing a stroller with 8 kids in it
Kinderwagenbus, Leipzig, 1959 Thomas Billhardt
(I would've guessed 1941)
https://sichtbar.art/events...
(I would've guessed 1941)
https://sichtbar.art/events...
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photo of Jeffrey Epstein photoshopped into a soldier’s helmet into which the viewer (a soldier) seems to be peering as it is balanced upside down between his feet
Wishing all our troops a safe return home soon. Not joking. You don’t want to be remembered on Memorial Day for any part of this manufactured mess. You’re worth so much more to your fellow Americans and our country than that.
so say we all
Sounds like a fun, fulfilling just time! Congrats and enjoy!