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My brain immediately shouted “Negative, I am a meat popsicle,” before I looked closer.
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Sunn O)))
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The drone-noise duo Sunn O))) performing on stage, wearing hooded cloaks and drenched in fog.
Went and felt Sunn O))) perform last night. Very loud and weird and an interesting experience to help usher in spooky season.
Delmar Hall, STL, Oct 20, 2026
Delmar Hall, STL, Oct 20, 2026
Sesame Street: Pinball Number 4
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It's a day for four.
Has there ever been an actual pinball machine made based off of this? If not, there should be.
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A meme where two people are riding a bus.
Pessimistic bus rider: I need to patch every IOT device in my home because of the number 4.
Optimistic bus rider: I can MITM all of my IOT devices and figure out what data they're all phoning home with.
Pessimistic bus rider: I need to patch every IOT device in my home because of the number 4.
Optimistic bus rider: I can MITM all of my IOT devices and figure out what data they're all phoning home with.
I have to say this year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month is unprecedented. Rarely are people so acutely aware of cybersecurity than they are this week!
Another brilliant success for the Trump administration! https://www.cisa.gov/cybersec...
Another brilliant success for the Trump administration! https://www.cisa.gov/cybersec...
I just enjoyed going down a 30 minute rabbit hole reading an interesting article from 2019 how to do this with the author's test case being a smartphone-controlled baby crib. Intriguing stuff!
pressed flower collection
made a thing
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Soooo, I've been banging away on this crazy thing (first with tools, then with fingers and mallets) since last February when I first sketched the design.
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near their Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near their Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
I guess something like this
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hell yeah to all of this but especially rodan, shellac, and polvo
Couple of notes
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
Also I probably cheated as I think both Lysol and Celebrate the New Dark Age are EPs
a duck pond
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Satellite view of an exurban part of Northwood, Ohio. At the lower left is the intersection of railroad tracks. Most of the area is covered by forest or cultivation. Off of Drouillard Rd. is a large grassy field with a pond shaped like a duck, the beak and top of the head being sand rather than blue water.
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown would be amused. I guess also that what looks like the bathhouse is a decorated shed.
source: 41.612098,-83.495152
cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
source: 41.612098,-83.495152
cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
If i had this kind of land i'd 100% do this but it would be in the shape of a Fender Precision and i'd call it Bass Lake.
in-ground pool that's spells the word "pool" in looping cursive and is wildly unusable for lap swimming
@joshmillard make it 'ool' and it's a deal
Salty story
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Engraving of Preserved Fish, C. 1830
"There were at least ten other Fish family members with the Quaker given name Preserved, whose lineages are often confused."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Grace Fish
Chastity Fish
Sojourner Fish
Temperance Fish
Truth Fish
Thankful Tune Fish …
https://www.google.com/search...
Chastity Fish
Sojourner Fish
Temperance Fish
Truth Fish
Thankful Tune Fish …
https://www.google.com/search...
I have visited the grave of Preserved Fish.
Smokin'
*gasps*
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https://www.threads.com/@mollyin...
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
The Concrete Murals of Dodger Stadium
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Black and white photo of three abstracted concrete murals, with jagged, crumpled forms casting shadows in the sun, on the exterior of a structure (probably a concourse) below a level open to the outside. The middle piece has a sphere embedded into the upper center.
source: https://defector.com/the-secr...
Art by George Nocito and Bert Schwartz. Nate Rogers who has a whole article about the lengths he went to to figure out who the unnamed artist was. Gift link from me!
Art by George Nocito and Bert Schwartz. Nate Rogers who has a whole article about the lengths he went to to figure out who the unnamed artist was. Gift link from me!
it was "4"
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30-40 olives meme, with new text superimposed:
Off work late? Hungry but too tired to generate a private key? Try 4
4: an easy to generate private key.
Put it directly on your root certificates with your fingers.
You will certainly not regret 4
Off work late? Hungry but too tired to generate a private key? Try 4
4: an easy to generate private key.
Put it directly on your root certificates with your fingers.
You will certainly not regret 4
Whose?!?
F O U R
Ah, here's the story: https://www.theregister.com/security...
"The CA of concern in this case is called eMudhra, which boasts of having issued over 60 million digital certificates...
"'Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115....' Other researchers have found private keys including the numbers 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237."
"The CA of concern in this case is called eMudhra, which boasts of having issued over 60 million digital certificates...
"'Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115....' Other researchers have found private keys including the numbers 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237."
you wouldn’t …
But what are the rats mounted on?
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A warning sign on a subway wall. It has tape covering the center of the sign. Written on the tape is "The rat king has mounted his forces. Shin guards required past this point."
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<image of the band Counting Crows where every band member’s face is replaced with Charlie Kirk>
Counting or not counting crows
Counting or not counting crows
this is very good
I make important things for work
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Three dogwelders in various states of realism
My students are designing cereal boxes. One of the things they need is a mascot, but many of them feel like they're not good at art. Today I showed them how they can use a reference photo as a guide, and how to simplify and exaggerate to make it look less realistic and more cartoonish.
What kind of cereal would you be?
WOOLY WILLY
I Voted!
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Winning “I Voted” Digital Sticker Design submitted by Halle G.
Design based on Mustang © 2008 Luis A. Jimenez, Jr.
Design based on Mustang © 2008 Luis A. Jimenez, Jr.
My 2026 General Election mail ballot has been counted! I got this cool "Blue Mustang" virtual sticker! Visit GoVoteColorado.gov for more election information
I mean, this just screams voter fraud. Horses can't vote!
@homerj DO NOT QUESTION THE POWER OF BLUCIFER
@jazon I had a project to design a kiosk for a Denver client. I drew a bunch of landmarks including Blucifer.
Everyone loved it. And then told me there was no way that could go into the kiosk.
Apparently Blucifer is litigious.
And given the fact he killed is maker, I wasn't going to mess with him.
Everyone loved it. And then told me there was no way that could go into the kiosk.
Apparently Blucifer is litigious.
And given the fact he killed is maker, I wasn't going to mess with him.
Lagoon Pond.
Promo ad for Minnesota alternative rock station 93.7
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Via Kottke https://mastodon.social/@kottke...
LOL how many "The Edge" stations were there?
I listened to REMs "It's the End of the World as We Know It" on repeat for an entire eight hour work shift when this radio station was coming on the air.
In addendum and for the record however Rev 104 and Radio K were the supreme rulers of my life in the Twin Cities.
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Protests in France - Kiran Ridley
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A protester in Paris wearing an 18th century period costume and reflective ski goggles against a background of black-clad protesters and smoke
French students put ours to shame
This is almost my ARC Raiders character.
"dress for the protest you want"
I want to go to there.
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Futuristic Mars tourism poster.
I've got this one, signed by the artist in a frame. https://science.nasa.gov/image-de...
my serenity
égalité, fraternité, panthère rosé!
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
Spooktoberween Soundtrack
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Alice Phoebe Lou, "Witches". Day 21 of ??
Oh! she's also in Strongboi - love her voice
I love her.
9 albums: Canadian style
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!!LEONARD COHEN WAS SO OBVIOUS I FORGOT TO INCLUDE HIM!!
This is a culmination of two trains of thoughts inspired by all y'alls discussions & posts: the first is what our parents listened to and how it informed us; and the inclusions of certain Canadian artists that I'm like HOT DAMN YEAH! . . . I've been unable to stop thinking about both, so to calm my brain I'm makin' another set.
We didn't have a t.v. growing up, and what filled that space were tremendous amounts of books and music. My parents did not have a very large vinyl collection - I got the sense that Something Had Happened to their music collection, but never knew what - but the first 4 on this list were all a part of it and played A LOT. (They loved Ian & Sylvia and Ian Tyson solo, who I also adore, so I just picked one.) My dad loved playing music in the barn in particular, and Hank Snow and Gordon Lightfoot ringing from the barn as he worked on a tractor or played a song to "call in the cows" are an essential part of my childhood.
The second train: I've been wanting to make an "international version" of this list, because later in life I came around to so much elsewhere and I'm still growing, but an essential bridge from younger days to now has been music from Canada, and oh! how much I love it. I've worked quite a bit in Canada and always made a point of seeing local shows when I could, whether it was a good size venue in Calgary or a tiny little bar on Cape Breton (NS), and those wonderful Canadian artists have never disappointed.
Canada produces so much Good Shit. So shout out to Canada!
Honorable mentions:
Tegan & Sara
Great Lake Swimmers
Basia Bulat
The Band
The Weather Station
Be Good Tanyas
This is a culmination of two trains of thoughts inspired by all y'alls discussions & posts: the first is what our parents listened to and how it informed us; and the inclusions of certain Canadian artists that I'm like HOT DAMN YEAH! . . . I've been unable to stop thinking about both, so to calm my brain I'm makin' another set.
We didn't have a t.v. growing up, and what filled that space were tremendous amounts of books and music. My parents did not have a very large vinyl collection - I got the sense that Something Had Happened to their music collection, but never knew what - but the first 4 on this list were all a part of it and played A LOT. (They loved Ian & Sylvia and Ian Tyson solo, who I also adore, so I just picked one.) My dad loved playing music in the barn in particular, and Hank Snow and Gordon Lightfoot ringing from the barn as he worked on a tractor or played a song to "call in the cows" are an essential part of my childhood.
The second train: I've been wanting to make an "international version" of this list, because later in life I came around to so much elsewhere and I'm still growing, but an essential bridge from younger days to now has been music from Canada, and oh! how much I love it. I've worked quite a bit in Canada and always made a point of seeing local shows when I could, whether it was a good size venue in Calgary or a tiny little bar on Cape Breton (NS), and those wonderful Canadian artists have never disappointed.
Canada produces so much Good Shit. So shout out to Canada!
Honorable mentions:
Tegan & Sara
Great Lake Swimmers
Basia Bulat
The Band
The Weather Station
Be Good Tanyas
Roughly arranged in chronological order, so it's amusing the shit out of me what a big time jump there is between the two halves.
Hank Snow!
Oh hell. How could I not remember Gordon Lightfoot. Also, the Weakerthans are on my 21st century list for sure.
