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jpoulos pro an hour ago
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damien

The End...

Retired?
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Retired?
After 12 years of working in the same place, I have finally left. It came as I was getting despondent and really getting mentally tired from the role that I was doing. I asked for some time off which was rejected and in turn they came to the idea that leaving was best for business. I have so many fond memories there and made so many friends so it was hard to decide that but that means I can forge another chapter in my life...
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nikkuneko pro 3 hours ago
escape velocity! i'm sorry that it was such an unceremonious end; i mean that's such a bad sign when all you want is some time off and they say "no". glad you're able to move on though; good luck in the next stage of things.

i'm in that phase now too; also passing 12 years at the same place and feeling burnt out, trying to get the energy to start looking around. solidarity!
MackReed pro 2 hours ago
The next chapter will find your soul improved. Rush into its arms for it is your place to level up. Source: I just did this in November.
0y3ahSansAcut3

Here...

Light beams through pinholes,  created by the space between tree leaves, each opens out to show a replica of our sun.
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Light beams through pinholes, created by the space between tree leaves, each opens out to show a replica of our sun.
Light beams through pinholes, created by the space between tree leaves, each opens out to show a replica of our sun.

Share some dappled light with me.

#photography #DayleRecord
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nikkuneko

chapter 13: the mechanics of li’l guy propagation in a reg’lar-assed medium

square 2x2 collage of photo close-ups: small translucent plastic animals, sitting in various locations: 1) light blue rabbit tucked in the corner of a concrete wall/ divider 2) dark blue duck in a crevice between stones on a low wall 3) a green chicken and yellow duck facing one another, as if in conversation atop a building mailbox (where part of a label can be seen, reading “ding”) 4) a pink rabbit sitting on a brick-encircled planter
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square 2x2 collage of photo close-ups: small translucent plastic animals, sitting in various locations: 1) light blue rabbit tucked in the corner of a concrete wall/ divider 2) dark blue duck in a crevice between stones on a low wall 3) a green chicken and yellow duck facing one another, as if in conversation atop a building mailbox (where part of a label can be seen, reading “ding”) 4) a pink rabbit sitting on a brick-encircled planter
oh no i’m out in the wild doing this now, including clumsily trying to sneak them onto checkout counters and shopfronts.

i was hiding them in random spots around the office for a couple weeks, which was pretty fun for a while. a few people struck up conversations about them, and it was fun to try to stoke the mystery of "who put these there". unfortunately an office admin started clearing them out en masse and i had the feeling they were particularly nonplussed about it. thankfully a few are still hidden around there.

anywho, it's something fun to do for now, wherever it is! “is this a cry for help, nick?”, the audience cried as the unhinged behavior continued...

previously in the whimsy distribution saga:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RQL9
https://mltshp.com/p/1RQD2
https://mltshp.com/p/1RQ19
https://mltshp.com/p/1RPES
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poorusher

Marjane Satrapi

Portrait of writer, illustrator and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi wearing a long coat, platform boots stood on a tree stump.
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Portrait of writer, illustrator and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi wearing a long coat, platform boots stood on a tree stump.
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joost 8 hours ago
Great portrait. How it evokes her drawing style.

So sad how her life ended.
poorusher 8 hours ago
@joost

I actually don't know much about her work. But I'm obsessed with this look, badass.

Also the spirit of punk is incredibly important even if like me, you were a bit young when punk crested.
joost 7 hours ago
@poorusher sorry to be obtuse: how does this relate to punk? The shoes?
0y3ahSansAcut3 7 hours ago
That low horizon line cutting across infinite space, good.
poorusher 6 hours ago
@joost she was very punk IMHO

https://slack-wise.tumblr.com/post...
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joffaboy

Another day stripping copper..

Green grass and grey rocks with a grey cylinder and a disk of metal. 2 men are standing in the cylinder. The whole scene is populated by fluffy white butterflies
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Green grass and grey rocks with a grey cylinder and a disk of metal. 2 men are standing in the cylinder. The whole scene is populated by fluffy white butterflies
Kazakh scavengers stripping copper off the second stage of a Soyuz rocket that plummeted back to Earth. The men are surrounded by giant clouds of white butterflies. Taken by Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen, 2000.
https://www.threads.com/@hungrym...
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Argie pro 8 hours ago
What did you do today honey?

Oh me and Sergie stripped a space rocket
minimumsafedistance 8 hours ago
this is incredible.
poorusher 6 hours ago
Bendiksen is pretty amazing. Check out The Book of Veles.
B6FA798A3449 pro 5 hours ago
This looks like a Simon Stålenhag illo, damn
MackReed pro 5 hours ago
@B6FA798A3449 i read it as a tilt-shift mock miniature. it’s wonderful.
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MackReed

inside you right now

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animation loop of an anatomically correct drawing of a human heart in red, beating.
almost as creepy as it is miraculous, if you think about it long enough

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ba pro 2 hours ago
Tag yourself! I'm Brachiocephalic trunk.
waa

My first mural update

Two photographs, the top one features the outside wall of a building, with a half finished mural, with a painting of flowers and insects. The bottom picture shows two people working on the mural with brushes in hand.
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Two photographs, the top one features the outside wall of a building, with a half finished mural, with a painting of flowers and insects. The bottom picture shows two people working on the mural with brushes in hand.
I've been hard at work in the last two weeks together with my colleague Ivonne (in the background). But we've been slowed down a little bit. Last week there was a heatwave of more than 30°C and this weekend it's been raining a lot. But we've got some extra time. So I'm not too worried. We're not nearly finished, although some people might think it is done :-)

By the way, the design is basically a watercolour I did a couple of years ago, with some minor alterations: https://mltshp.com/p/1N5L6

The official opening is on Saturday afternoon June the 13th. If you're in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, drop by!

#art #painting
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nikkuneko pro 2 days ago
whoaaaaaaaa nice work!

it's amazing to see how your linework translates so beautifully to such a large scale!
waa pro 2 days ago
@nikkuneko Thank you! Yes, the line work is kind of the same as in my small drawings. I was quite confident I could enlarge this because my lines are kind of an extension of my anatomy (or at least that's what it feels like to me). But it was a nice surprise to see it worked out as well as I hoped it would!
ufez pro 2 days ago
Yesssssssss
niicholas 2 days ago
Can't like this enough - so awesome!
jfaster pro 2 days ago
Amazing :)
BennyTheIcepick pro 2 days ago
I wasn’t sure how easily your style would translate to such a large scale but it looks fantastic! Oh this is wonderful. Please keep the updates coming!
wmo pro 2 days ago
YAY!
jasperzelf pro 2 days ago
Oh it's gorgeous!!
m3moellering 2 days ago
Woohooooo!!!
dad 2 days ago
LoveitLoveitLoveitLoveit
fins 2 days ago
Dang this is fantastic! Thanks so much for the update!
wjcstp pro 2 days ago
This looks amazing, i love that style as a mural
snarkout pro 2 days ago
Holy shit, that bee.
katiefox pro 2 days ago
Honestly, this is so exciting to see! Thanks for the update.
spingo pro 2 days ago
gorgeous!
urlnotfound pro 2 days ago
This is incredible.
B6FA798A3449 pro 2 days ago
whooooo!
0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
This is wonderful.
billturner pro Yesterday
Amazing!
waa pro Yesterday
Thanks to everybody who commented! I can't tag you all!
roonie pro Yesterday
Spectacular!!! Just brilliant.
Congratulations and it's not even finished!
Thank you for posting.
MackReed pro Yesterday
Enjoying this already!
ckoerner Yesterday
So cool!
bubbalumpkis pro Yesterday
Very cool!
spoetz Yesterday
Oh! Now I need a bigger phone! ❤️
joost Yesterday
So much rain recently. Hopefully that will be over soon
bug138 Yesterday
Really cheerful! The neighborhood just got a major upgrade
waa pro Yesterday
@joost Yes! The plan was for it to be done by now. But first, we could only work half days because of the heatwave and now the rain is making it problematic. I'm going to start tomorrow morning at 6 or something to make the most of the little dry days left the coming week.
owl Yesterday
Wonderful progress! And it's worth adding: AI could never
snowbow Yesterday
Lovely :)
drtofu 20 hours ago
Wow!
waldopepper pro 12 hours ago
It's looking great!
joost 9 hours ago
Looking at buienradar you had a rainless morning. :-)
Lockjaw pro 8 hours ago
Very cool!
minimumsafedistance 8 hours ago
big watercolor interpretation is a fascinating mural task. looking fantastic!
waa pro 6 hours ago
@joost yes but I started too late so I didn’t get that much done.
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O_C

Peruvian textile fragment

textile fragments show fantastical creatures (a big blue face and I'm thinking llamas?)
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textile fragments show fantastical creatures (a big blue face and I'm thinking llamas?)
source: https://moviesludge.tumblr.com/post...
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0y3ahSansAcut3 7 hours ago
People everywhere through time love their dogs and cats, even llamas.
artwells

for those who celebrate

poster for The Omen movie pointing out that "Today is the 6th day of the 6th month of 1976"
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poster for The Omen movie pointing out that "Today is the 6th day of the 6th month of 1976"
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thelonius 3 hours ago
The book (not sure if it was a horror novel made into the film, or a "noverlization") scared the crap out of me, age 9.
snarkout pro an hour ago
The number of the beast is 6/6/76?
joshmillard pro an hour ago
@thelonius apparently a concurrent novelization of the screenwriter's own screenplay!
waa

Dead Duck Day 2026

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Dead Duck Day marks the fateful 1995 crash of a male mallard duck into the Rotterdam Museum of Natural History's glass facade, which was subsequently followed by 75 minutes of homosexual necrophilia - the first scientifically documented case of its kind, earning researcher Kees Moeliker an Ig Nobel Prize. And worldwide fame and virality.

Ever since, the day has been celebrated/commemorated each year on June 4, 4:55 pm, by Kees in front of the window of the Rotterdam museum where the duck met its end. I've been to a couple of editions and I didn't want to miss this one! Especially because Dead Duck Day is now going to travel around the world, because Kees has retired. I hopped on my bike and got there just in time. I didn't get him to pose with me for you guys (I didn't wear a Mltshp shirt anyways), but I did get to talk to Marc Abrahams from the Ig Noble Prize who was there as well. He's super nice.

If you know of a place, bar, museum or other kind of venue where Dead Duck Day should be held next time, let Kees know. Seriously, by the way. Or give me a shout and I'll pass it on.


https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/bezoek...
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otaman pro Yesterday
Science!
O_C pro Yesterday
another drake mallard?
samh pro Yesterday
Wow. I love the diversity of our world!
roonie pro 23 hours ago
@O_C no thank you, i'm full
ba pro 23 hours ago
I love culture!
poorusher 8 hours ago
This seems very Dutch
dogwelder pro 3 hours ago
My birthday!
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MackReed

weekend plans

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actually smoking a brisket, so this is relevant.

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artwells pro 2 hours ago
Was floating two days ago, so I appreciate it
MackReed

sleep tight

frontal xray of a child’s skull showing teeth that are present in the jaw and others that are due to grow in
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frontal xray of a child’s skull showing teeth that are present in the jaw and others that are due to grow in
the teeth of a 6-year-old

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3rdparty

 

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https://www.instagram.com/p...

#toro
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O_C

lamp

photograph of a lamp with floral-crest patterned wallpaper in the background
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photograph of a lamp with floral-crest patterned wallpaper in the background
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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Davezilla pro 7 hours ago
As advertized
0y3ahSansAcut3 7 hours ago
Orange you glad you bought that lamp. Truly very cozy corner.
ardgedee pro 2 hours ago
Gerhard Richter vibes
joffaboy

Don't make me tap the sign..

Industrial machinery with sign - 
DANGER
NOT TO BE
OPERATED BY 
FUCKWITS
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Industrial machinery with sign -
DANGER
NOT TO BE
OPERATED BY
FUCKWITS
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bezt pro 10 hours ago
A Proposed Law: To alter the Constitution to establish that fuckwits shouldn’t be operating things.
bencmeissner pro 10 hours ago
@bezt Agreed
wjcstp pro 9 hours ago
@bezt I’m on board as long as it includes operating the government
0y3ahSansAcut3 7 hours ago
@wjcstp Hear hear!
bezt pro 3 hours ago
@wjcstp Part of the joke is that's the standard format for referenda in Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), so I guess implicitly includes the government.
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poorusher

e-spliff

Giant rolled cigarette/spliff as a giant lamp
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Giant rolled cigarette/spliff as a giant lamp
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0y3ahSansAcut3 7 hours ago
Another cozy lamp!
otaman pro 7 hours ago
Passed down from generations
Xedrik 6 hours ago
It's a major award!
B6FA798A3449 pro 5 hours ago
fra-gee-lay
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dogwelder

Brooklyn Bridge

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Xedrik Yesterday
It's been a while since I've had a banana split. I should fix that.
0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
I thought about that very dessert yesterday, when gazing at a post here.
dapete Yesterday
Great photo
m3moellering 20 hours ago
Are those sprinkles AND jimmies?
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O_C

Zabriskie Point

Poster art by Milton Glaser for the 1970 film 'Zabriskie Point' (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni). The film's title along with several abstract shapes, the wreck of a car, a hamburger, a toothbrush, a safety razor, a tin can, and an American flag, all appear to be floating above a desert. The shadow of these floating objects sits on the desert floor below.
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Poster art by Milton Glaser for the 1970 film 'Zabriskie Point' (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni). The film's title along with several abstract shapes, the wreck of a car, a hamburger, a toothbrush, a safety razor, a tin can, and an American flag, all appear to be floating above a desert. The shadow of these floating objects sits on the desert floor below.
source: https://thingsmagazine.tumblr.com/post...
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0y3ahSansAcut3 7 hours ago
I saw this in a theater, back in the day. Pretty people, pretty alienated people.
joshmillard pro 40 minutes ago
loved her in Twin Peaks
williwaw

infinite money glitch

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CDN media
it forgot AMD but yeah
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nikkuneko pro Yesterday
))<>((
Xedrik Yesterday
@nikkuneko I understood and appreciate that reference. Forever.
d09m4t1c

When in Boulder…

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Artist pointing at painting of Artist Point.
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m3moellering 21 hours ago
Hehehehe
heyitsal

Ferdinand is 90!

A black-and-white pen-and-ink drawing shows a young bull sitting calmly in the shade under a cork tree at the top of a hill as he watches two other young bulls in the field below butt their heads together.
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A black-and-white pen-and-ink drawing shows a young bull sitting calmly in the shade under a cork tree at the top of a hill as he watches two other young bulls in the field below butt their heads together.
I had read this book to my children at bedtimes over 1000x. The illustrations, inkwork and high contrast never got old.

Gift Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026...
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ardgedee pro Yesterday
Didya know there was a song?
https://mltshp.com/p/1RR3O
BMK Yesterday
Someone I knew went to school with the son of the guy who wrote this book.
readery 22 hours ago
I still have my tattered childhood copy, it was a library discard when I got it. The drawings of the Spanish ladies and the picadors are divine.
jessamyn pro 2 hours ago
Yes! For people in Western MA there is an exhibit about this at the Eric Carle Museum on the Hampshire College campus.

https://carlemuseum.org/explore-...

Fun fact: Eliot Smith, Hampshire alum, had a Ferdinand tattoo.
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artwells

My Favorite Liminal Space

A blue lit room with a shower at the end, a bench, a shelf and a door to a closet like space.
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A blue lit room with a shower at the end, a bench, a shelf and a door to a closet like space.
Since Backrooms is out there, I thought I'd share this. I go into sensory deprivation for ninety minutes every other week or so.

Over the years, I've done it about 150 times. Last week I did my last annual double float, which is 3.5 hours (right after COVID it was five hours). It's my last annual, because I intend to do it every other month going forward.

This is room 4 in Float On in Southeast Portland Oregon. It helped me keep my job much longer than I would have otherwise. It's guided my greater decisions . It's allowed me to revisit memories I didn't know I had

The door to the right is like a closet with the floor covered with water with so much salt in it that I can float with my face above the water. It's warm enough that I quickly forget what is water and what is my skin and the warm air around it. It's dark and silent.

Just walking into the room, just getting the reminder email, removes everything from my head and the tension in my shoulders melts.

When I get in and turn off the light, visions start almost immediately. Today it was a massive eye with a dark green iris. Sometimes, once I see something, words come to me. They nearly never relate to the image. The last hundred or so floats, I've tried to remember at least three of these. When the float is done, I walk to my local and get a pint and a shot and write them down. I have no idea why I record them. Rereading them is very, very boring. I think it's just how I return.
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3rdparty pro Yesterday
the backrooms of your psyche
dogwelder pro Yesterday
I’ve often wondered what a sensory deprivation tank would be like for me. I have aphantasia, so I normally can’t see mental images, but it’s possible that time in a tank could jump start imagery. As for the journals: I read a book about writing where the author talked about journaling every day, but not to be read later. They were just to keep the words and ideas flowing. Maybe your journals aren’t something similar.
artwells pro Yesterday
@dogwelder I hear a lot that floating is like last meditation, and I get that. If you can get mental images during disciplined meditation, then floating will probably bring it on.

I have had periods in my life where hallucinations come to me out of the blue during normal times, so floating is like turning on the TV.

Regardless, it's worth a try. If you come to Portland, the float is on me.

And I totally get that unread diary idea. It is more ritual than record for me.
drurystephanie Yesterday
This sounds a lot like a guided ketamine course I took - visions, and they highly encouraged journaling afterwards. I want to try this next.
ArtVandelay Yesterday
I think Richard Feynman was fond of using ket in sensory deprivation tanks. I'd like to try the combo but seems a little risky, TBQH.
fnerg pro Yesterday
@dogwelder how do you navigate while biking? I dated someone with aphantasia, and she had to navigate... anecdotally? Meaning, "take 4th to pike, turn left until you cross the freeway, then turn left at Melrose", as opposed to having a picture of a map in mind, and following that visual to get where one would want to go.
mrzarquon pro 22 hours ago
I was gonna say I recognize that Float tank.

There aren't popular over here in Belfast, I really miss doing them.
mrzarquon pro 22 hours ago
Lucy Bellwoods comic on it is also great: https://thenib.com/flip-the...
artwells pro 22 hours ago
@mrzarquon that's great. Graham is still involved on the board.
dogwelder pro 11 hours ago
@fnerg I navigate o. A bike the same way I go anywhere- I just remember the steps. It’s not like a written list in my head, it’s just… data, I guess.
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csilverman

take some time away from the rest of it

An industrial scene: a grungy building with a water tower on top, set against a dull reddish-orange sky. The water tower glints in the sunlight. Both the tower and the building have fading graffiti tags on them. In the background is the blurry purple outline of another factory building. Sitting on top of the water tower is a ghostly white figure, feeding some white birds. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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An industrial scene: a grungy building with a water tower on top, set against a dull reddish-orange sky. The water tower glints in the sunlight. Both the tower and the building have fading graffiti tags on them. In the background is the blurry purple outline of another factory building. Sitting on top of the water tower is a ghostly white figure, feeding some white birds. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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otaman

New "Spiderman Pointing" meme just dropped

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B6FA798A3449 pro Yesterday
claude
MackReed pro Yesterday
not shown: you
nikkuneko pro Yesterday
bout to drop this into general work chat with no context
poorusher Yesterday
https://mltshp.com/p/1O9EZ
owl Yesterday
AI is going great
urlnotfound pro Yesterday
https://mltshp.com/p/5HKC
ardgedee pro Yesterday
If this is meant to illustrate how we're blindly installing AI into the critical paths of our infrastructure and taking for granted it will work without understanding what it's doing, then these are accurate and perfectly appropriate diagrams.
MackReed pro 21 hours ago
buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo



also: the chicken PowerPoint
pk pro 10 hours ago
@MackReed also: chicken.pdf, used for all document upload testing.
brundlefly 5 hours ago
it's claudes all the way down
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MackReed

rules of thumb

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source: https://www.rulesofthumb.org/

via Kevin Kelly’s indispensable Cool Tools newsletter: https://us5.campaign-archive.com/...
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0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
The bit about the rental property is certainly dated, and completely off for urban properties. For instance, if the second half of this duplex were rented out, for what they are asking, then $2030, multiplied by 100, it would be down $150,000 from what it would sell for right now.
urlnotfound pro Yesterday
@0y3ahSansAcut3 - That stuck out at me, too. The house I rent would be undervalued by about half of its actual market value if 100 months of rent being market price held true.
B6FA798A3449 pro Yesterday
Rule of thumb: to generate engagement, try a list of assertions that will get people talking.
roonie pro 23 hours ago
I can't possibly remember all of these. I'm going to have to print this out, fold it up and put it in my wallet. Then, forget all about it.
ba pro 23 hours ago
@B6FA798A3449 I use a corollary of that at work: If nobody wants to document something, just document it incorrectly, and everybody will gladly tell you every specific thing you did wrong .
0y3ahSansAcut3 23 hours ago
The one about height at 3 years old, is why my daughter's tonsils came out at 18 months, I could not keep her well, and she had dropped from the 100th percentile for length to the 25th. By the time she was three, she had grown back to lanky.
B6FA798A3449 pro 23 hours ago
Rule of thumb: if you bite your thumb at me, sir, at least own it.
m3moellering 20 hours ago
I'm kinda wanting @tweedlydo to wiegh in on the third bullet even though it may not be her area of expertise. Seventeen seems like a lot of earth for one casket.
And the fourth from the bottom? If it's teenagers, increase the degrees F by 1.5 degrees per person.
1f2frfbf pro 19 hours ago
@m3moellering When I was doing calculations on HVAC back in the 90s, it was: average person is 100 watts. Teenagers are 120 watts. The elderly were 75 watts. If you are now mentally comparing people's heat output to incandescent lightbulbs, that's not a bug... it's a feature.
m3moellering 18 hours ago
@1f2frfbf Vindiction!!!!!
hertz pro 16 hours ago
How the heck is 17 wheelbarrow loads of dirt still going to accomodate the modern Western physique?
jive_t pro 8 hours ago
My brain is reading these in Grandpa Simpson’s voice
williwaw pro 5 hours ago
@m3moellering It makes total sense to me. I like to joke that I have a ph.d. in digging, and while I've never dug a grave for a person - and it probably depends on the wheelbarrow - I have dug lots of graves for livestock/ranch animals, trenches (for geology research), and holes in general for things like posts, gardening, etc., and the two things that are hard to account for is compaction and water/air space (what as a geologist I'd call porosity ;) ) So it's not necessarily a 1:1 volume replacement calculation. And once dirt is uncompacted, especially *any* kind of clay rich soil in which you disturb the layering of the clay (the minerals that make up clay itself are very flat, like plates, and they tend to "stack"; digging tends to jumble that stacking) all bets are off. And don't even get me started on what happens if you dig on any slope, even a gentle one.

So there's the additional factor of just how much pore space you introduce just be digging it up. It's really easy to triple or even quadruple it. Also any kind of soil debris like rocks and large roots that the dirt was "settled" around have not been disturbed.

Even if it's just a hole that you then backfill without replacing anything - and I'm taking more than a few inches, a real hole, and not in anything like fresh garden soil - you're still going to have dirt left over. To do it without lots left over you need to partially backfill, water it, let it settle, tamp it, backfill some more, etc. Even then you might still have a mound on top, but if you're patient and wait for it to settle, that'll probably disappear.

The volume of the avg U.S. casket is ~58,000 inches ^3 or 33.5 cubic feet. A standard U.S. wheelbarrow "says" 6 cubic feet. You'd need 5.5 wheelbarrows to remove the dirt for the casket alone IF and ONLY IF you packed it as nicely as it was in the ground, which you're not going to do. It's going to be full of air. But it's possible that 6 cubic feet is the manufacturing company's measurement to include mounding. Wet soil or soil full of rocks may be even less due to weight. So it may only be 3-4 feet. You can see how it quickly adds up! And I'd bet anything that the 17 calculation leaves behind enough dirt that the grave still has mounding intially that then settles over time to be end up level.

(Sorry for using imperial, I'm doing the math in my head and too lazy to convert.)
m3moellering 4 hours ago
@williwaw I 100% defer to your expertise, sir.
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scruss

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

a young girl in a headscarf is apprehended by two older women in full black coverings. The back of the young girl's shirt reads "Punk is not Ded"
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a young girl in a headscarf is apprehended by two older women in full black coverings. The back of the young girl's shirt reads "Punk is not Ded"
too young, and just a year after her husband passed

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B6FA798A3449 pro 2 days ago
Hate to hear this.
nikkuneko pro 2 days ago
just saw nate powell memorializing her on instagram and was shocked to hear. RIP to a real one.
waa pro 2 days ago
Sooooo sad.
tom

“Arabesque” Daniel Adel Oil, on Linen

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jpoulos pro 2 days ago
Damn, that's beautiful.
y95 2 days ago
Frothy
snarkout

So much Younger than today

Screenshot of a baseball game between the Mets and the Mariners, showing Mets first basement Eric Young #29 standing in front of first base, occupied by Cole Young #2, with Mariners first base coach Eric Young, Jr. #53 behind them.
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Screenshot of a baseball game between the Mets and the Mariners, showing Mets first basement Eric Young #29 standing in front of first base, occupied by Cole Young #2, with Mariners first base coach Eric Young, Jr. #53 behind them.
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"Ironically, Young Jr is the oldest Young in this photo."
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ardgedee pro 2 days ago
Obviously.
dreyfusslugado 2 days ago
Sort of how ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is the only one in the band that doesn't have a beard.
ardgedee pro 2 days ago
I mean the real question is how a toddler is good enough at baseball to make it to first.
roonie pro Yesterday
@ardgedee Who?
minimumsafedistance 7 hours ago
@roonie the one Young that's only 2.
@ardgedee
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joffaboy

Gum power, Heathcote VIC

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A large gum tree
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gwint pro 2 days ago
Wow

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