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So much Younger than today
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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.
ardgedee
Obviously.
Sort of how ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is the only one in the band that doesn't have a beard.
I mean the real question is how a toddler is good enough at baseball to make it to first.
“Arabesque” Daniel Adel Oil, on Linen
FFU
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Two detectives from The Wire in a shadowy room with the caption “Yo dickhead, where you been at?”
We’ve been rewatching The Wire
rated TV-MA for extreme dollhouse action
(i really need to go back and watch the rest of it someday when i have HBO again)
Huh, interesting. I've also felt the pull to rewatch The Wire lately.
Someone - either Alan Sepinwall or at the AV Club - once wrote a review I've never forgotten, which was that "Deadwood", "Sopranos" and "The Wire" best represented America because they showed America at its different stages (slightly out of order in terms of when the shows aired): Deadwood its uber capitalistic, corrupt birth while also mired in a sense of community and wrong vs right; Sopranos in the middle of its lifespan, flailing about in the result of what won the aftermath of its birth; and Wire as its inevitable decline and death, showcasing how very much the sins of capitalism, lack of moral care, and thus the immoral choices in its birth led to its bitter end. At the time I thought it a rather over the top characterization - hey, I had come up through the 90s, when everything did seem like it could only get better, even though I was naive about the rot and Reaganism underneath - but now I understand that commentary in a way I didn't then.
Anyway, lately I've been thinking about that a lot. As great as The Sopranos was, I really do think The Wire and Deadwood capture America in a way very few pieces of media have . . . and of the two, perhaps in that desperate way we use media to undestand our world - only in this case I find my attempt clawing and mewling to fully comprehend what's happening - The Wire is to what I've returned.
Someone - either Alan Sepinwall or at the AV Club - once wrote a review I've never forgotten, which was that "Deadwood", "Sopranos" and "The Wire" best represented America because they showed America at its different stages (slightly out of order in terms of when the shows aired): Deadwood its uber capitalistic, corrupt birth while also mired in a sense of community and wrong vs right; Sopranos in the middle of its lifespan, flailing about in the result of what won the aftermath of its birth; and Wire as its inevitable decline and death, showcasing how very much the sins of capitalism, lack of moral care, and thus the immoral choices in its birth led to its bitter end. At the time I thought it a rather over the top characterization - hey, I had come up through the 90s, when everything did seem like it could only get better, even though I was naive about the rot and Reaganism underneath - but now I understand that commentary in a way I didn't then.
Anyway, lately I've been thinking about that a lot. As great as The Sopranos was, I really do think The Wire and Deadwood capture America in a way very few pieces of media have . . . and of the two, perhaps in that desperate way we use media to undestand our world - only in this case I find my attempt clawing and mewling to fully comprehend what's happening - The Wire is to what I've returned.
Wednesday
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Retro comic frame of stampeding dinosaurs saying “GRUMMMFFF!” I don’t know the province.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Why they threw the rock. Everyone was afraid to land here.
Shumway Devouring His Kitten
I tried to post this earlier
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A picture of my Soul Red 2021 Mazda MX-5 Miata RF with the top retracted. It is parked on a parking lot facing to the left in front of a lake. There is a sun setting behind the car with the sun and horizon visible through the window and open top.
Below that another photo of a document that reads "PNC Auto Loan Statement Final payment congratulations! This is your final loan pay...
Below that another photo of a document that reads "PNC Auto Loan Statement Final payment congratulations! This is your final loan pay...
I got this on the mail today. My final payment was made by auto-withdrawal yesterday. It is actually mine. 🎉
On another note, Google stuff is getting worse by the day. Google photos on my Pixel decided to be weirder than usual about cropping a photo to not include my home address or the car price on it and saving it. I used Firefox and tried to upload the crowd photo and the phone gave some error about the picture not being available. I thought it failed. I was wrong. It successfully uploaded the uncropped photo with my address and car price, and I didn't figure it out until an hour or two later. I deleted it but now I'm afraid the AI now knows where I live.
On another note, Google stuff is getting worse by the day. Google photos on my Pixel decided to be weirder than usual about cropping a photo to not include my home address or the car price on it and saving it. I used Firefox and tried to upload the crowd photo and the phone gave some error about the picture not being available. I thought it failed. I was wrong. It successfully uploaded the uncropped photo with my address and car price, and I didn't figure it out until an hour or two later. I deleted it but now I'm afraid the AI now knows where I live.
Congrats!
THE BθRG KNEW WHERE YOU LIVE A LONG TIME AGO
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The Cheney Sentinel, Kansas, May 29, 1913
I would love to see this apparently regular newspaper factoid feature revived.
I would love to see this apparently regular newspaper factoid feature revived.
Coulda sworn there was a Tumblr or Blogger account dedicated to the topic, because there was a period in the late '00s when these were frequently circulating.
@ardgedee https://www.tumblr.com/yesterda...
@karmakaze ❤️
Scorsese
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Krusty the Clown off colour image of him saying "I heartily endorse this event or product"
"Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese signed on last year as an adviser to Black Forest Labs, the German AI startup behind FLUX image models"
A filmmaker drinking the kool-aid from the climate-destroying plagiarism machine is... certainly a choice
company profile photo
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The nature of Salesperson of the Month was irrepressible.
Son Wukong, tech visionary and Senior VP in charge of Team Leadership in Corporate Excellence.
Chief Development Officer, Monkey Magic Inc.
from lucifer import ProgressBar
May Picture
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A soft patchwork of muted spring colors, rectangular, 12 X 14 inner squares. The edges are soft, the painting seems more the comfort of spring, rather than jubilation. Also, it is a torso.
This is a portrait show, so now I see the torso.
#painting #PaulKlee May Picture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
#painting #PaulKlee May Picture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
this painting was my work machine desktop for many years!
I'm really trying to see a torso, but I can't. Maybe this is related to my inability to see Magic Eye pictures? Is there part of a head or face at all, or is it just shoulders down? I really want my brain to be able to click on this.
@Xedrik the Met link doesn't mention a torso at all https://www.metmuseum.org/art...
Brepast...
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A clear plate on a cutting board, breakfast, with dry multigrain sourdough toast, with black bean and pumpkin seed hummus, two garlic and dill fried eggs, with black truffle salt, blueberries, and exquisite, campari tomato slices, also with black truffle salt.
A clear plate on a cutting board, breakfast, with dry multigrain sourdough toast, with black bean and pumpkin seed hummus, two garlic and dill fried eggs, with black truffle salt, blueberries, and exquisite, campari tomato slices, also with black truffle salt.
the hummus sounds good as heck! would love to see your recipe.
@nikkuneko I have been winging this lovely stuff. I keep raw pumpkin seeds bulk purchased at Winco. If you want to get diwn and dirty, Costa del Sol, sells a foil packed refried black beans, product. It is maybe an 18 oz pack. The ingredients were good, healthful, they were 1$ per, in a bin. Their other product had msg, didn't buy. So I sautéed ~1/3 C raw pumpkin seeds with garlic, cumin, some medium heat, red chili powder, in extra virgin olive oil, until they are a little toasty. Add a couple of tablespoons more oluve oil at the end and the juice of a whole smaller lemon, put this in the blender, with either a can of black beans, or half the pack of refried black beans, or a can of refried black beans if the ingredients are OK with you.
Start the pumpkin seeds oil and lemon juice in the blender, add a little soy sauce, water, or more lemon juice to help grind the seeds, ( I like them smooth.) Then add the beans and blend until smooth, this should not be runny, and you can help it along with a spatula. If you have a food processor this is easier. Add as much hot sauce as you like, if you want this to last for a few days then I would skip the cilantro, or parsley, unless you cook it well with the seeds. The lemon juice gets cooked, so this ends up being a durable spread. I usually melt some Muenster cheese on top of the toast before putting on the hummus. But this is good also as a vegetarian meal. The packaged black beans had vegetable oil, rather than lard.
This is easy to vary, my current batch is made with some chili beans.
Start the pumpkin seeds oil and lemon juice in the blender, add a little soy sauce, water, or more lemon juice to help grind the seeds, ( I like them smooth.) Then add the beans and blend until smooth, this should not be runny, and you can help it along with a spatula. If you have a food processor this is easier. Add as much hot sauce as you like, if you want this to last for a few days then I would skip the cilantro, or parsley, unless you cook it well with the seeds. The lemon juice gets cooked, so this ends up being a durable spread. I usually melt some Muenster cheese on top of the toast before putting on the hummus. But this is good also as a vegetarian meal. The packaged black beans had vegetable oil, rather than lard.
This is easy to vary, my current batch is made with some chili beans.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 beautiful, thank you!
chokin
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Quaid from 'Total Recall' experiencing decompression on the Martian surface. Visual effects by Rob Bottin.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
I don't totally recall that film.
That's when I show her my O face
Justified
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Two police officers stand indoors, shaking hands and smiling. Text overlay reports a South Carolina officer pulled a gun on a co-worker for heating fish in a department microwave.
Mullet was the case
valid
ACAB
The Watch Factory.
Meanwhile in The New York Times editorial room
One dollar
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A long-exposure color photograph, showing a man (in shirt, tie, black hat, and gray pants) sitting in the middle of three shiny upholstered chairs on top of a set of stands where his feet are propped, while a ghostly blurred figure works on his shoes.
source: https://harpers.org/archive...
"With this early daguerreotype in mind, I traveled across New York City and asked people of different professions how long it takes them to earn one dollar. I then used their responses to calculate the exposure time for their respective portraits."
A dollar's worth of time from the lives of a sex worker, a pastor, a city council member, a butcher, a union organizer, a dry cleaner, and more, at the link. #photography
"With this early daguerreotype in mind, I traveled across New York City and asked people of different professions how long it takes them to earn one dollar. I then used their responses to calculate the exposure time for their respective portraits."
A dollar's worth of time from the lives of a sex worker, a pastor, a city council member, a butcher, a union organizer, a dry cleaner, and more, at the link. #photography
that's a cool set of photos!
Neat idea, well done
Fantastic. What a beautiful project.
Added to /nyc
Added to /nyc
ANYONE.HAS.A.SAD?
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STICKER IN A BAR TOILET, DECEMBER 2023
Awww mommy AND daddy issues, poor baby, f*off.
P.S. I stole Abbie Hoffman's book.
Stop Motion Sabotage - A Stop Motion Recreation of Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video
forced big irony
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Clip from a screencap of two coupled railroad engines on a track. One is labeled "Abraham Lincoln", has a small discreet flag and modest black-and-red coloring. The other is painted white with a gaudy, swirling American flag and "4547" in very large numerals under the driver cabin window.
TIL that there's a railroad engine with designation number 4547 decorated with a big flowing flag, which apparently is currently being used to haul some NASA rocket equipment cross-country.
fwiw the Abraham Lincoln is engine no. 1616.
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
last edit: Ah, I'm sure the brand-new highly decorated American Flag engine number 4547 has absolutely nothing to do with this proposed mergery of two of the biggest railway companies in the US:
https://apnews.com/article...
fwiw the Abraham Lincoln is engine no. 1616.
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
last edit: Ah, I'm sure the brand-new highly decorated American Flag engine number 4547 has absolutely nothing to do with this proposed mergery of two of the biggest railway companies in the US:
https://apnews.com/article...
How about engine 8647?
linkedin bio
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gravestone reading "POET PHILOSPOHER & FAILURE"
No more dinosaur juice
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Still living under the city windmill I see.
(fellow Lauwerecht inhabitant here)
(fellow Lauwerecht inhabitant here)
Nice! I can’t go back to gas cars. I even bought an electric riding lawnmower mower so great.
Xc40 recharge driver here. Full ev, all the time. In year 3 now. Love it. Best car I’ve ever owned. Volvo has provided great service and experiences the few times I’ve needed it. Happy for you!
Marian Dioguardi
FINALLY, a guide for the rest of us
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a fake product by creator obviousplant, in this instance a thin volume that is titled "every jazz sound". below that, an image of a balding man with his eyes half closed, playing a trumpet, with the adjacent text column: "featuring: TOOT, SQUEE, BOP, WHAH WHAH, TOOT TOOT, FLUTE VIBRATO, BOOM BIP, TOOT TOOP, BASS, SNARE, KICK, RIM SHOT, SQUONK, ...AND MORE". below that, an inset of a fedora that reads "inlcudes *fedora rustle*" and a cartoon crab playing a fedora with the footer "a jazz crabs hearing aid"
via obviousplant on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
https://www.instagram.com/p...
Currently scatting
Forgetting the triple tongued “takkita takkita takkita”
Computer, give me a hat wobble
Coiffure Octopus
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Newspaper illustration of an octopus hairdo. “Mr. Punch’s Designs After Nature. Great Sensation for the Aquarium - _Coiffure Octopus_
Squid hat _avant la lettre_. @nikkuneko @cristin
@bezt well, i'm only calling it a "coiffure octopus" from now on
Related: https://mltshp.com/p/1GPS9
local user account for the win
Will Santino
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I most definitely have already posted this to my personal SHK but I couldn't find it so I'm reposting it directly here since it's one of my favs
<sensible chuckle>
tuesday
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people dancing in McDonalds
Mac and Me!
https://youtu.be/NdvO0tmN...
(and yes, this is the same dreadful movie Paul Rudd used in every movie interview with Conan)
https://youtu.be/NdvO0tmN...
(and yes, this is the same dreadful movie Paul Rudd used in every movie interview with Conan)
@BennyTheIcepick Certainly one of the greatest pieces of comedy ever conceived.
Yes, I love the Rudd/Conan bit, but not enough to watch the movie.
One interesting thing about this clip and the whole number was that it was so branded to McDonalds. This was a blatant E.T. knock off. In E.T. they wanted to use M&Ms as a lure for E.T. but the corporation refused. Reece's Pieces was right on with it, and as a result became hugely successful. So, Mac And Me got McDonald's 100%.
One interesting thing about this clip and the whole number was that it was so branded to McDonalds. This was a blatant E.T. knock off. In E.T. they wanted to use M&Ms as a lure for E.T. but the corporation refused. Reece's Pieces was right on with it, and as a result became hugely successful. So, Mac And Me got McDonald's 100%.
portals
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A tenement building against a bright blue night. A white crescent moon sits in the top right of the sky. On closer inspection, the tenement is actually a book, with two greenish bars on the spine. There are multiple windows on the cover of the book, with different colored light. Some of the windows are dark or have curtains or blinds drawn. In the windows are various entities: a person, a cat, a monster, a teacup. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Reminds me slightly of the card game GoTown, where you stack rooms two at a time in a similar fashion
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgam...
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgam...
▶️ "Careful" | Boy Harsher
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album art for boy harsher's 2019 album "careful". a vertical diptych of video screenshots, with very obvious artifacts. in the top frame, a female-presenting person in a tank top and combat pants falls back onto a bed. in the lower frame, she is looking upward with her head on the bed
i fell down a deep-assed hole of darkwave/synthpop/electropop over the weekend. overplayed the first CHVRCHES record, guiltily spun the crystal castles albums and alice glass' solo stuff, sifted through some s u r v i v e and more of that ilk.
somewhere on a bleak, empty side road off those genre highways are boy harsher. their grimy, glitching minimal synth lines and sharply cold vocals drill right into you. they haunt you. they bring to mind early 80s synthpop and industrial, albeit with a different kind of emotional weight.
i'd never heard of them until their vocalist guested on the last deafheaven album, but they are now thoroughly lodged into my brain. going back soon to get their earlier "yr body is nothing" and their immaculate soundtrack work.
stream // purchase // download:
https://boyharsher.bandcamp.com/album...
somewhere on a bleak, empty side road off those genre highways are boy harsher. their grimy, glitching minimal synth lines and sharply cold vocals drill right into you. they haunt you. they bring to mind early 80s synthpop and industrial, albeit with a different kind of emotional weight.
i'd never heard of them until their vocalist guested on the last deafheaven album, but they are now thoroughly lodged into my brain. going back soon to get their earlier "yr body is nothing" and their immaculate soundtrack work.
stream // purchase // download:
https://boyharsher.bandcamp.com/album...
Yeah this is an album I've enjoyed playing in it's entirety, which I think is unusual these days.