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Photograph of people congregating at a sledding-hill in Hampstead Heath, 1938.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
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A small creeks runs between rocks and mountain laurel. There are many fallen leaves and small patch of clear sky. It is winter, and shadows are long.
Took a hike today to a shared secret spot. Scattered some ashes and remembered. If you can't be nostalgic on Christmas, then when else?
RIP, String. Thanks for all the miles.
RIP, String. Thanks for all the miles.
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A desolate scene: Jesus, in a white robe and halo, sits in an armchair in a darkened apartment lit only by the white glare of a flatscreen television. The entire scene is a dull bluish-green. Hanging on the wall above are the letters “Happy Birthday”, and a few stars, all of which have the effect of making the scene appear even less festive than it would be without these decorations. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.
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Ages ago, I used to blow glass and made a bunch of these ornaments for my friends and a set for myself. Finally, the kids are old enough and we are without jumpy pets, so I can finally put them up on our tree!
Gorgeous!
So cool!
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A newspaper illustration of a woman hanging a Christmas garland and ornaments, with the heading "Be gay this Christmas".
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"Christmas advice for ladies courtesy of the Dundee Courier (1930-1934)"
"Christmas advice for ladies courtesy of the Dundee Courier (1930-1934)"
I need conversion therapy for my opposite-sex attraction
We are all homosapiens
The holiday version of "You should smile more!"
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A painting by Fredrick Remington, going up for auction, at Sotheby's, from one of the Koch brothers. A canoe on a shore, in profile against a bright ochre sky, lakeside, at sunset, with a horizon delineated by a thin line of purple, whether clouds or mountains.
I appreciate the fantastical, graphic nature of this work.
#painting #FredrickRemington
https://www.wsls.com/gallery...
#painting #FredrickRemington
https://www.wsls.com/gallery...
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a child's drawing of a santa and reindeer flying over a mountain where people are skiing. Everyone is a smiling stick figure and they all have those hands which is just lines projecting out in all directions.
I mostly do Solstice and Hanukkah lately but I've been enjoying our local newspaper's Kid Holiday Art. There's a special section in the newspaper where local businesses (Mass Mutual Aid is one, so thank you all) support a drawing. Kids get to see their stuff in the paper. Businesses get to support kids and the paper. It's win/win/win. See for yourself, there's some fun stuff in there.
https://www.ourherald.com/articles...
Some more detail and greatest hits at these Bluesky posts of mine.
https://bsky.app/profile...
https://www.ourherald.com/articles...
Some more detail and greatest hits at these Bluesky posts of mine.
https://bsky.app/profile...
I love these. Very like Onfim
Who names their child Navillus?
@roonie the Mirror-Sullivans?
@scruss TIL thank you!
Navillus Mirror-Sullivan?
Nah. I was thinking Navillus Gavillus.
Navillus Piabullus.
Navillus Boutros-Navillus.
Nah. I was thinking Navillus Gavillus.
Navillus Piabullus.
Navillus Boutros-Navillus.
@roonie Navillus is about as mysterious as the outlaw Graham clan who were banished from the Scottish Borders in the 17th Century and disappeared. Curiously, the Mahargs appeared shortly afterwards and claimed to know nothing of the Grahams, some of whom they resembled ...
@roonie
Is there something… risible… about the name
Navillus
Gavillus?
Is there something… risible… about the name
Navillus
Gavillus?
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Merry Christmas MLTSHP Fam! This clip popped up on my Insta feed. I'm a fan of Magic Eye, so naturally I did the trick with this and, well, mind blown.
With all sincerity, I love you all. MLTSHP has helped me through some tough times this year. The holiday season is a rough time for me. It's my 31st December with the post office, and like Jason Isabel says, it gets easier but it never gets easy. This one has been particularly rough. My dad is 88 years old. With the exception of a few years he spent fresh out of college in the big city, he's lived in small towns all his life. He had a big five bedroom home on five acres in a town of maybe 300. It has been too much for him to take care of for a few years, so he finally sold his home and moved to Utah County in a much smaller townhome so my sisters could be closer to him and help him out. When I saw him at Thanksgiving, I could see how hard this necessary choice has hit him. He looked like - I don't know. He's always been this guy who's always going, always has some home improvement project going, had a huge shop where he could turn a pile of lumber into magic. It was devastating to me to see him like this, and it really tore at me for some reason. Pile that on with all the other holiday madness postal workers deal with, and you get one Lockjaw who almost had a nervous breakdown. Like my SO and I came close to parting ways.
When I felt at my lowest, MLTSHP was there with its quirky sideways trees, killer music, and all the rest of the insanity to pull me out of the funk. So thank you my friends. Thank you for being here.
Now you'll have to excuse me. It seems the pollen count is unusually high for this time of the year.
Have a very merry Christmas!
With all sincerity, I love you all. MLTSHP has helped me through some tough times this year. The holiday season is a rough time for me. It's my 31st December with the post office, and like Jason Isabel says, it gets easier but it never gets easy. This one has been particularly rough. My dad is 88 years old. With the exception of a few years he spent fresh out of college in the big city, he's lived in small towns all his life. He had a big five bedroom home on five acres in a town of maybe 300. It has been too much for him to take care of for a few years, so he finally sold his home and moved to Utah County in a much smaller townhome so my sisters could be closer to him and help him out. When I saw him at Thanksgiving, I could see how hard this necessary choice has hit him. He looked like - I don't know. He's always been this guy who's always going, always has some home improvement project going, had a huge shop where he could turn a pile of lumber into magic. It was devastating to me to see him like this, and it really tore at me for some reason. Pile that on with all the other holiday madness postal workers deal with, and you get one Lockjaw who almost had a nervous breakdown. Like my SO and I came close to parting ways.
When I felt at my lowest, MLTSHP was there with its quirky sideways trees, killer music, and all the rest of the insanity to pull me out of the funk. So thank you my friends. Thank you for being here.
Now you'll have to excuse me. It seems the pollen count is unusually high for this time of the year.
Have a very merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas. I'm glad you're here.
Merry Christmas! We love you too!
Merry Christmas brother.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
Merry Christmas and a better new year to come
Your name (and so many others) I get to see and share with everyday brings me heaps if joy, Lockjaw. So thanks for saying thank you. We gave our postman our customary twenty dollar bill yesterday for Christmas and as is customary he told us he'd be using it to keep himself stocked with Keystone Lite. I hope you've got a few folks you deliver to that brighten your day. Here's to your 32nd year ahead.
Merry Christmas 🎄! Lifting others and loving others is an act kindness that, I swear, is embedded in the code.
Awww hey friend, I know you've had a lot going on. I'm glad this place had been an excellent place for you and I'm happy you're here.
Thank you for being here and thank you for sharing. ♥️
Much love to you , my brother.
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Several Christmas decorations adorn a front yard, including, but not limited to, a Santa animatronic, wooden reindeer, a carousel, a Ferris wheel, and light up C-3PO, R2-D2, Yoda, Darth Vader, and stormtroopers.
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It was a great year for the list. Much better than simply "falling in the shower."
Many of those things have far more spiky bits than anybody should be comfortable about holding near their lower orifices.
I need to know if apple stems and apple core are the same guy.
@jpoulos /same
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black and white self-portrait: mostly-caucasian male-presenting dingus, leaning over to capture himself in a rectangular mirror set deep in a cabinet. most of the image is steeped in shadows, but his face and hands are lightened by sunlight, and the sleeve of his hoodie is checkered with patterns from a half-drawn curtain
continuing the “take a tired assed selfie” trend once again. this time it was in the mirrored backboard of an antique bureau/cabinet in the spare bedroom where i’ve been sleeping this visit.
my dad had a procedure done earlier in the week. he has made significant progress since he had a stroke earlier in the year, being able to walk a bit and do some things, but his doctors suggested a line of therapy using implanted magnets to stimulate nerves and muscles in his still-paralyzed left arm.
they had to travel down to my town to get the procedure done, and my mom and i spent a long day in the waiting room, followed by a long drive back to their home.
as with every year, trying to clean up my mother’s hoarding, my dad’s “nest” junk, trying to do things for them while i’m here. i’m always trying to offer my help regularly to keep them above water but it’s so hard to negotiate the stubbornness.
anyway, boy oh boy, happy holidays.
my dad had a procedure done earlier in the week. he has made significant progress since he had a stroke earlier in the year, being able to walk a bit and do some things, but his doctors suggested a line of therapy using implanted magnets to stimulate nerves and muscles in his still-paralyzed left arm.
they had to travel down to my town to get the procedure done, and my mom and i spent a long day in the waiting room, followed by a long drive back to their home.
as with every year, trying to clean up my mother’s hoarding, my dad’s “nest” junk, trying to do things for them while i’m here. i’m always trying to offer my help regularly to keep them above water but it’s so hard to negotiate the stubbornness.
anyway, boy oh boy, happy holidays.
Good photo! With the dark foreground and well lit center.
Taking care of aging parents even in the best case is a labour of love. Both love. And labour.
Taking care of aging parents even in the best case is a labour of love. Both love. And labour.
Much love to you and yours, my friend.
Be well, friend.
Sending you warmth and strength, sir.
may the spirit of the season bring you what you need and what you desire
Great photo! Wishing you some peace and a chance to recharge, hope your dad continues to improve.
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color photograph: a dismally sad grey drive through on the side of a vinyl-clad building, albeit with a vibrantly blue paint on its foundation and window shutters. to the left, a lettered marquee reads “drive thru open til 2am 7 nights a week”; next to that is a sagging red banner proclaiming “VIDEO GAMING - get your game on”. at the center, a narrow drive-up service window, over which a faded painted sign hangs, reading “small ICE cocktail cubes at the drive up”. to the right is another window, surrounded by bright blue shuttere.
little ongoing project where i photograph something every time i visit my dismal hometown. (my parents are so so sedentary that i go batshit crazy just sitting on the couch in silence with them, so i take a walk or two a day around town.)
this installment: a “drive thru” liquor store (AND storage service?) down the way from my parents’ house. yes, the blue is THAT blue.
fujifilm x100f | velvia | ISO 1600
color corrected in pixelmator for iPad
on my flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos...
some other entries in the project in this album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos...
this installment: a “drive thru” liquor store (AND storage service?) down the way from my parents’ house. yes, the blue is THAT blue.
fujifilm x100f | velvia | ISO 1600
color corrected in pixelmator for iPad
on my flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos...
some other entries in the project in this album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos...
I love this project!
The ice sign is beautiful hand-lettering.
Video Gaming is fun.
"(my parents are so so sedentary that i go batshit crazy just sitting on the couch in silence with them, so i take a walk or two a day around town.)"
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!
Did you get your game on?
An ice cube drive through window is very fun
Your photographs are wonderful. Look forward to seeing more in this series.
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My doctoral thesis is due for submission on 9th January 2026. Potato and I are learning to work together under time pressure as he proofs each chapter and then works with me to fill in the remaining blanks. We agreed to celebrate shit only after a draft of the whole manuscript is ready for my supervisor's review on the 30th, this month.
I will return.
I will return.
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A map with labels on regions showing which traditional character brings gifts on Christmas.
One or two "inappropriates" here.
Witch, goat, feeler-toucher, wot?
Witch, goat, feeler-toucher, wot?
Glad to see Poland go for Bowie with "Starman"
no Sinterklaas?
Leave it to the Germans to have the very literal... "Christmas Man"!
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A picture of a knitted item in two colors of yarn, red foreground on a light cream background, depicting a Hilbert curve fractal
Knitting adventures continue. This isn't super ambitious technically, other than two colors its all very basic stitching, but I'm very pleased with it as an art object.
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source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod...
// Explanation: Yes, but could you get to work on time if the Moon looked like this? As the photographer was preparing to drive to work, refraction, reflection, and even diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals turned the familiar icon of our Moon into a menagerie of other-worldly halos and arcs. The featured scene was captured with three combined exposures two weeks ago on a cold winter morning in Manitoba, Canada. The colorful rings are a corona caused by quantum diffraction by small drops of water or ice near the direction of the Moon. Outside of that, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. To the sides are moon dogs, caused by light refracting through thin, flat, six-sided ice platelets as they flittered toward the ground. Visible at the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice cylinders. A few minutes later, from a field just off the road to work, the halo and arcs had disappeared, the sky had returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog. //
// Explanation: Yes, but could you get to work on time if the Moon looked like this? As the photographer was preparing to drive to work, refraction, reflection, and even diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals turned the familiar icon of our Moon into a menagerie of other-worldly halos and arcs. The featured scene was captured with three combined exposures two weeks ago on a cold winter morning in Manitoba, Canada. The colorful rings are a corona caused by quantum diffraction by small drops of water or ice near the direction of the Moon. Outside of that, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. To the sides are moon dogs, caused by light refracting through thin, flat, six-sided ice platelets as they flittered toward the ground. Visible at the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice cylinders. A few minutes later, from a field just off the road to work, the halo and arcs had disappeared, the sky had returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog. //
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Just happened to be visiting family in Maryland and came into town to sightsee for the day, and couldn’t let the holiday pass without taking care of business.
And no, I don’t think he’s home right now.
Merry Christmas, my friends. Keep fighting.
And no, I don’t think he’s home right now.
Merry Christmas, my friends. Keep fighting.
I'm sure there's someone who aligns with you that's visiting Florida doing the same thing as you at his primary residence. God bless.
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A Pair of Catmas Trees
Ha! A true pair - it is Ludwig's first Christmas too, having just turned one a month ago.
<3 !! @otaman : Eddie looks a little bit like Ludwig after a haircut!
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Yukon Cornelius. It reads "maybe it will happen today"
see also - https://www.sonnyross.com/shop... - as it says, "could be about anyone"
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CDN media
Mike is a treasure
Ludicrous markets hypothesis seems like a more rational description.
Why make a little money now when you can make the promise of a lot more money later?