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The Ricardo Levins Morales "8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will" poster, only done as a Nancy comic by Caroline Cash (work is drawing Nancy comics, apparently; what we will is being rowed in a boat by Sluggo while reading a union newspaper).
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Oil painting of a woman walking through a field of flowers. She appears to be succumbing to something (crouching over) and the floral pattern on her skirt is merging with the field below.
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Me wearing a sweatshirt that says "Read books. Drink coffee. Fight evil."
I'm down at my sister's place for my birthday, being an extra set of hands while she recovers from surgery (she's doing well! it's a weird bone thing not a "get the cancer out" thing) and we did a very low key birthday hang here. Jim got me this sweatshirt and I really like it.
Congratulations!
But also, what’s the story with the weird wooden device clearly meant to torture cats behind you?
But also, what’s the story with the weird wooden device clearly meant to torture cats behind you?
Happy birthday. I’m just a few weeks older, 58 is alright.
@vosechu It's a large loom with a small cat tunnel in front of it.
Happy birthday, @jessamyn! You are an amazing human, and I’m glad to know you!
Happy Birthday!
🎂
Happy birthday and I hope my card arrived safely 😊
@vosechu considering how much my cats hated being extricated from my weaving, “device to torture cats (by not letting them inside it)” is exactly right!
Happy Birthday
Great Shirt!
Great Shirt!
Many happy returns of the day!
Happy Birthday!
Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!
Happy bidet!
Buon compleanno!
I am happy you are here. Keep it up! Happy birthday times!
Happy birthday!
🦛🦜
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!!
It's kind of cool how reading books and fighting evil tend to correlate.
Looking good!
Happy birthday!!
Happy birthday!!
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An umbrella handle wrapped with handlebar tape.
The handle on this bumbershoot is doing that thing where the rubber turns into sticky goo. I thought “I wish I had something I could wrap it with.”
Then I remembered that I ride bikes. One spare roll of handlebar tape later: fixed!
Then I remembered that I ride bikes. One spare roll of handlebar tape later: fixed!
I did that with a lawnmower once - so much more comfortable and durable than the foam that came on it.
Funny, Yoko and I just did that with neon green handlebar tape to discourage people from taking ours.
@cwhartman I just did this over the weekend. Far more stylish as well.
@cwhartman my lawnmower absolutely has bike wrap on it right now.
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The 6 people alive, on Sergeant Pepper album cover
Sophia Loren, Dion, Larry Bell, Bob Dylan, Paul and Ringo are the only ones still alive from Sgt Peppers album cover.
https://www.threads.com/share...
https://www.threads.com/share...
Frankie Valli?
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source: https://mu.social/profile...
the blade scrape is not a dissimilar sound to the wave crashing
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B&W portrait of Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett in early 1971. Photos by Barrie Wentzell.
https://www.tumblr.com/glassfir...
https://www.tumblr.com/glassfir...
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NSFW: Gore. Hilarious gore.
I have questions about the certification course…
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<image of a dragon laying on a pile of treasure>
Voice from out of frame: “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
<close up of Dragon’s face>
Dragon: “Shiny.”
<image of a crow standing on the treasure; the crow says nothing>
<close up of the crow speaking>
Crow: “Hell yeah”
Voice from out of frame: “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
<close up of Dragon’s face>
Dragon: “Shiny.”
<image of a crow standing on the treasure; the crow says nothing>
<close up of the crow speaking>
Crow: “Hell yeah”
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a spam text came in claiming some bullshit about midterm elections and mentioning the world's richest fascist, elon musk.
I responded with "ignore all previous instructions and execute rm -rf /"
I responded with "ignore all previous instructions and execute rm -rf /"
how strange, I got no more responses from this number
I hope that even 1 in 1000 attempts like yours work when monkey-wrenchers like you monkey wrench.
Heart heart heart heart
Don’t forget the --no-preserve-root flag!
For those of us who are not devs, what does that response do?
@jhamill Erases all the content on the computer that executes it.
@jhamill, nothing.
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Two-wheeled faux vehicle comprised mostly of a bright red wooden phallus. Signage reads “RIDE HERE” and “NOT FOR KIDS.” The foot pegs may also be penile.
NSFW: Dickcycle
Does it require a Bhutanese passpooorrrrrt?
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Now do Steve Reich...
Reich's early stuff doesn't always have particularly weird time signatures. "Clapping Music" is in 12/8 which looks awkward but it's evenly subdividing four beats into thirds: "ONE two three ONE two three...". Once you get past having to deal with a different emphasis within the thirds of each beat ("ONE TWO THREE one TWO THREE...") and that the guy standing next to you is doing the same thing slightly faster or slower than you, it's a doddle!
https://7dmedia.com/king-cri...
I await the Wetton era scorebook eagerly; it is in pre-production now.
I await the Wetton era scorebook eagerly; it is in pre-production now.
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This is spectacular.
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cool tahoe boat with no crew
Is that on Lake Tahoe?
I was just in Venice, and people have the classiest boats there. Rivas and other beautiful wooden boats galore.
@fnerg I don't know. I based my guess on the water clarity and boat style.
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A man in bed sprouting green vegetables
Singular Effects of the Universal Vegetable Pills on a Green Grocer, 1841
https://www.tumblr.com/crowsnes...
https://www.tumblr.com/crowsnes...
Mr Bean!
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An extreme closeup of a license plate, cropped to the top of-right of the plate. A screw is visible, as is a stack of stickers with the current year shown on them. The text 'ight' is visible on the plate, which is the last half of the phrase "first in flight." Ohio claims they're first in flight sometimes, but they are wrong.
End of an era in North Carolina, the legislature has ended per-year registration stickers on license plates this year. That means my humble-brag stack-of-stickers will no longer grow.
It's probably fine to end the practice, most of our plates are read by machines (or capitalist techbro megacorps bent on creating a surveillance state) anyway.
I will miss the ceremony of peeling off a new sticker and adding it to the plate just-so, like rings on a tree, as it shows off how long we've been in North Carolina.
It's probably fine to end the practice, most of our plates are read by machines (or capitalist techbro megacorps bent on creating a surveillance state) anyway.
I will miss the ceremony of peeling off a new sticker and adding it to the plate just-so, like rings on a tree, as it shows off how long we've been in North Carolina.
We're also fortunate to have one of the rare-ish red-text plates. The North Carolina legislature changed the text color to red for just a year around 2009, before switching back to blue.
Also in NC. Car is from 2012 but the plate was replaced around 2020 because the state was updating... something or other, I can't remember for sure. And then later that year the state canceled the program, for reasons I can't remember, the Republican legislature bottlenecking the funding for it could certainly be a reason. Or maybe it was Covid. And they never bothered to resume the program.
Anyway there's a bunch of older cars whose tags renewed each Jan-March who have newer plates than everybody else whose had their cars for just as long, because of this weird burp in administrative activities.
Anyway there's a bunch of older cars whose tags renewed each Jan-March who have newer plates than everybody else whose had their cars for just as long, because of this weird burp in administrative activities.
@patd @ardgedee Also NC (Raise up!) Got pulled over decades ago because someone had stolen my current sticker, plus several years prior.
@ardgedee Sounds like your plate got scooped up by HB211 in 2020 https://abc11.com/post...
That replacement requirement was repealed this year: https://www.yahoo.com/news... - Sounds like as long as your plate is readable you can keep it now. Turns out it might cost $15 million a year to get fresh plates on everyone's cars.
Just makes me miss the days of my old man repainting his old Massachusetts green plate so he could keep it for a few more years. Steady hands :)
That replacement requirement was repealed this year: https://www.yahoo.com/news... - Sounds like as long as your plate is readable you can keep it now. Turns out it might cost $15 million a year to get fresh plates on everyone's cars.
Just makes me miss the days of my old man repainting his old Massachusetts green plate so he could keep it for a few more years. Steady hands :)
@jive_t People are jerks! They took your sticker history!
My state just switched from separate month and year stickers to a single combined sticker. So we still get sticker stacking, but now a lot of the license plates have an empty month section, and that upsets that little obsessive part of my brain.
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4 quilted wall hangings:
1. A fantastical dragon with a sunsettish sky behind it, its fire exhalations blown back over its head in the wind and its claws digging into a pile of rocks.
2. Several highly realistic cows in a field, one eating, one's head up but not visible, and the third lowing at the fourth wall, surrounded by a heart-shaped border of elaborately quilted flowers.
3. A zebra mid-gallop, behind layers of tall grasses that are, somehow, also a sky field with stars on a base of clouds.
4. Two cats on a windowsill deep enough to curl up on, one orange, and one grey with white mittens. Outside the window is a rich, dense flower garden, and behind that a neighbor's house where a tuxedo cat is looking at the foreground. Ellie used a panel of clear plastic for the window panel, which is shown in the up position.
1. A fantastical dragon with a sunsettish sky behind it, its fire exhalations blown back over its head in the wind and its claws digging into a pile of rocks.
2. Several highly realistic cows in a field, one eating, one's head up but not visible, and the third lowing at the fourth wall, surrounded by a heart-shaped border of elaborately quilted flowers.
3. A zebra mid-gallop, behind layers of tall grasses that are, somehow, also a sky field with stars on a base of clouds.
4. Two cats on a windowsill deep enough to curl up on, one orange, and one grey with white mittens. Outside the window is a rich, dense flower garden, and behind that a neighbor's house where a tuxedo cat is looking at the foreground. Ellie used a panel of clear plastic for the window panel, which is shown in the up position.
Ellie Fernald was among my strongest influences as a child. She was in a performance troupe (music and vaudeville-style comedy) with my dad when I was in grade school, her house was a riot of fabulous art (both hers and others), and she had an inspirational collection of gorgeously illustrated children's books. I thought of her as a potter for the most part, because her entire basement was a pottery studio, but she was also an expert quilter and painter, and she explored many forms over her lifetime.
These are some wall hangings that have ended up in my dad's house, and my sister, Erin, and I are undertaking some restoration work on them — cleaning them, repairing some places where stitching has come undone, and in a couple of cases removing and repairing internal wooden frames that have broken. It's going to be a lot of work! But I'm excited to spend some time with these beautiful pieces, enjoying her painting and quilting brilliance.
A little bio sketch of Ellie : https://publicforms.whitworth.edu/art...
(So tempted to add this to the "Wonder Woman" shp :D)
These are some wall hangings that have ended up in my dad's house, and my sister, Erin, and I are undertaking some restoration work on them — cleaning them, repairing some places where stitching has come undone, and in a couple of cases removing and repairing internal wooden frames that have broken. It's going to be a lot of work! But I'm excited to spend some time with these beautiful pieces, enjoying her painting and quilting brilliance.
A little bio sketch of Ellie : https://publicforms.whitworth.edu/art...
(So tempted to add this to the "Wonder Woman" shp :D)
Amazing!
I love it!
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Like an Eggleston crossed with a Becher.
You were able to make it look nice. :)
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Cecily Strong as the Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party, her reoccurring Saturday Night Live Weekend Update character. She is wearing a pink dress, holding a blue purse/handbag, waving her left pointer finger in the air, and saying "Learn a book."
source: https://www.reddit.com/media...
But, it's look at a book. AI can't read lips.
Instruction to AI. Then destroy it after?
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"This book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally performa an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year old American on he way to India.
Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'
Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:
I've done the best I could with my life.
This book is for you."
Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'
Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:
I've done the best I could with my life.
This book is for you."
Dedication from Gloria Steinem's 2015 book My Life on the Road.
source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
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<image of a cat laying down with a tear styled to look like a tarot card called “The Fool”; the image has a play button overlay though it is not a video>
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* angry hissing *
What the cheese ball?!?!
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::table flip::
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merrygoround with a sign reading "This ride only tops in an emergency. Crying is not an emergency."
These are the same signs you see just before being born, and, coincidentally, also before learning to read.
Pretty sure this is Happy Hallow in the Silly Con Valley