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W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life
Ferdinand and Isabella
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This is me and Patricia. We are performing as King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival this year. I make my costumes, and you are looking at an unbelievable amount of my free time over the last few months.
Our theme is "heroes and villains" and our characters started the Spanish Inquisition, so our costuming is very Disney-villain inspired.
Our theme is "heroes and villains" and our characters started the Spanish Inquisition, so our costuming is very Disney-villain inspired.
nikkuneko
this is really fantastic and intricate costume design; kudos to you!
Mapquest wins the internet
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Map of Lake 34 Fraud Convictions
Rename it yourself!
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario
source: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeonta...
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario
source: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeonta...
TIL Mapquest is still around.
fwiw Google Maps also still has it as Lake Ontario
add me to the deconstruction crew
State Fair
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A photograph of seed art piece for the Minnesota State Fair, styled after Picasso's Guernica. Multiple cubist figures are seen including one, a bearded man holding a cell phone lying on the ground. To the right of the piece an anguished figure throws her hands up holding a sign reading "ICE OUT". A loon, its wings spread, dominates the left side of the work.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Work by Jennifer Nelson.
“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”
More seed art for the Minnesota state fair on similar themes at https://www.cropart.com/Resist....
Work by Jennifer Nelson.
“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”
More seed art for the Minnesota state fair on similar themes at https://www.cropart.com/Resist....
Going to look at all this in person today!
MN State Fair crop art is going harder than ever this year, i hope to get over there next week
I'll be there Saturday. If you see a guy with a where's waldo "Find Yourself" shirt feel free to stop me and say hi. It might not be me, but that'd probably be even more fun.
St Enoch's, Glasgow - mid 1970s
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View from beneath looking up at the station building supported on pillars #thisiscivilengineering
Rather than demolishing the old subway ticket office when the system was being rebuilt, it was raised up and the new tunnels built under it. The old St Enoch's railway station next to it wasn't so lucky: it was demolished and became a fairly terrible glass-walled shopping centre.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Lovely photo I wonder what date it's from.
@poorusher 1977-79. They used the rubble from the railway station to fill in part of the harbor so they could build an exhibition center on top.
TS Dolly lives!
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Screenshot of a map showing the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea and north coast of South America. There is a reverse-tapering cone showing the path of Tropical Storm Dolly, with current position over the middle of the ocean, traveling in the range of 35-40mph and approaching San Juan, Puerto Rico by some time mid or late Sunday. The cone of potential paths is surprisingly tight so it seems certain that the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic will feel the storm's effects.
Purely coincidence.
Really -- "Dolly" was added to the rotating list of tropical storm names after "Diana" was retired in 1990.
Anyway, Dolly is going to put on a show and make some noise in the Atlantic north of South America for a couple days but should downgrade before it reaches the Lesser Antilles. Slight chance of it re-forming after the weather pattern passes over the Bahamas, but it's not worth worrying about unless it happens.
source: https://weather.com/2026...
Really -- "Dolly" was added to the rotating list of tropical storm names after "Diana" was retired in 1990.
Anyway, Dolly is going to put on a show and make some noise in the Atlantic north of South America for a couple days but should downgrade before it reaches the Lesser Antilles. Slight chance of it re-forming after the weather pattern passes over the Bahamas, but it's not worth worrying about unless it happens.
source: https://weather.com/2026...
I am begging the universe to let Tropical Storm Dolly wreck Mar-a-Lago.
@Xedrik Took the words right outta my mouth
Update on Rufus
When were y’all gonna tell me?!?
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(illustration only)
me_irl
Time well spent
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Time is free.
Loss of potential income is damage... damnit.
current mood
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Took Kusama too! These are some times.
My wife said she wants to be in heaven’s waiting room this week with those three. “Imagine the chitchat!”
Just a... sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania
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A cinema here used to play the Rocky Horror every Friday night at midnight and 18/19 year old me and a couple of friends decided to go along, not even really understanding what it was all about. When we arrived we found half the cinema was dressed like the characters. They had umbrellas and they threw rice in the air (IYKYK) and yelled out dialogue at certain points along the way.
The crowd sang along and interacted with the film as if it was scripted. We we're blown away!
So months later we all decided to go again and this time we'd dress up too, which was a huge extroverted thing to do for this bunch of introverts. When we arrived, pretty impressed with our efforts, we discovered that nobody else had dressed up that night just us. Worst best night of our 18/19 year old lives thus far 😁
Vale Tim Curry and thanks for the shows
also could we not just have one day to mourn Dolly alone
The crowd sang along and interacted with the film as if it was scripted. We we're blown away!
So months later we all decided to go again and this time we'd dress up too, which was a huge extroverted thing to do for this bunch of introverts. When we arrived, pretty impressed with our efforts, we discovered that nobody else had dressed up that night just us. Worst best night of our 18/19 year old lives thus far 😁
Vale Tim Curry and thanks for the shows
also could we not just have one day to mourn Dolly alone
My favorite memory is 4 of us showing up with 10lbs of rice each.
@dapete hahaah perfect
@Argie great story
reppin’ the ‘shk
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Selfie of me3dia wearing a mlkshk t-shirt
Recently dug this back up from the bottom of my t-shirt drawer. It’s a good summer shirt.
Vintage!
yay! is that one of the cotton bureau ones?
i think i have the same one! (https://mltshp.com/p/1RPSZ, https://mltshp.com/p/1BTI1) i love it but am always afraid i'll ruin it if i wear it too much!
i think i have the same one! (https://mltshp.com/p/1RPSZ, https://mltshp.com/p/1BTI1) i love it but am always afraid i'll ruin it if i wear it too much!
“It’s an older code, sir, but it checks out.”
the song of my people
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a green felt pennant with upward and downward curving layers of yellow text, reading:
"ope 'scuse me
*i'm just*
"gonna sneak right past ya"
"ope 'scuse me
*i'm just*
"gonna sneak right past ya"
my old supervisor messaged me this morning with this extremely targeted content
in her words, "I saw that and I was '....nick'"
purchase link (lots of great stuff from this shop!):
https://www.wonderfairhomeshop...
in her words, "I saw that and I was '....nick'"
purchase link (lots of great stuff from this shop!):
https://www.wonderfairhomeshop...
I'm from the south but I'm also like this
On more than one occasion I've used "gonna sneak right past ya" IRL.
I saw one of those animated LED open/closed signs while at a stoplight today. It read OPE and I was like... wow I get it, but here in the PNW? and then the N lit up...
Lake Ontario
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A colored pencil message on paper:
ALL MY HOMIES CALL IT
LAKE ONTARIO
(drawing of Lake Ontario)
BUFFALO ROCHESTER
ALL MY HOMIES CALL IT
LAKE ONTARIO
(drawing of Lake Ontario)
BUFFALO ROCHESTER
Damn straight
ethereal grace
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"In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5,' I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder."
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
She's up there with Mr. Rodgers and Jim Henson on my list of "Just really decent human beings that made the world a better place."
Yes, the universe wanted her back.
packet radio van
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A black and white photo of a nondescript GMC van, with a big antenna on the roof.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
“The Packet Radio Van was a GMC Value-Van refitted by Don Cone at SRI International, and equipped with technology that was used in the first two-way internetworked transmission on August 27, 1976, and the first three-way internetworked transmission on November 22, 1977, the latter of which is considered the start of the Internet.”
“The Packet Radio Van was a GMC Value-Van refitted by Don Cone at SRI International, and equipped with technology that was used in the first two-way internetworked transmission on August 27, 1976, and the first three-way internetworked transmission on November 22, 1977, the latter of which is considered the start of the Internet.”
The packets are here! The packets are here!
same energy https://i.ytimg.com/vi...
The only way to send corn flakes to you distant frens
Too good for this world
Titan
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A brown dog with a white nose and paws lays in a large fluffy dog bed in a typical living room. One ear is sticking straight up like a radar dish.
It's international dog day, so here's Titan, our new dog. He's a rescue like our previous pup. He was at animal control for six months with little known about his background. We were a little nervous bringing him into a home with cats. It's working out well. (I think) he thinks the cats are small, funny looking dogs.
He's mostly farts and fur, but he's a good boy. We got lucky again. 🥲
He also sleeps funny: https://mltshp.com/p/1RV5P
He's mostly farts and fur, but he's a good boy. We got lucky again. 🥲
He also sleeps funny: https://mltshp.com/p/1RV5P
Sweet boy!
Titan Sleeping
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A large brown dog sen from above as he lays flat on the white tile kitchen floor.
Our new dog lays down like a spatchcock chicken. More: https://mltshp.com/p/1RV5O
I call this position the "frog dog" but the internetz calls it a "sploot." Either way the end result is cool tummies and smiles all around.
Hail the power of the orchiectomy!
My son's dog does this all the time, she hardly lays down without a full sploot on the floor.
Juvenille Red Bellied
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
What I saw
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Yesterday, my partner and I walked through the woods by his family's camp to find this. He said you could go upstairs in it when he was a kid in the 80s, but it's looking a lot worse now.
There are three desks upstairs, two of them being old school desks. Downstairs, we also saw a typewriter in its case, books and board games, and more children's toys (which was kind of creepy).
There is also an entire pallet of industrial-sized cans of green peas there on the second floor. And many around the structure. That was the weirdest part.
There are three desks upstairs, two of them being old school desks. Downstairs, we also saw a typewriter in its case, books and board games, and more children's toys (which was kind of creepy).
There is also an entire pallet of industrial-sized cans of green peas there on the second floor. And many around the structure. That was the weirdest part.
Story prompt.
[sign hangs by one rusty nail] WELCOME TO TETANUS HOLLOW
@crazyunclejoe Living in Maine is just one big story prompt, honestly. I love it!
MASSIVE bike upgrade!
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One of my Presta valves on my gravel bike died, so I used it as an excuse to try out Clik valves. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN MORE EXCITED???????
I mean, I'm not a valve guy, but... I reckon that is a seriously good looking (new) valve
@Argie it has one or two tiny issues- it's harder to let air out of the tire, and regular presta pumps work but think the tire pressure is higher than it actually is- but the'yre a breeze to install and the top won't bend like the top of as Presta loves to do.
Are there different pumps or adapters available? I’m interested in these but already support 2 valve formats among our bikes.
Spiderman vs the nazi
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A man dressed as Spider-Man attacking Jake Lang, who's cowering behind a large white cross
Another view of this weekend's 2-minute protest in Mpls, photo by local freelancer Chris Juhn:
https://bsky.app/profile...
https://bsky.app/profile...
"accidental renaissance" -> "accidental two-page spread"
*(this joke would be funnier/better constructed if i knew comic books)
*(this joke would be funnier/better constructed if i knew comic books)
@nikkuneko you nailed it.
"Fewer than a dozen individuals showed up for Lang’s scheduled rally." - https://spokesman-recorder.com/2026...
RIP: Peter Cullen
en route to black rock city
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By way of Bremerton, WA.
On playa I’ll be living at Hobo Camp, 6:00/A. Stop by a spell and have a drink with me. Or come get some beans at noontime any day during Burn Week.
On playa I’ll be living at Hobo Camp, 6:00/A. Stop by a spell and have a drink with me. Or come get some beans at noontime any day during Burn Week.
Isn't Bremerton in the opposite direction? In any case, have a good time!
@homerj had to go pick up my co-driver’s stuff