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Red Columbine: A flower for Mom
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Photo of Red Columbine flowers in a messy native plant garden
So, my mom died a couple of weeks ago. Partly why I have been even less active here than usual. But one thing I started doing was posting on Facebook photos of the native plants in my garden as a memorial. She really loved gardening, and it just so happens I started to get into native plant gardening a couple of years ago. Anyway, here's some Red Columbine. I'll try and post some more from the garden to keep up some activity here.
source: https://www.facebook.com/photo...
source: https://www.facebook.com/photo...
spingo
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That's a lovely tribute. I'm sorry for your loss.
To live in hearts that love is not to die.
mshltp
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Sorry for the horrible clipping masks doing this in between things on a call
https://mltshp.com/p/1RPM7
Sorry for the horrible clipping masks doing this in between things on a call
Relief on a Ptolemaic temple, 1928
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Detailed carvings on the wall of an Egyptian temple. A man stands in a shaft of sunlight
Aziz! More light!!!
1968. It's by Kees Scherer, one of @joost's lot.
@bezt It's a great picture.
I looked up some of his work. Apparently he lived from 1928 - 1993. So pre internet.
This picture he took in New York is nice https://www.flickr.com/photos...
Or this one of NL in the 1950s https://www.flickr.com/photos...
I looked up some of his work. Apparently he lived from 1928 - 1993. So pre internet.
This picture he took in New York is nice https://www.flickr.com/photos...
Or this one of NL in the 1950s https://www.flickr.com/photos...
found it
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James Dean with bunny ears Echo & the Bunnymen Tour 1984 shirt, front & back
Old & dingy, much like myself, but wearing it to the SF show on Friday nevertheless.
I actually only listened to this show from the hall outside the theater—I think I both did not have a ticket (sold out) and was not old enough to attend (16). Let's Active opened.
I actually only listened to this show from the hall outside the theater—I think I both did not have a ticket (sold out) and was not old enough to attend (16). Let's Active opened.
be certain that you have a sharpie with you in the off chance that you get a chance to have it signed.
Dated a girl with this same shirt back in the day!
Back with the yellow box...
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I'm back
It's been a while since the Double Scoop but I am back supporting the site that's given me so much joy and enjoyment for many a year now.
That's it for this post...see you all around the place!
That's it for this post...see you all around the place!
fuck you, bezos
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Screenshot of the Washington post editorial board with an opinion piece that says "You CAN earn a billion dollars. AOC has a low opinion of human potential"
https://bsky.app/profile...: "You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else."
A friend ran the numbers and assuming you're not paying taxes or rent, all you have to do to earn a billion dollars is start working full-time at 18 and retire at 67 and average an hourly wage of $9,811.61 throughout. Simple! What a hateful dummy AOC is!
A friend ran the numbers and assuming you're not paying taxes or rent, all you have to do to earn a billion dollars is start working full-time at 18 and retire at 67 and average an hourly wage of $9,811.61 throughout. Simple! What a hateful dummy AOC is!
It's amazing how quickly Bezos, whom I think of as evil but not stupid, has trashed the Post. Suggests that he doesn't view its reputation as particularly important to his goals at this point.
look on my 25 year old black flip CD keepers, ye mighty
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meme format from a movie in which Micheal Sheen dressed as a British aristocrat gazes down on everyone with a look of contempt and smugness, with the words "Gen Xers who kept all their physical media"
I have to laugh, there was no foresight involved but am happy to have saved all I had and have even bought more physical media:
a) CDs: Mostly did it because I drive a vehicle that still has a CD changer (and I was dragged kicking and screaming into a smart phone more after I had already owned it for over ten years) but damn am I glad now. Ordered a CD player for the house recently and it's been really nice.
b) Vinyl: Have a lot of power outages, want music when the power's out, and a record player can run off even a fairly small battery for a really long time. However, due to limited room it makes us super curate which albums to get, which has been an interesting process.
(not quite a gen X, not quite millenial tho)
a) CDs: Mostly did it because I drive a vehicle that still has a CD changer (and I was dragged kicking and screaming into a smart phone more after I had already owned it for over ten years) but damn am I glad now. Ordered a CD player for the house recently and it's been really nice.
b) Vinyl: Have a lot of power outages, want music when the power's out, and a record player can run off even a fairly small battery for a really long time. However, due to limited room it makes us super curate which albums to get, which has been an interesting process.
(not quite a gen X, not quite millenial tho)
Happy to say that when my hard drive failure a few years ago ate one third of my music, i was able to replace nearly all from hard copy.
That said, CDs are only slightly more archival than cloud services.
That said, CDs are only slightly more archival than cloud services.
There's never been a better time to pirate stuff
I still regret the one CD and vinyl purge i did in the early 2000s, but now we have more of both than ever.
And relating to power outages, one project that i need to get back to is the battery- and solar-powered portable 78 player that i started. It's sitting half done in the basement somewhere.
And relating to power outages, one project that i need to get back to is the battery- and solar-powered portable 78 player that i started. It's sitting half done in the basement somewhere.
vintage conservative bedwetting
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black and white image of kids looking at the AD&D DM Guide with the caption Dungeons and Dragons: Just harmless fun - or sorcery?
I remember back when I played D&D, the guy who usually DM'd decided once to make the players chant a devil-worshiping spell, just because of all the Satanic Panic in the news.
We all thought it was dumb, but we were also very uncomfortable doing the chanting.
No demons were summoned.
We all thought it was dumb, but we were also very uncomfortable doing the chanting.
No demons were summoned.
This is funny to me. Just this week my wife took our 11 year old daughter to a Girls DnD event hosted by a local bookstore. Such a stupid moral panic.
Also, hail satan. :p
Also, hail satan. :p
scrungly leggies
40 years…
Nothing, absolutely nothing
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A Star Trek themed coloring book page that asks the reader "what's wrong with this picture?" Characters are wearing hats they normally wouldn't wear or are equipped with things (flowers, boxing gloves) they wouldn't usually use.
source: https://www.tumblr.com/
Digging Nurse Bones ...
cowboy heartthrob sulu is on track to captain the excelsior AND your heart
@MackReed Heehee
saving throw against charisma
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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vintage van with Dungeon and Dragons art on it.
I would, without d single doubt, fail.
If this van's a-rockin', my character's warlockin'
what year are you calling, dog?
Merzbow at KFC
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A person in a chicken costume stands with two women in yellow bikinis holding signs protesting outside a fast-food restaurant; another person in black looks on.
New pic in the OED for the definition of "sad"
Later, shitlords.
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Black-and-white photo of a man with a topkot wearing a kimono. He's behind the wheel of a white convertible car, driving away from another car and a dirt lot. There is a sword on the dashboard.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Toshiro Mifune, in costume, leaving the set of "Yojimbo" in his MG convertible. He's got a katana on his dashboard, because he is the coolest motherfucker alive.
Toshiro Mifune, in costume, leaving the set of "Yojimbo" in his MG convertible. He's got a katana on his dashboard, because he is the coolest motherfucker alive.
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Instinct
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How did we get from here to where we are now?
Watertown athletes join in protest after school board bans song
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So on the day of the performance, the band leader should stand up and state that they won't be playing the piece, which is 4 minutes and 48 seconds in length.
Then the band should sit, silently, for 4 minutes and 48 seconds.
Then move on to the next piece on the playlist.
Then the band should sit, silently, for 4 minutes and 48 seconds.
Then move on to the next piece on the playlist.
gotta love malicious compliance.
@dreyfusslugado disagree. I think the band leader should step away from the podium, and the students should play the piece.
'Realistic human', sure
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Gold eyeglasses with Trump's open eyes on the glass slumped trump wearing the same
Comes in various shades of orange to match the bad makeup jobs.
made me what I am
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title screen for Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Ungabunga!
When I looked this up I figured it was an anthology show and did not expect that Captain Caveman would be interacting directly with the Teen Angels.
I remember being in first grade and at thr end of the school day doing a wicked big "CAPTAIN CAAAAAAVEMAaAaAaAan!" and the girl next to me saying in complete deadpan "That's not funny."
Been like fifty years and I remember that clear as day. It's very funny.
Been like fifty years and I remember that clear as day. It's very funny.
"Well, that's it for our interview questions. Do you have anything to ask or add?"
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man in a placard and hat that says "Ask me why you deserve hell"
Had to zoom in, hat says the same thing as the sign.
Sneaky marketing for Blank Generation
Because you are dumb enough to ask me why you deserve hell.
Pause for a wee dram
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Drinks await in a charming pub
A drink of Irish whisky awaits in the Olde Starr Inn, the 'oldest' pub in York (1663)
we used to have a summer apartment across the road from that pub. It was up an absurd flight of stairs. Lovely city, though you weren't going to get a Sunday lie-in with the Minster bells being less than 100 metres away ...
Pistol Shrimp
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Color photograph of a large roadside sign--really a scumpture--mounted on poles amidst telephone/electrical wires. It shows a shrimp (with hands) "standing" on its tail, wearing a red and white polka-dot bandana and cowboy hat, brandishing two six-guns.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
You telling me a *shrimp* fired this rice? "christie's restaurant sign, houston, texas, 1983" Yee-haw!
You telling me a *shrimp* fired this rice? "christie's restaurant sign, houston, texas, 1983" Yee-haw!
Sonic Youth and Bardo Pond Pedal Cutout Poster 11.5"x15.75" Owned by Sonic Youth | Reverb
meanwhile …
Remix'd
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Remixed webcomic of stick figure dad walking into a room asking "Are ya winning, son?". The stick figure boy sitting at a compute replies "I'm making 11 people laugh on mltshp". The original comic used Mastodon in the punchline.
Original: https://mltshp.com/p/1RPBC
Nostalgia
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If you had told me back in the day that in the year of our lord 2026 I'd be spending significant amount of time futzing around on the command line, I'd have laughed and laughed.
SunOS screengrab via http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
SunOS screengrab via http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
command line is a super power. every time I find myself doing some kind of repetitive clicking in a GUI it reminds me of how glad I am to live in a bash shell.
I live in the CLI, it's where I'm most comfortable.
all my work is started at command line.
Graduated from Library School!
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Me and my partner in our academic regalia.
Disbelieve the hype
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Bar charts showing the causes of death vs reported deaths by cause in 3 media outlets.
Actual causes of deaths are massively underreported and causes such as terrorism and homicide are over reported by more than 600%
Actual causes of deaths are massively underreported and causes such as terrorism and homicide are over reported by more than 600%
What American's die from vs What US Media reports on..
https://vis.social/@infobea...
https://vis.social/@infobea...
Whenever I see some new life extension hype, I go and see how people are actually dying and what can be done to prevent it and it comes down to wearing seat belts, not climbing ladders, not smoking, controlling blood pressure and similar. If you are doing those boring things you are already in the top percentiles of life extension activities.
@ang same. I mean, bacon and sugar aside, I seem to be doing all the not dying correctly.
Regarding news: If it bleeds, it leads.
Source: I'm a recovering journalist.
Regarding news: If it bleeds, it leads.
Source: I'm a recovering journalist.
None of them mention fatness...
nostalgic
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...that was a demonstrably bad business model.
Good enough for a while for a football team and a stadium.
people aren't nostalgic about the brand, they're nostalgic about the no-longer-extant sense of place and space and time that was Trying To Pick Out A Video