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Middle-aged woman in T-shirt that says WTFWJ
I made this shirt to wear to evangelical family reunions, back before I went no contact. Every time I wear it people ask where I got it so I decided to sell them, with 10% going towards Prevent Child Abuse America (since evangelical culture contributes to so much child abuse). In my personal experience you will piss off the right people and start good conversations with the right people while wearing this. Good trouble!
https://www.bonfire.com/stephani...
https://www.bonfire.com/stephani...
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Meta Glasses bus ad featuring Kylie Jenner, modified to show a They Live style image from specific angles.
London-based activist group Everyone Hates Elon pulled off this intervention on a bus-stop ad for Meta’s new pervert^H^H^H^H^H^H^H smart glasses created in partnership with celebrity Kylie Jenner.
SOURCE: https://manualdousuario.net/en...
SOURCE: https://manualdousuario.net/en...
bocaj
https://www.eff.org/deeplink...
The old cynicism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits.
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Three video stills: two Mexico supporters in jerseys, a man and a woman, are standing next to a very fit, shirtless young England supporter wearing face paint. In the first two stills, the female Mexico fan is checking him out, biting her lip as she looks at his muscular torso. In the third, the male Mexico fan is giving her an offended look, while the England fan looks over, confused.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
With England's loss yesterday, this moment from the Mexico-England game is going to be their 2026 World Cup high point.
With England's loss yesterday, this moment from the Mexico-England game is going to be their 2026 World Cup high point.
Folks are questioning the providence of this. 1) Mexico and England only played once this tournament, and the score was 1-3 at 68:23. 2) The clock never moves. 3) All the cartoon hair.
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This is funny, but also, fucking hell, the air is bad here* thanks to those Canadian wildfires.
*here being a good portion of the Midwest and Northeast United States.
*here being a good portion of the Midwest and Northeast United States.
It's not quite beige right now (although it was when Canada burned in 2023), but the AQI in my north side neighborhood is currently 262. So not. great.
Spouse is in Duluth. The AQI pegged out at 500 today.
“I
Am trying
To break your heart”
– the wildfires, probably
Am trying
To break your heart”
– the wildfires, probably
Kiddo is in Boston. She says the air is orange.
Mpls was at 500 this morning. The path of I-94 was smoky all the way north earlier.
Beyond parody: https://bsky.app/profile...
We’re at 500 up in northern MI.
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Photo of a Regal Moth
I went to hang out in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains last week. We went on a great waterfall hike and this little guy came over to say hi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Gorgeous!
WHO IS SHE?
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Bowl of ramen
Junk pig chintan from yesterday:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RT3X
Tare of fish sauce, tamari, mirin, fermented garlic, chili crisp, and a teaspoon of rendered pig/cow fat
Chicken breast, hatch chili, bonito, and salmon furikake
https://mltshp.com/p/1RT3X
Tare of fish sauce, tamari, mirin, fermented garlic, chili crisp, and a teaspoon of rendered pig/cow fat
Chicken breast, hatch chili, bonito, and salmon furikake
pig/cows are the new ligers!
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My daughter and her hubs live in Pine Island, MN, where the powers that be want to build a data center. She's also running for city council and I couldn't be more proud.
You can sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p...
You can sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p...
Data centers are the new homeless shelters, only they offer no demonstrable benefit to society.
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Wooden sculpture of a Chinese monk in robes and long string of prayer beads holding index finger up in a blessing. Half the figure is revealed and half carved away, making it look like a ghost or apparition, partially formed from nothing, his face serene. It stands before a dull red door of weathered old wood. door.
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Screenshot of a Bluesky thread.
@beijingpalmer: a recurrent problem in 16th century Beijing and environs was gangs of roving eunuch bandits.
@jonhendry: Motto: "Nothing Left to Lose"?
@beijingpalmer: this was pretty much it in reality! Desperate poverty led to adult men castrating themselves in the hope of jobs in the government, where the eunuchs were virtually their own branch. They would besiege govt offices demanding work, then turn to banditry when it wasn't available.
@deaconbluesclues: okay. fine. you got me. the current job market is not literally the *worst* one ever
@beijingpalmer: a recurrent problem in 16th century Beijing and environs was gangs of roving eunuch bandits.
@jonhendry: Motto: "Nothing Left to Lose"?
@beijingpalmer: this was pretty much it in reality! Desperate poverty led to adult men castrating themselves in the hope of jobs in the government, where the eunuchs were virtually their own branch. They would besiege govt offices demanding work, then turn to banditry when it wasn't available.
@deaconbluesclues: okay. fine. you got me. the current job market is not literally the *worst* one ever
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
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A dress, some very high heeled shoe/boots, and a purse emblazoned with the rather risqué brand name C*NTY.
The dress has C*NTY 1994 on it, the shoes and bag also say C*NTY.
Enjoy!
The dress has C*NTY 1994 on it, the shoes and bag also say C*NTY.
Enjoy!
I've never seen you look like this without a reason/
Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you
Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you
obligatory listening: https://youtu.be/SaJxjlto...
@MackReed My first thought on viewing this was "Huh, must be Lambrini Girls merch" (I'm seeing them this Fall!)
I posted the video right when I saw this
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You don't have friends saying, "well, that's interesting, I guess..."?
That's what pain signals are for
UNIX-like OSes are also like this.
Darwin predated the (x) button
@B6FA798A3449 one of my first jobs that involved a computer had me freeing up space by deleting 'mouse*.*
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My hand holding a jar of yellow liquid
I've studied ramen a bit recently, enough to know what to get what I want out of it for now. I've been working on getting an unfancy chintan that I could keep in the fridge so I could do whatever lunch wanted, something I could throw in some tinned fish tare or some salmon leftovers, whatever. And then noodles.
Anyway, tonight I got the best chintan. It tastes like fresh gesso on a newly tightened canvas. This is thief toolbox chintan. With this chintan you could jump into a pickup road trip with nothing but cigarettes and sunflower seeds and drive a week through Zion National Park. With this chintan you could risk funding an Everglades amusement park with your excon cousin.This chintan held your hair while you vomited into a Greyhound station toilet in Boise, Easter 1996. This is the chintan of Trust, Trust Chintan.
Anyway, it's pig back, fresh bay, and garlic greens, and just so much love. And so fucking clear. I've got two jars that won't see next week.
It makes me want to start a cooking show because it's bigger than lunch
Anyway, tonight I got the best chintan. It tastes like fresh gesso on a newly tightened canvas. This is thief toolbox chintan. With this chintan you could jump into a pickup road trip with nothing but cigarettes and sunflower seeds and drive a week through Zion National Park. With this chintan you could risk funding an Everglades amusement park with your excon cousin.This chintan held your hair while you vomited into a Greyhound station toilet in Boise, Easter 1996. This is the chintan of Trust, Trust Chintan.
Anyway, it's pig back, fresh bay, and garlic greens, and just so much love. And so fucking clear. I've got two jars that won't see next week.
It makes me want to start a cooking show because it's bigger than lunch
A Chintan so good it could be the main character in a Tom Robbins novel.
A chintan so cool it hums Tom Waits songs in the fridge and tells you that you look hot when you open the door.
I would watch this cooking show
A chintan which convincingly lies to you about how good the sex was.
a chintan that sits by you and holds your hand in the E.R.
A chintan that both drives you to the airport and picks you up again, and has a snack waiting for you in the car.
Idiot me thinking a chintan is something you get when you finally shave off your beard.
@Davezilla +++
A chintan that says it's OK to see other chintans.
as long as you come back
as long as you come back
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4 round badges with lines from Moonage Daydream
Lyrics from David Bowie song Moonage Daydream
https://www.tumblr.com/jesusism...
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
https://www.tumblr.com/jesusism...
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
every time that song comes on it's a race between me and my son to be the first to say "remember this song was playing when they went to Nowhere?" (he was obsessed with the Guardians of the Galaxy movie when he was younger)
This very song came through my earbuds on my morning ride today. 🖤
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a sign on a tripod that reads "No tripods"
*"City of Gold and Lead" intensifies*
MackReed ++++++
@MackReed what a reference
@artwells @B6FA798A3449 I coulda gone HG Wells, I spose.
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Color photograph of a cluster of green trees distantly across a lake, seen from the back of a motorboat. The sky is completely blotted out by smoke, with roiling fire visible through a few gaps in the smoke.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"These photos of [First Nations] community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic
"(Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his 'hometown is gone')"
Video at the link.
"These photos of [First Nations] community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic
"(Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his 'hometown is gone')"
Video at the link.
Remember back in the late 70s & early 80s when scientists were worried about the home in the ozone layer so the world banned CFCs? Here we are again, only nobody believes science.
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art installation consisting of a CCTV camera sitting atop its output monitor, with the camera pointing directly at the wall socket it is plugged into. on the CCTV screen, the plugs and socket take up the whole screen
"video installation, black-and-white, silent, with monitor and video camera"
via the whitney museum of american art:
https://whitney.org/collecti...
via the whitney museum of american art:
https://whitney.org/collecti...
guarding the Anthropic Principle
This is giving, "Lamps in video games use real electricity" vibes.
Nam June Paik wept.
@MackReed was convinced it was Nam.
So how does an installation from 1968 use a colour Sanyo VCC-3912 CCD camera from the 1980s?
@scruss i couldn't find any other info perusing the web, but the link to the whitney is legit, so either a) the installation is dated incorrectly or b) the installation changed what gear it used a few times before it was acquired by the museum (according to the page, in 1993)
@nikkuneko so, like the axe of legend, is it the same installation?
@scruss Speaking in all seriousness, you can't believe the extent to which museum curators worry over and debate this issue.
In some cases (maybe this one) it can be a relatively minor problem: Anastasi was a conceptual artist, the art was in the concept, and you can think of the installation as an execution of it. The art that's owned and preserved -- seriously -- is the artist's idea, usually in the form of the paper the concept was written and diagrammed on. Any additional material goods might be whatever was used in the initial display of the art. They might be treated as material references (for helping source the working items to be used in the exhibit) that don't necessarily have to be reused. In this case, the art is the working exhibit, so what's important is to have an operating video camera and display powered by a wall outlet rather than the original artifacts which might not work or might not even be in the museum's possession.
(sidebar: If you buy the sheet music for John Cage's 4'33", you get a page of paper with instructions written in English about how to perform the piece. There is no musical notation.)
In other cases, preservation is a serious (and really expensive) problem. The other extreme in video art might be Nam June Paik's "Dadaikseon", a 30 foot tall tower of over 1000 TVs which Paik deliberately chose to represent the breadth of South Korea's technological progress, from 60s b/w TVs to modern (ca. 1988) top of the line big-screen color. When I saw it in the mid-2010s it was not doing well, to say the least: The phosphors on most of the screens were blowing out, some TVs were effectively dead (and incidentally the heat the tower gave off was incredible). The restoration project (which started shortly after I saw it) took over 2 years, engineers combing through online sales and junk dealers to find old TV parts, and required making replicas of some of the TVs with LCD displays and heavy glass to make them look like the originals. The Wikipedia entry doesn't get into how they restored the original video when the tapes had been looping ten hours a day for almost thirty years, but I'd bet that was a challenge too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
In this case the museum was fortunate that the original installation had been made with Samsung's patronage and afaict the restoration had their backing as well. If this was owned by a US museum it would probably have been dismantled years ago, warehoused and never seen again.
In some cases (maybe this one) it can be a relatively minor problem: Anastasi was a conceptual artist, the art was in the concept, and you can think of the installation as an execution of it. The art that's owned and preserved -- seriously -- is the artist's idea, usually in the form of the paper the concept was written and diagrammed on. Any additional material goods might be whatever was used in the initial display of the art. They might be treated as material references (for helping source the working items to be used in the exhibit) that don't necessarily have to be reused. In this case, the art is the working exhibit, so what's important is to have an operating video camera and display powered by a wall outlet rather than the original artifacts which might not work or might not even be in the museum's possession.
(sidebar: If you buy the sheet music for John Cage's 4'33", you get a page of paper with instructions written in English about how to perform the piece. There is no musical notation.)
In other cases, preservation is a serious (and really expensive) problem. The other extreme in video art might be Nam June Paik's "Dadaikseon", a 30 foot tall tower of over 1000 TVs which Paik deliberately chose to represent the breadth of South Korea's technological progress, from 60s b/w TVs to modern (ca. 1988) top of the line big-screen color. When I saw it in the mid-2010s it was not doing well, to say the least: The phosphors on most of the screens were blowing out, some TVs were effectively dead (and incidentally the heat the tower gave off was incredible). The restoration project (which started shortly after I saw it) took over 2 years, engineers combing through online sales and junk dealers to find old TV parts, and required making replicas of some of the TVs with LCD displays and heavy glass to make them look like the originals. The Wikipedia entry doesn't get into how they restored the original video when the tapes had been looping ten hours a day for almost thirty years, but I'd bet that was a challenge too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
In this case the museum was fortunate that the original installation had been made with Samsung's patronage and afaict the restoration had their backing as well. If this was owned by a US museum it would probably have been dismantled years ago, warehoused and never seen again.
@ardgedee thank you for that thoughtful reply to my throwaway comment. I know some folks in digital artwork preservation (not quite at the Nam June Paik level) and they have the world's biggest ebay watchlists. Since CRTs aren't being made anywhere, preservation's going to take a lot of difficult choices.
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A pale orange sky, a red sun, and a dull, smoggy treeline. If you're downwind of Canada right now, this scene probably looks familiar. In the lower left corner is a small "no smoking" sign, for all the good that will do. Keep an eye on your AQI apps, folks. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
... there are Canadians
@scruss 😢
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Inked black-and-white comic book art from a two-page spread. "At that moment, the door of Jimmy's room flies open and--" A monster with goggles for eyes and antenna is hurtling through a hospital room. GRROIKK! People are covering themselves from its assault. "What in blazes is that thing?" "It's Angry Charlie!! The only survivor of the Weirdies turned out in the evil factory!!" "We left 'im outside o'da hospital--sleepin' in da whiz wagon! Hey! Look out--!"
source: https://secretoranges.substack.com/p...
#kirbythursday should have realized something was up when Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel bought into the Evil Factory's Series C raise at a $10 billion valuation.
#kirbythursday should have realized something was up when Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel bought into the Evil Factory's Series C raise at a $10 billion valuation.
You can always sleep in "da Whiz Wagon", I guess.
Grroikk!
i AM Angry Charlie
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Human in a flowing costume covering their whole body in black cloth limned with fine white lines depicting a stylized skeleton. Their head is tipped down, their face hidden by the top of a flat circular hat showing the upper portion of a skull.
Dress for the job you want
It's amazing. Like muertos crossed with dazzle camo crossed with a circuit board.
The Matrix of the Damned
That's why U-Boat officers live such short lives: they never tell how close death is for them until it's too late.
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Slices of “pink delicious” tomato on a plate in front of whole tomatoes and sliced mozzarella.
Our big heirloom tomato plants thrived this year, and this was our biggest “Pink Delicious.” Sliced thinly, some fresh mozzarella, some basil from our basil jungle outside, and some aged balsamic my mother gifted me a year or two ago. Spectacular.
Our San Marzanos came out quite hollow, almost like a mix between bell pepper and tomato, but great acid and the flesh was a nice texture for caprese. 🎉
Our San Marzanos came out quite hollow, almost like a mix between bell pepper and tomato, but great acid and the flesh was a nice texture for caprese. 🎉
My grandfather used to grow a gardenful of tomatoes every year. He'd give them away or make sauce and give that away. I always looked forward to July.
[Denethor-slurping intensifies]
@jpoulos ❤️ I love that. We always choose half of our varietals to be cherry-sized, so I spend a lot of the summer picking handfuls of ripe ones off the vine and eating them warm and fresh. Especially with a happy as our basil plants stay, it’s good our tomatoes can keep up! Here’s to summery tomatoes and memories of Junes past!
@dreyfusslugado *pippen leans in, whisper-singing*
“Thaaats super grosssss dude! Juuust eat them like a nooooormal personnnnn”
“Thaaats super grosssss dude! Juuust eat them like a nooooormal personnnnn”
Goddammit
GET ON MY B.L.!!
@spingo God did, indeed, damn this tomato.
@dapete ON TOAST!
Tomato envy, no, tomato admiration!
@0y3ahSansAcut3 🎉🍅🎉
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A two part image, the top shows a news article from the Guardian about Ann Widdecombe, a pretty gross Tory MP who defected to Reform.
The article text reads:
Ann Widdecombe: don’t have cheese sandwiches if you can’t afford them
Ex-Brexit party MEP says there is no ‘given right’ to low food prices despite families struggling with cost of living
Families should go without cheese sandwiches if they cannot afford the ingredients, Ann Widdecombe has said.
The former Brexit party MEP said there was no “given right” for low food prices, despite being told families “cannot afford to feed their children” and were having to make huge sacrifices as the cost of living crisis deepens.
Below is an image of comedian Limmy from his show, where he is playing a rather insensitive psychic who is trying to tell some family members that their loved one has gone to hell using the phrase "She's doonstairs".
The article text reads:
Ann Widdecombe: don’t have cheese sandwiches if you can’t afford them
Ex-Brexit party MEP says there is no ‘given right’ to low food prices despite families struggling with cost of living
Families should go without cheese sandwiches if they cannot afford the ingredients, Ann Widdecombe has said.
The former Brexit party MEP said there was no “given right” for low food prices, despite being told families “cannot afford to feed their children” and were having to make huge sacrifices as the cost of living crisis deepens.
Below is an image of comedian Limmy from his show, where he is playing a rather insensitive psychic who is trying to tell some family members that their loved one has gone to hell using the phrase "She's doonstairs".
Well...bye
Let them eat... wait, what's left after people can't afford cheese?
Every day it becomes more obvious to me that the people in charge need reminded that being forcefully dragged from their homes and executed in the city squares for failing to maintain their humanity is an option that never goes away, no matter how much money and power they think they have.
@urlnotfound +++++++++++++
TIL she lived in Haytor Vale.
I'm not one for nominative determinism but
I'm not one for nominative determinism but
@urlnotfound Mobs have a famously poor record when it comes to accurately identifying culprits. See lynchings, any revolution.
@grantbarrett I'm sure the wealthy ask themselves "But what if we send -good- poor people to die in a foreign country to make us richer?" all the time. I don't give them any more consideration than they give us.
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Curling blue and grey clouds
Why yes! This is like that page in Highlights For Children, csn you find the eagle, the slingshot, the funnel?
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The headline is: "Elderly US woman shocked to receive racy new car license plate"
Below, a photo of an elderly person's hand holds a Florida License plate, the plate reads: SQZ A55.
The caption to the photo is:"The Florida retiree says the plate has caused quite a stir among her local community."
It is not recorded whether the grandmother in question is happy or sad about the outcome.
Below, a photo of an elderly person's hand holds a Florida License plate, the plate reads: SQZ A55.
The caption to the photo is:"The Florida retiree says the plate has caused quite a stir among her local community."
It is not recorded whether the grandmother in question is happy or sad about the outcome.
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Anyone have a Heroin invite?
@homerj First one's free.
man, heroin was so much better before it got bought by viacom
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I think Bending Spoons owns heroin, now, which in retrospect seems kind of inevitable.
She can unsubscribe at any time!
Twitter arguably more dangerous than heroin
God forbid women do anything
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Label on dessert package reads Manager's Special 0% Off - You Save: .00 - 8.99%
I've been seeing this increasingly at the local stores. First their standard Discontinued Product discount went from 50% or so to 30% or so, now it might only be 10% or even less than that.
One grocery's been discounting items near the end of their shelf life by 1%.
One grocery's been discounting items near the end of their shelf life by 1%.
NOW GOOD DAY SIR
Good eye!
you'll get nothing and like it
"i'll have the manager's special, and the same for the gentleman"
Manager's Special: Go Fuck Yourself!
@dad 🌟
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Photograph of a tree silhouetted against an ugly tan sky, with the sun an orange dot.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"There’s no vintage filter on this photo. And no, this isn’t Mars.
"This is Hamilton, ON today, with the sun dimmed by wildfire smoke from northern Ontario. A sobering reminder that climate extremes are no longer distant headlines - they’re part of our daily lives. Stay safe, everyone."
"There’s no vintage filter on this photo. And no, this isn’t Mars.
"This is Hamilton, ON today, with the sun dimmed by wildfire smoke from northern Ontario. A sobering reminder that climate extremes are no longer distant headlines - they’re part of our daily lives. Stay safe, everyone."
Thanks to some Jet Stream fuckery, STL was at the crossroads of both the Canadian Rockies and N. Ontario smoketrails for an extended period a few Summers ago. It was dreadful. My boogers turned black.
I looked at this minimalist, and beautiful composition, and thought Hamilton On, was the artist, then I read the post. Beautiful photograph.