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Watercolour of pink magnolias on a dark purple background.
Last September, I met at a woman through a dating site. On the first zoom call she told me that a week before we met up she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer and that I was allowed to run away.
Now I don't run away from stuff like that, and we very very quickly got into a very intense relationship. One month in, she started chemotherapy and things went downhill between the two of us. We split up in December. It wasn't very nice. She now has finished chemo, had one breast removed and is recovering - although it's officially stage four so the long-term prognosis isn't good.
But we stayed in touch, albeit at a distance. Tomorrow I'll be seeing her for the first time in months. I'm having lunch with her, together with a good mutual friend. The friend asked me if I would make a drawing for my ex so we could give it to her with a message. So this is what we're going to give her tomorrow. (top and bottom edge cut off so it's really straight and kind of nice at double postcard size.)
#painting #watercolour #ex #flowers
Now I don't run away from stuff like that, and we very very quickly got into a very intense relationship. One month in, she started chemotherapy and things went downhill between the two of us. We split up in December. It wasn't very nice. She now has finished chemo, had one breast removed and is recovering - although it's officially stage four so the long-term prognosis isn't good.
But we stayed in touch, albeit at a distance. Tomorrow I'll be seeing her for the first time in months. I'm having lunch with her, together with a good mutual friend. The friend asked me if I would make a drawing for my ex so we could give it to her with a message. So this is what we're going to give her tomorrow. (top and bottom edge cut off so it's really straight and kind of nice at double postcard size.)
#painting #watercolour #ex #flowers
That’s gorgeous.
good luck; i hope it goes well.
i know it's tough navigating these things, especially when you're balancing empathy for an ex and protecting yourself at the same time.
beautiful work, by the way. i think she'll really appreciate it
i know it's tough navigating these things, especially when you're balancing empathy for an ex and protecting yourself at the same time.
beautiful work, by the way. i think she'll really appreciate it
@m3moellering Thank youuuuu
@nikkuneko Thank you! Because of the chemo, our relationship got under a lot of stress quickly - and our differences probably got even bigger. She said quite a lot of things that hurt me and I truly don't know if it was her or the chemo or anything else. And I didn't see or respect some of her boundaries.
I'm trying to let go and build a new relationship with her, but it's not so easy. (thanks for letting me vent)
I'm trying to let go and build a new relationship with her, but it's not so easy. (thanks for letting me vent)
As someone who has built some wonderful and meaningful relationships with exes, let me just say that it takes work but it is possible and it’s often tremendously rewarding.
@BennyTheIcepick Oh, I Agree! I have good, if not great relationships with almost all of my exes. This is an outlier. But I have some faith in our mutual willingness.
Lovely all around.
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A four-panel Calvin and Hobbes comic strip from 1995. Calvin's dad sits at his home computer and says, "It used to be that if a client wanted something done in a week, it was considered a rush job, and he'd be lucky to get it. Now, with modems, faxes, and car phones, everybody wants everything instantly! Improved technology just increases expectations. These machines don't make life easier - they make life more harassed." In the last panel, Calvin is depicted holding a box and says, "Six minutes to microwave this?? Who's got that kind of time?!" His dad then says, "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things _less_ efficiently."
source: https://ruby.social/@camertr...
as true today as it was then
A.I. "I can help with that!"
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A black t-shirt depicts an old wizard with a white beard, purple robe, and hat. He conjures fire from one hand and holds two glowing green orbs in the other. Text above reads "I CAST..." and below says "Testicular Torsion," set against a dark, lightning-filled background.
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A stylized illustration of a poster for The Big Lebowski. The top and bottom suggest it is a rug. Center is The Dude dancing in his robe with his White Russian listening to head phones. Around him is a pattern of viking helmets and bowling pins. At the top and bottom are squares of relevant things to the movie such as a toe, shades, bowling ball, and a ferret.
I ~love~ Pam Wishbow's work. Currently mourning the unavailability of this poster.
https://mondoshop.com/collecti...
https://mondoshop.com/collecti...
Also a big fan of Pam Wishbow's art. Love the style so much!
It might be helpful to check https://expressobeans.com/public... from time to time.
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Movie poster: "Marihuana: Weed with Roots in Hell". "Daring drug expose / Shame horror despair / Weed with Roots in Hell / Smoke that gets in youth's eyes / What happens at Marihuana parties / Weird Orgies Wild Parties Unleashed Passion". At the top, a doctor is shooting up a smiling blonde woman who is wearing a very low-cut housecoat or bathrobe.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
That's just like, your opinion, man. Happy 4/20 to those who celebrate!
That's just like, your opinion, man. Happy 4/20 to those who celebrate!
whenever i see it spelled "MARIHUANA" i feel compelled to say it out loud in a hank hill voice
@nikkuneko “Cahn-nabis and cahn-nabinoid accessories”
I'm still waiting for my first marijuana orgy...
@tonyb You likely have had many. They're basically a bunch of stoned folks sitting around waiting for the sex to happen and then getting distracted by something else.
I never get invited to the parties where they shoot up marihuana.
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four panel comic strip, depicting a small anthropomorphic coffee growler talking to a depiction of cartoonist luke mcgarry, with bleached blond hair, a green jacket, and a striped shirt.
panel 1:
coffee bottle: "this is 4/20, why don't you trade THC for CBD?"
mcgarry turns his lead, looking confused and says "eh?"
panel 2:
the bottle excitedly says "by THC i mean "Typically Hot Coffee", because it's CBD- Cold Brew Day!" as the cartoonist looks confused.
panel 3:
mcgarry, stroking his chin and considering, says: "will i still feel jittery and paranoid?"
panel 4:
the coffee excitedly responds: "yes."
mcgarry: "GREAT!"
panel 1:
coffee bottle: "this is 4/20, why don't you trade THC for CBD?"
mcgarry turns his lead, looking confused and says "eh?"
panel 2:
the bottle excitedly says "by THC i mean "Typically Hot Coffee", because it's CBD- Cold Brew Day!" as the cartoonist looks confused.
panel 3:
mcgarry, stroking his chin and considering, says: "will i still feel jittery and paranoid?"
panel 4:
the coffee excitedly responds: "yes."
mcgarry: "GREAT!"
"Today is 4/20 - famously National Cold Brew Day and *nothing* else."
happy 4/20 from luke mcgarry, who apparently did this comic for stumptown roasters:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
happy 4/20 from luke mcgarry, who apparently did this comic for stumptown roasters:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
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A Sunday Nancy comic by Caroline Cash.
PANEL 1: Sluggo is walking by a store and sees a help wanted sign.
PANEL 2: MAN: Well… Er… Sluggo, was it? You need at least two years of work experience to get a job here.
PANEL 3: SLUGGO (cheerfully): How do I get that? MAN (off-panel): By working a job like this one.
PANEL 4: SLUGGO (less cheerfull): How do I get a job like this one without work experience? MAN (off-panel): Our time for this interview's up. Have a nice day.
PANEL 5: Sluggo frowns.
PANEL 6: Sluggo is sitting under a tree in a field of flowers, watching the sunset, still looking grumpy.
PANEL 1: Sluggo is walking by a store and sees a help wanted sign.
PANEL 2: MAN: Well… Er… Sluggo, was it? You need at least two years of work experience to get a job here.
PANEL 3: SLUGGO (cheerfully): How do I get that? MAN (off-panel): By working a job like this one.
PANEL 4: SLUGGO (less cheerfull): How do I get a job like this one without work experience? MAN (off-panel): Our time for this interview's up. Have a nice day.
PANEL 5: Sluggo frowns.
PANEL 6: Sluggo is sitting under a tree in a field of flowers, watching the sunset, still looking grumpy.
It always has been in its way.
I haven't been following and missed that Olivia Jaimes retired from the strip last year, good to see Caroline is continuing the high quality
@wjcstp People seem to think that Jaimes maybe published a book under her real name (which I've already forgotten) and no longer had time to do the comic.
"I saw a job post the other day.
It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI.
I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing.
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that 'years of experience = skill level'."
https://www.reddit.com/r...
It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI.
I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing.
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that 'years of experience = skill level'."
https://www.reddit.com/r...
It's been like this forever. I can remember seeing ads in 1997 for programmers with 5 years of Java experience. And ads in 1988 for 10 years of experience in MS DOS.
@ardgedee ++
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A color illustration by Moebius. It shows a nighttime landscape. In the middle is a tree and a sitting person beneath it, sleeping. A spherical hovercraft is sitting on the ground nearby.
A More Mellow Monday! That's very welcome here in Crazy-land.
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three panel comic, a moon crab with its arms up says “yooooo! mezzanine beetle! what’s up my brotha!” a black stag beetle asides, “this fucking guy. here we go.” in the last panel the beetle sighs and says “hey prodigy crab.”
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Me in shades
My favorite glasses are too big. And my progressive prescription is way to intense, to allow for good tintig options or conventional clip-ons, so I'm designing my own. This is fourth or fifth version
Nice image with the reflections.
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
@artwells I'm up to playtest if you're looking for anyone. I have both a frustration with sunglasses v. normal glasses and lot of daytime free time as of a bit ago.
@foist it's tricky because the plastic bridge needs to be snug and minimal, or it gets up in your brows and heavy.
I fit these to Courtland Ultra-G from Eyeglass Boy, using Goliath II shade lenses from Fuse. I don't think they'd fit anything else.
I could work with other combos I suppose.
I fit these to Courtland Ultra-G from Eyeglass Boy, using Goliath II shade lenses from Fuse. I don't think they'd fit anything else.
I could work with other combos I suppose.
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Top of the Bitexco Financial Tower, overlooking the Saigon River.
Third day in Vietnam with the family. The cultural cognitive dissonance with what the US did to this country before they fought us off is breaking my brain. It’s a safe, bustling, overwhelmingly healthy place compared to the current American shitshow.
Third day in Vietnam with the family. The cultural cognitive dissonance with what the US did to this country before they fought us off is breaking my brain. It’s a safe, bustling, overwhelmingly healthy place compared to the current American shitshow.
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A cartoon by Robert Ariail. In the first panel a man looks up at a sign that says "GAS $4.009". In the next panels he gets a ladder and takes down the numbers and rearranges them into a bicycle and bikes away.
source: https://pixelfed.fr/p...
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A pair of legs and feet shot from above but sat down. The shoes are red velvet pointer creepers with blue and purple striped socks.
Jeepers peepers, where’d you get those creepers?
Sock/shoe combo on point
@MackReed I came here to say that.
Hotness
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I look forward to never unseeing this.
The old slack logo was better and it's not even close.
@samh Hehehehehehe
@Mr_Encyclopedia +++
@Mr_Encyclopedia +++
I saw something a while back that said it looked just like the desk setup in Severance. And that's all I see now.
@billturner Hehehehehe
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Panoramic view of a sprawling, many-trucked tree beneath its own green canopy on a field of dirt.
During the American War, the South Vietnamese Army kept a base here, huddled beneath the camouflaging canopy of this magnificent single organism. For hundreds of years, locals have revered this as manifestation of a deity.
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Photo of a sheet of blotter acid with a low-res picture of Albert Hoffman in vibrant pink. "Father of LSD / Pure / ALBERT HOFFMAN".
source: https://blotterartart.wordpress.com
"This photo shows 20 hits of a very popular sheet from 1984, these 20 hits coming from a larger 1000 tab sheet."
On this day in 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman had a very unsettling bicycle ride home from work.
"This photo shows 20 hits of a very popular sheet from 1984, these 20 hits coming from a larger 1000 tab sheet."
On this day in 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman had a very unsettling bicycle ride home from work.
I may, or may not, remember that blotter.
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I photographed this couple while documenting the coast. I love tiny printers and often carry one with me when I'm out shooting. I still consider printed photos pretty special. I quickly printed two copies for them while they were getting ready to leave.
If a photographer printed a photo of me or my family out in the wild I can only imagine it would just be the most delightful feeling!
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Long view down a narrow alley festooned with Vietnamese flags (a yellow 5-pointed star on a red field) at a woman in a conical straw hat sweeping the pavement between doorsteps and parked motor scooters
Long view down a narrow alley festooned with Vietnamese flags (a yellow 5-pointed star on a red field) at a woman in a conical straw hat sweeping the pavement between doorsteps and parked motor scooters
Long view down a narrow alley festooned with Vietnamese flags (a yellow 4-pointed star on a red field) at a woman in a conical straw hat sweeping the pavement between doorsteps and parked motor scooters
Either I can't count or you made a typo.
@rogrtheshrubber Fat-thumbing it here in the rideshare to the airport for the jump to Hanoi.
Which is why it’s in an uneditable comment instead of the alt txt as originally …. yeah.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 i tend to leave my online errors in place to remind myself to stay humble.
Well, really nice picture. A friend told me there is a nice statuary monument to the monk who self immolated during the war, somewhere over there. Have a great trip.
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A drawing of a gnome captioned "I'm sorry for acting strange, I'm strange and it will happen again."
/same
I met Rien Poortvliet, the Dutch artist who painted this, once (he was a friend of my foster family) and he was pretty strange.
@mare I disliked him, for multiple reasons. But my God, could he paint. I've seen a couple of his originals and more than any artist I have ever seen, the colour he used were so reproducible and exactly within the range of printed media that you could not see the difference between reproduction and original art artwork. Unless you came really, really close.
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A vintage Singer sewing machine head repurposed as a wall sconce with a sleek black fabric shade
I hate it and it’s brilliant.
Sewing in space, a whole differ'nt thing, but for now...
I want to believe that the spinny handle thing at the bottom has been converted so that it adjusts the brightness.
@dreyfusslugado *
I guess I know what I'll be doing as soon as my wife's sewing room is repainted.
Better screw that thing directly into a stud.
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Comic book image of a gray-templed male newscaster in a purple suit saying into a microphone:
TODAY A YOUNG MAN ON ACID REALIZED THAT ALL MATTER IS MERELY ENERGY CONDENSED TO A SLOW VIBRATION, THAT WE ARE ALL ONE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCING ITSELF SUBJECTIVELY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEATH, LIFE ISONLY A DREAM, AND WE ARE THE IMAGINATION OF OURSELVES!
NOW
HERE'S TOM
WITH THE WEATHER!
TODAY A YOUNG MAN ON ACID REALIZED THAT ALL MATTER IS MERELY ENERGY CONDENSED TO A SLOW VIBRATION, THAT WE ARE ALL ONE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCING ITSELF SUBJECTIVELY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEATH, LIFE ISONLY A DREAM, AND WE ARE THE IMAGINATION OF OURSELVES!
NOW
HERE'S TOM
WITH THE WEATHER!
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A female Eastern Bluebird, with wings on the downsweep, morning light shining through her feathers; brings pine needles in her beak, to nest build.
A female eastern bluebird brings pine needles to her nest, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Freeport, Maine. AP Photo #RobertFBukaty
Bukaty is so good. I featured his work from Maine is a photo story a few years back: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo...
@kokogiak Those photos are truly wonderful.
Maine is nice, but that is clearly grass, not pine needles :)
@cristin I just copied over the text, thinking the same thing. The reason I have become indifferent to text, is the glut of it. I read copiously, and at the same time I don't read about half of what I do read, while I am reading it. Off hand mischaracterization has become normal opps in web writing at every level. Inspired partly by the über liars, currently running the show, and the barely literate making a cacophony of comment.
Recipes have become biographies. AI feel-good vignettes of brave and beautiful bikers, rescuing pretty little girls, created with some kind of rosy flesh syrup, wrapped in leather abound, I never saw this faux hero kink coming. With the glut to wade through, the errors are many and increasing. So like the well paid editor is looking at a fine photograph by a very accomplished artist, and misspeaks basic facts about the image. Then I pick the image up because it is great, and leave the descriptive text as is, because I glossed over it, and made the same mistake. It is definitely grass, the writer got paid anyway, and called it pine needles, or, maybe, in Maine, even the grass is pine needles.
Recipes have become biographies. AI feel-good vignettes of brave and beautiful bikers, rescuing pretty little girls, created with some kind of rosy flesh syrup, wrapped in leather abound, I never saw this faux hero kink coming. With the glut to wade through, the errors are many and increasing. So like the well paid editor is looking at a fine photograph by a very accomplished artist, and misspeaks basic facts about the image. Then I pick the image up because it is great, and leave the descriptive text as is, because I glossed over it, and made the same mistake. It is definitely grass, the writer got paid anyway, and called it pine needles, or, maybe, in Maine, even the grass is pine needles.