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Argie

"Wi Chef"

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Paul Prudhomme Outside Of His Restaurant “K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen”, In New Orleans (1979)

For a period between 1989 and 1990 I was the head chef at a Cajun Creole restaurant (Fat Franks). We did our utmost to produce authentic creole food in a place not exactly known for the cuisine. During that time this man was my guru, I devoured everything on him that I could find from the other side of the globe.

The one issue we had was that at the time Sassafras was illegal in Australia, I believe it can now be imported with a licence, but fortunately a friend of the restaurants owner had smuggled a few jars of Sassafras powder into the country. We kept that stuff in the safe.

I visited New Orleans in 2001, but I had stopped chefing by then and had just graduated Uni as an archaeologist and I barely had enough money for the trip, so much so that when I stood outside his restaurant reading the menu I came to terms with knowing I wouldn't be dining in there this trip. To this day I regret not selling a kidney to do so though.

I miss cooking that food, I also miss eating it. I think I should smash out a gumbo or a jambalaya soon.
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ba pro 7 hours ago
Same.
1f2frfbf pro 6 hours ago
I have never once considered my access to filé powder as a sort of privilege... on the few occasions I couldn't buy it, with a small amount of effort, I could make it... I now know, and I won't take that for granted again.
MackReed pro 5 hours ago
I’m a roux man myself, but I respect the old ways.

Also, cool on you that you had that trade. Mealtime at your place must be grand.
BooBounder an hour ago
Roux or file ... smash out something ASAP. We lived in NOLA for most of the 90s, and dined at K-Paul's many times. It was always amazing. I have 2 more comments to follow ... few people to share them with these days.
BooBounder an hour ago
We took an Australian (from Drouin, Victoria) to K-Pauls' in the late 90s. On the menu that day was ... Something with Hot Fanny Sauce. Once the hysterical laughter subsided, we may have been the only table that night that got the Australian slang translation of that.
BooBounder an hour ago
New Year's Day, around midnight in the French Quarter, somewhere around Dauphine and Conti, we saw a guy exit a darkened doorway to a private home. He was carrying a bottle of wine in a brown bag, and seemed to be hurrying as he went diagonally across the street in the direction of Burgundy. Difficulty walking. Very large and round. Trimmed beard. We instantly knew who it was. Or was it? We told that story a few years later to a server at K-Paul's. She was dubious, and replied "Chef don't walk." Since then, we have entertained the low probability that it might have been Dom Deluise.
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scruss

the MatchboxPosters collection

Illustration of a man in traditional attire with a turban and mustache. Yellow and red tones. Folk Art design.
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Illustration of a man in traditional attire with a turban and mustache. Yellow and red tones. Folk Art design.
over 6000 matchbox covers, many of them gloriously demented

source: https://archive.org/details...
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w1nt3rmut3 4 hours ago
great link! there's something about that old matchbox art, the colors and textures, that's so satisfying!
joost 4 hours ago
Woah. Such great images.
Published o 3 May. You're on the ball.
scruss pro 3 hours ago
@joost it's called "following Jason Scott's feed", not any trendsetting on my part
joost 3 hours ago
@scruss still a cool find.
grantbarrett pro 3 hours ago
very good
poorusher 3 hours ago
Fashion goals
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O_C

New York, 1983 by Thomas Hoepker

photograph showing the spires of St Patrick's Cathedral between two office buildings
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photograph showing the spires of St Patrick's Cathedral between two office buildings
source: https://war-photography.tumblr.com/image...
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octaneTom

It’s ramp season

A bagel cut in half with ramp cream cheese spread on both halves. The bagel is on a white plate sitting on a wood table.
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A bagel cut in half with ramp cream cheese spread on both halves. The bagel is on a white plate sitting on a wood table.
Friends gave us a bunch of ramps from their yard so made some ramp cream cheese and well of course needed something to put it on so made some bagels.
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scruss pro 5 hours ago
enjoy some sweet jumps
robritz 3 hours ago
You’ve never ramped.
tom pro 2 hours ago
time to ramp up my game.
crazyunclejoe pro an hour ago
@scruss - came here to jump that
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MackReed

_ _ _ _ _

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source: https://sakurajima.moe/@Kingu...
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poorusher 12 hours ago
The Latin alphabet! Also should "W" be wider?
ardgedee pro 8 hours ago
@poorusher Yeah, doesn't seem like a font-nerd joke when the premise is the font is monospace except for some letters.
bitslayer 7 hours ago
And where is the kerning?
m3moellering 6 hours ago
Hehehehe
scruss pro 5 hours ago
ooh, someone's been reading Flatland
crazyunclejoe pro an hour ago
Font nerd jokes are 100% reliant on font nerd comment sections
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Argie

😁

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gwint

Ancient structures revealed

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via https://bsky.app/profile...
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davious Yesterday
lqtm
joost Yesterday
Hilarious
shitleopard Yesterday
GEISEL LIBRARY?
tweedlydo

dumbest game of whackamole

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spingo pro 18 hours ago
yesss
csilverman

netherway

A reddish meadow under a fiery orange-yellow sky. Standing in the middle of the meadow is a doorway that appears to be a portal. Through the doorway is an entirely different world; one with a blue sky and white clouds. The doorway casts a yellow glow across the red grass, and is made of orange brick. Attached to the top of it is a round white sign with a black letter T: the logo for the Boston subway system. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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A reddish meadow under a fiery orange-yellow sky. Standing in the middle of the meadow is a doorway that appears to be a portal. Through the doorway is an entirely different world; one with a blue sky and white clouds. The doorway casts a yellow glow across the red grass, and is made of orange brick. Attached to the top of it is a round white sign with a black letter T: the logo for the Boston subway system. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
#notesArt
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BennyTheIcepick pro 4 hours ago
Way down in Hadestown, way down under the ground
https://youtu.be/bUFG_x9d...
nikkuneko

friday vibes from my office window

phone pic: a rainbow forms over the university of illinois’ gies college of business building. behind it a dark rain cloud is unleashing curtains of rain on another part of the town.
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phone pic: a rainbow forms over the university of illinois’ gies college of business building. behind it a dark rain cloud is unleashing curtains of rain on another part of the town.
snapped this while working (read: staring at a half-finished notebook until the clock ran out) yesterday afternoon. forgot to upload until just now.

truest spring midwest vibe, watching it absolutely pour half a mile away while the sun shines on you (or vice versa)
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ba pro 23 hours ago
There's a Leprechaun guarding a pot of gold at the Assembly Hall (or whatever it's called these days) right now!
BooBounder 15 hours ago
Is that IU?
nikkuneko pro 14 hours ago
@BooBounder university of illinois (urbana-champaign)!

@ba that little dude is tired of all these frat boys appropriating his gold!
gwint

Girl with a Kitten

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Lucian Freud
1947

via https://bsky.app/profile...
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ba pro 7 hours ago
"girl"
m3moellering 6 hours ago
This appeals to me.
bezt pro 6 hours ago
https://www.tate.org.uk/art...

Freud’s first wife, Kathleen Garman.
octaneTom pro 5 hours ago
I’ve been holding them wrong all this time!
0y3ahSansAcut3 4 hours ago
With a kitten, without a cranium.
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dphiffer

 

A comparison image. The top shows a frayed and broken white smartphone charging cable with the text "They need to make these." The bottom shows a sturdy, green coiled telephone cord with the text "As strong as these."
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A comparison image. The top shows a frayed and broken white smartphone charging cable with the text "They need to make these." The bottom shows a sturdy, green coiled telephone cord with the text "As strong as these."
source: https://mastodon.social/@cmconse...
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idogcow 14 hours ago
The Verge's offshoot Version History had a piece on the Western Electric 500 and at one point came to the conclusion that since At&t was a monopoly at the time, it made good economic sense to build the phones as solid as possible!
ardgedee pro 8 hours ago
Not "as strong as", but "as flexible as". 99% of those fucking USB/Firewire cable failures could be avoided with (a) a proper strain relief gusset and (b) not being a 3mm cable with a 10cm minimum coil radius.
m3moellering 6 hours ago
@idogcow @ardgedee +++ to both of you! I wanted my Grandma Amanda’s Bakelite table phone when I heard that Southwestern Bell was coming to collect it. Alas, she was too German to allow for such hi-jinx….
ardgedee pro 6 hours ago
Feel like I should add that the worst USB cable tangle you've ever seen is not as bad as what a run of the mill handset cable could manage in a single day's use.

And there's a huge difference in construction and quality between a modern office phone's handset cable and an early '70s Bell Telephone handset cable.
ardgedee pro 6 hours ago
@idogcow > "...since At&t was a monopoly at the time, it made good economic sense to build the phones as solid as possible! "

Only because they leased the phones. The more easily damaged the phones were, the more Bell had to spend on service calls and replacements. Once people owned their own phones quality went to shit, and that would've happened with or without dissolving the monopoly.
scruss pro 5 hours ago
@idogcow weirdly, the one thing that was very fragile on WE phones was the socket from the wall cable. I dunno how many phones I've seen at surplus/thrift places that have this socket smashed
ardgedee pro 4 hours ago
@scruss I thought the technicians did that to decommission the phones and prevent customers from reusing them.
scruss pro 3 hours ago
@ardgedee ooh, I never thought of that. The socket does seem to have almost an engineered break line in it, just right for a screwdriver to go in ad fuck things up. Had to repair my very late model WE Princess that way
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artwells

retirement plans

image of a dark figure levitating with the caption "people pleasing is over become unacceptable"
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image of a dark figure levitating with the caption "people pleasing is over become unacceptable"
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LocalStain

me_irl

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Argie pro 9 hours ago
my weekend in a nutshell
patd

Back on my Luddite bullshit

Five CD cases arranged in a grid, cover-side-up. Albums from Leon Bridges, Deftones, Czarface, Gorillaz, and Nathaniel Rateliff.
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Five CD cases arranged in a grid, cover-side-up. Albums from Leon Bridges, Deftones, Czarface, Gorillaz, and Nathaniel Rateliff.
Stopped buying physical media in 2014 and what felt right then feels less so today. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get back to a full collection of albums, but I am happy with a short stack of good music in my life again.

The liner notes for the new Gorillaz are great.
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roonie pro 21 hours ago
@patd I hear ya
I'm waiting for a new CD player to be delivered. I haven't played a CD for more than a decade now and I'm looking forward to diving into my collection (which has been ruthlessly thinned) as much as I am looking forward to buying new music while avoiding apps, itunes and sundry downloading bullshit.

hops down from soapbox
patd 18 hours ago
@roonie Its nice. The constraint of "oh I have loaded this album into a player" is enough for me to commit to listening to something as a whole and not just keep hitting the skip button constantly.
homerj 18 hours ago
I sold all my CDs at a garage sale around 2014. Figured physical media was dead and why am I hauling this shit around. Within 6 months, I ended up in a record store and realized I missed records.


A decade later we’re thinking of moving/downsizing and am torn on what to do with all these records, CDs and cassettes I now have again.

But glad I have them.
BooBounder 15 hours ago
Our CDs are in storage (many digitized, still actively working on that), tapes were digitized and thrown out back in the oughts, records are in storage (but a few came out over the last 10 years after a gift of an all-in-one). I still enjoy looking at them all, but I don't go out of my way. It's about the music for me. Still I don't think I I'd want to sell them or throw them out.

FWIW: "River" from that Leon Bridges CD came up on my phone's MP3 playlist this week!
nikkuneko pro 14 hours ago
nice haul right there. i really gotta pick up that deftones album when i get the chance. i'm a couple behind on their discography.

i never fully gave up on my luddite madness - still have about 500 CDs and 250 LPs - but sadly the CDs did go into storage for long stretches of time. on top of that, i only had a macbook to play them, which mostly fed the behavior of ripping to MP3, loading onto my phone, and putting it back into storage limbo.

getting them back out again after i'd reacquired a proper CD changer was a delight. the thing i missed the most was looking at the booklets while i listened, reading the liner notes and lyrics. it definitely encouraged me to listen in a more active way, rather than fiddling on my phone once i'd cued up the song.
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spingo

Madison’s Gizzy, acrylic on board

Mexican-ish chihuahua art
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Mexican-ish chihuahua art
Did some art for the first time in a long time, for my beloved’s birthday.
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ufez pro 2 days ago
This is fantastic!
idogcow 2 days ago
WOW!
gormat 2 days ago
Alebrije!
spingo pro 2 days ago
@gormat Absolutely!

@idogcow @ufez Thank you!
m3moellering 2 days ago
Love!!
snowbow 2 days ago
Lovely!
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williwaw

Every. Time.

3 stacked images with text. The first image says, "my brush" with an image of chopsticks. The second says, "my paint" with an image of what looks like pho or ramen. The final image says, "my canvas" next to a clean, white t-shirt.
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3 stacked images with text. The first image says, "my brush" with an image of chopsticks. The second says, "my paint" with an image of what looks like pho or ramen. The final image says, "my canvas" next to a clean, white t-shirt.
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0y3ahSansAcut3 2 days ago
I just painted that same image.
WikiAdam 2 days ago
My kid could paint that
y95 2 days ago
Phoooooook
3rdparty pro 2 days ago
imagine the sound
grantbarrett pro Yesterday
If you get to San Diego, you should have this experience with the best pho in town at either Pho Cow Cali location. Maybe better can be had elsewhere but this is the best I know here.
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scotto

big trouble

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LocalStain pro 22 hours ago
Masterpiece.
artwells

don't come a knockin

futuristic van open to reveal a bed and a lot of carpet
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futuristic van open to reveal a bed and a lot of carpet
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spingo pro 18 hours ago
If you ain't got turducken.
bezt

Ambigamy

Rabbit and duck at opencasket funeral for optical illusion.
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Rabbit and duck at opencasket funeral for optical illusion.
Cartoon by Paul Noth, April 24, 2026

source: https://www.newyorker.com/gallery...

#paulnoth
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Goshawk

oh no

A cartoon of an adult and child standing near an unmade bed. The adult is saying to the child, "If you think you shouldn't make your bed because 'it will get messy again,' I have terrible news about literally every aspect of your life."
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A cartoon of an adult and child standing near an unmade bed. The adult is saying to the child, "If you think you shouldn't make your bed because 'it will get messy again,' I have terrible news about literally every aspect of your life."
By Asher Perlman.

source: https://bsky.app/profile...
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scruss

pretty

a round white PCB with many touchpads and LEDs
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a round white PCB with many touchpads and LEDs
pimoroni make pretty things

source: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products...
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bug138 an hour ago
It’s like a Makey-Makey!
crazyunclejoe

Metropolis (1927) [1984 Giorgio Moroder Version] [1080p]

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The 1984 edit of Metropolis, with the Queen Soundtrack
The kid is working on an Expressionist/Bauhaus overlay of the German Pavilion for her PCAD (period costumes architecture and decor) final, and was struggling to get through the original cut of Metropolis. FORTUNATELY, this gem exists.
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m3moellering

Accepted.

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artwells

What I saw

Agave against a wall
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Agave against a wall
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MackReed pro Yesterday
Oo. this is great.
LocalStain

All Power to the People.

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jhld 20 hours ago
Rednecks
wombatman70

Sprinkle sprinkle

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An animated image zoomed in on the pale concrete of a sidewalk, a smattering of small dark dots grows more plentiful as additional unseen drops join their brethren on the pavement.
Was walking the dog in a brief light rain, and loved that it felt like the dark spots appeared on the sidewalk spontaneously rather than being the result of the raindrops. ❤️💧☁️
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roonie pro 21 hours ago
@wombatman70 I'm with ya, Drugs are fun!
heyitsal pro 18 hours ago
I've seen this before. Oh!... https://mltshp.com/p/1RP0R
wombatman70 6 hours ago
@roonie hahaha I had just woken up from a “coma” nap so very much felt like it!
wombatman70 6 hours ago
@heyitsal 😂
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snarkout

May Day

A color illustration, showing male workers of the world in regional costumes holding hands arond a globe reading "Solidarity of Labour". They are overseen by an angel, her arms and wings spread, labelled "Freedom".
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A color illustration, showing male workers of the world in regional costumes holding hands arond a globe reading "Solidarity of Labour". They are overseen by an angel, her arms and wings spread, labelled "Freedom".
source: http://www.laborhistorylinks.org

Walter Crane, 1897.
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Argie

The Big Wing

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Via NASA Newsletter

"NASA and Boeing have finished wind‑tunnel testing on an advanced aircraft concept known as the truss‑braced wing. This design uses an ultra‑long, slender wing supported by aerodynamic trusses, a configuration that could significantly cut fuel use and lower operating costs for future commercial aircraft.

Originating from NASA‑supported aeronautics research, the transonic truss‑braced wing has progressed from an early idea to a viable design through step‑by‑step collaboration."
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BennyTheIcepick pro Yesterday
If they don’t call this the Flying Buttress I don’t know what my tax dollars are even for.
wjcstp pro Yesterday
@BennyTheIcepick ++
joost Yesterday
@BennyTheIcepick ++
Lockjaw pro Yesterday
Liked just because @BennyTheIcepick
0y3ahSansAcut3 23 hours ago
If it has a toilet, it can be The Flying Buttrest.
ba pro 21 hours ago
@BennyTheIcepick ++
roonie pro 20 hours ago
Oh, "Now" you want to cut fuel use!!!!
vosechu pro 7 hours ago
I wonder how Boeing feels about nasa being defunded?
otaman pro 6 hours ago
@BennyTheIcepick A+
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snarkout

No to Nazis in West Brom

A black and white photo at a demonstration. In the foreground, a Black man wearing a track jacket with two-tone hair is looking at the camera, holding a sign that reads "No to Nazis in West Bromwich / 28 Aprill 4PM Hardware Street". Next to him, one arm around his shoulder, a white man with a shaved head wearing a sweater is mugging for the camera.
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A black and white photo at a demonstration. In the foreground, a Black man wearing a track jacket with two-tone hair is looking at the camera, holding a sign that reads "No to Nazis in West Bromwich / 28 Aprill 4PM Hardware Street". Next to him, one arm around his shoulder, a white man with a shaved head wearing a sweater is mugging for the camera.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...

“Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, England”, 1979, by Virginia Turbett.
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m3moellering Yesterday
At least two thirds of those people voted for Brexit.
Argie pro 9 hours ago
@m3moellering ++

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