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Photo of a dog lying on their side on a rug inside a house. Behind the dog is a glass sliding door, covered almost completely by a heavy opaque curtain. There is a pattern of refracted rainbows encircling the dog.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
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picture of glenn danzig with a definitely very authentically attributed quote that reads: real worms don’t have any bones, but gummy worms are gelatin made from bones which means gummy worms have more bones than real worms.

nikkuneko
i just spent waaaaaaay too long trying to think of a good joke to sing to the chorus of "skulls"
Say what you want about him. The man loves hot dogs.
Where's the lie?
If you have a Sprouts near you, their criminally overpriced vegan gummy worms are outstanding.
He’s so knowledgeable!
Okay so when he says “dig up her bones” which is it?
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A black and white dog in a striped body suit.
Our vet recommended that we get Uly a post-op body suit to prevent him from picking at his surgical scars, which allows us to avoid using a cone.
It works better than I expected, and now he looks like a man from the 1920s about to head down to the beach for an egg cream and a swim.
It works better than I expected, and now he looks like a man from the 1920s about to head down to the beach for an egg cream and a swim.
needs spherical barbells!
@ba yes, but the facial hair is on fleek
mltshp will undoubtedly fund his boater hat post-haste
(also, yay, glad he's able to go cone-less! i always feel for dogs caught in the ol' funnel)
(also, yay, glad he's able to go cone-less! i always feel for dogs caught in the ol' funnel)
who’s a good buoy?
@tweedlydo ha!
I say, have you seen my pipe?
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Was this before or after he signed the Declaration of Independence?
The Man-Machine b/w The Hancocks
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A stuffed doll of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the starship Enterprise in the television program Star Trek: The Next Generation, sits on a shelf in a used goods store right next to a packaged of LED lights. The picture on the front of the box show four lights while the written advertising on the box says there are FIVE lights in the package.
They used to have similar, Trump cat toys, at a pet store, here.
Retail Chain of Command
At first I thought it was just the illustration but no it definitely says “4 bulbs”
Wild.
Wild.
@BennyTheIcepick I am not the brightest bulb in the fixture.
@0y3ahSansAcut3
May the force be with you or something
May the force be with you or something
Remember when we had a Consumer Protection Agency?
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Title stolen, as was the image so no sauce.
Artist: Bernhard Stimpfl-Abele
Piece: T93
Series: Transformations
https://klimt02.net/jeweller...
❤️❤️❤️ I LOVE being introduced to artists I love and haven’t seen before. Thanks!
Piece: T93
Series: Transformations
https://klimt02.net/jeweller...
❤️❤️❤️ I LOVE being introduced to artists I love and haven’t seen before. Thanks!
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A vibrant bullfinch with a bright pink-red breast, black cap, and gray-blue wings perches on the right side of a sage green background. Bold black decorative text on the left reads "DID YOU MAKE UP ALL THIS BULLSHIT YOURSELF, OR DID YOU ASK A FUCKIN' ROBOT TO DO IT?" with ornate flourishes. The artist signature "@effinbirds" appears in white script at the bottom right.
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A black and white photo meme made to look old-timey. Two women sitting at a wooden desk, ostensibly at a job interview. In word bubbles, the interviewer says “We’re looking for someone who can do the job of two men.” The interviewee then asks “Oh, so it’s only part time?”
Probably from Mastodon.
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an animated gif of a seal who slowly rotates in a pool of water
source: https://www.notofagus.com/gifs
Great site! All the gifs are delightful, as are the short films.
@otaman Wow, can confirm!
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Gerhard Richter based this painting on a 1978 photograph of his 11-year-old daughter. Betty turns away from the viewer, possibly toward one of Richter’s own monochrome paintings.
So, he's a "hair," guy?
look, it's Richter, the painting is gonna have long thin parallel streaks in it one way or another
it's his 11 year old daughter.
This is my favorite painting at the St. Louis Art Museum. I have to stop by it every time I visit.
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Where am I after I just threw a handful of erasers in my mouth?
#facts
[right jar] ...when I'm on the cusp of sleep
[left jar] ...when I realize I have got to write that idea down.
[left jar] ...when I realize I have got to write that idea down.
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In a galaxy far, far, away, they see this through their mega viewer. Their scientist asks, "Is this the alien's mouth?"
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Post by Reid Southen @Rahll
Rarely have I seen Al described so
succinctly.
Quoted post:
Church of Jeff @jeffowski
The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
#ai #generativeAl
Rarely have I seen Al described so
succinctly.
Quoted post:
Church of Jeff @jeffowski
The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
#ai #generativeAl
At work today we received an inquiry from someone that was horribly misinformed, making a demonstrably false assertion. When we asked her for the source - thinking we needed to correct an error on our website - she sent us a screenshot of a Google AI summary.
We are all in such deep shit.
We are all in such deep shit.
@BennyTheIcepick Yeah, the other day on another forum somebody posted a question about the provenance of something they wanted to buy, and that Google AI had told them it was particularly high quality from a particular Japanese craftsman and bla bla.
I did a quick search and established that, as far as the English language web goes, there's no craftsman in Japan by that name and that most of its verbiage was basically riffing on the brand name "Fine" on the item's label.
He replied, cough cough, I believe you are presumptuous, and as proof provided two more full page screenshots of text from Google AI continuing to riff on the word "fine" and that nonexistent Japanese craftsman.
I'm not actually certain I would begrudge "AI" all that much if it wasn't for how gleefully millions of people have lazily decided to make it their ultimate arbiter of reality.
I did a quick search and established that, as far as the English language web goes, there's no craftsman in Japan by that name and that most of its verbiage was basically riffing on the brand name "Fine" on the item's label.
He replied, cough cough, I believe you are presumptuous, and as proof provided two more full page screenshots of text from Google AI continuing to riff on the word "fine" and that nonexistent Japanese craftsman.
I'm not actually certain I would begrudge "AI" all that much if it wasn't for how gleefully millions of people have lazily decided to make it their ultimate arbiter of reality.
@ardgedee Not to worry, I feel very confident that the business interests that run AI won't allow anyone to covertly exploit the underlying code for selfish reasons.
Every business knows that trust is the paramount concern for brand longevity.
Every business knows that trust is the paramount concern for brand longevity.
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a tour poster with dates and places for the bands "The Flaming Lips" and "Modest Mouse", entitled "American Tour 2025: The Good Times Are Killing Me"
tour dates can be found at this link: https://modestmouse.com/#tour
tour dates can be found at this link: https://modestmouse.com/#tour
well I know what I'm diving into my emergency funds for
cool cool cool
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
cool cool cool
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
and DEHD!
Heart is gonna play up here in Bako, in August.
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Black and white photo, the night watchdog, a Doberman, on duty at a Macy's department store in New York City, 1954
Cronus, I presume
I saw this movie at a drive-in with my parents - James Brolin get a mugged and dumped into a department store bathroom stall. He wakes up after the store has closed and has to defend himself against the dobermans. (Trapped - 1973)
"🎵And I said, what about--"
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satellite image of black and white continental U.S. with a green diagonal crossing the border of Virginia and North Carolina
There are multiple "suspicious" images near the VA border and near Atlanta that were nowhere near a storm may be the meteor streaking across the sky/impacting, so it'll be cool if they do verify one of them as having captured it!! (Multiple reports and satellite images at different times may also suggest it's space debris, however. Still cool!)
Update: preliminary reports a "small" fragment hit Georgia home
CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2025...
source: GOES-EAST satellite (https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES...) & https://bsky.app/profile...
Update: preliminary reports a "small" fragment hit Georgia home
CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2025...
source: GOES-EAST satellite (https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES...) & https://bsky.app/profile...
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a variation of the distracted boyfriend meme wherein the girlfriend is "Paper I'm reading" and the hot girl the boyfriend is looking at is "Paper in the footnotes".
Fun tidbit! A colleague once quite happily told me he liberally sprinkled citations of my work throughout his papers because, "Anybody familiar with your [admittedly awful] writing won't stop to look it up and will keep reading," like I'd be *so pleased* to hear that.
(tbh I did think, "Ohhhh that's a good strategy, too bad it'd be gauche for me to do the same.")
(tbh I did think, "Ohhhh that's a good strategy, too bad it'd be gauche for me to do the same.")
Nothing like a good backhanded compliment!
Not because your work is bad, but because you have such a strong grasp of the material, and such a compelling way of explaining it, that in order for someone to muddle through his esoteric hogwash, your brilliant prose and unimpeachable methodology is a prerequisite.
@m3moellering *cough* Errrrrr no, I hate to brag but I'm *infamous* for being the worst technical/academic prose writer you'd ever read; I'm so terrible that it's impossible to get any blind peer review of my work because people in my field recognize the awful writing before they even get out of the introduction. (And if the writing doesn't give it away, the amazing lack of copy editing (grammar/typos) will do it, even though I legitimately did try.)
The only peer review comment that seared me to the bone - and now imprinted in my DNA - was from a "recommend against [publishing]", and it was, and I quote, "Your science is as bad as your writing." Way harsh, Tai. Could have just said the data was suspect and the conclusions not supported by evidence. Geez.
Luckily I have other skills!!
@BennyTheIcepick Yes.
The only peer review comment that seared me to the bone - and now imprinted in my DNA - was from a "recommend against [publishing]", and it was, and I quote, "Your science is as bad as your writing." Way harsh, Tai. Could have just said the data was suspect and the conclusions not supported by evidence. Geez.
Luckily I have other skills!!
@BennyTheIcepick Yes.
Maybe because they're already familiar with it?
@bubbalumpkis hahaha nope (see above)
Reviewer 2 rejects your submission because you failed to include citations to Reviewer 2's work
Oof! Sorry to poke that bruise….
@m3moellering ha, no no, it's fine!! Just providing evidence ;)
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moosekleenex.bsky.social
not only do I stop to look at it, I bring home quite a bit of it in my pockets
@williwaw /samesies
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Abstract composition. Off-white background, black lines. Grid of concentric rectangles, adding one nested rectangle per line or column, until it becomes a square in the diagonal. On the left of the diagonal, the rectangles are wider than taller, the opposite on the other side. The biggest square is in the bottom-left corner, the smallest one is in the top-right.
Thought this was a @joshmillard at first
lol me too
i mean i certainly approve
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A Perkins Brailler machine, a sort of industrial looking machine with six levers, two buttons to either side of them, one big looking button in the middle and another thing that maybe moves the paper? It says PERKINS BRAILLER on the front and there's a small label that says it was designed by David Abraham, Howe Press and built in Watertown Mass.
There is a local book/record store that opened near me which is much hipper than anything that has been in town before. They have cool records, cool books, and they repair old stereos. They also have some neat ephemera and stuff on shelves. This is a Brailler, for writing in Braille.
I was into it because I grew up near Perkins School for the Blind in MA and we had a family friend who worked there and I'd go there and visit her sometimes. For a rural kid, growing up actually having met blind kids and having even a loose idea of what their lives were like was pretty interesting. I now refer people to Perkins' website whenever they have questions about alt text. It was fun to see this bad boy on the shelves, even if only as a curiosity.
Read more about the Brailler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Perkins helps you with alt text: https://www.perkins.org/resource...
I was into it because I grew up near Perkins School for the Blind in MA and we had a family friend who worked there and I'd go there and visit her sometimes. For a rural kid, growing up actually having met blind kids and having even a loose idea of what their lives were like was pretty interesting. I now refer people to Perkins' website whenever they have questions about alt text. It was fun to see this bad boy on the shelves, even if only as a curiosity.
Read more about the Brailler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Perkins helps you with alt text: https://www.perkins.org/resource...
My best friend from law school is blind. When I was applying for clerkships, we got the clever idea to use one of these machines to type out the cover letter for the application to one of the judges who was blind. Alas, it didn't work, but it was fun (and I got a gig with a very good judge anyway, so all's well that ends well).
@Panjandrum Did you mean to put this comment on a different picture?
@jessamyn Ack! Yes, thanks
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1. See MLTSHP post
2. Think to myself, "I should share this with sjixxxy."
3. See who actually made the post.
4. Facepalm.
2. Think to myself, "I should share this with sjixxxy."
3. See who actually made the post.
4. Facepalm.
In like a lion, out like a lamp
Got these as a wedding gift when I married my cousin, but she ran off with the Piggly Wiggly manager last year