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RickiTarr, 14 days ago to random

Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

inspirationgrid, 1 month ago to art

Soft as a Stone: Marble Pillows by Håkon Anton Fagerås https://theinspirationgrid.com/soft-as-a-stone-marble-pillows-by-hakon-anton-fageras/ #art #AYearForArt #MastoArt #sculpture #ArtInspiration #ArtInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid

A marble sculpture shaped like a soft pillow with a rock on top of it.
A realistic marble sculpture shaped like a pillow with a white moth resting on it.

monsieuricon, 2 months ago to random

I've been admining Linux systems for 25 years, and I still have to check which one it is every time.

Gmatom, 2 months ago to random

After four and a half months and almost 34,000 stitches, I’ve finished my cross-stitch 1-bit version of Hokusai’s Great Wave. It’s big, 25”x 17” (pen in the first photo for scale). Thanks to @hypertalking for letting me use his wonderful original 1-bit art. #NerdStitch

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brianbilston, 3 months ago to random

For #ValentinesDay, here’s an old poem; as old as they get, in fact.

It’s considered to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem, written 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus.

CarmePont, 4 months ago to random Catalan

Cafè ☕

jaj0_0, 4 months ago to random Japanese

ids1024, 4 months ago to random

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

Alice, 6 months ago to random

Normalize saying "I don’t know enough about the topic to be able to comment."

obihahn, 6 months ago to random

"Ghost Apples" are a phenomenon happening when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall.

When the rotting apple becomes mushy, it falls out of the bottom leaving its icy shell behind.

These ghost apples were spotted in Michigan.

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brianbilston, 6 months ago to random

Today’s poem is for anyone opening the first window of their advent calendar this morning.

It’s called ‘The Good Old Days’.

GeekSusie, 7 months ago to random

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gcluley, 7 months ago to random

I'm thinking of blocking access to content on my site to anyone not running an ad blocker.

Thoughts?

StefanThinks, 7 months ago to random

This is so embarrassing, but it seems that you have mistaken me for that other person on the internet who likes to argue with random people.

dgar, 7 months ago to random

How to write good.

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?

jeffowski, 8 months ago to animals

#CatsOfMastodon

archaeohistories, 8 months ago to random

The ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, completed by drone lighting.

More ruins/unfinished buildings completed this way: cutt.ly/UM57zfq

📷 DRIFT/Cyberdrone.

#archaeohistories

tveskov, 8 months ago to random Danish

Fall is here 🍁👀

ffog, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

"I discovered that the unrented office suites directly next door are a time capsule of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and we got permission from the building owners to put on an exhibition of vintage computers and telephones in the offices."
And/Or Gallery -- Recap Computing History #2 -- Oct 7 - 21, 2023
https://www.andorgallery.com/press37.html

inspirationgrid, 9 months ago to art

Enchanting Miniature Worlds by Felix Hernandez https://theinspirationgrid.com/enchanting-miniature-worlds-by-felix-hernandez/ #art #AYearForArt #MastoArt #sculpture #photography #ArtInspiration #ArtInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid

A photo of artist Felix Hernandez working on one of his miniature scenes.
A photo of artist Felix Hernandez working on one of his miniature scenes.

AmyEmerick, 9 months ago to random

"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."

• Hunter S. Thompson

OhioSQ, 10 months ago to twitter

Wordpress removed #Twitter as a social media add-on and added Mastodon. That seems like a big deal to me.

AmiW, 10 months ago to art German

⚪ Mehr ... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: #RobertoPellecchia in Loc.: #Pietragalla #Basilicata Italy 🇮🇹 - Title: "Parco dei palmenti" - #Art #Streetart #Mastoart #TravelPhotos #Photography #Fotografie ➡️ #APhotoLove

mattdm, 10 months ago to random

My flight at gate 404 is delayed because... the plane isn't there.

I am not making this up.

liztai, 10 months ago to BBC

I mean, yeah, I dislike some ways #BBC reports about matters but I am still happy they decided to participate in the #Fediverse.

Heck even if #CNN joins I will be happy, and I loathe their reporting.

You want decentralised #SocialMedia to gain popularity and diversity, or do you just want to keep it "pure" and populated by people who agree with you?

Doesn't sound very inclusive...