I’m Jimi.
I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life.
#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
#Svengoolie rules!
Han shot first.
Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.
We call them gym shoes round here.
| Human | Not Immortal. Really. |
| Location | In far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that. |
| Banner Image | Fall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky. |
| Toots | Toots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least. |
Dismiss the lawsuit, expell the plaintiffs.
Legal challenges to trans athletes competing in womens sports have appeared in multiple states. Three Oregon students argue trans athletes are given special privileges, including having to hire security to escort them during track meets.
2016 August 11
Perseid, Aurora, and Noctilucent Clouds
* Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand
https://astrofotografen.se/
Explanation:
Night skies over northern Sweden can hold some tantalizing sights in August. Gazing toward the Big Dipper, this beautiful skyscape captures three of them in a single frame taken last August 12/13. Though receding from northern skies for the season, night shining or noctilucent clouds are hanging just above the horizon. Extreme altitude icy condensations on meteoric dust, they were caught here just below an early apparition of a lovely green auroral band, also shining near the edge of space. The flash of a Perseid meteor near the peak of the annual shower punctuates the scene. In fact, this year's Perseid shower will peak in the coming days, offering a continuing chance for a night sky photographer's hat trick.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160811.html
#space #earth #atmosphere #noctilucent #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #NASA
San Francisco Noir Alley Cats ~ watercolor
Artwork for #Fensterfreitag & #Caturday. My painting is inspired by a love of cats, rain, San Francisco and classic film. There's a nod to a favorite noir "Dark Passage" set in 1940's #SanFrancisco. A #window in the distance displays a little painting.
Fine art prints 🎨 https://1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com/featured/san-francisco-noir-alley-cats-elizabeth-kennen.html
#art #artwork #artist #MastoArt #watercolor #painting #cats #CatsOfMastodon #noir #movies #film #classic #vintage #WindowFriday #decor #FediGiftShop #sfba
Any #Tattoo enthusiasts around?
I do not have any tattoos yet, I've never had anything that I wanted to commit to permanency on myself like that, but I do now, I've had an idea for several months and it's stayed put, I know for sure that I want it... I just don't know how I want it to look.
I want the quote from David Lynch (well, the paraphrased quote, anyway) of "Fix your heart or die"
Any thoughts about design for that?
One place to start would be an artist at the tattoo shop. Look at the shop’s gallery and ask to talk to the artists that speak to you. Visit several if you can.
Good luck!
Why do I refer to the bike as a "lamplighter"? In the old days lamp lighting was a job. A lamp lighter went around in the evening usually with a ladder and lit up each gas powered lamp post in turn.
Some of the people doing this job had specialist bikes made that were very tall. Then they could just cycle between each one, hold on (or lean) and light them without needing the ladder.
The design here is classic lamplighter bike style, albeit scaled down. A real lamplighter would be over 7 foot.
And if you wonder why I called this the #PrincessLamplighter, it is because the donor bike was a Diamant (Diamond) Princess kids bike.
See the pictures in this thread:
https://mastodon.social/@objo/114794259863787108
@ruari I learned something today! Tall bikes cobbled together from multiple frames are not uncommon around here, but I always assumed they were just some wacky trend that got started for the fun of it. I never knew they had historical precedent.
Very ingenious, those lamplighters! Slightly safer than doing the same on a 6' unicycle.
@DaleTrexel They are mainly built for fun these days. However some people have interesting cargo bike designs with the storage below, so tha the size of the bike optimised for short length rather than height.
So yeah, #TallBikesArePractical even today 😉
@Linnefaulk image falling off this one
I'm old enough to remember them.
Ours didn't have bicycles, they carried a ladder.
That's why they had cross bars, to lean the ladder on.
Our window cleaners had bicycles.
They rode them with their extention ladders on their shoulders, head between two middle rungs, a bucket hung on each end. How they didn't break their necks in falls, IDK.
They'd get one bucket filled with soapy water, one clean water, at a house in each row.
Clean the windows, dump the water, cycle of to the next row.
1 shilling per house.
They wore special jackets with huge leather pockets to hold their leather wash cloths.
1950s, northern England.
We lived in an industrial town with so much smoke and soot that windows had to be done every two weeks.
Baloo Uriza
Laffy
emptywheel
grobi
Elizabeth Kennen
Steve Herman
Wokebloke for Democracy
The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙
Grickle
Velocipede Rider
Dale Trexel
sharon linne faulk
aburka 🫣
Megan Lynch (she/her)
vxo
The Tired Horizon
Bridge&Tunnel Jeff
howl’s moving 5-over-1 
Eric Lawton
Duckquil
LFpete
RealGene ☣️
Alien software, human hardware