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The cover of Maxinquaye by Tricky which is wonderful and I love it. Image shows the name tricky in sorta goldish on rusted metal. There is not a dud track on the thing.
There are three ppl in the background with hats, the image is in B&W and in the foreground, in front of a barrel there is a person testing a flying helmet by jumping up and ramming their own head into the wall of a building. Image is from 1912, apparently. Also, it's usually marked as 'testing a football helmet' but that's not the case, according to something I read by some nerd on the internet, uhh lemme bring up the quote "This rather comical photo was taken in 1912, and contrary to popular belief on the internet it isn’t a man testing a new prototype of American Football helmet by bashing his head against a wall. The truth is actually more interesting than the myth when it comes to this image. In actual fact the man is British inventor W.T. Warren, and the image is of him leaping against a hanger wall at the flying school of William Hugh Ewen, at Hendon in the UK. His invention, the Warren Safety Helmet was a spring-equipped pilot safety helmet, which was padded with horsehair. It was designed to absorb an impact as head injuries were the leading cause of death in flight accidents at the time. The helmet saw considerable use during World War I and an example of Warren’s invention can be found in the Imperial War Museum. The other men in the photo are the flying school’s owner William Hugh Ewen, in the middle, on the left stands his chief pilot Lewis Turner and the man on the right was named A. M. Ramsey. The photograph was published in Aviation magazine Flight on 6th April 1912." Fuckin am I winning at alt-text today or what?
"Hmm, some kind of issue occurred when contacting the feed server. Please let the feed owner know about this issue. Message from server: NotEnoughResources (The server is literally BlueSky's main feed)
Danny Devito, who, for the purposes of this image is now Irish (Fáilte a Mhúinteoir O'Vito , saying "An féidir liom fuisce deas a thairiscint duit sa tréimhse dheacair seo?" which roughly translates as "Can I offer you a nice whisky in this difficult time" but I'm pretty sure the grammar is off, eh, fuck it and he's holdin up a bottle of Jameson's all graciously and shit, which I think is very kind and hospitable of him.
Mike Patton in B&W wearing a spanky white suit and a black shirt, sittin down holgin a mic with his other hand out
Luigi Mangione lookin up and off to the side with a raised eyebrow all "o rly?"
3 Stooges. Mo with each pinky finger wedged in the noses of, in order, Larry and Curly. Larry seems relatively unfussed. Curly somewhat confused. Mo menacing as always thank you for coming to my TED talk
Splodge of words that apparently I used the most amongst a tiny sample of the very small amounts of posts I've put up so far, presumably throwing data at some AI shitburger company cause I don't trust no capitalist an inch anyhoo, the words in no particular order are: goin nazis rest jimmy cliff wild quality round heard guitar algorithm least hammer oohh expecting absolute shit find famous fame money doctor ordered hits spot perfect depth miles cat on fire interested buddy keeps touches wood within mile radius writes watch sinners paper apparently brain cannot trusted retain meant medics slipped mind breakin plonk label tells pinot noir piezza merda wantin drink welp chances mystery bottle cupboard fuck knows turned stage raaaaiiiiniiiing soooo breath longer smells infected goat butthole eyyy fingerguns tina turners birth coolest story jeff beck played private dancer sign carved switchblade filled gouge risk style nailpolish and the biggest one, DAMN which y'know, sounds about right
Skeletor declaring that tom stoppard was a thatcherite tory piece of crap then running away
quote from the article about fictional US president Robert L. Booth from 2000AD "He finally started the Atomic wars in 2070, having convinced the population (and himself) that America's nuclear defense screens could keep out any retaliatory strikes"