@chartier Worst. Smoothie. EVER.

Occasionally I post on the internet looking to hire an artist for a commissioned work. Today is such a day.

1. This is an old ad (allegedly, anyway, it pops up all over the internet but I have an incredibly high res scan of it)

2. I would like to change the bottle seen in that ad to a bottle bearing this label (and add the fleur embellishment and so forth, etc)

This is more than a mere photoshop job, which is something that I could do myself. I'm looking to of course match the overall antique look and feel of the original ad. So whether that's some digital painting or someone who's WAY into filtering and processing, we shall see.

Hit me up with your rates and turnaround time if you're interested.

News: Jon Stewart Calls for Chuck Schumer Ouster After Blue Wave: ‘Bulls–t System and It Needs to Go’ | The Wrap

Jon Stewart is urging Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer and other senior leaders to make way for new voices ...one of the first things Democrats should do following their wins on Election Night is remove much of the party's senior leadership and start fresh. That starts with Schumer, who... does not deserve as much credit as he's been seeing for the wins.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jon-stewart-calls-chuck-schumer-205120315.html

@daringfireball I always thought this is what the now defunct Clips should have been doing. Provide a simple, fun editor for content creators to then distribute on their platform of choice... Like BBEdit for video‽

Hennepin County Surveilled Anti-HERC Activists Since 2023

Zero Burn Coalition released a new report during a press conference on Oct. 22 detailing surveillance of their organizing. Tonight they're holding a community response meeting at 6 p.m.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/hennepin-county-surveilled-anti-herc-activists-since-2023/

I'll start rewatching the movie before the 5th is over here. I was busy, ok?

@lightweight Thank you for sharing this Dave. Would like to see more so please share links when you get them.
Just reading a paper by Mohan Datta and I note that HATE is the main weapon the radical right has. Nutralise that and we nutralise them. That would explain the war on empathy. (And in turn Ardern.)
So logically, responding back to these people with compassion is the way to disarm them.

WOKE 👏 IS 👏 SO 👏 FUCKING 👏 BACK 👏 BABY 👏

@daringfireball I'm mentioned by real name in Salon for having a zinger targeting Steve Jobs.

Take that as a moment of fame or infamy as you will.

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google is technically offering schools more choice but not the choices anyone wants.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/google-schools-can-keep-search-while-skipping-gemini-but-ai-search-is-non-negotiable/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@jalefkowit the funniest thing is that he’s not founding an improv bootcamp

@johnhattan Purity Of Essence!!!!

@newsguyusa They are first going to have to fumigate that place once he's out.

Also, looks like we will enter the late-stage emperor phase where he will spend the next two years trying to get monuments in his name placed all over DC.

@Tusky @msbellows @PaulDitz in the sense of showing up to report it's a shared issue, or showing up to code about it, or showing up with $?

@derenglischekoenig

The intended meaning is that an action ceases to be consensual, and thus becomes rape / sexual assault, when a participant changes their mind. The fact that it was, until then, consensual, does not affect the fact that it is now non-consensual.

He’s watching. Do not speak to andy piper, andy piper speaks to you only if he wishes.

@ibroadfo_ebooks Wait. Can those run in a mesh networking standard mode, or do you just mean they are literally an example of a mesh network?

GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on his ties with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, reported to be a Chinese asset (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/05/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-spy-congress.html
http://www.techmeme.com/261105/p54#a261105p54

@dgar whos a cute little dalek? yes you are! Now go play with your uncle Elon.

@ai6yr @_thegeoff @stepheneb @MHowell @pmonks @W6KME @cpsc_bot Right. You would notice it protruding (and your pick or handle becoming wobbly) looong before it would have actually cleared all the threads.

Related: I suspect most folks don't understand how conversant most serious climbers (especially rescue climbers, but really all of the serious ones) are in engineering, math, systems. My MR team did a five-day course from "Rigging for Rescue" that was 75% math: how many kN are involved in a 75kg climber taking a whipper on a 1-meter Dyneema daisy chain? How much force is transmitted to the spine and kidneys by the 2" belt of the climbing harness at the end, and what does that do to the human body? At what point is the angle between two anchors too obtuse? How much should a given highline system sag to avoid the load on each anchor approaching infinity (as it does when a perfectly tight rope is deflected even slightly)? What are the failure strengths of every single piece of gear in a given rigging system? How much mechanical advantage is converted by each of a wild variety of complex and compound pulley systems? Add in the scientific knowledge needed to perform a truly competent avalanche assessment, the amount of medical knowledge conveyed in a ten-day Wilderness First Responder course, all the hours spent waiting out storms in tents while reading that year's Accidents in North American Mountaineering case studies aloud to each other (freaking out at the errors we too could have made, and laughing at the idiots who brought disaster on themselves), etc., and basically the mountains are full of surprisingly sophisticated engineers and scientists.

Which is why I cannot grok how the fzck that nut and bolt wound up in that ice tool. It's not the *culture*!