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- NBQ000
Children should not suffer because of adults and endure horrible things because of adults. This world is too fucked up.
- Why should children suffer?palimpsest
- yes and water is wetHueyGnash
- This should be top priority for the new robot workforce.monNom
- doggydoggdog0
What's your favorite city in the world...
and do you live there?
- Was Berlin.. but the Berlin i knew.. the city always changes, and what I loved is goneautoflavour
- well not gone, but i am old and clubbing is not as appealingautoflavour
- Barcelona, but the bcn I knew... But I'd still live there. Even if it was only in the winter.OBBTKN
- The Berlin I love only exists in my past dreams. Second on the list ;)OBBTKN
- Barcelona.
And I'd live there without hesitation.Continuity
- capn_ron0
Finding myself in San Francisco till the end of August. Wondering if there are any QBNers around that would want to meet up. I'm in NOPA but excited to explore the city. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.
- maquito14
Just booked a floor to stay at Roses (Girona) for 10 days, from Aug. 1st!
Don't hate me too much :-)
- adorableneverscared
- Fuck you, with love.palimpsest
- I fucking hate you, maqui. <3
Text me some pics when you go!Continuity - Ha! I booked just 30km south of there yesterday... but a couple of weeks later. I love the area!OBBTKN
- Ideal for biking, swimming and eating. ¿Qué mejor?OBBTKN
- https://i.haasie.com…palimpsest
- ♥♥maquito
- so beautiful there! was in Girona last summer for our 25th anniversary! have an awesome time!!!exador1
- tks :)maquito
- Yeah what a great place, we had my kids football tournament there a couple of years ago and it was magical. Check out Dali’s house which is nearby_niko
- Hold up, _niko.
You live in Canada and your churren's tournament is in Europe? What kinda one percenter life are you living?palimpsest - Oh, no.
I think what pali's saying, here, is that he thought you were "of the people", niko.
And that he might even be disappointed.Continuity - the kind where it's been 2+ years and I'm still trying to pay it off lol_niko
- Sell the kid take the cannoli.palimpsest
- +1canoe
- What time is dinner?Akagiyama
- I hope that you drown in happiness in that filthy scum water, you fucking cunt wad.utopian
- will hate you just the appropriate amountpango
- this is my response to you
https://youtu.be/iW5…Beeswax
- Morning_star2
Spending a week on Lake Garda after a wedding in Venice (wink). I’m sat by the pool trying to re-read Blood Meridian, you know, something light and joyful.
Every twenty minutes or so one of the other guests kid turns on the jacuzzi. The violent noise, that the bubble-making germ-tub broadcasts, eviscerates the vibe, spilling the entrails of calm onto the pyre. The tension is palpable. What was once a collection of gently roasting, buttered humans turns into an agitated herd of greasy beached walrus.
And then the noise stops and it feels like the moments after an angry tooth ache passes. The gentle buzz of dopamine heightens the relief and for a few more minutes this is the physical manifestation of fine, fine Zero Seven cut.
I’m torn. Highs and lows, peaks and valleys or smooth sailing with none of the drama?
- HA! You've always been a good writer MScanoe
- forget the dumbass lobsters and
get your arse to d'annunzio's place while you're so close.hans_glib - @hans, that’s Thursdays adventure. Really looking forward to it.Morning_star
- hit of weed, pair of headphones... the world would be dead to me
(I'm jealous of your Lake Garda setting tho)PonyBoy
- OBBTKN0
Hellish heat. Oh my... 28ºC in my studio, 37ºC out!!
Luckily, at noon I spent a couple of hours in the pool with my wife.
I can't even imagine those who are working in the sun...
- OBBTKN0
I have to go buy more popcorn. After the latest global political events, I'm left with nothing... and I had tons of it ;)
This, not to say what I really think about the shitshow that the bastards we have put in charge of our nations.
- Krassy10
I discovered this guy and this hilarious video here on QBN several years back.
Tonight I'm going to see him do stand-up in person. Kinda excited. Lol!
- GOATpalimpsest
- "The world is fucked, and you cannot un-fuck it." LMAOKrassy
- ❤︎PhanLo
- fuck crypto. that was the good one he did.cherub
- How was the show?! <3PonyBoy
- Great show ! Funny fellaKrassy
- https://i.imgur.com/…Krassy
- PonyBoy
- NBQ000
Do you believe in Rose Quartz Crystal healing energy?
- Only in Kangen watergrafician
- After I post, and get DVed by the QBN's losers, I just bathe in some Kangen water and all that hate never touches me, it's amazing really
You should try itgrafician - These things cost $5K?NBQ00
- No clue, it was obv a joke :))grafician
- They’re losers because they downvote?monospaced
- rectal administration onlybezoar
- OBBTKN9
Happy solstice!
- Thanks man, it's been a long day.Fax_Benson
- ^ Insee
What you did theremaikel - Lol @FaxOBBTKN
- Sant Joan in Catalunya hitting hard!
https://media.tenor.…maquito
- Gardener0
I was at a car boot on a field recently flipping happily through a box on the grass when a guy leaned over me quite heavily and started pulling stuff at the back of the box, "excuse me" I said as it did seem kinda rude. At that point he grabbed me in a arm lock around my neck pulled me up and pushed me up against the side of a nearby camper van and shouted in my face "YOU DON'T TOUCH THOSE FUCKING RECORDS, RIGHT?!!" and pushed me to the ground. Now this was a big fella, and tbh I'M a big fella but I wasn't going to start fighting in the middle of a field at a Sunday morning car boot sale over a box of LP's! "They're yours!!" I said, at which point he kneeled down and started flicking through, calm as could be. I walked away shaken and despairing at the madness of some folks that just seem to flip at a moments notice. I don't remember there being anything in the box other than Phil Collins and Simply Red albums, so he was welcome to them, the fucker...
- autoflavour3
so im sure this has been asked ad naseum before.. but QBN was one of a crop of a bunch of forward thinking, design focussed portals/communities..
and yes we are all old curmudgeons now.. but what would be the 2025 equivalent? surely the design community didnt just decide not to congregate anymore?
like i know the internet became this homogenous vanilla blob thanks to social media.. but where did all the interesting stuff go?
- and yes, i do speak english.. just not very well apparently LOLautoflavour
- Redditredneck
- people use reddit for other things except porn? interesting hypothesisautoflavour
- i just assumed it was where you go to when you want to see someones OF without paying for someones OF.. *checks notes.. yepautoflavour
- Reddit has whatever you subscribe to, my feed is more like what QBN used to beredneck
- Name the subs you're following theni_monk
- Chick of the day, Fuck Mary kill,redneck
- lolkingsteven
- Kroppalimpsest
- the arguments on here pale by comparison to the shit you read in reddit comments for seemingly noncontroversial postskingsteven
- soup.io (the Austrian tumblr) was my source, but it's dead too. So struggling with the same.Longcopylover
- A long time ago, Mal found a good one, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. I miss that guy.ayport
- lol @i_monkmaquito
- https://www.yayhoora… still going strongautoflavour
- mg331
ideaist,
RE: MyMind - I really like it's purpose, design, and how it's different, but, since it's pretty much tag-based, you can't arrange things in folders or subfolders, and for ALL my bookmarks, it would be totally nuts to drop that into MyMind, especially because MyMind doesn't have robust organization tools like Raindrop.
You also can't import CSV's of other bookmarks into MyMind. That's why I kept it so narrowly focused on design inspiration.
I think with Raindrop I should able to go nuts organizing things, and perhaps even incorporate things I save to Pinterest into it, and other site-based bookmarking. Love having everything in one place.
- mg330
I've been a longtime user of Pocket for bookmarks, and heard that they're closing down this month. I'd used Raindrop for some bookmarks, but I've migrated over all my Pocket bookmarks, and the ones I had in MyMind (which was a really nice visual bookmarking tool, but I wasn't using it at all anymore).
Raindrop has such great organizational capabilities with folders and tags, and now my brain is spinning with OCD delight at getting everything organized.
What do you use for bookmarks? I've never liked browser-based tools because the text-only link name sucks in comparison to visual organization of thumbnails, headlines, excerpts, etc.
- https://mymind.com/
https://raindrop.io/…
JUST signed up for mymind; looks rad / hipster approved with design / noise/texture / etc.
: )ideaist - I used pocket a hair, BUT this has reminded me to document things so I can share accordingly AND want to blog again JUST for my own documentation of things...ideaist
- MyMind is fantastic, but it has a subscription fee. I like Raindrop better and it's cheaper. Way better organization ability.mg33
- I was using MyMind entirely for creative / web design / inspiration bookmarks.mg33
- Raindrop has a ton of integrations as well. Can auto-bookmark Reddit saves, stuff like that.mg33
- ideaist - see convo above.mg33
- I was using pocket too... Argh, will give it a chance to Rd, thanks!OBBTKN
- https://mymind.com/
- Gardener0
final batch of shit pics, even trickier ones!
early 00's at The Garage, London - the clothes they wore is a biggish clue.
Pictured at Glastonbury from a safe distance, not because she was rubbish but there had been DEATH THREATS (biggish clue)
This was even published in Q Magazine (R.I.P.) it's at Wembley Stadium 1988 (BIG clue!)
Another Wembley Stadium gig, Black Uhuru and the J. Geils Band ("my baby was a Centerfold" went down VERY well) were two of the support bands.- 2nd one could be anything. Clue suggests Sinead O'Connor?
#4 could be UB40?Fax_Benson - both way out I'm afraid, 1 & 2 are American 3 & 4 UK artistsGardener
- no idea. 4 looks a bit like the stones again.Fax_Benson
- it IS The Stones - 1982Gardener
- bobby conn top <3kingsteven
- Well spotted sir!Gardener
- 2nd one could be anything. Clue suggests Sinead O'Connor?
- Gardener2
Looking through some boxes I came across some rubbish gig pics I took, most from the early 80's to early 00's. See if you can recognise the band or singer in them, I know who they are of course, but some are so shit that it might be fun to see if you can identify them. Post your own too as I'd love to try and figure out who or what your blurry images might be.
OK, first batch, I've not found that many!
- those stage photos thoughcanoe
- No guesses?Gardener
- no2 is the Stones?Fax_Benson
- no3 = Dylan?Fax_Benson
- bee jees 2cherub
- no1 - young marble giants?Fax_Benson
- #2 is indeed The Stones, 1 is Kirsty McColl, 3 Spirit, 4 Zappa!Gardener
- More soonGardener
- I did think Kirsty McColl. Would never have guessed 3 and 4.Fax_Benson
- Was thinking that's Angus Youngs profile in no4.mort_
- Gardener6
- I have no shame...Gardener
- Listening now thanks!grafician
- Also move these to bandcamp so we can pay you!grafician
- haha, in 34 years of doing this I never considered doing it for money, I'd go bad or off the rails or somethingGardener
- Beer money common :))
wake up and make love :))))grafician - Also these are really well put together, you could really be killing it as a DJ
But until then, thank you for posting these here for us to enjoy *claps*grafician - it was pretty goodcherub
- aww cheers!Gardener
- 80's next, uh oh...Gardener
- Beeswax5
Watching the otherness that's being pushed by individuals and groups all around the world is unbelievable. My automatic reaction is to respond in anger and resentment, supporting this otherness, and start my sentences with "You!..."
But what I'm increasingly witnessing is that there's no otherness; there's no difference and separation. When I start to see through their pain as individuals or societies, my anger subsides. I start seeing myself too, and my will becomes care, help, ease, listening, and seeing. Then I want to start my sentences with "Sister...Brother..."
As one of the examples of this realization, I have friends who are still supporting the man in power; I can't argue with them, I can't dismiss and create another layer of separation in my mind; I shouldn't, as that's the easy way my ego enjoys, to claim superiority**. I only watch their traumas unfolding in front of me as their fears surface, and I make sense of the senseless only that way. **Just like nations at war with each other. How ironic.I also met someone who supported zionist ideology last year, in the community that we were living in. I heard her reasoning, I didn't say anything, didn't give any responses, she shared her pakalolo with me, she gave my son a swimming lesson with utmost care, love and patience. I saw her fears, I saw her desire to do good. Later I removed her from seeing my shares on FB, I didn't want her to be offended by my posts, that's not the way I want her to relate with me, I wanted good memories to last and avoid a complete detachment from each other. I'm not marking that as avoidance or accomodation, I think it's what we need in the midst of conflict.
I want to forgive everyone and myself and move on. The opposite neither worked, nor brought me peace and safety in this life-time.
I just wish that we could mass-heal humanity, put all of us on a path that would just show us who we are gradually and help us achieve balance.
If that doesn't happen, the way we get dealt with(historically), as a manifestation of our fears, is a catastrophe where we are pushed towards living that fear, living through the horror, and then unite in suffering.
I hope humanity doesn't have to go through that hard lesson again. I'm praying not just with words but by collecting strength and information, working on my wounds for how we might reach through to each other with a genuine intention. For some reason, I feel that, this is most possible than ever, or maybe that is just my way to handle the weight of events all around.- this is what I shared with my community on FB. I thought I have a community here too so why not share here. Written by me, punctuations corrected by AI.Beeswax
- The point is, I want to take a different path from now on, and not watch my ego blasting in fear and anger.Beeswax
- think you have ppl around with different opinions and still can share beers with them over a tablegrafician
- just stop at flat earthers man, that fight is not worth it...grafician
- loll. They are the least harmful of all though. Having a beer and discussing why we don't fall off the edge could be entertaining.Beeswax
- I don't know any flat earther, but, I wouldn't mind having a beer with one either. The world is full of ignorant people, but these ones are harmless...OBBTKN
- Good luck on your "new path". It's going to be easy, too much noise.OBBTKN
- Sorry: "it's not going to be easy..." 8am no coffee ;)OBBTKN
- respect! well said!renderedred
- Strange how the mind can be razor-sharp in self-awareness—yet totally miss the part where you’re an invader in someone else’s homeland, like Hawaii.hotroddy
- I understand you. And your desire to find a home. It's not out in this world though. If you think it is, then there's the fear of invasion everywhere.Beeswax
- And I'm really sorry that you felt that "otherness". For whatever a quality that you carry. You're not other and I appreciate your response.Beeswax
- I'm not an "other," and I've noticed that those who insist on identifying that way do it to fill a void or fuel their narcissism. Just assimilate—no one careshotroddy
