Curious and ancient things

[oldinterneticons]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Market Square of Zwiesel, Bavaria, Germany

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1917

[pwlanier]

Painted dainty Zillertal chest, dated 1841

Green type, pine wood body with integrated round sawn base, original painting fabric, the front divided in five fields and painted florally, in the base area year number and owner's writing "Mihael Haas", pliers lock, key, side drawer, gallery with supplemented strip, hinged lid with profiled frame fields and marbled edge strips, height approx. 84 cm, width approx. 120 cm, depth approx. 67 cm, partially bumped, old throwing marks, age and signs of use.

Dorotheum

[glasratz]

Up to the 1970s antiques dealers roamed the countryside bought painted furniture in masses - and the stripped all the paint off because it looked more antique and fit better with home decor.

[evan-collins90]

'Cafe Site' cybercafé on 'Media Street', part of the subterranean Samsung Plaza mall underneath Samsung headquarters - Seoul, South Korea (late 1990s)

Designed by JGA, Inc.

Scanned from Retail and Restaurant Spaces by Kristen Richards (1999)

[theodorafrompluto]

Circe's Palace (1907)

by Maxfield Parrish

[beduerus]

I've only gone and bloody done it, finished my toff for my new Slug's Lament cult! Most of this is from this year's wh+ miniature, The Summons (I took one of the skellies out, snipped the necromancer off the grave, and built up a place for Naps to stand out of green stuff). Zombie Napoleon is from Eureka Miniatures. I made a flagpole out of toothpicks and the flag out of the tube tomato puree comes in.

[glasratz]

Earthworm

[une-valse-pour-rien]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Travis McGee on Enshittifcation (1974):

There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase the market penetration. Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units of something and make a profit of thirty cents a unit, when you can increase the advertising, sell five million units, and make a nickel profit a unit. Thus the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes. And gin.

[realneverever]

Pegnitz, 1950s

Pegnitz, 2026-05-17

[glasratz]

If you want to visit Pegnitz, remember it closes around noon and on sundays.

[sport-news-daily]

*watching a race* god theyre going around in a circle again !? have they learned NOTHING

[glasratz]

Loriot moment

[glasratz]

Von Schwepperleyn's Moss Buffalos, my Turnip28 regiment, is finally finished.

From left to right:

In back row: Stump Gun, Lump

In the middle row: Fodder, Brutes, Chaffs

Front: Toadie, Toff, Toadie

Kitbashing was fun, but painting not so much. Still, I plan to do a snail knight and maybe Aunts Ascendant if I can find the parts. I'm not going to play though, there's just nobody in my area.

[dychelicerae]

good thing she didn't overreact

[glasratz]

The house spiders in my flower pots every time I water the plants. Sometimes I wonder how spiders manage to survive.

[glasratz]

Crumbling former watermill, Saxony, Germany.

[dduane]

Meanwhile, over at the Atlantic...

There's a confused lady claiming that Terry Pratchett's likely to be forgotten because he's "unfilmable."

I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett

One of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history.

(Archived link here: https://archive.is/20260524114144/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/author-terry-pratchett-film/687253/ )

[unteriors]

Bruceville Road, Meherrin, Virginia.

[glasratz]

I especially like the flammable decoration on top of the very dangerous looking heater.

[dozydawn]

[glasratz]

I've read quite a lot by Alfred Brehm, his animal stories are often very funny - until the animal in question dies horribly due to lack of decent care. So it's best to stick to what he writes about cats and dogs.