Time for more music, right? Cause the March never ends. Not much to say about this one, ska bands will cover just about anything, so how about Come on Eileen? Yeah, who had that on their bingo card?
paypal just deadnamed my friend to my dad who has never done business with them and therefore making my dad think he got hacked. because they saw that i sent my friend money and thought he might want to too. hello?
Ok, here we are, day 11 and another cover for y'all. Everyone knows Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor, right? Actually hers is a cover, in fact its the third version, Prince wrote it for a band he backed, The Family, and it was on their debut album, plus naturally he recorded it. But here's a different take on it from Chris Cornell.
Dirty van art might be the most unlikely street art medium of all. Nikita Golubev (aka ProBoyNick) and a handful of grime magicians turn winter salt, soot, and road dust into crowned riders, fossil skeletons, anti-war messages, exhausted warriors, and even gorillas staring out of rear windows. The best part is how temporary it all is — one rainstorm and the whole gallery disappears.
Here are 13 unforgettable dirty van art photos, including a few alternate angles that were simply too good to skip, proving that a filthy vehicle can become a masterpiece on wheels.
Dirty van art might be the most unlikely street art medium of all. Nikita Golubev (aka ProBoyNick) and a handful of grime magicians turn winter salt, soot, and road dust into crowned riders, fossil skeletons, anti-war messages, exhausted warriors, and even gorillas staring out of rear windows. The best part is how temporary it all is — one rainstorm and the whole gallery disappears.
Here are 13 unforgettable dirty van art photos, including a few alternate angles that were simply too good to skip, proving that a filthy vehicle can become a masterpiece on wheels.
Golubev makes the truck doors feel like they have opened into a beam from another world. The dirt is not just the canvas here, it becomes the atmosphere, the glow, and the whole emotional weather of the scene.
🦍 Gorilla Window
There is something incredibly satisfying about seeing a silverback emerge from the back glass of an ordinary car. The rear window shape and wiper make this one feel extra site-specific, like the vehicle was always waiting for a gorilla to appear.
💡 Fun Fact: The technique of drawing in vehicle dirt is sometimes called “reverse graffiti” or “subtractive street art,” because the artist isn’t adding paint to the truck—they are just selectively cleaning it.
☮️ I Pray for Peace
This is one of the quietest and hardest-hitting pieces in the whole dirty van art universe. The dangling flower and the toy-like tanks make the message feel heartbreakingly simple, which is exactly why it lingers.
🦴 City Skeleton
This one turns a truck into a rolling fossil bed. The long rib cage slides beautifully across the metal panel, while the misty skyline behind it makes the whole thing feel half museum exhibit, half winter ghost story.
💡 Fun Fact: Because reverse graffiti is technically just “cleaning” part of a dirty car rather than adding paint or damaging property, it exists in a legal gray area. It’s incredibly hard for police to charge the artist with vandalism when all they’re doing is wiping away dust with their fingers.
👑 The Head, Close View
The tighter crop makes the severed crown and the horse’s face feel even more theatrical. It looks like a medieval legend dragged straight through slush, darkness, and city traffic.
👁️ Cyklops
This is such a simple composition, but that is exactly why it works. The lonely curled figure feels fragile, exhausted, and completely at home in the blank gray emptiness of the van doors.
⚔️ Tired
A warrior sitting beside his fallen sword is already a powerful idea, but the snowfall and dark truck surface take it somewhere poetic. It feels like the exact moment after the battle, when the noise is gone and only fatigue remains.
🚫 Stop the Dark Side
Blunt message, perfect medium. The stormtrooper gesture and the huge hand-scratched text give this piece the energy of a protest sign that just happened to hijack a truck.
💀 Snow on the Screen, Wide View
From a distance it reads like a stain or a shadow, then the skulls begin revealing themselves one by one. That slow realization is what makes this anti-war image so unsettling and so memorable.
🐴 The Head, Daylight View
Seen wider and in daylight, the whole truck becomes part of the composition. The road grime, snowbanks, and quiet street give the rider an even stronger folklore mood.
❄️ Tired, Angled View
This second angle shows exactly why placement matters so much in dirty van art. The slanted truck body makes the warrior look even more isolated, like he is guarding the last little patch of silence on the street.
🕯️ Snow on the Screen, Close Detail
Up close, the piece stops being symbolic and turns almost unbearable. The repeated skulls feel like static, graves, and faces all at once, which is exactly what makes this detail impossible to forget.
🚚 A Masterpiece on Wheels
This isn’t just someone doodling “Wash Me” with a finger. It’s a full-blown portrait rolling down the highway. The fact that one heavy rainstorm will wash the whole gallery away just makes it better.
I suspect most people outside of the UK won't have heard about the post office scandal, but it seems highly relevant to learn about now (given *waves* this):
For over 15 years, the software post offices in the UK had to use contained severe bugs, particular in accounting, that everyone at Fujitsu/horizon and the post blissfully ignored. Over 900 (!!!) postmasters were sentenced for alleged theft and fraud, some went to jail, some committed suicide. All because the software was shit and everyone who could do something about it didn't care and swept it under the rug.
Everything, including how it was uncovered, about this seems bizarre and Kafkaesque, but we better prepare for it to happen more often.
People seem to have learned NOTHING from the Post Office Horizon Scandal.
The AI bubble is PREDICATED on software productivity being prioritised over anything being any good.
PEOPLE WILL DIE.
Why did the #Epstein Estate provide hush money to Trump victim after Epstein's death? Could it be that Trump was campaigning for re-election in 2020 and was unable to pay the hush money directly, leading the estate of his deceased friend to step in to silence the claims? The FBI report show both Trump and Epstein were involved in the abuse of girls.
A Trump accuser received a payout from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein! Today, Richard Kahn, Epstein's former accountant, testified under oath before Congress that a Trump accuser 'was given a settlement' by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. This suggests that Epstein assisted Trump in concealing his crimes.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) dropped a bomb, telling reporters that a President Donald Trump accuser "was given a settlement" by Jeffrey Epstein's estate.
I generate maintainable code which does exactly what it's supposed to do and can explain every single line and what it does with great accuracy.
I can also use my bio-mechanical thinking machine to predict future challenges and incorporate pro-active solutions, extrapolating from historical data commonly referred to as "experience".
And I come at the price of being only slightly slower than generative AI and costing significantly less electrical energy to operate.
Also, I can actually be reasonably expected to put some effort into my work as long as you treat me appropriately, because I'm a social living thing.
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"We did what we did not by accident, and we will not return the money to them."
Hungary's minister just confirmed the seizure of $40M+ in Ukrainian state funds was a deliberate operation - and threatened to do it again until Russia's Druzhba pipeline reopens. euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/10…
For several years now, public EV charging points in Amsterdam have also been used to provide temporary power supplies for construction projects and events, for example. The city is now actively promoting this as an alternative to diesel generators on construction sites.
i don't know about Amsterdam but the building code here demands "construction outlets" for that since "ever". Never heard a diesel generator, except for compressed air. And where is the problem in hooking into some cable? That's done in an hour. I guess some weird legal issues are the true culprits for the use of generators.
Recent court decisions are making it increasingly difficult for trans and nonbinary people to go to work with dignity and privacy. Complete our Workers Survey to help us push the government to update the law and make trans inclusion possible again! tinyurl.com/TransActualWorkers…
So, because I'm cheap, I buy clearance food at the local grocery store, sandwiches, salads, microwavable meals, the stuff you find up in the deli or prepared food area, freeze it, then defrost it when I'm ready. This stuff isn't expired, but it is sell by the day I get it.
Today's second lunch/first dinner was going to be chicken tenders, corn and mashed potatoes with gravy. Took the lid off as you have to remove it to microwave it, and…
The mashed potatoes are grey. Ummm, yeah, I think we'll skip that.
I have no clue how ya'll actually FULLY clean your fountain pens, like, fully residue-free.
By now I've accepted I'll just need a seperate converter for each ink, as I don't have the feeling any non-metal part ever gets fully clean with just water.
Ah well, time to let it all rest in water over night for the occasional ink refresher. 😅😭
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