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A picture of the most handsome brown tabby you could imagine , sitting on a green couch, looking at the camera
RIP Tonka
Tonka was a rescue we took home in May to help heal the hole we had in our hearts after our kitty passed after 19 years with us.
He apparently had a heart condition, and out of nowhere today had an aneurysm, and we had to put him down.
He was big , beautiful , and we didn’t have enough time with him.
I just thought everyone should get a chance to see how goddamn handsome he was.
Tonka was a rescue we took home in May to help heal the hole we had in our hearts after our kitty passed after 19 years with us.
He apparently had a heart condition, and out of nowhere today had an aneurysm, and we had to put him down.
He was big , beautiful , and we didn’t have enough time with him.
I just thought everyone should get a chance to see how goddamn handsome he was.
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I'm sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxooooooo
What a handsome fellow! You gave him a good life, he was well-loved. RIP good kitty!
So handsome! I’m sorry you didn’t get more time with Tonka.
ufff Tonka! <3 <3 <3 so sorry for your loss
Beautiful boy!
What a beautiful boy, sorry your time with him was so short
To live in hearts that love is not to die.
what a beautiful big guy. that big, serious face reminds me of an older cat i adopted many years ago.
so sorry you lost him so soon, but bless you for giving him the stability and love for the time that you could
so sorry you lost him so soon, but bless you for giving him the stability and love for the time that you could
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Three panel gag strip with an owl called Hibou.
Panel one: Hibou is in a tiny little boat at sea, perfectly content and singing/mumbling 'la-di-da, la-did-da'
Panel two: Hibou put out a fishing rod. Says out loud: 'such blissful solitude'.
Panel three: Hibou catches a fish, and reels it in. The fish looks scared, with a hook in its mouth. Hibou looks angrily at the fish and says 'Leave me alone'
Panel one: Hibou is in a tiny little boat at sea, perfectly content and singing/mumbling 'la-di-da, la-did-da'
Panel two: Hibou put out a fishing rod. Says out loud: 'such blissful solitude'.
Panel three: Hibou catches a fish, and reels it in. The fish looks scared, with a hook in its mouth. Hibou looks angrily at the fish and says 'Leave me alone'
For the past 25 years, I've been making this gag strip with an owl called Hibou. It gets published about four times a year in Dutch underground Comix magazine Zone 5300. I still have to make my first book, but now and again, I managed to get a translation done. This is the latest one.
Also: watercolour, no retouch, apart from slight cleanup of the text.
Also: watercolour, no retouch, apart from slight cleanup of the text.
haha, oh i love this. if you ever published a book of them (or any of your art) i'd be first in line.
also, hah, this one has the vibe of "i only want to live life, plant potatoes, and dream!"
also, hah, this one has the vibe of "i only want to live life, plant potatoes, and dream!"
@nikkuneko thank you! It might be in Dutch though!!!!
I love you, Hibou
What @BennyTheIcepick said!
I was curious and just tested it. Machine translation can read your hand drawn lettering without issues and will save us all (after it destroyed us).
The text in the three comic panels translates to "Tra-la-la, tra-la-la...", "...une si douce solitude", and "Laisse-moi tranquille !" in French.
Terrible unsolicited response: ‘The artist signature in the bottom left panel ("waa") belongs to Wayne Anderson, a noted British illustrator known for his whimsical, watercolor-styled artwork.’
You *really* need to make that book, so AI can be better trained. /s
The text in the three comic panels translates to "Tra-la-la, tra-la-la...", "...une si douce solitude", and "Laisse-moi tranquille !" in French.
Terrible unsolicited response: ‘The artist signature in the bottom left panel ("waa") belongs to Wayne Anderson, a noted British illustrator known for his whimsical, watercolor-styled artwork.’
You *really* need to make that book, so AI can be better trained. /s
@mare 🤬⚡️$!#% Wayne Anderson (and AI)
Wow, I love the style, and it looks fun as well. I work as a comics editor in Norway, and my company currently publish three semi-monthly humor anthologies with mostly humor strips. It would be fun to see some more if you are ever inclined to put together a pdf of some of your favorites. 25 years and 4 times a year – is that just one strip per appearance, or several?
@hassebasse can you give me some links to your anthologies? Even if they're in Norwegian? I will try and put together a PDF, but I have only translated a handful of them. I still have to put together a book, but my style has changed a little bit over the decades so it'll be an odd book :-)
Note: I don't know what can of comic box your into, but also work for a comix festival in Rotterdam (Cross Comix) that is very much into more alternative independent comic artists. Just take a look and let me know if it's interesting to connect about that as well: https://crosscomix.eu | https://www.instagram.com/crosscom...
Note: I don't know what can of comic box your into, but also work for a comix festival in Rotterdam (Cross Comix) that is very much into more alternative independent comic artists. Just take a look and let me know if it's interesting to connect about that as well: https://crosscomix.eu | https://www.instagram.com/crosscom...
I love this!
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Variant of the Gadsden flag has Jimothy, a mutant raccoon with no neck, chopping down a surveillance-camera-festooned pole with a handsaw above the inscription “DON’T SPY ON ME” on a yellow field.
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illustration of a boy smashing cans with a hammer captioned "It's wise to provide constructive outlet for feelings of intense anger." with the boy labelled 'ME' and the cans labeled 'THIS'
it is also wise to empty the cans first, unless you are in an easily-cleaned environment
I am small of brain and I can't figure out what fruit or vegetable commonly sold in cans contains the letters "ANE."
@1f2frfbf obviously it’s a can of BANES
@1f2frfbf Canned Habaneros? I don't think so.
Africaneggplant?
I'm just being silly now.
Japanese anything!
Africaneggplant?
I'm just being silly now.
Japanese anything!
@1f2frfbf so close! https://www.melissas.com/products...
When I came to Montreal I compacted all beverage cans by stepping on them, like I had always done in the Netherlands. Back then I drank a lot of Coke Zero while driving, so I accumulated quite a few cans. After a few months when I went to return a big bag full of compacted cans I found out that the deposit machines worked by reading the bar code (it could be a can from Ontario! The horror…) and then compressed it so it couldn’t be returned twice. So my cans were ‘stolen’ cans and I (or any can collector) would never get the deposit back, not even when processed by hand at the counter. Lesson learned. (I stopped drinking Coke Zero after a kidney stone.)
@mare Massachusetts had similar rules, to prevent those scandalous New Hampshire cans from being redeemed. Back in 90s, the local grocery store went from having a person look at them to a machine that meticulously scanned the barcode on the can. Not sure if the scanner or some anti-homeless bias (both?) demanded the cans be almost perfectly spherical to be accepted
@mare Same system as here in Scandinavia. We have cranked the deposit up to 20 / 30 cents per can/bottle, so more than 90 % of bottles and cans are recycled.
@roonie That's probably as close as we're gonna get, but the rest of those letters must be pretty bunched up on the other side of the can.
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a cartoon with sound effects in Japanese. A human moved a remote to keep a cat from knocking it over. The cat then cuddles with the human until it can get close to the new location of the remote in order to knock it to the floor.
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This is why you should buy a boat
The frogman! Blast from the past
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Man in a suit standing at ease in a room with high ceilings, hand-painted foliage on the walls, ornate furniture, elaborately patterned carpet, and an extraordinary 7-sided fireplace in the wall.
wow, i love that wall treatment
I'm loving that heptagonal fireplace!
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A picture of a six-story building's roof with a trampoline on it. The trampoline is by the roof's edge and the placement of it could result in falling from the building roof if you jumped on it.
Title +++++++
Pretty sure it's in Darwin, AI.
No sweet jumps.
Park-ow
Not shown: Wile E Coyote falling from an overhead airplane
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Pictures of a brick bbq
After seeing the pit that is Kreuz Market(s) in Lockhart years ago, I've been dreaming of building something like it if the bricks ever materialized - and they did! $25 for around 900 last fall. Wanted a smoker / grill combo. Grill found online for $600 from a small manufacturerr in Argentina. I'd done very minimal masonry work, but this gave me a new level of respect and awe for brick masons.
Cooks have been predictable and delicious Holds heat like a mofo.
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media...
edit: Poured the slab last fall..otherwise took 3 months to complete
Cooks have been predictable and delicious Holds heat like a mofo.
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media...
edit: Poured the slab last fall..otherwise took 3 months to complete
Looks great. Did you DIY the design or follow plans?
@samh thanks! I designed the layout myself based around what I'd seen on BBQ forums and looking at how people were setting up their argentinian /gaucho grills.
DAMN, son! What’s your signature dish?
Le grille?!? What the hell is that?!?
I commented before you had a chance to type up this nice description I see. It turned out awesome and I love that you pieced it together with various bits and parts.
@MackReed Still searching for the perfect one. Def more fish dishes coming. So many possibilities.
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A small humanoid machine stands in a bright green space. The humanoid is a tarnished coppery color, and has a large, lopsided metal head with bolts and seams in it. There isn't much to its face other than two round holes, one of which has a greenish glass lens in it. Its body is the size of its head. In its left hand, it is holding a mirror, which it is peering at. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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An inkjet print out of two computer keyboards showing how Apple's Cairo font is mapped to the various keys
Collection SFMOMA
Gift of the designer, jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York
© Susan Kare
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork...
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.
Gift of the designer, jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York
© Susan Kare
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork...
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.
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NATO HQ opposite the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Built 1952 demolished in 1960
Exterior view https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images...
Exterior view https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images...
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It's not the first time this has happened by far, but this was the most beautiful one. Gosh, do I hate cleaning it up afterwards.
Like a pressed-tin ceiling.
Oof!
This is most definitely the only case where my "mural" would be as good as yours.
@bocaj Oh my goodness. I immediately imagine some kind of microwave splatter gun I could use to make a mural :-) (also: best kind of compliment! Thanks! )
it's giving Studio 54 dance floor
@Argie 👏👏👏👏 that zaps me right back to a club here in town with cocaine dealers in leather jackets, low ceilings, slippery floors and the smell of cigarettes, sweat and beer in your clothes the next day.
@waa ahhh I can see it (and smell it) now 😁
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Chinese/English sign saying 'no flirting', crossed out image of couple having sex
Well, that escalated quickly!
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vintage tub in a pedestal shaped a bit like a bed
"well, i have a bedbath, but i don't have an andbeyond yet"
@nikkuneko XD
Where' the cheese board?
mmmmm damp velour... mmmmmm
@nikkuneko HA!
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Photo of the author (with added agony)
AI render of a photo of me, representing the feeling when I pulled out the stent that had been keeping my left kidney from being blocked by 2 kidney stones for over 3 months. It should have been removed by a nurse, but the string on the outside end had come loose and pulling down undies partly pulled out about 8cm of the stent. The stent itself was about 25cm (10 inches) long with spirals at both ends.
Not shown - the two post-op bouts of extreme pain when drugs wore off. Now I know what a '10' on the pain scale feels like..
Kidney stones are no fun. It's now 6 weeks in the past, thankfully!
NSFW for representation of pain
Not shown - the two post-op bouts of extreme pain when drugs wore off. Now I know what a '10' on the pain scale feels like..
Kidney stones are no fun. It's now 6 weeks in the past, thankfully!
NSFW for representation of pain
Argh. Oof. Glad you're better!
Yikes, here’s hoping you won’t have to do that again
When an ER nurse says to you "I've had two kids and one kidney stone and the kidney stone was far more painful" you stop pain vomiting momentarily to reflect on how terrible your karma must be before screaming "MORE FUCKING DILAUDID WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!???".
Kidney stones are the worst. Lesson I just learned is that eating a bunch of Tums can lead to them. I have a couple of (thankfully) small ones floating around thanks to Tums.
Requiem for a Gleet
@ian_whitney Oooooh, useful hint, thank you.
I feel your pain. I once had a kidney stone block urination for three days by lodging in the urethra. The relief when it was removed!
Stay hydrated.
i had my appendix out last year, learned in the ER that i was immune to morphine.
Wishing quick recovery for you!
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black and white photograph: a row of tall enclosed booths with privacy curtains partly drawn. inside the first booth is a woman, and the second booth, a man. they are both using the bell labs "picturephone", which featured a cone-shaped cathode ray screen enclosure and an attached handset. on the screens, an image of the person to whom they are speaking is visible.
(photographer unknown; will add a credit if i find it)
originally found here:
https://ethw.org/Picturephone
higher-res image sourced from the piece here:
https://flashbak.com/the-fant...
originally found here:
https://ethw.org/Picturephone
higher-res image sourced from the piece here:
https://flashbak.com/the-fant...
I think maybe it’s Garry Winogrand from his 1967 roadtrip?
The future we were promised
I miss having to isolate oneself to make a phone call in public.
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Myself and middle daughter at the field museum in Chicago this afternoon.
Myself and middle daughter at the field museum in Chicago this afternoon.
I can say with scientifical certainty that you are a hot dude!
@hassebasse with cool hair.
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<Turtle and Snail stand with Mouse in an open field; Mouse is holding a skull>
Mouse: "Hey friends, check this out!"
<Turtle and Snail look shocked>
Turtle: "Oh my god, Mouse, did you kill a guy??"
<Mouse puts the skull down>
Mouse: "No, no. It was already like this."
<Close up on the skull who now speaks>
Skull: "I killed a guy once. It cost me everything."
<Turtle and Snail are shown again>
Snail: "And so you were cursed to an existence between life and death-- one that is no life at all-- to dwell forever on the mistakes of your mortal coil?"
<Back to Skull>
Skull: "Wow, making a lot of assumptions about the talking skull here."
<Still on Skull>
Skull: "But essentially yes, that is the situation."
<Mouse and Skull are shown>
Mouse: "Good guess, Snail."
<Turtle and Snail are shown>
Snail: "Stereotypes exist for a reason."
Mouse: "Hey friends, check this out!"
<Turtle and Snail look shocked>
Turtle: "Oh my god, Mouse, did you kill a guy??"
<Mouse puts the skull down>
Mouse: "No, no. It was already like this."
<Close up on the skull who now speaks>
Skull: "I killed a guy once. It cost me everything."
<Turtle and Snail are shown again>
Snail: "And so you were cursed to an existence between life and death-- one that is no life at all-- to dwell forever on the mistakes of your mortal coil?"
<Back to Skull>
Skull: "Wow, making a lot of assumptions about the talking skull here."
<Still on Skull>
Skull: "But essentially yes, that is the situation."
<Mouse and Skull are shown>
Mouse: "Good guess, Snail."
<Turtle and Snail are shown>
Snail: "Stereotypes exist for a reason."
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vintage ad for a product called "KABOB-IT" with the caption "come and see a lot of delicious new ways to entertain"
Title!
I always wanted to do a cenobite-themed Halloween hors d'oeuvres on a plastic head with squares of meat on toothpicks.
But seriously I love the conceit of assuming that if you jam a heating element through some chunks of beef, the meat's going to taste just as good as if you had roasted them over a fire pit.
@ardgedee oh, the metal shaft doesn't heat, there is a central core that heats.
here is a drag queen review: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
here is a drag queen review: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Film loop of a panicked man at the wheel checking in front, left, right, behind for something he clearly fears
I have to turn across 4 lane highway traffic leaving my office everyday, so I am very much Leonardo
Me, in Los Angeles, trusting Google Maps navigation.
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Psychedelic cutaway view of a human head in profile, with a colorful abstract representation of the brain and spine. Some wires extend down from the bottom of the image.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Gene Szafran's 1972 cover to "Fun with Your New Head," by Thomas M. Disch.
Gene Szafran's 1972 cover to "Fun with Your New Head," by Thomas M. Disch.
One two three FOUR FIVE six seven eight NINE TEN eleven tweeeeeeeeelve!