Someone else on another social media platform pointed this out, which looked pretty cool. If I understand correctly this was a limited run of minis, done in collaboration between a Chinese museum and a toy company called 52Toys. Sadly seems no longer available. #minis #terracottawarriors

Just me hanging out with Cassie. She enjoys hugging the arms of furniture on occasion. #caturday #cats #selfie

And once again, with #AltText4You "We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the weapon industry. Capitalism […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

every single slopbot psychosis sounds exactly the same, i can't believe sam altman has gentrified Time Cube

Finally found a use for this dark pattern. Can we get this installed on all our lawmakers phones? #uspol #fuckice #defundice

Review - Kaiba (2008) (No relation to the Yu-Gi-Oh character of the same name.) [ Possible trigger warnings for dysmorphia, body horror (?), callous brutality, and sexually suggestive details. ] Non-thread version here […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Review - Kaiba (2008) (No relation to the Yu-Gi-Oh character of the same name.) [ Possible trigger warnings for dysmorphia, body horror (?), callous brutality, and sexually suggestive details. ] Non-thread version here […] [Original post on dice.camp]

"If you strike me down I shall get up again You're never gonna keep me down" - Obi-Wan Kenobi

Sometimes our cat doesn't want to curl up right against us, but still wants to maintain a point of contact while we sleep. My wife mentioned waking in the night Sometimes to find the cat between us with forepaws on one person and hind paws on the other. #caturday #cats

Our eldest offspring recently texted: "Audio book in one ear, different audio book in the other. My fingers reading Braille, my eyes reading print. I call it booksmaxxing." #hyperliteracy #puns #humor

Someone on another platform shared this quote, with the implication that it reflected the mindset of tech executives pushing the current LLM/AI bubble. To my thinking, it was equally relevant to all folks in positions of wealth and power subjecting the rest of us […] [Original post on dice.camp]

When I say I do my best work out of spite

"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖" via Mike Bales

In New York, USA. 🇺🇸

this front cannot fall #plan9 #9front #cirno #glenda #catv #unix_surrealism

'Snow at Miyajima' - Kawase Hasui, 1928. #ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth #ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you. In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID. The man calmly asks the most basic […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

The Shop and Art for Sale at my website are open again. These original drawings, prints, and many others are available now. www.tomgauld.com

Oh dear CBS has FOIA'd the full text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM

Riso print made today for @thentrythis project which should be launching this week ✨

welcome home, purple #unix_surrealism #comic #linux #openbsd #technomage #penguin #fish #art

Mozilla's survey about the future of Mozilla and AI is terribly biased towards AI. Make your voices heard. Tell Mozilla to be stewards of privacy and the open web, to not use AI and to stop violating the trust of the users https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201 #privacy #noai #firefox

we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory

I was going to propose what i thought was a great business venture: Food for Thoth - A small cafe with an ancient Egyptian motif, which carries an extensive sideline in stationery and fancy writing supplies. --- But looking it up, apparently a lot of people already used the business name […]

Pleasant way to start a #caturday #cats

In #JapaneseFolklore Namazu is a giant catfish who lives under the islands of Japan and causes violent earthquakes. Once people prayed to the gods to stop the earthquakes and they searched everywhere for the cause, finally realising it was Namazu. Eventually the gods found... #LegendaryWednesday 1/3

[Fiction satirizing American brutality] "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death" By Charlotte_Stant [fan fiction of 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson] #fanfiction #satire #ShirleyJackson https://archiveofourown.org/works/73396436?view_adult=true

## DON PASQUALE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VAMPIRES My taxi crawled through a winding road. There were cypresses around, dark and quiet. Light was warm orange. What a beautiful country. I was left by a big house, made of pale stone. The car disappeared behind a dust cloud. By the door there […]

'Moon and Lake Biwa' from the series 'The Scenic Places of Tokaido' - Utagawa Yoshitsuya, 1863. #FullMoon #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

@futurebird Operation Enduring Epstein

snowfall, ahorntal, jan 2026 #monochrome #photography #blackandwhite

[ after a LOTR chapter where the party is shot at by orcs while trying to avoid a waterfall ] WIFE: "Well, that was harrowing." ME: "And arrowing!" WIFE: "Who's Arowyn? I know about Éowyn and Arwen, but I don't remember her." ME: "She was Legolas's girlfriend." WIFE: "And he was her […]

I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

Help identifying a story? My daughter asked me if I remember reading her a story years ago that she thinks was about a (ice?) skater having a conversation with a woman she believes is her mother. And the mother saying she had the ice skater through parthanogenesis. No other details provided […]

'Hall of the Golden Hue at Hiraizumi' - Kawase Hasui, 1957. This was Hasui's final work before his death later the same year. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a belief that when animals and birds reach advanced age they can transform into #yokai. Aosagibi (blue heron fire) is a phenomenon that occurs when an elderly night heron develops supernatural qualities. Over time the heron's feathers begin to... #LegendaryWednesday 1/6

'Saishoin Temple in Snow, Hirosaki' - Kawase Hasui, 1936. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

My Anime Year(+) in Review I fell behind reviewing a few anime I'd watched recently and started trying to at least list the ones from this year. Apparently it was a lot more than "a few", so I started a spreadsheet. Before I'd only have considered series I'd finished entirely. But that leaves […]

c. perfoliata #art #furry

WIFE: "I have all the letters to spell 'UNGOLIANT'." ME: "Nerd!" WIFE: "Unfortunately proper nouns aren't allowed." ME: [tune of Sussudio] "Just say the word, Un-go-go-goliant!" WIFE: "Also I'm missing an 'I'." #familyconversations #jolkienrolkienrolkientolkien #philcollins #spellingbee

#cat #caturday

Man. Looks like Dragon Ball Z got a lot edgier than I remember it being in my youth. #anime #badtakes

Red pill, blue pill, yellow pill, etc. story? After The Matrix, someone (maybe on Tumblr) wrote a post about different colored pills, each granting a specific power. Then a series of vignettes how life works out when individuals take each pill type. Then the characters interact and it gradually […]

Think positive: In an Ordovician sea of radiodonts be a radioDO💫

She is excited to help you recycle and compost that tree!