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Scissorclouded blazing city /
breaking moonlight from the day /
mixing silver into noontime /
stack fresh hours on the sill

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the sickos guy in 18–19th century clothes leering down from an ornate picture frame, saying “Aye… ha ha ha… AYE!”
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Dante Ringhiero’s 1944 ‘Inferno: Ultimo canto e altre fascinazisterie romanesche’ pamphlet cover, with Andrew Cuomo up to his neck in the 9th circle’s ice in place of Mussolini from https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/visionsofdante/fame_fascism.php#REX069_044 Pseudonymous author “Dante Ringhiero” Inferno: Ultimo canto e altre fascinazisterie romanesche (Inferno: The Final canto and other fascist-nazi-ing ditties) Edizioni ABC, 1944 8 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches (20.64 x 16.19 cm) Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections This anti-Fascist pamphlet from a fake publisher places Mussolini in the ninth circle of Hell, among the traitors to family and homeland: they are immersed in the ice up to their faces. The pseudonym chosen by the author means, “I will growl the name of Dante.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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hell yeah bappy bday!
September 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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also clippy might be able to be larger on the card with a translucent background, like this
September 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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blocked me too
doesn't seem like how a genuine liberal/progressive activist account would handle being questioned
August 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Rhinoceros
Damien Kempf
an old-timey looking colorful drawing of a rhino on parchment, it's wearing a sort of gilded-and-red armor ensemble on its body and head, is standing on green grass with small rocks, behind its butt on the page is lettering that's turned on its side, which seems to say "Rhinoceros" in latin and greek, followed by a description of this fellow in latin
April 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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painting of christopher lee as dracula, red eyes blood all over his face, looking gross and evil
April 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Ani ruins
a broad, winding valley with green at its base, surrounded by buff grassland a small church-looking building, two stories, round, the bottom partially ruined / patched w/ brick in a meadow w/ wildflowers ruin, all that remains is what looks like part of the interior of an old church, with rounded walls and arches arched wall that may have been part of a church or classical building on a grassy hillside
April 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Zdzisław Beksiński
creature crawling on all fours away from a burning city visible in background, white gauze-wrapped head with a crimson stain over its face, feeling along the ground with skeletal right hand, with a dark fuzzy body and a quadraped's legs, a barren plain with a few wrecked items and burnt out trees visible between him and the burning city buildings. the image's colors and feel are of a fiery hell
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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pandas snow boost
one panda cub boosting another up onto an overhanging branch. a short length of bamboo fence is behind them in front of a stone block wall, there's fluffy snow on the ground, branch, fence, and pandas
April 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Dodecahedral construction
a dodecahedron (d12 shape, 12 sided w/ pentagonal faces constructued of wires, surrounded by a bunch of larger dodecahedron frames
April 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Cold
Remedios Varo, 1948
A bird-headed, taloned, caped, translucent figure whooshes through the air on a translucent vessel that looks like a paper airplane folded into a cloud, dumping snow out of a brown bag onto a brown-turfed town with bare trees below. the town has 5 houses and a small, strange pyramidal house directly below the snow
April 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Leaping cat
white cat leaping into the air in carpeted room, window behind them, bookcase to right, facing the 4th wall, lower body/tail curled up to the right, otherwise vertical white cat leaping into the air in room w/ small carpet and small stacked shelf to their left, glass patio door to their right, belly facing the 4th wall, arms stretched up, looking at ceiling, legs and tail pointing right, body otherwise vertical. a tux cat is sitting on top of the small stacked shelf, watching the leap white cat leaping into the air in room with small carpet in front of glass double patio door, facing right, arms raised, but with legs still planted on floor, looking like they're practicing "praying mantis" style or something
April 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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*wistful sigh*
Charles I (in the dock with his back to the viewer) facing the High Court of Justice, Jan 1649
April 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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‘The Tyrannicide Brief’, pp15–16
Geoffrey Robertson, 2005
… Just a few months later, John Cooke devised a way of ending the impunity it guaranteed to sovereigns, crafting out of the common law and the law of nations and the Bible, a theory which could bring hereditary dictatorship to an end. This message, filtered through the philosophy of Locke and Montesquieu, provided inspiration for the French Revolution and the War of American Independence: we can see it now as the precursor of a much more recent development which began at Nuremberg, namely the use of criminal law to punish heads of state and political and military leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Cooke’s charge began with a fundamental proposition: the King of England was not a person, but an office whose every occupant was entrusted with a limited power to govern ‘by and according to the laws of the land and not otherwise’. It had been with the criminal object of securing unlimited and tyrannical power that Charles I had levied war against Parliament and had set out to destroy the very people whose life and liberty he was obliged to preserve. … Cooke invoked the doctrine which is called, in modern war-crimes courts, ‘command responsibility’: By which it appears that he, the said Charles Stuart, has been and is the occasioner, author and continuer of the said unnatural, cruel and bloody wars and therefore guilty of all the treasons, murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations, damages and mischiefs to the nation acted and committed in the said wars, or occasioned thereby. The charges against Milošević at The Hague convey the same idea — the responsibility of the commander for all the natural and probable consequences of his commands. Cooke alleged not only high treason, but ‘other high crimes’, which he spelled out in the final paragraph: Charles Stuart he impeached as ‘a tyrant, traitor, murderer and public and implacable enemy to the Commonwealth of England’. In a nutshell, what the Solicitor-General had created was a new offence, one that could condemn most of the crowned heads of Europe at the time, and many of the dictators and undemocratic rulers who would come to power in the nations of the world in the following centuries. He had made tyranny a crime. On Saturday 20 January — only ten days after accepting the brief — Cooke signed the charge, the document that was to seal the King’s fate and his own. That afternoon, sixty-eight black-gowned judges processed into the Great Hall at Westminster, for the public opening of the trial. Accompanied by 120 soldiers with long pikes, they presented a powerful tableau to thou- sands of citizens who crammed into the public galleries. Preceded by a clerk carrying the sword of state, Judge Bradshawe made his way to centre-stage where his crimson velvet chair had been placed, behind a desk on which a crimson cushion bore the parliamentary mace. The judges sat behind him, on benches hung with scarlet: the chair in which Charles would sit was directly in front of them. The prosecutor — John Cooke — stood immediately to the right of the King’s chair. The proceedings began with the deep-voiced ushers shouting the traditional ‘Oyez’ still heard at the opening of every English criminal court: Oyez, oyez, oyez. All manner of persons who have any business in this Court, draw near and give your attendance. The assembly waited to see a sight that had no parallel: the bringing of a king to a place of public justice. There were some — the soldiers in particular - whose thoughts were of retribution against the man they held responsible for the blood of fallen comrades, but most of the crowd would have had in mind the set of traditional beliefs about the monarch’s ‘divine majesty’. When Charles did enter, it was with a certain dignity. The sergeant-at-arms, mace held aloft, escorted him towards his centre-stage seat. He was not in chains, nor under obvious restraint: the halberdiers who followed him might have been his own retinue…
April 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Razorbill, gliding
a black-backed, white-bellied, wide-looking bird with a bright white eyebrow line, beak band, and inner back wing fledging glides over a grey backgroud
April 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Baris, al-Bab Syrian evacuee cat
2017
a medium haired ginger tux tabby lies on their side on a black office chair, head turned upside down, smiling at the 4th wall
April 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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hedgehog cactus camo
a hedgehog lies on their back, curled up w/ eyes shut, napping. on a patch of many round cacti, their size & shape very similar to the curled hedgie’s outline. the cacti are light green the hedgie’s light brown
April 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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in these troubled times, we can all take comfort in a lil guy

Peruvian striped owl
Exmoor Owl & Hawks
a buff-colored owl with some black fledging, a face between two black parenthesis-looking markers, brown eyes, and a white muzzle looks through the 4th wall, perched on a wooden beam, blurred greenery behind
April 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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car window cat sling
mostly white w/ orange & black patched tortie cat in a cat bed slung from the left hand front window of a car
April 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Red shop
chingizid via livejournal, 2010
old timey light red/salmon colored building at a bend in a disheveled city road, with a 2nd story gable facing ¼ forward, attached to a brick wall above a 1 story buff shed/stable/garage extended to image left. the building has a pointed tower roof, a couple chimmneys, and architectural details like a pointed arch window, that give it a vaguely churchlike feel. its large door is half obscured by a tall building at the image's right edge. there's peeling paint & a general feeling of benign neglect
April 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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(via vxtwitter.com/TVietor08/st..., can't vouch for provenance but matches quotes in news story upthread)
Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby “Old McDonald’s” petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader’s experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock—and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students’ release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not “being medically evaluated.” They are not being “questioned as potential victims.” Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Sunspot Group 1429 and the Distant Sun
Juan Manuel Pérez Rayego
the sun is visible near the horizon over what looks like a savannah with one tree in the background. the sun's about the same size as that tree's canopy. it's dark, the tree is silhouetted in orange hazy light from the sun as dispersed through loose clouds. a group of sunspots is visible on the sun's surface close up of tree and sun. a bird's visible above the tree and next to the sun. the sunspot group is vaguely new zealand shaped and is in the upper right quadrant of the sun's visible surface. two smaller sunspots are visible near the sun’s center
April 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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John Lewis on freedom march
a young John Lewis, with many other african american civil rights protestors, crossing edmund pettus bridge
April 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM