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hi hi Tâf
Two corgis, one large loaf, one small pup
July 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Beautiful.
Here's a different version - a clump from what I think is a different coast from yours
Darlingtonia pitcher plants growing from a wetlands
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Good one!
I took this photo on a trip many years ago
a child pretends to be trapped in large barnacle sculpture on the sidewalk outside an aquarium
May 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Corg's - one solid loaf and one petite pain
One very large loaf of a cardigan welsh corgi, and one smallish pembroke pup
April 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The whole forbidden words thing from this admin reminds me of a favorite passage
All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. It was a monotonous job, and Yossarian was disappointed to learn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting than the lives of officers. After the first day he had no curiosity at all. To break the monotony he invented games. Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. That erected more dynamic intralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left a message far more universal. Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched. One time he blacked out all but salutation "Dear Mary" from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, "I yearn for you tragically, A.T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army." A.T. Tappman was the group chaplain's name. When he had exhausted all possibilities in the letters, he began attacking the names and addresses on the envelopes, obliterating whole homes and streets, annihilating entire metropolises with careless flicks of his wrist as though he were God. Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name. Most letters he didn't read at all. On those he didn't read at all he wrote his own name. On those he did read he wrote, "Washington Irving." When that grew monotonous he wrote, "Irving Washington." Censoring the envelopes had serious repercussions, and produced a ripple of anxiety on some ethereal military echelon that floated a C.I.D. man back into the ward posing as a patient. They all knew he was a C.I.D. man because he kept inquiring about an officer named Irving or Washington and because after his first day there he wouldn't censor …
April 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Two!
One very large loaf of a cardigan welsh corgi, and one smallish pembroke pup
April 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Trump at his desk during first term shilling for Goya brand foods
March 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
normbrown.bsky.social
The whole forbidden words thing from this admin reminds me of a favorite passage in Catch-22
All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. It was a monotonous job, and Yossarian was disappointed to learn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting than the lives of officers. After the first day he had no curiosity at all. To break the monotony he invented games. Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. That erected more dynamic intralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left a message far more universal. Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched. One time he blacked out all but salutation "Dear Mary" from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, "I yearn for you tragically, A.T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army." A.T. Tappman was the group chaplain's name. When he had exhausted all possibilities in the letters, he began attacking the names and addresses on the envelopes, obliterating whole homes and streets, annihilating entire metropolises with careless flicks of his wrist as though he were God. Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name. Most letters he didn't read at all. On those he didn't read at all he wrote his own name. On those he did read he wrote, "Washington Irving." When that grew monotonous he wrote, "Irving Washington." Censoring the envelopes had serious repercussions, and produced a ripple of anxiety on some ethereal military echelon that floated a C.I.D. man back into the ward posing as a patient. They all knew he was a C.I.D. man because he kept inquiring about an officer named Irving or Washington and because after his first day there he wouldn't censor …
March 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
normbrown.bsky.social
Yeah, could be
A relaxed corg with snaggletooth, image flipped so it looks like it's glued to a ceiling or something
January 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Funny

Reminds me of this great Kliban diversion from his cat drawings
Line drawings of figs, labelled Fig 1, Fig 2 etc
September 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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In this theme ....

and I can't stress enough, no creatures were harmed in the slightest, despite appearances
two dogs; one very very snarly
August 13, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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True
Someone once posted some cool art inspired by this pangram and the illustrator Moebius
A drawing of an ominous black cat peering over a small white cat with a small animal offering. Sorry, I do not know the provenance of this drawing
August 10, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Great photo. Here are a couple for the theme
Two corgis, one large splayed resting and looking like a large loaf with ears, and one little pup looking over
July 28, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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or required all PR media and related nonsense to be in pangram form
"sphinz of black quartz, judge my vow"
A drawing of an ominous black cat peering over a small white cat with a small animal offering. Sorry, I do not know the provenance of this drawing
June 22, 2024 at 9:55 PM