Peter Kisner ≈
@ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
❦ Per aspera ad ardua ❦
"The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten."
INTERESTS: TTRPGs, art, fantasy, sci-fi, science, ancient history, weird phenomena, humor […]
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"The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten."
INTERESTS: TTRPGs, art, fantasy, sci-fi, science, ancient history, weird phenomena, humor […]
[bridged from https://dice.camp/@PTR_K on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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 […]
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 […]
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dice.camp
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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 […]
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 […]
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'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
#JapaneseArt #shinhanga
January 1, 2026 at 3:09 AM
'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
#JapaneseArt #shinhanga
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New Comic found: Wallace the Brave - 2025-12-31 https://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave/2025/12/31
#comicstrip #wallacethebrave
#comicstrip #wallacethebrave
December 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
New Comic found: Wallace the Brave - 2025-12-31 https://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave/2025/12/31
#comicstrip #wallacethebrave
#comicstrip #wallacethebrave
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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
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#LegendaryWednesday
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
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#LegendaryWednesday
1/6
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December 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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 […]
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 […]
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dice.camp
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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 […]
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 […]
Reposted by Peter Kisner ≈
December 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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
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
December 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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
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
December 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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 […]
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 […]
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dice.camp
December 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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 […]
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 […]
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Think positive:
In an Ordovician sea of radiodonts be a radioDO💫
In an Ordovician sea of radiodonts be a radioDO💫
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Think positive:
In an Ordovician sea of radiodonts be a radioDO💫
In an Ordovician sea of radiodonts be a radioDO💫
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She is excited to help you recycle and compost that tree!
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
She is excited to help you recycle and compost that tree!
Mezzo DSA (2004)
Short version:
The Danger Service Agency (DSA) is a group of three folks who will take on most jobs as long as danger and money are likely to be involved. Takes place in a near future as imagined in the early 2000s.
I enjoyed aspects of this, but […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
Short version:
The Danger Service Agency (DSA) is a group of three folks who will take on most jobs as long as danger and money are likely to be involved. Takes place in a near future as imagined in the early 2000s.
I enjoyed aspects of this, but […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Mezzo DSA (2004)
Short version:
The Danger Service Agency (DSA) is a group of three folks who will take on most jobs as long as danger and money are likely to be involved. Takes place in a near future as imagined in the early 2000s.
I enjoyed aspects of this, but […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
Short version:
The Danger Service Agency (DSA) is a group of three folks who will take on most jobs as long as danger and money are likely to be involved. Takes place in a near future as imagined in the early 2000s.
I enjoyed aspects of this, but […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
Cassie is the only cat, of my personal acquaintance, who likes having some kind of blanket, sheet, or coved on her sometimes. Sometimes it calms her down. If she can stay hidden and just oeek out at the edge, that's perfection.
This was a day she was starting to […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
This was a day she was starting to […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cassie is the only cat, of my personal acquaintance, who likes having some kind of blanket, sheet, or coved on her sometimes. Sometimes it calms her down. If she can stay hidden and just oeek out at the edge, that's perfection.
This was a day she was starting to […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
This was a day she was starting to […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
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Reading about how these work and it seems fake as hell. “We use helium cooled magnets to align your protons” yeah sure gwyneth
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Reading about how these work and it seems fake as hell. “We use helium cooled magnets to align your protons” yeah sure gwyneth
Slingshot (2024)
Premise: astronauts traveling to Jupiter's moon Titan by way of a slingshot maneuver near Saturn run into technical trouble and also have to contend with strife and mental instability.
TL/DR: This films falls squarely in the "Deep Space Freakout" […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
Premise: astronauts traveling to Jupiter's moon Titan by way of a slingshot maneuver near Saturn run into technical trouble and also have to contend with strife and mental instability.
TL/DR: This films falls squarely in the "Deep Space Freakout" […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Slingshot (2024)
Premise: astronauts traveling to Jupiter's moon Titan by way of a slingshot maneuver near Saturn run into technical trouble and also have to contend with strife and mental instability.
TL/DR: This films falls squarely in the "Deep Space Freakout" […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
Premise: astronauts traveling to Jupiter's moon Titan by way of a slingshot maneuver near Saturn run into technical trouble and also have to contend with strife and mental instability.
TL/DR: This films falls squarely in the "Deep Space Freakout" […]
[Original post on dice.camp]
[reading streaming movie title 'The Mortician']
ME: "The Mortikan."
WIFE: "Actually its 'The Mortisian'."
ME: "About that guy who specializes in mortise joinery?"
WIFE: "Yah. He kills people with carpentry."
#familyconversations
ME: "The Mortikan."
WIFE: "Actually its 'The Mortisian'."
ME: "About that guy who specializes in mortise joinery?"
WIFE: "Yah. He kills people with carpentry."
#familyconversations
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
[reading streaming movie title 'The Mortician']
ME: "The Mortikan."
WIFE: "Actually its 'The Mortisian'."
ME: "About that guy who specializes in mortise joinery?"
WIFE: "Yah. He kills people with carpentry."
#familyconversations
ME: "The Mortikan."
WIFE: "Actually its 'The Mortisian'."
ME: "About that guy who specializes in mortise joinery?"
WIFE: "Yah. He kills people with carpentry."
#familyconversations
Slurs and offensive language in the real world are a subject with harmful and potentially complex ramifications.
But the idea of an "eigenslur", a quality or dimension that correlates to offensiveness, as a general concept is kind of fascinating. Can't help imagining it in fantasy fiction […]
But the idea of an "eigenslur", a quality or dimension that correlates to offensiveness, as a general concept is kind of fascinating. Can't help imagining it in fantasy fiction […]
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dice.camp
December 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Slurs and offensive language in the real world are a subject with harmful and potentially complex ramifications.
But the idea of an "eigenslur", a quality or dimension that correlates to offensiveness, as a general concept is kind of fascinating. Can't help imagining it in fantasy fiction […]
But the idea of an "eigenslur", a quality or dimension that correlates to offensiveness, as a general concept is kind of fascinating. Can't help imagining it in fantasy fiction […]
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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"The Hard Switch" by Owen Pomery is a scifi graphic novel about a future time when humanity is about to run out of a mineral that makes FTL possible. We follow three friends who approach the end of civilization with the urgency of someone running errands before a snow storm.
💙📚🪐 #comics #bookreview
💙📚🪐 #comics #bookreview
The Hard Switch
The Hard Switch by Owen Pomery Avery Hill 2024 The Hard Switch is a graphic novel set at the end of an age of interstellar civiliz...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"The Hard Switch" by Owen Pomery is a scifi graphic novel about a future time when humanity is about to run out of a mineral that makes FTL possible. We follow three friends who approach the end of civilization with the urgency of someone running errands before a snow storm.
💙📚🪐 #comics #bookreview
💙📚🪐 #comics #bookreview
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ME: [droning on] "...and that was the guy who was low-key socialist."
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
ME: [droning on] "...and that was the guy who was low-key socialist."
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
ME: [droning on] "...and that was the guy who was low-key socialist."
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
ME: [droning on] "...and that was the guy who was low-key socialist."
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
#familyconversations
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December 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM