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Peter Kisner ≈
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❦ 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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#cat #caturday
A cat lying on a blanket with her paws crossed over her face and eyes squinched shut. The same cat lying on a blanket with her paws crossed over her face and one eye peeking open. The same cat lying on a blanket with her paws crossed and eyes shut, but her head is tilted upwards more to show her nose.
December 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Man. Looks like Dragon Ball Z got a lot edgier than I remember it being in my youth.

#anime #badtakes
Advertising image for the anime Midnight Eye Goku (presumably not related to Goku from the Dragon Ball series). The image depicts a tough looking guy wielding a length of pipe and wearing a suit jacket open in the front to reveal a slim necktie and bare chest. In front of him crouches a scantily clad pink haired woman with an elaborate metal collar and motorcycle handlebars sprouting from behind her back. Behind both of them is a night-time cityscape. There is a crosshairs centered over the man's heart. Additional text reads: "From the director of Wicked City and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust"
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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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 […]

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Apparently parked on a metal trussed bridge is a pink VW Bug. Around are: * A black haired middle school girl, looking uncertain. * A pink haired young woman in a tight fitting orange suit, boots, and a letter jacket, who is holding a pistol at an odd angle and is looking out of the corner of her eye. * An older man with less hair, squatting on the ground in front of the car and showing a two-fingered sign. * A guy with blond extremely spiked hair, wearing a jacket but no shirt underneath, who is leaning on the car. * A cat sitting on the hood of the car and facing mostly away from the viewer.
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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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 […]

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An arrangement of couches and footstool near a window. A tea cup is on the arm of one sofa, and on the other is a cat, lying on her side under a blanket. Closer up view of a couch with a cat, lying on her side under a blanket. Even closer view of the head and paw of a cat lying under a blanket.
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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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" […]

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Poster for the movie Slingshot. Near the top, the faces of Lawrence Fishburne and Casey Affleck fading into darkness. The bottom has the movie name with a stab of light and aurora in space.
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Christmas Angles (sic)

Sauce:
https://mas.to/@kityates/115479046822629843
On a table surface are red and green triangular blocks of wood. Each block is cut with a unique slope and the degrees of the angle are written on it. Each block has wire forming a sort of halo loop attached to it. The caption below reads: Upcycleit, Handmade & Crafters on the Tedoo app My dad has been pulled out that box labeled "Christmas Angles" every December since I was seven...
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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When Cassie is in a relaxed mood and feeling secure, she sometimes likes to get a belly rub.
#caturday #cat
Cat lying on her side with belly partly turned upward, head upside-down, and front paws crooked in a relaxed way. Cat from previous picture in the same position, but a hand is rubbing her belly. Cat from previous pictures, but she is now even more on her back, stretching out aith her paws while the human hand rubs her belly.
December 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Scrub Daddy has a new holiday themed set.

But I think a lot of folks forget that the whole brand is just the sanitized, commercialized version of a much older tradition:

In Northern European folklore, after the Yule meal is finished and the family is pleasantly […]

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On a kitchen surface is a small box shaped and decorated like a simple gingerbread house and labeled "Scrub Daddy Holiday 3 Pack". Next to the box is a yellow scouring sponge in shape of a star with a smiling face.
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Just backed Leighton Connor's upcoming old school pulp sword & sorcery adventure:

The Prison Pits of Larubia
(for the Million-Colored Sun RPG)

If it sounds up your alley, check it out:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leightonconnor/the-prison-pits-of-larubia […]

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A somewhat cartoonish rendering of a dark, subterranean area. A man and woman in ragged clothing hold pick-axes, teeth gritted with seeming trepidation. The woman holds aloft a lantern, partly illuminating the area. Behind them, lit from below by the lantern, a giant humanoid technological construct looms ominously over the pair.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A guide to changing clocks this weekend ⌚

Sauce: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/114245061440885747

#daylightsavingstime
Smartphone, leave it alone. It does it's magic Sundial, move one house to the left Oven, you'll need a Masters in Electronic engineering. Or a hammer. Car radio. Not worth it, wait six months
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Apparently opening a portal to your pocket universe improperly not only tears a catastrophic rift in the fabric of reality, but also produces a massive number of bismuth crystals as a byproduct.

#superman2025
November 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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SUPERMAN: [ uses cold-breath to save a green baby, shape changing dude, and dog from a black hole ]

MY WIFE: "The Freshmaker!"

#superman #mentos
Still from the end of a Mentos ad, showing a buff, blond dude mugging dor thr camera and brandishing a roll of mentos in the background, while a businessman laughs into a cellphone in the foreground. Below the caption displays another roll of Mentos with the slogan "The Freshmaker".
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Woke from the fragment of a dream where Jude Law had named either his yacht or an app he'd developed "Veracity". When asked why, he said it was the name of the co-host he always admired from when he hosted a kids gameshow in the late 1980s.

Half awake, I thought […]

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"Felicity" from Pictionary (1989), played by Julie Friedman. Stuck in my young mind at the time for affecting some combination of bored, tired, annoyed, and/or amused. Definitely a long way from the Vanna mode of silent, neutral positive compartment.
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Attempted making sushi today. With rice vinegar and mirin, and everything except raw fish (don't trust myself).
Types made:
* Plain rice
* Cucumber
* Imitation crab
* Imitation crab & cucumber
* Caramelized onion

Flavor was tolerable. Picky teens ate it […]

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A piece of sushi, sitting on the lid of a plastic container, on top of a cooling rack. The sushi consists of imitation crab and cucumber, sloppily wrapped in rice and nori (seaweed).
October 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Wife and I discussing our kids' progress in getting ready, as I wait in the car to take them to school.

Sometimes a simple typo can become the seed for a rich new vein of familial mythology.

#notionalreality #personalmythology
Wife (6:19am): Girl child sick. Staying home. Bog child bringing T Pass after he finished his banana. Me (6:20am): I fear the Bog Child. Wife (6:22am): Bog Child is on the move. Me (6:25am): Bog Child has arrived. 😬
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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@futurebird
I always thought the primary concern wasn't about losing one's pants, so much as encountering them under alarming circumstances.
From the Dr. Seuss book "What Was I Scared Of?" Depicts a nighttime scene, where a vaguely bear-like humanoid recoils in shock upon encountering a hovering pair of green pants.
September 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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My daughter found in the 1962 edition of her high-school yearbook.

Apparently nursing staff had different attitudes about healthcare back in the day. I guess the "rub some dirt in it and walk it off" school of thought.
Zoomed in text section says: NURSE Miss Marie Cannif, School Nurse. "Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset." Yearbook page showing the school nurse and the electrical department instructor along with somewhat blurry quotes by each.
September 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Not really a surprising revelation, but:

I find having good interactions with a cat involves a lot of learning to respond to an individual's shifting needs for touch, proximity, and distance. Someone who enjoys having a belly rub now might have had more than […]

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A cat, partially on its back, and partly twisted to one side, seemingly comfortably lounging against human legs and dangling face and forelimb over the edge of a sofa. A cat, with alert head and ears, in facing away from the camera in somewhat of a "loaf" posture on a blanket over human legs. A cat curled up in a "comma" shape, very relaxed, at the far end of the sofa from a pair of human feet.
September 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Turned around and Cassie had disappeared from the bed. Then i noticed the til of a tail sticking out feom under the comforter.
#caturday #cat
August 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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@chrysomeles
The Star Trek original series Enterprise being co flated with a Serial port.
August 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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@medieval_illuminations

"Get back on the snail" - To resume an activity that didn't previously cause one difficulty or injury.

"He who rides a snail, always can dismount."
~ lyric from Patsy Ann Noble's 1967 followup to 'He who Rides A Tiger'.

"Ride the snail! […]

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Detail from a medieval illumination of a naked figure riding a snail while holding a small banner and a golden leaf or branch.
July 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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[Mildly risqué humor]

Variety preferred by 12-to-1 by Druids seeking to minimize chafing during intimate times with a special dryad or treant in their life.

#DnD #Druids #humor
Photo of a box of Trojan Magnum condoms, hanging on the rack in a pharmacy. The specific variety originally read as "BareSkin". But the photo was edited to read "BarkSkin".
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Made a few more updates to the Winterwold Players' Handbook (and the less-setting-specific Ancient Red Wyrm PHB). Including specializations for Fighters & grappling rules for casting and assistance […]

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The title "Winterwold" in ornate gothic font. Below it, a wintry scene of humans being attacked by wolves while other humans race to the rescue with axes.
June 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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[USPol (humor)]

I get the sense this philosophy explains some of the current administration's more dumbass decisions.

#humor #thefartofwar #dubiouswisdom #dubiouslysourcedinternetquotes
To confuse your enemy, you must first confuse yourself. ~ Sun Tzu (probably)
June 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Item 2: A cheap set of RPG dice. These are about the most generic version that could exist. Except that they come in a cool box (although the lid doesn't really attach very firmly), and the d4 isn't the usual pyramid/caltrop shape.

In fact, I mainly got it because […]

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Front of a blister pack labeled "Campaign Dice - Dice to Go - Includes Storage Case". Under the plastic is a clear blue case containing a typical assortment of roleplaying game Dice. In the center of the case is a sticker showing a stylized dragon head curled around a die. In the background of a dragon breathing fire. The back of the blister pack with additional, mostly superfluous text and pictures about the dice. A four-sided die. The image of the blue plastic case with the lid open. The Inside is structured as 7 hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb pattern, each compartment holding a mottled greet and yellow die with silver lettering.
June 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM