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Rob Cruickshank
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Technician/artist. Googly-eye enthusiast. Several kinds of nerd. Unusual skill set. Toronto, Ontario. he/him.
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hey I made you some electrons
shurterstock illustration of a woman with a balloon being held up to her hair, and her hair being attracted to it
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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not in exactly those words, but all the pieces were there
a depiction of a Aztec human sacrifice, with the victim in a costume being lead up the pyramid to get their heart eaten or something
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Skeleton wore it better.
slash from guns n roses, playing a guitar and wearing his trademark top hat and aviator glasses
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We'd better watch out for the other thing, too
a cartoon of a raccoon with crab claws emerging from a garbage can
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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poster for the movie "The Fourth Man" showing Renée Soutendijk holding a pair of scissors
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Bowman going though the airlock without his helmet in 2001
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Putting my child to sleep
A large avocado plant with a dark window behind it, illuminated by an art deco lamp
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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This reminded me of one i did many years ago. New music could use more cartoon animals, I say.
a poster for a "sound installation preview" partly in English and partly in Japanese, with a cartoon cricket listening to a computer with loudspeakers, a cat playing the japanese sho and a cicada on a tree.
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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1970s comic that was promoted avocados with the slogan "inside every California avocado there's a free tree and someone to talk to" the comic depicts a woman reading in bed while her avocado plant begs her to turn out the light. Finally she puts a bag over it and keeps reading
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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PSA that newer Dymo machines are really crappy. Look for an old one.
A dymo label maker with a label with nicely formed and spaced letters A dymo label maker with widely spaced and uneven letters
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a kid?
the silicate creature from Island of Terror (1966) a big turtley blob with a swan-like neck
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Update
3 scoops of yellow ice cream in a glass dish
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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For #thingThursday, a glass-bound magic lantern slide showing an early colour TV screenshot.
A large slide, about 3.25 inches by 4 inches showing a CRT monitor with an image of an elegant dressed woman in a red coat with a white corsage
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Started, going
A kabocha squash cut in half A Cuisinart ice cream machine
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Fermi problem: estimate the percentage of body mass that is pumpkin in the neighborhood squirrels
A black squirrel eating a pumpkin A photo taken a few days later, showing an amount eaten that is within an order of magnitude of the mass if a squirrel, also a different, smaller squirrel chowing down
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A bit asymmetrical but it's bread.
#BreadSky
A loaf of sourdough bread fresh out of the oven on a wire rack
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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toronto Clear Sky chart showing all white squares for tonight, meaing total cloud cover old man yells at cloud from the Simpsons
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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seems fine
panel from Junji Ito's Uzumaki manga, showing an older man sitting in a room surrounded by spiral objects and images contemplating a clock spring.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Doing a good job
A black squirrel sitting in a Halloween pumpkin which it has partially devoured
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I just want to do the first one of those, Home Hardware.
web result from Home Home hardware: "Shop for toilet repair and hookup online"
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Somehow it escaped my attention that there's a Nature of Things episode with David Suzuki doing bong rips.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7c7...
Too bad Carl Sagan is no longer with us.
David Suzuki, a white-haired old Asian guy in a jean jacket hitting a bong
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Perfect night for this sort of thing. Thank you!
Some Korean vegetable stew, a bit more rustic looking than in the recipe photo in the quoted post.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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🦞🦞🦞🦞
Covered Bridge brand Atlantic Lobster flavoured chips
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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File indexing?
a metal file stored with some USB thingies in a vinyl shoe organizer
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Have not even cracked it open yet, but this is quite the blurb
"Having 'grown up' on the myth that Harry Dyar's underground tunnels were for main ing his bigamous lifestyle, it always seemed sad the legacy of such an original scientist had thus been reduced to farce. Marc Epstein's exceptional biography gives, at long last, all due credit to this compulsive man and his very diverse achievements." RJ. VANE-WRIGHT, Honorary Professor of Taxonomy, University of Kent
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM