Ivy Winter

the Cuomintang has lost the mandate of heaven

My DMs don't always seem to work, but I'd be happy to :)

"That one banner of Shōhei Ohtani eating an onigiri that's in front of every FamilyMart"

(the banner reads: "I was born in a country that has delicious rice balls")

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"That janitor who cleans the escalator handrail by holding a cloth in place as the escalator moves"

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"Person returning home from the public bath at 11 pm"

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tuxedo cat swatting a man’s nose (cat paw somewhat motion blurred). the man is recoiling/wincing.

me explaining daylight saving time to the cat

Homey literally said "touch mass"

2/2 By the window, forever pouring that careful little stream of milk. What was hanging, earlier, on that nail behind her, or at the other nail-holes on that wall? Johannes Vermeer's quiet mysteries.

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Pumpkin carved in Tang dynasty calligrapher Zhang Xu’s cursive style

The level of pumpkin carving to which I aspire
(By the artist Michael Cherney)

「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」

Unlike most satires, often written with a degree of humour which evoke a chuckle here and there, this work came from a broken heart; it brings only tears, not smiles.

Officialdom Unmasked 官場現形記 Translated and Abridged by T. L. Yang ISBN: 978-962-209-543-4

this isn't one of your big city "funny" satires

CW: only tears, no smiles

every link I click in the unrealized projects rabbit hole is another project I will never realize

unfortunately, I hate to inform you, but in trying to make the most distilled form of a Skinner box, Heather Flowers made art

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre Andrew Harding Paris correspondent, at the scene

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

#OtD 19 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt decided to illegally deport over 1000 Chinese seamen who lived in Liverpool. Even men married to British women were expelled, along with some of their wives who were then stripped of British citizenship stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9142...

Donate to Urgent Vet Fees for my Cat, organized by Ivy Winter My poor little cat has what the vet calls "bad genes", and needs urgent medical care for his dam… Ivy Winter needs your support for Urgent Vet Fees for my Cat

This is very embarrassing, but I've been caught out with vet fees for my cat's teeth. I can't scrape together enough money to take the hit, so I'd be very grateful if anyone can throw a few spare pounds towards his gofundme 🥲

#CatHelp #CatFund #VetBills #Help

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Front of a slim pack of postcards from the Palace Museum, featuring a design of a massive (but not forbidding) white cat framed by the arched opening of a red building. The cat has a gold charm looped round their neck with red string. If this cat is in fact 饺子, the card upgrades from 'sweet' to 'downright adorable'.

Oh my goodness! Is that 饺子 on my very own Palace Museum postcard pack??

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Detail from a hunting scene in the Northern Dynasties mural-painted tomb at Jiuyuangang, 2nd half sixth century. It shows three bears, a hunting dog, and the back half of a horse. The bears are portrayed according to early Chinese convention, which makes them look a lot like oversized mice.

Commenting on student papers which analyze the hunting scenes from the Jiuyuangang tombs, I am suddenly confronted with the problem of Bears In Early Chinese Art. So far the students seem pretty uniformly convinced these are rats, which is giving them an odd take on hunting in the late 6th century.

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.

I can't believe this is real

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

Around this time of year, brits will wear ‘poppies’ out of deep respect for the international heroin trade

A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A house in Lake Tahoe that has a very Minoan theme.

Last night, we watched an episode of Zillow Gone Wild wherein a young girl in the 1970s convinced her parents in Lake Tahoe to paint her bedroom like the palace at Knossos and I have never felt closer to a small child.

ruin a classic by changing one word:

Dream of Green Chambers 青樓夢

Page from a children’s book. There is an illustration of a black cat peeling around a piece of wood. Text reads “Mister black, the cat, peered around the corner. On the porch a stranger was eating the food put there for mister black by his family.” but the spellings are sometimes phonetic and use strange characters other than those of the standard Latin alphabet.

An unusual item in my collection, Mister Black’s Secret by Catherine Barr. At first it seems like an early example of cheezburger speech but it was actually written in a shortlived teaching alphabet called ITA.

That was clearly insane, though at the same time, I HAVE had men tell me they were specifically attracted to me because Asian women 'are small and look young' 🫠

Right now we are being hustled by a postcard seller.