Metareferential (he/him)

The Republicans can end the shutdown any time they want because they have 53 Senators.

A dog in a purple hat.

Pumpkin with kite shaped eyes and circular pupils. It has sharp teeth, a beak-like nose, there's zig zag and rainbow patterns all over it. Very little of the front of the pumpkin is not carved in some way.

Photo from the top, showing off the zig zags around the eyes

Close up of one eye

Taken directly from the front, showing off the teeth which are just thin outlines

Latest pumpkin is complete! This is the most intricate one I've ever carved, leaving very little of the surface untouched

Carvings this year are to raise money for Beat, the UK eating disorders charity. Please share or if you can spare it throw a few bob their way www.gofundme.com/f/raising-mo...

"The English profs keep sweeping our work under the rug, but that rug is about three feet off the floor by now, and things are coming out from under it and eating the English profs."

(Ursula K. Le Guin, Prospects for Women in Writing, 1986)

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Be not afraid

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

I can not emphasize this enough. Stop putting cameras in things. Stop buying things with cameras on them. We need to fix some very basic things before we even get back to talking about the internet of things. Just, absolutely no.

A sign reading “one nation under frog with ribbity and justice for all”

A sign with an Obama Hope style frog that reads “ribbit, resist, repeat”

A sign with a frog that says united we ribbit, divided we croak

A sign that reads You sucked in Home Alone 2

More great signs (cropped for anonymity)

Antifa #NoKings protestors: check your Sassafrasses for Soros check information. Do NOT check your Moonbeam Messengers. Moonbeams got pwnd. Only use your Sassafras Decoders for Soros check information. Good work today everyone!

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

fuck i love hating america so much that i hand painted a sign and spent saturday getting my introvert ass whooped by downtown parking and crowds

Giant skeleton looking like it’s tipping over a house.

My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

Don’t Let the Beasts from Revelation Distract You from Your Expense Reports Thanks for coming in. Have a seat. I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally mur...

"Until we go bankrupt or are fully devoured by one of the three beasts, things are going to be business as usual here. That means doing the job of two and a half employees without complaining."

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

I LOVE THEM

Bird dragons

This is a Sorkin level smackdown (positive)

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

bring back shame

This is why it’s important to water your laptop, otherwise it gets all shriveled up

By golly that’s Art

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

You can find a protest to attend here! They're all over the place, and they're fun and safe. Near me, I can choose between Acton, Concord, Lexington, or the bigger one in Boston.

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A wombat sitting in a booth with a pyramid of large dice next to it. Sign reads “all sales final no refunds” Caption reads “never buy dice from a wombat”

Repost...

My wife has a bad habit of leaving my wooden spoons on top of the hot stove. I make these things as good as I can... but they aren't fireproof.

Sapele and Horse Chestnut.

#spoon #spoontaneous #art #craft #design #woodworking #sculpture #woodenspoon #carving #woodart #whimsical #object

Some good advice in here but one critical piece I always give is this:

Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING.

You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...

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