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A Japanese study of silver turtles on a rock by Nogami Ryuki, Circa 1900, Late Meiji period. Photo courtesy Grace Tsumugi Fine Art.

Okimono of Two Turtles on a Rock with Fungus. A Japanese study of two silver minogame turtles climbing up a rock, the eyes of the turtles inlaid in shakudō and shibuichi and the bronze rock patinated for effect. Signed on the base of each minogame: Ryūki; seal on the base: Ryūki zō ki (Made and inscribed by Ryūki); 23.5 × 38.1 × 29.2 cm (9 ¼ × 15 × 11 ½ in.).

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“People suck”

Okay but what about the person who brought this injured dragonfly to a wildlife rehabber

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YOU THINK I’M JOKING BUT I’M DEAD SERIOUS

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I didn’t know fondue was a thing outside USA—stupid but i thought it was like, fake cheese that we would melt to dip tiny weenies in. Looked it up and found out it’s Swiss—so probably more people than I realized enjoy it! I would love to try a fondue of local cheese, but that’s not easy to come by where i live. Enjoy yours!

I'm sorry but I am so morally disoriented by the concept of 'fake cheese' that I have trouble focusing on any other aspect of your message. What is fake cheese?? You say that like it's a perfectly understandable and emotionally neutral combination of words. I feel like I've just been handed a koan.

Then you add the phrase “tiny weenies" like it's the logical next step rather than a new psychological event. From my (very French) perspective the sentence "fake cheese to dip tiny weenies in" sounds like such a unique cultural artefact in itself, like a linguistic diorama to be displayed in a vitrine. This is not meant as a negative judgment of you or your country! just my earnest ethnographic confusion as I try to grapple with the concept of "tiny weenies" from a place of "fake cheese" trauma...

I had no idea fondue was seen this way in the US—I thought we (as a species) had a collective working definition of it, a sort of global consensus like the commutative property of addition, so the idea that in some corners of the world "fondue" means “fake cheese to dip tiny weenies in” has made me remember that you can just flay language off reality like skin. There's also a non-zero chance for this phrase to have activated a sleeper agent in Lausanne and authorised targeted elimination under the Académie Française’s emergency powers.

The concept of fondue now feels violently theoretical but I wish you many delicious ones in the future though :) You have politely disintegrated a couple of foundational concepts I'd never realised I relied on, which is always enriching. I won't recover, but thank you for sending this!

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they laid off the shrimp who fried rice. yeah. he’s out of wok now

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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

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cut where indicated (that won't work)

[riso inks: fluorescent orange, kelly green]

prints available

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Kotozakura vs. Aonishiki

Kimarite (winning technique): Uchimuso, inner thigh propping twist down

A kimarite in which the attacker sweeps one of his opponent's legs by hitting his inner thigh, then pulling him with the other hand.

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none of you go here but everyone look at Aonishiki. a Ukranian refugee to a sumo stable who's having a meteoric rise thru the ranks. he's so smart and good

go white boy go!

blorbo from my sport

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Reminisce on 10 years of Taskmaster.

Your time starts now.

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY TO TASKMASTER!

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RIP Tom Lehrer 1928 - 2025

[ID: black and white image of a white guy with glasses and short dark hair smiling in front of a microphone]

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I love Tom Lehrer's music and style of satire and from what I can tell was an all around great guy, who famously hated Henry Kissinger. He was an energetic person who inspired comedy musicians such as Weird Al.

He lived a rich life until the age of 97.

He made his entire catalog of music public domain before his death and it was mirrored by the Internet Archive.

You can find them here

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Gods rest him. May he have found a vantage point from which to view our endless bullshit without pain.

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Bada Shanren (Pa-ta shan-jen), 1626-1705 Flowers, Fruit, and Birds; leaf c: Orchid; detail dated 1703 ink on paper 28.8 x 19.8 cm Collection of Mrs. Kiku Ishihara

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"The trouble with folk music is that it's written by the people."

RIP Tom Leher

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Helmet representing the flaming jewel (hōju-nari kaen kabuto). By Unkai Mitsuhisa, Early Edo period, c. 1630. Iron, lacquer, lacing; 19 ½ x 16 x 16 in. (49.53 x 40.64 x 40.64 cm); 6 lb. (2.72 kg). © The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Dallas. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston