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this is a good video about a video game glitch but I'm vaguely offended that it uses he/him pronouns to refer to the CPU.

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Ooo, I actually know a little bit about this! Jack Kirby did a lot of experimental collage art for comic pages in his later years, this being a pretty famous example. (The other big one is some cuts of Detroit steel mills in a bit where thor is reforging his hammer)

And Now… Galactus! Stan Lee, Jack Kirby et Vince Colletta Thor #160 1969

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Hey, do you guys know this meme?

Cartoonist Roger Langridge on Bluesky just tracked down the original source, which I'd never seen before until now.

It's from Space Adventures #59, November 1964, with art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia.

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glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

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doodle of sonic and shadow for @thefantastician

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Time for another traditional embroidery mend! This time, we're trying out the Puncetto Valsesiano stitch, which, after I finished this up, I've found, is an entire style of needlelace! For this patch, though, we just did stitch after stitch after stitch, no fancy patterning. (I might do fancy patterning later, to be fair! been reading up on things, and I've got a few smaller repairs to make that would suit it quite nicely!)

One row of stitches in, and I was thinking, oh this can't be so bad! this is actually quite soothing, all these repetitive actions, and with such a delightful, knitting-like texture!

This many stitches in, and sure, I'm still having a good time, but mostly, I'm finding out how much thread this takes! Poor razz, @razzmatazic, I thought this was going to be a simple, small patch, so I borrowed her thread to work on this one! You can't quite tell in this shot, but I'm actually about to run out of thread!

After likely much, much more fuss than was strictly necessary, including accidentally picking a slightly different color of floss because of some mislabeled strands, noticing I'd dropped enough stitches to need to throw some extra ceylon stitching in a gap, and a probably pretty noticable shift in texture because of single vs. double threading, we've got ourselves a patch that, even despite its shortcomings, I really dig the look of!

Unfortunately, I didn't make this patch wide enough generally, so I've got a few more holes that'll be getting filled by a big 'ol sashiko patch that's going to layer overtop the puncetto, eventually! Stay tuned, I'm just as curious as you are as to how that'll look.

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Video Description: A clip of Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay, cut from a livestream, which opens with a man throws a bottle of flaming oil at the party. (There's a significant amount of static coming from the game audio, much to my chagrin) The player, one Glacier Nester, whose stress is clear from the facecam above the gameplay, exclaims: "No, don't- Aughh!" The original character ingame (Issalya Bicernen) quips "Hells! I need to hold on!" to which Glacier responds "Yea- Hells is correct, Issalya! Thank you!" Issalya then proceeds to groan in relief as she downs a healing potion.

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Video description: A young white man in a blue tshirt is playing Balatro, live on stream, going through the shop, keeping up a running commentary, as follows: "The chariot, for a free steel card sometime... we're gonna buy a wheel of fortune- OHHH! look at that! holographic four fingers, that makes four fingers even more of a utility in our hand!"

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hi everybody please reblog this and tell me your go-to coffee order right now and if you don't like coffee feel free to include your go-to tea order instead

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Oh and also, back in March some friends and I got a table in Vancoufur's Artist Alley! They did a bunch of work putting together this big complicated computer setup so I could do some drawings on an old Amiga using Deluxe Paint IV. I brought my A500 (pictured), but the picture quality wasn't the best after splitting the video output (we had one monitor facing outward and a PVM facing me), so we used my friend's 1200 instead (hidden under the wooden stand). I've wanted to try tabling at a con for a long while and it was very fun! :D

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Exposed–The Strange Cult Of Rock And Roll Also, When You Die Are You Really Dead?, Is Ingrid Bergman Haunted By The God Loki, The Planet Venus Is Sending Us Messages, and The Father Of 100 Bastards via https://pulpcovers.com/exposed-the-strange-cult-of-rock-and-roll/

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Remembered that I once visited museum of old tech, I know many of you would really enjoy those💙

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my dear friend just looked up from the hat she's crocheting for a very large spherical rock we found in the river and said, in a slightly haunted tone that revealed this was the first time she was having this thought, "i should make something for my cousin's real human baby"