Colin Foster

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A plastic storage box is being held against the side of a house, oriented vertically, with its bottom flush against the wall and the mouth of the box facing outward. A hole approximately 8” square has been cut in the bottom of the box. The hole is the same size as the vent-cover that comes out of the house wall and the vent cover is protruding slight into the box through that hole.
A dark grey cat wrapped fuzzy light grey blanket, snuggled up against his small, light-blue & pink elephant stuffie. He has cracked one eye to stare directly at the camera, giving the impression he does NOT want to be disturbed.
Photo of a hand holding an onion that has been sliced so you can see its concentric rings. The rings closer to the centre are not concentric and have multiple breaks in their lines that form a sinister looking face.
A person lying on a couch with a large dark grey cat, asleep-on and lying-entirely-across, their chest.
A big grey semi-awake cat looking towards the camera while stretched out across a long but shallow bucket filled with lego, with his head leaning into the edge of the bucket. This cannot possibly be comfortable, but somehow...
Foreground: A person's ankle and booted-feet 2/3 submerged under water at the edge of a lake. Background: the water surface, reeds and forest on the other side of the lake a few 100m away. The water is mostly transparent, fully showing the Keen boots standing on a sparkly sandy bottom with some small plants growing around.
Photo of an iphone on the ground showing the compass app situated so it's pointing perpendicular to two rocks. A straight red line has been drawn onto the photo connecting the tops of the two rocks to illustrate the line we're trying to point perpendicular to, in order to find true north (by this technique). The phone's screen shows it pointing to 4° instead of 0° if it was pointing to true north. Note that the phone is not perfectly perpendicular to the red line and would probably have read 3° or 2° if it had been perpendicular. Other information on the phone screen includes the longitude & latitude, elevation of 90m and location of Toronto, ON.
Screenshot from the sundial simulator show the position in the middle of Canada, close to the southern border. The diagram shows a strong convex arc for the path of the sun at the summer solstice. The line perpendicular to this arc would point NNW in the morning and NNE in the afternoon.
A woman in the distance is running towards the camera, through the receding waves of a sandy beach. In the far distance is a tall tree line. There is a large rocky outcropping in the water as waves crash nearby.
A top-down view of a dinner table with plates of food to the side and assorted lines of bean cards from the card game "Bohnanza" in front of each person's place. The cards have cartoonish figures on them including a Black-Eyed Bean drawn as a boxer in a boxing ring, a Chili Bean lighting up a cigarette while leaning back on a leaking can of gasoline, and a Green Bean that looks like its going to be sick.
Ancient Egyptian drawing showing a person with arms in a position similar to how the cat has posed: bent 90 degrees at elbow and wrist, upper arms parallel with shoulders, left arm's hand pointing forward, right arm's hand pointing backward.
Seinfield based meme. Panel 1: George says "Why do billionaires care if they lose all their money?" Panel 2: George says "They'll just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make it all back with their unbelievable work ethic." Panel 3: Jerry replies "Plus if they're poor, all the money will trickle back down to them, making them rich again."
Picture of semi-disheveled box of 3M 9502+ masks with the seal broken. Cardboard looks like it's bent from use, and torn down one corner.
Meme photo of a guy seemingly under huge stress with several veins bulging from his forehead and neck.
A large dark grey cat (chartreux) lying flat inside an even larger, shallow bin of Lego pieces with his head and one paw hanging over the edge
This is an image of 3 posts: A (verified) post from Scott Adams on Twitter says: "I'll bet there is not a single academic paper on the likely impact of DEl on straight, white American men. Because no one cares until we leave. We probably need to start a new country. That should be feasible within ten years. On the sea." BlueSky's Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) quoted this post and replied: "Somewhere, beyond the sea My incel's waiting for me..." A 'liked' reply to that post says "I'll kickstart that shit, someone send me a link."
Image of a chart comparing privately funded studies for BTNX covid rapid-tests to the results of those same covid rapid-tests when performed by governments/regulators. For "very high" viral loads, the results are similarly high: 100% in private-testing vs 91% to 100% for regulator-testing. For "High" viral loads: private-testing suggested 90% to 100% accuracy, but government-testing suggested 10-33% accuracy. For moderate viral loads: private testing suggested 40% to 82% accuracy but government testing found 0% - 10% accuracy.
Photo of a space-suited astronaut standing on the moon, looking at the Earth as a meteor crashes through one side and explodes out the other, taking half the planet with it. A speech bubble beside the astronaut says "Oh God, the economy!"