Eric TF Bat

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Eric TF Bat. Fruitbat. Karl Faustus von Aachen. Tiberius Aelius Paulli filius Sabatina tribu Faustus Vespertilio. Batty Herald. SCA: #Lochac, Ynys Fawr, Lightwood. AICSA: SCUNA, SUMS. Politics: lefty ratbag. He/him. Chat ignored due to stupid Aust law.

From Scarfolk Council, a satirical website at https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/. Appears to be a crumpled government poster from circa 1973, headed "A self-support scheme from HM Government" and "Scarfolk Council Citizens Advice". Text reads: Feel hopeless and abandoned, like you're going mad? Don't worry. Let us reassure you that everything you're feeling is completely justified and proves you have fully comprehended the true severity of your situation. Be proud of your keen insights, but be aware that we cannot offer support to people of inferior value [footnote: To find out your current value in pounds and pence, write to your MP and include a self-addressed stamped envelope, unless your previous evaluation was less than a stamp.] Keep it to yourself. Discontent is contagious. The footer of the poster reads, as is usual with this website, "For more information, please reread."
A mockup of the first page of HG Wells' War Of The Worlds, except it's actually just the version from the Jeff Wayne concept album, including a thoroughly earnest retelling of the orchestra saying "Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaah?" and so on. I would read a whole book of that.
Headline from The Australian website: 'Unwatchable drivel': ABC election panellist slams coverage.
A screenshot of a portion of the headers from one of my websites, viewed in Firefox's Developer Tools/Network tab. The relevant line is "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett", a line that does nothing of objective value but does send out a reminder of Sir Terry Pratchett with every web query my server handles.
Three images, side by side. A screenshot from the series The Handmaid's Tale, with the caption "Government instructional video". The cover of George Orwell's 1984, with the caption "Government how-to manual". A picture of Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem "First They Came", with the caption "Government to do list".
Textual graphic reading, in multiple sombre colours, "Thank you for telling us all who and what you are. I choose to believe you."
A 4-5 week old tabby, named Hydra because her mother is Pluto, hides beneath a rusty stepladder beside some repurposed paper shopping bags in the room we are currently renovating that we also used to house her and her siblings. The four Moonlets are now at Rescue Cats Safe Haven in Penna, Tasmania, where we have high hopes that some passing human will fall in love with them and give them a forever home.
The logo of X (formerly Twitter) modified to more closely resemble the flag in use by the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in 1935–1945 and strongly identified with Nazi Germany in general: on a red field a white roundel bearing a black swastika (gules, on a plate an equal-armed swastika bendwise sable).
A swirly background with the text "After careful consideration of the present circumstances, the official guidance from the Editorial Department of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been amended as follows: PANIC"
A text image reading "Thank you for telling us who and what you are. I choose to believe you."
Close-up view of a pavlova with banana, raspberries, green grapes, strawberries and passionfruit.
A screenshot of the text of a Facebook post from Sky News Australia, with the text "Elon Musk hilariously trolled the woke media today when he temporarily changed his user name on X to Harry Bolz."
The flag of the Russian Federation, divided in three horizontally red at the bottom, white at the top and blue in the middle.
A recent photograph of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Added to the photo is a label with arrows indicating the space between them and the text "PERINEUM".
A screenshot of a modified version of the Facebook "Why are you reporting this profile?" dialog, complete with the standard options (nudity, bullying, spam, etc) and a specially edited suggestion, "Basically he just seems to be a bit of a cunt".
The X logo, in white on a black field, with all four arms extended at right angles to be oddly reminiscent of an older and, frankly, much better design.
Google results for the query "Thursday Murder Club casting": the currently announced cast of the upcoming Netflix movie of the Richard Osman book. Excellent choices: * David Tennant as Ian Ventham, the slimy real estate magnate * Daniel Mays has no part listed, but I bet he's Chris, the cop * Pierce Brosnan as Ron (weird choice) * Hellen Mirren as Elizabeth (perfect!) * Henry Lloyd-Hughes has no part listed, but he'd be a perfect fit for Bogdan * Celia Imrie as Joyce * Tom Ellis as Ron's son, Jason (awesome!) * Naomie Ackie as Donna, Chris's partner * Geoff Bell, no part listed * Richard E. Grant, no part listed * Jonathan Pryce as Elizabeth's husband, Stephen * Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim Arif * Ingrid Oliver (the author's wife, best known as Petronella Osgood on Doctor Who) as Joanna Meadowcroft * Sarah Niles (the psychologist in Ted Lasso) as Donna's mum, Patrice * Paul Freeman, no part listed. That's bloody good! Well done, Richard!
Cartoon by @vaughantomlinson on Instagram. Scene of a man in shirt and tie standing on the ledge on the outside of an office building, clearly about to jump and end it all (mood). Second man in darker suit is calling to him from inside a window: "Don't do it! You haven't submitted your timesheet!"
Facebook comment by Terance Schmidt: Maybe it's just me, but I'm not impressed with the guy making fun of someone wearing a skirt and high heels. Make fun of the guys in the front row wearing Hell's Angels jackets, now you've got my respect. Not that it's gonna do you much good of course.
From Valiant Comics _X-O Manowar_, the former spider-alien collaborator turned money-grubbing "friend" to Aric, the hero of the comic. Panel from comic. Ken (short, weedy looking, missing his left arm for reasons I don't recall) and Aric (tall, muscular, blond, long-haired). Both wearing suits; Aric clearly finds his uncomfortable, which is fair given than he's a time-lost visigoth. Ken is introducing the two of them to an unseen listener: "I am Ken Clarkson, C.E.O. and Chairman, and this is Aric... uh _Mister_ Aric, Chief Operating Officer."
An alt text can contain up to 2000 characters! Provided you still keep an appropriate level of reasonableness, which for some reason lefties are still better at maintaining than their supposedly Christian right-wing opposition, despite all the pronouns and abortions and amendment-trampling that goes on, you can describe your photograph (it's a blurry number 1, in case you care) and still have loads of space to spare. What will happen if I fill up to about the 500 mark in the first alt? Will I still have 2000 left for image #2?
Fuck you, Bruce.
Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) - view of some outside sculptures and a sandwich board reading "No BYO food, drinks or dogs (or we'll get the hoses out)". Pretty sure they're joking, maybe.
Three-image capture from the Battle of New York in the finale of The Avengers, with text slightly modified. 1. Captain America (Chris Evans): "Mister Bat, now might be a good time for you to start filking." 2. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo): "That's my secret, Captain..." 3. Bruce Banner: "I'm always filking."
Line of text from the programming tool Composer, reading "Package swiftmailer/swiftmailer is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use symfony/mailer instead."