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Playing Shellac for the baby

The cover of Smash Mouth's Astro Lounge. It's very 90s 3D rendering of a tower stretching out into outer space from what looks like Io
Nvidia & Hut 8. Rebuilding China's balance sheets. Brian Eno & the painter of the hole. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
A black cat sniffinf a boquet of purple and pink flowers
A calico messing with a Black cat
Text that reads "Get to know my music taste. For every like, I will post one song I love", with a heart shape at the end of the sentence.
Headline: No yolk: NC AG Jeff Jackson settles antitrust lawsuit for 3 million eggs
Angry bearded dragon with a black neck
This one is stylistically consistent, but more splotchy than the others. Set to a soft orange background with lots of whites, greens and reds.
This one is set to an orange background. It also has shapes defined by discrete lines, but with arches and angles that resemble the outline ofna motor cycle. There's more splotchiness in the other marks. Overall, it seems to have been painted with very broad brushes.
My favorite from Uncle Boris. It's hard to describe, but it's a very squiggly abstravt painting set to a pale blue background. It's made up of distinct lines and stringy shapes suggesting vigorous motion. In my interpretation, it's a self-portrait of Boris laughing in joy as he paints. There's what looks like a laughing face in the upper-right hand corner, a palette in the rihht-hand corner. A brush to the left
A closeup of a warehouse that looks like a smiley face drooling toothpaste.
The Choo Choo Restaurant in Des Plaines, IL. It's a kid's diner that brings you your order on a model train that travels across the main counter. Here, it's dropping off our son's order of a burger and fries!
A male green anole resting along a black aluminum fence. He's standing upside-down with a distinct blue ring around his eyes. He's very green, which contrasts with his white belly. Arri's flowers are in the background
A dozen orange-pink roses wrapped in a purple plastic sheet, taken at about a 45 degree angle. The roses have green leaves poking put. The background is the inside of my sturdy ol' Subaru and the surrounding strip mall, which has some tasteful landscaping
A map of regionally distinct porn searches zoomed in on Iowa, which had lingerie as its outcome
A fat ginger cat rolling over in front of a toddler. He has a white underbelly. The toddler is wearing summerwear. They are sitting on the right lane of a quiet walking & biking trail
a mechanism of control in settler-colonial states is isolation. those who are alienated can more easily be converted into fascists. build solidarity with the people in your life. with your neighbors, your friends, your coworkers. Revolution does not start with a Deed, but with compassion.
A posted responding to someone complaining about life in small U.S. towns: "This is a uniquely American take. In most places, people move to the big city because they're economic refugees, forcibly separated from the land & community in which their culture is deeply rooted. The city is a site of alienation & homogenization, not culture"
A relaxing black cat
A calico making a crescent shape on a kit hen floor with black and brown spots along its spine
Excerpt from the article: "These people would benefit from the sorts of assistance rapid reponse networks were once focused on providing. Unfortunately, many activists seem less concerned with the needs of migrants than with staging dramatic confrontations with an administration they despise. Renee Good’s fateful decision to pursue armed federal agents and disrupt their operations did not occur in isolation. It was shaped by a broader political climate in which progressives have embraced more extreme and confrontational tactics as legitimate forms of protest."
One of Dril's most celebrated tweets. It goes: See this watch? i got it by Crying. my car? crying. my beautiful wife? Crying. My perfect teeth? Crying. now ger the fuck out of my office
A middle aged white guy dressed as Blippi while holding a prop bloody knife. There's a mute symbol in the lower-right corner because I had to screenshot this from my insta lol
This is a screenshot of an online newspaper headline from NC Newsline. It reads: Trump doubles down on calling for the feds to take over elections despite US Constitution"
A selection from my finance textbook: A second finding is equally interesting. Accounts registered to men underperform those registered to women. The reason is that men trade more on average. This extra trading is consistent with evidence from psychology that men have greater degrees of overconfidence than women.
Not in the mood.
A page from angelinvestmentnetwork.us. It is for a company in Zimbabwe called Masimba Energy Systems. The ad claims that it "Came up with a scientific method on how to extract energy from space. Crafted a Business Plan. Verified and validated my scientific idea." The total required capital is $5 million. THe Masimba logo is sort of a generic glowly blue-aqua cube thing with an orange elliptical line around it. You're not missing much.
A closeup of a big-eyed fluffy shorthair calico's face. She is supremely beautiful, with butterscotch-colores splotches on the right side of her face and black splotches on the left. Her nose is divided into teo. Color areas, a light pink and a park pink half
A fairly plain job post from a recruiter (handshake) for $40-50K a year in Cary, NC, with FRG Management Consulting. The title is "N.E.E.T. Consultant"
It's difficult to describe this image because it is a detailed map of the Northern Branch of the Chicago River. The North Branch moves northwards/southwards along Lake Michigan. Here's a link to a text source describing the North Branch: https://www.lakecountyil.gov/2433/North-Branch-Chicago-River-Watershed
A photo from the Indiana vs Alabama Rose Bowl game
A toddler playing with a rainbow "long" furbie ok a wood floorm the rainbow furbie has a long white stomach, about two feet long
A small bowl full of acorns on a desk. You can see a toddler's hand in the frame.
A Youtube Music end of year recap of my listening. Top five bands were: 5. Pelican 4. Boris 3. Eyehategod 2. Sunn 0))) 1. feedtime
A Youtube Music end of year recap of my listening. Top five bands were: 5. Pelican 4. Boris 3. Eyehategod 2. Sunn 0))) 1. feedtime
A tray of orange-yellow unbaked dough balls (pumpkin rolls)
Calico
A hsndsome green-eyed black cat fiercely gripping a a couch with its left arm
A screenshot of a slide from my Accounting homework. The header reads: Additional Standard Deduction. Below that, the subheader reads: Additional standard deduction allowed is taxpayer (and/or spouse if MF) is 65 or older and/or blind.
A tweet from twitter user @maityman showing photographs of deep dish pizza. See the next two images in this post for a description. The tweet reads: "In the suburbs of Xi'an there is a tiny mom and pop store making Chicago deep dish pizza."
CNBC headline: "OpenAI says U.S. needs more power to stay ahead of China in AI. 'Electrons are the new oil'."
Three members of the Legendary Pink Dots performing live. It's a small and cozy venue with red and blue lighting in the back. Band consists of a vocalist, synth player and a guitarist.
See alt text bot reply for the excerpt from the Atlantic article about Bari Weiss
An excerpt from an accounting textbook. It's a box labeled "Tax talk." The text: The courts have consistently held in multiple decisions that proceeds from the sale of illegal drugs are included in gross income, even when the government confiscates the proceeds in a drug enforcement action
Well-done scientific illustration of a nesting platypus. The den is next to a bright blue river, dug into the side of a bank. Tree roots and leaves surround the den The mama platypus is sitting on top of a clutch of about 13 eggs, looking plump and snug.
A chart from Bowling Green State University showing how the divorce rate has plummeted since the start of the 21st century. It can be read at the URL here: https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/FP-24-11.html
A 1,000+ page accountung textbook, titled "intermediate accounting"
A calico cat and a black cat. Both cats are sitting upright on top of an ornate persian rugm The calico has a splotchy pattern that makes its back hump look a bit like a turtle shell. The black cat is making eye contact with the camera.
See the quoted pic alt text for a description and environment of Buttercup. This is a moving gif of Buttercup in the same spot. Ahe rolls over while wiggling her paws, and briefly makes eye contact with the camera. Her nose is very pink.
A calico cat stretched out luxuriously across a deep brown wood floor and a fanciful red flower-patterned Persian rug. Buttercup has a white base with brown and black spots with light tabby patterns on some of the spots. She has pale green eyes.
A closeup of one of the thugs. He's wearing a big stupid big boy helmet with a goofy camera attachment at the top.
This one's hard to summarize in text, so I'll post a link to the thread: https://bsky.app/profile/silly.bsky.social/post/3kebfdwcp232y Basically an OP about feeling anxious about the rise of American fascism devolves into an argument about the Nazi-Soviet alliance
A 2 year old toddler's chalk drawning on a sidewalk: a chaotic criss-cross pattern drawn with pink chalk
An email from Petco that arrived in my inbox, subject line: Thank you for helping rescue 100,000+ pets!
Jet
A screenshot of the headline "Harvey Weinstein and the Death Rattle kf #MeToo- the online right have taken the Democratic ex-king of Hollywood as their martyr - and the left have only themselves to blame". https://www.thefp.com/p/harvey-weinstein-and-the-death-rattle
Napalm death live at the cat's cradle in Carroboro. Barney is leaning towards the front of the crowd, which looks pretty typical for a sludge show. There's purple ambient lighting on stage
Napalm dearg on stage. Guitarist on the right, the vocalist leaning into the crowd
A generic white guy wearing a shirt for the band Russian Circles. The shirt is of a cool sort of gothic looking panther
A screenshot of Thomas the Train Engine. Teo trains are next to them, both upset