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@singemonkey.bsky.social

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I love to torture myself seeking fine-grained understanding of events over which I have no control. Note that I will unfollow anyone posting AI slop unless it's in a post disparaging AI slop.

The meme image of a young woman at a festival earnestly yelling into a bemused young man's ear with her arm around his shoulder.
It’s the same picture The Office meme.
Clouds behind a large radio mast turn the sun to a rainbow circle in an otherwise deep blue sky.
A black and white portrait of a Mountain Zebra. It is staring straight at the viewer. As a mountain zebra, it is mostly deep black stripes with narrower pure white stripes between. It is standing in a knee-high field of karoo veld that extends to the mountain in the background.
A Red Bishop bird puffed-up, displaying, perched on a reed leaning off-vertical. Its deep red head feathers are puffed into a ball around its black face and its black body is surrounded by a fluff of red-orange feathers. Puffed up like this it somewhat resembles a fuzzy bee - although red and black rather than yellow and black.
A high contrast black and white film image showing a mass of water lily leaves and their flowers (waterblommetjies in Afrikaans) with the black water receding up the frame to a mass of blurring foliage. Dotted here and there are bright white water lilies.
A black and white, high contrast image of some ferns in bottom left. They're curling slightly and the out of focus background foliage has a slight swirl as it extends to the top of the frame.
The Blue Marble photograph of the whole Earth taken during the Apollo programme in the late 1960s. This one is taken of the daytime side and the colour is richer than in the recent Artemis Hello World pic. Africa and Arabia are clearly visible against the deep blue ocean and the Snow White clouds. No lights , aurora, or stars are visible.
The Hello World image of the entire Earth lit by moonlight, hanging in space, showing the bulge of Africa and part of the Iberian Peninsula with nighttime city lights. The bright edge of dawn is visible on part of the circumference and the greenish aurora at another point. The image has been slightly brightened to make the features of the planet more visible.
A black and white photograph of the very stylish Georgia Tom, wearing a flat cap and a vey slender bow tie with a camel hair overcoat, lighting a cigarette
A row of new single-cutaway Yamaha Pacifica SC guitars in a spectrum of pastelish colours (and white, black, and sunburst) against a white background to the right of a Pacifica logo in black cursive. The guitars have a basic Telecaster layout with 'ashtray' bridges with a single coil pickup but with a covered humbucker in the neck position. They sport either rosewood or maple fretboards.
A black and white half body photograph of young Bobby Weir of The Grateful Dead with shoulder-length hair playing a Gibson es345 guitar.
A suburban South African home burning out shot through a glass door reflecting a silhouette of the photographer and the calm living room behind them.
The cover of Lonely Castle In The Mirror - a novel by Mizuki Tsujimura - depicting in sparse graphic style on a pink background the head of a girl with a wolf mask on her upper face.
All description in main text.
A black and white photograph of Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Danny Kirwan, playing a sunburst Les Paul guitar. Photographed against a wall of Fender amplifiers from a low angle.
A creepy Jack-o-lantern made from a Hubbard squash showing its glowing face in a darkened room
A Levaillant’s Cisticola standing atop a seedy grass stem against a soft focus background.
A Southern Masked Weaver bird photographed on a twig against a background that’s far enough away to blur out entirely.
A Little Grebe sculls serenely across glassy water
An electric pink 1980s Peugeot road bike against a white wall in the sun.
David Lynch playing Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks: The Return, saying “Fix your hearts or die!”
A screengrab of a youtube thumbnail by session guitar player Tim Pierce. The text in the image merely says: "Sloppy or solid?" with a pic of Tim with a guitar looking friendly and slightly quizzical. But the title of the video is: "WHY Your Rhythm Guitar Screams 'IMPOSTER'"
A picture of a piece in the latest Private Eye detailing how the UK's labour government has ramped up exports to Israel - half benefitting the Israeli military - from 30,000 pounds in q1 2024 to over 127.6M pounds in the last quarter of 2024 even while making press statements pretending to hold Israel to account.
Actor Hong Dang depicted as Captain America with a red shield with a gold star on it. Illustration by Bang2610 on Devientart
Dwight from The Office gives an impassioned speech using quotes from Mussolini against a red curtain.
An African Honey Bee colllecting nectar from a white/lavender flower.
A black and white still of Patrick McGoohan smiling in his role in The Prisoner
A barefoot Mughal man climbs a plane tree in which several squirrels are depicted rushing through the branches. The plane tree's leaves are in a mixed state with some leaves turning gold. There are mountain sheep in the rocky background. The overall look of the painting is warm gold.
Brand logos for Carrefour, Reebok, AXA, Intel, Dell, HP, Chevron, Caltex, Texaco, Siemens, Sodastream, Disney+, and Remax
The Egyptian god Sekhmet with a green lion head in a ruddy dress. She holds a staff in one hand and an ankh in the other. There is a great sun disc atop her head
Pictures of the weird, very dissimilar vampires from the Adventure Time mini-arc "Stakes". All sinister but also radically different.
A picture of a Native American woman, Chief Brenda Gagne of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi, seated with her elbows on the table and her hands clasped. She looks calmly confident.
Screenshot of a Youtube comment in which user @Uberpanik says: "Copyright in this day and age is 5% protection of the creators, and 95% rent seeking"
A Baldur's Gate 3 character in absurdly elaborate armour holding a multi-faceted geegaw.
Sam attacking the huge Shelob over the unconscious form of the web-wrapped Frodo
A woman with a winged helmet and elaborate golden armour riding a unicorn also decked in gold in front of some spiky towers in front of a misty moon
A screengrab of a Youtube comment stating: "Shigero Miyamoto was really pushing the limits of the NES when he had that CEO assassinated."