Bruce

@thornae.bsky.social

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Meandering vaguely towards the widening gyre. Doing my best to be PTerrish. He/him.

Ocean's 11, the scene where Rusty slumps on the bar while Danny convinces himself they need one more. This cinemegraph is entirely static except for Brad Pitt blinking.
A hand drawn picture of a comma and a 'D', coloured to look like gold.
The painting "Aggravation" (1896) by Briton Riviere. A jester in red leans over a high wall, smiling wickedly as he taunts a pack of dogs below. The dogs are in an absolute rage, leaping up and baying for his blood. If he loses his balance, he will have a very bad time.
Screenshot of a tumblr post. Post from prokopetz: "All animals are either Beasts or Creatures. This is usually consistent for a given species, but not always; for example, most dogs are Beasts and most cats are Creatures, but occasionally one will encounter a cat who is clearly a Beast, or dog who's an absolute Creature." Reply from v3rb4tim: "I want you to know, this has sparked quite the discussion amongst our hotel room. We've decided that Werewolf is the epitome of Beast and Gray Alien is the epitome of a Creature, and things can be categorized based on where in that spectrum they lie. Seagulls are beasts, octopus are creatures, various fish have caused contention (as fish are wont to do in discussions of taxonomy), and now we're deciding if carnivorous plants can be categorized at all."
Artwork titled "Quiet Presence" by Carlos Martin. A minimal silhouette of a figure in a white dress is defined by dark reddish brown legs, arms, and head, and a greenish shadow.
An image of Terry Pratchett's anthropomorphic personification of Death, as illustrated by Paul Kidby. A head and shoulders view of a slightly cartoonish skeleton with an elongated skull and glowing blue eyes wearing black robes, sitting in an ornate black chair on a black background.
From "Russia Dies Laughing". Stalin was dead. The Soviet nation decided to get rid of him once and for all and bury him as far away as possible. They set up a special commission. The commission turned to the British government with the request that they make available a plot in a British cemetery. 'Well,' replies the British government, 'we do already have Karl Marx in England... Two such great masters in the one cemetery... That would be overdoing it a bit...' So they tried the Germans. 'Well, we would bury him here,' reply the Germans, 'but Hitler is already buried here. Two such great tyrants in the one country...' Suddenly there arrived a telegram from Tel Aviv: 'In view of the fact that Stalin did not block the creation of the state of Israel, we agree to bury him here.' 'No way,' said the members of the commission in sudden panic. 'No way. After all they had a resurrection there...'
From "Russia DIes Laughing" (this joke actually opens the introduction). During a break in a summit meeting in Helsinki, President Carter asked Brezhnev whether he collection stories against himself. 'I certainly do,' replied Brezhnev. 'Do you have many?' asked Carter. 'Two camps full,' said Brezhnev.
Excerpt from the intro of "Russia Dies Laughing". Text reads as follows: This book was conceived around the kitchen table of a tiny Russian kitchen, the standard gathering place for groups of friends. More serious discussion dissolved into a marathon of joke-telling, in which the three R’s — an architect, an artist and a writer — easily outshone the rest for their inexhaustible store of jokes and their skill as raconteurs. The tape recording surviving this marathon lacks the mimicry and gestures of the live performance, the written record lacks the vividness of colloquial speech and the classification sacrifices the spontaneity of recall. What is left relies heavily on the skill of the translator and the quickness of the reader. Z. Dolgopolova Victoria, Australia
The cover of the 1982 book "Russia Dies Laughing". The cover is red, with the title in bold yellow uppercase letters. Below is the subtitle in yellow uppercase and credit in black uppercase, reading "Jokes from Soviet Russia" "Illustrated by JAK" "Edited by Z. Dolgopolova" JAK is in cartoon lettering. There is a JAK cartoon on the cover of three people smiling and waving - a soldier, a babushka, and a man in a suit. They are skewered by a giant bayonet, with two drops of blood dropping from the end of it.
A parody of the "ABSOLUTE CINEMA" meme; a screenshot of David Lynch in a corridor, lit by a single bare light bulb with his hands held up, a cigarette between his fingers. The caption says "Absolutely not Cinema on your FUCKING telephone".
Screencap of the Blundstones' UK website, showing a Blundstone #500 brown boot with a price tag of £175.00.
A graph from Spurious Correlations showing that the number of burglaries in Oregon correlates with the viewership count from "Days of Our Lives".
The "Awkward Look Monkey Puppet" meme. A monkey puppet known as Kenta, from the Japanese children's television show Ōkiku Naru Ko, looks awkwardly at the camera and then away.
Tumblr post from user i-am-an-adult-i-swear that says "Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively" Below is a response from mandyseley saying "I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it." with smaller text below saying "ratratratratrat"
A still from "Big Trouble in Little China". Kurt Russell is turning his head to the left, looking unsure. He is wearing a white singlet and has red lipstick on his mouth.
The cover of Robert A. Heinlein's novel "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls." The cover artist seems to be one of those medieval monks who has never actually seen a cat.
A photo of a hairless rat with one paw raised over a colourful toy piano keyboard. The caption below reads "Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006".
Image of phone contact screen for "Papa". The picture in the circle is a still from a video of me, halfway through a (stage) sword fight.
Zoom of text from above image: "100 ft"
A still from the public domain 1940 film "His Girl Friday", showing Cary Grant wearing a fedora and a dour expression, with one hand in his suit pocket and the other pointing up and to the left. There is a subtitle saying "Get out."
Screenshot excerpt from the minutes of the 2023 Business Meeting of the World Science Fiction Society. Text reads as follows: "F.5 Short Title: Best Fancast Not Paying Compensation Chair summarized amendment, which adds a rule that the Best Fancast maker not be paid monetarily. Mao Zedong makes a speech in favor, Fancast makers should not be eligible for the Hugo Award if they are paid."
A screenshot of the above skeet, showing that it has been liked by three people.
A frame from a recent Mark Trail comic. You can tell it's recent because the style looks less like Rip Kirby In Canada and more like Archie Goes Camping. In the frame, Mark is standing next to a grasshopper mouse, also known as a scorpion mouse (Onychomys torridus). Mind you, the mouse is at the same level as Mark's head, so either it's on a big rock or he's standing in a hole. Mark looks a little cross-eyed, and has a big smile as he says "If I could eat a scorpion, I'd howl at the moon too!" He may be slightly stunned. The mouse, apparently unfazed by this witty repartee, is performing its territorial vocalisation, referred to as howling. (It is probably telling the annoying human to piss off.) The moon is also in frame, but refrains from commenting.
Screenshot from "This Is Spinal Tap" showing Derek Smalls sitting on a couch.
A section of an orthographic world map with Nepal highlighted, flanked by the Nepalese flag and the official emblem. Text in impact font above and below reads "Ah, yes TIBET"
Screencap from Red Dwarf episode "Back to Reality", showing the Cat as Duane Dibbley, staring in horror at a thermost and toothbrush.
Screenshot of tumblr text post: Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise. Security technicians: *takes a deep swig of whiskey* I wish I had been born in the neolithic.
Screenshot of old.reddit.com in dark mode, showing the title and image for a post on the /r/pics subreddit. An image looking across Sydney Harbour towards the Opera House at sunset. The title is "Sydney, Australia", followed by the Austrian flag emoji. The sub title text shows that there are 398 comments on the post at the time of the screenshot. There will be many more before the day is done. Most of them will not be about the photo. Some of them are even actually funny.
Screenshot of text post from the late, lamented bash.org. Text reads: #10739 +(3913)- [X] * Spoon casts Wall of Silence *** Spoon sets mode: +m <Goku> why? <Spoon> Because exo went insane <Goku> no, he just brought his insanity up to another level * Sentinel checks.. *** Sentinel sets mode: -m <exogen> THERE'S BUTTER ON MY FACE! *** Sentinel sets mode: +m
Edit of above image: Text now reads "Transforming adhd distractions into innumerable shitposts", and the head of the person in the image has been replaced with Eize's user icon.
Frame from the 1987 film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Donald Sutherland, wild-eyed with mouth agape, pointing directly at the viewer.