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Mostly posting mediocre wildlife photography, and updates on arts and crafts projects. I'm pampering pets and figuring things out. She/her.
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Pugnacious Painters (by numbers)
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Dark eyed Junco?
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For the record, that jacket is stunning.
Thanks for pricing things out, too many people (myself included) are used to pulling something off the rack and paying $20 for it.
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🤔 I'm surprised the Mordor tariff is as high as it is... I heard it was a very very fine land with the best smart leaders who are ready to cooperate with us...
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Yep! Tariffs to create new manufacturing is like taking off your scuba gear underwater, because you want to return to shore. Gah.
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Manually, using the even/odd pages trick.
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Eh, it's visually beautiful, and much of the plots revolve around rich people being dysfunctional despite their wealth?
I drifted out midway through the second season, but that's the appeal I see.
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Protests are growing, but not well reported and are scattered across a huge country.
And I'm only speculating, but suspect that anyone both competent and sitting on a 'harsh' solution would take a 'wait and see approach', and wait till Trump's supporters are themselves disenchanted.
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The Democrats have run on the party of being 'less bad' for a long time. They get minority and progressive votes by the simple virtue of not actively harming them, while still enjoying a very comfy career with generous business donors. So aside from a precious few, not much opposition there.
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Your country has been one of our greatest allies, and has burnt down the Whitehouse twice.
It's an incredibly terrible idea to mess with Canada for both reasons, and yet...
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Doesn't 100% fit (so please disregard if it's not the right match!) but if you're inclined towards a huge diy project, Schipper paint by numbers has these neat polyptych kits.
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Wear all blue or all black. Stand silent with your backs turned.
Extra credit for talking with the media excluded from the Whitehouse, both before and after, about how Trump/Musks actions will harm ordinary citizens, what you are doing to oppose them, and what you would do differently if in power.
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You know, this might be ground zero for a new meme...
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The seeds of this might have been earlier. When the 'I can has cheeseburger' site started, there was some correlation between 4chan and the meme community, and I saw neutral to favorable memes about him. 'Putin on the Ritz' with his face photoshopped on a Ritz cracker is the one that comes to mind.
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Honestly, if they had the emotional scope to get into Renaissance faires, the world would be a much happier place!
Subsidizing handicrafts instead of fascism, yep. If only.
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Janet from the Good Place. As she gains human complexity, she uses it not to be some grimdark edgelord, but simply to help people (and act like an awkward dummy with guys, but eh).
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I daresay Canada would much prefer to border Mexico at the moment...
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This has to be satire, but where would they find four cybertruck owners with good senses of humor?
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Well, it's a child's squirt gun on a forest fire, but I'll take it as a first step.
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I'd say tarantula hawks could go toe to toe with any other flying buggy menace. (Not that I'm proud of 'em, what they do to tarantulas is sheer horror.)
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If there's any justice or mercy in the world, there should be a plan that doesn't abandon blue voters in gerrymandered, voter-suppressed red states.
Heck if I know what. But please keep speaking up, remind people that red states aren't monoliths.
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Buy two Pacific States, get the third one free!
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I for one welcome our avocado toast coveting, universal healthcare/democracy/common-sense providing, slightly sarcastic neighbors and friends.
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Hmm, Terra cotta bricks with holes? Or super-short lengths of clay pipe, or a concrete/cement planter in shape of an animal.
A cast iron floor flange would sadly be too small.
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This has a very old-school vibe. My compliments!
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Aside from the complete and utter human tragedy and cost, the last thing we need is for Palestinians to have absolutely nothing left to lose.
We aren't set up to handle a grudge of that magnitude.
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Frame it in their 'language', good ol fashioned values. Imagine how a Republican might react if a Democrat was pulling some of these shenanigans.
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Oh, my... I'd recommend 3d printing, but that would be several fewer books.
That being said, I know a few 3d printing nerds, myself included, who'd be very interested in your 3d doodles...
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Seriously? You are the one with influence. You could,
Oppose all Trump nominees.
Deny unanimous consent.
Vote no on all cloture.
And force quorum calls.
But you can't even handle your voicemail!
If you have any love for your country, stop wringing your hands and fight!
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I'm all for that! We could also vote Cthulhu in the Primaries in 2026, though I've heard he's third party...
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For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
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Any domestic mammal doing a courtship dance like a bird of paradise, or a jumping spider.
A little kitty robotically moving his leggies and butt in the air, or a dog floofing its fur into a ufo orb shape before bouncing up and down, would break me.
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My followers consist of a handful of bots, a kind maker or two and perhaps an opossum who found a charged phone in a dumpster, but I'll keep you all updated on the pbn progress.
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The Schipper brand is the gold standard for Paint by numbers. Their designs have a "Thomas Kinkade tours Europe" vibe, but they're fun.
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The canvas needed gessoing, the lines are a little wonky from the image being casually run through pbn software but all in all I'm happy with it.
My father likes vintage bikes, the quality is okay-ish, and the company collaborates with artists rather than going the AI route which is huge.
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2016's Ghostbuster's better than original.
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Unfortunately, we don't deal with it!
The strong, clever, lucky ones take proactive measures to help improve their little corner of the world.
The merely lucky ones lean on friends and family, and hyperfocus on hobbies.
The options quickly go downhill from there.