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wednesday night football
#photography #football #championsleague #UCL #brugge #bruges #belgium
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Review of "Piranesi" (5 stars): Piranesi
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intriguing, captivating, lingering. this story builds up together with the characters and the reader and never lets you go. amazing read!
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good mooooorning, last workday of the week! kick it off with some jingle jangle sounds from my #bandcamp playlist!
to be updated regularly etc etc etc keep an eye yada yada
bandcamp.com/arnodegroote/playβ¦
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just saw someone vaping while riding her electric bike. that's fully embracing the modern world. hybrid humanoids. are those people's lives fully battery powered? are friends electric?
#tech #electronic #technology #morningwalk #ramble #thoughtoftheday #commute
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Review of "How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying" (2.5 stars): How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
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a mix between hitchhiker's guide and D&D, with lots of modern pop culture references sprinkled all over it, more than a lot, even. one can only have so many references. really had to push to make it to the end. high expectations, low reward.
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lower your tire pressure kinda day!
finally the first real snowy commute of the winter
really appreciate riding fixed in these conditions
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Images from the 1665 edition of Fortunio Licetiβs De Monstris, originally published, without the illustrations, in 1616. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collectβ¦
Fortunio Licetiβs Monsters (1665)
Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable.The Public Domain Review
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Review of "When I Sing, Mountains Dance" (4 stars): When I Sing, Mountains Dance
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Lots of emotions flowing through the story. Beautifully written, draws you in and won't let you go. Didn't expect to finish this one so quickly. Wonderful all around!
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This is the gold standard for about-the-author photos
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Damn it, missed the ultimate chance to post King Gizz's masterpiece Perihelion! #KGATLW #kinggizard #perihelion
Vandaag (zaterdag 3 januari 2026) bevindt de aarde zich in het perihelium, het dichtste punt in zijn baan rond de zon, op een afstand van ongeveer 147.099.000 kilometer.
Vreemd? Meer info op frankdeboosere.be/vragen/vraagβ¦
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As many embark boldly (and perhaps temporarily) on brand new gym memberships, here's a look at where it all started: the workout machines of the 19th century: publicdomainreview.org/collectβ¦
Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym
Modern fitness culture finds its origins in 19th-century Stockholm, where Dr. Zander invented precursors to today's gym equipment.The Public Domain Review
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I love the lamp-post esthetic and the simplicity of most of them. One of the gyms should bring those back. (Minus the exposed gears, I guess...)
Review of "Last Wish" (5 stars): Last Wish
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First time reading The Witcher after playing the game for some years. This is amazing! Series off to a great start.
A new year
Been some time since I checked out Friendica. Still not sure how/in what way I'll use the platform. Figuring some things out as well. This new year I'd like to delve deeper into the social web and the fediverse, so expect some more activity here as well!
You can still follow me on my other accounts:
Mastodon
Bookwyrm
Lemmy
Pixelfed
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Hi everyone!
I'm new here, so it's time for a little #introduction, right?
My name is Arno, I'm from #Bruges (Belgium) and trying to learn as much as I can about the Fediverse. I have a job in social media and online communications - as that's a huge interest of mine - but I want to get rid of as much big tech as possible. Currently, I'm not able to leave everything behind. The Meta platforms and TikTok are - sadly - still way too important for my job. I'm sort of waiting for their collapse. In the meantime I'm doing as much research as I can, which I can do during working hours (win), and move my personal life to the Fediverse. You can also find me on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy & Loops (I have a slight addiction to social media, it seems).
I absolutely love #cycling, enjoy #music (listening and playing) and am interested in #tech. I also love being #creative! I'm a #drummer and like to experiment with #photography, mainly #analog.
Nice to meet you!
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in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •I'd always thought it was Georges Perec's, but this is indeed superb
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in reply to Murray GM - Paperposts • • •@Paperposts Ray Bradbury with his cat Tigger
You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. If you try to approach a cat and pick it up, hell, it won't let you do it. You've got to say, "Well, to hell with you." And the cat says, "Wait a minute.β
-- Ray Bradbury
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in reply to unlofl [Promoted Toot] • • •@Paperposts Also, not an author, but this picture of Vincent Price with an armload of big fluffy cats goes fucking hard
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He repeatedly tried to name his cat as co-author of his papers.
Yuri Knorozov - Wikipedia
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in reply to Abie • • •@temptoetiam @unlofl Chekhov had dachshunds but also a mongoose which I think also deserves an honorary
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in reply to Murray GM - Paperposts • • •I long to meet Chekhovβs mongoose in the third act
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in reply to Abie • • •@temptoetiam Only because you got there before I could.
@unlofl @Paperposts @hannah
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in reply to unlofl [Promoted Toot] • • •Vincent Price just raised the level of anything he was involved in π
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in reply to unlofl [Promoted Toot] • • •Hello all, let me introduce you to Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov and the photo that Ernst Stavro Blofeld would've killed for: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knoβ¦
P.S.: OH, I see somebody else also posted about him. I guess something is absolutely true: authors with cats will share the photo.
Yuri Knorozov - Wikipedia
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Murray GM - Paperposts
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in reply to SeiΓ°r • • •@Illuminatus @unlofl @Paperposts Replicating this image with my boi is now my life's goal
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in reply to unlofl [Promoted Toot] • • •@unlofl @Paperposts Vincent Price once made cookies for me at 1:00 AM when I was 18 years old. He was wearing a smoking jacket and scarf (he had been unexpectedly awakened) and was a simply wonderfully polite and amusing person.
My aunt's partner (I boarded with them my first semester of college) was a Hollywood realtor, and we had stopped by his house to pick up paperwork, not realizing that we would be waking him up.
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in reply to unlofl [Promoted Toot] • • •I was blessed to see Ray Bradbury lecture in person at Monterey Peninsula College when I was a kid. Wonderful to see a reminder of him!
CC: @Paperposts@zirk.us @hannah@posts.rat.pictures
Rob
in reply to Murray GM - Paperposts • • •@Paperposts I feel like Czech author Bohumil Hrabal shouldn't be missing here. There are lots of photos of him with cats but this is the only one I can find for now. For years he would commute to his cottage outside of Prague, buying chicken from a buffet at Florenc bus station to feed his cats. In fact they weren't his for the most part but he wrote about them plenty and even dedicated books to one of them.
yaoi gagarin
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Assuming the photo was taken around the time the book was published it would be early 1900s (the cats are described as "kittens" at the start of the voyage but look like young adult cats in the photo) - film was fast enough by then to reduce the exposure time to a few seconds or even a fraction of a second, same as with modern cameras.
They are already trained well enough to walk on a leash and sit on the chaps shoulder, and if food motivated could be persuaded with treats to hang around for a photo or two πΈ
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in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •another entry in this canon
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in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •My personal fav is Knorozov. He listed the cat as a coauthor on his papers!
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Yuri KnΓ³rozov - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
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in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •Edward Gorey was very good at this:
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in reply to VM (Vicky) Brasseur • • •(link in spanish, but lots of cats)
Los gatos de Colette
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Patricia Highsmith with cat
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@vmbrasseur Caresse Crosby, publisher, ghost writer of erotica, first patent holder for a modern bra. Photographed in 1914 with her whippet, Clytoris.
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Charlie Stross
in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •It took ages but I *FINALLY* managed to get my US publisher to use this one as my back-flap author photo β¦
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •@cstross achievement unlocked!
Were they worried that some people might not be sure which one was you?
@hannah
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in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •Paging @Sardonicus
to the white courtesy phone please
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pg22117-images.html
www.gutenberg.orgMurray GM - Paperposts
in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •found another - Joseph Brodsky
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Yuri Knorozov - Wikipedia
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The famous official NASA photo of astronaut Leland D. Melvin, taken with his dogs Jake and Scout. He smuggled his dogs into the photo shoot.
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File:NASA astronaut Leland D. Melvin with his dogs Jake and Scout.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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in reply to historic drystone sheep dyke • • •Ernest Hemingway has some good cat pics as well.
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File:Ernest-Hemingway-with-cat-1954.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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Unknown parent • • •Linguists are more concerned with letters than numbers.
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Unknown parent • • •@Zestryon That reminds me, those french philosophers loved their cats torpedotheark.blogspot.com/201β¦
When I Play With My Cat ... (Notes Towards a Feline Philosophy)
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