Birth of a System

Neztle

Darkness on Earth

Karen Gillan

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over alleged references to CRT

The state’s department of education did not include a list of the rejected books or provide examples of how they held references to critical race theory.

Close encounters of the Fifth kind by artist YE XIAOSHI

Olivia

Rake and shovel table set

James Irvine Japanese Garden at JACCC, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles 01

What do you think is inside the Eye of Agamotto? Or did Sam Raimi revamped its properties?

Spiderman vs. Venom

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M1A1 that was stopped on the train tracks.

Here is California’s best golden sunflower fields!

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Such a fluffy bunny!

Moon Knight

Panzer 1 (One of the two that are on display in the US)

Happy Easter!

The pro pedophile party

Happy Easter!

A new foster cat: Nyx and her six kittens

We’ve received a new foster cat on saturday of last week (4/9) and she was super dooper pregnant, then become extremely ill the following day with an upper respiratory infection, struggling to breath, but then had six kittens on Wednesday (4/13).  I was there alone for half of the delivery and had to manually rupture the kitten sacks and clean off the babies, because she wasn’t able to even lift her head very much.  Five kittens were delivered in about 2 hours, then about an hour later a smaller sixth one was delivered.  it wasn’t until the 17th that mama Nyx started to breath better, and for the vast portion of that time period she was sick she wasn’t eating or drinking on her own, and thus had to be hand feed with a syringe for that entire time, and the vet recommended bottle feeding the babies.  So, for the last week, my wife and I have been bottle feeding and cleaning kitten butts manually every two hours.  It’s been challenging on both a physical level and an emotional one, there was a point that I thought Nyx had given up, but today has given me a fair bit of hope for her.  Baby #6 though isn’t doing very well and we’re not sure if it’s going to survive much longer, as it doesn’t seem to be able to swallow properly.

Mama Nyx and her six kittens.

For this process I needed an additional webcam to keep an eye on things, and settled on a Wyze v3 camera, which is fantastic for this purpose, and I bought it nearly 100% based on the theory that I could install some official custom firmware for it that would enable RTSP, but it turns out that they’ve pulled that firmware for “reasons” that they don’t actually go into, so now I get to have a third party camera in our cat room until I can figure out the entire thing.  Right now though, the camera will be as it is, because it’s doing the job I’ve asked of it, and it’s doing it surprisingly well for a $35 camera.  I’m pretty sure that they’re loosing money on the hardware with the expectation that a certain % of purchases will lead to monthly revenue for subscriptions to their hosting service.

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Happy Easter from Donald Trump

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Spidergwen by Stacycosplays

If Andrew is the Amazing Spider-Man, what is the adjective for these two?

Recent Comic Cover Updates For 2022-04-17

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What we expected vs what we got from the tv show

TRAFFIC

TIRES

Gemma Arterton

MARIJUANA

Happy Dead Guy on a Stick Day!

X-Men OG by Peter V Nguyen

The Batman wallpaper (by dannyaer)

Flash vs Ghost Rider

Welcome to my houth.

These darn teens and their tech binoculars

I thought it was enough to tow this

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)

How Pandemic Profiteers Got Rich Off Taxpayer Money While Millions Suffered

In an excerpt from his book Pandemic, Inc., J. David McSwane details how greedy capitalists took advantage of a discombobulated government during the height of Covid-19

The Congress

The Congress: Directed by Ari Folman. With Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Sami Gayle, Jon Hamm. An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn’t consider.

Release in 2013 well before her resurgance in amazing roles like House of Cards, Blade Runner 2042, or Wonder Woman, this movie has Robin Wright playing a nearly has been actress that’s in need of income an out of options, so signs over her digital likeness to Miramax. I’ve seen this before in a couple other things, the first that comes to mind is a Pamela Anderson short, though I’m not sure if I’m remembering that correctly. Regardless, the idea isn’t a new one, but what they do with it here in “The Congress” is mind bogglingly well done, the first half of the movie is her coming to terms with the decision that’s to be made, then the second half is the repercussions of the decision and the time period immediately after it. This is a nearly 10 year old film so I think I’m ok with spoiling it a little, so if you want to stop here, here’s some spoilers for you:

The second half is animated, and not in a “oh they animated this for a minute” kind of way, but it’s some of the best animation I’ve ever seen with some bonkers intentions behind what they’re showing (or not showing intentionally). I went in expecting a film about actor digitalization and what I got instead was an emotional gut punch with extreme science fiction concepts being looked at with the the kind of intensity that normally doesn’t make it to Hollywood, or if they do make it they get watered down and filtered to something more marketable.

A fun note, the corporation in the film goes from Miramax in the first half to “Miramount”, a portmanteau of Miaramax and Paramount, which actually sorta ended up being prediction from 2013 that became true when Paramount acquired a 49% stake in Miramax for at least $375 million in 2019, somewhat after all the unfortunate bullshit from main guy at Miramax came to light.

If you’re ok with heavy science fiction concepts and want to see animation that will flip your mind, this is it.

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Why not this one? by Ricochet188

Is making fun of the right considered punching down?

I love my mom, but oof

high as fuck tops

Cyborg Female — by Hideyuki Ashizawa

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