Pyat, a Mouse

My fave are the US ones that read "Injure/kill Road Worker? $5000" but the workers always seem to be hiding and I don't know if Canadians can collect the prize.

A foggy night. A large bridge building is shrouded in fog, yellow and white lights flare through the mist. Bare trees and some cars and house fronts and other urban residential Canadian things.

It's a Silent Hill night by the Mousehold.

Also, both SK and Sweden have guaranteed they would support local production, whereas the F35s would have to get sent to the US for updates and a lot of maintenance.

One of the things we're realizing in Canada is that the only opponent we'd need F-35s to fight is the USAF itself. Russia? China? Middle East? Sure, Gripens or (better yet) KF-21s are more than adequate.

Not Habitrail?

*cues Blade Runner soundtrack*

The Western Hemisphere is where Americans keep all their best stuff!

That is an impressive feat right there. 0.0

Look, all people need to do is do what I did, and buy a house in 2001. It's just time travel.

The Agat is really the most durable and useful small camera I have. Set the ISO and the lighting and it has a range of preset shutter settings that work fine. Now much bigger a two packs of playing cards glued together.

IN SOVIET UNION, CAMERA TAKES PHOTO OF YOU.

Photo of a black and yellow rectangular camera, with the yellow bits being the settings ring around the lens.

I developed 70+ exposures from my half-frame plastic Agat 18K, the Soviet Belorussian camera that has given me more use than any of my other cameras. I need to clean it. Look! It's @kyatastrophe.bsky.social and @coan.bsky.social at the Hamilton's best Flinstones-themed eatery back around New Year.

Check the strings for residue from the stick of Blackpool Rock that bought him so much pleasure and yet caused consternation for the BBC.

Well, if today was 1990, the photo would have been taken in 1977!

Two cute nerds. On left, bespectacled white man in a tweed(?) cap peers over the shoulder of a Japanese-American Rabbit. She is also wearing glassed and has short black hair. Behind them, grave stones and trees and a bit road.

Photo taken by @rabbitcatalyst.bsky.social of the two of us in November 2013, in Providence. Just cause I like it.

Simplesoupman of the Boston Simplesoupman clan?

Colonel Sanders lived in Canada for the last 15 years of his life, and when visiting the US would check out KFC locations and condemn their food as "God-damned slop," so he was already angry. At one point KFC sued him for libel.

Vismarkt (fish market) in Mechelen anno 1531.
I LOVE this little strange map so much.
Look it shows the facades of all the buildings and you can see what they sold!
So many details, so many lovely signs!
Found here;
x.com/ArjanNobel/s...

Let's look at some details.
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"Roads are not meant for chickens, and to suggest a chicken should act on a self-destructive impulse is certainly not a laughing matter."

I kinda thought looking weird was his whole deal anyway. Like Neil Young singing badly. That's his THING.

Assuming some semblance of a stable relationship between the two of you, you should visit your mom if possible.

Mononucleosis outbreak.

I just read this a few weeks ago after finding volume 1 and 2 in my basement. It filled in a lot of details about the revolution and life in Iran following it that I had not really internalized.

The dog is nice too.

Um... three?

For those who haven't been following along, a fight started between Anthropic (a frontier AI firm, often considered to have the best coding AI) and the government, after Anthropic found its tools had been sued in the Maduro raid, which included use of lethal force.

My wife is dating a guy in Argentina and it is a big enough phenomenon that he asked her to ask me what it was all about.

Or, as I like to call it...

Ugh, they still haven't any Leo McKern gifs so I can't react properly.

A hand holds up a copy of the printed story "A Political Fable: Mouseland, as told by Tommy Douglas."

James Lileks probably is very invested in the rat-heaven behavioural sink theory. This is because he has never read the Fable of Mouseland, and if he did, he thought it was Communist propaganda.

Art by Nat Lileks. Um. There's a bunch of thumbnails. They are mostly colourful and pop artish, with an undercurrent of blood, strange, and wounds.

Yeah, his kid (The Gnat) is now an adult and a Google search reveals she's trying to break into art and corporate graphic design. She seems fond of horror movies.