Kafkaesque Parfum

Razor sharp they were, too! 😆 I have some baby tooth photos somewhere, and they're like blood-tinged needles. Little landshark.

Haha, I *always* think of Dumbo when I think or talk about GSD donkey ears that are so huge, they might as well be wings. I loved Dumbo as a child so much!

And I actually mentioned Dumbo in the Alt-text to one of the photos in this thread.

Ha, yes, Troi's late '80s hair, makeup, & clothes were painfully '80s! Gene Roddenberry really loved himself some shiny lamés, disco purples, pinks, & transparent gauzes. 😆

That said, I prefer the old sets, looks, & visuals over today's surfeit of CGI, cold metal sterility, & *endless* lens flares!

"They say the camera adds 10 inches to your ears!" - Another pup with such enormous #GSD "wombat" or "donkey" ears that he's also become a #GermanShepherd meme icon. #Dogs #Puppies #Dogsky

cc: @karenrambo.bsky.social

Ke$ha - Blow (Official Video) YouTube video by keshaVEVO

😂🤭: "for weeks even AFTER flossing." That's a hoot.

Coincidentally, your night sounds like the night that, in my mind, K$sha was singing about in that song, even if the video is dissimilar (& also unexpectedly stars James Van de Beek, RIP): youtu.be/CFWX0hWCbng?...

No, much further out: in another galaxy! 😆

Ha, I would love to hear the sordid details one night. I think. ;)

A young college age man looks bleary eyed at the screen as he vomits green, white, turquoise, and pink iridescent glitter.

Glitter vomit? Vomit glitter? I qu. #StarTrek execs' weird choice for making the silica vomited by their new #StarfleetAcademy aliens, the Khionians, look exactly like something out of a bad 2010 Hobby Lobby video for K$sha's Blow.

I actually like the show & Darem, but many of the visual choices 🤨😒

Awesome! Congratulations. Ride that great high forever! 💙

It's not Apollo in the meme. His ears were bad, but not THAT bad! The meme pup's ears are practically iconic at this point, I think, lol.

The naughty ones often are, lol.

Wonderful! I hoped it would give people a good laugh! 💙

I know! And yet, it feels like he's always been here but also, how did 5 years pass so quickly because our overall time is so short??! 🥹😭

Haha, that fear was reserved for his hatred of nail-trimming. The first 2-3 years...omg! 😱😳

I'll have to ponder this. Also, to ponder whether continental European Art Deco was louder or quieter than the British Art Deco I've seen.

I now also want to compare European vs American Art *Nouveau* because the European version was *VERY* flamboyant, at least during the 1900s-1910s.

Indignities, lol! Funny thing is, all my GSDs have loved water, playing in it, or swimming in it, but they draw the line at baths. Very odd lot. 😆

Apollo looking manic with huge wet ears standing down and to the side like big horizontal flapping Dumbo ears

Meme showing a GSD puppy with huge oversized ears sitting in soapy water in a bath tub. The caption reads in big caps: "I will have my revenge"

Also, wet baby Apollo looked like a manic drowned rat with donkey ears.

It's a common look for #GSD #puppies, hence the popular meme shown on the right. #Dogs #GermanShepherd #Funny #HappyThings #BathTime

Photo of a wet, scrawny, German Shepherd puppy in a white bath tub, looking as if he's all eyes because they are bulging with horror and fear at being bathed. The whites of his eyes are huge with alarm, stand out against the puppy's dark fur and face, and match the white background.

OneDrive informs me that, on this day 5 yrs ago in 2021, I gave baby Apollo a bath and, judging by his eyeballs, there were few greater horrors in his young life. #Dogs #GSD #GermanShepherds #Puppies #DogsOfBluesky

Really appreciate you sharing the exact message you got! I've actually never seen that exact language before! So I don't know if that means Darren chose to log off or Bluesky kicked him off. I would worry less given his job stress & the Safeway incident last month if it were another hacking scenario

I wish it were clearer what the cause of a disappeared account might be. I would worry less if he'd vanished because someone hacked him or banned him, rather than worrying about him via a vis his stressful job that he wanted to quit. :(

I miss my friend & really hope he's ok.

But how do you know it's been deleted rather than suspended/banned by Bluesky? My former account suddenly vanished, too, & old DMs showed as "deleted," but it was after my account was banned after being hacked w many others 3 wks ago. Bluesky banned me for being a bot & hasn't responded to appeals.

*sigh*

THAT mountain is exactly what I need right now. Joking aside*, it's interesting to know how much is in each.

*Half joking. Half dead serious, lol.

Thank you for letting me live vicariously through you. What was the tastiest fusion combination to your mind? And the wildest mix?

Btw, are those pomegranate seeds I see in the little samosas?

I wish insanely OTT religious people (of all stripes and faiths) realized what whackadoodle fruit loops they sound like to everyone outside of their tiny Dark Ages bubble of bigotry and misogyny.

Brown University researchers launch AI legislation tracking and analysis portal As a tool for researchers, lawmakers, journalists and the public, the CNTR AISLE Portal provides analysis of state- and federal-level AI bills pending across the U.S.

More than 1000 AI bills have been introduced in the U.S. in just the last 3 yrs. How to keep up?

Brown, my alma mater, has created a public database & tool for lawmakers, journalists, & the public to track all fed & state AI LLM legislation. (+ Expert policy analysis.) www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

I post threads about things I find to be beautiful and/or beautiful Art, whether it's a stunning Icelandic landscape, Ancient Egyptian temples on my bucket list, macro photography or lately, Art Deco. Also, light fun books like re-reading Agatha Christie.

It's all escapism & my mental health valve.

The Mirage of a New Middle East War with Iran won’t reshape the region the way America wants.

"The Mirage of a New Middle East:" www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

Free, no paywall, Foreign Affairs journal article on the US war on Iran & its likely/unlikely consequences. Covers: Hezbollah; militancy in the area; other regional autocrats; the impact of Israeli actions; the IRGC; & more.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says you 're fired . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says you 're fired .

I bet she won't see it, unlike Nancy Mace who, it appears, intentionally follows everything posted about her.

BUT whether or not Noem knows she's a figure of mockery, yesterday she received the only wound that really matters to her & her ilk:

Using Sarah McLaughlin's iconic '90s ballad of sadness & loss, "I Will Remember You," was inspired. 😂🤭 Cherry on the trolling cake.

Though Gavin Newsom gets all the credit for this stuff, I want to give a specific shout-out to his brilliant Digital Dir., Camille Zapata @camillezapata.bsky.social: 👏