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m_f@discuss.onlineOPto The Far Side@sh.itjust.works•7 July, 2020 - "Taxidermist"English7·21 hours agoThis is one of his newer comics, he started drawing them digitally and that’s why it looks differently:
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
So a few years ago—finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen—I decided to try a digital tablet. I knew nothing about these devices but hoped it would just get me through my annual Christmas card ordeal. I got one, fired it up, and lo and behold, something totally unexpected happened: within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained. I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved. Perhaps fittingly, the first thing I drew was a caveman.
m_f@discuss.onlineto Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro@midwest.social•Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman, husband killed in apparent 'politically motivated' shooting; second lawmaker woundedEnglish6·2 days agoFrom the other site, this is apparently the shooter ranting about people “not knowing what sex they are”:
https://xcancel.com/TropicalVertic1/status/1933959644373819818
There are some claims (of course) that this guy was a Democrat and this is all Walz’ fault, but that’s based on him being on some minor board under Walz or because there were “No Kings” signs in the car, which are nothingburgers, to borrow the term:
Apparently Walz appointing the guy 6 years ago in an effort to toe the line
Not even to “toe the line”. It’s a non partisan board that currently has almost 50 people on it and 11 open spots that anyone who fits that niche can sign up for. It’s pretty much a volunteer position that only requires meeting 4 times a year or so.
It’s not a full time job, it’s not anything that really requires proper vetting outside of ensuring that the person signing up for it has something to do with the workforce (since it’s a workforce commission). There are hundreds if not thousands of collective spots like this across various niche boards and commissions, it would be weird if Walz (and other state governors) did vet this guy (and others on these boards).
It would be like if the superintendent of a large school district individually vetted each school’s PTO participants; just a huge waste of time and they have far bigger, more important priorities.
Yeah, it’s a moth. I’m sure there’s some other small flying insect attracted to lamps that starts with “M”, but The Far Side was written with your average newspaper reader in mind so generally isn’t that obscure
Very similar approach but with modals instead of inline: https://gwern.net/
Some background on this comic:
Transcript (draft):
I work for this scientist… I dig up graves, fetch brains, mop the floor-general stuff… you wanna see the lab?
blah blah blah… and you?
Looks like they updated the comic at some point to make it more clear. Today’s post has a little strip of white that’s not there in the original.
Some background on this comic:
Transcript:
A few days after this cartoon was published, I started getting a considerable amount of reaction from people who enjoyed it. But I found it interesting that, without exception, they were enjoying it from a different standpoint from the one I had intended. If you look at the enlargement of the two little calves, you’ll see that one of them is doing the old hoof-behind-the-head trick to its sibling. Apparently, it was just too subtle in the original. (In fact, it sort of looks like the one calf is just wearing a ribbon.) I wish now I had developed this into a series of places the Holsteins had visited. (“The Holsteins visit Three Mile Island” would have been interesting.)
m_f@discuss.onlineOPMto Cyanide & Happiness@discuss.online•Let the Games Begin...🔨English2·7 days agoFor anyone that’s unaware, Cyanide & Happiness does a lot of shorts in addition to their webcomics. For some period of time (maybe the whole month of June?), they’re doing daily shorts of Blue vs Green:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/let-games-begin-130464081
Our boys Blue and Green are gonna be duking it out in a new animation EVERY DAY. Whose side are you on?
m_f@discuss.onlineOPMto Cyanide & Happiness@discuss.online•C&H Community Icon - Suggestion ThreadEnglish3·7 days agoThe creators use this picture on a lot of other sites:
m_f@discuss.onlineto Community Promo@lemmy.ca•Sigh-Fi: Oops All Sci-Fi Memes! Update Moved To PieFed (Please Re-Subscribe)English3·7 days agoThe link wasn’t working for me, it seems PieFed doesn’t like capitalization differences in the links? Lemmy ignores capitalization. This works, at any rate:
I don’t see the new post on my instance at https://discuss.online/c/sighfi@quokk.au, you might want to check that it’s federating properly. I’ve heard that recreating communities like that can make things get into a weird state.
Some background on this comic:
Transcript (comic draft):
“Look at that… Man, in our day, Bernie, we could skeletonize a cow in less than two minutes.”
Transcript (commentary):
Just about every time I’ve heard or read anything about piranhas (as you might imagine, I’m drawn to the subject), it’s always mentioned how quickly a school of them can skeletonize a cow. I’m not sure why a cow is always the standard unit of measurement for this sort of thing, but pondering it eventually led to this cartoon.
m_f@discuss.onlineOPMto AskUSA@discuss.online•[Weekly Thread] What did you learn this week?English5·9 days agoI found out that geese will eat cottonwood fluff, as pictured. At least that goose does, maybe it’s bullied by the other geese for being weird. It doesn’t seem like it would have any nutrients, but what do I know, I’m not a goose 🤷
Neat, are you involved in activitypub.rocks? What sort of updates can we look forward to?
m_f@discuss.onlineOPMto Cyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee•Cyanide & Happiness is moving to discuss.online!English4·9 days agoThe biggest reason is that @jgrim@discuss.online runs it really well. It’s stable, updated frequently as Lemmy is updated, and he’s really responsive to issues like trouble uploading images. I’m also a Lemmy admin on here, and since lemm.ee is going down in large part because of not enough admins, I think it’s good to rehome the community to somewhere that I can help fix that issue if it crops up again.
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m_f@discuss.onlineOPMto Perry Bible Fellowship@discuss.online•Gingerbread Man (2008-08-24)English11·10 days agoGreat reaction from the first one. Granny gonna get herself some
m_f@discuss.onlineOPMto Cyanide & Happiness@discuss.online•C&H Community Icon - Suggestion ThreadEnglish5·10 days agoThat would be pretty easily doable. Might screw with federation, and you might end up with different servers having different community icons. Worth checking out though
Where were you looking?
Are you maybe looking for flohmarkt?
The name flohmarkt is a german word and translates to flea market or garage sale in english. This is a symbol for each flohmarkt being meant to be a small place for a somehow connected group of people. All the flohmarkts willing to federate make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services.
According to Garfield’s Scary Scavenger Hunt, this is what happened to him:
It was an official flash game, so take that as you will for canonicity.