Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

I always get teary eyed at peak Portland events, wants me to give the whole city a hug.

Congratulations to the happy couple

Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884), including tales of the mythical Glooskap, whose name literally means Liar, because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

I'm okay with these folks not having kids.

This made me so happy

I can't doodle worth a darn but I can cross stitch! I finished this earlier this year. Pattern from London's Natural History Museum: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/cro...

I mean, fair.

As a proud Portlander I salute your trolling! As always, you have my vote.

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

I can't imagine this is going to play well in Boise.

This is awful, full of lies and illegal.

But my biggest take aways are that she got her lips filled again and that earring makes her look like a low rent palm reader at a mall psychic fair.

Thoughts and prayers Kristi Noem

Day 283: The final installment of this mini-arc (for now) is dressed up in the style of my boy Charles Schulz!

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded
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I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

I've just spent fifteen minutes on a 150 word section describing the crime scene photo of Mary Kelly's dismembered body. It was legitimately some of the least pleasant writing work I have ever done. At exactly zero points in the process did I think, "gosh, I wish I could get AI to do this for me."

Absolutely love what @gregpak.net has going on at his NYCC booth (he also has comics but this is great). Booth L-25 in Artist Alley!

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

In ponds, pools and rivers, Stay Belows feel the cooling, notice the littering of acorns and leaves upon the surface. We feel the first chill as desire for gloves, hug of sweater. They feel it as a hunger. An instinct for one final feast before taking to the mud for the long sleep of winter.