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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · Nov 5

I make a fake-history (OR IS IT?) webcomic called The Kraken Busters, about the US' struggle with sea monsters after World War 2. It's drawn to look sort of like Bill Mauldin illustrating a Ken Burns show. It rules, I promise you.

keithpille.com/the-kraken-b...

cockpit view of a dive bomber diving on a giant squid

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 2m

I legit love 80s music where people are just going nuts trying to figure out how to use all the new toys available; Big Audio Dynamite, Public Enemy (hell, all rap), even that sample-heavy Robert Plant solo song. There’s mountains of great drum machine and sample and synth experiments

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 7h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 8m

You know what? That really is pretty rad

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9m

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the 1980s

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJk...

Yello - Oh Yeah (Official Video)

YouTube video by YelloVEVO

m.youtube.com

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 1h

Jared Leto so weird and bad at his job they're gonna make him Secretary of Agriculture

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 1h

WHO’S TO STOP YOU

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 4h

Spooky Art Season

A painting of three figures—possibly children, but at least one looks like its head is a traditional Irish turnip jack-o-lantern—with two pumpkin jack-o-lanterns.

Clara Gardner Mairs
American, 1878-1963
Halloween, c. 1920
Oil on canvas
The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund 45.34

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 4h

RIP Diane Keaton- such sad news, what an incredible talent. You probably didn't know she collected clown paintings by amateur artists, eventually publishing an entire book devoted to them

Diane Keaton surrounded by clown paintings

Book cover, Clown Paintings by Diane Keaton

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 4h

HE WAS RIGHT

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 7h

It’s hard to express how much Aug would freak out if we encountered this on a walk; I’d never be able to get him out of the house again

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve thought a few times about trying to work up a kraken busters story set in Ancient Rome but I can never get it to work

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 7h

Note the two on the left; the sea monster plague goes way, way back

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 13h

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 8h

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 1d

finished up this bad boy yesterday! commission piece for @thegeoffskinner.bsky.social in their upcoming project about titans

mountain city, in fog, large winged creature in background

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 8h

USS Minneapolis on patrol with a pair of destroyers

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

it's certainly up there

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 9h

of all the things

and there are lot of things

i think guitar might be the best thing

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

I can see that reading, too; think it’s hilarious either way

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 9h

Interestingly, some of America’s most iconic triumphal arches are related to the victory over the Confederacy—a piece of history MAGA seems determined to revise.

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NYC

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, Hartford, CT

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

One thing that movie did very well was to balance dead serious subject matter with just being funny as hell

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

Also an all-timer

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

Amazed at how true this is; I’m in the extended post-hotel-brain recovery stage as we speak, just finally recalibrating

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

Not sure I’m ready to make a firm declaration, but right now I believe the funniest line in One Battle would be the Christmas Adventurer incredulously saying “a semen demon?!?”

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 9h

I think the Democrats need to start making the likely AI crash an issue right now. It has everything they need, and unlike the "boys in girls' sports" issue, it is actually rooted in reality.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

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winnerbowzer @winnerbowzer.bsky.social · 10h

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