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Peter Kisner ≈
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❦ Per aspera ad ardua ❦

"The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten."

INTERESTS: TTRPGs, art, fantasy, sci-fi, science, ancient history, weird phenomena, humor […]

[bridged from https://dice.camp/@PTR_K on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy
And once again, with #alttext4you

"We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the
weapon industry. Capitalism […]

[Original post on mastodon.scot]
We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the weapon industry. Capitalism is a system which disables the option to do the right thing.
January 26, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
every single slopbot psychosis sounds exactly the same, i can't believe sam altman has gentrified Time Cube
January 25, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Finally found a use for this dark pattern. Can we get this installed on all our lawmakers phones?

#uspol #fuckice #defundice
Screen capture of an iPhone showing some app icons and a dialog has popped up over them. It ask “do you want to defund ice?” And the “yes” button is highlighted. The other button is grey and says “ask me again in one hour.”
January 26, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
Review - Kaiba (2008)

(No relation to the Yu-Gi-Oh character of the same name.)

[ Possible trigger warnings for dysmorphia, body horror (?), callous brutality, and sexually suggestive details. ]

Non-thread version here […]

[Original post on dice.camp]
In a very exaggerated cartoonish style: A white, vaguely hippo shaped humanoid with a chunk out of their torso is running. A small, two-legged creature with a propeller on top of its head is flying along with it. In the background are amorphous, vaguely adobe-looking buildings. A small group of people is gathered around a sort of pod-like cart that seems to be selling some kind of street food. In a similar cartoonish style is a street extending diagonally into the distance. Along the street. The houses are again adobe colored, but more Dr. Seuss like. The people in the streets include a range of humanoids and even some in less human shapes. A boy and girl lie side by side on a gray surface looking upward. The boy has blond hair and the girl has red hair in dramatic pigtails that stretch out to the sides of her head almost like horns. Both are wearing full body coverings of different styles and white coverings over part of their heads. On a sort of cushion structure a character appearing to be a girl or young woman of small stature sits next to a large masculine-looking character. The female looking character is wearing very small crop top as well as pants and boots. The character has a white head covering with a drooping lobe on either side. The masculine looking character is wearing black pants but is bare-chested and has white balls in place of hands. The character has shoulder-length hair, and large blades and spikes project from their shoulders.
January 25, 2026 at 4:05 AM
ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
Review - Kaiba (2008)

(No relation to the Yu-Gi-Oh character of the same name.)

[ Possible trigger warnings for dysmorphia, body horror (?), callous brutality, and sexually suggestive details. ]

Non-thread version here […]

[Original post on dice.camp]
In a very exaggerated cartoonish style: A white, vaguely hippo shaped humanoid with a chunk out of their torso is running. A small, two-legged creature with a propeller on top of its head is flying along with it. In the background are amorphous, vaguely adobe-looking buildings. A small group of people is gathered around a sort of pod-like cart that seems to be selling some kind of street food. In a similar cartoonish style is a street extending diagonally into the distance. Along the street. The houses are again adobe colored, but more Dr. Seuss like. The people in the streets include a range of humanoids and even some in less human shapes. A boy and girl lie side by side on a gray surface looking upward. The boy has blond hair and the girl has red hair in dramatic pigtails that stretch out to the sides of her head almost like horns. Both are wearing full body coverings of different styles and white coverings over part of their heads. On a sort of cushion structure a character appearing to be a girl or young woman of small stature sits next to a large masculine-looking character. The female looking character is wearing very small crop top as well as pants and boots. The character has a white head covering with a drooping lobe on either side. The masculine looking character is wearing black pants but is bare-chested and has white balls in place of hands. The character has shoulder-length hair, and large blades and spikes project from their shoulders.
January 25, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy
"If you strike me down
I shall get up again
You're never gonna keep me down"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi holding his light saber
January 24, 2026 at 3:31 PM
ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
Sometimes our cat doesn't want to curl up right against us, but still wants to maintain a point of contact while we sleep.

My wife mentioned waking in the night Sometimes to find the cat between us with forepaws on one person and hind paws on the other.

#caturday #cats
A fully clothed woman is sleeping on her side on top of a made bed. A cat is lying on the bed beside her and looking interestedly at the viewer. The cats paws pressed against intentionally against the woman's arm.
January 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM
ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
Our eldest offspring recently texted:

"Audio book in one ear, different audio book in the other. My fingers reading Braille, my eyes reading print. I call it booksmaxxing."

#hyperliteracy #puns #humor
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM
ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
Someone on another platform shared this quote, with the implication that it reflected the mindset of tech executives pushing the current LLM/AI bubble.

To my thinking, it was equally relevant to all folks in positions of wealth and power subjecting the rest of us […]

[Original post on dice.camp]
It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made… ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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cursedsilicon.social.restless.systems.ap.brid.gy
When I say I do my best work out of spite
January 21, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖"

via Mike Bales
A woman with blonde hair in front of a horse of a similar hue, giving the impression she has a horse's head.
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
In New York, USA. 🇺🇸
Chalk message on a large blackboard-style panel in a tiled New York City subway station reads, “WE DON’T WANT GREENLAND / WE WANT HEALTHCARE,” framed by ad posters and a “50” station marker on the wall in New York, USA. Artist unknown.
January 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
this front cannot fall

#plan9 #9front #cirno #glenda #catv #unix_surrealism
Two anime girls just enjoying the moment.
January 20, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
January 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
'Snow at Miyajima' - Kawase Hasui, 1928.
#ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt
A red torii (gate) spears to be floating on water. It is mowing and snow is sitting on the torii and on the rooftops of houses on the shore. There are mountains in the background. A person in a small boat moves through the water in front of the torii.
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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leftistlawyer.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy
BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth #ice doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.

In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.
The man calmly asks the most basic […]

[Original post on kolektiva.social]
January 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Peter Kisner ≈
tomgauld.bsky.social
The Shop and Art for Sale at my website are open again. These original drawings, prints, and many others are available now.
www.tomgauld.com
Panel One. Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books" Dog-walker "Really?" Panel Two. Front, becoming agitated "It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!" Panel Three. Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?" Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped." Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up. Night. The Department of Astrobiology building. One upper floor window is lit and a figure in it looks out and says "Dammit! Professor Monroe has all the luck!". In the car park outside, a second figure rises within a beam of light towards a flying saucer. Title: How to focus on writing your book There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read: Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark). Put them in a drawer. Lock the drawer. Throw away the key. Leave the house. Do not look back. Keep to backroads and hedgerows. Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes) Sleep by day. Forage in the evening. Write by the light of the moon When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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shadow.hedgie.social
Oh dear CBS has FOIA'd the full text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM
Earlier, we shared part of the text exchange between Donald Trump and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Støre. The BBC's US partner, CBS News, has now received the full version, after it was released under Norwegian freedom of information law. The message Jonas Støre sent was on behalf of himself and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb. Here's the exchange: Message from Støre to Trump, 18 January at 15:48: Dear Mr President, dear Donald - on the contact across the Atlantic - on Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine - and your tariff announcement yesterday. You know our position on these issues. But we believe we all should work to take this down and de-escalate - so much is happening around us where we need to stand together. We are proposing a call with you later today - with both of us or separately - give us a hint of what you prefer! Best - Alex and Jonas Message from Trump to Støre, 18 January at 16:15: Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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amberfirefly.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy
Riso print made today for @thentrythis project which should be launching this week ✨
4 colour riso print with a cocoon in the centre surrounded by different types of moths all facing in towards it, a strand of DNA twists behind them all and a few little stars are dotted around the cocoon. The print was made with aqua, yellow, kelly green and federal blue inks.
January 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
welcome home, purple

#unix_surrealism #comic #linux #openbsd #technomage #penguin #fish #art
Penguin: "For days we walked. He didn't say a word. But neither did he protest that I was following him. And then, one night, he just spoke." Fish: "We're going to an abandoned MilTek shelter. It used to be the base of operations of the open clan once. It's not on any map. Technically, it does not exist." Penguin: "And neither did we." Fish: "Welcome home."
January 19, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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chillybot.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Mozilla's survey about the future of Mozilla and AI is terribly biased towards AI. Make your voices heard. Tell Mozilla to be stewards of privacy and the open web, to not use AI and to stop violating the trust of the users

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

#privacy #noai #firefox
What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?
mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net
January 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory
January 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
I was going to propose what i thought was a great business venture:

Food for Thoth - A small cafe with an ancient Egyptian motif, which carries an extensive sideline in stationery and fancy writing supplies.

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But looking it up, apparently a lot of people already used the business name […]
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dice.camp
January 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM
ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
Pleasant way to start a #caturday

#cats
Photo showing half a human torso wearing a t-shirt lying on a sofa. A mackerel tabby cat with large white patches lies on the sofa with her back pressed against the human's side and her legs toward the edge of the sofa. The cat's eyes are squinted shut in a calm and relaxed manner.
January 17, 2026 at 11:26 AM