Aza 'Merican maseff,… um, maybe try for mid-Atlantic.

AI: “Um, …these aren’t the droids you want. Squirrel!”

(or)… but you can’t wipe your friends off on your saddle.

Who plays Wash, …and Jayne?

Excellent details about the satirical background and characters on this Wikipedia page. Hogarth painted a set of similar farcical artworks on the same theme.

Cathedral Rocks, A Yosemite View — c. 1872. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. Size 48.3 x 34.9 cms (19 x 13 1/2 ins)

Hiroshige, along with Hokusai, Sharaku, and a few others, is one of the great masters of Japanese ukiyo-e traditional woodblock printing. Ukiyo-e means “pictures of the floating world.” I love how Japanese, and Chinese, landscape art usually show the human presence as almost insignificant. This is a wonderful example.

It always amuses me how politicians and community “faith based” leaders can blithely condemn what scientists have been warning about for decades, as if they know better (with no training or experience). Anti-intellectualism is the Dunning-Kruger effect applied to politics, known as Populism, aka the idiots revenge.

Yeah, looks like Memmy was escaping the characters, but I can’t replicate now… thanks.

Yep, looks like the same problem I had (unless the link is fine for you, in which case it’s my OS)

Polish artist, b. 1929 - 2005, hits Wikipedia page is interesting: Zdzisław Beksiński (sorry, unable to link)

A couple of guys from Texas who have been banned and fined before but just keep ignoring the Feds and spamming anyway. But this part caught my eye:

Cox was banned from telemarketing in a 2013 settlement with the FTC, which accused him of sending “illegal robocalls offering credit card interest rate reduction programs, extended automobile warranties, and home security systems.” At the time, the FTC said that Cox was issued “a $1.1 million civil penalty that will be suspended due to his inability to pay.”

In 2017, the FTC obtained a similar telemarketing ban on Jones. He was also fined $2.7 million, but, as with Cox, the fine was “suspended based on his inability to pay.”

I’m always interested to know the scaled of these 19th C works, because some can be quite enormous. Turns out this is a small oil on canvas, on exhibit at the Santa Barbara Art museum, which lists the size as: 14 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (35.9 x 51.4 cm).

Escher was first inspired by the tessellated patterns of the Alhambra in Spain during his travels in the 1930s, and the geometric, some would say mathematical, style was prominent through the 1960s. The woodcut Smaller and Smaller was done in 1956. You could almost say he influenced the art of the 60s, more than the other way around.

After 10 years on reddit, it wasn’t easy at first (at first being just the threat of apps not working). And I wasn’t sure where to go: Mastodon, Discord, Lemmy, etc. But as the communities grew, content increased, and I even found similar groups in the fediverse, I’ve been spending more and more time on Lemmy, and much more certain this the right direction.

We have way too many incompatible walled gardens already, so that information is only accessible if you pay for the license to access it. Of course, maybe he’s thinking about an open source, open access, interoperable, privacy secure kind of solution. Hahahaha, right.