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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Tuesday Haiku
As the days go by
The barley ripens and turns red,
The skylark sings.
-Matsuo Basho
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| Hiroshige |
Monday, November 11, 2024
Monday the Eleventh of November
The eleventh day of the eleventh month is some sort of anniversary for me, so mark me down as an excused absence. I'll be lurking in the sugarcane grove, looking all eerie and shit.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Sunday Dinner OT
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Caturday Quarantine: Political Whatever Thread
Friday, November 8, 2024
Fur Face Friday
Hello and welcome to a safe haven of the interwebs where the Fur Faces are always comforting and cute. Everyone in last week's comments were real charmers, so for today let's enjoy a sampling:
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| Double decker excitement for Teh Ruh and Lal |
In case you're new here, favourites are chosen by one of the Snout Selectors (facw, k2b, Hannibal, leahaven, and myopicprophet), entirely on our own whimsy. WHIMSY! However, in the interest of solidarity, we try to select one dog picture and one cat picture (minimum!) each week. Other pets will also, of course, be considered. We love all your rats, bunnies, ferrets, and other furry, feathery, and finny pals. WE WILL NEVER DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CUTE.
Politics Quarantine: Notes From The Suckiest Friday
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Politics Quarantine: Special Edition Blaurgh! for America
Okay, folks, it's been... well, a week. We've had some seriously distressing, if not unforeseeable developments and it's healthy to have a good shriek about it. So blaurgh your anxieties, your anger, your squawking rage as you see fit. This is the place for it.
CONVERSELY, we're presumably gonna have to survive this bullshit. So if you have found any good advice, hilarity, references for relatively trustworthy media or at least places to start, outlets for your feels or opportunities for solidarity to help yourself or someone else navigate this new world of ours, drop that too.
Thursday Morning Open Thread
I was flipping thru channels and it’s now Hallmark Christmas Movie time. Will they save the town of Winter Hollow and its Christmas Tree farm?
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Midday OT or whatever...
This fin de siècle symbolist and decadent artist maybe didn't intend this meaning, but this work seems a pretty accurate representation of modern misogyny (same as the old misogyny). Félicien Rops (great artist, POS human), Satan semant l'ivraie:
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| Félicien Rops (1833–1898), Les Sataniques. Satan Sowing Tare (1882) |
BT Decision 2024 (Election Content Only Open Thread): The Day After
It's the next day, and surely the process it not completely over with. What are your thoughts?
*And again, we are asking that all election and political commentary is kept in these election-specific posts, leaving the usual morning and evening OT posts free of the topic.
Wednesday November 6th – Childless Cat Ladies 1
Illustration for "The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles" by Edmund Dulac, from Stories from The Arabian Nights by Laurence Housman, illustrated by Dulac.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
BT Decision 2024 (Election Content Only Open Thread)
Your Backtalk Election talk only open thread. Have at it.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Monday Nov.4 OT
Stress levels are high. Post something calming. Like a coati grooming a fennec fox...
... or whatever. If you need to talk it over, please get on with it.
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Sunday Evening OT
That extra hour of sleep hit the spot this morning. Could we do this every Sunday?
What did you do with your hour (if you fell back this weekend)? Uk friends, I think you changed your clocks a week or two ago.
The Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
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Okay, folks, it's been... well, a week. We've had some seriously distressing, if not unforeseeable developments and it's healthy...
