[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Both as a student and as someone that works at a university, it's always felt that the university police are more understanding of students/young people than the town police. They're more likely to refer you to student services or explain why you should have reported backing into a car in the parking lot before heading off to class, instead of giving you a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident or arresting you for doing drugs in the library.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago

The closest I've ever been to a bar fight was while checking in to a hotel in Ohio.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

My 7th grade algebra teacher would be annoyed that you didn't show your work, step by step.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

Technically, it's not been my municipality that's charged me, but those around me and where I work. I don't vote there. My town didn't exist when the people I'm researching were making records. And at the state level, it comes up every few years but dies in committee. Last time was in 2020, when it died due to the pandemic changes everyone's focus. I'll ping my local congresscritter and see if it can be revived--the person advocating for change recently retired, sadly.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

I'm happy to be a bit suboptimal and get vaccinated when convenient. I got my flu shot a week before school came back in session and my COVID shot a week later, because that's when the new booster came out where I am. I'd have been happy to get them at the same time because better something suboptimal than nothing because you forgot or got busy.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago

Yes, and updated boosters recently came out in the United States. Got my booster 2 weeks ago and it went smoothly.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 days ago

Some of us just like tentacles. They're cool and attached to cool creatures, presumedly like the wearer of these earplugs.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago

Accurate. I both misread your comment and I have a bee in my bonnet about a $20 fee to take pictures of something you can examine for free.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

Tell that to my town clerk, charging $20 to take pictures of documents with your own phone. This is based on Sec. 1-212 part g (the bottom) of state law And, as a local history researcher, it bites ass.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

I'm really glad other people get to enjoy their dad in their dad's old age. It's lovely.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He's a good senior pup.

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I started it to keep my hands occupied during a class. I love the simple 2-color pattern. I picked the kit up from Stitched Modern.

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I'd been using the Joey app to keep tabs on a few subreddits I'm fond of. It finally stopped working today.

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So, I've never been to a pawn shop before. I'm curious what's there, but TV makes them seem shady and odd. What should I know before I visit? I'm sort of expecting a cross between an antique and a thrift store, that sort of vibe.

I'm in the USA and don't intend to pawn anything.

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Woodblock print of a grumpy-faced man in a tunic shoving a lion in the face. The lion's head is turned towards the viewer and he has a goofy look on his face. His tail is held high. The man holds a club in his left hand. Surrounding the lion and man is a tree, an embankment, and foliage.

Found at: The British Museum

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Image description: Japanese print with orange background. Print shows various circus performers, including people interacting with horses, an elephant on a barrel, a man standing on a tiger holding a second tiger's mouth open and a third tiger resting on his arm, clowns tumbling, acrobats, and horses on a teeter-totter.

Found at: Library of Congress

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Image description: metal statue of a man wrestling with a lion.

Found at The Smithsonian.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org to c/samsondruggingthecat@lemmy.sdf.org

I post a lot of pre-modern-era art from European artists. So, I thought I'd mix it up a bit with this work by Inuit artist Jessie Oonark.

Image description: Work is on paper. Forms are defined by bold swatches of color. The main figure is a side profile of the green head of a wolf, with brown eye and an open mouth filled with point black teeth. In the mouth of the wolf is a man. His purple-brown legs stick out of the wolf's mouth. His torso is visible through the wolf's mouth as a white man-shape. A smaller animal's head--maybe another wolf-- is defined by an orange outline. The orange animal has its nose touching the throat of the green wolf. Its teeth are also showing. Below the artwork is the title, caption, and signature of the artist.

Found at: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org to c/samsondruggingthecat@lemmy.sdf.org

Image description: a white-haired man in a blue coat with stars on it and red/white striped pants (Uncle Sam) looks inside a horse's mouth while a man in a white coat looks on. The white coat man is labeled Aldritch. The horse is labeled "Central Bank". The horse's teeth are labeled "Wall Street Interests".

Found at: Library of Congress

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"Lion tamer". ca 1873. (lemmy.sdf.org)

Image Description: a man with a very large, dark moustache stands in a cage surrounded by 3 lions and 2 tigers. The man stares straight at the viewer. The man wears what looks like plate mail on his torso, with fancy gold shoulder thingies, red sleaves, a short red skirt, white tights, and fancy bejeweled boots. His hat is red with a blue feather. The big cats are all in fierce poses. A maned lion stands with his paws on the man's shoulder. The man holds open the other maned lion's mouth.

Found at: Library of Congress

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Image description: etched political cartoon. A lion is on a wheeled pedestal labeled "British". A man in a suit and befeathered top hat twists the lion's tail. A bald man in a suit twists its head. The lion's mouth is open. Behind the men and lion is a storefront labeled "furs". A man watched open-mouthed through the window. Next to the cartoon is a colored registry thingy, for calibrating colors.

A detailed explanation of the cartoon is at HarpWeek (and TBH their image of the cartoon is clearer than the one I uploaded. I chose the LOC one because the permissions were clearer). In summary: In American politics, the Republican presidential nominee and the Greenback-Labor nominee were both critical of Great Britain (represented by the lion).

Found at: Library of Congress

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