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Pops @poppenarts.com · 25/09/2026

Simple Wyoming Ranch Hand played straight but cowboy hat from norm’s celebrity jeopardy burt reynolds.

Pops @poppenarts.com · 26/06/2026

Today I made a reference to 90's No Fear/No Rules folders and received my first ever "WTF are you talking about old man" awkward silence. This is great. Milestones are great.

90's "extreme" artwork of crazy stylized cartoon animals causing chaos as young people play various sports sports with exaggerated foreshortening perspective. EXTREME!

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 19/06/2026

In case anyone was wondering, the book the new Supergirl movie is loosely based on is fucking fantastic.

Cover art from Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #7 (2021)

Möbius-esque illustration of supergirl in front of a marauding spaceship.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 13/06/2026

I’m sorry LEGO. I understand what you’re trying to do, but these ads of a man in his early-to-mid-thirties enjoying his unskilled children’s toy hobby are giving some of the loneliest Special Lonely Boy vibes of all time. Not feeling less ashamed here. Not destigmatized by this.

Picture of young man quietly assembling his LEGO Concord model and enjoying his male loneliness epidemic

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 17/05/2026

I mean, what the fuck do you mean you won’t tell us who joined him? Why not? Because it’s disgusting? Because it’s a huge indictment of their character that they would ever accept such a heinous invitation?

Via the New York Times article: Officials from the Navy and the Defense Department said V.I.P. “tours” near the Arizona were common, but they declined to say how often they take people snorkeling. A Navy spokeswoman declined to identify the nine people who joined Mr. Patel on the trip. The F.B.I. said that Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr., the head of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, invited Mr. Patel to Pearl Harbor.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 09/01/2026

Hey if you're going to conduct "targeted operations" in a place that gets weather, maybe learn to drive first.

Meme of Vizzini from Princess Bride mocking ICE agents as they struggle to drive on icy, snowy midwestern roads: "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, "Never get involved in a land war in Minnesota."

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 24/12/2025

Got me laughing out loud at this one. Always a highlight of my month.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 14/11/2025

Researching wildcats for a school mascot thing and I know he's feeling grumpy but I think a snuggle would fix it.

pic of a Scottish wildcat with a furrowed brow. It looks just like a big cuddly grumpy kitty but don't snuggle wild animals even if they absolutely are asking for it.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 04/11/2025

The older he gets, the more obvious it becomes that John Fetterman is the product of a whirlwind romance between a Klingon and Ra's Al Ghul

a screenshot of Senator John Fetterman on Fox News looking his normal self.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 20/08/2025

lol oh so it's not really about making it hotter at all

excerpt from linked article: U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, who attended the event with Noem, said the paint would also help deter rust.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 19/08/2025

I hate hate *HATE* how obvious it is that they are off-the-shelf, tape-on Temu garbage. "Oh just rotate it 90 degrees, no one will notice." Cheap bullshit.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 07/08/2025

I get the need to update the vintage HDD icon, but overall this flattening and reduction in depth/contrast looks cheap to me. Looks like Linux. If Apple fully cedes the aesthetic high ground, they lose the whole game IMO

Existing MacOS disk icons side-by-side with their updated counterparts in the latest MacOS Tahoe beta

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 15/07/2025

Here’s a pic of my 2.5yr old in a downtown St. Paul park last month. Yeah super scary.

Smiling toddler mimics the wall-sitting pose of two bronze statues of Peanuts characters. No one is around. It’s a clean, peaceful park.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 30/04/2025

I share your concern.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 13/04/2025

Irrationally psyched that the Battle Bots MC is also the Monster Jam live MC

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 18/03/2025

Also, wow this dude is a dweeb. “I’m meeting the Prime Minister of Ireland in March. Oooh, a chance to wear my shamrock socks!”JD

JD Vance in Oval Office meeting with Irish Prime Ministher March 12, 2025, seated with his pants riding up to reveal his bright white socks with small green shamrocks on them.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 18/03/2025

The gilding wasn't there last month.

Trump meets Ukranian president in front of Oval Office fireplace in late February 2025. The firebox header is blank white stone (marble?)

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 18/03/2025

Here’s another unimportant but revealing little tidbit I just noticed. They glued/taped what are nearly guaranteed to be cheap plastic gilded ornamentations to the Oval Office fireplace this month. Glue or tape are the least invasive options I can thing of, and I hang stuff on walls for a living.

Trump meets Irish Prime Minister in Oval Office in front the the fireplace. The area above the hearth that has always been blank white stone (marble?) is filled with gaudy, baroque gold ornamentation, acanthus leaves, etc...

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 08/03/2025

I have a real hard time listening to artist philosophy bullshit when the typography is bad, intentional or not.

Presentation slide with horrible typography. Mixing serifs and sand serifs, monospaced and not, stacked quotations next to a colon, and wide fully justified paragraphs. Aggressively unreadable.

The text itself says some artist mumbo jumbo bullshit.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 08/03/2025

This image could be greatly de-sphinctered by just getting rid of the radial gradients/feathering. And not using pink, obviously. Submitting to present on this subject (infographics that look like anuses) at next year’s festival.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 21/01/2025

Working on a project for a biotech company, typing “wet lab” into the stock photo search, and you know what, fair enough.

Screenshot of search results for “wet lab” (a type of research facility) that produced primarily photos of dogs in and around water.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 20/01/2025

Taken by pointing my phone camera through my field binocular on our last Yellowstone trip. Feel very lucky.

Bad quality photo of a pack of wolves napping. One wolf is walking and turned their head to face the camera

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 19/12/2024

A bending brake would have made it easier to be consistently precise. Also had to be careful not to melt the ikea desk. Idk, we did our best.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 18/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20 Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 14/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20 All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Old book cover: Collage of WWII-era country vet in surgical smock, rolling up his sleeves, foreground of various domesticated animals running.
Text: The warm and joyful memoirs of an animal doctor, All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20 But What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman

Book cover: totally white background with large bold Helvetica text upside down. Text: But What If We’re Wrong, Chuck Klosterman

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 11/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Book cover: mostly white with an abstract illustration in the center of the page that is kind of an almalgamation of a faceless man in a suite and various industrial gears and parts. Text: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson

Book cover: Comic stip characters 6-yr old Calvin with his stuffed tiger best friend Hobbes, making funny faces in front of a blank white background. Text: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Minimalist book cover, small watch face in the center left of a black field, a golden quarter-circle bleeds takes up have the cover bleeding off right and bottom edges.

Text: Natiotional Bestseller, Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams: A Novel, “A magical, metaphysical realm … Captivating, enchanting, delightful.” – The New York Times

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

Book cover featuring several anatomy line drawings and figure pose sketches. Text: Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life, Over 1,000 illustrations, George B. Bridgman

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 07/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana

Nothing really to describe on this cover. New Age-y leaves I guess. Text: “A masterpiece.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Gunaratana, the classic bestseller

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Book cover—not a lot here to describe. Almost full field of royal blue paper cutout background, with a small red cutout of a ww2 bomber pilot kinda doing a jig in the lower left quadrant. Then a little tiny black bomber (a B-17?) Text reads: Catch-22, a novel by Joseph Heller

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 Night Watch by Terry Prachett

Book cover—man in medieval guard uniform magically stepping through a full length mirror—text reads: Night Watch, Terry Pratchett, Author of Theif of Time

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 05/12/2024

Had the exact same thought.

My skeet on the original post reads “Batman: the animated series-ass car (compliment)”

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Book cover featuring a portrait of young Theodore Roosevelt. Text from top to bottom: winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Edmund Morris (author of Theodore Rex and Colonel Roosevelt). Quote: A towering biography… a brilliant chronicle.” – Time magazine

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 Hitmakers by Derek Thompson

Book cover—Hitmakers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 02/12/2024

Folks should remember that’s it has pretty much always been some form dumpster fire over there.

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 23/11/2024

Not a demand or an expectation but I do like a mutual!

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Pops @poppenarts.com · 19/11/2024

Someone apparently lost their spare tire in my cul de sac? How does that happen without the driver noticing?

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