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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The Snoodybar Like a nudie bar, but the women are all just fully dressed in normal 1950s blue collar attire...and wearing snoods of course. #NotionalBusinessVentures #VerySpecificKink

Black and white photo of a woman focused on a piece of sheet metal, wielding a tool, and wearing a snood.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Sultry Cougar: "Well hello officer. What's your name?" Straightlaced G-man: "Point, ma'am. Jack Point."° #Humor

A sticker on the side of a bus, near the bottom of the door, reading "JACK POINT". Presumably this indicates where a jack should be positioned to properly lift the bus for tire changing.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

ME: [Watching Thundarr] DAUGHTER: "Those are some goofy looking snake creatures." ME: "Well, you know. It was the early 1980s. We didn't really know what snake creatures looked like at the time. We just had to make our best guess." DAUGHTER: "I guess they had […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Three lizard-man sort of creatures jump off the top of a box car at Thundarr the Barbarian.

The caption indicates it is Season 1, Episode 2 : Harvest of Doom

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Game scheduling might not have worked out, but had some great conversation instead. Hopefully next week, if the heavens are in proper alignment and the world is at rest, we can return once more to Caverns of Thracia. #DungeonCrawlClassics #ACDC #TTRPGS

Black and white image of Angus Young holding a guitar, gesturing dramatically and yelling or singing emphatically. His head had been crudely edited to include elf or goblin-like ears.

To the left the title has been edited. It previously said:
"AC⚡️DC Back In Black"

It now says:
"DCC⚡️ Back In Thrax"

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Found this beautiful Katydid near work the other day. iNaturalist identifies it as moat likely a Greater Anglewing. It was on the large side for any katydid I'd seen in the past. #Insect #Insecta #Orthoptera #Katydid

A large, green, somewhat leaf-shaped insect wirh long legs clinging to a window that partly reflects it.

The same insect as in the previous picture, seen from a different angle.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

As made blatantly obvious by the tense body posture and wild look in her eye: Cassie is clearly a cat with deep-seated trust issues. #Caturday #Cats

A cat comfortably lying on her back on a sofa with three limbs splayed in the air and one forepaw tucked casually against her chest, looking calmly at the camera.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (2026) This short series was released simultaneously as both 12 "mini-episodes" and recut into 5 slightly longer episodes. The general premise: Middle-aged, earnest but work-burdened businessman views his brief parasocial […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A tall man in a business suit and a shorter woman with red hair wearing a black leather jacket and short skirt sit together smoking and looking off in different directions. In the foreground between them is a box for collecting cigarettes.

The title "Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You" is also in the lower foreground.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

"If I have cried harder than others, it has been on the shoulders of giants." #NotionalQuotes #DubiousAphorisms

Classical painting of a giant seen from behind, partly obscured by the horizon, with a community in the foreground.
Sometimes titled "The Colossus" and attributed Francisco de Goya.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

For some reason a disproportionate number of folks online seem to get upset the movie Lucy (2014) is a bit absurd and leans hard into the ten-percent-of-the-brain myth. But, dude... #Humor

Meme based on the "Distracted Boyfriend" template.

The male figure is labeled: "Nerds looking for a reason to be outraged".

The female figure walking away that he's looking at is labeled: "Lucy"

The female figure with an outraged expression that he's looking away from is labeled: "Limitless"

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Trying to find discussion about character-specific mouth shape tropes in manga/anime, and stumbled across this. Not exactly what I was looking for, but I love the sentence: "Like the majestic flounder, some characters have features that drift to the side of their […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Screenshot of the TV Tropes page on "Cheeky Mouth".

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

I've been finding "Always a Catch!" a passable but relentlessly middling anime series with regard to humor, emotion, action, and artistic style. But I had to laugh at this line. Cause this secondary character is the most prudent, discrete young woman in the show […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A blonde young woman wearing a frilly dress stands in a field with her hands clasped over her chest holding a dandelion. She looks perhaps thoughtful.

The caption indicates her saying:

"Because I'm a wanton woman trying to marry Prince Renato's brother."

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

[Humor, body horror, poor branding choices.] Keep getting Youtube advertisements for this P-Tiox cream. Just thinking maybe the manufacturer should've gone with a company name that is NOT pronounced "Skin suit-acles". Makes it sound like they have another line of […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Ted Levine portraying the character "Buffalo Bill" from Silence of the Lambs.
Rhe character is known for having a derangement related to killing women and making clothing from their skin.

Multipe shots of the Vincent D'Onofrio in the movie Men In Black where he portrays the character Edward. In the multiple film frames depicted here Edgar is taking off his skin to reveal that a massive alien bug has been using Edgar's flesh as a costume.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

The Hazard Magic System An alternate plugin to OSR and NSR fantasy adventure games, allowing broader access to cast the existing spells in these games, but at higher risk. kisnerp.itch.io/hazard-magic-system… #OSR #NSR #DnD

An old pen and ink drawing depicting a couple of women in clothing of a previous era, along with a cat, being propelled backwards by what appears to be an explosion of some sort.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

[AI related humor(?) and profanity.] So, possibly people have already pointed this out and I'm just late to the party. But I'm sort of surprised I haven't seen any discussion yet of how the Claude logo looks like Kurt Vonnegut's stylized anus asterisk doodle, but […] [Original post on dice.camp]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Apparently this used laptop I got (part of my effort to try and ease into Linux) will be mildly more of a learning experience than previously expected. Still can't argue with free though.

Picture of a laptop keyboard with some keys circled in red.
This highlights that the positions of the Y and Z keys are switched. And several other keys like control or print screen appear to use German abbreviations instead.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

New OSE module just dropped. Guess it's a little late for the April 1st deadline. #NotionalGames #OldSchoolEssentials #PullMyFinger #Parody #Humor #OfASort

The Old-School Essentials Referee Screen cover image. It shows a cavernous area with giant mushrooms and a huge toothy purple worm in the background. Three different humanoid characters are standing in various locations and pointing in different directions. They include a warrior looking guy with a flaming sword, something like a yellow ogre, and a wizard.

The "Referee Screen" title has been removed and replaced with the title "Finger-Pull Challengers of the Under-Realms".

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Noticed an excessively long label peeling off a flask today. This telomere analogy sprang to mind: #Chromosomes #Telomeres #Humor #ScienceHumor #Biology

Photos of a hand holding a flask with a room number printed on a label. The label extends significantly further in each direction than the print on the label, and these unprinted ends of the label are peeling and damaged.

The portion of the label with print has been captioned "chromosomal DNA" and the portions without print are captioned "telomeres".

This is an analogy for how telomeres at the ends of chromosomes become damaged but protect the DNA sequences away from the ends of the chromosome.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Caddo Lake (2024) Various blurbs advertised this as a horror movie, a thriller, and sometimes a mystery. It might arguably fall under as the latter two categories, but it's a bit of a stretch to call it horror. (Note: most advertisements for this show Dylan […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Side by side photos of Dylan O'Brien (portraying Paris) maneuvering an outboard motorboat and Eliza Scanlen (portraying Ellie) paddling a different boat.

Both are in forested areas with subdued lighting, and both look apprehensive.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

My family says I've manifesting strong dad-energy (or something like that) every time I geek out about whatever gas milage the Prius got this trip (usually >50mpg is cause for celebration in my book). This past weekend's outing hit >70mpg for the first time ever […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A view of the car dashboard. Through the windshield other cars in a parking lot can be seen. But the dashboard display indicates, among other things, thst the trip averaged 70.5 miles per gallon.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Oh, you're embarrassed to admit you did the Naruto run as a kid? Yah, I was into that before it was uncool. Back when it was still the Ooyama Mayu run. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcfgU-2T3lI #ChunibyoHipster #OtakuBullshit #Anime #CaptainHarlock

A blue haired seven year old little moppet of a girl, drawn in late 1970s anime style runs continuously over a field of white grass, with her arms outstretched to the sides and slightly behind her.

Not far in the background it is implied there is a sizable cliff. Just beyond the edge of the cliff is a massive pirate spaceship which takes up the reat of the background. The pirate ship is flying slowly enough to exactly keep pace with the girl.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem This was a series of robotic space opera stories, focused around the wxploits and recountings of a frienemy pair of "constructor" robots. The tales usd a nested frame structure and veer between fairytale, farce, and philosophical […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Faded book cover of some earlier edition of The Cyberiad.

Aside from text, it depicts a powerful, warlike, but absurdly designed machine balanced on two wheels and dwarfing a smaller humanoid robot in the foreground.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Someone else on another social media platform pointed this out, which looked pretty cool. If I understand correctly this was a limited run of minis, done in collaboration between a Chinese museum and a toy company called 52Toys. Sadly seems no longer available. #Minis #TerracottaWarriors

Box cover art depicting minis carrying modern weapons and military equipment, but in an ancient Chinese terracotta warrior clothing style and color scheme.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Just me hanging out with Cassie. She enjoys hugging the arms of furniture on occasion. #Caturday #Cats #Selfie

A guy slouched on a sofa is looking at a cat which is lying on along the arm of the aofa next to him with its paws and forelegs clamped onto either side of the sofa arm.

Same as the previous picture, but the guy is looking at the camera with the suggestion of a smile on his face.

A close up of the cat from the previous pictures. In this onr she is looking at the camera, still relaxed but somewhat interested.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

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.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

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.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

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

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

Man. Looks like Dragon Ball Z got a lot edgier than I remember it being in my youth. #Anime #BadTakes

Advertising image for the anime Midnight Eye Goku (presumably not related to Goku from the Dragon Ball series).
The image depicts a tough looking guy wielding a length of pipe and wearing a suit jacket open in the front to reveal a slim necktie and bare chest. In front of him crouches a scantily clad pink haired woman with an elaborate metal collar and motorcycle handlebars sprouting from behind her back. Behind both of them is a night-time cityscape.

There is a crosshairs centered over the man's heart.

Additional text reads:
"From the director of Wicked City and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust"

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Mezzo DSA (2004) Short version: The Danger Service Agency (DSA) is a group of three folks who will take on most jobs as long as danger and money are likely to be involved. Takes place in a near future as imagined in the early 2000s. I enjoyed aspects of this, but […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Apparently parked on a metal trussed bridge is a pink VW Bug. Around are:

* A black haired middle school girl, looking uncertain.
* A pink haired young woman in a tight fitting orange suit, boots, and a letter jacket, who is holding a pistol at an odd angle and is looking out of the corner of her eye.
* An older man with less hair, squatting on the ground in front of the car and showing a two-fingered sign.
* A guy with blond extremely spiked hair, wearing a jacket but no shirt underneath, who is leaning on the car.
* A cat sitting on the hood of the car and facing mostly away from the viewer.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

Cassie is the only cat, of my personal acquaintance, who likes having some kind of blanket, sheet, or coved on her sometimes. Sometimes it calms her down. If she can stay hidden and just oeek out at the edge, that's perfection. This was a day she was starting to […] [Original post on dice.camp]

An arrangement of couches and footstool near a window. A tea cup is on the arm of one sofa, and on the other is a cat, lying on her side under a blanket.

Closer up view of a couch with a cat, lying on her side under a blanket.

Even closer view of the head and paw of a cat lying under a blanket.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Slingshot (2024) Premise: astronauts traveling to Jupiter's moon Titan by way of a slingshot maneuver near Saturn run into technical trouble and also have to contend with strife and mental instability. TL/DR: This films falls squarely in the "Deep Space Freakout" […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Poster for the movie Slingshot. Near the top, the faces of Lawrence Fishburne and Casey Affleck fading into darkness. The bottom has the movie name with a stab of light and aurora in space.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

When Cassie is in a relaxed mood and feeling secure, she sometimes likes to get a belly rub. #Caturday #Cat

Cat lying on her side with belly partly turned upward, head upside-down, and front paws crooked in a relaxed way.

Cat from previous picture in the same position, but a hand is rubbing her belly.

Cat from previous pictures, but she is now even more on her back, stretching out aith her paws while the human hand rubs her belly.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Scrub Daddy has a new holiday themed set. But I think a lot of folks forget that the whole brand is just the sanitized, commercialized version of a much older tradition: In Northern European folklore, after the Yule meal is finished and the family is pleasantly […] [Original post on dice.camp]

On a kitchen surface is a small box shaped and decorated like a simple gingerbread house and labeled "Scrub Daddy Holiday 3 Pack".

Next to the box is a yellow scouring sponge in shape of a star with a smiling face.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

Just backed Leighton Connor's upcoming old school pulp sword & sorcery adventure: The Prison Pits of Larubia (for the Million-Colored Sun RPG) If it sounds up your alley, check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/leight… […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A somewhat cartoonish rendering of a dark, subterranean area. A man and woman in ragged clothing hold pick-axes, teeth gritted with seeming trepidation. The woman holds aloft a lantern, partly illuminating the area.
Behind them, lit from below by the lantern, a giant humanoid technological construct looms ominously over the pair.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Apparently opening a portal to your pocket universe improperly not only tears a catastrophic rift in the fabric of reality, but also produces a massive number of bismuth crystals as a byproduct. #Superman2025

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

SUPERMAN: [ uses cold-breath to save a green baby, shape changing dude, and dog from a black hole ] MY WIFE: "The Freshmaker!" #Superman #Mentos

Still from the end of a Mentos ad, showing a buff, blond dude mugging dor thr camera and brandishing a roll of mentos in the background, while a businessman laughs into a cellphone in the foreground.

Below the caption displays another roll of Mentos with the slogan "The Freshmaker".

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

Woke from the fragment of a dream where Jude Law had named either his yacht or an app he'd developed "Veracity". When asked why, he said it was the name of the co-host he always admired from when he hosted a kids gameshow in the late 1980s. Half awake, I thought […] [Original post on dice.camp]

"Felicity" from Pictionary (1989), played by Julie Friedman.

Stuck in my young mind at the time for affecting some combination of bored, tired, annoyed, and/or amused.

Definitely a long way from the Vanna mode of silent, neutral positive compartment.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

Attempted making sushi today. With rice vinegar and mirin, and everything except raw fish (don't trust myself). Types made: * Plain rice * Cucumber * Imitation crab * Imitation crab & cucumber * Caramelized onion Flavor was tolerable. Picky teens ate it […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A piece of sushi, sitting on the lid of a plastic container, on top of a cooling rack.

The sushi consists of imitation crab and cucumber, sloppily wrapped in rice and nori (seaweed).

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Wife and I discussing our kids' progress in getting ready, as I wait in the car to take them to school. Sometimes a simple typo can become the seed for a rich new vein of familial mythology. #NotionalReality #PersonalMythology

Wife (6:19am): Girl child sick. Staying home. Bog child bringing T Pass after he finished his banana.

Me (6:20am): I fear the Bog Child.

Wife (6:22am): Bog Child is on the move.

Me (6:25am): Bog Child has arrived. 😬

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

@futurebird I always thought the primary concern wasn't about losing one's pants, so much as encountering them under alarming circumstances.

From the Dr. Seuss book "What Was I Scared Of?"

Depicts a nighttime scene, where a vaguely bear-like humanoid recoils in shock upon encountering a hovering pair of green pants.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

My daughter found in the 1962 edition of her high-school yearbook. Apparently nursing staff had different attitudes about healthcare back in the day. I guess the "rub some dirt in it and walk it off" school of thought.

Zoomed in text section says:

NURSE

Miss Marie Cannif,
School Nurse.

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset."

Yearbook page showing the school nurse and the electrical department instructor along with somewhat blurry quotes by each.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Not really a surprising revelation, but: I find having good interactions with a cat involves a lot of learning to respond to an individual's shifting needs for touch, proximity, and distance. Someone who enjoys having a belly rub now might have had more than […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A cat, partially on its back, and partly twisted to one side, seemingly comfortably lounging against human legs and dangling face and forelimb over the edge of a sofa.

A cat, with alert head and ears, in facing away from the camera in somewhat of a "loaf" posture on a blanket over human legs.

A cat curled up in a "comma" shape, very relaxed, at the far end of the sofa from a pair of human feet.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Turned around and Cassie had disappeared from the bed. Then i noticed the til of a tail sticking out feom under the comforter. #Caturday #Cat

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

@medieval_illuminations "Get back on the snail" - To resume an activity that didn't previously cause one difficulty or injury. "He who rides a snail, always can dismount." ~ lyric from Patsy Ann Noble's 1967 followup to 'He who Rides A Tiger'. "Ride the snail! […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Detail from a medieval illumination of a naked figure riding a snail while holding a small banner and a golden leaf or branch.

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