outis reading

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I'm going to need more friends when those things hit the shelves

You’ve got to be impressed when academics go on strike.

Africa (Toto)...but it lists every country in Africa YouTube video by There I Ruined It

YAY! We're all on here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhmd...

Why do you find it so difficult to believe? Do you assume that reason invariably prevails over bottom lines in corporate structures?

Maybe this will help: Every employee in question was paid by the hour.

Nestor Poster Digital by Charlayn Von Solms | Saatchi Art South Africa Saatchi Art is pleased to offer the Art Print, "Nestor Poster," by Charlayn Von Solms. Art prints are available from $140 USD. Archival inks on Canvas, Metal, Fine Art Paper, Acrylic. Size is 20 H x 1...

People seem to really like the poster I released recently, so I've made another. This time it's the old guy front and center.
Nestor can be printed on art paper, canvas, metal, or acrylic.

Remember to select 'PRINTS' not 'ORIGINAL' and specify your region, as this affects shipping.

Which part?

😂 That's it, exactly.

True: AI allowed my colleagues to work less. As the last person to check and repair and repair everything before it goes out into the world, my workload suddenly tripled. The employer noticed that everyone's productivity had gone up, while mine had gone down. Then they let me go for "being pedantic"

is it because he has brass balls?

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view from the shelves below

A very smug looking cat for @phyllida.bsky.social

A Catalogue of Shapes Poster Digital by Charlayn Von Solms | Saatchi Art South Africa Saatchi Art is pleased to offer the Art Print, "A Catalogue of Shapes Poster," by Charlayn Von Solms. Art prints are available from $40 USD. Archival inks on Canvas, Metal, Fine Art Paper, Acrylic. Si...

I made this image for @thehomerhotline.bsky.social, but I like it so much that I've made it available as a print to order from SaatchiArt.

*No, I'm not procrastinating by playing around instead of completing Polyhymnia. But she too has asked for the pink Humbrol Gloss 200, so I'm sulking for a bit.

In real estate the mantra is "location location location".
When interpreting anything, it's "context context context".

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LEMON AND LIME JAFFA CAKES?!!!

But I am not responsible. No, those who are really responsible are Zeus and Fate [Moira] and the Fury [Erinys] who roams in the mist. They are the ones who, at the public assembly, had put savage derangement [atē] into my thinking on that day when I myself deprived Achilles of his honorific portion. But what could I do? The god is the one who brings everything to its fulfillment. That goddess Atē, senior daughter of Zeus—she makes everyone veer off-course, that disastrous one, the one who has delicate steps. She never makes contact with the ground of the threshold, never even going near it, but instead she hovers over the heads of men, bringing harm to mortals. In her harmfulness, she has incapacitated others as well [besides me], and I have in mind one person in particular.

In Homer, Epic Fury is the result of arrogance and willful stupidity, which the ancients personified in the figure of the goddess Atē. She was considered so dangerous, Zeus banished her from Olympus.
Here is Agamemnon blaming the disastrous consequences of his own stupidity on everyone but himself:

Compilation image showing every assemblage sculpture in the series "A Catalogue of Shapes" by Charlayn von Solms. From top left: Kirke, Menelaos, Helena, Odysseus, Penelope, Kalypso. Bottom row from left: Ate, Nestor, Achilleus, Telemachos, Hektor, Eris

This series began with an assemblage sculpture depicting Odysseus. Looking for an object to serve as a metaphor for Homer's iconic hero, I found an old ocean-battered, sun-beaten orange fishing buoy at a flea market. The rest of the sculptures took their cue from there.
#blueskyartshow #round

Photograph of a sloth. Source: https://animalhype.com/mammals/why-are-sloths-important-to-the-ecosystem/

My first thought when I saw it was if and how these signs related to those von Petzinger had identifed.

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We're all dancing a jig and having a good laugh at the English team over here

Any man who makes me a delicious brunch of perfect scrambled eggs with local whisky smoked salmon and serves it with Ruinart champagne should please spend the rest of the day drinking beer and watching rugby, because I'll be horizontal somewhere comfortable.

Epistles at dawn

@wildobliquities.bsky.social is this your alter ego or your nemesis?

Talk about fantasists. Historians, archivists, librarians, etc. all require an elevated understanding of context combined with subject knowledge. A pattern matching machine can match things that seem alike (too often with misallocations to categories), but it cannot interpret patterns.
Exhibit A:

Mercury dropped in!

My belief: The work of ALL authors of literary fiction - no matter how experienced - benefits from a good editor.

My simultaneous belief: The work of authors of literary fiction NEVER benefits from creative decisions being led by a focus on sales and marketing.

"Mnemosyne Genos", assemblage, Charlayn von Solms

#BlueSkyArtShow #sunlight #sunshine

"Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ", assemblage, Charlayn von Solms

#BlueSkyArtShow #sunlight

Photograph of an abstract assemblage sculpture by Charlayn von Solms titled "Herakles ΑΘΑΝΑΤΑΙ". It was constructed from a fishing buoy, cast iron three-legged pot, Jaffle toaster mould plate, outside spring callipers, rotary saw blade, cork pull, pickle fork, lemon juicer, wood, and enamel paint.

Throwing shade.
Herakles ΑΘΑΝΑΤΑΙ, assemblage, Charlayn von Solms

#BlueSkyArtShow #sunlight