Post Is Here by Andrii Serbutovakyi, 1982
quick question why does your cat command you to print something on the printer
he really likes to watch the printer print. It seems like he thinks thereβs some kind of creature in there that I have the mysterious power to summon that he can then hunt for sport?
he sticks his entire arm inside the printer and breaks it if I donβt put some kind of physical burrier between him and the printer but like he purrs so loud when it starts printing and will beg harder for people to print things than he will for treats.
he just loves hunting the printer so much. he even tried to climb inside the place the paper comes out of the printer when he was a kitten.
No matter where he is in the apartment if the printer makes a noise he sprints full speed. He also knows which button to press to get the printer to print like the ink levels info and alignment sheet, so you have to make sure itβs off or locked up or he will print nonstop himself and then attack the printer and jam it.
is it inconvenient that my cat is obsessed with the printer? yes, but damn if itβs not also adorable.
I donβt actually have a ton of photos of him sticking his whole arm in there though because stopping him from jamming the printer is usually a task that involves all of my arms and also all of my roommates arms.
Thinking about the post because I had to unplug the printer today because he broke into the closet and printed the info sheet 3 times in a row and did bite me when I tried to stop him
The face of a boy who is sulking because I expelled him from the printer closet.
the good news is that my cat is so happy, the bad news is that my sticker cutting machine that I got recently instils the same curiosity and lust for violence in my cat that my printer does so no matter what I do I will not know a moments peace.
a massive part of OCD treatment is exposure response prevention therapy, which is purposed to reduce your dependence on reflexive self-soothing when confronted with triggering incidents by triggering controlled incidents on purpose and deliberately resisting your compulsive actions, until eventually you're able to resist your compulsive action even when triggered by a spontaneous, uncontrolled incident. which means that people with OCD will spend a lottttttttttttt of time and money basically learning how to do this
I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person
BUT
a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."
#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah thereβs usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and itβs really not the same thing as the self-defensive ββI never liked it anywayβ
tags via chimaerakitten
illustration from the Soviet magazine for young children Merry Pictures (ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠ»ΡΠ΅ ΠΊΠ°ΡΡΠΈΠ½ΠΊΠΈ), nr 1 from 1956
Because poor Dr. Grace was never meant to be up there with a dead crew and no memories :,)
Based on this post by @the-immortal-restless
Stratt, the saint patron of scapegoatsΒ
good advisor to an evil king constantly having to put on sinister airs and frame social reforms as wicked advice
So many ads are just βwe at corporation care about our customers which is why we [thing we are legally obligated to do]β
I think about this so much more after working at a call center and being told βyou need to not say outage unless we actually have a confirmed outage because we legally have to reimburse people if we fail to provide serviceβ and then seeing that in ads as a really cool and nice thing the company does instead of something theyβre forced to
cigarettes and list of maritime disasters on wikipedia on a cool summer night
20th-vs-21st-century.jpg (from the Wiki article on 'dihydrogen monoxide'.)
Alexandr Alexeevich Borisov - Seals (1912)
From the diaries of the artist: Β«It was very difficult to work; I had to cut the brushes, make the bristle short, rub the colors was almost inconceivable. <β¦ > The hand is cracking, it is breaking; the roaring hands refuse to serve. But you draw, all thirsty to put on the canvas these bizarre, gloomy, full of peculiar beauty paintings of the Far NorthΒ» (source)
Definitely will be painting more grapes. I was intimidated for years but ended up really enjoying it!
P.S. I just listed prints of the aperitif painting
take my ass to torture city where the grass is ouch and the girls are hit me
nope. funkytown again