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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-21 at 08:40

[#]frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Lowland Burrowing Tree Frog (Smilisca fodiens) photographed by Yinan Li

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-20 at 08:35

[#]frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Upland Burrowing Tree Frog (Smilisca dentata) photographed by Luis Felipe Lozano Román

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-19 at 10:11

Friends, Romans, countrymen - The One Where Brutus Kills Julius

[#]ShakespeareAShowOrSitcom

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-19 at 09:06

[#]frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Blue-spotted Mexican Tree Frog (Smilisca cyanosticta) photographed by Elí García-Padilla

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-18 at 08:43

[#]frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Common Mexican tree frog (Smilisca baudinii) photographed by Vladlen Henríquez

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-17 at 08:49

Diane, I'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies.

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-17 at 08:24

[#]Art Saint Anthony, Intercessor between Heaven (Christ child) and humankind by Lorenzo Quinn (1995)

Sculpture in "Il Santo," the basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua.

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-17 at 08:13

[#]Frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Toyota's tree frog (Sarcohyla toyota) photographed by Chris Grünwald.

This is the last frog of the Sarcohyla genus. Many species in this genus have no photo, because the genus is endangered.

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-16 at 19:27

When David Lynch, dead at 78, was making his first major film, "Eraserhead," he was desperate for money. Fortunately, he was friends with Sissy Spacek, who was Hollywood gold at the time. She managed to arrange for some Hollywood big shot to attend a screening of the movie. The guy sat in an empty cinema, watched some scenes, and then jumped up and shouted: "This is stupid! People don't talk like this! People don't act like this!" and stormed out.

Be like David Lynch, not like that guy.

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-16 at 13:26

Here's an old joke about the English: "Where there is one Englishman, there will be a garden. Where there are two Englishmen, there will be a club. But this does not mean a decrease of the number of gardens: the club will have one, too."

I think we can modernize this: "Where there is one American man, there will be a Reddit account. Where there are two American men, there will be a podcast. But this does not mean a decrease of the number of Reddit accounts: the podcast will have one, too."

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-16 at 08:29

[#]Art My number one reason for visiting Padova (also called Padua), a university town of some 200K people, was the Scrovegni Chapel. This tiny church, unassuming from the outside, contains a series of frescoes by Giotto, painted around the year 1300. The chapel miraculously survived WW2 bombings. You can only stay in the chapel for 15 minutes --unless you have a good friend who recommends you buy 2 tickets for consecutive time slots, like I did. Even 30 minutes is not enough to appreciate it.

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-16 at 08:17

[#]frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Adler's Mottled Tree Frog (Sarcohyla thorectes) photographed by iNaturalist user hfranz

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-15 at 07:56

[#]frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Mute Tree Frog (Sarcohyla siopela) photographed by Division of Herpetology University of Kansas

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-14 at 15:21

The problem with online recommendation algorithms is that they provide you with absurd options like "Find authors similar to Dorothy Parker" when everybody knows there are no authors similar to Dorothy Parker.

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-13 at 14:35

Some people don't believe in the idea that literature partly gets its meaning from the reader reading it, and not just from the intent of the author writing it.

I'd like to submit for evidence in favor of the theory, this fragment from the 14th century Chinese classic, Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

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Written by eribosot on 2025-01-13 at 10:29

[#]Art For those who have been following the art-related toots on my profile this past month or so, all art you saw was displayed on (and for sale from) PAN Amsterdam, a yearly Amsterdam art fair. https://www.pan.nl/en

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