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glennf, 3 months ago to random

Day 2 of my Kickstarter campaign for How Comics Were Made, a book about the history of newspaper comics art, production, and reproduction, and it’s nearly 25% funded!

There’s an early-bird offer for the print + ebook bundle that’s still on the table through Thursday at 9 am PST: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made?ref=f5a9g8

Get to know more about the book at the campaign, at its website https://howcomicsweremade.ink, or by downloading a preview chapter https://howcomicsweremade.ink/pdfs/HCWM-preview-chapter.pdf

Photo: Glenn Fleishman stands in a corner of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum between framed printing artifacts (flongs/molds and plates) at his right and a large display at his left showing a continuously running video he made for exhibition (still frame shows the number 7 and paper fed through a newspaper press being printed).
Photo of a hand holding an art (X-Acto-style) knife cutting an adhesive tint screen on top of a map.
Two-page spread of a printed handout from the 1950s from the Des Moines newspaper explaining the printing process in a newspaper plant with Lucy and Charlie Brown from the Peanut. This two-page spread shot mounting a printing plate, printing on paper, folding, and distribution by truck.

StillIRise1963, 3 months ago to random

Step up. Who is moving to Russia next.🤔 Tucker says grocery shopping is great.🤣

w7voa, 4 months ago to random

US State Department offering a reward of up to $10,000,000 "for information leading to the identification and/or location of any individual(s) who hold a key leadership position in the Hive ransomware variant transnational organized crime group."

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to worldwithoutus

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sundogplanets, 4 months ago to random

A friend who lives in town saved a couple of Christmas trees for us, so merry Christmas, goats!

More goats crowding around 2 Christmas trees laying on the ground in a snowy farmyard. The yellowish dog is hanging out on the periphery, still thinking that maybe the tree will be delicious, but he will be disappointed soon.

orci, 4 months ago to random

oh god oh fuck

harald, 5 months ago to China

The scale of stuff in #china. Bullet trains.

futurebird, 5 months ago to random

After outside money got extremist "anti-woke" conservatives elected to Francis Howell School Board they voted 5-2 to stop offering Black history & Literature at 3 HSs. Devastated parents who valued the elective (optional) courses voiced their objections.

Missouri parents are frustrated the board is banning courses rather than focusing on the high teacher turn-over problem.

Francis Howell is a large district with about 16,600 students, 7.7% Black.

https://apnews.com/article/black-history-classes-dropped-missouri-school-district-774d11889a15f7418dc47239caec6337

SmudgeTheInsultCat, 5 months ago to random

iDGS, 5 months ago to random

Erm,… My updated to 1.8 iOS @ivory is for some reason showing me “BOOSTS ONLY” on my home timeline. Anyone know how to make it so I can also see all those I follow as well? 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’ve poked around a lot looking for something like a show-all switch, but me no see nada. (And I know they’re there b/c I can see more such traffic via the plain vanilla web page interface.)

iDGS, 5 months ago to animals

I’m taking quite a licking! 😹
#catsofmastodon #cats #cat #caturday

Teal-point Ragdoll cat repeatedly licking the inside of my elbow with his raspy tongue!

rebrafsim, 5 months ago to random

I only tell people my secret meatball recipe on a knead to know basis

thomasfuchs, 6 months ago to random

I made a thing (fresh eggnog), boy is it ever boozy

luckytran, 6 months ago to random

If you've fallen out of practice of wearing a mask, this would be a good week to start again! COVID rates are rising because of a new variant, and because many people will have gotten sick over Thanksgiving. Your best protection is wearing a high quality mask.

StillIRise1963, 6 months ago to random

There might be some physical things that suck about aging, but there's a lot that sucks about being younger too. I don't wish away my age. I've been younger and I don't want to go back there.

StillIRise1963, 6 months ago to random

It's also just incredibly STUPID to talk shit about and treat poorly people who you will one day become, OLDER PEOPLE. Mind blowing. Dummies.

seachanger, 6 months ago to Alaska

boarding the #alaska state ferry Columbia tonight at 3 am with my truck and my dog and heading 1300 miles down the inside passage of AK and BC as i have been doing for the last 20 years or so. i will live toot when i have service because for me, the alaska state ferries are a kind of church and i am a kind of fundamentalist and missionary

#FerriesMoveAlaska

stefan, 6 months ago to wordpress

Folks who run WordPress sites, how do you all handle content translations?

I installed https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/ and it seems pretty good and straightforward.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/weglot/ also looks interesting.

Ideally I'd like to set up a workflow that doesn't require volunteers who provide the translation (just a single page) to create a WordPress account.

#wordpress #WordpressPlugins #translation #internalization

heydon, 7 months ago to random

Adobe STock asked my 5 times in a row, in slightly different ways, if I REALLY wanted to cancel my plan before the free trial ended and they locked me into a 12 month contract. Fucking tit-heads.

futurebird, 7 months ago to random

Too much?

Sheril, 7 months ago to Birds

Today we drove to Bellevue, MI to witness the annual fall migration of thousands of Sandhill Cranes. Turn on your sound to listen to their calls, which can be heard up to 2.5 miles away.

These magnificent #birds nearly disappeared a century ago due to overhunting, but populations rebounded & are now stable in MI.

Sandhill Cranes are among the oldest living birds on Earth with a wingspan of up to 6 ft. Aldo Leopold described them as "nobility, won in the march of eons."

30 second video of migrating sandhill cranes in Michigan

Gargron, 7 months ago to random

This shot cannot be replicated because they replaced this window the next day.

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag

Teri_Kanefield, 7 months ago to random

My new friend.

(Well, okay, he ignored me.)

I got close enough to take this picture. Then a wave came in and I was stranded on a rock for a few minutes ! JJ was so busy worrying about the waves (he hates water) that he didn't even notice this amazing bird.