For the past few weeks I've been seeing stranger and stranger combinations in my newsfeed; bats and skulls and more skulls and ghosts and unicorns and owls and gargoyles...these are all images that Facebook has kindly put together for me, the only changes I made are taking out personal information.
Scary or funny? I'm not quite sure about this recognition software thing. I'm watching you, Facebook...while you're watching me.
Today Facebook turned pink and red with icons supporting equal marriage rights. In the morning the icons were very basic; a pink equal sign on a red background. By midafternoon though they'd started morphing into all sorts of different images.
Here are a few of my favorites, with credit because giving credit is cool:
Original Grumpy Cat illustration by Inti Orozco
Bacon by Hattie's Hat, Seattle; Fingers by Scott LeBrun; "Erase Inequality" by Dalton Webb and Stripes by Cait Willis.
A quickie writeup on the New Yorker's site about today's shooting at the Empire State building, and a very unfortunate typo in line 4.
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Fun with the Republican Taliban, and their quivering revulsion toward female "secretions".
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Inspired by a spam header.
More Spam Art here.
And a nice roundup of the "keep 'em all barefoot and pregnant" agenda of the GOP.
It will come as no surprise to those that know me remotely well that to see "The Divine Gas" by Chiho Aoshima celebrated in the bigwig art world (connected to Art Basel that is) brings me great delight.
For a glorious moment when I first heard “Palin” I dared to dream of this guy one heartbeat away from the red button.
John McCain has chosen his running mate, and in a completely transparent bid for the “Hillary Vote” he’s picked a woman. A woman who has almost no experience in public office, who is against other women having basic reproductive freedom, and whose latest pregnancy is the subject of a lot of interesting rumors, but still; a person with a hoo hoo.
What a relief! I was worried I’d have to vote for a MAN again, and you know how that goes, right girlfriends?
Photo of Mr. Palin grabbed from this site and then given the lolcat treatment by a sinner most deadly
Two events happened in the last week, which spurred me to finish this little project I’ve had in mind for a while.
First, yet another Fert-litter was born, on March 30 in Seattle. Only five this time, so they probably won’t get the endorsements an End-Times-indicating seven would receive. In Brian W. Aldiss' 1965 "The Saliva Tree" the horror was based in the idea of the sheer wrongness of human women having litters of babies. Yet now it’s become routine. Only the escalating size of the numbers is exciting.
Meanwhile, this guy has come out and said what the smart people have already figured out; in an interconnected biosphere with limited resources, there are too many people, and at some point we have to say, “Give it a rest”. In a time when the world is warming, the ice caps are melting, and non-human species die off every day, it seems obvious that people need to put the brakes on the breeding. People are stupid though. Instead of realizing we’re about to hit a wall, we’ll ignore it by celebrating the latest triumph of science over good sense. And we’ll revile Cassandra.
Extra special thanks to Erin for the funky typeface, and to Phil for remembering the Saliva Tree.