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Damian Yerrick

@pineight.com

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I programmed Full Quiet for Retrotainment Games. Retro video game programmer (NES and GB) and Weebles collector. he/him, autistic, opinions mine, expect puns Other SNS links: https://pineight.com/social/

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ghostdad.cx @bizzo.bz · 10h

I will never look at USMNT and not see US Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Defiant Debi Does Drawing @debidoesdrawing.bsky.social · 1d

The struggle is real.

#inktober #trunk #sketch #critter

a strange creature wiht no legs and tenticles as arms tries to move a very heavy trunk without luck

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 1d

Now all he needs is a sack to put his bottom in, like Beast from Weebles has

Beast figure from Weebles Beauty & the Beast Garden Waltz playset (2006). Orange bison with purple headfur, yellow horns, and no legs, wearing a blue jacket, yellow tie, and red bottom, and holding a rose

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 1d

I wish I was fit enough to pull off a convincing Easter bunny.

Oren, an Easter bunny in a white Maskimals head and tan jacket waving hello

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TheSpookySpaceman 🪐 @thehappyspaceman.bsky.social · 1d

So here's a fun fact: Making protest look family-friendly is actually a time-honored tradition!

Prominent 1960s counterculture activist Wavy Gravy noticed that he stopped being beaten up by the police when he started dressing as a clown, because beating up a clown would make the cops look bad.

A picture of counterculture activist Wavy Gravy, wearing a tie-dyed hat and shirt with a peace sign and the words "Back by popular demand" on his shirt.

Another photo of Wavy Gravy, still wearing a tie dye shirt but this time with more clown attire and rainbow-colored clown makeup. He is flashing a peace sign.

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CHICAGO ILLINOIS @angryavenger22.bsky.social · 13d

WEEBLES

OR

WE BULLS

UMM HMM

CHARGE!!!!

RIGHT

GEN X???

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Muni Aprile @muniaprile.bsky.social · 9d

no legs

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Hermia, gently gigantic gal ❤️ 🔜NFC @thegentlegiant.bsky.social · 3d

The Eevee is in! ✅

commissioned by @asonix.dog
#furryart #pokemon #eevee

sir chadrick the eevee in his kissing booth.

The booth says "kissing booth, the eevee is in"

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mewds @mewdles.com · 14d

#HEADCATS EX • 2
Where is Mewds?

#mewdsart #sfw #comic #timtam #wesl #skrunkle #cat

Timtam approaching Wesl having a bowl of cereal asking, "Have you seen Mewds recently?" and Wesl replies, a little annoyed, "You do realize I have him, right?" and Timtam responds, "... You do?" followed up by Wesl, "Yes, also no I haven't seen him."

Timtam turns around to ask Luna who is sleeping on a cloud shaped cat bed. "How about you Luna—Oh ... Right" ( nap time ... again ... ) A voice from off screen chimes in with, "I saw MEWDS!"

A tiny little skrunkle in a vague malformed and damaged visage of Mewds on the floor tied to a post with a sign that says "DO NOT UNTIE!!" The skrunkle is missing it's left eye, half of it's leg arm, and doesn't seem to have legs at all. "I think he he's in the DARK place" it says with little confidence.

Timtam looks down at the skrunkle in a bit of a shock uttering, "What the ..." Wesl remarks from out of the scene, "Oh right, you haven't seen a skrunkle yet." Timtam squeezes in, "A skrunkle?" The skrunkle in question is looking down at their missing legs, "LOL I got no legs?"

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 6d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 09,1952

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER

P1-TWO OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS DRESSED IN COSTUME’S SEE SLUGGO PULLING A WAGON

SLUGGO IS WEARING A PIRATE COSTUME

FIRST KID: LOOK AT SLUGGO
SECOND KID: HE'S TAKING A WAGON TO THE COSTUME PARTY

P2-
FIRST KID: WONDER WHY?
SECOND KID: NANCY CAN’T WALK

P3-SHE’S IS GOING AS A MERMAID

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 5d

If I had to guess, it's one of two things: either a misuse of "children" to include 17-year-olds or children of service members.

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Tyulk @tyulk.bsky.social · 12d

EMERY
A mechanic who was born without legs!

Emery belongs to me
#ElementalSensation

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 5d

So like Papa, Mama, and Baby Bear from Weebles, I take it

Interior of Weebles Goldilocks' Adventure Cottage dollhouse (2006) in action. This scene takes place a few weeks after Goldilocks first met the bears. They have since reconciled, and Goldilocks has brought a few friends over.

A table is on the first floor, and Goldilocks (light-skinned blonde girl with purple dress and green bow in hair), Mama Bear (in pink coat and teal beret), and Papa Bear (in blue overalls and green hat) are in chairs. Three beds (red, green, and blue) are on the second floor, as is Luca (light-skinned boy with glasses and brown spiked hair). On a merry-go-round outside below the second floor exit slide are Alex (boy with curly hair and freckles), Bailey (dark-skinned girl with blonde hair in a ponytail), and the Baby Bear they met the other day (in yellow shirt carrying a teddy bear).

Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 5d

I'm curious how someone might tag the anthro characters from the 2005 Weebles cartoon. They have arms, but instead of hind legs they wobble around on their butt.

Tibby Wobnobbin (lavender elephant with no legs wearing a pink dress with yellow tutu and a teal bottom), Tooey Winkington (green turtle with no legs in red and yellow firefighting gear and a blue bottom), and Bumpus Wobbleworks (orange sheepdog with brown headfur and no legs wearing a purple shirt, green bottom, red ball cap with white insignia, and blue mailbag) discuss how to remove mud from the address label of a parcel that Bumpus is delivering. In the background on the other side of the town's central roundabout is a fire station, some other buildings, some trees, and a yellow sky with white clouds.

Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 5d

Call him by his name: Nick Vujicic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k89u...

Nick Vujicic: Plays golf, surfs and swims without arms and legs

YouTube video by INFOO PORTAL

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IAMKEVINPAUL @iamkevinpaul.bsky.social · 6d

Twitch Draw Along with @mister-lobo.bsky.social

A drawing of the Weebles Haunted House toy featuring Commander Lobo and Miss Mittens.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 5d

Case in point: The kids from the Weebles cartoon manage to enjoy life without legs

Still of opening sequence from Weebles animated series (2016-2017), showing six 3D animated children with no legs lined up side by side in the park.

From left to right:
Willie (Caucasian boy with blue eyes, brown curly hair, red and white striped shirt, blue bottom, red and white backward ball cap)
Willow (Caucasian girl with blue eyes, maroon hair with purple headband, lavender shirt with pink heart emblem, and purple bottom)
Winnie (Black girl with brown eyes and black hair in twin buns with purple bows, purple and pink striped shirt, and yellow bottom)
Winston (Caucasian boy with green eyes, red glasses, blue shirt with green frog emblem, and red bottom)
Wally (light brown boy with brown eyes, curly dark browm hair, white shirt, dark blue vest, red bow tie, blue bottom)
Wendy (Caucasian girl with purple eyes, straight black hair with purple streak and green bow, yellow shirt with purple flower emblem, and green bottom)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 5d

In the sense that it's not a Weeble unless it's made or licensed by Hasbro?

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Alanageddon @alanakin.bsky.social · 13d

#undertale #sosorry
Pondering the next sketch… So Sorry belongs to @butterdragon.bsky.social !

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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 11d

A message from Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales.

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Chris the Mew @crizbn.com · 13d

Washing machines and dryers are scary enough for experienced plushies, so "brand new" ones like us should just air dry instead. After all, we're not turning back any time soon~ #TFEveryday

( #Octransfur Day 2 - Clean, featuring @joltink.com. Hats off to @wnitedragonite.bsky.social for the concept~)

The downright drenched Rockruff plush made a sodden about-face, metaphorically and literally dripping with displeasure.
"Chris…"
"Okay, look." The littler plush plopped himself on the edge of the washer, ears drooping with the weight of plushifying detergent. "Don't we look clean, though?"
Alex stared daggers at his moistened matey. "You turned us into toys."
"Ah! In my defense," the soggy mouse squeaked, "The washing machine did most of the work."

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dan @danabra.mov · 19d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 15d

Because then it'd need to compare and contrast ATproto with with APproto aka ActivityPub, a competing decentralized social networking protocol used by Mastodon, Lemmy, and PeerTube.

Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 18d

"Sociable"? Not sure what you mean.

"Higher reach"? After searching for obvious tags on mega-instances, I feel like I'm the only fediverse user with a particular special interest. Or should people write about more popular topics to gain followers in case they happen to share the niche interest?