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Gunny
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Gunny T Shepherd, a graymuzzled German Shepherd Dog in a tiger kigu, with a pack of their own. Apparently intimidating but actually cuddlesome. Truth, Honor, Integrity.

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Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · Dec 1
My BSKY is fairly asynchronous: Things get posted when they get posted, so this account has a strong Time Is Just A Construct vibe.

While most social media platforms want you to post as things happen, I’m very bad at that. When you see a post, it’s more likely that it DIDN’T just occur.

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As we enter the holiday, I am reminded of this sweet holiday short film about happiness from 2017. youtu.be/e9dZQelULDk
Happiness
The story of a rodent's unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment. Music: 'Habanera' by Bizet 'Morning Mood' by Edvard…
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December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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As we enter the holiday season, I’m sharing a short holiday film I saw as a part of the “Peculiar Puppets Vol X (In Glorious 16mm)” show at the Roxy Cinema in NYC during the summer. I present “Hardrock, Coco, and Joe” in all its strangeness.
Hardrock Coco and Joe
from Thunderbean Thursday at http://cartoonresearch.com
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December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Turns out the secret to M&Ms isn’t the hard shell but the physics of heating it superfast. Science shows that, if you do it fast enough, you can heat a solid well past it’s melting point without it melting.
Physicists Superheated Gold to Hotter Than the Sun's Surface and Disproved a 40-Year-Old Idea
A thin piece of gold reached 33,740 degrees Fahrenheit, which is more than 14 times higher than its melting point, by being rapidly heated—and it didn't melt
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December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Death of King Friday XIII (2025), one of many of Alex Da Corte’s sculptures from his show, Parade, on now at Matthew Marks Gallery. #art #ny #nyc #newyorkcity
A color photo of the puppet, King Friday XVIII from the children’s show, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, lying in a bed with a 1970s-styled floral patterned mattress. The puppet has its familiar bearded appearance and is dressed in its iconic blue robe, with a golden crown on its head. King Friday has one hand draped over the side of the mattress, and another positioned over his heart. The bed is a simple tube and wire type bed similar to those used in military hospitals. On the floor is a tipped over golden chalice that is bejeweled with red velvet representing wine spilled out of it.
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Sad Snoopy (2025), one of many of Alex Da Corte’s sculptures from his show, Parade, on now at Matthew Marks Gallery. #art #ny #nyc #newyorkcity
A black and white photo of a sculpture of Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip character, Snoopy, standing on his hind legs with his eyes closed, head positioned as if looking down looking down at his nose, which has fallen off his face and is on the ground a short distance away. The background is a bare white wall, and the figure is standing on bear concrete.
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Sad Spiderman (2025), one of many of Alex Da Corte’s sculptures from his show, Parade, on now at Matthew Marks Gallery. #art #ny #nyc #newyorkcity #spiderman
A color photo of a life-sized plush in the shape of Spider-Man, in his iconic red, blue and white spider web suit, draped across a walker with white walls and concrete floor in the background.
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Did you know that the first french fries weren’t cooked in France? They were cooked in Greece. #DadJokes
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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How do you get a squirrel to like you?
Act like you are nuts. #DadJokes
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Nothing Gold Can Stay. The liminal time between late fall and hard winter can be a a magical time in #NYC: Holiday lights have gone up but golden leaves still cling to the trees in #ZuccottiPark. #photography
A color photo of a park filled with trees with fall leaves in yellow. The trees are wrapped in white holiday lights illuminating the park in a golden glow. There are tall buildings to each side of the park with their lights on. The night sky without clouds or stars is visible in the center of the picture.
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Modern Rails. One Liberty Place in #NYC. #newyorkcity #newyork #photography #art #blackandwhitephotography
A black and white photo in landscape-orientation showing a black box modernist building from a street view looking up. The building is black with some lower windows lit. There are two vertical runnels in the building dividing the façade into even thirds.
November 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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If someone slips LSD into your drink at a square dance, you’ve been dosey-dosed. #DadJokes
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Bee-kaboo! A bee prepares to fly away from a rose in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden. #nyc #newyork #nybg #rose #flower
A color photo of a white rose with a pink center. A bee is exiting from the center of the rose.
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Spring Hill Nursery’s Fashion Forward Floribunda rose from a recent visit to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden. #nyc #newyork #nybg #rose #flower
A color picture of a reddish pink bowl shaped floribunda rose with many layers of petals.
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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What did the fish say when he swam into a wall?
Dam!
#DadJokes
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Leaf Abstract. I dunno. I found this rain-soaked panel of concrete sidewalk full of windblown neighborhood fall leaves to be pretty in an abstract way. Stopped me in my tracks on my walk to the gym. The saturated color pops against the urban gray. #art #notart #photography #nyc #newyork
A color photo of a wet sidewalk covered in a variety of leaves of different colors.
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I told my doctor that I keep hearing a buzzing sound. He said it’s just a bug going around. #DadJokes
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Fun Fact: Koi always travel in schools of four. When attacked, the A, B, and C koi scatter, leaving just the D koi. #DadJokes
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright's Unrealized Buildings with David Romero's Digital Models
Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright's Unrealized Buildings with David Romero's Digital Models
David Romero uses digital modeling software and Frank Lloyd Wright's archives to create realistic renderings of unrealized designs.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Your Smartwatch's Heart Rate Monitor Was Developed by a Furry
Your Smartwatch's Heart Rate Monitor Was Developed by a Furry
Dr. David Benaron is an inventor whose team at Stanford laid the groundwork for the optical heart rate monitor. He's also a cheetah named Spottacus.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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My Procatavola Key Lime Stars orchid (a hybrid of Epicattleya Lime Sherbet and Brassavola nodosa) bloomed last month. Last year, I broke off the bud before it bloomed. It inherits night fragrant characteristics. A lovely bloom that lasted over a month. #orchids #windowsill #nyc #plant #brassavola
A close up color photo of an orchid bloom with a white, frilly lip that is striated with thing yellow green petals. There are darker green leaves behind against a white background.
October 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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My Psychopsis papilio (the “Butterfly Orchid”) in bloom. #photography #nyc #newyork #newyorkcity #statenisland #orchid #orchids #flower #flowers #flowerstagram #petals #windowsillgarden #psychopsis #psychopsispapilio #butterflyorchid
A color photo of a profile view of a psychopsis orchid. The orchid is deep, orange and yellow, with three thin petals at the top that are darker red.
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Two fish are in a tank. One looks to the other and says, “I don’t even know how to drive this thing.” #DadJokes
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Photos from @nayland.blake.bsky.social’s new installation at Matthew Marks Gallery. I really liked this work that doubles up on sex and BDSM as therapy. #art #NYC
A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows an orange plastic sign with the word “SESSION” in a black, sans-serif font set into a metal frame that is open at the top. The edges of the word looks distressed, as if it has been rubbed off some over time. Set into the left of metal frame is a smaller piece of rectangular metal with the word “IN” painted on in orange. The piece is arranged so that the words together read “IN SESSION“. The piece has a piece of chain hanging from the top and partially obscuring the word “IN.” That whole assembly is mounted on lightly rusted chain-link behind which is a heavy, quilted canvas fabric in black. All the elements of the photo are shown in shallow perspective, such that the sign’s right edge is larger, and seems closer to the viewer, then the left edge. A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows two door mats on either side of a door frame, seen from directly above. The doormats are both made of cocoa fiber, and are in their natural brownish tan color. One doormat has the word “COME” in the center, while the other one has the word “GO” in the center. Both words are in black, and there is an offset black line border around the edge of the mat. The mats are placed so that the words would be upright and readable when you enter the doorway. On the right, the photo shows the door which is covered in a black quilted canvas moving cloth, with an orange border. The door jam is visible on both the left and right of the photo. The background of the photo is the concrete floor. A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows a stark white room with a concrete floor. In the room, is a metal chain hung on the wall with various items hung from it, and a couch-like item in the middle of the room. The chain on the wall in the back has a gentle, drooping curve to it. The couch-like piece of furniture in the middle of the room is covered in black leather. At the head of the couch, where one’s head might rest, is a mirror and a professional-looking microphone on a small, adjustable boom. At the left corner of the couch nearest the viewer, is a vertical pole that ends in a crook at the top. from the pool is hung a sign that says “I betrayed…” Also hung from the pole are multiple shiny metal cans each with a tag and a long piece of black ribbon. Each of the tags complete the sentence that began with “I betrayed” with a noun, such as “my family.“ In the place where a decorative skirt might have surrounded the couch, is a metal chain attached at various points to the couch’s frame. A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows a stark white wall, in front of which is a mask that would cover the wearers face across the eyes. The mask has a strap to go around the back of the head, eye holes, and ears that are in the shape of a hare’s. The mask features metal studs that are attached to the mask by flat Phillips head screws. The studs are all conical points that are attached to such that they point in towards the wearer of the mask.
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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In “Inside” at Matthew Marks Gallery, @naylandblake.bsky.social curates pieces they “wanted to be in the presence of, to wander inside of, to refresh my eyes and mind with…things [that] are made, not manufactured,” and made them rethink possibilities in their own art. #nyc #art

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A color photo of Joseph Cornell‘s untitled work. The photo shows a rectangular, blue-gray wooden box, stood up on its short end. The front of the box is covered in glass, and there are various pieces of wood in the front painted white, but showing the wood grain through the paint. There is a vertical slice of mirror glued to the back interior, which reveals the presence of a taxidermied bird hidden behind the main piece of wood on the front, along with some indistinguishable text in a serif font at the top. A color photo of Robert Gober’s Stained Diaper on Wallpaper, 1979–2017. The photo shows an assemblage inside a plain, deep white frame. The back of the assemblage is a piece of wallpaper that has a repeating pattern of a road going over hills under a blue sky with white clouds done in a watercolor style in front of the wallpaper, his a couple layers of cloth cut into a square. The cloth is stained with what seems to be black ink at top, and then a dark, rusty brown red stain on the bottom. The square cloth also has a square cut out in the middle. A color photo of Felix Gonzales-Torres’ Untitled, 1988 which consists of a black square in a black frame with the words, Diana, Princess, North, Zero, Oliver, Patient, on one line and the words Helms, Disco, Waldheim, Bag, Pope, Poppers, Tut on a second line. The words are all in white, in an italicized serif font with no punctuation. A color photo of an installation view of Betye Saar’s Final Vooyage, 2024. The piece consists of a rectangular wooden box with a hinged lid set on its short side so that it opens like a book. Inside the cover of the box is paper with a diagrammatic layout of black slaves in a ship’s hold during the time of the slave trade. Inside the box is a blue background on paper with a model of a tall ship in full sail on a small dias. The ship is reminiscent of both the kind that discovered America as well as the ships that brought the slaves.
October 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Where do rainbows go when they’ve been bad? To prism, where they can reflect on all they’ve done. #DadJokes
October 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM