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Sandwich “Ham” Frankenstein
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Freelance librarian/artist/Simmer/New Waver/connoisseur of fine Macintoshes/snarkout boy. 🐏 = RAM = random access memories. @staceythecat.bsky.social is my kitty. Banner by Michael Green. 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ☭ 🤠
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Sandwich “Ham” Frankenstein @sandwichfrank.bsky.social · Aug 30
"Ham" is short for "Hamtrak"
sandwichfrank.bsky.social
ISO: Maxis Match combovers and obvious toupees for Sims 4. My '70s simbs lived hard and got sunburns and chased DDT trucks and started monk diming/reverse mohawking before they got out of high school – or they would, if I could find more bald/ing hairs. Particularly party in the back/monastic front
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Eric: All my librarians would become apiarians if they'd just let me bring my comfort bees into the library
December 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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There's a universe where Eric Adams runs multiple dubious businesses out of a public library computer lab, and the librarians all secretly love it when he comes in. He wastes their time but asks really memorable questions.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5h
Eric Adams is an incredibly strange man
Chase Williams & @ChaseWilliams_• 1d New York City Mayor Eric Adams is on Capitol Hill today. X He tells me about Zohran Mamdani announcing he's moving into Gracie Mansion: "Beware of the ghost. I told [Zohran] about it. So the ghost is there. It's a friendly ghost, as long as you're doing right by the city. If you don't become right by the city, he turns into a poltergeist."
December 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
sandwichfrank.bsky.social
In 2026 I hope I find a workplace with this kind of energy:
Billy Squier - Christmas Is The Time To Say "I Love You"
YouTube video by Official Billy Squier
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December 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?

Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.

One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.

archive.ph/Tmthz
Father's anger at girl's potentially fatal testosterone dose The child, who was 15 at the time, was given the prescription by the private GenderGP clinic after one online counselling session He has lost contact with his daughter - he does not even know what she got in her GCSEs - and now that she is 18, he no longer gets court-ordered medical updates. In the final one he learnt that she was booked in for surgery imminently. Now he drives over with birthday presents but is not allowed in. He remembers the last time he saw her, after she had started taking testosterone. Looking at his photographs, he remembers dropping her home: "When she said goodbye, her smile was the same girly shy smile she had as a little girl. Somewhere in there is my daughter."
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
sandwichfrank.bsky.social
Walking into therapy, grieving face smeared with BBQ sauce. “The McRib is back,” I sigh.
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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masterplayer148fun.bsky.social
AHHEUGH
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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damnyouwillis.bsky.social
god i hope this strip from now is entirely just professor ian cameron yelling at a bird and having his life ruined because he won't stop yelling at that bird
December 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
sandwichfrank.bsky.social
I got bumped a grade ahead in math in the 5th grade and it totally fucked me for the rest of K-12. My 10th grade Honors Algebra II teacher looked me in the eye and told me I was bound to live under a bridge and it’s like, y’all put me here and no matter how much I fail and protest, I stay here!
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d
I do think that some people who didn’t experience being Bad at Math in the 2000s and 2010s are probably really underrating how demeaning that experience was at the time
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d
speaking on the basis of being a humanities type who struggled with math (until I learned to program later on) who felt that society was giving me a constant message in the 2000s that I was a worthless parasite who would die in a ditch on that basis alone
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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demandavoider.bsky.social
I don't look at the menu at restaurants anymore. I just say "give me the daddy stack" and see what happens
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes. 7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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etbeeegood.bsky.social
inside calculators are thousands of tiny horses just a-clippety cloppin
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
roses are red, violets are funky,
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
One of the things that irritates me about defunding the Post Office is that the Post Office is just a great place to go to. People getting presents, sending off Christmas letters, the hustle and bustle of American Capitalism, people meeting people, babes and hunks, get laid at the Post Office folks
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
sandwichfrank.bsky.social
Bert won’t bury his poop but he will attempt to wash his paws in the sink after he poops and by god, the day he figures that out he’ll be unstoppable
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
sandwichfrank.bsky.social
It's probably a bad thing that Google knows me so well that the YT recommendation algorithm will shove lost media CanCon at me when it's been out for a day and still has less than two dozen views. Like I don't know if anyone knows about this now but some Albertans in their 40s and me.
The Whoopties - Hallowe'en (1988 - 24 Minutes, #362)
YouTube video by CFCN Television Archive
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December 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Quentin Tarantino Slams Paul Dano As Worst Actor On Wikifeet https://theonion.com/quentin-tarantino-slams-paul-dano-as-worst-actor-on-wikifeet/
Quentin Tarantino Slams Paul Dano As Worst Actor On Wikifeet
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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electricchimp.bsky.social
hell yeah Fozzie still not wearing a shirt or pants
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Your Public Universal Psychic Friend sez: we will get through this but not without seeing his hog
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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June 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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diskettepress.bsky.social
real ones might recognize the new notebook cover is inspired by my all time favorite riso ad:
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Saturday Night Dead, a horror movie set at SNL during the Dick Ebersol years but with all the names sloppily changed and the serial numbers filed off. Nevertheless, Tim Kazurinsky plays himself
December 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM