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Beck
@beckkramer.bsky.social
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I just wrapped up a 5 week etching class, and I really want to take another. Not taking any printmaking in college has always been a regret- happy I'm rectifying it 20 years(!) later. Etching is very familiar and very foreign at the same time.
Close up of a crosshatched etching of a Winter Wren, a tiny round dark bird with a pointy tail Two copies of the etching. One has a few more lines
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I spotted this guy *while having dinner to celebrate my wedding anniversary* and we hurried over to catch a look at him.
May 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Some friends from a recent walk here in Chicago:
* Cape May Warbler
* Red-bellied Woodpecker
* Piping Plover
* A very friendly female Red-wing Blackbird
A Cape May Warbler, a small yellow bird with rusty cheeks and a dark brown cap, sits on a branch with round bunches of small white flowers. A red-bellied woodpecker, a cream-colored robin-sized bird with a red cap of feathers and a red smear of feathers on its lower belly. It has black and white dappled wings, and sits on a branch looking to the right. A Piping Lover, a tennis ball-sized round white bird with a small orange beak with a black tip. It has a black little eyebrow and collar, and the top of its head and wings are a light warm grey. It strides across a beach with little shell fragments on it. A brown and white dappled bird, a female red-wing blackbird, perches on the tip of a wooden slat fence with a blurry beach in the background.
May 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Y'all a Little Caesars crazy sauce lid fits perfectly on a Fage single serve yogurt container, my heart is full
A yogurt container with a lid on it on a kitchen counter
May 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Guys it's getting nice out again, and sometimes you can get a little song for your trouble.
April 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I missed totality but I'll take this- thanks for randomly waking up, brain.
Low res picture of the moon, mostly bright red, a little rim of white towards the top
March 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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The books Robot knocked off the shelf tonight to let us know he's never eaten, not once ever.
Two small books on a wooden bench: Golden Books Mammals and a Lonely Planet pocket Italian phrasebook
March 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Lil munk
Sketchy drawing of a cartoon chipmunk's head
February 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Still in awe I managed to get my scanner from 2009 to work with my new-ish computer in like 10 minutes tonight. Please enjoy the app that opens when you open the lid (second image is what you get when you hover on the smiley face).
Skeuomorphic app that looks like a squat CD player from 2006 with a fake green-on-plack LED screen and blue round buttons. The "screen" reads Ready: Ready for next job. Skeuomorphic app that looks like a squat CD player from 2006 with a fake green-on-plack LED screen and blue round buttons. The "screen" reads Personal Style: Configure your own personal style.
February 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Robot has started knocking books off the shelf to get our attention. Tonight's victims: two copies of the same Connie Willis book.
A tuxedo cat sits smugly on a wooden bench in front of a low bookcase, two white paperbacks with red spines on the wood floor in front of him.
February 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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#hourlycomicsday part 3, and tapping out 🫡
Comic panel captioned with 6:00-8:00, "We eat dinner and talk about the state of things." Two people sit in a little rowboat, gripping the sides, a table with plates on it between them. The boat is in the middle of a rough sea. Giant waves are in the background, and the wine bottle on the table is teetering. Comic panel captioned with 8:00-10:00: "We watch the SNL documentary." A TV with a white woman, Black man in a hat, and a goat is on one side, with a speech balloon coming from the man reading, "I'm Brian Fellows!" In the foreground in silhouette we see the back of a couch, a cat perched on top in a loaf, and the profile of me and my big nose.
February 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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#hourslycomicsday part 2
Comic panel captioned with 1:30-2:30. Me in my kitchen in front of the stove in profile, holding a spatula in front of a frying pan with steam coming from it. Robot, a tuxedo cat, stands in front of me with his mouth in an "O", a music note above his head. A caption reads, "supervised grilled cheese making / eating." Comic panel captioned with 2:30-3:30. A wall of obscured techno-babble is behind a computer screen. A person in a hoodie sits in front of it with their back to us, while thought bubbles float from their head in front of the screen and techno-babble. In the bubbles are different types of food. A caption reads, "half-heartedly looking at job postings while thinking about what to do for dinner." Comic panel captioned with 4:00-5:00. A head of garlic, cloves peeling off, and a lemon with juice falling out of it all lead to a container with chicken in it, a mortise and pestle in front with spices floating around. A caption reads, "Prepping food so I don't suggest ordering out." The images are flanked with captions: "grind spices to avoid texture issues" and "get chicken marinating." Below, floating potatoes mid-peel and a peeler lead to chopped up pieces of potato splashing into a pot filled with water. Text floats above that, reading "Peel and cut potatoes and get them in the water." Comic panel captioned with 5:00-5:30. In a tiny box with jagged edges that break up below it reads, "catching up on news." Next to that, a pot is on a burner, the words "tik" and "fwoosh" flowing out as the burner is turned on. A caption reads, "I focus on every tiny part of making dinner: lemon herb chicken breast with goat cheese mashed potatoes plus a pan sauce." The lines from the fire of the burner trail to steam leading from pots on the stove in another inset drawing. In another corner, labelled "Set out ingredients carefully," a carton of milk, small box, and package of goat cheese rest on a table. Labels reading, "Trust I know how," and "Let the process be medicinal," flank a drawing of the final dish on a plate, a pleasant mound of mashed potatoes with sauce cascading down its sides and pooling around a scored chicken breast in front of it.
February 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Some hourly comics for the first part of today- having fun drawing Robot and food, shocking no one. #hourlycomicsday
Comic panel captioned with 7:00-8:00. White person with short hair just waking up in bed in the foreground, her hand on a tuxedo cat happily loafing between her pillow and the headboard. Comic panel captioned with 8:00-9:00. White person with short hair sipping on coffee in an office chair in a cozy room, tuxedo cat on her lap with his head on the armrest of the chair. Comic panel captioned with 10:00-11:00. One inset drawing of my outfit for the day, a t-shirt and black cargo pants on a blank figure, captioned "bravely put on hard clothes." Another inset drawing of a bottle of spray cleaner and a rag captioned "wiped down counter." A final inset drawing of a long wavy piece of paper with writing on it, with an apple, bottle, chicken, and can in front of it, captioned "made grocery list" Comic panel captioned with 11:30-1:30, with big text reading, "Grocery Store Adventure!" Two people bundled up in winder clothes, one short one tall, walk on a dotted line towards large drawings of peppers, onions, and a smiling dead fish. A small inset image shows the tall person, masked with a baseball cap and pony tail, pushing a cart, while the short person, masked with a beanie, holds a bag. This is captioned, "impulse tarali." The dotted line continues to more groceries (a carton of milk and a container of berries) before ending on the pair, now with masks off walking home while drinking out of paper cups. This is captioned, "victory mochas for the walk home."
February 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I'm an Aquarius Moon,
Industrial tub of cream cheese in a display case labeled "walnut raising"
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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We got some snow yesterday and today I decided to go walk by the lakefront, forgetting that walking on sand always wipes me out, and walking on snow always wipes me out, so doing both together might not be smart but oh well. It was really pretty.
A snow covered beach with water in the distance, and grasses from a sand dune peeking out on the right-hand side. The sky is sunny and blue, making the snow bright bright white. There are scattered lines of footsteps in the snow.
January 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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When your app is made in California
Screenshot of the Android web app with a cartoon frog happily flying a kite in an open field. The temperature reads 13 degrees Fahrenheit, sunny, feels like 0 degrees
January 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Starting the new year dangerously
An unopened tube of cinnamon rolls. "Press spoon at seam until can pops open" is printed on the side.
January 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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My cats are having a plausible deniability snuggle
A tuxedo cat and a dappled grey cat sprawled across their human's legs, leaning against each other big spoon/little spoon style
April 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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In the "doubting everything" stage of painting.
Narrow strip of freshly painted dark turquoise wall between white trim with masking tape on it.
March 17, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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"Hello sweet cousin"
A tuxedo cat in a loaf position on the back of a couch, facing the camera and looking slightly sleepy
February 23, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Enjoy the cats I have hung out with on my trip to visit @laidelee.bsky.social 's family for the holidays: Nola (sitting) and Harper (keeping a wary distance)
A young tuxedo cat named Nola sitting primly. She has a skinny black tail, wide white cravat pattern, and white stripe above her nose. An older kitten named Harper keeping a wide berth. She has a fluffy black tail and white chin.
December 26, 2023 at 10:41 PM
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For some reason I do not remember, this tuba marching band music for Zoot Suit Riot is in my possession, aggressively tethering me to a specific moment of time forever.

I have never played the tuba.
Small piece of paper with the tuba part for the cherry poppin' daddies' zoot suit riot.
November 12, 2023 at 11:21 PM
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They're sawing the wall and pipes apart and Robot is somehow sleeping through it.
Tuxedo cat curled into a ball sleeping on a grey couch.
October 25, 2023 at 4:56 PM
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Hm.
Package with two tennis balls labeled "tennis ball walker gliders" priced at $15.49 Package of three tennis balls labeled "practice tennis balls" priced at $4.99
October 21, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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Little dude always delivers.
Tuxedo cat in a loaf on the back of a couch, one front paw demurely crossed over there other.
October 16, 2023 at 4:05 AM