I cant stop seeing the zip-ties as legs
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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Needs to be a cartoon drawing
Crappy artistic interpretation:
That tiny smile made me smile!
It's half of a french mustache.
What is the bird smiling with?
Beautiful. If I owned a gallery I’d showcase your art if you allowed me to.
It’s times like this where I’m sad that our upvotes and comments don’t federate back to the original post. So the original poster sees them.
So much stuff is copied and pasted around these days. Once everyone learned how to take and manage screenshots on their phones, everything changed. Social networks became places where you look at screenshots of the other social networks.
Am I the only one who noticed the shift in culture that happened when a large number of people learned how to take screenshots? Maybe it’s just the shift to a screen oriented society I’m noticing.
Just some random thoughts about how we use social media. I’m not on a crusade to change anything.
I think it's more people discovering linkrot, and social media platforms downranking links more than simple knowledge of screenshots. Deep fried memes have been a thing for literally forever, remember demotavational posters that always ended up nested to hell:
That’s someone actively editing the content. Not just hauling it from one spot to another.
And yes, saving and reuploading jpegs has been a thing for ages, and this did indeed deep fry the images. I’m specifically just musing about screenshots, and how they became the next step after saving a jpeg and reuploading. And how they are different from opening something in GIMP and nesting it.
Memes use to be just the image with text on it. Edited, created. (Bottom text) Now it’s often the image under the text in a tweet and the composition is captured with a screenshot.
And we have this whole culture of screenshotting text instead of copying and quoting the text.
This all really did evolve in the social media time post Twitter.
The Internet has always been cross pollinating like this. People share content across various communities and screenshots are more permanent and easy than live links that might break, get deleted or require an account to view.
I don't think it's something that can be solved. Stuff gets copied and compressed and reposted and screenshot again and experiences digital rot.
Rss feeds, and promoted content had it basically solved. Social media offered an easier solution, but then they multiplied and people forgot the old ways.
It use to be the source image was shared, and those would get deep fried. It’s like we zoomed out a level and now it’s the original UI and attribution, and screens have relatively similar resolutions. Can we zoom out one more level?
It's been like this for decades
When everything is screenshots of other sites, you pick the sites that aren't corporate so they aren't trying to steal your data and violate your privacy.
That's not a robin. Cool nest though.
Also it's not a drain pipe, it's a downspout
What do you think it is? For me it looks kinda like a common blackbird, but as das as I know they don't exist in Illinois, USA?
The only way to know is if it sings in the dead of night.
Think you're right. They have redwing blackbirds there. https://pasquesi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IL_bird_poster.jpg
It's hard to say. It does have a Robin-like shape. It could just be completely cloaked in shadow. I used Google Lens and it said "common blackbird".
Looks like it could be a starling. They like to nest in the nooks of houses, and they're about that size.
That's actually what my first thought was too.
Black robin
Blobin
Robird Blobin!
Dang! I better get a couple fry baskets before Spring!
Oh, for for Elaine Buckner, and what a clever idea!
Yeah, good Elaine
That's so awesome, i love it!
So close to chicken nugget I could just eat him up.