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Ich komme aus Kalifornien und wohne in Berlin. Endlich verstehe ich ein bisschen mehr als nur Bahnhof. Music, dogs, art, baseball, books, languages, weights, what-have-you. He/him. Be excellent to each other. ✌️

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Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· 19d

Friendly note: The channel's logo covers the precise spot on the after photo that it's meant to illustrate. (It's funny, I kind of hope you leave it...!)

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· 20d

@kingtubby.bsky.social wins the Internet for today. At least in the middle of a specific Venn diagram. (Screenshot rather than repost because you need the OP and reply to appreciate the joke.)

A screenshot from @kingtubby.bsky.social, whose username bespeaks excellent musical taste. The image is an Athletics player hunched over, kneeling; it is labeled RUPTURED TESTICLE. The aforementioned King Tubby has reposted with the addition "On a hill side desolate." This is very funny.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· 24d

For anyone baffled:

Screenshot of the start of the Wikipedia entry for truck nuts.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Jul 8

Exhibit A: Hafþor Bjornsson, a.k.a., The Mountain from Game Of Thrones.

Hafþpr Bjornsson, aka The Mountain, Gregor Clegane, planting a delicate smooch on the face of his tiny pomeranian, Asterix. He is holding Asterix, who in Hafþor's hands looks about the size a hefty burger does in the hands of a regular-size person. Found at mbl.is/Iceland Monitor.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Jan 9

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Dec 22

Happy happy. :)

Two Chanukah menorahs, both with eight lit candles plus the shamash,one shaped like a banana (yellow) and the other shaped like a Corgi (white). Side by side.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Dec 20

I like big menorahs and I cannot lie.

A white Corgi-shaped Chanukah menorah, with six lit candles plus the shamash. Taken with the Corgi's posterior in the foreground.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Dec 18

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Dec 16

I got you. 💪

A menorah shaped like a corgi. Ceramic, all glossy white. Photo taken in three-quarters view; Chanu-Corg is looking out of frame, to the right, gaze seemingly elevated just above the horizon, seeming to project an air of quiet, confident dignity. He is doing his job as a menorah very well. The shamash is protruding from his head and the first two nights' candles from his posterior. The color cast is warm and the depth of field shallow, so that the candles sticking out of his butt are in soft focus, and the background is still blurrier.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Dec 15

Chag sameach.

A Chanukah menorah. Ceramic, shaped like a corgi, all-white glossy glaze. The shamash is on the corgi's head; the first night's candle is on his hindquarters.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Dec 13

Memes have started ruining my brain. I read the caption/overlay, and was briefly confused when I saw that this was not the picture.

The Cow Tools cartoon by Gary Larson: a one-panel Far Side comic, drawn in black ink on a white background, with a cow standing on her hind legs, facing the viewer, and a table in the foreground upon which are...a mutilated hand saw, a long stick with three prongs on one end, what looks like half a ham, and an unidentifiable lump. The caption says simply "Cow tools." In the middle distance is a hill with a barn on top

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Dec 5

A still from _Blow-Up_ by Michelangelo Antonioni. A smallish protest march against (what appears to be) nuclear proliferation, whose participants hoist signs reading NOT THIS, GO AWAY, NO, and suchlike. A lone police constable in uniform accompanies the marchers.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Nov 23

Vo-laaaa-reeee, oh-oh-oh-oh, can-taaaa-reeee, oh-oh-oh-oh

Pope Leo spitting bars into a mic while his entourage of clerics bustle about him

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Nov 16

Vibe.

A still from "Blow-Up." A London protest, seemingly against nuclear proliferation, with people holding signs reading NOT THIS (with a drawn mushroom cloud), NO NO NO, GO AWAY, and such. A uniformed constable walking alongside is in the foreground, at the head of the line.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Nov 9

Spotted this in the New York Times ('s sports partner/subsidiary[?] site) and immediately recalled this thread. An example in the wild:

A headline from the NYT-affiliated sports site The Athletic:

"In a MLB offseason with some outside-the-box hires, there's risk in getting too cute"

Accompanied by a photo of Craig Stammen, the new San Diego Padres manager, wearing a Padres T-shirt and baseball hat.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Oct 25

...wait a second. Goddammit.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Oct 25

This is Eddie. When you see him, you might be tempted to run to the hills. But no need: he isn't a Nazi, he just wants to rock your face off.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Oct 18

From Sports Illustrated, under the headline "Shohei Ohtani Plays Most Magnificent Game of All Time to Lead Dodgers to Pennant."

In the most important game of Ohtani's career, he produced simply the nost magnificent game anyone has ever played. When he strode off the mound after six-plus innings to an instrumental version of "Jesus Christ, Superstar," it felt understated. (Unfortunately, in his fourth at-bat, he hit a third home run-making him the 11th player to do so in postseason history, and the first to do so in between striking out 10 batters-rather than sacrificing.)

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Sep 8

Post a perfect album from the ’90s that isn't grunge.

The cover of the 1997 album _Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space_ by the band Spiritualized.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Aug 2

The manhole cover by the supermarket around the corner, here, was made in a country that no longer exists. And the supermarket used to be an East German cooperative shop. The decor still kinda looks like it.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Jul 24

I was just out for a stroll to pick up some groceries and this building got deep on me. I always forget, and then every time I pass by this place, I noticed this.

A storefront window upon which is printed the slogan "You're a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space. Fear nothing."

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Jul 21

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Jun 29

Saw some cool stuff today.

A cool water spout on a public pump. It is shaped like what I think is a dragon's head.

Another goat. Also through a fence. This one is white, though. He is lounging atop a sort of wooden shelf, under a rustic canopy, on a mat. He is looking at the camera.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Jun 28

Messing with camera settings and wound up with this dramatic cloudscape. Thought I would share.

A moody, dramatic cloudy sky with two Communist-era apartment building rooftops in the middle distance and the Berlin Television Tower farther away.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Jun 14

✅ wake up _ work out _ march against ICE in Berlin's Tiergarten _ give moral support at knitting meetup Hat because California. Shirt because F these guys. They don't get to take away my neighbors. But first I need to get my glasses adjusted. And also wash the sunscreen out of my eyes. Already.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· May 30

Now that I think about it, asking for pineapple juice and sparkling water in German sounds a lot like drunkenly insulting the waiter in English. (Reposted bc I had circled the wrong item on the image)

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Apr 14

Aw, man. RIP to one of the voices of my teen years.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Feb 13

Snow is pretty.

Snow on the ground, cars, and trees in Berlin-Mitte, Feb. 14, 2025.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Feb 13

It's a good evening to work out indoors.

Night. A charmingly shabby brick building with a courtyard covered in snow. A single bare bulb lights the way. In the foreground: a wire fence topped with razor wire, snow clinging to it, gate open, footprints leading to the building's door.

Rick | ירחמיאל@rickdeux· Feb 9