Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos

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Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· 6h

Rogers Park, land of fungi (3/ )

A sort of not very lush patch of ground, with mixed grass, weeds, twigs, and bare mud, largely covered with a an irregular crowd of tiny mushrooms, maybe a hundred of them, resembling puffed cereal like Kix

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· 7h

Rogers Park, Land of Fungi

A patch of green lawn with a few native plants and a group of mushrooms with broad white caps, ranging from 2 to 4 inches across, arranged in a gentle arc with three on the left and the fourth, the largest, at the near right

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· 4d

Rogers Park, Land of Fungi

Out of the grass between a largish tree trunk and the curb grows a solitary white mushroom, its flat cap the size of a saucer

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· 11d

Looking at a country road in the middle distance, with utility poles, and with a Jeep like vehicle (has lights on top, maybe an emergency vehicle) traveling away from the viewer and to the left. This scene is shrouded in dense fog; in the background, dwarfing a hill and filling the screen, is a huge six-legged thing with a cluster of tentacles at the left end, clearly a hazard to anyone in the vehicle. Also, white block letters, the width of the image, also shrouded in fog, read: THE MIST

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· 18d

What would you say that "American Style Chocolate" is

A store advertisement in red and blue, with white and yellow lettering. On the right, a couple squarish chocolates. A couple of skyrocket bursts give a July 4 feel. The text reads (omitting some tiny type):
Russell Stover
AMERICAN
STYLE
CHOCOLATE
CRISPY PEANUT BUTTER

Some of the small print from the lower part of the ad:
Milk Chocolate with Peanut Butter
& Crispy Kataifi Pastry

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Jun 20

A small stocky dog, with a stubby tail and a white coat with a large black spot at the base of his spine. He is on a gravelly beach looking at the gray water of a shallow lake.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Jun 17

Unless ... 🤔😮

Caption; Southern Cassowary Egg

Image: a hand holding a large green egg (about five inches long)

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· May 22

Caption: Still from "The Cyclops", 1957

Description: A black-and-white image of the naked head and shoulders of a disfigured giant man against a treeless mountainous background. The right side of his face has been obliterated by scarring , while his left eye is lidless and disproportionately large .

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 27

*** Latest Corpse Flower News! *** 4/28/26 1135 - Extended Run! The flower seems to be closing up and fading a bit, but if you missed it yesterday, it's still worth seeing.

In a greenhouse full of tropical plants is a cubical wooden box about two feet on an edge, labeled "TAMAN". A yellow spike about six feet tall extends upward from it. The lower third is partially veiled in four large sepals, green on the outside and a dark dusty rose on the interior. To the right, a white haired man wearing a green polo shirt, and over that a blue apron labeled "Plaint Information Service", is talking to out-of-frame visitors.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 26

*** Corpse Flower Update *** (this is from the webcam) 4/27/26 1500: Fading? Compared to previous photos, it seems to be shrinking and drooping in my opinion

A pale spike, apparently deflated with wrinkles along its length, projects upward from its box labeled "Taman". At its base is a dark rose-colored floral ring, about a 18 inches across.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 26

***LIVE ON THE SCENE CORPSE FLOWER REPORT*** (Chicago Botanic Garden) As of 9 am it is fully open. Doubtful whether it will be open tomorrow at all so this is your chance! Smell: really barely noticeable (not sure why)

About five feet tall, a yellow pointed spike projects out of a green base with a floral ring, maybe three feet across, purplish brown on the exposed upper surface. This is in a greenhouse setting, with other tropical plants around; spectators are on an elevated level in the background. A worker with a grey t-shirt is bent over the base of the flower, beneath the ring.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 26

*** Latest Update *** #HastheCorpseFlowerBloomedYet Has it bloomed yet? 4/25/26 2100: YES

A picture taken at night in a green light - everything is in hues of green. A pointy bright spike, over three feet tall, emerging from a base which hugs the lowest portion of the spike and then flares outward like the bell of a trumpet, maybe 18 inches wide. This plant grows from a wooden box, labeled "Taman". This is in a landscaped greenhouse setting, with other green plants growing around it naturalistically.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 25

***Breaking news update!!!*** #HastheCorpseFlowerBloomedYet Has it bloomed yet? 4/25/26 1845: YES!

A pointy yellowish spike, over three feet tall, emerging from a vase-like corolla, green on the outside, purplish on the inside, and maybe a foot across at its widest. This plant grows from a wooden box, labeled "Taman". This is in a landscaped greenhouse setting, with other green plants growing around it naturalistically, and steps and railings visible in the background.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 25

***Breaking news!!!*** #HastheCorpseFlowerBloomedYet Has it bloomed yet? 4/25/26 1715: IT HAS STARTED You can see the change from this AM. I'm not an expert but from the materials on the site I infer that the distinctive fragrance will be coming forth in a matter of hours, if it isn't already.

A pointy yellowish spike, over two feet tall, seemingly emerging from a leafy vase-like cylinder which is a few inches wider than the spike. A vertical seam in the wrapper is outlined in purple. This plant grows from a wooden box, labeled "Taman". This is in a landscaped greenhouse setting, with other green plants growing around it naturalistically, and steps and railings visible in the background.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 25

#HastheCorpseFlowerBloomedYet Has it bloomed yet? 4/25/26 0845: no

A pointy yellowish spike, over two feet tall, the lower half of which is clad in a tight green wrapper. A vertical seam in the wrapper is outlined in purple. This plant grows from a wooden box, labeled "Taman". This is in a landscaped greenhouse setting, with other green plants growing around it naturalistically, and steps and railings visible in the background.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 16

But what, pray, shall we do when our profiles in their entirety are forbidden?

iPhone screenshot:

Error
(white exclamation point on solid black circle)
Not Found (larger font, bold)
Forbidden (small font)
↪️Try Again (small font, white on solid black lozenge)

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Apr 12

Today's "Town Watch" aroused dormant memories. We had this book in the house when I was like 6 because Mom & Dad bought old books at auction. I remembered a key phrase and found it in Google Books: @maureenjohnsonbooks.com @dansinker.com

THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
STORIES OF KING ARTHUR AND THE HOLY GRAIL
1
BY
WILLIAM HENRY FROST
ILLUSTRATED BY SYDNEY RICHMOND BURLEIGH
•
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1902

The upper two-thirds of a page of text from an old book, Above the text is an illustration, a drawing of a rural English landscape with a pasture surrounded by a hedge with two gates. In the distant background is a very tall treeless hill with steep slopes and a flattish top, surmounted by a blunt tower or building, about four stories in height, in medieval style.

Below the illustration the book begins:

THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND
TABLE
CHAPTER I
ON GLASTONBURY TOR

IT was when we were making a journey in the South of England one summer that we found ourselves in the midst of the old tales of King Arthur and of the Holy Grail. "We" means Helen, Helen's mother, and me. We wandered about the country, here and there and wherever our fancy led us, and everywhere the stories of King Arthur fell in our way. In this nlace he was horn, in that nlace...

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 31

Dinosaurus! (1960)

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 29

15/10, highly recommended

A smallish dog, white with brown markings and a straightish tail, maybe a terrier of some kind. It is wearing a thin white t-shirt like thing with a fist drawn it in green marker and the words "BITE The POWER".

It is looking away from the camera, which is a pity. I wanted to get its eyes in the shot, which were yellow and conveyed just the right blend of cuteness and menace.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 29

Doge (complimentary)

A brown shiba inu, sitting up and looking over their left shoulder, seemingly pretty chill

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 29

After the skateboard guy got tackled and arrested for being in the street, this group started crossing Sheridan Road back and forth on the green lights

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 29

Nice pun

A dozen or so protestors, one with a US flag. Another has a hand-printed sign reading "Trump is a faux-king joke!"

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 28

My guesstimate for the crowd at the Edgewater protest is about 600-800 people on both sides of Sheridan centered at the Berwyn intersection. Lots of sympathy honking.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 28

At Edgewater #NoKings a guy on a skateboard was in the street and trying to get everyone to join him. About five cop cars came for him and chased him and tackled him, blocking the street themselves

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 28

What now

On a street in Chicago, headed south. There is a layer of white cumulostratus clouds overhead - with blue sky clearly visible through a sharply defined roundish hole, as if made by a cyclonic wind pattern or maybe a spsce laser

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 20

It's up to you. It looks like this. Adult stuff, basically (in the "grownup"sense)

Screenshot of a Google search for "cum-cum transactions". The top 3 hits are

A page from some .uk solicitors: "cum-cum trading: What you need to know"

An article from the Stanford School of Business whose full title is "Germany’s CumEx and CumCum Financial Scandals Reveal How Democratic Institutions Fail"

An "information document" from the European Parliament: "The Cum-Ex Files"

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 16

QOTD: Post a white car in your camera roll! Several in here:

Screenshot: an array of 22 cars, trucks and vans labeled "Common ICE Vehicles Chicago 2025", with makes and models. (They are not in real world settings, just pictures of the vehicles arranged in a grid.) Of these, seven are white, including three SUVs: a Chevy Suburban, a Dodge Durango and a Nissan Pathfinder.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 13

Chicago: evidence of wind (Also, you may have seen the home in the background on TV before -- it starred as "Funeral Home" in Season 4 of Fargo)

A view across a tree-lined street, with a nicely painted three-story dormer building on the other side, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century.

A large bough has been ripped off a tree near the viewer and flung into the street. The attached part, possibly two feet across, lies on the grass on the near left. The main bough, approximately thirty feet long, extends right into the middle of the street and then curves upward about twelve feet. There are also other smaller debris pieces scattered in the street.

In the foreground, a street light has been damaged by the bough, which has knocked down an ornamental lamp that was attached by a horizontal bracket.

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Mar 5

They've invented this thing

A simple long wooden backscratcher (just like a stick with a curved end) hanging from a wall hook

Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos· Feb 27

Ok here we go