Actual Bear

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Actual Bear@actualbear· 25d

Puzzle challenge: Find Ron Perlman

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jul 12

I'll always remember Lindsey this way:

A still image of the character Little Gideon from the Disney+ animated series Gravity Falls. Gideon is a chubby child with a huge white pompadour. He wears a sky-blue suit with an American flag pin in the jacket lapel.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jul 11

n.pr/4f8IxAT From the article: "'[Congress] mimics a lot of the aspects of a senior living facility, so it is hard to walk away from,' Jentleson says."

Jentleson says lawmakers can be reluctant to give up life in Congress. Lawmakers have staff to drive them around, plan their travel and bring their meals, as well as an attending physician down the hall and intellectual stimulation on interesting topics.

"It mimics a lot of the aspects of a senior living facility, so it is hard to walk away from," Jentleson says.

This term, five members of Congress died in office. In an extreme example, the office of then-Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, did not disclose her move to an actual senior living facility. Her son told the Dallas Morning News in 2024 shortly before she retired that she had been experiencing "dementia issues."

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jul 4

Screen capture from Monty Python's Flying Circus showing a British courtroom scene with robed and wigged justices and barristers, a police officer, and a jury. On the witness stand is a man completely swathed in bandages, wearing a fur hat.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jul 2

This is what you said about the jobs report two years ago to the day. 206,000 jobs added was a "sign of concern." Why do you carry water for Trump, and why did you minimize Biden's accomplishments? I want to know.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jun 30

Montegna's "Dead Christ", an example of extreme foreshortening

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jun 23

Still frame from Warner Brothers animated short “long Haired Hare.” Bugs Bunny adjusts the bow tie of a corpulent, blond opera singer.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jun 19

From the review, a horrifying detail. I seem to remember reading that Hitler liked to watch films of the July 1944 bomb plot conspirators being garotted or beheaded as post-dinner entertainment.

He also declares his scandalous public dressing-down of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in February 2025, “great television” and “better than ‘The Apprentice.’” And his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, keeps Trump supplied with gruesome video footage of the bloody effects of drone strikes on human targets, described by one official as “Hegseth’s snuff films.”

Actual Bear@actualbear· Jun 15

We took one of these overnight from Vienna to Florence back in March, it had a private loo and shower, just incredible. Meanwhile, back in the USA...

Actual Bear@actualbear· May 28

Screen cap of google AI stating that there is one "L" in the word "bear"

Actual Bear@actualbear· May 23

Actual Bear@actualbear· May 22

Karen Allen flashing a devastating smile

Actual Bear@actualbear· May 20

Four (I assume) human actors in character costumes holding instruments

Actual Bear@actualbear· May 7

Picasso want cookie

A Picasso still life with two apples on a plate, sitting atop a pitcher, that happens to look a lot like Cookie Monster

Actual Bear@actualbear· May 5

Of course you got the reference wrong, this is inspired by virtuosic 18th and 19th-century Italian sculpture and not directly by classical Hellenistic sculpture. The accompanying photo is The Vestal Virgin Tuccia by Corradini (1743), a sensation that spawned many imitations.

A photograph of a head-to-toe freestanding marble sculpture of a woman in classical Roman garb, wearing a veil over her head. The folds of the veil draped over her face are carved with astonishing fidelity and skill.

Actual Bear@actualbear· May 4

"This landscape":

Terminator stalking through a burned future hellscape

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 29

Roy Schneider, in Jaws, with a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, shovels chum into the water while the great white shark emerges from the water just behind him

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 27

Figure 1:

Publicity photo of the drop-dead gorgeous Veronica Lake, in a long-sleeved gown and peekaboo hairstyle. If you're in a film noir and she appears, run the other way.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 24

Sorry, it is fake, as other posters have pointed out. The real Trump is bad enough and does not need to be photoshopped. Please remove it. The real photo is below. He was just glancing down at the papers in front of him.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 23

Whenever I read this poem, written in the 1930s, its prescience and bone dry clarity chills me to the bone. If you're not familiar with it, do read it, it's quite short. allpoetry.com/What-The-Ant...

men talk of money and industry
of hard times and recoveries
of finance and economics
but the ants wait and the scorpions wait
for while men talk they are making deserts all the time
getting the world ready for the conquering ant
drought and erosion and desert
because men cannot learn

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 21

My darling girl turned 17 today. She’s battling 2 cancers and should not be alive at this point but she carries on. I love her so much.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 14

The artist Albrecht Dürer, a citizen of Nuremberg, had an apocalypic dream in 1525 about "great waters" falling from the sky. He described the dream and painted it. The original is now at the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 11

Nancy begs to differ

Nancy daily comic strip from April 11, 1954

Actual Bear@actualbear· Apr 10

Oh I long for the days when two emperors could meet for negotiations on a swanky raft anchored in the middle of a river

Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia meet on an elegantly appointed raft in the middle of the River Niemen to draft the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807.

Actual Bear@actualbear· Mar 3

"Excuse me, but 'proactive' and 'paradigm' - aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm...accusing you of anything like that. I'm fired, aren't I?"

Still frame from the Simpsons showing a writer for The Itchy and Scratchy show gesturing to Krusty off-camera while another writer looks aghast

Actual Bear@actualbear· Feb 23

Bun E Carlos

Actual Bear@actualbear· Feb 10

From this morning's r/boston subreddit:

A photograph of a sign taped to a parking garage pay station. "If you entered the garage between 7AM and 815AM, your ticket says you came in during the year 1980. You must drive down to the right lane booth to pay, or you will overpay."

Actual Bear@actualbear· Feb 6