[Found here.]
What a nice fence.
[Found here.]
Category: Bizarre
Shozy’s Murals
Born in Moscow in 1989, Danila Shmelev, better known as Shozy, began painting graffiti in the early 2000s. He studied graphic design at the Moscow Art and Industrial Institute and trained in classical drawing and painting before moving from three-dimensional letterforms to large-scale anamorphic murals.
The “openings” match the color of the sky – he uses reflective paint.
Click for larger images.
[Found here; more photos with descriptions of Shozy’s work here.]
Raccoon Sitter?
“A Texas man stepped outside at dawn and found his recently rescued raccoon beside one of his kangaroos—with her newborn baby. The raccoon had given birth just days earlier and seemed overwhelmed, repeatedly trying to place her baby near the kangaroo’s pouch as if she wanted another mother to take over. The owner quickly recorded the strange scene before safely retrieving the baby. Both animals were fine, but the kangaroo looked completely confused by the unexpected responsibility. The owner joked, ‘I guess motherhood was stressing her out, and she picked the first mom she trusted.’”
There’s no confirmation of the story in any new outlet to date despite the photo and story going viral on social media. No specific location or name of the “Texas man” was found by Grok. On the other hand, the photos were confirmed genuine by HIVE, a reliable (but not infallible) AI detection tool.
BTW, that’s not a “newborn” and I have trouble believing that a raccoon would trust another species to babysit for her little one. The “wtf” gesture of the kangaroo is also suspect. If anyone has a link to an MSM story, let me know. Meanwhile I’m calling it fake.
Mary Had A Little Zydrach
Fabric panel of a Zydrach Tergiant embroidered by Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots circa 1570, based on Nomenclator Aquatilium Animantium.
Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) embroidered these panels with Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick) and ladies of the household, during her imprisonment. Mary may have intended the large central panel as a cushion for Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel (1557-1595), an English Catholic courtier imprisoned in London by Elizabeth I.
Nephelognostic Hot Links
Danny’s All-Star Joint, Rickie Lee Jones (1979) Rickie Lee Jones, aka The Duchess of Coolsville, “released her self-titled debut album in 1979 to critical and commercial success. It peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and spawned the hit single Chuck E.’s in Love, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went platinum later that year, and earned Jones four Grammy Award nominations in 1980. […] The album included guest appearances by Dr. John, Randy Newman, and Michael McDonald.” [Wiki]
Note: Malwarebytes detected riskware at her official website.
Glowfish [via Memo Of The Air].
Demolisity [via Everlasting Blört].
Johanna Van Parijs’ wood mosaics.
1956 Pontiac Star Chief Ambulance.
Hotel Dramatica [via Thompson, blog].
Gabriel’s 300th post on Vankleek Hill Photos.
WMCA-AM (New York) broadcast February 1965.
[Top image: Paranoia panda balloon found here.
“Johnny Panda” was photographed during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in the UK, 08 August 2026.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 968 – PB Face, Talking to the Weather & Come In Now Get Out,
Nothing Much Happened Today.
ArabiaWeather.com – The Libyan capital, Tripoli, was subjected during the past 24 hours to waves of heavy rain that fell as a result of the country being exposed to a low-pressure system accompanied by a humid air mass that caused the rain to fall. – ArabiaWeather.com 30 November 2013.
[Found here.]
Space Bimbos VI
[Found around the interverse. More Space Bimbos here.]
African Snow
Kitty Viljoen captured elephants enjoying the snow in the Sneeuberg – which translates to Snow Mountain – on the Western Cape of South Africa, where snow set in late last week. She also photographed giraffes in snow in the Karoo semi-desert region. […] Snowfalls are not infrequent across parts of South Africa during the winter, though this cold snap comes late in the season. In July, parts of the country were blanketed after several days of heavy snowfall.
The Guardian, 10 September 2018
[Found here.]
Slum Flat, Oldham 1962
“Mr Sutton Pownall, a gravedigger, lives at Number Two Court, Dickenson Street, Oldham, with his wife Joyce and their five children in a 150 year old house. The family share one bedroom, one kitchen and one living room. They share a key for communal toilets, near to where the dustbins are stacked. His children are Susan, 6, Steve, 5, Sandra, 4, Mark, 3 and Baby Gary, aged 8 months. 1st June 1962.”
The contraption in the brick nook is a coin operated gas meter similar to the one below. Drop in some change and you can heat the flat and cook for a few hours until the timer ran out and you had to feed it again.
“The meter controlled the gas supply to the dwelling’s appliances. In a typical UK flat of the era that had gas, this commonly included both cooking and some form of space heating (plus often hot water), all paid for by feeding coins into the same or similar meters. These systems largely gave way to credit meters, then modern prepayment/smart meters as North Sea gas, central heating, and different payment methods spread.” [via GROK].
Top (colorized) image found here via Google search of this image; caption from here. The original photo and more can be found in a photo essay titled Smog, Slums and Stars in the Making – 25 Pictures of a Lost Era in Oldham, Manchester Evening News, 04 March 2022.
Tacky Raccoons 