Andrew "TmsT" Kepple

Is there any higher honour than being called a Sicko by Stan Kelly? If there is I don't wanna know about it.

And then there's the NZ version of Marmite, also called Marmite and whom the Brits think of as a deceptive usurper, a pretender to the throne, when really NZ Marmite has no further aspirations than idly flavourmaxxing, barely aware of its inadvertently mogged British forebears

Americans & Canadians be like Vegemite's terrible, an Aussie tricked me into eating a spoonful of it! No sh*t, that's the wrong way to eat it isn't it! Now if you spread some on a nice hot slice of buttered toast you'll find that that is also terrible. Optimal conditions are vital for valid results.

Eek! was ahead of its time. The world just wasn't ready.

I've always seen half of Australia as a dog's head but only today did I realise WHICH dog and what the other half resembled. You might say it was a "Woah" moment

#australiaisanelaboratehoax #tintin

I found a mug in a 2nd hand shop with this one on it. But the birthmark, which had been printed just with red ink, had completely faded off. It was surreal like Garfield Minus Garfield. Far Side Minus Visual Gag.

The Monday Period: Pages 1-4
#garfield #imsorryjon

Leftover rhymes include "fork (two-tined)" and "dork, d'you mind?", if anyone requires them. ---- Description: A Far Side cartoon depicting 4 people in surgical scrubs surrounding a patient from whom one surgeon is removing what appears to be a live porcupine. The caption reads "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains." Above the comic, two rhyming lines have been added, with another rhyming line added below, so that all the text adds up to the following limerick: In acute pain was Benjamin Horkubind. A treatment, he went to New York to find. "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains," Said the surgeon, as Ben was de-porcupined.

Yesterday my crack team of undergraduate limerickologists and I discovered the remains of a lost limerick within a Far Side cartoon, so we've reconstructed the full poem. Peer review is hereby invited, as we plan to formally publish our findings on a prestigious bathroom stall door later this year.

In spec evo, there's a concept known as the "seed planet", a thought experiment where a planet capable of hosting life (usually from earth biology) is "seeded" with a few select organisms (and other starting conditions), and potential evolutionary-timescale outcomes of this are then speculated upon. For instance, what if there was a planet that was basically Earth as we know it except there's no vertebrates, and then someone adds a bunch of ducks? What niches would the ducks diversify into? Would any of them evolve into cool megafauna? Avian moles? Duckwhales? Interesting. But not what I'm doing here today. Many of you will say that I was so preoccupied with the starting assumption that McDonaldland characters are species rather than individuals that I didn't stop to think if I should, and I agree. Anyway this is my seed world - "McDonaldland" - about 50 million years after a terraformed earthlike world was seeded with classic McDonaldland characters for an advertising stunt, part of a promotional tie-in with a movie about alien planets or something (records from this era are spotty at best). This stunt directly led to increased sales of McDonald's products for many Earth-years, but once the promotion was over the planet was filed away and forgotten about for around 50 million years. We've got a towering therizinobirdie having a snack, a bunch of western lowland gorilmaces hanging out on a nice warm rock, and some apex predator descendents of fry kids fighting over a burgersnake, which we can tell is unhappy to be considered a meal. A trio of hamburlugos glide among the treetops, eyeing up the other burgersnakes as they slither away. Sadly, none of the lineages descending from clowns made it this far. McScientists documenting this ecosystem after its rediscovery by McDonald's archivists are intrigued to note the example of convergent evolution on display with the "sentient hamburger" seed-species evolving into snakes. Anacondas and buns, together at last.

Hello again spec evo enthusiasts! Here's a "seed world" scenario where a planet is terraformed for McDonaldland characters to inhabit for a promotional stunt, after which McDonald's abandons the planet for 50 million years.

#specevo #seedworld #seedplanet #mcdonalds #grimace #hamburglar #aliens

Poster to fight against ai. Visualized is a cave painting inspired horse, with text that reads "art has always been accessible"

I hear a lot of people saying that ai makes art accessible.. well I personally think that's bullshit- so I made this to drive my point home.
#regalsart #illustration #fuckai #digitalart

What app are you using that changes "Persian silk monopolies" into "Person silk monopolies"?

I was using this one as my main reference, but if it's not the norm then I'll take your observation into account for next time. Thanks!

Title: "Unprepared for a Regrettable Luncheon! (With apologies to Kelly)" In the visual style of famed The Onion cartoonist Stan Kelly, Superintendent Chalmers is having lunch with Principal Skinner, who is menacingly placing a tray of hamburgers and fries upon the table, which greatly upsets Chalmers. Beneath one of the hamburgers is a wrapper bearing the text "Obviously grilled fast food". Chalmers [labelled as "Disappointed guests"]: "B-but... I thought we were having steamed CLAMS!!" Skinner [labelled as "Isometric exercising* odd fellows" - the asterisk refers to a footnote reading "Latest fad"]: "Oh, no, I made STEAMED HAMS™®! ©1996 Skinner family All rights reserved" From within the clouds of smoke billowing from Skinner's kitchen (wherein an American flag can be seen burning) three heavenly beings gaze upon the scene disapprovingly: A pig labelled "Actual hams", Krusty the clown, labelled "Hard-working patent-holders", and a teenaged fry-cook labelled "Ignored sandwich artists". Lady Liberty peeks in the door and sheds a sad tear at this woeful scene. Kelly's obligatory artist cameo has him disgruntledly commenting "Seymour-a bore-e-malice."

Steamed Hams but it's a Kelly comic

(Yup that's right I still make "Steamed Hams but..." memes)
#simpsons #kelly #steamedhams

These cows give soy milk

What's some cursed knowledge that makes YOU feel old?
#wellwellwell #hl3confirmed

And here I was thinking that being advised to use Adobe Express as a substitute for Animate was the height of insulting. Surely we're worthy of better quality gaslighting than this.

Update: Adobe have swerved into damage contr-- I mean "maintenance" mode

But seriously, I predict that the best damn animation studios in town will be filled with rambunctious yahoos and hot jazz music at 1am, if you catch my drift

I meant to say this won't interrupt MY continued use. I still have non-professional Flash projects in the pipeline that are still chugging along and will continue to do so without the support of studios that use Animate

Rest assured this won't interrupt continued use of the tool formerly known as Flash. Many of us started out using it illegitimately long before Adobe showed up to enshittify it and we'll keep using it illegitimately after Adobe has dumped it.

"1-click animation effects" lmao rip animation industry

#specevo

More aliens! Lore here: www.deviantart.com/smorgasbored...

#specevo #speculativebiology #specbio #xenobiology #alien #alienplanet

Panel 1: Ned Flanders looks on in horror at a toilet filled with red liquid and a red poop emoji that is bleeding from its eyes and mouth. His house, surrounded by police tape, is in the background. NED: "Oh, my lord! Something horrible has happened!" Panel 2: Homer laughs at Ned, except Homer's head is replaced by a bag of beets. HOMER: "Fooled you! Made you think you were dying!" Panel 3: HOMER: "Did you get it? You're not dying, though. But you thought you were." Panel 4: NED: "Yeah. That's a good one, Beets."

Now that's what I call "Red Die Number 2"!
Based on a true story.
#simpsons

Deliberately left out for the authenticity of game cover art that seems like the artist didn't properly refer to the source material

a man in a wheelchair is riding a bike through a forest . ALT: a man in a wheelchair is riding a bike through a forest .

"Mac & Melania"?

Such a disappointment

#coproliteposting #melania

Object Permanence-Free intellectual DESTROYS crowd of Permanencels with nothing more than his bare hands!

There's an even more egregious one in Eternal. You'll know it when you see it. Not for it being notably interesting or anything. It doesn't add much, it's just... kind of... "there". I wish it wasn't.
Still a fun game though. And I don't remember there being anything as bad as that in TDA!

By the end of the novel there were 4 Musketeers. Maybe Mars was planning to introduce a fourth flavour, and we'll never know what that was. That's even sadder.

Facebook text box that reads 'Description' at the top and contains the text 'I press the "ANIMATE" button on the computer and it makes the pictures move'

11 years ago I put this as my job description as a silly little absurd joke that no sensible person would take seriously but now there are people out there doing this very thing and calling themselves animators instead of silly little absurd jokes that no sensible person would take seriously #fuckai