I‘ve gotten into the habit, while watching the news, of playing around with image filtering software on the internets. And I take a special pleasure in running pictures of Illegitimate-President-Elect Donald Trump through the weirder filters I have found or come up with myself.
I use these to illustrate posts sometimes. But there are a lot more of them sitting around on my hard drive. So I thought I’d post some of the creepiest ones today, as a kind of coda to this exquisitely weird week.
Let me know if you want more. And/or make your own at Dreamscope.
Oh, and if you have trypophobia, you should probably skip the rest of the pics.
Please set up a new blog for this stuff. It’s not what we’re here for.
No filter can disguise the ugliness in this man’s soul.
Very true, @Policy of Madness
And what better person to radiate that ugliness than Mark Hamil as the Joker doing a dramatic reading of a Trump tweet? In this thrilling follow-up to his New Year’s tweet, Trump takes on Meryl Streep:
http://nerdist.com/mark-hamill-reprises-his-role-as-the-joker-to-read-a-donald-trump-tweet/
Always love it when someone tells someone else what to do with their personal blog.
We’re here for the ride.
I hadn’t heard the Mark Hamill dramatic readings. Even better than I expected!
Rach, I may set up a separate blog. But in the meantime, it’s not hard to just ignore posts like these, or posts where I put up music videos or cat pics or whatever.
I like cat pics.
Here’s a little giggle at Der Drumf’s expense:
Life Accordion To Trump
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever been ninja’d by an entire thread before. *facepalm*
Rach, I see you are being forced to click on articles you don’t like.
Do you need help? Saving?
Blink your eyes rapidly if “yes”.
I like it!
The illegitimate Donald Trump
His Illegitimacy, Donald Trump
Yep, it works!
@PoM
So, does that cat want my lunch money, or…?
The visual texture of the headline image sets off a pretty bad fear in me: that one day Donald Trump might be featured on US currency. Hopefully, should that day ever come, it’ll be a negative twelve dollar bill.
My ex’s dad had a fake $3 bill with a picture of Bill Clinton on it. Because he’s a phony or something? I don’t even know.
@WWTH:
Even back in the days when I thought Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck were credible, I wouldn’t get the joke.
That second one reminds me of Melvin Belli as the “Friendly Angel” on the episode of Star Trek TOS, the one with the creepy children who were being mind controlled by an “angel” and tried to take over the ship.
Crap–life is imitating art again, and not in a good way.
“Frustrated,” “worried,” “flabbergasted”: Thanks, Trump&Comey!
Former Agent Who Wrote Trump-Russia Memos Frustrated by Lack of FBI Action
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/14/former_agent_who_wrote_trump_russia_memos_frustrated_by_lack_of_fbi_action.html
I think the second (third?) one makes him look kinda like a cat.
Sorry, cats.
Oh Rach, these aren’t my favourite posts either, but this is a blog and no one makes you read it.
But also, maybe just say it a different way “Thanks David for all the work you do, I’m certainly inspired by your mocking of MRA stuff – I hope we get to see more of that soon.”
I think the activism posts are important and appropriate. I think the David playing with filters posts don’t do much for me, but it’s David’s blog and it doesn’t hurt anyone and why shouldn’t he post it? – that’s part of what makes a blog a blog, the quirky approach to curation.
You’re certainly free to go set up your own blog.
@Axe
She wants to be petted, and is ready to make you an offer you can’t refuse.
Try this again:
Billy Bragg’s FB page alerted me to this gem:
Scottish paper describes Trump inauguration as return of “The Twilight Zone”
‘Scottish paper’ actually means a TV guide listing of the inauguration BTW. 🙂
Is The Donald serious with this shit??
I’m on my phone or I would link it, but that’s a tweet from His Illegitimacy.
Reminds me of the portrait of Dorian Gray featured in the 1945 movie: https://www.wikiart.org/en/tag/oscar-wilde-the-picture-of-dorian-gray
@kupo
That’s… okay, that’s kinda chilling, actually. I’m pretty sure I know exactly what he means by “divided” and I can see a few of the answers he’d have to that.
PoM – I’m prepared to give that kitty whatever she wants if she’ll *let* me pet her! (I have tuna…)
From the article that Kat linked:
That sentence is both comforting and terrifying at the same time.
@John
Holy shit, I didn’t think of it that way.
@Hambeast
Unfortunately she has feline urinary tract disease, and can only eat her prescription food. She’s kind of a hand slut though, and is super pushy about it sometimes, so no trades are necessary. She’s also incredibly soft and plush like a microfiber stuffed toy, so pet away! Please, god, someone pet her for me and get her to stop bugging me. 😀