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Merce

@Merce_the_cat
 California (former SFSPCA)
Joined December 2012
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Not enough people showed up to fill the stands for scenes shot in Buffalo’s War Memorial “Rockpile” Stadium, so they printed up these cardboard extras. #HobbsHobbs
Image from Merce (@Merce_the_cat)
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Alt text: cardboard cutout of two men in white shirts, ties, one wearing a hat
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Pigeon outside door looking in.

ALT Pigeon outside door looking in.

Pigeon from inside looking out

ALT Pigeon from inside looking out

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Rabbit cupcake selfie

ALT Rabbit cupcake selfie

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The thought floated…w/o sail or ballast to it, as a simple proposition; millions of which…are every day swimming quietly in the thin juice of a man’s understanding, w/o being carried backwards or forward, till some little gusts of passion or interest drive them to 1 side—Sterne
Bullet Passing Through Three Balloons, Harold Edgerton, American 1959 (printed later) © MIT, Harold Edgerton, 2014, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.

ALT Bullet Passing Through Three Balloons, Harold Edgerton, American 1959 (printed later) © MIT, Harold Edgerton, 2014, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.

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A corn wall:
Image from Traces (@KafkaJoint)
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Cat and wreath

ALT Cat and wreath

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The "Fighting Temeraire" Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken up, 1839 #turner #englishart wikiart.org/en/william-turne…
Image from J. M. W. Turner (@artistturner)
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“This space for writing messages”
Blank Postcard back: “This space for writing messagesl

ALT Blank Postcard back: “This space for writing messagesl

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Sunrise with Sea Monsters, 1845 #jmwturner #williamturner wikiart.org/en/william-turne…
Image from J. M. W. Turner (@artistturner)
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Gravestone. “Here lies the pullsbury dough boy. He will rise again”

ALT Gravestone. “Here lies the pullsbury dough boy. He will rise again”

Pillsbury dough boy risen in window

ALT Pillsbury dough boy risen in window

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Frankenstein monster speaker and box photo. “Ghoulish fun … Anywhere!” it says

ALT Frankenstein monster speaker and box photo. “Ghoulish fun … Anywhere!” it says

“Let me hear nothing of the moon, in my night there is no moon, and if it happens that I speak of the stars it is by mistake.” —Beckett, "Molloy"
First photo of mommy John Draper 1840 daguerreotype taken from NYU rooftop

ALT First photo of mommy John Draper 1840 daguerreotype taken from NYU rooftop

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Caution slippery when wet sign with image of person falling

ALT Caution slippery when wet sign with image of person falling

Googly eye on I made closup

ALT Googly eye on I made closup

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Retired Heads of State stand neck & neck with other famous and infamous figures at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum storage, October 1979.
Image from Movie Icons (@Movie_Icons)
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Due to a spell-check error, Jar Jar Binks is now Jar Binks
Cat with paw on computer

ALT Cat with paw on computer

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“I'll be your mirror Reflect what you are, in case you don't know I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset The light on your door to show that you're home”
Photo of shattered mirror and almost empty pizza box on strip of weeds outside a house.

ALT Photo of shattered mirror and almost empty pizza box on strip of weeds outside a house.

“If the Americans do not put more vigor into their conduct one will have reason to believe that they have but a feeble attachment to that independence for which they showed so much enthusiasm at the beginning of the revolution”—Comte de Vergennes to Lafayette, 1780 (📸:A Tucker)
Firework in blue sky

ALT Firework in blue sky

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Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — buff.ly/2TA2TgT #Fireworks appeared in Japan sometime around 1600 and were called hanabi — a combination of the kanji “fire” and “flower”.
Image from The Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev)
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“The instant the most genuine laws…conflict in any way whatsoever with these immutable laws written in our heart, there is no question of seeking a balance, because it is absolutely necessary…to disobey the former in order not to do damage to the latter.” —Jean Barbeyrac, 1715
Overturned garbage can

ALT Overturned garbage can

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Reverse Victrola
Cat in cone with bug brand delay and noiseswash

ALT Cat in cone with bug brand delay and noiseswash

“His master’s voice” ad w/dog and victrola

ALT “His master’s voice” ad w/dog and victrola

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