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[โ€“] Linearity@piefed.zip 41 points 2 weeks ago

Nice crop dawg ๐Ÿ’”

[โ€“] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 34 points 2 weeks ago

It's completely off screen :(

[โ€“] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago
[โ€“] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The painting is quite interesting.

The proverb about the loaf is: "To be barely able to reach from one loaf to another"

And means: "To have difficulty living within budget"

[โ€“] railway692@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

The real 1%

[โ€“] Zwiebel@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

A loaf of pancake, yes.

[โ€“] bless@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Irish Famine had better crops than this

True, which is why the English had to deliberately make it worse, including rejecting food aid shipments from other countries.

So many orbs for ponderin'! And is that guy cosplaying Jesus..? This was a fun party.

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Old school version of passing out at Waffle House, 3AM.

[โ€“] medgremlin@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

It was so zoomed in and cropped that I thought this was one of those weird corner scenes in a Bosch tryptic.