[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

tecpatl

Those Aztec weapons are awesome. We need more movies taking place in pre-Columbian times.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Agreed; and Lemmy communites require not only seeding, but tending by a dedicated poster. There are plenty of dead places where someone created the community, maybe made a post or two, then never posted again.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Narrator: That night, GrammarPolice dreamt of a world in which they had not commented in any communities...

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

A few important people providing updates on reality

The problem is if those people get burned out for carrying a sub-Lemmy by themselves.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Welcome to the community, fam!

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

ikr wtf I have some Midwest relatives who are farmers and they're amazing at budgeting money and time and very no-nonsense when it comes to talking business.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sometimes when you try to subscribe to a community, it'll just keep saying "request pending" but if you look in your list of subscribed communities you'll see it there. I think it's a known bug.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

As part of that, Republicans pass laws that "prohibits trainings that cause someone to feel guilty or ashamed about the past collective actions of their race".

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Cable management is for work. In my happy place, I just let my cables run wild.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

"Look, the only way to deal with crazy women is to lie big and leave fast." -Varrick, Legend of Korra

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This one was made by Clifton Meek who did some of these in the early years. Meek's lettering is a lot clearer than A.D. Condo's, though his ~~characters~~ people drawn are about the same quality and in this strip at least, he seems to have skipped the backgrounds.

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Printed 112 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image brightness/contrast modified and some artifacts cleaned up; see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Now that they don't need oxygen, they have a better chance of making it.

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Printed 107 years today in the Detroit Times. Image contrast/brightness modified, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 111 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. I modified the brightness/contrast, removed artifacts, and cleaned up the text a bit, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 111 years ago today in the Newark Evening Star. The image contrast/brightness was modified, some of the text was cleaned up, and some solid areas were filled in; see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 110 years ago today in The Detroit Times. Image contrast/brightness modified, and some of the text cleaned up a bit; see the original. On the same page, an interesting article speculating on how the war in Europe that had just started (WW1) might end up.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image contrast/brightness modified, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image brightness/contrast and sharpness slightly modified; see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 108 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. I removed some blotches and modified the brightness/contrast, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

Honorable mention for October 4th: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_juanita_ver01/data/sn87093407/00200290616/1913100401/0908.pdf

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Printed 106 years ago today in the Daily East Oregonian; I removed several blotches in the text area and modified the brightness/contrast, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Rolando@lemmy.world to c/truecomics@midwest.social

Printed 107 years ago today in the Tacoma Times. Slighlty ~~edited~~ cleaned up, specifically lightening the darkness of the image, and removing some smudges in the text, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 103 years ago today in The West Virginian. I modified the image contrast and brightness, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Rolando

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