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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and both of them are judging you

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

He looks intense as fuck. The cat looks like they'd open the door high on catnip and invite you in for a glass of milk when you were just there to drop off the mail.

[–] Skymt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And I judge them back. You should not look like sour milk when getting a portrait!

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

He was just bummed they wouldn't give his cat a noble laureate for helping him realized language is also an expectation of received meaning and not just intended meaning.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually his happy face.

[–] Skymt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To honour his work, in Mérida, Yukatán, Mexico, a memorial has been erected modelled based on that photograph.

memorial

Wikimedia

[–] Daviedavo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What?!? Mexico has carbonite freezing technology? When did this happen?

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 7 points 1 year ago

Obviously George Lucas has licensed his patent to the Mexican government.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago

Aw, will to live empowered for another day after seeing the cat statue part.

[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And he was always fighting publishers to have her listed as co-author.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

They both look like smart guys.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Clearly they have both learned things mankind was never meant to know.