constructive iconoclast

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Solid yet whimsical. Making the world better any way I can. Chemist, games enjoyer, and cat spoiler.

screenshot of Google News section with three different headlines using identical language to describe the Salgado murder in a framework of "witnesses dispute ICE account of fatal shooting."
Zohran Mamdani's smiling face alongside political quiz results showing what my leanings are along four spectra. I am 81% Woke, 56% Neo-Luddite, 55% Doomer, and 86% Davos, which gives Zohran as the closest match. Goals
Viscacha pictures meme, first panel a cute sleepy-rabbit-like animal in a "talk to the hand" pose, with the text simply "Drake." In the second picture, another Viscacha looking pleased, basking in the sun, next to the text "Viscachas."
Knicks logo font saying "everybody was kung-fu fighting"
Fake tombstone with the text "Pablo Hidalgo - this man could have been an email."
a screenshot of a Google News link saying "Iran on Lebanon ceasefire" next to a picture of a large column of grey smoke rising from residential buildings
a cover of Squirrel Girl #4 that has her being lifted up by Galactus' giant fingers, saying in a large speech bubble the single word "BUTTS"
DS9 with the episode title changed to read "Hi Bob" reference the episode of For All Mankind where the crew are stuck on station for six months with nothing to watch but Bob Newhart
Pokemon Go screencap of shiny Yanmega
Galadriel saying, "I have passed the test. I will diminish, and go into the West. And remain Galadriel."
Mariner telling Boimler (on Star Trek Lower Decks), "We'll get him a hot cup of Raktajino"
Peter Falk as the iconic Columbo
Global achievements screen for Hades on Steam showing 82% of players have beaten the first level, 47% of players have escaped from hell, and yet only 35% of players have petted Cerberus 10 or more times.
XKCD comic in which "Human Proximity to Cat" is graphed against intelligence (which goes down as one approaches a cat) and inanity of statements, which goes up. A stick figure at the bottom illustrates getting close to a cat, saying "You're a kitty!" when next to it.
the alliance of magicians holds a sign that says "we demand to be taken seriously" while dressed and posing in an extremely un-serious fashion
Calico cat standing on back of sofa, sticking out her tongue because sometimes she forgets to put it back in her mouth
from Flight of the Conchords, Jemaine Clement sings, "Am I a man? Yes, technically, yes."
1979 IBM training doc that says in all caps "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision"
Schumer and Trump photographed through a window, patting each other on the back
Screenshot of "My 2026 Word" paused at the word "Joyous"
Two cats sleeping on a brown paisley sofa. One is a calico and the other is a ticked tabby, and they are usually not this close.
Jake Paul, labeled as 2025, looking haggard, about to be KO'd by Anthony Joshua, labeled as 2026
Jeffrey Wright, playing a bishop in the film Wake Up Dead Man, says pastorally "Look, Wicks has his supporters here, but I'm not one of them. Between you and me, I think he's a few beads shy of a full rosary and a real son of a b*tch."
four-panel comic by Sarah Andersen. Two cats are cuddled next to each other, saying, "I love you." and "I love you too." Two panels elapse in silence, and then in the last panel one of the cats is suddenly moving to bat its paw at the other, saying, "Actually you know what" as it becomes violent out of nowhere.
A sunny oceanside view of a tree on a cliff, with four cormorants perching and hanging out.
a social media post by missjenbeck that reads: "Romantasy question: are the fae open source? I had only known them from SJM books, but didn't expect to see them in Quicksilver!"
Doug Jones as Abe Sapien in the movie Hellboy
a woman smiling faintly while listening to Vivaldi's Summer
a red Ferrari Formula 1 car has left a couple scratches in the barrier by going wide in a turn at the Singapore qualification this weekend. On the right of the screen, a handy infographic shows a list of drivers "Closest to the Wall" measured in centimeters. It has a new leader, Charles Leclerc, who scored a big "0 centimeters" - the driver who scuffed the wall
scene from the movie Spartacus, in which everyone claims to be him.
the cover of a book titled "Italian Without Words," a humor book interpreting common (stereotypically Italian) gestures
IBM booklet page from 1979 saying simply, "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
the Black Seas Barracuda set which was definitely out of budget for my younger self
A sea hare approximately 9 inches long, being held in two hands by a tidepooling person. It has inked in self defense, a nice purple on the person's left hand.
SNL skit with Bill Murray dressed as a sleazy lounge singer, playing the Star Wars main theme in a lazy fashion with the made-up lyrics: "Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars, give me those Star Wars, don't let them end!"
Beast, removing his glasses and smiling crookedly
screencap of a Steam Library with BG3, Helldivers 2, and 19 others, mostly a combination of turn-based tactics and 3rd-person shooters
Wikipedia screenshot of the following text: "Present State of the Bridges. Two of the seven original bridges did not survive the bombing of Konigsberg in World War II. Two others were later demolished and replaced by a highway... These changes leave five bridges existing at the same sites that were involved in Euler's problem. In terms of graph theory, two of the nodes now have degree 2, and the other two have degree 3. Therefore, an Eulerian path is now possible, but it must begin on one island and end on the other."
Two large white inflatable rabbits atop the roof of the building that used to house the Bunny Museum in Altadena before the Eaton Fire.
a picture of silhouetted city skylines, labeled, for fifty major US cities. It has circulated online as a way for people to check off which places they have visited and which they have yet to visit.
a sleeping calico kitty
napping calico cat on a long window-seat with blue cushions
David Corenswet with a Tobey Maguire-like smile on the Superman 2025 movie poster.
Public Warning poster from World War 1 showing silhouettes of German and British planes for identification
Red and black print of a burning cybertruck with the text "You don't reform a dystopia."
Green and black print depicting tents and the text "Being poor is not a crime. Stop the sweeps!"
Lucy and her brother Linus are watching television in the first panel of a four-panel comic. She asks him to make her an ice cream cone. In the second panel, Lucy coughs while he is walking away. The third panel just has Linus scooping ice cream. In the fourth panel, he is returning to her with an ice cream cone, saying "I know you have a cold so I put a menthol cough drop on top."
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo with the words replaced by the phrase "Fingers Crossed for New Apartment" (which has the same scansion).
The crew of the NX-01 Enterprise, who weren't really all that bad but are definitely a wrong answer. Especially Trip.
the old Milton Bradley game "Sub Search", showing the view for one player which had depth levels hidden from the opposing player.
a model of the beautifully sleek De Haviland "Mosquito" in its night fighter color scheme (black with dark wing rondels). It is a twin-engine two-seater fighter aircraft that was arguably the fastest propeller-driven fighter plane of World War II. It had an incredibly versatile design, with versions flown as a bomber, reconnaissance plane, and famously as a long-range dam-busting bomber with bouncing or skipping bombs.
A starry background with the text "Reminder: April is Procrastination Awareness Month"
three-panel meme in which a dictator says, "Make bad game? fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired."
The Marx Brothers, Groucho, Harpo, and Chico
A little LEGO excavator similar to the big one that took away the burned remains of the poster's home. A positive note is that one LEGO figure is holding blueprints possibly of future construction.
A picture of 25 pieces of various pies, labeled by letter. N is Sweet Potato, B is Key Lime, and G is French Silk.