Chris Lay

@chrislay.bsky.social

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Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order. Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite. Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook. Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online. Some ville, Mass

Cropped screenshot of the Weather Underground app showing 100 degrees fahrenheit in Somerville, Massachusetts
Screenshot from the currently viral political compass quiz showing 88% woke/12% chud, 56% techbro/44% neo-luddite, 53% hopepilled/47% doomer, 86% Davos/14% Dubai, closest match Zohran Mamdani
Lori Petty removes her filter mask in Tank Girl (1995)
A vandal's poster urging us to EXPROPRIATE THE BILLIONAIRES defaced my a second vandal's anarchy symbol in black marker
A Tokyo Metro sign showing three obnoxious monkeys annoying other animal passengers. There's a lot of Japanese text. The only line in English reads: Please care about people around you.
Promotional picture of Shoreh Aghdashloo for the tragically now-cancelled Amazon adaptation of Wheel of Time
The Aurora in magenta and teal above an urban driveway
Gif. Space ghost blasts Zorak, blowing up his keyboards and charring the alien mantis.
MARVIN the paranoid android from the BBC adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Bouncing Souls
Doctor Aphra, amoral archaeologist with no medical expertise. Works with Darth Vader more than seems wise
Vampire Doc Holliday from Wynona Earp screaming and throwing himself at jail cell bars
Pic of Bishop remotely piloting the Sulaco's remaining shuttle to the surface of LV-426 in Aliens.
Gmaps screen cap showing the Beachmont blue line stop and Revere Beach
The cover of Rage Against the Machine's self-titled first LP, reproducing the famous photograph of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burning himself to death in Saigon in June 1963 to protest the US-backed Republic of Vietnam's suppression of Buddhism and Buddhists.
A gif of Lizzie from Rampage
A cover of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac showing a doughboy on the left and Nny on the right, both grinning and rendered in a phantasmagoric color palette.
A flow chart doodled in red ink and titled Who should I vote for. First question: Is shit broken?
The cover picture from The Residents' 1995 CD-ROM interactive fiction game Bad Day on the Midway.
Screen cap of a satellite view of the Medford Supercollider intersection on Google Maps. It's a 3-sigma or so bad Massachusetts intersection.
A cropped screenshot of The Epoxies' Bandcamp page for their album Stop The Future. The cover art depicts the band tumbling down an infinite, gridded, triangular shaft.
The cover of the Ballantine edition of The Fellowship of the Ring, which was boxed with The Hobbit and the latter books of The Lord of the Rings. This cover is sky blue and features a painting of the Fellowship at the gates of Moria.
A view from below of a cherry tree's branch in full bloom, backed by a cloudless blue sky
Screenshot of the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year gif showing the word 'derelicht'
The Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy, dry and scaffolded for repairs
A grafito of a blue, bearded man wearing a necktie, boxy hat, and safety goggles looking askance at the viewer
A flow chart titled 'Who should I vote for' 1st question: Is shit broken? (Yes or No) No-> 2nd-tier question: Are women people? (Yes or No) No-> Answer: Kasich Yes-> Answer: Clinton Yes-> 2nd-tier question: Who did it? (Rich people or {Mexicans, muslims, #BLM}) Rich people-> Answer: Sanders {Mexicans, muslims, #BLM}-> 3rd-tier question: When is Jesus coming back? (Dunno or Next week) Dunno-> Answer: Trump Next week-> Answer: Cruz
The astronaut meme. The astronaut gazing at earth from orbit says 'Wait, law is an instrument of power, not justice?'; the astronaut pointing a gun at that astronaut says 'Always has been'.
Cover of a YA book about a vegetable-preying vampire rabbit
A magenta aurora seen from an abandoned gas station's parking lot
The cover of the Library of America's collected edition of Ursula LeGuin's Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One
A skeleton in sunglasses and a tropical shirt clutches a warhead
Moon
The cover of Blackalicious' album Blazing Arrow, released in April 2002
A cybertruck parked in my employer's lot
She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985)
A variation on the Seven Psychopaths noncompliant Walken meme: Nihilist with gun: Stop pursuing meaning. Absurdist Walken: No. NwG: But there is none. AW: I don't care. NwG: That doesn't make any sense. AW: Too bad.
A photo of Mt St Helens with the cloud level grazing the caldera
A cover from Channel Zero issue 1
Animal from the Muppets
The cast of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, clockwise from top left: Brak, Moltar, Tad Ghostal, Zorak.
A still from the video for Nine Inch Nails' song Closer showing Trent, Reznor wearing steampunk goggles, wrong his hands.
Poster for the 1967 film The President's Analyst
A picture of skaters on Spy Pond as the sun sinks behind the trees on the far side of the pond.
A photo of steam rising from Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park
Screenshot from Zaxxon for Commodore 64
Cover art from Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album Nebraska
Picture of a very-dark-blue finisher's mug from the Cascade Crest 100-mile Endurance Run
A social housing complex built in 'Red' Vienna's interwar build out