[Christopher M. Federico]

@chrispps.bsky.social

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midwest academic, political science + psychology / inveterate fan of The Fall / cat enthusiast / boring social democrat / photographer

tuxedo cat in a window, with plants
road sign on motorway from Newcastle to Tynemouth and the sea
Wellbeing and Democratic Health, the title of Joanne Miller’s ISPP presidential address.
road sign outside Newcastle (The NORTH, The SOUTH)
Sam Neill in Event Horizon, in the ship crawlspace
desaturated high contrast image of statue of St Albert the Great in front the Church of St Albert the Great, Minneapolis, MN.
the front of the Church of St Albert the Great, Minneapolis, MN.
front of American Rug Laundry building on lake street in minneapolis
Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto; looking out over the city and mountains in the distance
photo of the back of American Rug Laundry building on lake street, mpls; shot with lomochrome metropolis 400, which gives a grainy, desaturated look
my cats Ginger (orange) and Nina (grey) sitting in boxes on a wood floor in front of their cat tree
cover of Slawomir Mrozek’s The Elephant in yellow and blue and red
desaturated image of corners on the ceiling in my home office
‘mental toxicity level’ display from Neon Genesis Evangelion
Homer Simpson, when he is telling Kirk van Houten that he sleeps in a big bed with his wife
stark, high contrast photo of a corner on the ceiling of my home office, monochrome
doomer wojak
Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult playing a Gibson SG in front of three Marshall stacks, with a wah pedal to his left
stark, high contrast photo of a corner on the ceiling of my home office, almost monochrome but not quite
Anti-Egalitarians Are Lenient Toward Corporate Misconduct: Mixed Evidence for the Role of Threat and Mind Perception Jeffrey Lees*, Simone Tang, James Sidanius https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19485506251383988
laser eyes Philip Converse
🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.
cover of the first Bad Brains record with lightning striking the Capitol
Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, and Paul Simonon of The Clash at their first gig
Frank Booth Pabst Blue Ribbon scene from Blue Velvet
minolta x-500, a black SLR film camera
Fr Guido Sarducci
Patrick Star saying “why the fuck did I have to see this”
monochrome image of me in headphones and glasses
Jamelle Bouie: anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers
The Fall have had more band members than this
Botticelli’s Map of Hell (per Dante’s Inferno)
desaturated photo of the front of the UIUC Lutheran Campus Center
my orange cat Ginger drinking from the bathroom faucet
classic needle as Pied Piper image
William S Burroughs, from The Ticket That Exploded: “The basic nova mechanism is very simple: always create as many insoluble conflicts as possible and always aggravate existing conflicts — This is done by dumping life forms with incompatible conditions of existence on the same planet — There is of course nothing “wrong” about any given life form since “wrong” only has reference to conflicts with other life forms — The point is these forms should not be on the same planet — Their conditions of life are basically incompatible in present time form and it is precisely the work of the Nova Mob to see that they remain in present time form, to create and aggravate the conflicts that lead to the explosion of a planet that is to nova — At any given time recording devices fix the nature of absolute need and dictate the use of total weapons …”
that involved throwing knives at a target.[38] Their fascination with the blades developed after the premiere of West Side Story, a musical featuring street fighting,[39] in 1957, when they were eleven
desaturated photo of windmill and powerline taken from I-39 in Illinois
photo of windmills and field off of I-39 in Illinois
photo of fields, windmills, and farm buildings off of I-39 in Illinois
Nuremberg trials
picture of my cats Nina (gray, left) and Ginger (orange, right) in a window with foliage behind them
This sector’s closed to ground traffic. What are you doing here?
results of sketchy internet political compass test identifying me as similar to former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin
Wilson Library and construction site.
Ruth Langmore from Ozark: “I don’t know shit about fuck”
photo of silo and field off of I-39 in Illinois
photo of silos, trees, and field off of I-39 in Illinois
desaturated photo of modern building on UIUC campus
desaturated photo of modern building on UIUC campus
color photo of the reddish-barked base of a small tree on the UIUC campus
desaturated image of power lines and windmills taken from the passenger seat of our car on I-39 in Illinois; it reminded me of one of the photos of power lines from the inside of one of my Godspeed You Black Emperor records
It's very funny to me how US Democrats always want to use the UK Labour Party as a cautionary tale, except Labour are such a terrible party that they manage to provide a cautionary tale for literally every faction as every single ideological stripe of Labour has managed to horribly shit the bed
desaturated photo of a wall hanging in a rental near the UIUC campus
desaturated photo of an octopus-like ceiling lamp in a rental house near UIUC, which I took by laying on the floor and making my family think I was even weirder than usual
Trump as Pedo Bear
photo of colorful blue, white, and red adirondack-style chairs on a lawn at UIUC
Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv literature / propaganda from the early 1970s
Mark E Smith with speech bubble for repost below
cropped photo of a green traffic cone with white reflective stripes taken on the UIUC campus, like the cover the second Kraftwerk record