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A screenshot from "Parks and Recreation", S03E07 - "Harvest Festival", showing Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) standing in front of a map of Pawnee in City Hall. The map shows Pawnee in blue, with a dozen white dots, and is titled "City of Pawnee History of Wamapoke Incidents". The original caption was "This is a map of all the atrocities that the Pawnee settlers inflicted upon the Wamapoke Indians... The atrocities are in blue." It has been remixed to read "This is a graphical representation of all the allusions in the story ... the allusions are in blue."
A scene from "30 Rock" featuring an older-middle-aged man in a suit, tie, mustache, and sweater-vest, Hank Hooper (Ken Howard), at dinner (with Jack Donaghy - offscreen), from S05E18, "Plan B". His original dialogue went: "Now, I don't know if my tone is conveying the fury I feel about this." The edited version has a caption of "My bio" on his right shoulder, and the text of: "Now, I don't know if my tone is conveying how serious I am about this... // ... but I mean it." for his dialogue.
A version of the classic "Two Wolves" meme - the top says "INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO WOLVES". Below, on the left, is Garth Marenghi (played by Matthew Holness) clad in a leather jacket, emphatically proclaiming "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards". On the right, a woman with short tousled hair wearing a black dress, her splayed fingertips pressed together in front of her beneath an expression of creative satisfaction, saying "Or... I could write a novel filled with multi-layered characters and metaphors, which, interpreted correctly, would open his eyes." The image is taken from the comic "Straightforward", by artist Reinis Pētersons and publicist Anete Konste, part of the Latvian Literature publication "The Life of I".
An upwards-angled view of the corner of a rectilinear structure made of aluminum extrusions and stained wood panels, midway through assembly.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) - S05E04 The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention, the classic scene of Frank in the cemetery saying "I'm gonna get real weird with it" (closed captioned). Dee's head is replaced with a photo of a Blackstone Fortress miniature from BFG, while Dennis's head is replaced with the cover of Nova by Samuel R. Delany.
Close-up of my torso from the Saturday morning before Promise Land 2026 - hydration vest with soft-flasks, grass in the background, but most importantly a short-sleeved graphic tech tee with an enormous KAIJU-CAT on it erupting out of some Hokusai-esuqe waves with a tiny-by-comparison helicopter in the foreground.
The scene in Jurassic Park where Samuel L. Jackson resets the system to try to fix the damage Nedry did. In a dark room, cigarette dangling from his lips, he warns the rest of the survivors as he reaches for the breaker, saying "Hold onto your butts."
A fixed blade knife on a desk, the blade battered and chipped. A close-up of a bald eagle in front of the Stars and Stripes is enameled on the blade, but likewise battered and chipped. The scales of the grooved handle are printed with a waving US flag, also scuffed. Someone seems to have tried to use it to pry something at some point, as a considerable amount of the tip has been snapped off. The desk also features spring clamps and MDF strips, as I'm currently gluing up inserts for bookshelves and was too rushed to move them out of the way for the photo.
Mana Cost: 3BBB Type: Sorcery Rules Text: Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness. Suspend 5-1B (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 1B and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Rarity: Uncommon Artist: Carl Critchlow Set: TSP - Time Spiral Number: 122 Language: English
An unfortunately-kinda-blurry 360-degree panorama from this morning, maybe half an hour before dawn - sun peeking over the horizon, full moon in the sky. Standing in the middle of a sheet of ice stretching as far as can be seen over hill and swale across a park, with a split-rail fence sticking up nearby and buildings far-off up the hill and down the path. A week and a half of scattered passage has left barely a mark on the snowcrete expanse.
A vivid pastel drawing of a couple of pears on a plate, on a... table? bedspread?, under glass in a wooden frame, held in someone's left hand in front of a framed, centuries-old map of Africa hanging on the wall. An Ikea wing chair with a fleece gimme blanket tossed over it is in the background.
A small pleather pouch, five flat tassles at the bottom, with a black zipper (open) at the top and a long braided cord attached to the top, lying on a faux-wood-grain table. On top of the pouch is a flat circle of polished stone with a spiral pattern to it.
A whole bunch of glass beads laid out next to a black !velvet bag (which I also found while running) - 38 aqua, 10 light green, 11 red, 8 frosted white, 2 green, 2 shiny magenta, 1 magenta, 2 pale blue, 1 shiny blue, and 2 shiny purple.
Anakin-Padme "For the better, right?" (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/for-the-better-right) meme. First Panel: "I've filled 150 or so bankers boxes with books while reorganizing the house" Second Panel: "Wow, it must be so weird to see all those bookshelves empty" Last Panel: "Your bookshelves are empty now, right?"
A screenshot of a passage from the e-Baker Street Journal: Philip S. Meckley, "Soteriology and Death in 'The Final Problem'", Vol. 49, No. 3 (September 1999): "- himself, but to annihilate the attacker, an effort which, we subsequently discover in EMPT, is successful. This would be the moral equivalent of watching Jesus turn, cinch on a black belt, and thrash the daylights out of Pilate and the centurions, an amusing yet wholly noncanonical portrait. Yet one could quibble about this observation, since we have been heretofore -"
A photo of a chair in a corner, showing a framed, centuries-old map of Africa; a painted notebook; employee vests from Wal-Mart and FedEx; the metal remains of a circular LARP shield; and a crude machete / Ork choppa. All of which, yes, I have found while out running around town - within the last year and a half, even.
A two-by-two set of images from the movie The Matrix. Upper Left: Close-up of Trinity's face (played by Carrie-Anne Moss), slicked-back hair and late-90's-cool sunglasses. Upper Right: Head-and-shoulders of Neo / Thomas Anderson (played by Keanu Reeves), looking skeptical. Caption - "Can you fly that thing?" Lower Left: Close-up of a B-212 (Bell 212 Twin Huey) helicopter. Lower Right: Trinity's face at about a 3/4 angle, slight forward tilt. Sunglasses off, eyes focused forward, expression set and determined. Caption - "Not yet."
A Mastodon post from Rod Hilton (@rodhilton@mastodon.social): "He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets."
A two-page spread of a FoxTrot storyline from one of the collected treasuries, where Paige and Nicole are invited to an upperclassman's party and encounter drunken debauchery and drug use. Hilarity ensues, an after-school-special type lesson is learned, and everybody goes home safe. (Presumably, who knows what happens to the drunken bros.) Can't recall which treasury, since mine are not within arm's reach at the moment.
Two side-by-side yellow and green bottles of Pelikan's M205 DUO Highlighter Ink behind three Platinum Preppy highlighters - orange, green, and yellow. In the background is a keeb on a crudely cut neoprene mat.
A screenshot of LibreOffice, showing how setting Outline level: [None] for lower-level Headings results in a top-level-only outline in the Navigator pane.
A screenshot of the Edit Style window from LibreOffice Writer, setting the Outline level of the Heading 2 Style to [None].
Screenshot of test.odt in LibreOffice Writer, with the Navigator view open. Title, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 1.1, Heading 2.1, Heading 3, Heading 4, and Lorem Ipsum. The Navigator view is now fully expanded to show all of the headings.
Screenshot of test.odt in LibreOffice Writer, with the Navigator view open. Title, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 1.1, Heading 2.1, Heading 3, Heading 4, and Lorem Ipsum. The Navigator view is collapsed to just show Heading 1 and Heading 1.1.
This progressive/conservative disconnect — which is also, frequently, an elite/non-elite disconnect — is a problem across the West. *For reasons I don’t fully understand, educated elites are more socially progressive than non-elites.*
Jerry Smith, from the show Rick and Morty, looking derpy and worried as usual, and kinda guilty, too.
This is Mr. Meeseeks (Look at me!) from the show Rick and Morty. I'm aware that he was 'ripped off' from "Scud: The Disposable Assassin", but this is a bit. Roll with it.
Rick Sanchez, from the television show Rick and Morty. As always, it cannot be stressed enough that one may be a protagonist while _not_ being a hero(ine).
Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, standing in front of a classic Wall of Madness during the famous "Pepe Silva" scene.
Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) from The Office, frowning a bit as he raises his eyebrows and gives a little nod - "Fair enough."
A reinterpretation of the traditional "Hotline Bling" meme ca. late 2016, featuring the far superior LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge. Top panel - Lt. La Forge hold-upping his hand next to "Submitomancy". Bottom panel - Lt. La Forge pointing "that" next to "Submitometry". Yes, I know that he reached the rank of Commodore, likely due to his efforts overseeing construction of the Wallenberg class rescue armada at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards for the evacuation of Romulus, but he was a Lieutenant at the time these photos were taken.
At the top, above the USPS "Sonic Eagle" logo, is the slogan "BACK THE BLUE." Underneath it, separated by a red line, is the stylized name "UNITED STATES // POSTAL SERVICE".
Animated GIF of Ralph Wiggum sitting at the back of a school bus, with his dialogue "Ha-ha! I'm in danger!" popping up. Vide https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ralph-in-danger-im-in-danger
A dramatization of the original group chat, folding in some of the offline joking-around. Icon for the chat is a sloth on a rucksack, name of "team sloth". First message: "Woohoo! Best of both worlds - I got to see my name pop up in the Hardrock Lottery live feed... as #44 on the Male Never wait-list." Second message (all are from me): "Of course, in 2023 the Male Never wait-list made it to... #2." Third message: An image macro of Jim Carey with a dorky haircut saying "So you're telling me there's a chance". Fourth message: But seriously, unless, like, the US goes full-on hermit kingdom in the next six months, I think I'm safe for this year." Fifth message: "Just locking in another 2x for when I'll be ready...er." (Context - Your entries into the lottery for Hardrock double each year you enter without being selected.)
A bicep-bulging right arm, Black in a white tee-shirt sleeve, grasps a bicep-bulging right arm, White in a red tee-shirt sleeve, in a handshake so epic that it would make Manly Wade Wellman weep and Robert Howard rend his clothes - the image macro of a chalk drawing of the handshake greeting between Al Dillon (Carl Weathers) and Alan "Dutch" Schaefer AKA "Onyx" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in the 1987 classic _Predator_. Dillon's arm on the left is labeled "home aquarists", Dutch's "bibliophiles", and their laced fists bear the label of "knowing the precise load-bearing characteristics of residential constructions".
A robot - Bender Bending Rodriguez - stands on the Lunar surface and points at the sealed door of Luna Park out of which he was just thrown. The original scene (from Futurama S01E02, "The Series Has Landed") had him saying " Yeah, well... I'm gonna go build my own theme park, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the park!", a bit which recurs throughout the episode. The edited meme presented here instead has Bender saying "Yeah, well... I'm gonna go build my own reality, with a series of thematically resonant events whose judicious arrangement evokes deeper meanings! And armored bears! // In fact, forget the reality!" The more common form of the meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-going-to-build-my-own-theme-park-with-blackjack-and-hookers) uses a scene from Futurama S02E08, "Raging Bender", presumably because (in light of the "hookers" part) it shows a gold-beringed Bender wearing a white fur coat pointing angrily with a fembot in the background; note, however, that both of the fembots seen with Bender in this episode are quite specifically referred to as "floozies", and are definitively _not_ hookerbots.
A French edition of the novel Dune in paperback opened to the Litany Against Fear. The phrase "la petite mort" is prominent in the composition, the French translation of "the little-death" from the line "Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration." In the background, a laptop screen is open to the Wiktionary entry for "petite mort", showing that its only given definition is "orgasm". Of course, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort, the phrase originally (1572) referred to a "fainting fit", or "nervous spasm", not acquiring its sexual meaning until 1882. (Which, of course, was still almost a century before Dune was written.) However, the English meaning of "little death" includes "a state or event resembling or prefiguring death; a weakening or loss of consciousness" (albeit with heavy sleep/sexual connotations), which fits perfectly with Fear in the context of the Litany.