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The book retrovirology by john bonanni on a table with a blurred bookshelf in the background
Isabel J. Kim's novel Sublimation opened to the signed title page and held up against a blue sky.
A person wears a stylized black and white costume that includes a large false head. Polka dots cover the costume and their bare arms which are raised in a gesture that creates a triangle in the negative space between their fingers echoing a yellow triangle on the figure's chest.
No Kings 3 March for the People Downtown New Bedford 3/28/2026, 3 p.m. Gather at the District Courthouse Corner of 6th and Kempton Streets Stay tuned for sign-up details!
A triumphant LEGO Godzilla toy stands atop a toppled building on a bookshelf full of Roger Zelazny sci-fi novels.
The TSR Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules and Expert Rules softcover books on a faux fur blanket. Their covers show the same artwork from the original post: one is a fantasy style illustration of a party attacking a green dragon and the other a wizard scrying on the same scene.
A hand holds the book Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle by Natan Last in front of a bookshelf.
An optical illusion of a tree that appears to have human legs which are actually those of a person reflected in the tree's mirrored planter. Taken from the camera review at https://www.35mmc.com/02/08/2019/olympus-pen-fv-review/
In forty years, Republicans went from opposing Democrats’ policies, to insisting that Democrats were socialists who had no right to govern, to the idea that Republicans have a right to rig the system to keep voters from being able to elect Democrats to office. Now they appear to have gone to the next logical step: that democracy itself must be destroyed to create permanent Republican rule in order to make sure the government cannot be used for the government programs Americans want.
A bookshelf with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Silmarillion pulled out a bit to display parts of their covers, along with Isaac Asimov books still in place. The Tolkien books are of the same edition as in the original post.
Joe Miller from The Lost Room miniseries in the hotel room. He sits on a dresser. A vintage television is next to him atop a wall-mounted shelf. The colors lean toward muted browns and yellows.
Ambassador Delenn coming to kick some butt.
Battlezone, the 1980s Atari tank battle game with the original arcade game cabinet and a screenshot of gameplay showing green wireframe tanks.
An adaptation of cover art from Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon showing an engraving of Herodotus with googly eyes.
The movie poster for Jodorowsky's Dune, featuring an insectile spaceship with a psychedelic livery on what appears to be a magazine cover, but parts of the craft extend past its borders. A black & white photograph of Alejandro Jodorowsky is clipped to the magazine. Behind the magazine is the cosmos.
The Micronauts: The Original Years omnibus book, a collection of comics about some of my favorite childhood toys, and which I'd had no idea existed until Andy told me, on a bookshelf full of science fiction.
A naturally-occurring smiley face formed by boiling liquid pushing aside a layer of foam on the surface of a pot of liquid simmering on the stove.
https://www.reddit.com/user/wassermelonne/ Clever Girl with a Pearl Earring 2018 Oil on canvas, 24 in. x 36 in.
Tundro the ten-legged, armored space triceratops from The Herculoids firing explosive rocks from his horn
Alice Tippit's "Bitter, 2016" an abstract painting on a pale salmon color of a stylized black cat formed by a large swoop of black tapering down into a single foot, with two yellow cat eyes set into the undifferentiated black of the body.
A black and white drawing of a party of halflings? dwarves? bearing torches and swords and exploring a dimly-lit vaulted circular stairway leading down to darkness. In the central pillar is a humanoid mouth, open as if speaking. A pair of glowing eyes peers from the shadows below.
My hand holding the TI 1976 "Little Professor" described in the post in front of a computer monitor showing the post. The Little Professor is on and working and showing the math problem "52 + 64 ="
A Force Five: Gaiking keychain dangling in front of a computer monitor showing Andy's post to which I'm replying.
Screenshot from the broadcast of Prof. Heather Cox Richardson giving the keynote at the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride Lantern Ceremony at the 300-year-old Old North Church Boston on April 18, 2025.
A "Create your Link Gallery" page at Rebrandly.
Jack Kirby's black & white character drawing of Sam from Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light. Sam wears an enormous headpiece with what look like multiple insectoid mandibles extending from the sides and top.
Page 142 of Frank Herbert's Dune with the following passage highlighted: "My son displays a general garment and you claim it's cut to your fit?" Jessica asked. "What a fascinating revelation."
Alex Prager photograph of a brightly-lit house half-submerged in water that looks completely black The rippled reflection of the house is visible in the black water below. Faint stars are visible in the black sky above. The reflection and the stars serve as the only differentiation between black sky and black water.
The distracted boyfriend meme with @bcdreyer.social as the boyfriend ignoring an em dash in order to ogle an en dash.
An image of text that says: Sheryl Sandberg; a young assistant named Sadie whom Sandberg treats as a "little doll" or "lady-in-waiting," complete with hair-petting and lap-sitting duties; Wynn-Williams and others are in a private jet flying back from Davos, Switzerland. A pouty Sandberg repeatedly tells Wynn-Williams to "come to bed" - the single large bed in the craft - for a sleepover.
A black & white street photograph of a bearded Edward Gorey wearing sunglasses, fur coat, knitted scarf, and white sneakers. Passersby look at him with dubious facial expressions.
A close-up of Roger Zelazny's The Great Book of Amber open to pages 828-829, Blood of Amber. The page is marked by an illustrated Dungeons & Dragons bookmark showing a man wearing armor peering up from inside a labyrinth. An out-of-focus bookshelf serves as the background.
The bio at the end of the article which reads: Mr. Kontorovich is a professor at George Mason University Scalia School of Law and a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. The phrase "senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation." has been highlighted.
An altered still from Happy Days showing the Alef Aeronautics Model Zero jumping the infamous shark pen in place of the Fonz.
An old black & white photograph from the 1950s of a youthful Edward Gorey reclining against what might be a stucco wall. He wears a pinstripe suit, a light color button-down shirt, a thin belt, and, surprisingly, only a single ring. He smiles and looks off to the right of frame. He holds a cigarette in his left hand.
A wall-mounted set of three dark wooden bookshelves are nearly full of a wide range of reading material including novels, classics, poetry, cookbooks, magazines, and a bunch of science fiction. A number of elephant sculptures and an antique microscope are scattered around and atop the bookshelves. Two leather armchairs and a small metal tripod table stand in front.
The book How We Learn To Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, displayed on a metal table with some other books including Nabokov's Pale Fire and Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys behind it. An out-of-focus bookshelf is in the background.
The bottle with eyes from the intro to "I Dream of Jeannie"
A photograph of Ida Jessen's A Change of Time translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken from Archipelago Books sitting on a wool blanket.
The following books are laid out loosely tiled on a faux fur blanket: Frank Herbert's Dune, Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three, Madame la Comtesse d'Aulnoy's The White Cat illustrated by Jane & Anne Grahame Johnstone, Advanced D&D Players Handbook, Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light, Stephen King's The Talisman, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, The Riverside Shakespeare, and Homer's The Iliad.
A bookshelf showing the spines of the Advanced D&D Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Handbook, Deities & Demigods, Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, D&D Basic Rules, and D&D Expert Rules.
A collection of somewhat dusty and well-loved Micronauts space toys arranged on a carpeted floor. It includes a space station, a car on a circular track leading into a tower, several space ships, and assorted robots and figurines, as well as the instructions for Rocket Tubes.
The novel Metal from Heaven by August Clarke rests atop a lap pillow with a geometric pattern. A metal table of to the side holds Martha Wells's Cloud Roads, a pencil, an eraser, and Airpods. In the background an armchair and a bookcase are partially visible. Out of frame are embarrassingly large stacks of unread books.
A trade paperback Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain & a hardcover James by Percival Everett sit stacked on a cork coaster atop a side table. There are bookmarks in the Huck Finn at two different pages. Also on the table are a pencil and eraser. A slightly out-of-focus bookshelf is in the background.
A collection of books laid out on a faux fur blanket including This Is How You Lose the Time War, Station Eleven, Autobiography of Red, Blackouts, Gideon the Ninth, A Change of Time, Piranesi, Glorious Exploits, Circe, Hamnet, Foster, Network Effect, and Nettle & Bone.