Potempkin Village Idiot

@ixak.bsky.social

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Baltimore climate dad anthropologist fighting existential terror w/ existential counter-terrorism. The soft underbelly of the cutting edge. Working on resilience, local governance, urban gardening, tool repair, fermentation. https://medium.com/@ixak

An 8-bit gif of Tank Girl.
A jar of Tia Lupit Salsa Matcha.
A small brick rowhouse on a Baltimore street. The entirety of the front yard, a space approximately 8'x10' has been densely planted with corn, which is currently about 5-6' tall.
Questionable looking hotdogs and rice wrapped in seaweed.
The white Honda CRV with a roof-mounted cargo carrier.
the Handbook on the Clinical Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults, edited by Christopher Deeg, Linda Mayers, & Doris Bertocci
A fabric candy dish filled with an assortment of obscure candies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
About a dozen multicolored Among Us figurines, each about an inch and a half tall, various colors, in varying states of completion.
Graffiti on the side of a gray building. Potentially by ♥️joNdoe♥️ It depicts two City rats, drawn about 4 ft tall, standing on their hind legs and touching their forepaws together as they kiss nose-to-nose. Captioned with the sounds "pip pip mm squeak" a wedge of cheese, a glass of red wine, and a lit candle can be seen in between them, with abundant hearts surrounding them.
Gerek commented, “Yeah, strength in diversity isn’t quite the same as strength in adversity.”
Two photos side-by-side. On the left is a bottle of prosecco (Italian sparkling wine), and on the right is a photo of Nicola Sacco, (i.e. "Sacco and Vanzetti").
A variation on the "two guys looking out opposite sides of a bus" meme. The overall image has the title "The sky above the port" The sad passenger to the left, labeled "Gen X" is facing a window that is covered with the black and white static from a dead channel on an old cathode ray TV set. The happy passenger to the right is labeled "Millennials" and is facing a window that is the bright blue of a flat screen TV tuned to a dead channel with the label "no signal" in the upper corner.
A variation on the "two guys looking out opposite sides of a bus" meme. The overall image has the title "The sky above the port" The sad passenger to the left, labeled "Gen X" is facing a window that is covered with the black and white static from a dead channel on an old cathode ray TV set. The happy passenger to the right is labeled "Millennials" and is facing a window that is the bright blue of a flat screen TV tuned to a dead channel with the label "no signal" in the upper corner.
Prep for callaloo: A red tomato and a handful of golden cherry tomatoes. Two green fish peppers. A bunch of amaranth leaves, A bundle of green onions. All sitting on a cutting board.
A keychain with a prominently displayed Gerber Shard - a multi tool made from a single small piece of metal that serves as a screwdriver, cap-lifter, mini-pry bar, and several other devices.
Repo man moment: Miller says to Otto “suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp...
Video of a row of large icons of healthy fruits and vegetables at a children's play place. corn chili pepper bell pepper potato avocado celery And then... a fly agaric mushroom, which is both poisonous and hallucinogenic
Me: So, not to be weird about this or anything, but I think if Kurt was an anthropomorphic gay snake he would probably be a lot like this. Kurt: I'm not sure I can ever live up to that. It kinda reminds me of Ringo Starr trying to convince a baby David Bowie to let himself be murdered. Is this some kind of Jungle Book parody?
A new-in-box Makita 6.5" cordless circular saw.
A blue cardboard box advertising "Fishwife Tinned Seafood Co." With the subheader, "World's Tastiest Tinned Fish!"
A low-profile wallet featuring a batman profile with the eyes and lower face area cut out so that those portions of the driver's license picture show through.
A small pine tree with a few cut-out photographs clipped to it.
A large pile of dirt surrounding the entrance to a rat hole underneath the raised bed of a community garden.
A photograph of four African American teenagers in brightly colored late-80s urban fashion. The leftmost model, a tall slender smiling young man is Tupac Shakur, and immediately to his right is an equally young Jada Pickett-Smith.
Cover art for the Sierra game "Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura"
Freshly picked radishes and beets on a countertop.
A duckling riding a piece of pizza. Inexplicably.
The front of the Kennedy Center, featuring several stories of under-construction scaffolding
Am orc chief saying, "Looks like Pete's back on the menu boys!"
A small mouse-sized beet, brownish with a long single tail-like root, and a roughly head-shaped stump at the top. It looks like a dead mouse.
A man uses a comically large hammer to smash a large pumpkin on a chunk of tree stump that is surrounded by various other smashed pumpkin fragments.
A comically large mallet, the head of which is fashion from a rather substantial chunk of log.
A bowl of kimchi sitting next to a jar of kimchi.
A small 50ml packet of Tanzanian gin.
A small bag of peanuts from Ukraine. The brand is "Capitan" and the flavor is "Caviar Taste"
A massive cluster of unripe elderberries.
In response to the utterance of the name Randolph Scott, the people of the town stand and remove their hats respectfully.
Sheriff Bart from the movie Blazing Saddles looks over his shoulder and says, "You'd do it for Randolph Scott."
Douglas Adams looks at the camera with an impish smile.
Image of the Gravity Drive from the movie Event Horizon.
The same image as before, but the word Palpable has been replaced by the word Palpatine, and the face of chancellor Palpatine has been superimposed over the original male actor's face.
A handwritten note on a temporary power box that says, "Homeless people need help too!! George Clinton says give a little when asked. He cares also! P-funk July 17th
The Nazi sun cross, spray painted on the concrete side of a building. Three yellow arrows have been painted over it indicating the anti-fascist opposition to monarchism, fascism, and communist authoritarianism.
A yellow piece of graffiti that looks somewhat like an anchor, but with what looks like an Odal rune to the left, and the letters SS to the right.
A dog peers through a playground fence, watching children as they play. Above her is a sign stating, "No Dogs Allowed in Playground"
Black and white photo of Jack Churchill playing the bagpipes while walking with soldiers from his unit.
Panel one: Garfield is watching TV. The TV says, "We'll be right back after this word from our sponsor." ... Panel two: The TV says, "Sasquatch" ... Panel three: Garfield covers his face with his hand/paw and the TV continues, "...Welcome back."
[Dentist waiting room] Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth- Other patients: teeth, TEETH Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
Child's drawing of a cool guy with a big head, baseball cap, toothy mouth, and a fart cloud coming from a small but prominent butt.
A red T-25 VTZ tractor.
A sandy village street in a coastal Ghanaian town. On the left, a young woman stands in front of a screen or fence made from bamboo and woven palm. She is facing the camera, but looking to her right. In the center of the image, over her left shoulder, a red yellow and green lottery stand is visible on the other side of the fence. Further back to the right of the image the road stretches past houses and power lines.
Steve Carell as Michael Scott.
[The rain was] battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off. He tested this theory by turning them off briefly, but as it turned out the visibility did get quite a lot worse. It just failed to get better again when he turned them back on.
[The rain was] battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off. He tested this theory by turning them off briefly, but as it turned out the visibility did get quite a lot worse. It just failed to get better again when he turned them back on.
A photograph from 1996 - a sweaty young man (probably very high on the marijuana) sits against a wall talking on a Darth Vader telephone (land line). Next to him is a small guitar amp that is covered with a t-shirt from the band "Rancid."
A jar of durian mayonnaise entitled "Yema Durian Sandwich Spread"
Movie poster for the film "The Happiness of the Katakuris by Takahashi Mike, with the tagline "The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead"
A tall thin bottle of Russian mustard featuring the name “Zakuson” (but in Cyrillic letters). The image on the label is of a Russian peasant woman making an unpleasant face, presumably due to the strength of the product inside.
A raccoon desperately reaching through a hole in a chain link fence, captioned with the words "DO WANT"
Meme from the show The Good Place, where Ted Danson's character says: "Zardoz figured it out? Zardoz? This is a real low point. Yeah. This one hurts."