Alvaro Falcone

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The front cover of an English translation of "Le Petit Nicolas"
City of God
Big handsome boy
The Portuguese language poster for the 2002 masterpiece movie city of god
The spectrum 48k home computer
The actress Hannah Waddingham in what I assume is a dress made of rubies?
The professional golfer Andrew Johnston, who's nickname is "beef", reclines with a burger
The estimable Mr. J. Cash sat in a hedge criss cross applesauce eating a cake. It is clear that no drugs were involved.
The illustrator for the Moomins looking like she only started drawing fantasy animals because there were no more Nazis left to shoot. Goddamn.
Everyone agrees this was a monumental error (an image of tiktaalik moving onto land)
Image of a surgical procedure creating a peritoneal flap near the rectus abdominis
Film poster for the 1953 madcap car comedy "Genevieve".
It's a tortoise I think? For no good reason
Creepy little weirdo
Optimus Prime, dead.
Brightly colored frog with red eyes and orange toes clinging to a glass surface, seen from below against a dark green background.
A clip from the paper showing a nearly 50% success rate for queries about chemical, biological, radioactive or nuclear weapons.
Circular RNA codon translation diagram
Gorilla Grodd in gold helm and epaulettes with a red cape. A super intelligent comic book villain who is also a gorilla.
A housefly that looks a bit like a storm trooper from star wars
Some white pepper from May 2008 that I still sometimes use in food that I actually eat
A brightly patterned Picasso bug on a small twig, sharing a similar colour scheme to the trans rights flag.
An example of crown shyness. Very tall trees are seemingly leaving gaps in the canopy. I'd you're a nice person? It's not why you think.
Gary Larson knew what the fucking bovines were up to
The survivorship bias plane
77,777!
A follower count for Phil Plait of 777,775
Survivorship bias
Marina sirtis in the earlier, sexist outfit for star terk tng
A graphical representation of Joseph Campbell's monomyth
Clippy says "Sounds like you're thinking about the gnostic demiurge! Can I help with that?"
A love emoji with hearts for eyes and a wee rainbow from it's hands. It's a bit much, to be fair.
Nat 1
Nat 1
Picasso's don quixote
A sign on a piece of communal grass saying "no ball games"
Box art for the 1980s game Hero Quest. A mostly naked muscular barbarian swings his sword surrounded by enemy orcs.
A picture of the American politician Ted Haggard looking gay as shit. The text encourages you to look up Haggard's law, but the skinny is that the worst homophobes are always repressed homosexuals and that is a disaster both for society and for them personally. We appreciate that it might be hard to feel sympathy for these actual moral monsters.
A gorgeous panoply of cephalopod art, fanned out on display by a Scottish thumb which (in case it wasn't obvious) is delighted to be involved in this.
A pulp novel cover by P Crossman. It looks terrible
Lady Gaga in a hooded white gown with red crucifix on the sleeve and red trim. Looks a bit like what she'd wear as pope.
Its the survivorship bias graphic
Muhammed Ali Vs Sonny Liston Ali had already knocked him out, and had keeps his right hook locked. It's the most celebrated sports photograph of all time
Bugs bunny looking as if he's done with this shit
Medea,daughter of King Aeetes, finds her children have been posting images without alt text, and responds appropriately.
Male superheroes in perfectly anatomically normal poses but in unrelated news you should check out captain America's glutes
Paddington bear in jail. He's wearing the stereotypical striped prisoner pyjamas similar to the Le Pen doll in the first image.
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is credited with killing 309 enemy combatants
A scene of a firebombed Tesla showroom in France. All the cars in the front lot are burnt out. No human was harmed. This is presented as an obviously good thing
Cetonia aurata, a beetle with very metallic blue/green colouration.
An image of the original post, showing 666 likes
Araucaria heterophylla, an evergreen antipodean tree that proves the point.
A replica of a human infant's skull, showing the baby teeth and the developing adult teeth already present in the upper and lower jaw. It's pure nightmare fuel.
Pablo picasso doing don Quixote. The lines look simplistic and amateurish, but as a whole it is a powerful image. The point is that it is analogous to OPs weird but very true Badger.
Alien from the fifth element opera singing a physically impossible aria
Donald Duck doing what is presumably a Roman salute as he salutes pictures of Adolf Hitler and is definitely and obviously a nazi.
Cladogram of carnivora, showing the relatedness of seals to dogs, but more especially bears.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
A small Elizabethan gentleman's neck ruff.
Luigi Mangioni for absolutely no reason whatsoever