Siobhan Beeman

@profbeeman.bsky.social

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Game industry veteran for an absurdly long time. Tanned, rested and ready, and #OpenToWork again. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/siobhanbeeman)

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: "At those town halls, what I saw was that the people who were the most upset, a lot of them had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice and they view their best shot of their student getting a college education as an athletic scholarship. And so when we rush to moralize and be like 'this is all about love vs. hate,' I think we miss some of the nuance." screenshot of a CNN chyron that reads: SUPREME COURT LETS STATES BAR TRANS ATHLETES FROM GIRLS SPORTS
Kit Harrington in full costume as Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, against a snowy landscape. He is holding an iPhone, thumbing the screen with one gloved hand. A large caption at the bottom reads “what is this sorcery?”
A frame from Hogan’s Heroes showing Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink, in full Luftwaffe uniform. A warning banner from a labeling service runs above the image and says “⚠️ Contains Trump’s Face,” with “Hide” off to the right. Colonel Klink does not look much like Donald Trump, apart from both being white male Nazis.
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
Alt text: LEGO NASA Artemis Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a detailed launch tower with warm LED lighting. The orange core stage with white solid rocket boosters and Orion spacecraft capsule stands alongside a grey mobile launcher structure with multiple levels of scaffolding and access arms. A female minifigure of pioneering software engineer Margaret Hamilton stands at the base. A glass display case in the background reflects the model and contains additional space-themed LEGO builds including Space Shuttle Discovery, Mars Rover Perseverance, and the International Space Station.
A four panel comic. In the first panel, a single hand reaches up out of an endless ocean, palm open and upright as if to seek help. In the second panel, another hand reaches in from the top left corner of the frame. In the third panel, that other hand gives the first one a high five. In the fourth panel, the other hand is gone, and the first hand sinks to the fingertips; air bubbles indicate the person is drowning.
Superimposed on a giant eye (the art from the Dune 3 poster), text in the Dune logo font reads “THAT MONEY is one psalm in the Bible of my bitterness.”
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in The Avengers standing behind his office bar saying “Not a great plan.”
Headline from The Onion, March 26, 2003: “Point/Counterpoint: This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t.”
Cover of Def Leppard’s Hysteria album.
A bridge crossing a river (the Laguna Garzón in Uruguay) where the two sides of the road split to form a complete circle in the middle of the crossing.
A blonde woman (Rhea Seehorn of Pluribus) walks away from a shipping container in a suburban neighborhood. Behind her, a Hispanic man (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) points at the container quizzically.
Quote from the article: “A second instructor for the course agreed with the grade, saying the assignment was not followed.”
Image from LA Noire saying “X DOUBT”
A vial of DELESTROGEN®️-brand estradiol valerate solution.
A fully-automated bar on Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas. An industrial robotic arm sits below a hundred inverted liquor bottles mounted to the ceiling. There’s a shaker mug at the end of the arm that is lifted up to receive booze. On the bar below, a plastic cup sits on a conveyor belt waiting to receive the finished cocktail.
A fully-automated bar on Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas. An industrial robotic arm sits below a hundred inverted liquor bottles mounted to the ceiling. There’s a shaker mug at the end of the arm that is lifted up to receive booze. On the bar below, a plastic cup sits on a conveyor belt waiting to receive the finished cocktail.
Melania Trump scowling while wearing a stupid hat that’s too large, pulled down hiding her eyes behind the brim.
This image shows three people in a vintage computer room from the mid-20th century. The man in a suit looks surprised, standing by a printing machine. A woman in a skirt and blouse is excited, with her arms raised. Another woman in a green dress in the background appears shocked, standing near a tape drive. The room is filled with old computers and machinery, suggesting a significant moment, either a breakthrough or a problem.
The “woman making a disgusted face vs an intrigued” one meme. Next to the disgusted face is the text “weird AI music”. Next to the intrigued face is the text “Weird Al music,” in a sans serif font where the lower case l is indistinguishable from the upper case I. The second photo has been photoshopped to put curly black hair, glasses, and an accordion on her.
Aniston.net-generated Cloud of my most-used words from the past year. The most visually dominant set runs down the center left and reads “those bias find money game movie machine laundering.”
In a scene from the beginning of Dazed and Confused (1993), students on bikes and on foot flee a school after the last day of the year.
A sign mimicking Zohran Mamdani’s campaign logo that instead reads “Shoes for Industry”
A sample of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. The first few of questions are connect-the-dots, draw a cube, draw a clock, and identify drawings of a lion, rhino, and camel.
Closeup of Kurt Russell’s (“Stuntman Mike”) car, from the movie Death Proof (2007), driving on a two-lane rural road. The car is a black 1968 Dodge Charger. We see it from up close, directly in front of it on the road as if it is about to run us over.
Still frame from the opening credits of The Big Chill. In an extreme closeup, we see Kevin Costner’s forehead and hair.
Image of Doctor Teeth from the Muppets. He is a green plush muppet with shaggy red hair and beard, long orange nose, and prominent upper teeth with a single gold tooth.
In a still from Robocop (1987), the robot ED-209 enters through the ornate wooden doors of an executive office suite.
A blank template of the “for the better, right?” Star Wars meme. In four quadrants, we see Anakin and Padme sitting in a field of grass conversing. No captions are provided in this template, but in the original movie, the four lines are: Anakin: “I’m going to change the world.” Padme, grinning: “For the better, right?” Anakin: stone-faced silence. Padme, crestfallen: “For the better, right?”
In a scene from Heathers, Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) stands on the steps of her high school. She is bloodied and badly disheveled, in a soot-stained grey jacket and blue blouse. Her expression is a mix of exhaustion, emotional numbness, and patient anticipation. An unlit cigarette dangles from her lips.
In a scene from HBO’s Rome series, soldiers Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) and Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd), dressed in chainmail and red cloaks, ride horses through Gaul.
A grassy mountain meadow in late summer. Evergreen trees surround the meadow in the middle distance, with forested mountains beneath a hazy blue sky in the background. There is a small fir tree in the middle of the foreground. To the right of it is a rustic wooden sign reading “PAINT YOUR WAGON Movie Site, Filmed in 1968.”
Screenshot of a tweet from user “toddkramer.eth” on 12/30/2021. It reads “I been hacked. all my apes gone. this just sold please help me”. Todd’s avatar is an image of a Bored Ape that apparently belongs to someone other than Todd.
The Nazi moon base from the film Iron Sky (2012). Sitting atop the rough lunar surface, it looks somewhat like a Gothic cathedral, except it is in the shape of a swastika with the arms arrayed around a central dome.
Diego Luna as Cassian Andor in a scene from Andor.
Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as Philip and Elizabeth Jennings in a scene from The Americans.
A pair of black-headed grosbeaks perch in front of a lush Pacific coastal rainforest. On the left is a female, with a tawny underside, brown top, and white bands on her wings. On the right is a male, distinguished by an intense orange underside and black top.
Screenshot of Ultima VI, featuring 320x200 resolution 256-color art.
In a still from The Princess Bride, Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) casually holds a dagger to the throat of Robin Wright (Buttercup) as he pontificates. The two are in a green hilly setting. Before them is a table spread with a white cloth on which are bread, apples, cheese, a bottle of wine, and two cups.
Jamie Clayton as Nomi Marks in Sense8.
The Merlin, a red plastic electronic game toy. It is a long, boxy shape, looking as if it were a telephone designed by the original Star Trek props department. There is a speaker grille in the top section; in the center section, a keypad with 11 buttons that feature red LEDs rather than digits; and at the bottom four recessed buttons reading NEW GAME, SAME GAME, HIT ME, and COMP TURN.
In a scene from Animal House (1978), a homecoming parade float zooms past spectators lining the curb. The float is styled like a white two-tier birthday cake, with red “icing” along the edges and spelling out “Eat Me” in cursive on the sides.
In a famous photo from the 2000 Florida election controversy, a man in a pinstripe shirt stares at a punchcard ballot through a magnifying glass. The photographer has positioned themself so that the inspector’s left eye is comically enlarged in the lens of the glass.
In a scene from the criminally underrated and short-lived TV series The Middleman, Natalie “Wendy Watson” Morales sarcastically says to a villain offscreen, “Yeah, that’s truly sheer elegance in its simplicity.” An equally skeptical Matt “The Middleman” Keeslar stands behind her. They are in an office with an odd mix of 1950s bank lobby oak decor and 1960s blinking-light sci-fi control panels.
The opening sequence from Dazed and Confused (d. Richard Linklater, 1993). Two adolescent boys carrying school folders run around the corner of a brown brick two-story building with white trim windows. A fire escape slide is mounted to the wall behind them. Papers are strewn about the ground.
The Doug flag, symbol of the Cascadia bioregional independence movement.
A televangelist bowing his head in prayer. The closed captioning reads “Jesus I see what you’ve done for other people and I want that for me.”
A TRS-80 Model 1 computer, complete with cassette tape storage.
A man standing on an Old West gallows, a noose around his neck, looking to someone off-camera and asking “First time?” He wears an expression of been-there superiority and calm camaraderie.
A sign from a “spinning teacups”-style kids ride. Above an image of Goofy, text reads “THIS RIDE ONLY STOPS IN AN EMERGENCY. CRYING IS NOT AN EMERGENCY.”
Painting of three very burly arms gripping each others hands. The three arms are labeled Gen-X, Millennials, and Gen-Z. The joined hands are labeled “screwed by Boomers”.
A still from Star Wars Epsiode 4 A New Hope showing C-3PO and R2-D2 in a desert.
A three panel black and white cartoon drawn in a simplistic style. First panel: A dog holding a ball in its mouth looks toward the viewer with a hopeful, beseeching expression, clearly wanting to play fetch. A speech bubble from the dog says “Pls breakout hit”. Second panel: The same dog. This time a hand is reaching into the frame to grab the ball and throw it. The dog’s face is now angry and defensive, and a speech bubble says “No risk.” Third panel: A closeup of the angry dog saying “Only breakout hit.”
A deserted corridor in Moonbase Alpha from the series Space: 1999.
Holly Taylor as Paige Jennings in the series finale of The Americans. She stands alone on an empty train platform on a bleakly gray winter day. Her expression is one of anger, resignation, and deep sadness.
Two grey shorthair cats, standing and looking at the camera as if they’re waiting to be thrown treats.
Lego minifigs of Darth Vader and stormtroopers paint in gray over a rainbow colored wall of Lego bricks
A publicity group photo of the Muppets characters Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
Aerial view of “No Name City”, the filming location for Paint Your Wagon, fifty years after the movie was shot. It is a lush clearing in a dense evergreen forest, filling a valley with snow-streaked mountains on all sides. A river at low flow winds through a broad rocky bed in the middle of the scene.
The “Vince McMahon becoming increasingly excited” meme, using the title card from the movie Master and Commander. The four stages are “April, 1805”; “Napoleon is master of Europe”; “Only the British fleet stands before him”; “Oceans are now battlefields.”