Railsmith

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A Volvo C40 Recharge in a lovely sky-blue color charging next to my all-black Polestar 2. The C40 is a somewhat-taller crossover, while the P2 is a hatchback sedan. In the background is a beautiful mountainside forest, because we’re both parked at a free charging station up in the Rockies. These cars are built on the same platform and look quite similar, which is why I call it “cousin” in the main text of the post.
Screenshot of a UFC match. Max Holloway briefly backing off and doing a “oh shit, did he just die on the mat” gesture while standing over criminal rapist Conor McGregor, who exploded his knee like a hand grenade during UFC 329 and dropped like a sack of hammers. Holloway proceeded to beat the tar out of McGregor. I don’t follow or care about UFC, but my knees have been bone-on-bone in a physical-labor career for 10 years now and I love it when terrible people get their comeuppances.
Hand holding up wonderfully-intact copies of Starslip Crisis, all three volumes. It’s an all-timer webcomic, by Kris Straub who later became the architect of analog horror and creepypasta. This is largely a sci-fi romp inspired by Trek that becomes deeply affecting.
Hand holding a copy of Gran Turismo for the PSP, fresh out of the mailbox.
Crop of the cover of the 2008 album Swan Songs by extremely-of-its-time group Hollywood Undead, featuring six white boys in masks and streetwear. Everyone looks like the "innovative" character designs in Marathon, just 18 years early.
View of a sunny waterfront park over beautiful blue water, facing a skyline that is clearly Chicago.
View of a gas station parking lot. In the background, the foothills of the Rockies stretch into the distance, with the depth made more apparent by a thin haze lit by golden-hour evening light through clouds. A photo doesn’t do it justice. Please don’t Rainbolt me.
A Polestar 2 charging at midnight in an empty parking lot, lit primarily by the green light of the charger next to it. Improbably, someone else in a customized Mach E is also charging here. Wherever “here” is.
An image from carsized.com comparing the 2020-2027 Polestar 2 to the 1959-1960 Cadillac Eldorado. The Eldorado is half a meter longer and has a huge wheelbase, but the driver view over the Eldorado's hood is remarkably comparable to the ostensibly-much-safer Polestar.
A man in a Hawaiian shirt and jeans looking off to the left side of the frame, at a wide angle in a vaguely heroic pose. The short-sleeved shirt is incongruous with the environment: a snowy overlook high up in the mountains.
Black-crowned night heron on a restaurant railing in Morro Bay, California.
Chicken sitting at the base of a tree next to a sidewalk.
Sign on a grocery store self-checkout which reads "The US Treasury has stopped production of pennies, which is now impacting supply. If using cash for payment, please consider providing exact change." Also the total on the register is $27.71 for 3 items because we live in hell.
An open can of Monoprix brand canned raviolis with a fork sticking out of it, in front of a bottle of white wine. The whole scene is shot on top of my “walkin’ around” aloha shirt I bring everywhere because I’ve been having too much fun in France to get a scenic shot in daylight for the background this time. The wine is horrifically cheap but tastes great. The raviolis are very light, maybe too light to be a meal, but taste great.
A great big can of Austrian canned ravioli with a fork sticking out of it, in front of a typically-European-cheap-but-good bottle of wine. The background of the shot is a narrow city street framed by buildings that are like 500 years old.
Two identical skeets of what are presumably bots sharing an article about data centers in Brazil on the Discover feed. There were about sixty more of the same as I scrolled down.
The original Tahu BIONICLE toy and a Kohrak Bohrok, assembled in a field of loose BIONICLE parts on a carpeted floor. They’re in battle poses.
An open can of Beefaronis with a fork sticking out of it next to a bottle of blended Spanish and Canadian wine. The shot is framed in front of an evening sky in Ottawa. I got my fork back. And I probably shouldn’t drink wine on painkillers but no one will stop my quest.
A can of Tesco beef ravioli next to a bottle and glass of “Tesco’s Finest” wine, sitting on a wood-panel radiator enclosure that’s probably older than I am. It’s not a fork sticking out of the can this time, it’s a spoon from the hotel tea set. The wine is honestly not terrible.
Little crispy fried chunks of dough sitting on a piece of paper towel to let the oil seep off. They look like chicken nuggets from a local place that doesn’t have to make those very often.
A fork sticking out of a can of German goulash soup next to a bottle of Austrian wine, framed in front of the Frankfurt skyline outside my window. It’s a metal fork. When I went back to the Cairns Woolworths, they had forks in stock. I’m being marginally more environmentally friendly.
A comic where a disembodied face with hands wonders if it can draw comics again after not doing so for many years.
Stick figure pointing at something out of frame, agog with delight.
List of songs. —Grassland my Beautiful Home by Hanggai —The Loco-Motion (cover) by Kylie Minogue —Unlimited Sin by Beast in Black —300 Dreams by After —Gun by CHVRCHES
An open can of very rich ravioli with a fork sticking out of it, next to a glass of red wine, framed in front of a cityscape ahead of mountains. It’s the last fork from South Africa. Woolworth’s had a place for forks but had none in stock.
A big can of ravioli being held aloft in front of a piece of hotel wall art that says “Hamburg” because there’s not a good view from this hotel. There’s a plastic fork from South Africa sticking out of the can. In the corner of the view you can see Rails is watching German-dubbed SpongeBob for the laughs.
An open can of French beef raviolis with a fork sticking out of it, with an IKEA glass mug of very good wine next to it. Framed in front of a sunset and a parking lot because I don’t have a good view from this hotel room. It’s also a big ass can of raviolis, unlike previous entries in the series. Thank you, France.
An open can of Gefüllte Paprika stuffed peppers with a fork sticking out of it, next to a good-looking bottle of wine. The fork looks the same as the South Africa post because I bought a whole pack there and forgot it was in my bag for a month. The wine bottle is open but there’s no glass because there’s no glasses in this room and I’m just taking bottle rips like a heathen.
a can of spaghetti and meatballs with a fork stabbed into it, on a balcony overlooking a pool
Anton Chigurh as portrayed by Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (2007)
Two full rows of cheap baijiu on a shelf in a liquor store. The nearest bottle is dusty because only Rails buys baijiu here.
An open can of cold spaghetti, an Australian brand, with a cheap wooden fork stuck into it to make clear that the photographer is eating it straight out of the can in a hotel room. There’s a glass of red wine next to it that looks supremely out of place.
A screenshot of Bluesky’s “Discover” feed showing a post by Railsmith. Railsmith is the one making the post. It’s showing him his own post. The post by Railsmith.
Concept painting for the game Marathon featuring the protagonist, backlit, hiking a rocket launcher onto his shoulder at a very visually-pleasing angle against an industrial background. Looks far cooler and more refined than you'd expect for concept art for a game that looks like the original DOOM.
A copper heat sink as is fitted to a PC CPU, held in the photographer’s hand. The heat-radiating blades are spaced, coincidentally, about as far apart as the teeth of a comb.
A long-lens shot of a large pack of aerodynamic and low-riding GTE cars and hypercars lined up at Le Mans. The Garage 56 car, a modified American stock car, looms over the crowd like a battering ram over a medieval army.
A screenshot of the "What did you think of this video?" popup on desktop YouTube, with the ability to rate a video out of five stars.
YouTube thumbnail for a video titled "Will this rare 1980s HDD live long enough to save the data?"
A QR-code-like tag on a column in a store. It’s branded “Brain Corp,” a robotics company.
A hot-air balloon at low altitude. The picture was taken from the top of a hill so the balloon is at eye level.
A hand holding a physical copy of WinRAR.