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Euclid-class poster, lowkey trainwreck. (He/Him, also cool w/ singular they)

The bloodless quant
The cast of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya with the caption “OLDTAKU: 2006 was 10 years ago!” with Kyon saying “no it’s not”
An anime girl in front of the site of the Boston Massacre yelling “Massachusetts mentioned!”. She is wearing a Red Sox hat and holding a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee in one hand and a bottle of Market Basket wine in the other.
Rucks, the narrator from Bastion, with a word balloon
Chi-Chu, the cute mascot character from Xenogears, being crucified. The image is captioned “Chu-chu died for your sins”
Cxtpotato’s tweet from upthread, reading: They're not stating "my situation is bad". They're stating "my situation is bad, so the entire economy is bad and if you say anything about the economic data, I will use my one data point to tell you you're a genocide supporter". That's abusive.
A post from Harley upthread which is notably not calling anyone a ‘genocide denier’
Stancil face from the comic
Stancil face
Mel Brooks with a speech bubble
Vintage 2018 “uh oh, you made a serious fucky whisky and now you have to get in the forever box” meme
Meredith Cassettebeasts saying “anyway, I’m Meredith. Enjoy being trapped on this rock forever with the rest of us until you die.” I love her
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"Hyper-lethal Combat Rabbi" in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo format. Generated at glench.com/tmnt/
A gun pointing at the sun with the cation “I’ve had enough”
Scooby doo villain reveal. Two panels. First panel: Fred is reaching toward a man in costume to remove his mask. The man is labeled “neither right nor left” Second: Fred has removed the man’s mask. He is now labeled “right”
Screenshotted QT. Quoted post is me saying: "Unfortunately in November 2016 a lot of political consultants needed to find a scapegoat to save their jobs and 'Bernie supporters' was on the paper they pulled out of the hat." Lisa M is quote-replying and saying: "Those Bernie supporters voted for Jill Stein giving the 2016 election to Trump." Comments and QTs are disabled, which is why I am replying this way.
A chart showing the % of wealth held by the top 1% steadily increasing while everyone else's goes down taken from this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2026/01/30/wealth-of-the-1-reaches-decade-high-in-the-us/
She’s from Tactics Ogre and the official current translation of her name is Arcylle, but she’ll always be Aloser to me 😭
The surprised pikachu face
TADC character test results. Strider is most likely Zooble (70%) with everyone else in the 50-60% range except Caine, who’s at at 35%.
POV of someone pointing a handgun at the sun with the caption "I've had enough"
A dolphin with sunglasses with the caption “be attitude for gains” taken from Radiant Silvergun. I have no idea why I made this.
Mr Glass, from the movie Unbreakable and it’s sequel, Glass. (I think this specific shot is from Glass)
The Ghostbusters investigate a river of slime in Ghostbusters 2
A screeenshot of the homepage for Lore, Epic Games’ custom version control system, featuring an elevator pitch and a link to their GitHub repo
Gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist
Char Anzable “I came here to laugh at you” meme
The woman from The Sound of Music singing to some children in a field
Zelda 2 “Game Over: Return of Ganon” screen
The Game Boy “NINTENDO” logo. This was surprisingly hard to find and I think it might actually be from a Game Boy Color, looks like the CGB’s actual black and white rather than the DMG creamed spinach color.
Sephiroth with a blank word balloon
Mastodon screenshot from Dan Hon @danhon@dan.mastodon.com reading “can’t believe little Bobby Tables is all grown up and had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions”
DVD collection of The Herculoids
A pelican not respecting someone’s personal space with the caption: “What you did there, I see it”
Come study Physics, totally a real science and NOT MAGIC!, feature the glowing death hairs rock, runes, levitation, and demon summoning
“Thirteen. I prefer Japanese food.”
“New state proposal: megachusetts, depicting Massachusetts elongated until it reaches the Pacific.
Blooper from Super Mario Bros.
One of Benjanun’s friends pitching their book with tumble-tag word salad
Spider-man wrapping Megatron in webs
A former forest covered in kudzu
The Smiler from Transmetropolitan
Kharan Ramsus from Xenogears piloting his mech
Captain Marvelous aka Gokai Red, leader of the pirate-themed super sentai team Gokaiker, with a speech balloon.
Lain’s bedroom from Serial Experiments Lain
Dr Robotnik with a speech balloon
Screenshot of an invalid post w/ too many characters reading: I really hate what this timeline has done to me, to all of us. I’ve historically been a guy who was very into space exploration, I remember reading about the mars probes during the darkest days of the W admin and being proud of what humans could accomplish. Now I’m lowkey hoping a rocket explodes because wiping out a significant chunk of a billionaire’s worth would be a net positive.
Dril: “the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: there’s actually zero difference between good and bad things. You imbecile. You fucking moron.”
Brett “The Rapist” Kavanaugh and John Roberts laughing
“This could apply to YOUR healthcare too!” feels like a well-meaning attempt to get people who don’t care about anything that doesn’t affect them personally on board. Unfortunately- like similar arguments about abortion- it’s destined to run up against the fact that the upper middle class white people can credibly tell themselves that *they* will always be able to get the thing regardless of the letter of the law in the US.
A screenshot of Darwinia, Introversion Software’s 2004-ish RTS. It shows a lowpoly rocket on a pointedly digital island.
Obsolete PC GF
The Boxart for the PS2 game Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
One of the lemons Megaman shoots before you get a weapon
Bioman, a super Sentai team, wielding color-coordinated lightsabers.
Dr Albert Wily, with a speech balloon pointing at the above skeet, which has quote skeets disable
Sting as Feyd-Rautha in David Lynch’s Dune (1984). He is wearing some sort of HR Geiger Speedo.
Avatar the Great, from Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards (1997)
Screenshot from the linked blog post containing the following text: The psychic toll of AI Consider the following scenarios: You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss. A team lead adds an AI chatbot to a Slack channel. Anyone can tag the bot to answer questions about the company’s products. Coworkers tag the chatbot many times a day. You never see someone check that the bot’s responses are correct. An engineer adds 12,000 lines of code affecting your app’s authentication. They ask that it be reviewed and merged same-day. Another engineer enlists a “swarm” of AI agents to review the code. The code merges with no one having read the full set of changes. A designer is tasked with exploring a new feature. They prompt an AI tool for an interactive prototype. Design crit is spent analyzing visual details in the generated prototype, with minimal discussion of core ideas, goals, or tradeoffs. One of your pull requests has been open for a few days. You ask other engineers to leave a code review. Minutes later, an engineer pastes a review that was generated by an AI tool. There are no additional thoughts of their own. You point an engineer to the relevant section of a library’s docs in order to request a feature. They tell you that the feature request is not possible, and send a screenshot of their chat with an AI tool as proof. Documents and code are being generated faster than team members can review. You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether. Organization leadership has mandated that each person adopt new AI tools to “uplevel” themselves and their team.