The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus

@thechrispaduan.bsky.social

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Photographer, gamer, software engineer, deeply disappointed optimist. Tell the ones you love that you love them. Some day they'll be gone (or you will). Also at: Mastodon: http://sfba.social/@thechrispaduan The Bird Place: same handle as here

Is this X? meme. A man wearing glasses holds his hand out, pointing at a butterfly. Top Text: Is this Bottom Text: Corporate fraud?
Jonathan Swan looking confusedly at a piece of paper and then looking up with a disgusted look on his face.
Picture of Andreas Maler, the protagonist of the videogame Pentiment, kneeling down and scratching a cat under the chin.
Picture of a bunch of peckerwoods waving the Traitors' stars and bars flag. Top text: Don't tell Black people to "Get over slavery" Bottom text: "When you still haven't gotten over losing your slaves."
Sopranos meme with a guy saying "It's anti-italian discrimination"
A cartoon image of Moon Knight walking down a stone staircase. Text bubble improbably reads: "I know you're here, DRACULA, you big fucking nerd. Where's my goddamn money?"
Sad Ben Affleck standing outside his house, eyes closed, smoking a cigarette.
Dr Gonzo talking to Hunter S Thomson. Subtitles read “Bisexuals are gonna kill me.”
Picture of Donald Trump on the left and Malcolm Kenyatta on the right. Trump: "BIG WIN: The Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS. Wow! That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!" Malcolm Kenyatta: "A man who owes a woman $5 million for sexual assault and was besties with a pedophile should STFU about protecting women and girls."
Drawing a muscled god, very muscled and bearing two rods with lightning shooting off the tops. The god is bare chested and wearing pouldrons of some sort and a helmet with wide spread horns. His eyes are bright white with no pupils. His lower body is covered by a skirt or possibly pants held up by an ornate belt. Text below the picture reads "ISHKUR"
Carving representing the Sumerian goddess Ninti.
Picture of The Tetris Effect: Connected special edition for Xbox in the shape of a green tetramino.
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
Matthew McConaughey, his arms held wide as Rust Cohle in True Detective season one. Text reads: TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE
A tiny brown rabbit on a gravel path.
Pulled pork with cilantro and corn and cheese sauce on a bed of nacho chips.
Sesame seeds and green onions drizzled on top of orange chicken with sriracha sauce all of which sits on bed of wanton chips.
Nacho chips covered with black beans, tomatoes, black beans, sour cream, and smoked pulled pork.
"There was no autism diagnosed before 1930." Picture of the planet Pluto. Text: Pluto wasn't discovered until 1930, but I'm pretty sure it was there the whole fucking time.
Image from the Bart Gets An Elephant episode of the The Simpsons. An elephant marches through the Democratic National Convention. Banners read: "We Hate Life And Ourselves", "We Can't Govern!"
Picture of Jodie Foster with a quote attributed to her: "Being gay is like being left-handed, Some people are, most people aren't, and nobody really knows exactly why. It's not right or wrong, it's just one of the many natural ways to be. The world works best when everyone gets to live as they truly are. So if you ever feel out of place, remember: you're not broken, you're just beautifully different, and that's something the world needs."
A crowd seated in front of a stage with a sign that reads Back To the Future.
Poster that reads HEALING IS NOT LINEAR with a bunch of superimposed sinusoidal curves over a dotted line y axis with hearts at either end. Arrows point to "highs" and "lows"
Post sunset pinks, purples, and oranges in the high thin clouds above the silhouette of some trees. In the upper left is a small crescent moon and a pinprick which is Venus.
The Golden Sir tweet: Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Row of Jones Soda Co Fallout collection. Boxes are Fallout blue and yellow with 3 sodas shown with Vault Boy giving the thumbs up. Underneath the RobCo logo text reads: Official Beverage Raion Contains: 4 X Nuka-Cola Orange 4 X Nuka-Cola Victory 4 X Nuka-Cherry INCLUDED! Magnet bottle opener & A collection of caps
Cover of Wired magazine from 1997 with a globe with a smiley face superimposed with a. flower coming out of its mouth. On the right side it reads: We're facing 25 years of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment for the whole world. You got a problem with that?
Screen shot of a first person perspective videogame. A darkly lit room with the light source behind the player, who holds a rifle of some kind. The room is suffused with a reddish light and is covered with shiny crystals. Several skeletal figures are prostrating themselves in a kowtow and are covered by the crystals. Another skeletal figure facing the viewer is almost entirely covered in crystals.
Picture of cartridge of Demolition Derby game for TRS-80 Color Computer.
A smiling, happy couple selfie in front of trees and an amphitheater with a hazy valley in the background.
Google search results for Thomas Harriot. Result is an overview of the English astronomer and mathematician and a portrait, followed by quick facts.
Three panel Dilbert cartoon. Panel 1: PHB says "Our goal is to write bug-free software. I'll pay a ten dollar bonus for every bug you find and fix. Panel 2: Employees jubilantly celebrating, hands in air. "YAHOO! We're rich! YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!" Panel 3: PHB - "I hope this drives the right behavior." Minion - "I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!"
A small plastic car with the words Hokkaido Sushi on the side arrives bearing a plate of edamame.
Post https://bsky.app/profile/joefielder.bsky.social/post/3mmdtp7rqfs2g followed by post from @infinitescream.bsky.social that reads: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A sweet, sweet tuxedo kitty sleeps serenely on a light blue blanket. His rear white boots are visible, including the precious black and pink beans on his right rear foot. His front left glove is slightly visible as well as a milk splash by his muzzle. His ears appear up and alert.
Picture of clouds at high altitude. A nearly uniform white field extends to the horizon above which is nearly a uniform royal blue.
A large jet on the tarmac with American Airlines livery.
A picture of the Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother Where Art Tho
THE BIG BEAUTIFUL DELAY Why You're Not Feeling the Bill-Yet H.R.1 (The "Big Beautiful Bill'") was designed to delay the damage until after the 2026 midterms. Here's what's coming... but not just yet: CUTS COMING AFTER THE ELECTION: Medicaid work rules - Dec. 2026 Food aid restrictions - Late 2026 Clean energy credits end - Mid to late 2026 Student loan changes - Gradually by 2026 Affordable housing cuts - Phased in post-2025 Rural hospital funding declines - Starts 2026 WHY IT'S DELAYED: Politicians want your vote before you feel the impact The harshest parts are hidden until after ballots are cast STAY ALERT. SPREAD THE WORD. KNOW WHAT'S COMING. Watch what's delayed-not just what's announced.
Cardboard package with a prominent yellow and black radiation symbol.
High altitude photograph of two snow capped mountains. Clouds hang in the air near the mountains. The farther mountain has a flattened peak while the nearer mountain has clouds obscuring its peak.
A group of Bronze Age Greek soldiers fighting uphill against some large, silvery looking opponents who appear to have plate armor.
Meme from Twitter: Someone with a Johnny Silverhands avatar wrote: i ain’t reading all that i’m happy for u tho or sorry that happened
A large block of text with two pictures below it. The picture on the left shows yellow flowers growing underneath a group of solar panels. The picture on the right shows several banks of solar panels under a partially cloudy sky. In the foreground to the side of the panel are black eyed susans or chocolate daisies and some mauve or fuchsia colored flowers. Text block reads: A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows. Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20 fold. Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away. Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other. One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018. By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like remnant prairie. Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil. Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold. This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space. The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050. The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground, which is ecologically dead. The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain. It's just a different seed mix.
Picture of a red fox in a snowy environment with its chest fur ruffled by the wind, its ears back, and its eyes squinted down. Below the picture is some text from a social media post: fox post-generator it fucken WIMDY
A red flag with white letters. The letters read: WE DO THIS NOT BECAUE IT IS EASY, But because We thought It would be easy
Picture of the Nine Inch Nails EP "Add Violence." Shows a control panel of some sort. On the top left is a label with the word "Anxiety" above a horizontal analog gauge. The gauge is above two old fashioned buttons, a red one labeled "Advanced Self Awareness" and a white one (which is lit up) labeled "Amplify Chaos". The buttons are above four numbered RCA type jacks. On the top right of the image are two lights. The left light is unlit and has an arrow below it pointing down to the word ENGAGE. The right light is illuminated and has an an arrow below it pointing at it from the words "SIMULATION ON". Below the lights is a four way switch with the settings (clockwise from left): OFF, MANUAL, ADD VIOLENCE, AUTO. Below the switch is an unlit light labeled RESET.
Some yellow flowers in the foreground and a dark line of trees in the background. The sky is fairly ablaze with pinks and purples of sunset bouncing off puffy clouds filling the sky.
Clint Eastwood riding a pale horse through the chaparral with a red painted town in the background in High Plains Drifter.
Kira from Deep Space 9 saying We are way, way past “sorry.”
Picture of Peter Griffin from Family Guy in a green easy chair holding a television remote. Text reads: Ah sweet man-made horrors beyond my comprehension
Text exchange between employee and manager: M: we're short staffed for tonight E: damn that's crazy goodluck tho M: we could use some extra help E: yeah I bet goodluck man
Shallowed depth of field shot (background out of focus) of an adorable black and white cat deeply sleeping on a heating mat and fuzzy blanket. The cat has a white chin and neck with a splash of milk white fur on his muzzle. His adorable pink beans can seen on his lower left leg.
Post by someone going by dreamofthemaidenless: right now on earth there's a kindly old stray tomcat who just got adopted and he's receiving enough food to fill his belly for the first time in his entire life and he's so so so happy and he doesn't even know that it's going to be like this forever :)
Picture of a car infotainment system. The radio info portion reads: FM 89.9 Souls, Jeremy Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The Streets
A vertical shot of a row of red and tulips that look not unlike flames turned into flowers.
An all black cat in profile reclining on a cat bed in a windowsill. The cat's whiskers are swept back like a 1950s fighter jet and its ears are spread wide. The cat's eyes are closed and an expression of serene satisfaction is on the cat's face.
Screen shot of a quote from Megan Mineiro, Congressional reporter: A senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said American "boots on the ground" would be a necessary step in the war against Iran. "I just don't see any other way" Representative Pat Fallon, Republican of Texas, who chairs the Military Personnel subcommittee, said in an interview with Fox News. He added: "We can't leave until the job is done." Once U.S. troops are deployed he asserted, the Iranian "people are going to rise up and the I.R.G.C. is going to melt away" referring to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the
Screenshot of conversation on tumblr: personsonable-deactivated201908: me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I'M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU miaislying: Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean? personsonable: decay exists as an extant form of life miaislying: That's a terrifying answer, have a nice day