Flyndersticks

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Weird futures and stupid puns. Helped make solarpunk a thing. Special interests include collaborative art, game design, visions of the future, and occasionally pro wrestling.

Reproduction of a 1915 poster encouraging American "dynamiters, machine gunners, and railroaders" to ride with Pancho Villa
image of Zack Sabre Jr from new japan pro wrestling, wearing relatively high cut trunks.
Image from 1588’s "The Various and Ingenious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli" depicting a ferris wheel style contraption that used epicyclic gearing to keep all its lecterns pointed at the correct angle.
An image from Dracula Flow, the popular meme series of absurd boasts by an old man in a dracula costume.
Frontispiece from Hobbes' LEVIATHAN, the 1600s book of political theory arguing for stern governance as an alternative to a state of nature consisting of "the warre of all against all" that leads to life being "nasty, brutish, and short." The titular Leviathan is a giant dude in a crown with a sword, made up of a horde of smaller dudes, looming over the land.
Painting by frederic edwin church of the Aurora borealis
An 1876 illustration from Harpers Magazine regarding Reconstruction. A bayonet inscribed USA is stabbing through a serpent labeled "white league" and "ku klux klan"
An image from the film ghostbusters
Paperback edition of "Force and Freedom" by Jacob Burckhardt
Whitman's "The Wound-Dresser:" Thus in silence, in dream's projections, Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals; The hurt and the wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night — some are so young; Some suffer so much — I recall the experience sweet and sad; (Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Two wrestlers outside a door labeled "Tony Khan" in the graphic style of the film "Timecop"
"The president needs a wider range of options to respond to the 1980s. Force as a concept has lost most of its legitimacy."
Bruce "Utah" Philips (1935-2008) anarchist pacifist and folksinger carrying the stories and songs of hoboes and wobblies of early 20th century American west.
A satirical cartoon from 1919 featuring a caricature of a high society woman, Mrs Best-People. In the first panel, subtitled "one year ago" she is stabbing an image of a pacifist war resister, shouting "Coward! Sissy!" On the ground a newspaper reads "Pacifists are fools; force the only weapon" In the second panel, subtitled "And Today" she is clutching a handkerchief and crying "isn't it terrible to think of workmen using force?" On the ground a newspaper reads "Nothing to be gained in using force; warning to labor."
Painting of "Christina's World" by Wyeth
image of Saw and Tubes from the television show Andor
The Very Tall Man squeezed in to a VW bug. "Do you find something comical about my appearance when I am driving my automobile?"
Two union coal miners sitting behind a machine gun at the Battle of Blair Mountain, 1921
step by step diagram of the swim move, a pass rush technique for defensive linemen in american football used to evade and get by their opponents.
Street protest in front of Senator Padilla's office in San Francisco
"the power of friendship isn't working anymore I have to kill this motherfucker"
a hanna barbara cartoon of gomez and morticia addams
box cover image for Seven Wonders, the 2010 board game
Cover image for the book "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow