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Everyone else came here (for good reason) so I decided I might as well tag along to stand silently in the corner and stare at my shoes

Space cat mural, Catherine St., Oxford OX4. Art by: [Instagram] _wall2wall_. A painting on the side of a house depicting an unimpressed-looking black & white cat in a spacesuit beside a rocket taking off. Background: dark purple sky, clouds of smoke from the rocket launch, Mars-like red planet. [Edit: moved _wall2wall_ tag, actually >1 metre right of the lamp-post, into frame]
A tortoiseshell cat staring intently at a PC screen showing a youtube capture of a colourful ASCII demo: "Text Plasmosis", a 16-byte intro by Plex / BionFX from 2024. Yes, 16 bytes. That is one 30th of the size of this alt text, and 1/46000 of the size of the photo file. sizecoding = dark magic, man. More info about the intro here: https://demozoo.org/productions/338017/ Video at https://youtu.be/dgfG7aX1rDY but it has no sound so maybe not the best if you are reading this...
Using the sun logo/typeface/style of the Dune posters, the text reads Code/music: Dune Code: Hoplite; GFX: Der Piipo Greetz 2 Orange and clumsily superimposed there is a photo of Brothomstates aka Dune from Orange and a screenshot of Scream Tracker 3 playing the soundtrack module "X14 Haista Poks" (by Dune) from the Orange demo "X14"
Bender, the robot from Futurama, saying, "Some guy's." (original dialogue: Hermes - "Yeah, right. As if you ever did anything charitable!" Bender - "I'm very generous. What about that time I gave blood?" Fry - "Whose blood?" Bender - "Some guy's." <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADhrJAXEH4>)
Photo of a Commodore C64 disk drive, the Commodore 1541, which had its own CPU independent from the one in the host C64.
An infographic from the Onion, showing a jaunty clown figure and a bar chart, reading as follows: Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character? 2,500 Americans polled: Columbine: 0% Scaramouche: 0% Pulcinella: 0% Pantalone: 0% il Dottore: 0% Don't know: 100% (source: https://theonion.com/who-is-our-favorite-commedia-dellarte-character-1819586591/ )
Screenshot of Wiktionary definition of the Japanese noun 化ば (bake), quoted in the skeet text