Vaska Raeca

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He/Him Technical Writer Professional Doomscroller Fan Of A Certain Spectre Haunting Europe

Photograph of a book with the title, "The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages" written by Christopher Pinney. The protective book cover is a semi-translucent material that makes the illustrated cover of people riding on camels in a desert resemble a mirage.
Photograph of a book with the title, "Insomnia: A Cultural History" written by Eluned Summers-Bremner. The cover shows the side of a house, at night, with lights on inside.
Photograph of the board game, "Class War: The Jacobin Board Game" which shows various anthropomorphic animals shading pink on one side, representing the working class, and other animals shaded in blue representing the bourgeois.
Book cover with the title "Knead to Know: A History of Baking" by Neil Buttery with a graphic illustration of a baker holding a container full of various breads.
A Citroën HY (unsure which year) painted in a bright light blue with white highlights. It has the sign for the Jona Bells cafe on the side with pictures of various food and drink. It is chained down, presumably to prevent theft.
Photograph of a board game box with the label, "Secret Hitler" with text above that reading, 'Can you find and top the..." On the top of the box is artwork showing a skull, snake, pigeon, watching, pen, knife, and other seemingly random items.
The doomed USCSS Sulaco approaching the prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161. The Sulaco is only barely lit up by the sun which is mostly obscured by the planet.
Poster for the 1997 movie, "Wag The Dog" which shows Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman in suits, blue and gray respectively, smiling at each other. Below them is a film canister with the presidential seal on it. The tag line is "A comedy about truth, justice, and other special effects"
Image of the book "My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People & Their Animals" by Leslie Irvine. The cover shows a man, presumably unhoused, who is tenderly holding his dog as a veterinary services person, mostly of frame, examines them.
An old, sleeping black cat.
Scene from "Phoenix 2772" where Olga, a robot, unfolds from a compact design into a full female humanoid.
Side of the Fuji racetrack with the Alpine team staff celebrating their win, jumping on the fence, hugging, and cheering.
Corner of the Fuji race track with the Heart of Racing Hypercar spinning of the track, its front edge torn up, and the same team's GT3 car also going off track in a plume of smoke while other Hypercars and GT3s pass by.
Render of a book with the title, "Americans Without America: New Horizons of Spatio-Political Possibilities in the Former Empire" by Deven Ozgur. The cover design shows a faded outline of the American flag with the stars drifting away from the blue block. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "To Begin Again: The Operational Environment and Political Fictions of Conflict Inheritance in the Former United States" by Kalei Mwayi. The cover design shows an outline map of the United States with color coded squares over certain areas. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "When The Shooting Stopped: Contested Solidarities and Translating Anarchist Community Theory Into Radical Futures" by Simran Dor. The cover design shows the spent casing of a bullet with the title overlaid. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Bricks Are Heavy: Weapon procurement strategies and micro-dynamics of opportunity in transgender resistance communities" by Thato Yuki. The cover design shows shows several slices of various assault rifles. (This is not a real book, yet) (Yes, the 'Bricks Are Heavy' title refers to the brick Marsha P Johnson threw at cops during the Stonewall Protest and the L7 studio album.)
Render of a book with the title, "No Survivors: Individualist Verticality and Prepper Community Failure in North Dakota" by Ravinder Ange. The cover design shows a photo of the North Dakota wild with the 'No Survivors' title repeated several times, with each repetition another letter vanishes. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Burned Shadows: Radioactive Material Surface Distribution and Implications in the Phoenix Exclusion Zone" by Theodoar Jaffe. The cover design shows an overhead map of the city of Phoenix cut up into a grid with boxes of yellow, orange, and red denoting radiation. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "State of Terror: Whiteness Pedagogies and Consolidation; Texas Death Squads in the Rio Grande Demilitarized Zone" by Cassidy Sheridan. The cover design shows an overhead geographic map of the Texas and Mexico border with an area marked out by red lines. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Unmourned: Logistical support and mass grave excavation practices for climate events" by Vanja Kirabo. The cover design shows the x-ray of a hand fading into the black background. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "One Drop: Ethnic Quantification and the Semantics of Political Violence in the Neo-Confederate States" by Padma Uduak. The cover design shows a soldier, shows a ripple of water in a red overlay. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Corrosion of Conformity: Diagnosis Concepts for Negative SSRI Interactions in the Federal Patriot Citizen Initiative" by Lisakhanya Kyo. The cover design shows a soldier, standing, facing the camera, with part of his head fracturing and coming apart. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Drowned Worlds: Imagined Communities and Cultural Reconfiguration of the Louisiana Refugee Diaspora" by Nitzan Khine. The cover design shows the coastline of Louisiana after significant flooding by climate change. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Surplus to Requirements: Government Policy Implementation of End-of-Life Programs for Population Reduction" by Kiran Yamikani. The cover design shows an unhoused man in ragged clothes standing in the street as a truck hurtles past. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "The Limits of Power: Comparative Analysis of Military Occupation Responses To High-Intensity Insurgency in Chicago" by Si-Woo Kumbukani. The cover design shows the downtown skyline of Chicago obscured by a massive plume of smoke. (This is not a real book, yet)
Screen from Silverstone race with the GT3 Porsche of the Iron Dames racing team in the center, having just won the race.
Render of a book with the title, "The Uncounted: Dataset modeling limitations for statistical inference in classification duties for mass extinction incidents" by Lakshmi Oluwasun. The cover design shows the skull of an animal. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "The Throne of Immanuel: Violence Temporalities and Imperial Culture in the Third Mexico-United States War" by Masozi Leighton. The cover design shows a series of army tanks driving in formation through the desert. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Sins of the Fathers: The construction of child sacrifice as a principle of gun culture' by Mink Yoshie. The cover design shows a series of photographs from school shootings in the United States. In the middle of the photos is a line drawing of the god Moloch, being handed a child as an offering. Opposite of the photographs is a listing of firearm massacres in the United States. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "States of Exception: The biopolitics of family separation and detention in climate refugee camps" by Tionge Whetu. The cover design shows a crowd of people with some of the having red x's over them, suggesting removal (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Dead Capital: Organ Extraction Harvest Framework And Risk Exposure Determinants" by Thoko Rylee. The cover design has the title in huge letters with the drawing of a human heart in them. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Dead Dreams: Affectual Research of Displacement Psychologies in Post-Disaster Settlements" by Chikelu Yasu. The cover design shows Ed Hawkins's 'climate stripes' showing rising temperatures. In the middle is a photograph of newly built homes in Schriever, LA, which are housing climate refugees from Isle de Jean Charles. (This isn't a real book, yet)
Shot of the hypercar winner, the Penske Porsche driven by Kevin Estre, on the side of the track.
Split screen with the Iron Dames garage on the left showing the crew pushing the pink LMGT3 car back inside.
The LMGT3 Akkodis Lexus, perpendicular to the barrier with its nose almost against the wall, stopped on the track.
Split-screen showing on the left the Toyota hypercar beached in the gravel just in front of the barrier, while on the right the LMGT3 Corvette has stopped on the side of the track, apparently dead. An official watches the Corvette from their side of the safety barrier.
Shot of the track with a mess of GT cars with a hypercar mixed together as they approach a corner. The track is wet, the rain is coming down, and the spray from the tires makes it hard to see anything; most cars are just headlights.
Corner of the race track with the Alpine and the Aston Martin hypercars having spun off, the Aston Martin sitting on the grass having spun around. The track is soaked from the rain, which is still coming down.
The BMW 20 Hypercar stopped on the side of the track with the door open and the driver standing beside it. Parked behind it is an official safety vehicle. An official in a black uniform is standing near the driver, talking.
Drivers, technicians, and other personnel standing around their cars, holding umbrellas in the rain, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, for the start of the WEC Lone Star race.
Render of a book with the title, "Suffer the Children: Child Mortality Index Comparison Studies in the Arkansas Special Economic Zone" by Padma Linh. The cover design shows photographs of the Arkansas capitol building and two children working. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title, "Poverty By Design: Algorithmic Social Welfare Expenditure Management and the Informatics of Dispossession" by Chi Munroe. The cover design has several lines with branches, each a different color, leading to different ends. (This is not a real book, yet)
Render of a book with the title "Erasing The Other: Museum Collection, Archival Deletion, and Destruction Practices in Alabama" by Xia Ashton. The picture below the text shows a dumpster full of books. There is a series of lines of varying height on the book cover which is an audio waveform of the start of "Dixieland" (This is not a real book, at least not yet)
Render of a book lying on wooden floorboards. The title of the book is 'Cold Comfort: Artificial Intelligence Counseling and Disproportionate Suicidality In Limited Care Rural Communities' by Kai Wei. The book title is on an orange background, while the top half shows logic decision trees. (This is not a real book, at least not yet)
Render of a book lying on wooden floorboards. The title of the book is 'Useful Idiots: Fascist Ideological Normalization at the New York Times from 1922 to the Purge' by 'Munashe Apurva'. The book cover has a photograph of the front of the New York Times building, while the top is a series of eighteen former and current employees, managers, and owners at the NYT during its history.
Cover for the book "The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World" by Jeff Goodell that shows the skyline of New York half submerged by water.
Screenshot from the British science fiction television series "Space: 1999" showing an infrastructure site on the moon with a location title that says, "Nuclear Waste Disposal Area Two" (This site will explode, hurling the moon into space)
Illustration of a cutaway of a building with the floors parked with cars with the title of "Hotel for Autos"
Still from Kidd Pivot's adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector" by Jonathon Young and Crystal Pite. There is a single man on stage, painted in white, almost naked except for a row of spikes affixed to his back and antlers on his wrists. He is kneeling on the ground, one leg stretched out, bent over, leaning on his elbows with the antlers over his head like horns.
Still from Kidd Pivot's adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector" by Jonathon Young and Crystal Pite. The stage is almost completely black with only the floor lit. Eight dancers are on stage, frozen in position after a dance number. Behind them a screen shows sharp reflections of light.
Still from Kidd Pivot's adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector" by Jonathon Young and Crystal Pite. The stage consists of four pieces of furniture, a chair, desk, filing cabinet, and doorway all in the same wood veneer. In front of the desk a dancer in a military uniform points to another man in a postal-style outfit who is in distress.
Still from Christian Spuck's adaptation of Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise'. The stage is enclosed by gray walls, the floor a grayish-blue that is dusted with snow. At the front of the stage are four dancers in long flowing gray dresses, each with their face turned to the side and arms across their chest, hand over the shoulder. In a corner of the stage is a women in a simple black dress and wearing a blindfold, walking very slowly along the wall.
Still from Christian Spuck's adaptation of Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise'. The stage is enclosed by gray walls, the floor a grayish-blue that is dusted with snow. There are several light-bars hovering above the stage, illuminating two pairs of dances; one a man in black and a women in a short gray dress, the other a man and woman in black. On the right side of the stage a man in a black suit stands, singing the words of the poem.
Still from Christian Spuck's adaptation of Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise'. The stage is enclosed by gray walls, the floor a grayish-blue that is dusted with snow. At the center is a man holding a woman as they dance. Behind them are several people in black clothing with fake crows on their arms or shoulders, holding perfectly still as they are lowered below the stage.