Victor Klien

@vicklien.bsky.social

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Image of chafed, beat-up hands of ocean rower Kelsey Pfendler.
Image of earth showing the tropic-of-cancer, equator and tropic-of-capricorn, and their relationship to the summer and winter solstices.
Image from Texas Monthly article: 'Hundreds of attendees joined the “Don’t Sharia My Texas” forum at the Texas GOP convention in Houston on June 12.'
Image of Nazi Brownshirts in Germany in 1926.
Image of Queen Elizabeth II, in light blue dress, sitting.
Pictures shows anti-Trump sticker added to gas pump in USA.
Movie: Terminator: Biker thrown on the hot stove scene.
Image of chalk text on street next to Tesla Cybertruck that says "swasticar" with an arrow pointing at the Cybertruck.
Summary graphic titled "His Best Work vs. His Worst", shown successes and failures of the predictions Gary Marcus has made about AI.
Image of soccer players at 1938 World Cup doing nazi salute.
Copied from Wikipedia: Richard Walther Darré addressing a meeting of the farming community in Goslar on 13 December 1937 standing in front of a Reichsadler and Swastika crossed with a sword and wheat sheaf labelled Blood and Soil (from the German Federal Archive)
US WW2 propaganda poster. "It _can_ happen here". Shows black boots with swastikas on them.
Famous painting of John Brown called "The Tragic Prelude," displayed at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. Painted by John Steuart Curry, ca. 1938-1940. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
A room at the Palazzo Reale in Turin, heavily covered in gold details. From an article in House & Garden.
Image of a very fat leopard, sitting in a tree. Apparently AI-generated. From Reddit's /r/ChatGPT/
Image from article shows relative sizes of Statue-of-Liberty, etc. compared to planned 50-megawatt twin turbine.
Cartoon of American soldier who has killed civilian parent, trying to avoid blame when talking to surviving, now orphaned child.
Image of the author with quote from article: "I’ve made this decision now because our nation has arrived at a moment in its history where staying silent for personal comfort isn’t an option anymore. Almost every institutional guardrail holding our constitutional republic together has either broken or has been strained to the point of failure."
Images of Portland, Oregon anti-ICE demonstrators in colorful costumes. From 2025-10-02 Atlantic article.
Adult Obesity Rates by State (United States), 2020
1949 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Josef Stalin Birthday VINTAGE Silver 50 Korun Coin
Picture of German troops on horseback in early WW 2: "Hitler's first military action: German troops occupy the Rhineland"
Picture of statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands on National Mall in Washington DC.
Image of Adolf Hitler passing through the Brandenburg Gate on his way to the opening ceremonies of the 1936 Olympic Games
Young child reaching for hot pot on stove-top.
Screen capture for the AI-Overview resulting from a Google query for "Titanic binoculars myth".
Screenshot of top of 2022 Usenix paper titled "How to diagnose nanosecond network latencies in rich end-host stacks".
Shows picture of the plastic toy from the 1960s called "Sixfinger" (a 6th finger made of plastic!).