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Screenshot of Microsoft Bob, showing a funky pixel-art ish sunroom with colorful furniture and a funny cartoon dog in the corner with a speech bubble inviting you to click objects in the room to launch programs
A translucent yellow vinyl LP plays on a turntable below a shelf holding the album sleeve. The album is Public Aging but the Philly band Puriden. There is a lil cactus in a pot next to the turntable.
The words "FUCK ICE" in all-caps, set in Igloo, the font you see on the side of an ice cooler at a gas station that has cartoon icicles dripping from it, in navy blue on a white background.
Screenshot showing text at the top of the screen and tons of space below, with a tiny scrollbar suggesting there is a lot more vertical space
Screenshot from the Last of Us with Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen saying "Well, kids die, Henry. They die all the time."
Screenshot from The Rise of Skywalker of Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron speaking with the caption "Somehow, Palpatine returned..." except I crossed out "Palpatine" and added "US-led war in the Middle East with WMDs as a flimsy pretext"
Screenshot from Andor season 2 episode 6. Krennic is gesturing, subtitle reads "Words do still have meaning."
Grainy cell phone 8x zoom photo of the lunar eclipse in progress. The shadow of the Earth is covering about a quarter of the disc of the Moon.
An animated GIF of a clip from The Matrix. Neo pummels Agent Smith in a grungy subway station.
A screenshot of enddei.ed.gov with the full text of the United States Constitution, sans spaces, in a form textbox.
Screenshot from an email newsletter: Among the things that Cowen rescinded just a few days ago: • The finding that college athletes are employees, and are therefore legally allowed to organize, and have labor rights. No more! • An Abbruzzo memo protecting employees from abusive electronic monitoring and surveillance on the job. No more! • A ban on severance agreements with overly broad non-disparagement and confidentiality sections, that infringe on your rights. These are back now! • A ban on the widespread use of non-compete agreements, which companies forced workers to sign in order to get jobs. These are back now! • A ban on captive audience meetings, where the boss forces you to sit in a room while they tell you how horrible a union would be for you. These are back now!
A clip from the film Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) in which Dr. Carl Jenkins (played by Neil Patrick Harris), concentrates intently on his psychic link with the massive alien brain bug against which he presses his palm. Behind him gathered troopers jostle and squint to catch a glimpse of him and the bug. He says "It's afraid", quietly at first as he realizes what he is sensing, and then shouts it, with the beginning of a victorious grin, to the crowd of troopers.
CFPB Union NTEU 335 members holding protest signs in front of Georgetown DC Tesla
Protest sign reading: FFFFFFFFF these FUCKING ! GUYS ALREADY STAND UP ➡️ FIGHT BACK
A poster with futuristic black text on a white background reading: Picket Tesla Hit 'em where it hurts [Black Tesla logo with red circle and diagonal bar ("no" symbol) superimposed] 2/15 11AM Tesla DC 3307 M St NW or your local Tesla showroom #teslatakeover
An image of cartoon J Jonah Jameson chewing a cigar and shaking his fist with the text "GET ME PICTURES OF VANDALIZED CYBERTRUCKS" superimposed
A screenshot of a smartphone lock screen dominated by a large 24-hr digital clock and a background of countless galaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxies are bright white or orange-gold, and many appear stretched and warped due to gravitational lensing.
The cover of So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane. Two teens traverse an ethereal bridge towards a luminous tear in the sky (presumably a portal of some kind), high above a skyscraper-dense cityscape.
Slowdive performing at The Anthem in Washington D.C. on November 17 2024. The stage, framed by arrays of hanging speakers, is visible above the sea of people in the crowd. The band is bathed in magenta cones of light. Singer and keyboardist Rachel Goswell raises a hand like Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick.
A photo taken in Cape Henlopen, Delaware under a clear blue sky. Reeds and grasses in the foreground in front of a marshy lake. On the horizon is a sand bank with a stand of trees on the left, and in the far center distance, a tan concrete cylindrical WWII cannon sight tower.
A GIF from Game of Thrones in which Jon Snow tells Varys "I don't want it"