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holding up a little, wild bouquet eons later under other stars, obscene oaths published on the windows of the skull [buy crap https://www.redbubble.com/people/ynaq/ ]

Screenshot of a restaurant review. Significantly: "It's a gas station. There is no atmosphere. I gave it a five-star on atmosphere because it's exactly what I expected it to be. The food gets a five star because they had hot cheese pizza ready to eat. Service gets a five-star because I was able to get my food and get out of there extremely fast."
From the Simpsons, on security can footage Chief Wiggins is getting pulled by the tie into the rolling hotdog machine. A text overlay says "OH BOY, THIS IS GONNA GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER"
(in a blocky font and a script font:) REASON: noble FACULTY: infinite FORM: express ACTION: angelic APPREHENSION: divine beauty of the world paragon of animals I AM A PIECE OF WORK
Ron Perlman in the simply lovely makeup from the Beauty And The Beast show from the 90's, in a cropped promotional image
A smallish steel hammer has used painter's tape wound around the shaft. The tape was used with red and blue paint making the parts that were exposed a lovely purple. The resulting effect might recall a trans-themed barber pole. The hammer sits on a dirty, well used work surface with some different painter's tape still attached
Dora T. Explorer from the popular cartoon. Her arms are spread, maybe in a shrug but it's the best image I could find in 5 seconds
ad for a Popular Science post with the headline "Why you can't see space junk in Artemis II photos"
Wordle-style game that was won in four guesses: CHAIR ROUGH FLESH MYRRH
Screenshot of unsolicited ai search results from Google for search term "mr t vs the matrix" indicating that the Matrix would likely win. This is bullshit for several reasons: 1. In the original memetic format the main theme was that Mr T wins because he is strong and valorous. He drinks milk because it's good for him and he saves community centers because it's good for the children. In this context he CAN NOT lose. 2. In any other media representation of such a conflict, I find it hard to imagine[original research] a creator including Mr T if they were going to write him losing. This isn't impossible, but unlikely. 3. In any real altercation Mr T would likely win. He's helluva strong and has a 1984 GMC custom van, as well as a keen tactical sense and unshakeable moral foundation. The Agents would be defeated (likely by being hurled a great distance) and the Matrix would be freed/destroyed/whatever in almost every conceivable scenario.
background player in a hectic office scene gets off the phone and starts fake typing. her performance is good! aside from the typing...
the "i understood that reference" gag from AVENGERS done in low definition mspaint style
stylized reinterpretation of the "i understood that reference" gag from avengers (2012). (available as a product at https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/172047420 )
"YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR WOULDN'T YOU YOU NASTY BITCH" in a distressed retro block font at low resolution
two pieces of black paper have been crumpled the same way, then un-crumpled and painted with red and white to show off their similar/identical shape. they sit on a hobby laser cutter on an absolutely cluttered work surface
ai overview from search results: "AI Overview "Old Dookie Thomas" likely refers to Thomas Johnston (1893-?), a prominent local businessman who ran the first garage and hire car service in Dookie, Victoria, Australia before moving to Berrigan around 1939, or it could be a reference to a quirky, old-school "game" character..."
there's a rectangular mass of silicone noodles glued together on a cluttered desk. it's colorful, slightly shimmery. next to it is debris from the macaroni box it cured in
A screenshot of search results for how to turn off ai features on a pixel phone. The first paragraph looks typical and would be sufficient but then there's a line right after that says "Something went wrong with this response" like the responder is upset
snip from OP. the front doors look like a drawing of... like slightly asymmetrical office doors i guess. makes no sense as a top view
cnn says at&t says it's committed to ending DEI programs
animated gif of a pasty young woman with an early-90's-ass haircut talking, recorded on probably an early consumer home video camera. it's captioned "It's the 90s. Go for it." and from the way she forms the initial sounds you can tell she has that like borrowed valley girl accent, all big rounded vowels and barely formed consonants. or whatever, i'm not great with phonology and maybe seeing what i want
if the platform decides to show this as an image, it's the litany from Blackalicious' Sky Is Falling in a pixel-adjacent style that kinda recalls the percussiveness of the vocals rAIN aND tHUNDER aND lIGHTNING cRUMBLING bUILDINGS fALLING hURRICANES eARTH sHATTERING mEMBRANES sCATTERING iNSANE hAPPENING sOULS kEEP bURNING aND tHE sKY kEEPS pLUMMETING dOWN
stylized pixel text "PRAISE ]@) ARMOK"
screengrab from AMERICAN PSYCHO, when paul allen says "great sea urchin ceviche" with weird conviction as he's leaving the room. what does this have to do with the original post? good question. maybe i'm just thinking about jared leto because of the new tron
from the opening of EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND where brad garrett is about to slide past what's his face (saying "present day?" maybe)
henry rollins in JONNY MNEMONIC kinda lookin like the guy in the headline image
an executive from an internet company in a professional mugshot. dumpy guy in a nice shirt tries to smile. i assume based on the lighting that he's in a room somewhere and composited onto an exterior photo but it'd be an improbable composition for an exterior photo so shoot i dunno
compiled promotional image of a mug that says "DON'T AT ME" with an @ in the middle and the end of the at sign curled around in red like the bar in a no sign
visual gibberish in a randomly broken up motif around rectangles of kinda pastel-neon colors that kinda look like a door, with some staccato debris around the outside repeated more densely in the interior
from THE GAME, it's the sean penn reaction shot after michael douglas thanks him for the game, where penn's eyes change like two different ways once douglas looks away
kinda looks like a sketch of a rose with an iris and pupil in the middle, kinda
in obscenely luxurious grainy black and white, marcy dawson (a gloss on mavis beacon? SURELY not) bends down to find us hiding under a car and shows her predator's smile
junkie walks his dog past floating graphics for "sublocade" in a green suburban neighborhood
stump of recently felled tree in scraggly grass. the cut plane is quite planar
black text on white: "BUSTING OPEN BARNS TOUR Summer 18th c. - Summer 21st c. DOVER down to COVINGTON COVINGTON to LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE to HENDERSON HENDERSON to SMITHLAND SMITHLAND to MEMPHIS MEMPHIS down to VICKSBURG VICKSBURG to NATCHEZ Going down to NATCHEZ Take me on a flat boat DOVER down to COVINGTON COVINGTON to LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE to HENDERSON HENDERSON to SMITHLAND SMITHLAND to MEMPHIS MEMPHIS down to VICKSBURG VICKSBURG to NATCHEZ BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY" in a ye olde stylee font, kinda mixing the look of an old broadsheet and a modern tour merch t-shirt. but the font, man, they made it look too good. there's all kinda kerning that would be impossible with set type. i manually tweaked it a bunch but y'know i don't wanna OVER-tweak. i'm still tempted to thin out the 2nd "natchez" because it would emphasize this negative-space cross...
sweet bro (who i made piont the wrong direction for some reason? i guess so he's facing bison) asks why monday won't end. m. bison aka vega replies that for himn it was tuesday: "You fat, nasty trash."
Latino guy looking alright in a suit on an urban rooftop is The Rooftop Guy from CRANK. It's just a little scene but...
judy davis as joan lee from NAKED LUNCH (1991) looking just unspeakably naughty and milfy. this is from the "it's a literary high, a kafka high..." scene. ("and it's BUG POWDER for christ's sake!")
william fichtner (hot) looks kinda like the nihilistic turtle morla (HOT) from neverending story in a thumbnail for some schlocky amazon prime movie
from AMERICAN PSYCHO; bryce asks how reagan can lie like that (while slumped in his chair, dressed impeccably, in a position of power at the end of the world)
"Dames don't understand" on an upward arc above "how i'm marries to the Notes" on a downward arc in a cool gothic-style font (Fette Unz Fraktur which rules)
.png with transparency so i dunno if ANYONE can see this but it's infinity signs stacked and overlain in bluish grey
ai search help slop: "elegant font, typically a sans-serif style like Garamond or a similar serif font, with a touch of flair and femininity. While"
indeed, the image is 1280x960. it's a chaotic field of pixels in some CGA-ass old retro default palette colors flipped and repeated to kinda make a mandala thing
screen clip of dark mode system notification on a phone: "Fox Business Trade enthusiasts praise Trump's plan to redirect Harvard funding to skilled labor"
so it's the "i understood that reference" image from the avengers film but done in an mspaint style. but the point is that you might understand the reference with the loss of fidelity so probably i should just describe it? but that would be a pain for both of us
Morgan Freeman from the end of SE7EN. it's the wrong scene/shot but still
my "man" Roy from the end of BLADE RUNNER looking impish
levar burton just chillin with a book, looking unspeakably attractive
from flcl, the inciting incident where she blesses his forehead with impact, which to this poster very recollects preparing for the cyber future with a diskette skulling
it's that moody blue photo of the minuteman single-launch-multi-payload test overlayed with "ASCREAMINGCAMEACROSSTHESKY" all jammed up in a retro kinda-bulgy font with the letters all kerned and knolled together
from Jurassic Park, the "they do move in herds" bit
it's that image of the archeologist in the hoplite helmet rendered on a laser etcher. way too dark and the greyscale drowns out the line etching, but i feel like the laser-movement artifacts could really complement the image compression artifacts which would REALLY work with the like tweed or whatever of his jacket
"JONNATHANN CYST BOYLE" in like a retro-prestige bold serif style
weirdly nonsense text from an ai summation of a web search: "Misinterpretation: The statement that Einstein was fought with sticks and rocks likely arises from a misinterpretation of the quote, possibly conflating the idea of a future war with the idea of physical violence against Einstein himself."
axel foley turns to look toward the camera, concerned. i think i captured this from the shakedown music video
"In the Kamigata area they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning the throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things." Pearline is reading from the copy of the Hagakure she got from Ghost Dog with the text overlain