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Kevin J. Maroney, he/him
@womzilla.bsky.social
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A dilettante in the old sense.
"We are all us."-Greg Stafford
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Richard Corben's cover to Meat Loaf's BAT OUT OF HELL. A nearly naked, heavily muscled man leans all the way back on a motorcycle that is launching into the air like a Trident missile from a cemetery. In the background, a giant bat-demon stands atop a grave marker that looks like a church spire. Everything is reds and black. One of the most metal covers ever, for an album that is at most metal-adjacent.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Dang. Not even particularly close.
Another screenshot from SLAY THE SPIRE. The Defect, the humanoid robot from the previous screenshot, lies face-down in the purple-black mist, dead, while the sickly bluegrey heart hangs unpeturbed before it. the banner "Conquered" is the only memorial to his sacrifice.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Suck it, Time Eater. Dead Heart, coming for you.
Screenshot from SLAY THE SPIRE. The Defect, a humanoid robot, has just defeated the Time Eater and 8 orbs of various colors float around his head.
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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This seems like my kind of place, yes.
Interior of a densely packed bookstore. Several chairs sit in front of a movable backboard that proclaims BOOKS ARE MAGIC.
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Share a cartoon from the past of which kids today probably never have heard.
A black and white photo of a girl in the late 1950s watching WINKY DINK AND YOU. She is sitting very close to the television, filling in a connect-the-dots monster on the screen with a marker or crayon. (There is actually a thin transparent vinyl sheet on the tv screen to protect it from the marker. The sheet was not always used, which led to family disharmony.)
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Not my home, but I know my way around
Screenshot from DOOM ][. The Spider Mastermind, a giant robotic spider with a gatling gun, faces off against the Cyberlord, a brutish minotaur with a rocket launcher, on platforms in a pit. I watch from a safe distance with my double-barrelled shotgun out.
October 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Wait, Vibe is back?
An illustration of the 1980s Justice League member Vibe. He is a Puerto Rican man in his late teens or early 20s, wearing a garish costume in black, red, and yellow; the neckline forms a giant V that exposes most of his hairless chest. And of course he has dark sunglasses because he's cool, daddy-o.
October 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Homer Simpson, in chains, looks at Marge Simpson, who is also in chains. He says, in meme font, "Don't blame me--I voted for Snorlax".
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The film poster for HELLO, DOLLY. It is slightly psychadelic, befitting its late-1960s origin, despite being a film about the 19th century. The main image is of a cartoonish illustration of Barbra Streisand singing, in an absurdly large flowered hat, while Walter Matthau looks on appreciatively; the film's title is wrapped around the circular cameo in which they appear.
October 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Modified version of a screenshot from OREGON TRAIL. It shows a low-resolution ox and wagon with the caption Get in loser We're going to Die of dystentery
October 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Who's your favorite Jedi?
(wrong answers only)
Pearl of the Crystal Gems She* is a very thin, very pale, androgynous person in a green short jacket, green tunic, black slacks, and pink ballet slippers. She holds an utterly vicious-looking sword/spear. She is smiling sweetly. Embedded in the middle of her forehead is a sizable pearl. *Her chosen pronoun, as with all Crystal Gems
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Repost with a game released the year you were born
Screenshot of (a recreation of) THE SUMERIAN GAME Change in inventory 5659 Present inventory 5842 Total resources, harvest + inventory 17362 You must now decide now to use your resources. How many bushels of grain do you wish to FEED your people? 700 How many bushels of grain do you want PLANTED for the next crop? 3000 This means that 7820 bushels must be placed in storage. Is this all right? Do you wish to 1-let your decisions stand 2-revise them? Resulting inventory 13662 The Steward will exectute the royal commands and return in 6 months. Sir, your people don't have enough food to eat and there are 13662 bushels in storage. Shall we not distribute it to them? How much? 100 Sir, I an sorry to report that 2996 bushels of grain have rotten or been eaten by rats this past season. Luduga, I fear that the people have angered our God, Ningirsa. He alone could have sent that fire across the fields to destroy your crops. Re lost a part of our harvest. --------------------- Economic Report of Ruler's Steward for the FALL season in the year 2 of Luduga I. Population at previous report
September 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Rapidly approaching Judge Death territory.
Judge Death, a screaming skeleton in a Judge uniform from JUDGE DREDD, points accusing and proclaims, "The crime is life, the sentence is death." Painting by "Darick"--I assume Darick Robertson--in full Brian Bolland homage mode.
September 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
Zebra from PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. He is an anthropomorphic zebra with a wild shock of black mane. He is standing grumpily and holding a cup of coffee.
September 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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X Magazine was an alt culture magazine for Gen X that lasted maybe a year, maybe two. It ran MILK AND CHEESE by @evandorkin.bsky.social and, in this pretty typical-looking issue, had articles on Negativland, Kyle Baker, and Eugene Chadbourne.
Cover to X Magazine #9. The cover is in three horizontal bands. The middle band is a photograph of 5 white men (NegativLand?), 4 of whom, standing in the back, have black bars over their eyes and are wearing t-shirts that read "JUST SAY BO NO!". The fifth man sits in front and looks directly at the camera; he is wearing a buttoned shirt and necktie. The top and bottom are pure text: on the top: X9 MAGAZINE HUMOR AND/OR MUSIC on the bottom: Negativland: The U2 Lawsuit Kyle Baker creates TV trash Severed Heads Milk and Cheese 1991: A palindrome year gone bad?
September 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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From the beginning of Gene Wolfe's *The Citadel of the Autarch*.
I had never seen war, or even talked of it at length with someone who had, but I was young and knew something of violence, and so believed that war would be no more than a new experience for me, as other things—the possession of authority in Thrax, say, or my escape from the House Absolute—had been new experiences. War is not a new experience; it is a new world. Its inhabitants are more different from human beings than Famulimus and her friends. Its laws are new, and even its geography is new, because it is a geography in which insignificant hills and hollows are lifted to the importance of cities. Just as our familiar Urth holds such monstrosities as Erebus, Abaia, and Arioch, so the world of war is stalked by the monsters called battles, whose cells are individuals but who have a life and intelligence of their own, and whom one approaches through an ever-thickening array of portents.
September 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Age verification
A 1970s hand-held transistor radio.
September 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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A doctor I trust more than RFKj:
Doctor Demento, an elderly white man with a full salt-and-pepper beard, a tuxedo jacket, and a top hat, brandishing an open-mouth grin at the viewer.
September 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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A visual antimetabole
On the left, a picture of Christopher Walken, dancing On the right, a picture of Ted Danson, walking
September 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Who's the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.
Rorschach from WATCHMEN #1. He is a middle-aged man in a suit, trenchcoat, ascot, gloves, and fedora, all of which are extremely shabby. His face is completely covered by a plastic mask that displays a rorschach blot-like image. He is climbing over a broken windowpane in a high-rise apartment, and other skyscrapers are lit behind him.
August 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Putt-Putt brand miniature golf courses do not have windmills, clown heads, or all of the other stereotypical silly hazards of miniature golf. Putt-Putt is, effectively, what you would get if you wanted to make miniature golf a "serious" sport.
A Putt-Putt course shown in the Wikipedia entry. There are decorative (and elegant) statues of zoo animals throughout the course, but the putting greens themselves are clear of gimcrackery.
August 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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No cheating, post the last pic of your pet.
Chris Rattsworth curled up against Elizabeth Rex. They are adorable rats.
August 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A true visionary, per Google:
Screenshot of an excerpt from a Google search for Stephen Foster: Stephen Collins Foster, known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh! Wikipedia The screenshot circles the phrase "Oh! Wikipedia", which sounds like a great song.
August 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Runner-up favorite doctor and companion
Roberta Lincoln (Terri Garr, companion) and Gary Seven (Robert Lansing, companion). Not pictured: Isis (Barbara Babcock, doctor)
August 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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My favorite doctor and companion
Spongebob Squarepants (companion) and Sandy Cheeks (doctor)
August 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM