cropped phone pic: a translucent white plastic chicken sits within a recess of a bright red company logo, with a blonde wood grain panel behind it.

Sunbathing thylacines

Photo shows an image of a medium small brown short-haired dog with her ears flapping in the wind as she gets all the smells on her way to the Rainbow Bridge.

Ribs on a tray

Photo of a speckled shape, roughly hexagonal, in the upper atmosphere of Saturn

photoshopped image: the infamous shot from "twin peaks" in which the villainous entity BOB creeps over the couch in the living room toward the camera, except it has been overlaid with fake titles and prices in the style of an IKEA catalog. in white text, the overlays include "GLÖDLAMPA lamp $15", "KONSTFULL vase $4.30", "BEKVÄM couch $315", and "KAFFE table $119", as well as the blue and yellow IKEA logo in the bottom right corner.

computer room scene from Pi

A screencap from the 1966 Batman show; a red-faced Adam West, in Batman cowl, pokes his head up through a hole in some foliage.

Ribs on a grill

A screenshot of a poem, entitled "Sputtering Flame," in simple white text on a dark background.

The poem reads:

Your wondrous spark set me alight.
A candle, burning against the darkness
Never so alive, never so full of warmth and purpose:
To illuminate your every move
And keep the monsters at bay.
You would dance in my light,
And with every flicker of my flame, the playful shadows would dance along with you.

You inspired me to burn brighter
Though neither of us seemed to notice
The wax melting
Dripping
Pooling on the tablecloth
In globs of color
Because, misshapen though I became,
I felt the warm joy of being able to watch you thrive.

As I began to sputter, rather than tend my flame
You grew upset at the fading light
And the long unflattering shadows it cast upon you.
The wax gathered at your feet now
Cold, hardened, no longer malleable
And you grew cold as well.

Reduced to ash and ember
Still I smolder
Though I can no longer brighten your smile,
No longer warm your skin,
No longer keep your demons from you.

A smiling man sits in the rear seat of a long blue tandem kayak, a small black terrier between his knees.

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

A gray-box-shaped musical effects pedal with a central black knob surrounded by four footswitches labeled “Drugs,” “Girls,” “Metal,” and “Flying Objects.”

A storefront window with white vinyl signage reading Harmonies Pizza & Ice Cream.

young cher next to a wall

square phone pic: a closeup of a light blue shirt and royal blue hoodie, folded so their logos are adjacent. the light blue shirt has the cursive MLKSHK logo, and the royal blue has the MLTSHP deelux logo.

A leering, black-bearded man with wings and gold horned helmet in studded leather singlet hefting a massive mace

Postcard of a volcano erupting and a small glass jar with light gray ash and a damaged handwritten label that says "St Helens erupted May"

Close up of a 10” margherita pizza

A red text-based public artwork by Frank Riot displayed in a JCDecaux advertising panel outside Holborn Station in London, UK. The poster reads: "When you've got rid of all the mosques but the costs of life still rise and you'e built your fortressed borders but the NHS still dies and the Muslims are all gone and your town's a wall of white but corporate vultures are still pillaging every facet of our lives who will you blame then? What will you have gained? A badge for barbarism against a backdrop of decay." Pedestrians walk past the bus shelter on a busy city street.

A person stands next to an ice axe on an icy surface. In the distance is Mt. Saint Helens erupting. The second photo shows the same person now seated with their hand on their head and the eruption is now ominously larger.

Pair of parks and rec stills captioned "I misspoke. It's May 20." And "Alright -- end of the world,.May 20th."