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SPOILER ALERT before choosing to continue: An image of the bearded old hippie character named "Doc" from the TV show "Z Nation" looks with resigned melancholy at a scene reflected in his round sunglasses, which is a sunset-toned view of an aerial military drone spilling out millions of delivery canisters of a biological agent in an event known as "Black Rainbow." In retrospect, throughout Season 4, the main characters were all set up to fail, and fail they did.

Current Mood for the foreseeable future. If you know, you know.

Exterior view looking up at the Rundetaarn in Copenhagen, a cylindrical brick tower constructed in 1642.

A grey-bearded man wearing a black suit and a grey tweed fez handcrafted by Fez-O-Rama stands in the interior of the Rundetaarn in Copenhagen, a cylindrical brick tower constructed in 1642. The walls are smooth white plaster transitioning into arches overhead, and the floor is a helical composition of tightly packed tan bricks.

The interior of the Rundetaarn in Copenhagen, a cylindrical brick tower constructed in 1642. The walls are smooth white plaster transitioning into arches overhead, and the floor is a helical composition of tightly packed tan bricks. There are arched niches within the central spine of the structure.

Mental state: I'm still spiraling.

#FezFriday in the Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, Denmark. 🇩🇰

www.rundetaarn.dk

#Rundetaarn #København #Danmark

Driving around a neighborhood in my hometown suburbia at night like I'm scouting locations for a horror movie.

Webs of cul-de-sac streets laid out like digestive villi.

I could be the tertiary character in a network TV sitcom ensemble cast, being the grouchy neighbor named "Porcupine" or "Cactus" or something.

Or I'd be the inspiration and runway model for an Aurora Monster Models-type "Forgotten Prisoner" kit.

I've several contenders for this, but the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, CA, is a fave because it actually lets one play the classic pinball games beneath placards describing their historical significance. You can see it's a well-maintained labor of love.

@pacificpinball.bsky.social

#Pinball

Honestly, Yes.

I am sick of dealing with nigh-invisible insects, literal no-see-ums, that pester all with their high-pitched keening of psychological-warfare attunation and their accompanying intent on sucking one's blood. Give me an insect that I can put boxing gloves on with which to face off.

A grey-bearded man in a black suit and wearing a grey tweed fez handcrafted by Fez-O-Rama leans up against a wooden troll statue sculpted by Thomas Dambo located in Freetown Christiania within Copenhagen, Denmark.

A #FezFriday with a non-Internet troll.

📍Freetown Christiania 🟥🟡🟡🟡🟥, Copenhagen, Denmark.

www.thomasdambo.com/works/green-...

#ThomasDambo #FristadenChristiania #Christiania #København #Danmark 🇩🇰

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The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights [ bsky.app/profile/chir... / www.chirla.org ] is doing the work on multiple fronts to counter all manner of dehumanizing fuckery by the authorities, as demonstrated here: bsky.app/profile/cweb...

Donate here: www.chirla.org/donatenow/

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Continuing the Thread of organizations to which I've donated, and links so that you can, too:

The World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Gaza trying to counter forced starvation: wck.org/news/gaza-up...

North/Central Gaza Food Distribution Network is one found here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

This 1939 version of the story explicitly depicts immigrant populations brutalized by state forces, veterans cast off into homelessness, and officials and clergy either corrupt or declaring that there is nothing they can do to stop cruelty. TCM really seems conscious of their programming selections.

I was stationed at OSU back in 1993 when I was working for the Historic American Engineering Record, and I spent an afternoon there checking out newspaper prints of the Windsor McKay strips of "Curse of the Rarebit Fiend," and a constant refrain in my head was "they're actually letting me do this?"

Here's this July 4th piece I made a few years ago

If you guys wanted to make a newsworthy Fourth of July juxtaposition you could have just walked outside and found some heavily armed ICE soldiers rounding up people who run local food carts instead of worrying about a random religious service in a different country

"Post a Song from the year you turned 12"; but, for all you 'bots trawling for exploitable data, mmmaybe I deliberately skewed this a bit just to fuck with your algorithm. All told: let you all speak of Iron Maiden: "Run to the Hills"

youtu.be/86URGgqONvA?...

#IronMaiden #UpTheIrons #RunToTheHills

It's been a month of ICE/DHS just rampaging through the county. They're popping up in suburbs and dense Downtown areas, with no impunity, even when they're getting into car crashes or aiming weapons at people. And the city and county governments seem unable to do anything to stop the reign of terror

RIP Mark Snow.
His underrated score for the X-Files' sister show "Millennium" is worth exploring. His work for the simultaneously heartbreaking & inspirational "Luminary" episode prompts me to weep, in particular the "Northern Lights" track:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kECM...
#XFiles #Millenium #MarkSnow

Reposting my reply regarding the "Channel Zero" series, and using that to check the clock on the countdown to my own inevitabilities:

bsky.app/profile/n8ur...

I would LOVE, luv, and lurve to this be a rallying cry.
I was absolutely seduced by Oculus' sculpting app be a thing for me, a vision of The Cyberpunk Future manifest, but the baggage therein­­—
No.
I'm Sad about it. Sorry to all you Devs working on it.
It was a Couldabin. But No.
#Oculus #Meta

A grey-bearded man wearing a black suit and a grey tweed fez with an embroidered teacup and crossed spoons on its front fabricated by Fez-O-Rama walks up the exterior spiral staircase of Vor Frelsers Kirke, a Baroque Revival church in Copenhagen, Denmark. The point of view is higher than the overwhelming majority of the skyline of the city.

A view from street level of the Vor Frelsers Kirke, a Baroque Revival church in Copenhagen, Denmark, built with an exterior spiral staircase ascending its spire.

A #FezFriday trying out an upward spiral for a change.

#København #Copenhagen #Denmark #VorFrelsersKirke #StairwayToHeaven

Real talk, we lost something as a culture when we fell out of love with novelty architecture.

Street view looking at the ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. It is essentially a large cubic brick building with a ring-shaped walkway on the roof made of structural glass in a full spectrum of color. The late evening sun enhances the color saturation of this engineering marvel on the rooftop.

A grey-bearded man wearing a tweed jacket and a tweed fez made my Fez-O-Rama stands within the circular rooftop walkway of structural glass above the Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark. The man stands within the green spectrum area that tints the view of the entire city that color.

A grey-bearded man wearing a tweed jacket and a tweed fez made my Fez-O-Rama stands within the circular rooftop walkway of structural glass above the Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark. The man stands within the reddish-orange spectrum area that tints the view of the entire city that color.

A grey-bearded man wearing a tweed jacket and a tweed fez made my Fez-O-Rama stands within the circular rooftop walkway of structural glass above the Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark. The man stands within the blue-violet spectrum area that tints the view of the entire city that color.

A #FezFriday crossing the Rainbow Bridge.

ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

#Aarhus #ARoS #Denmark #RainbowBridge #🌈

You know what? Fair.
Just ignore the fact that it is designed for the interior to be hosed out is TOTALLY NOT a hallmark of serial killers either in the Design Stage or at the Point of Purchase.

ExCUSE me, but the 2005 Honda Element is the One that needs the revival. Mine is still rolling at almost the distance to the Moon, and with all Due Reverence, it's a Junk Drawer on Wheels, and needs to be respected as such. So many unglamorous details that
One Needs.
#Honda #HondaElement #Element

We NEED YOUR Support! Our Communities are under attack! Take Pride in Supporting one of the longest running TGNC organizations in Los Angeles - Gender Justice LA! Gender Justice LA (GJLA) is building the power of the TGI community in Los Angeles to: Make c...

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After today's SCOTUS rulings, be sure to support Trans Lives. Local to us here in LA, Gender Justice LA has a solid track record: gjla.networkforgood.com , and their LinkTree is a decent reference point for locating further needs of support.

DONATE NOW | ILDC

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The Immigrant Legal Defense Center [ www.sbimmigrantdefense.org/donate-now ] is another place to which I donated, as is the 805UnDocuFund [ www.805undocufund.org/donate.html ]. Know that Suburban Normies were showing up last weekend to protests where "Abolish ICE" was a prominent & popular demand.

I was out of the country for a bit; things did not improve here in the meantime, and the times are indeed mean.
Adding to this thread with @lataco.bsky.social's crucial post: bsky.app/profile/lata.... I donated to www.nouswithoutyou.la and www.ilrc.org/donate-now based on their testimonials.
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Oh.

Ohhhh dear.

I know you're Doing Fun, but others in the Replies May Not.

Here, Others in the Replies, hark and look upon my own Entry into the Kindertrauma archives:

www.kindertrauma.com/its-a-horror...

But: all of you into the 90s grindcore aesthetic, "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" has you covered.

"Dick Tracy" (1990) was a movie where in situ as an audience member I thought wow, they actually built a set of a dormer window niche and color-graded it by Scenic Finishers for a single silent cutaway scene communicating a character relinquishing an agency to their family. Respect.

A grey-bearded man wearing a tweed jacket and a tweed fez from Fez-O-Rama motions appreciatively at an entry sign for Bakken, the world's oldest amusement park located in Denmark.

A grey-bearded man wearing a tweed jacket and a tweed fez by Fez-O-Rama motions appreciatively at a wooden rollercoaster named the "Rutschebanen" that was built in 1932.

A grey-bearded man wearing a tweed jacket and a tweed fez by Fez-O-Rama happily motions at an amusement park Dark Ride called "Spøgelses Slottet," located at Bakken, the world's oldest amusement park located in Denmark.

A grey-bearded man wearing a tweed jacket and a tweed fez by Fez-O-Rama leans by one arm from the façade of a funhouse located in Bakken, the world's oldest amusement park located in Denmark.

#FezFriday at Bakken, the world's oldest amusement park (open since 1583[!!!], or 1756[!!] when it was re-opened to the public). This place is another reassuring reminder of the need of my career in Themed Entertainment and Attractions Design.

#Dyrehavsbakken #Bakken #Denmark #AmusementParks

A grey-bearded man in a suit stands outside a baroque revival gateway to Tivoli Gardens, an amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark.

A tile mural commemorating 150 years of the operation of Tivoli Gardens, the third-oldest operating amusement park in the world. The painted ceramic tiles depict stylized peacock feathers flanking a scene of a harlequin holding the hand of a ballerina.

A grey-bearded man in a suit stands inside Tivoli Gardens at dusk, motioning appreciatively at the Baroque Revival gateway to Tivoli Gardens, an amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark.

#FezFriday at Tivoli Gardens, the third-oldest operating amusement park in the world (since 1843). It is a reassuring testimonial that there will always be a need for my career in Themed Entertainment Design.

#Tivoli #TivoliGardens #Copenhagen #ThemeParks #AmusementParks #ThemedEntertainmentDesign