Red Durkin

@daedsider

bookseller, book buyer, book scout, bookstore owner, horror & rare book collector. I don't read; it's my terrible secret, please don't tell anybody I used to be famous for being trans, like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee. Psalms 109:8

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Red Durkin@daedsider· 27d

Try to get this little mf to look at the camera, you can't

A small blonde dog look pensively away from the camera

a small blonde dog with his tongue handing out looking just away from the camera right in front of his face

a small blonde dog with his tongue hanging out, a wild look is in his eyes, which are NOT pointing at the camera

A small blonde dog with his face mostly directed at the camera, but his eyes could not be looking further away

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 11

My Lucky is wondering the same thing

a long-haired chihuahua mix lays in a fluffy bed among bookcases and looks curiously at the camera

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 9

be a real shame...

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 8

That's not how to contact Mitch McConnell

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 6

cutting my hair for the first time after 5 years of trying to forget I have a body

still from the movie John Wick, showing Keanu Reeves, a slick hair man in a suit, angrily looking up at someone as he speaks. There is blood in his hairline. The caption reads "But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm [bangs]"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 6

Atlas Holding the World meme depicting a nake, muscular man kneeling on a piece of rock and holding the Earth above his head. He is labeled "the company says" and the Earth is labeled "a bunch of fake nonsense you credulously published"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 5

And when I say lowkey obsessed, I mean my very old phone is absolutely stuffed with things like this

AI slop ad off a man chugging from a huge jar of what appears to be honey and cashews. His eyes are vacant and there is honey on his nose. The caption reads "Declining Memory Has Been Linked To This Special Breakfast... [Memory APP | Sponsored] (Learn More)"

AI slop ad of a stern, blonde woman in a white suit wearing black rubber gloves and holding up a steak the size of a medium-small dog. There is an audience of blank faced people sitting behind her. The caption reads "SPONSORED / SILVERPENNY (Learn more) If You're Collecting Under $3950 in SS a Month: You're Eligible for These 10 Discounts"

AI slop ad of an elderly pair of knee with oozing honeycombs strapped to them with cling film. The caption reads "Knee or Hip Pain? This 1-Minute Method Is Getting Attention [Health Info | Sponsored] (Learn More)"

AI slop ad of an old man in a camouflage uniform kissing the forehead of an older woman in a star spangled sweater. She is blank eyed and chugging from what appears to be a large bottle of whiskey. They are both well into the 80's. The caption reads "MDs: Memory Problems After 50 Have Been Linked to a Drink... [Memory APP | Sponsored] (Learn More)"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 5

When I say "genre" I mean "genre"

AI slop ad showing an Asian male doctor speaking to a older man in crisp military uniform lying in a hospital bed and starring blankly into space. The caption reads "Documentary: Neurologists Alert. Japan's Oldest Doctors Say Memory Loss Isn't Age: Just Sto..."

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 5

AI sucks, obviously, but I have lowkey become obsessed with the Slop ads that infect every website now. This is maybe my favorite genre of them: Old Man Absolutely Riddled With Alzheimer's Lays on His Deathbed in Full, Crisp Uniform

AI Slop ad of an apparently sleeping old man in a full navy uniform. It says "Alzheimer's Begins When You Can't Say This Word. (Superbrainfocusc)"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 5

Still from Arrested Development wherein a bald man stands in a crown, raises he fist, and yells "There are dozens of us. Dozens!"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 5

IRL

a cartoon hand holding a business card which reads "LIONEL HUTZ ESQ. WORKS ON CONTINGENCY[?] NO[,] MONEY DOWN[!] PHONE: 555-"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 5

Buff Dog vs. Cheems meme, depicting one dog with a cartoon muscular body and another dog looking dumpy by comparison. There are fireworks in the background. The muscular dog labeled "my rescue from East Oakland" is saying "i hear nothing but the chirping of crickets." The dumpy dog, labeled "most dogs," is saying "THE WORLD IS ENDING!"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 3

I feel like Temu Colin Robinson has to go to Kevin Hassett, a guy who's name and picture I got by googling "white house guy looks like colin robinson"

Kevin Hassett, who is a middle-aged, bespectacled white man who looks like the concept of smarminess was given human form by a necromancer

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jul 2

I think it should be bigger.

Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" which depicts a man in checker shirt and jacket standing up in a crowd to speak

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 30

edited tweet from dustin Couch @Dustinkcouch

nasa employee: oh hey u are back early

[congressman Tom Kean]: moon's haunted

nasa employee: what?

[congressman Tom Kean]: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 29

Washington Burning, 1814. An illustration by Joseph Boggs Beale depicting the chaotic scene of the British burning Washington, DC. It shows people fleeing, attempting to douse the flames, and carrying torches as British troops advance in the background. There is a goat in the foreground.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 29

Rob Bottin didn't work 7 days a week and almost die of pneumonia making the creature effects for the Thing so you could tell me AI is "inevitable"

Rob Bottin, a bearded man with long dark hair, wears a blue three-piece suit and rests his chin on his hand. Behind him in a creature effect he created for the film "the Thing" which is a horrifically transformed human head with long, spidery legs

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 28

Scar from the Lion King, an animated dark-maned lion with a scar over his eye, with a speech bubble

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 25

Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin in Iron Man 3: a bearded man wearing dark sunglasses and an ornate robe. A speech bubble extending to the bottom of the picture has been added.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

Today, I know exactly when the last time I had a drink was. It was a year ago. I feel an immense amount of pride. I've decided that this is the last day I'll mark the calendar. And tomorrow, if I want a drink, I can have one. I don't think I will, tho. Like I said, just showing alcohol who's boss.

A calendar page from Mark 2026. All the days have X-Marks.

A calendar page from April 2026. All the days have X-marks.

A calendar page from May 2026. All the days have X-Marks.

A calendar page from June 2026. All the days up to the 24th have X-Marks. The X on the 24th is circled.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

Eventually, I started forgetting to mark the days. Not because I'd started drinking again, but because the ritual was losing its urgency. I would remember at some point and fill in all the previous days four or five at a time. Because I was still not drinking.

A calendar page from November 2025. All the days have X-marks.

A calendar page form December 2025. All the days have X-marks.

A calendar page from January 2026. All the days have X-marks.

A calendar page from February 2026. All the days have X-marks.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

...and didn't stop.

A calendar page from July 2025. All the days have X-marks.

A calendar page from August 2025. All the days have X-marks.

A calendar page from September 2025. All the days have X marks.

A calendar page from October 2025. All the days have X-marks.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

Some weeks were better than others. I felt good, at least, about being able to track what I was doing. I wasn't drinking everyday. The days that I did drink, I drank less. And then, on June 24th 2025, I started putting X's on the calendar...

A calendar page from June 2026. There are X-marks on every day except the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 14, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 23rd.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

Eventually, I started *wanting* to "earn" an X more than I wanted a drink. I tried not to put a lot of pressure on it, though. I figured stressing about it would likely be counterproductive. And, again, I didn't really want to be sober, exactly. I joked that I just wanted to show alcohol who's boss.

A calendar page from May 2025. Ever day has an X-mark except the 10th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 24th, 26th, 29th, and 30th.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

I didn't really have an intention at first. I felt like *something* needed to change. I was really worried about my health. But I also didn't want to quit. So I just tracked the days and it was, at that point, easier to mark the ones without alcohol.

A calendar page for April 2025. There is an X-mark on the 2nd, the 4th, the 9th, the 11th, the 15th, and the 18th. There are X-marks on ever day from the 22nd and the 28th.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

Last March, after struggling with alcohol for a long time, I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I'd gone a day without drinking. I decided, with no real other motive, that I'd start tracking the days I didn't drink.

A calendar page for March 2025. Most of the squares are blank. There is an X-mark on the 19th, 20th, 26th, 28th, and 29th.

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 24

"LET! ME! HIT! IT! AGAIN!" over a hand flying at a button labeled "BANKRUPT AI"

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 21

Soldier shielding sleeping child meme, in which the knives, bombs, and grenades pelting a burning, bleeding soldier are marked "literally thousands of terrible books," the soldier is marked "book buyers," and the sleeping child is marked "customers."

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 20

"Everyone should have to use real names" Okay, my name is Jim Newman and this (the very first result from google image searching "a guy") is what I look like:

A white man with brown hair and brown eyes wearing blue shirt

Red Durkin@daedsider· Jun 17

Honorable mention to the best picture I ever took of Momo (not the best picture ever taken of him)