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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· 7d

Max Miller (left) has much to answer for

a screencap from the movie Con Air (1997), in which Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich) holds up a stuffed bunny and points a gun at it

for his cruelty, Cyrus the Virus is eventually impaled, beaten up, smashed through a freeway flyover, dropped into high-voltage electrical wires, and finally had his head smashed by a pulverizing machine in a construction site

it would be ridiculous to wish for all of those things to happen to Max Miller, when any single one or possibly two of them would probably be sufficient

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· 11d

taking pictures of taking pictures 🙄

A brief passage from White Noise, by Don DeLillo.

“We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras; some had tripods, telephoto lenses, filter kits. A man in a booth sold postcards and slides -- pictures of the barn taken from the elevated spot. We stood near a grove of trees and watched the photographers. Murray maintained a prolonged silence, occasionally scrawling some notes in a little book.

"No one sees the barn," he said finally.

A long silence followed.

"Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn."

He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced by others.

We're not here to capture an image, we're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies."

There was an extended silence. The man in the booth sold postcards and slides.

"Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. It literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism."

Another silence ensued.

"They are taking pictures of taking pictures," he said.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· 14d

a screencap from the game Left 4 Dead, showing a wall with graffiti left inside one of the safe rooms by survivors. The most prominent, in heavy black spray paint, says WE ARE THE REAL MONSTERS, and several other graffiti-d comments have been left in response to this, including IDIOT, I think it's them stupid, No that's the zombies, and I hope you are DEAD now. To one side, someone has inartfully added Brace yourself for MELVIN.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· 14d

😞

a headline from welivesecurity.com

Kobalos – A complex Linux threat to high performance computing infrastructure

ESET researchers publish a white paper about unique multiplatform malware they’ve named Kobalos

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· 17d

current status: gettin blowed up

a screencap from a game called Split Fiction. it's a two-player co-op game, hence the split screen. there are lasers. many, many, lasers.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· 28d

yeah it’s a thing on the site (I don’t pirate it exactly, but it’s free and I block their ads)

screen cap from the wordle page in Safari iOS. It reads:

Sea of Greens
x104
You earned this badge 104 times by successfully completing a Wordle puzzle while only getting green and gray letters (or orange and gray letters if playing in high contrast mode).

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jul 8

Greenfield papyrus guy: ok so next, tell me about this... Medjed Book of the Dead guy: OH! THE SMITER BotD guy: he shoots lasers out of his eyes BotD guy: he shoots fire out of his mouth BotD guy: SO MUCH FIRE Papyrus guy: wow! ok what does he look like BotD guy: he's invisible! Papyrus guy: ...

Excerpts from the Greenfield Papyrus, an ancient recounting of the Egyptian Book of the Dead with illustrations. The minor deity Medjed is depicted as a ghost under a sheet, more or less. There are feet, and a shapeless dome, and a couple of eyes. Two birds and a kneeling worshiper with raised hands are also seen.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Papyrus

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jul 6

Oh good I get to use this again (it's a little extra photoshoppy in the middle bc i had to edit out my Bell Beefer-loving friend who i had edited in) BBD is not super popular any more but believe me they are still much better than Turd Munch DeVoe

The album cover for Bell Biv Devoe's 1990 multi-platinum album Poison. The band name has been altered to read "Bell Biv Beefer" and two of the three band members are holding Bell Beefers. (The third already ate his.)

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jul 3

oh hey I saw that one too

Tall pile of cumulonimbus clouds over northwest Chicago with the upper reaches sidelit by evening sun

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jul 3

also a crazy amount of IC lightning once the storm kicked in

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jul 3

Chicago clouds I saw today

Big cumulus clouds, some dark and strongly backlit by evening sun and others bright. Crepuscular rays are visible in the center illuminating the brightest clouds.

A broad view of the mid north side of Chicago, looking north along Halsted. Cloud cover is low and gray over the city but there sky above the cumulus clouds is pale blue. Patches of cloud are well lit by evening sun and others are dark.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 29

and when i get that feelin, i want hexual ceiling

a photo of a business conference room with the ceiling covered in acoustic tiles in the shape of hexagons covered in alternating gray and cream color fabric

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 26

I'll take it. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

A screencap from https://britmonkey.com/2020s-political-compass/. Four bars of blue and red display results along four axes, with a "closest match" candidate at the bottom.

Text:
Your Results
81% Woke 19% Chud
45% Techbro 55% Neo-Luddite
41% Hopepilled 59% Doomer
70% Davos 30% Dubai

Your Closest Match:

Zohran Mamdani
Mayor of New York City (2026-present)

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 26

In unrelated news, Bessent secures the lead role in the upcoming remake of Heartbeeps

Heartbeeps is a 1981 American science fiction romantic comedy film about two robots who fall in love and decide to strike out on their own. Pic shows Bernadette Peters and Andy Kaufman, the two leads, as weirdly shiny and plastic robots.

Fun fact: the guy who did the makeup, Stan Winston, was nominated for the inaugural Academy Award for Best Makeup in 1982, only losing out to Rick Baker's practical creature effects in American Werewolf in London. But where Stan Winston's challenge was making real human people look plastic and artificial, somehow Scott Bessent's makeup team has to make a plastic and artificial simulacrum look like a real human person.

They're not doing so well.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 25

marketing American patriotism in 2026? to the Mountain Dew crowd?

A screencap from the movie Dodgeball (2004). Cotton McKnight (Gary Cole) and Pepper Brooks (Jason Bateman) are commentators at a dodgeball game. Text reads: "It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em."

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 20

iirc this is how Them! (1954) starts

a screencap from the movie Them! (1954) in which a woman in the background is fleeing from a giant ant in the foreground. It's difficult to judge from this over-the-shoulder perspective but the woman is probably around 5 feet tall while the ant is at least 10-15 feet tall, possibly over 20 if you count the antennae.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 19

Also a cunt: the Bluesky automod

A view of this post in the Bluesky webview showing that all 4 replies have been hidden by default, I guess because they were using a naughty word, heaven forbid we should be exposed to naughty words on bsky

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 13

i bet he's got those heavy-duty suspensors like Baron Harkonnen in Dune

A screencap from Dune (1984), in which the the diseased and morbidly obese Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (portrayed by Kenneth McMillan) is levitating several feet off the floor with the aid of suspensors fitted into a suit. Two attendants and some sort of doctor are standing by. An edit to the image has replaced Harkonnen's face with Trump's.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 13

see also this relevant all-timer

A screencap of a tweet on X.com by Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit), posted at 11:37pm on Sep 30 2023, having received 2M views.

The tweet is itself a screencap of a post by Elon Musk with the text "Hip-firing my Barrett 50 cal" above a picture (actually video I guess?) of the world's richest jackass doing exactly that. He is clad in black pants and a black t-shirt, giving goths everywhere a bad name. He is wearing ear protection while holding a comically large machine gun and firing it as promised from the hip, presumably at targets downrange and out of view. We have no evidence that those targets are shaped like immigrants and poor people, but we also have no evidence that they are not, so we'll have to just agree to disagree.

To this tableau @ChaseMit has added the kicker: "SAY HELLO TO MY ONLY FRIEND!"

(for those unfamiliar this is a reference to the movie Scarface, where Al Pacino similarly wields a heavy machine gun while yelling "Say hello to my little friend!" But of course Mr. Mitchell's edit nails both the performative masculinity and the desperate attention-seeking that characterize most things that Elon does.)

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 12

Am I the only one reminded of the hapless idiots in Fargo?

Gaear Grimsrud and Carl Showalter (Peter Stormare and Steve Buscemi) from the movie Fargo (1996).

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 12

There’s always a lighthouse. There’s always a man (named Elias Thorne). There’s always a city.

Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, standing in front of an infinite field of lighthouses. No text in this image but this is a scene near the end of the game where she says "There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city."

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 8

a night for bedtime tragedies on bsky 😔 (cc @antlervel.vet)

two skeets in my timeline:

‪✨Directed by John Carpenter✨‬ ‪@ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social‬ · 8m
I didn’t take my melatonin and now it’s too late 💀

‪Stella Sacco‬ @antlervel.vet‬ · 8m
Went to sleep way way too early and now I’m awake at 2:35am

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 7

I like the implication that the Bowel Care seminar was truly dire and this guy's expression was in response to one of the highlights.

Trent Reznor opens a concert. Four panels, each with Trent on mic.
First panel: "How are you tonight? Having a good time? Ready to party? Have fun?"
Second panel: "Well that was the last guys. Wrong fucking band."
Third panel: "We're here to have a bad time."
Fourth panel: (synthesizer playing)

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 6

A less-magnified view.

a west-facing portico on the Herbert C. Hoover building, across the street from the Ellipse. Four columns with vertical fluting are visible. In the foreground, multiple porta-potties sit on the Ellipse grounds.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· Jun 2

The "you guys are getting paid?" meme. In a scene from We're the Millers, Kenny (Will Poulter) stands in front of a bus and looks confused and incredulous. The caption normally reads "Wait, you guys are getting paid?" but text has been crudely overwritten so it now says, "Wait, you guys are killing people?"

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· May 31

the two-panel Crying Lady and Confused Cat meme. A blonde woman is crying and angrily pointing at the second panel, which normally shows a cat sitting at a table in front of a plate of vegetables. The cat has been replaced with a first aid kit.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· May 29

I mean... if you're looking to have a discussion about people not clicking links and reading articles, and then you put the article in question behind a paywall... what exactly were you expecting was going to happen? Paywalls are sometimes necessary, authors should get paid, but... come on.

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· May 27

a screencap from an old Chappelle skit with Wayne Brady, in which Wayne Brady says, "Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?" except it has been updated to say "Is Wayne Brady gonna have to get his own beer and brats"

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· May 24

A screencap of a tweet from DC Pierson @DCpierson

DON DRAPER: "We quiero many things. Family, safety, love. But this guy--"
(taps drawing of chihuahua)
"There's only one thing he quieros."

11.28 AM Jun 6, 2014

✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt· May 23

there's no need to move the goalposts, when none of the players are anywhere on the field or even capable of playing the sport. AI proponents, on the other hand, are constantly falling in love with variations of their own reflection. they have turned pareidolia into a trillion-dollar industry.