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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 19h

Pups in cargo-recumbent e-trike conversions are pretty dope too

Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's mind-numbingly stupider than that "put on the mask" (i.e. masking, in terms of wingnut-contrarian Covid conspiracy claptrap) means belief in tHe biG LiE that *THEY* want you to believe New "pull wool over eyes" idiom for dummies just dropped

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah, gotcha I was actually trying to track down Kornelia Paulsen yesterday (via search), to see if anyone knew if she was doing okay since she deleted her socials (the like was for her illustration) Curious, however, re the posts you mention. Links? Estoy oxidado

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been having a hella-hard time trying to find this strip. Like, for 2 yrs Dunno if the difficulty has been a brain fog thing, or a FUBAR-google thing. Or due to the artist (Kornelia Paulsen) deleting her insta (prbly all of the above) Anyone know if Kornelia is doing okay? #ME/CFS #MECFS #LongCovid

2x3 comic panel layout, illustrating the increasing isolation/estrangement experienced by ME/CFS sufferers throughout the disease's progression (from pre ME/CFS onset, through the mild, Moderate, Severe, and Very Severe stages).

Panel 1: (title text) M.E. (subtitle) HOW IT CAN SHRINK ONE’S LIFE BITS BY BITS

Panel 2: “BEFORE M.E.” illustration of buildings and objects in a row (depicted in a simple cartoon style elevation, or front-on, view); essentially representing various activities and places of a full, social, active, and purpose-filled/productive life. In other words; a high quality of life (depictions include buildings titled “WORK”, “CAFE”, “TRAVEL”, “GYM”, a residential house, among others).

Panel 3: “MILD M.E.” only the WORK building and residential house remain standing on a plateau, with the rest of the world (depicted in the previous panel) crumbled away (with the letters P, E, and M drawn upon the debris below; PEM i.e. Post-Exertional Malaise).

Panel 4: “MODERATE M.E.” only the house (with a single wilting flower) remains on an increasingly shrinking plateau, high above the PEM rubble.

Panel 5: “SEVERE M.E.” only a bed with the bedbound ME sufferer remains, completely isolated and alone atop the remains of the plateau, teetering far above the ruins. The plateau's base now a precariously tall, vanishingly thin spindle.

Panel 6: “VERY SEVERE M.E.” inked completely black; a void depicting nothing.

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yesterday’s ep of Dark Matter (S2E5 “Love and Be Loved”) broke me Just hits different, surviving (barely, at this point) 5 or 6 years of severe stage ME/CFS; Jason 24’s field note, “I’ve lost everything… Please just let me find a world where I can love and be loved.”

Screenshot of Jason 24’s handwritten wish in his field notebook (after panning down past the first sentence), “I have lost everything. The love of my life. My son. My home. Please just let me find a world where I
can love and be loved. ,” from the POV of Maria as she discovered it in the final scene of the episode.

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My first car was a hand-me-down 1986 Chrysler Schyster

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Both my home care nurse failed to turn up today (without a word, as his tendency), AND the pharmacy failed to deliver (essentially ALL meds run out tonight-tomorrow; pharmacy isn’t open on weekends). I’m beyond knackered, and the fucked part hasn’t begun. So I’ve got that to look forward to

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Right? It's a LOT (both in terms of the toxic bad faith trolling, and the sheer amount of it. Whatever dude's motivations actually are, it's one hell of a schtick)

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What do you engage in bad faith contrarianism? Seriously, to what end? Just seems exhausting and utterly unproductive

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I genuinely don't know what boomes or brat summer mean; I'm afraid I'm not that terminally online. Or 12

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wtf? Religion? This is just academic. Generation X was originally coined to define youth, kids born in the 40s and 50s, coming of age in the 1960s A few decades later, the demarkations and definitions changed And shifted again (decades after that)

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tedious just post a source guy has a c'mon man to multiple sources? Muted

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🧵 (lol maybe put some effort into learning about the world around you, yourself. And what it was like before you)

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

But 1964/65 was not always a "thing" And you have to hit up print or scholarly sources prior to the early (disappearing) internet The shifting ranges and definitions of Generation X and then "Gen X" was an entire discourse in the later half of the 20th century lol... Prior to the internet 10/10

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The first time I recall the culture debate shifting around the pre-1960 vs post-1960 demarkation for Boomers vs X'ers was during Obama's campaign Obviously, the 1964/65 crowd "won" online; effectively rewriting the oral (or disappearing internet) history For now (it'll shift again) 9/10

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also; BBC newsreels and print at the time (1960s) were absolutely lousy with “Generation X” i.e. the age-old what’s the matter with kids these days crap 8/10

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Anywho, that wasn't the first book titled Generation X Gotta go back to the 60s, when the term was coined Generation X (published, somewhat confusingly today, in 1964), J. Deverson and C. Hamblett About UK youth culture (mods etc); kids born mostly in the 40s & 50s 7/10

en.wikipedia.org

Generation X (1964 book) - Wikipedia

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Then comes Coupland, suggesting 1978 as the the cutoff year; meaning I was no longer Gen X, but was this newfangled thing he called "Y" (later, Millennial) In other words, I wasn't weirdly-intergenerationally "Gen X" with my folks anymore LOL, I was free!!! At least according to this author 6/10

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You see, at that time, in the early/mid 90s, Gen X was broadly or popularly defined as 1959/60 (or 60/61)-1979/80 And according to this general consensus, when I was growing up, both my parents and I were in "Gen X" (my folks had me in high school) Which always made me feel freakish as a kid 5/10

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (published 1991), D. Coupland I remember reading it in 9th grade. It stuck with me For a very specific reason lol (funny, the things we remember, and the reasons why) 4/10

en.wikipedia.org

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Wikipedia

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interestingly, they do cite Douglas Coupland, who somewhat famously (or infamously) defined Generation X as 1960-1978 (which was more or less congruent with the general consensus range at the time) in his seminal 1991 eponymous book 3/10

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yes; Brittanica editors didn't reference early or pre-internet sources (or print/scholarly) for the 1964/65 demarkation claim (no sources are cited, in fact) But you missed this bit 2/10

Screenshot of Britannica article, intro to Generation X, which reads, "Generation X, a term typically used to describe the generation of Americans born between 1965 and 1980, although some sources use slightly different ranges. It has sometimes been called the "middle child" generation, as it follows the well-known baby boomer generation and..." With "...although some sources use slightly different ranges," highlighted.

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was born in a backwards Mormon community lol. I doubt a fellow Xennial from a podunk Mennonite shithole would give a rat's ass. Or maybe they'd share my scholarly interest in oral history 🤷 (i.e. what's now disappearing internet history) 1/10

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just me, and someone else on here this morning The folks in the fuzzies where Millennial bleeds into Zoomer have been blinking in *Cusper* for their entire, albeit not so long, lives (and they've only begun to get dragged this way and that)

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

*Blinks blankly in Xennial* Did my Xennial statement, by implication, not clearly convey this very thing?

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lol! Theory? No. You need to search for sources prior to the 2010s Memory-holed 15-20 years ago. I blame Wikipedia at the time, but it’s just basic media literacy in the age of the dying/disapearing internet Or visit an actual library (while you still can)

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And as 1960s/70s born folks get on, and become increasingly geriatric in coming yrs; the Boomer moniker will live on (and generation demarcations constantly shift… take it from an Xennial who has been watching shit shift wildly since the 90s) Tnx for coming to my Ted talk 3/3

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hot take; given that the pop boom didn’t return to pre-war levels until the mid 1970s (the actual “end” of the Baby Boom), I suspect the demarcation will continue to shift, erasing what had previously been called Gen X (the already famously “forgotten” generation) 2/3

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

15-20 yrs ago, 1959/60 or 60/61 was the cutoff (Boomer/X) Also, in the 1960s; Gen X was coined to refer to the teen/youth culture of the day (young folk born mostly post-war, i.e. OG boomers) Anyway, for most of her life, she *was* Gen X (until random Wikipedia editors memory-holed history) 1/3

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

☝️ My (former) PCP is female. Dollars to donuts, she’s still convinced ME is a “psych thing” Refused (for over a yr) to refer me to specialists, only psych referrals (she then refused to listen to those shrinks attempting to educate her) Took my ex pushing me in a wheelchair to get her off the pot

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We nearly collided with this white-haired gentleman, loitering by his lonesome in hallway outside the theater He gave us a super-friendly, “Hey how are ya?” as we sprinted by I blurted excitedly to my partner; “Was that fucking Donahue?!” “Sure fucking was,” he hollered back, laughing 2/2

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Funny story; I nearly ran face first into Danahue one night in Salt Lake City (he was in town screening his Body of War documentary) My partner and I were running late, rushing to get in (ended up getting seated as the presenter was finishing introducing the film) 1/2

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You may as well claim that hate radio was pretty fringe with limited reach… (for a little while) Daytime talkshows became mainstream culture and drove every single moral panic off the mass hysteria cliff during the era you’re referencing

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lol having grown up in both SLC and the (nearly mountainous) Lake Michigan dunes on the edge of a Chicago’s city limits… I get this

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Picard online, his face palmed @archispite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So tempted to give pun points for “sparked”, but just like call-shot pool and 8-balls; you gotta intend it C'mon irony-challenged all-caps guy; just let folks discuss shit. It’s fine (also, typos are like a misspelling, or hitting the wrong key. A completely wrong word would be a brain fart)

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