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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I would continue the work of David Macauley if I could.

Front cover of “Pyramid” by David Macaulay, with a pen-and-ink perspective drawing of the Great Pyramid, as if seen from a balloon.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dammit, I had just convinced myself it was a goat when I found David Hill’s original:

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?”

Still from “Dr Strangelove” showing George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson seated in the “War Room” with his fingers laced together and excitement on his face.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We totally do, though. It’s this bottle on your table:

Photo of a bottle of green peppers in vinegar

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel like the Trump flotilla folks have some sunk costs— figuratively speaking.

Image of a boat excessively bedecked with “TRUMP” flags, wraps, banners, etc.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Related, Birmingham Alabama is “official tourism partner” for Birmingham City FC.

Blue Birmingham City FC football jersey with large white number 47 and smaller “Visit Birmingham Alabama USA” below.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Three Investigators. And not a curse.

Cover of “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Silver Spider.” Three boys, led by a slightly-chubby-faced boy in a Hawaiian shirt carrying a 9-volt flashlight, proceed kneed-deep through a flooded tunnel whose vaulted stonework is illuminated by a pinkish glow.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Lucky that “joy buzzer pro” guy got his foot in the door just as they realized that they had $800,000,000,000 left in the budget.

Cartoon from a “Joy Buzzer” ad with a smug guy in the foreground gripping the hand of another guy who has levitated off his feet and is wincing and yelping in pain and shock.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The skies will never be the same.

Poster for the 1983 feature film “Blue Thunder”, with the tagline: “Flying the most lethal weapon ever made... The Blue Thunder Special. At his fingertips, an infrared camera that can see right through your bedroom walls. A microphone that can record your most intimate conversations. And a 20mm electric cannon with six barrels that can turn your neighborhood into a raging inferno. But he's not headed for a war-torn country. He'll be cruising the skies of America. And only one man can stop him from using it on you.”

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Lag’s cartoons were hand-drawn, in that same style.

Section of a menu from Lag’s Eatery, illustrated with cartoon foods

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My guess is that when someone decided to create those projections, they were thinking they could get some nice fluted columns to put under them and then wrap a frieze around it, but then none of that came to fruition.

Photograph of a small 3-d printed model of President’s Trump’s proposed gigantic triumphal arch.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If you see this, post an archer.

Portrait photo of Geena Davis with short curly hair and a big smile.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I can’t believe they actually found the guy.

Vintage magazine advertisement for “X-RAY SPECS (an hilarious optical illusion) only $1.00”, with a cartoon drawing of a guy’s head with swept-back hair and a toothy smile, wearing heavy-framed novelty glasses and shooting lightning bolts toward the silhouetted figure of a woman with the edges of her apparently now transparent dress drawn as thin contour lines.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What about a dadaist automatic poetry group?

Screen capture from my Bluesky feed showing madeline odent saying, “I promise none of you want to be in a group chat with me”, followed by Moby Dick saying “these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea”

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

That was the brief, but here’s the result (Nailed It!):

A haunted red sky with a gigantic evil hexapod backlit by lightning in the clouds, from the tv show “stranger things”

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I’m Henry the VIII, I am.

“The Field of the Cloth of Gold” (1545 oil painting) depicting the royal tent of Henry VII at Balinghem. Henry’s palatial golden tent is in the background, physically displaying his wealth to the French court.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

Two smiling bald men in tuxedos lean over the rail of an opera box at the 2014 reopening of the Lyric Theater in Birmingham. They reminded me of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Guy who told congress to reflect on the Emoluments Clause and a certain jet from Qatar.

Detail of the head of Laocoön from the 1st century Greek marble statue at the Vatican. His bearded head is thrown back, his brow is heavily furrowed, and his mouth is open in anguish.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Speaking of assholes, when "look up 'pejorative'" is an option in a pull-down menu, I expect to look up the word in the dictionary, not to find an app that can make fun of things for me, or to see if Alanis Morissette thought it was a synonym for "ironic."

Screenshot of me using the word "pejorative" in the previous post and I thought I might check my spelling, but the "look up pejorative" option brought up a message that "Look Up now shows personalized suggestions from the web, the iTunes Store, the App Store, movie showtimes, locations nearby, and more. To make suggestions more relevatent to you, Look Up includes your approximate location with search requests to Apple."

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

By a similar etymological process, the type of vocal cords that produce the most resonant intonings are called “easy reeds,” after Freeman’s character on “The Electric Company.”

Morgan Freeman as “Easy Reader,” dressed in a boldly-patterned long-sleeved shirt, a patchwork leather vest, dark sunglasses, and a headband. He leans casually with one arm resting on a masonry wall and the other hand on his hip.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

There’s something here that reminds me of the governor’s palace ballroom facade in Williamsburg, VA.

North (ballroom) facade of the Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia. The gabled end of a 1-story brick building wing. The central wood door is framed within an arched brick aedicule, and flanked by large multi-paned windows. The outside corners and the edges of the openings, including the arches, are laid in cut red bricks, while the wall area between is in a rougher, brown brick.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I think the easiest guess is David.

View of Michelangelo’s “David”, a marble sculpture of a nude young male holding a sling draped over his left shoulder and gazing impassively in that direction. The photo is cropped to show just his head and chest.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Post a tree you photographed:

A bare tree stands erect behind a crumbling log cabin on a small hill near Lynchburg, Virginia, silhouetted against a cloudy sky.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Without revealing your actual age, what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand? There’s a lever on this you can pull that gives you a realistic chance of scoring multiple whole quarters.