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Hardboiled Babylon

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Programmer / Drawer / Scribbler / Gutter Metaphysician

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 01/10/2026
Welcome to October Country
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 17/09/2026
NASA doesn't want you to know this, but there are 100% white meat frozen dino nuggets out there in space.
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Flat Earth Asteroid
Alt: An asteroid hits the flat earth and flings the dinosaurs into space.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 09/09/2026
B. Y. O. B.
Black and white picture of two older women checking out at a Safeway grocery store in 1974. The sign next to them reads "B. Y. O. B. Please bring back your paper bags to Safeway to be reused for your own groceries. We need and appreciate your cooperation during the extreme paper bag shortage. Thank you."
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 04/09/2026
Picture of Alfred Hitchcock eating a book with two hands.
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Eurasia
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 19/08/2026
A pen and ink illustration for Joseph E. Kelleam's short story "Rust", published in Astounding Science Fiction, October 1939.

A spherical, four-legged robot with claw-tipped forearms, two large black eye domes on front, spring coils protruding from the front and back on a band that runs around its spherical body, and a welded-on Pickelhaube helmet, tries to use its claws recreate a statute depicting a small child riding a fish in a fountain, but the mass of mud barely resembles it. 

The text below the image reads: "Soldier-robot X-120, unemployed because there are no more people to exterminate, tries his hand at art by way of consolation. But he was not built for creativity."
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 04/08/2026
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 03/08/2026
An edited xkcd panel.

To the right, a person in robes hold a pile of dashes that go over their head and offers them to a stick figure on the right. Upper speech bubble: "The are your father's em-dashes." Lower speech bubble: "Elegant weapons for a more ... civilized age."
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Readful Things @readfulthings.com · 13/07/2026
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 22/06/2026
Comic.
Panel 1: a boy runs screaming into the room. The speech bubble reads "Father!"
Panel 2: We see the father from behind, sitting in a chair and reading a newspaper. The speech bubble reads "Yes son?"
Panel 3: The boy stands pensive, hand on his chin. The speech bubble reads "I want to kill you."
Panel 4: The father sits there silent.
Panel 5: The father turns. He is revealed to have the face of Sigmund Freud. The speech bubble reads "Just as planned."
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 06/06/2026
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 30/05/2026
Stalactite-like arches hanging over blackness. A wallpaper-sized edit of some 1800s Japanese geometric artwork.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 30/05/2026
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 22/05/2026
2050: The neuralink expeditionary force sets out to colonize Mars.
Black and white still of Mondasian cybermen from the Doctor Who serial 'The Tenth Planet'. Humanoid figures with large transparent boxes on their chest that connect to tubes running over and into their bodies, sock-like tubes over their faces with black eye and mouth holes, and headlamps that sprout tubes to cover their ears.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 16/05/2026
mountain-laurel flowers

Clusters of white flowers with hints of pink that unfold in pentagons. A golden rings encircles the stamen, and where each stamen touches the petals is a deep purple splotch.mountain-laurel flowers

Clusters of white flowers with hints of pink that unfold in pentagons. A golden rings encircles the stamen, and where each stamen touches the petals is a deep purple splotch.mountain-laurel flowers

Clusters of white flowers with hints of pink that unfold in pentagons. A golden rings encircles the stamen, and where each stamen touches the petals is a deep purple splotch.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 13/05/2026
QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
b&w still of Peter Lorre in the 1935 film Mad Love.

Lorre's eye almost bug out and his mouth hangs slightly open as he stares tot he right of the camera. He wears a black suit jacket and his shirt collar is open. A globe lamp sits on a table behind him to the left.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 21/04/2026
Altered image of a frame from the film The Wicker Man.

The wicker man burns as the sun sets. Along the horizon, beyond the ocean, the setting sun is the baby-faced sun from the Teletubbies.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 19/04/2026
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." —Edward Gibbon
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 03/04/2026
If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.
Picture of Sigmund Freud along with the quote: "The whale and the polar bear, it has been said, cannot wage war on each other, for since each is confined to his own element they cannot meet."
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 27/03/2026
Thinking of her.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 16/03/2026
An attempt to replace the overdubbed line with the original.
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Frame #63200 from S01 -E05 - Spanish Mackerel-627696
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 08/02/2026
Fuck Harry Potter. Go watch Revolutionary Girl Utena instead.
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a painting of a woman dancing with roses in the background
Alt: a painting of a woman dancing with roses in the background
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 05/02/2026
Refer to myself as Ishmael. A while back, never mind how extended, being
nonfunctional, and diddly-squat particular to retain me on beachside, I
contemplated I might voyage in the opposite direction for a stretch and
pick up an eyeful of the watery component of the celestial body. It's a
procedure I have to administer off the liver and to legally restrict
flow. Whenever I find myself down at the kisser and whensoever it's a
high humidity, wet November in my inner being or whenever I find I'm
involuntarily adjourning in front of casket storage facilities and
hindmost in line of every laying to rest I stumble upon, and most
especially when my needles get the uppermost paw on me, it requires a
rigid mindscape rule to keep me from purposefully stepping into the
thoroughfare and purposefully knocking citizenry's haberdasheries on
holiday; that's when I compute it heyday to get to the ocean as full
tilt as practicable. This's my successor for gun and bat. In a
metaphysical hysteria, Cato lobs himself upon his rapier and I inaudibly
go to the sailing craft. There's nothing disgraceful at this location.
If most would permit entry it, almost everybody in their Celsius, one
date or additional, ardors just about the indistinguishable
sensibilities for the briny as myself.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 03/02/2026
Hegelians, who love a synthesis, will probably conclude that he wears a wig.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 22/01/2026
We need a term for inverse solipsism (everyone exists except me).
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 21/01/2026
copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand (\_/) (°-°) />🗿<
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Frame #13850 from S05 -E16 - Chinese Cabbage-629274
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 02/01/2026
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Frame #17350 from S05 -E17 - Chocolate Apple-629275
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 27/12/2025
This old Peugeot commercial is still the only and best Wacky Races live action adaption.
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tian nya @tiannya.moe · 17/10/2024
bringing back a classic 🐶💧🔥 #できたてころね
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 21/12/2025
I am the harbinger.
MIT News

Are you a “harbinger of failure”?
Study: Some consumers have an unerring knack for buying unpopular products.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
Publication Date:
December 23, 2015 

Stylistic picture of a bowl of potato chips and a bag of "watermelon frosted potato chips".
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 15/12/2025
“My unbelief had saved me, but the poor creature who believes that everything is true is the victim of his dreams.” ―Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail from Another City
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The image is of a comic.
Panel one depicts a young girl in bed. She hears "CLOP CLOP CLOP" noises.
Panel two depicts the same girl with an excited expression. She thinks, "That must be santa on the roof!"
Panel three depicts the girl smiling.
Panel four depicts a possum on the roof in heels making the "CLOP CLOP CLOP" noises.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 07/12/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdoT...
youtube.com
Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky - GlassDuo LIVE (glass harp)
YouTube video by GlassDuo - Glass Harp
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 05/12/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugLT...
youtube.com
Goosebumps opening, but with retro horror movies
YouTube video by TheWayOfJay
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 03/12/2025
“This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.”
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 29/11/2025
i was raised on these streets
Screenshot from the 90s DOS game Billy The Kid Returns. Billy jumps over a bomb while being chased by Pat Garrett between two-buildings in a side-scroller, and a grey horse stands off to the side.
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Kylie Woyote @kylora2112.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Here ya go:
A trolley problem:
Sisyphus is rolling a boulder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accommodate him or his boulder.
If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship.
Is Sisyphus happy?
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Tbh most thought experiments are deeply unethical and people should be punished for doing them
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 20/11/2025
Thinking about the sinful math.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 19/11/2025
Cover of the children's book Nothing Ever Happens by Heidi McKinnon. A cartoonish yellow puffer fish with large googly eyes takes up the lower half of the image below the title. A smaller red fish floats to the right of the title. A blue and bubbly ocean forms the background.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 18/11/2025
Screencap of the character Snufkin from the Moomins. He lays back in the grass while wearing a green, broad-brimmed, peaked cap and a yellow kerchief.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 07/11/2025
November 7, 1885 - August 11, 1942
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 07/11/2025
Canada RN
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 02/11/2025
No, actually, I will not.
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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 16/10/2025
Copilot, kill my darlings.
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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