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Hardboiled Babylon

@hardboiledbabylon.com

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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 · 25/09/2026

Cover for the Goosebumps book, Go Eat Worms. Purple worms crawl between and burst through the pages of a spiral notebook with some math problems written on it. A pencil lays on top of the pages.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 24/09/2026

They discontinued mine this year. Becoming vintage in real time.

Picture of a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard. Each side has two keywells with the keys arranged in grids. Each side also has a cluster of grid-aligned keys for the thumbs.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 20/09/2026

We must return to the old texts (the Dune Encyclopedia).

Entry from the Dune Encyclopedia. Part of the entry on Jehanne Butler is highlighted. It reads "Jehanne went to the capitol of Pylos to enter the hospital for the birth of a child. Since both parents had married late in life for their culture, they were especially eager for this birth. When on the delivery table, Jehanne was anesthetized; when she awoke, she and her husband were informed that their daughter, Sarah, had been aborted. The hospital explained that the fetus had been too deformed to survive. The abortion was described as therapeutic. Jehanne's control of her own body, which as a result of her Bene Gesserit training extended beyond those muscle systems usually thought of as automatic, had permitted a deep knowledge of the growth of her child within the womb. She was convinced that it was impossible for her child to have been so grievously malformed as the hospital had described. In time, Jehanne came to believe that her child's death had at best been unnecessary. Using the access to official records provided by Thet'r's position as Logistos, she discovered within the archives of the hospital evidence that the hospital director — the first self- programming machine on Komos — had instituted a program of unjustified abortions."

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 20/09/2026

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 19/09/2026

Screencap from the film O, Brother Where Art Thou?

A woman in 1930s attire holds a baby.

The text on the bottom of the image reads: Lots of respectable people been hit by trains.

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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."

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 04/09/2026

Picture of Alfred Hitchcock eating a book with two hands.

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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."

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 17/08/2026

Not like this is even new.

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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."

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."

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.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 30/05/2026

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 16/03/2026

An attempt to replace the overdubbed line with the original.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 25/02/2026

Black and white still from the Twilight Zone episode "Long Distance Call". A young boy lies on bed and has a toy phone pressed to his ear as he smiles. His mother has entered the room behind him and looks worried.

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.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 02/01/2026

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 27/12/2025

This old Peugeot commercial is still the only and best Wacky Races live action adaption.

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".

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.

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.

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.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 14/11/2025

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

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 07/11/2025

Canada RN

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 05/11/2025

I have no answer. But when I go looking, I usually come back to this.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 12/10/2025

Three panel meme from Seinfeld. Top panel. Screenshot of Jerry's perplexed face as he looks at Kramer. The hallway is bathed in red light. text: "Kramer, what's going on in there?" Middle panel. A screenshot of the stock market showing many red squares as tech stocks lose more than 4%. Bottom Panel. Screenshot of Kramer's face as he looks back at Jerry. He stands in the doorway, red light spilling into the hallway from behind him. Text: "It's a trade war, Jerry."

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 08/10/2025

Without downloading anything where are you mentally rn?

A picture of a felted mouse. It wears a medieval hood and stands on it hind legs. In one hand it hold a knife, in the other it holds a raspberry. The text above reads: "i am plagued by concepts".

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 14/09/2025

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 09/09/2025

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Still from the movie Vampire's Kiss. Nicolas Cage sits hunched forward on a bed while wearing boxers and a white t-shirt. His hair is disheveled. His mouth hangs open. A band-aid is on his neck. Jennifer Beals lays across the mattress next to him, turning and looking up at him and smiling, her gold earring hanging down.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 09/09/2025

Without saying Voltron what is your favorite giant robot.

Movie poster for Patlabor the movie. A character stands in the foreground looking up and to the left. He wears a blue uniform and tie with a yellow vest over his jacket. A red shoulder patch has the number 2. Behind him stands a woman in a blue uniform, her head lowered, eyes closed. Behind them stands Alphonse, the robot. He is dressed in a utility vest.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 08/09/2025

repost with a pic you have saved that you haven't found a use for

Black and white still from a movie. Two men walk along a sidewalk. It is raining. One man is dressed in black and has a black umbrella deployed. The umbrella obscures his head and shoulders. Another man walks next to him wearing a trench coat and has an uncovered head.

The subtitle reads: "This is not a psychotic breakdown. This is a cleansing moment of clarity."

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 07/09/2025

color illustration of a boy in a basement. He stands over a table configured as a model railway town. He pushes down on a tnt plunger, an explosion rips through part of the model town, and a mushroom clown forms over part of the town.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 07/09/2025

black text on white background: "A lot of women famously do not like insects, they have a natural revulsion against insects. This is a form of terrorism that's very specifically aimed at women."

Screenshot from the the 1968 film Genocide, directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu.

closeup of a blonde woman's face.

subtitles: "I just want to breed vast numbers of insects that drive people mad..."

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 30/08/2025

post a meme made by you

Screencap from Blade Runner. Actor Morgan Paull plays Holden. He sits at a desk. A device is in front of him. He holds a cigarette between two fingers. He is administering a Voight Kampff test.

Text: The Tesla lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, spinning its tires trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 30/08/2025

Selection from the Dune Encyclopedia entry for "Butler, Jehanne".

"Jehanne was trained as a priestess on Komos and also as a Bene Gesserit. Rather than following the career of a priestess, either from her own decision or that of her order, she married Thet'r Butler, the Logistos of Xania, one of the ten administrative districts on Komos. In the same year as their marriage, (205 B.G.), Jehanne went to the capitol of Pylos to enter the hospital for the birth of a child. Since both parents had married late in life for their culture, they were especially eager for this birth. When on the delivery table, Jehanne was anesthetized; when she awoke, she and her husband were informed that their daughter, Sarah, had been aborted. The hospital explained that the fetus had been too deformed to survive. The abortion was described as therapeutic. Jehanne's control of her own body, which as a result of her Bene Gesserit training extended beyond those muscle systems usually thought of as automatic, had permitted a deep knowledge of the growth of her child within the womb. She was convinced that it was impossible for her child to have been so grievously malformed as the hospital had described. In time, Jehanne came to believe that her child's death had at best been unnecessary. Using the access to official records provided by Thet'r's position as Logistos, she discovered within the archives of the hospital evidence that the hospital director — the first self- programming machine on Komos — had instituted a program of unjustified abortions."

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 23/08/2025

Picture of a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard. Each side has two keywells with the keys arranged in grids. Each side also has a cluster of grid-aligned keys for the thumbs.

a diagram of the Dvorak keyboard layout as mapped onto a kinesis advantage 2. Space and Esc are on the left thumb keys. Enter and Backspace on the right. Super, Alt, Ctrl, and braces respectively align with the pinky, ring, and middle fingers, and pointer fingers, in that order. Tab is to the left of A. Pipe is above tab. Tilde is above pipe. Caps lock is above tilde.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 17/08/2025

Screenshot from the film Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis. A Russian woman wear a flower-print frock installs wallpaper sometime in the early 90s. The subtitles read: "Before... I don't wish for anything. I don't have any dreams. Even if I did, they wouldn't come true."

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 16/08/2025

welcome to my mind palace

Hand-drawn map of the library-labrynth from the Name of the Rose. Drawing by Umberto Eco.

Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 12/08/2025

Meme of Dale Gribble wearing a ski mask with sunglasses and an orange baseball cap that has an angry cat pictured on the front, while holding a cigarette. A colorful sunset is behind him. The text reads: despair is easy hope is hard and brother I like to stay hard.