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Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer

@kabdib.bsky.social

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> look You're in the comfy chair again. There is a cat here. There is a pile of books here. > _

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Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A posterized photo of a woman standing defiantly, raising two middle fingers.

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A tabby cat is perched expectantly on top of a birdfeeder full of bird seed. There are no birds present.

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Digital Group Z-80 system, circa 1977.

A Digital Group Z-80 computer with the top off. There are CPU, video and memory cards on the right, a number of power supplies on the left, and a front panel that has just a few buttons on it (it's very clean looking)

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A robot covered in moss (from Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky)

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A soldier's helmet, inside it is fastened a photograph of Epstein

(it's an obvious photoshop job, meant to make a point)

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A moonscape, with the text "SPACE:1999" in a futuristic font, slanted across the upper half of the picture. The lower half is an "Eagle" spaceship, a long boxy affair on four legs, with a nose cone on one end and rocket nozzles on the other.

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

giggle, the least appropriate cover art i've seen in a while . . .

We see the rear of a blue and white-striped American muscle car, driving down Route 66 in the midwest. Arid landscape and buttes in the background.

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

a movie poster for Captain Ron; kurt russell, martin short and other actors are smiling and laughing behind a ship's wheel, with a ocean, a beach and palm trees in the background

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

perhaps a reference to . . .

Cheech Wizard, being a floppy wizard's hat perched on a couple of legs

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

the cover of Douglas R. Hofstadter's book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

under the title is a sculpture with two free-floating pieces, they are illuminated from multiple directions and cast the letters G E on the right side and E G on the left, with B on the bottom

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The letters D I C E in a sans-serif font, with the I being a block of ice, and the E having a little Arrakis in its middle cross-member

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Cover art for Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine. Behind the title text is a close-up of an integrated circuit.

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

One book per day, no particular order, no explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1

A young man in a uniform is operating a complicated computerized mapping table on a starship's bridge. In the background, other crew are at control stations, and the stars are visible through a set of large windows.

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

This one is always worth going back to.

Sign amongst short blades of grass has a line of Chinese writing, and underneath in English "DO NOT DISTURB / TINY GRASS IS DREAMING".

Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer @kabdib.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Picture of Woody Allen in the movie Sleeper. He is posing as a (bad) imitation of a household robot in white facepaint, with a steel colander on his head, tin cups over his ears, and showerhead-like device clutched in his lips. Allen/robot is wearing Woody's black nylon-frame glasses.