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@xaqrox.bsky.social

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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This guy

A still from the film Labyrinth depicting a puppet character that is a brass door knocker shaped like a face, about to have the ring shoved back in his loud mouth.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Real, "the law is powerless to help you, not to punish you" stuff

Screenshot from linked article with these sentences highlighted:

"The U.S. government has long claimed it can search and seize people’s devices without a search warrant or court order until they are permitted entry to the United States."

"Prosecutors later charged Tunick under a federal statute that makes it unlawful to knowingly destroy or damage property to prevent authorities from seizing it."

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Still of Woody Harrelson in the scene from True Detective where he says "I just want you to stop saying odd shit" except I cropped the caption for the bit

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Microsoft Bob returns! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...

Screenshot of Microsoft Bob, showing a funky pixel-art ish sunroom with colorful furniture and a funny cartoon dog in the corner with a speech bubble inviting you to click objects in the room to launch programs

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

LFG @puridenband.bsky.social

A translucent yellow vinyl LP plays on a turntable below a shelf holding the album sleeve. The album is Public Aging but the Philly band Puriden. There is a lil cactus in a pot next to the turntable.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The words "FUCK ICE" in all-caps, set in Igloo, the font you see on the side of an ice cooler at a gas station that has cartoon icicles dripping from it, in navy blue on a white background.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Screenshot showing text at the top of the screen and tons of space below, with a tiny scrollbar suggesting there is a lot more vertical space

Screenshot of the same page with text at the bottom and lots of space above, with the tiny scrollbar now at the bottom

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Screenshot from the Last of Us with Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen saying "Well, kids die, Henry. They die all the time."

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Screenshot from The Rise of Skywalker of Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron speaking with the caption "Somehow, Palpatine returned..." except I crossed out "Palpatine" and added "US-led war in the Middle East with WMDs as a flimsy pretext"

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Screenshot from Andor season 2 episode 6. Krennic is gesturing, subtitle reads "Words do still have meaning."

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Earthshadow visible in DC! I don't think I can stay up for totality 😴

Grainy cell phone 8x zoom photo of the lunar eclipse in progress. The shadow of the Earth is covering about a quarter of the disc of the Moon.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

An animated GIF of a clip from The Matrix. Neo pummels Agent Smith in a grungy subway station.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A screenshot of enddei.ed.gov with the full text of the United States Constitution, sans spaces, in a form textbox.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

From today's @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social newsletter — this sucks!!! open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

Screenshot from an email newsletter:

Among the things that Cowen rescinded just a few days ago:

• The finding that college athletes are employees, and are therefore legally allowed to organize, and have labor rights. No more!

• An Abbruzzo memo protecting employees from abusive electronic monitoring and surveillance on the job. No more!

• A ban on severance agreements with overly broad non-disparagement and confidentiality sections, that infringe on your rights. These are back now!

• A ban on the widespread use of non-compete agreements, which companies forced workers to sign in order to get jobs. These are back now!

• A ban on captive audience meetings, where the boss forces you to sit in a room while they tell you how horrible a union would be for you. These are back now!

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A clip from the film Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) in which Dr. Carl Jenkins (played by Neil Patrick Harris), concentrates intently on his psychic link with the massive alien brain bug against which he presses his palm. Behind him gathered troopers jostle and squint to catch a glimpse of him and the bug. He says "It's afraid", quietly at first as he realizes what he is sensing, and then shouts it, with the beginning of a victorious grin, to the crowd of troopers.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

More protest art! #teslatakeover

CFPB Union NTEU 335 members holding protest signs in front of Georgetown DC Tesla

Chalk art in front of Georgetown DC Tesla: "YOU WANT A SWASTICAR?"

Chalk art in front of Georgetown DC Tesla: "Public service is GOOD"

Chalk art in front of Georgetown DC Tesla:
"FASCISTS IN THE MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR"

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

DC is showing up at Tesla in Georgetown! #teslatakeover

Protest sign reading:
FFFFFFFFF
these FUCKING
! GUYS ALREADY
STAND UP ➡️ FIGHT BACK

A black woman in colorful makeup holds up a large cloth sign mounted on two poles in front of a city street with storefronts and traffic. She's wearing a green hat with an "L" a la Nintendo's Luigi, and her black sweater has a pink heart that says "Luigi" in script. Her sign says "EAT ELON MUCK WITH HIS OWN FORK" in various colors of spray paint

Protest sign reading:
CFPB
People love us
Scammers hate us

Protest sign with a hand-drawn caricature of Elon Musk and the text:
UNELECTED
UNCONFIRMED
Has access to your social security #

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Hey #DC, pissed at Elon Musk? Let's go tell him. #teslatakeover

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

An image of cartoon J Jonah Jameson chewing a cigar and shaking his fist with the text "GET ME PICTURES OF VANDALIZED CYBERTRUCKS" superimposed

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Drop that lock screen

A screenshot of a smartphone lock screen dominated by a large 24-hr digital clock and a background of countless galaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxies are bright white or orange-gold, and many appear stretched and warped due to gravitational lensing.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So You Want To Be A Wizard

The cover of So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane. Two teens traverse an ethereal bridge towards a luminous tear in the sky (presumably a portal of some kind), high above a skyscraper-dense cityscape.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Slowdive at The Anthem last night was *awesome*. Crushingly dense and luminous at the same time, like a star about to go nova. #slowdive #theanthem #dcmusic

Slowdive performing at The Anthem in Washington D.C. on November 17 2024. The stage, framed by arrays of hanging speakers, is visible above the sea of people in the crowd. The band is bathed in magenta cones of light. Singer and keyboardist Rachel Goswell raises a hand like Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick.

Slowdive performing at The Anthem in Washington D.C. on November 17 2024. From this angle and distance the stage fills the frame just above the heads of the crowd and the band members are neatly lined up. From left to right: Christian Savill on guitar (left-handed!), Rachel Goswell on keys and vocals, Nick Chaplin on a very low-slung bass, Simon Scott behind the drum kit, and Neil Halsted on guitar. They are lit by a dozen yellow spotlights at odd angles, and there is a mess of thin overlapping rectangles projected on the screen behind them.

Slowdive performing at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. on November 17 2024. This wide shot shows nearly the whole floor of the venue. In the center the stage is lit from above with orange and cyan cones of light, and some lights shine out into the crowd, washing out the details of the musicians on stage. The floor is packed with audience members many with fine silver outlines from the stage lights. The first couple box seats are visible on either side, and the high ceiling is hung with cables, lights, and ventilation.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A photo taken in Cape Henlopen, Delaware under a clear blue sky. Reeds and grasses in the foreground in front of a marshy lake. On the horizon is a sand bank with a stand of trees on the left, and in the far center distance, a tan concrete cylindrical WWII cannon sight tower.

xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A GIF from Game of Thrones in which Jon Snow tells Varys "I don't want it"