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Ryan Randall
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A better world is possible, together.

Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work. A human-presenting social media account.

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Party at ground zero
A B-movie starring you
And the world will turn to flowing pink vapor stew
The Pope is speaking into a mic with his eyes closed and the way his hands embrace the mic make it seem like he's singing.
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.
The Donnie Dark I made a new friend meme, altered to be about technology and eugenics. Donnie is in image 1 captioned I made a new technology. His psychologist asks New or eugenics again? Donnie ruefully confesses Eugenics again.
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula
A very 1980s political cartoon rendering of Margaret Thatcher as a classic sinisterly-smiling vampire with blood dripping from her fangs. It's captioned No wonder she's laughing. She's got Scotland's oil. Stop Her - Join the SNP. I'm almost entirely ignorant of the Scottish National Party's politics, but images like this have been in my head since the 1980s… I've seen a number of similar images depicting Thatcher as a vampire, often drawing out the colonization theme of vampire stories.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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finally got my emacs setup just how I like it
Surrealist or psychedelic image with the vibes of 60s or 70s jazz fusion or prog rock album covers. It depicts a woman looking directly at the viewer while typing on a keyboard that is just keys resting upon the sandy desert ground of a landscape that includes a pyramid in the foreground and another snow pyramid in the hills closer to the horizon. She has a circuitboard in her sternum and a shamanesque headcovering of a white leopard with arms and paws extending down part her shoulders, and the leopard's eyes still seem sentient. Behind her is a field of stars as well as a translucent computer screen with five star or other charts displayed in an irregular grid. It's a painting called Cyborg by Lynn Randolph, used as part of the cover for Donna Haraway's book titled Simians, Cyborgs, and Women.
October 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Datil Peppers
Tell me where you are from using only two words superimposed over two panels, one a map of the United States and the other a truncated map of the world.
September 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Jonathan Archer, captain of the Enterprise, asking When you flush the toilet, where does it go?
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
Artistic line drawings of two figs (the edible delicacies). They're labeled, in italics, fig 1 and fig 2, as typical with figures in academic articles.
August 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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You Are Not Immune to User-Engagement-Maximizing Platform Designs
The Garfield You are not immune to propaganda meme (just his face over that caption)
August 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Letter, Van Helsing to Pres. Lincoln.
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Friend Abraham, — 26 August.

We fear the Cracker has returned.

Come by train if you can. Bring John Brown.

Yours the most faithful,
A. Van Helsing
Nosferatu looming, his vampiric hands outstretched, over the words Cracker Barrel written in a scratchy, flames-y metal font. It's all in the Cracker Barrel brownish, orangish colors.
August 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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if you don't use a similar image for your various testing purposes, what are you even doing friends‽‽!‽!
Doc Brown from the Back to the Future movies wearing chonky eye protection, holding up some electric wires he's almost certainly about to connect to something off screen in a very ill-advised way, and overall looking somehow simultaneously determined and resigned to an infelicitous fate.
August 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Oooof, I still remember the weekend we rented Friday the 13th for our NES.

So many jump scares in cabins.

Too many jump scares in cabins!
Inside a dark cabin, a young girl dodges Jason's attempts to stab her. It's a little like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out in that they sort of look like they're dancing, but it's also super scary to a kid.
August 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Crucial for politicians & organizers to hear—academics as well!

Relatedly, this photo of Stuart Hall doing volunteer child care at the Women’s Liberation Movement conference in 1970 remains probably my favorite photo of him.
A couple of men are sitting on the ground with various children, and perhaps there another adult in the background. Stuart Hall is the only one making eye contact with the camera, and he has an apparently passed-out toddler in his lap, head resting on his shoulder.
June 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Post yourself from another era.

(A friend back in Riverside just sent me these photos of when my band opened for @beautypill.bsky.social playing in a different friend's thrift store a few weeks ago!)
Photo from 2003. My moppy-haired self is playing bass while wearing a Broadcast t-shirt, my friends Omar and Moises are playing guitar, you can't see our drummer Camille, and we're clearly playing a concert in the middle of a thrift store where the clothes racks have been pushed out of the way. My bass amp is touching some of the hanging clothes.
June 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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(Having started out a Philosophy major and actually having gotten the minor, Deanna Troi's question absolutely applies to the genre of Philosophy Bros in particular…)
Deanna Troi (character from Star Trek The Next Generation) raising her hand and asking a question in front of a computer terminal. It's captioned Computer, Why are men?
June 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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{ Kesha voice }

Party at a cute Toad's house
It's a Lego set featuring Toad from Nintendo. There's a mushroom-shaped house where Toad stands in the door greeting another Toad-like friend. There's also a classic Victrola-style record player, and what might be a stove next to a couple balloons.
June 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The For the Better, Right? meme with Anakin and Padme from some Star Wars film. In the first panel Anakin has the MS Word logo over his face and he says I'll just move this image a bit. Padme asks But it won't ruin the document, right? Panel 4 is a close up on Anakin/MS Word. The next two panels are glitched, with black backgrounds and the But it won't ruin the document, right? caption split across the 4th and 5th panels of what should be a 4 panel meme. Padme's eyes are in close up in the small 6th panel.
April 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Evergreen Studio Ghibli reference
The Porco Rosso saying "better a pig than a fascist" while seated in a movie theater.
March 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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It's everyone's favorite Indiana Jones meme, the one where he's looking down and punching a gun-holding Nazi. This time around it's captioned I came here to study the humanities and punch Nazis. And the just cut funding for the humanities.
March 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra circa 2023.
March 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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IF the dolphin is wearing those
AND also comes directly from a Lisa Frank artwork, how does that affect the baby?
Four dolphins are surfing a wave and also smiling while playing with a rainbow beach ball. Each dolphin is somehow pink, green, and multiple shades of blue, all set off against a yellowish-orange sunny horizon under a purple sky. It's a very middle school Miami pastel good vibes only sort of lightly psychedelic scene. Most of her art is more lurid and hectic than this.
March 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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An incredibly duplicitous thing to do on here is add total trash, fake "alt text" by putting in a space character so the little "alt" overlay will show on the associated image.

Please do better from now on, @veganhorizon.substack.com .

Whether intentional or not, this is incredibly user-hostile.
Screenshot of Firefox's browser tools showing that someone has only put a single space character in the alt tag for an image. The image in question is an enormous add of a worker throwing away a swastika, with a German caption, and you can see a preview of that image because the cursor is hovering over the url.
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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@thatandromeda.bsky.social Hi Andromeda! At the moment when I click on your great Skybrarians feed I see a vague error message that suggests contacting you. (The specific message from the server is apparently: UpstreamTimeout )

Just letting you know in case this isn't expected behavior.
Screenshot of the error message. In detail, it reads: "Hmm, some kind of issue occurred when contacting the feed server. Please let the feed owner know about this issue. Message from server: UpstreamTimeout "
January 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Here's to the inherent, inalienable dignity & equality of all human beings.
Bubbles of the PowerPuff girls punching Hitler, who's losing a tooth.
January 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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3 orange things worth your attention today:

- the parent navel orange in Riverside;
- the Ford 021C concept car (wikipedia it!);
- Karen Tei Yamashita's fantastic novel _The Tropic of Orange_, one of my absolute favorite books touching on SoCal / borders / America.

openlibrary.org/books/OL6700...
Tropic of Orange book cover, with an enormous citrus orange towering over LA buildings and freeways from across a wall.
January 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Two panel meme titled How my family sees my vs How I see my family. The left shows a young person with long emo bangs swept over their eyes and ending at a point about at their chin. The right is the reverse shot showing their "point of view" but you can only make out the feet of their family since everything else is obscured by a cartoon rendering of those huge emo bangs. The bottom says It's not a phase mom and, for some reason, (@ meme.cloud).
January 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM