Mortal Coil

*lights pipe, leans back into rocking chair*

You youngsters don’t remember a time when the onion was printed and offered free of charge in sidewalk kiosks. Those were the good ‘ol days. When you could feel the joke between your fingers. When you could roll up the joke into a little horn and go toot into your friends ear. We lived like barbarians, and by gum, we loved it.

*Puffs pipe. Sets self on fire*

Getting a print version of the Onion is a decision I'll never regret

Every one of the 12 "ads" in this version is insulting Musk

Meanwhile it’s just another day in the Middle Ages.

Don’t join the rat race, raise children fat of face

All this time thinking about your Net Worth when we should be thinking about the fertile Wet Earth

Thanks for piercing the temporal veil of my past and reminding me of that which i had forgotten!

Darrell K. Sweet's 1989 cover to Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth, by Piers Anthony & Jody Lynn Nye. Via Ranaroth on Bluesky.

Look how tiny its wheels are🥹. So very pedestrian friendly

40 years ago the future looked like this Nissan Com Com Concept, 1985. A design study for a "connected" delivery van using the best communications technology the mid-80s had to offer, presented at the 26th Tokyo Motor Show. There was a satellite navigation system and car phone as well as an on-board computer. the off-side front door slid forward to open though the driver's door was conventionally hinged. The idea was that deliveries could be centrally controlled with instructions sent to the driver while they were on the move, much like Amazon etc have been doing since the turn of the century

BLUE !!

Whatcha up to?

Making art

lisa brice, "untitled," 2023-2024, oil on trace

The old school tv show The Avengers (BBC not MCU) did this well. The main characters were a male/female duo. The guy was a fopish but brilliant spy and his bodyguard was an asskicking race car driver. And who played this asskicking super bitch?

hate when people think the only archetype possible for a male sidekick to a female protagonist is a soft boi and/or himbo. like the implication there is that the only reason a man would ever defer to a woman’s authority is if he was a bumbling idiot. love male supporting characters who are smart and strong and confident and can step up when necessary but still kind and humble enough to let someone else take the lead most of the time

Belly full of food

tragedy

Rightwing idiots when I tell them they don’t deserve to die in the gutter:

you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say "well thats fucked up"