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Erik

Erik

@elindberg.bsky.social

58 followers 120 following 130 posts

Independent media producer/editor. Video, graphic design, activism, and unsolicited takes. He/him.

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Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 3h

Kitch is hard. You appropriate and repurpose the art not the destructive mechanism used to make it. This is just participatory laziness.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a short walk from “Huh, plantations are still around?” to “what other modern institutions are relics of antebellum racism?”

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 2d

Judgement and character mean a lot more than policy positions and voting records in an era when Congress is literally not voting anymore.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 13d

What are R.E.M. lyrics, Alex?

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 14d

I agree with you. It’s important and amazing and we see it happening in other places too. Sorry if my glib comment came off wrong.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 14d

This is not a criticism. Just living in interesting times.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 14d

Every historian I read on bsky is acting like Sam Neill and Laura Dern seeing dinosaurs in the wild for the first time.

Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 14d

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 18d

Love me some McGinnis, like on this cover from Clay Mann in H-36.

Comic cover of Batman Beyond in foreground, looming image of classic Batman in the background against a gothic city backdrop.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 18d

My inner Lego Spaceship Guy spotted this comic/technical readout from across the way in B-32 and @jakeparker.bsky.social didn’t have to sell me very hard. He did sign it!

Book cover: “Kepler’s Intergalactic Guide to Spaceships. Jack Parker.” A bright orange and red stylized spacecraft on a blue field.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 18d

Viktor Farro’s awesome sketchbook stood out. Dr. Strange variant. Booth E-20

Artbook cover. Dr. Strange wreathed in flames. “Viktor Farro 01” Signed.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 18d

A message of hope from our cetacean overlords from monkeyminionpress.com in L-34.

Graphic poster. An exuberant orca. “Sink the rich”

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 18d

Continuing on an Andor kick, this great poster from Tim Yan (tim.yrt) in booth C-13

Anime styled cast poster of Andor. Caption reads “Remember this. Try.”

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 18d

At #NYCC this year I made it a point to spend more time in Artist Alley enjoying and paying for(!) actual cool art by actual cool humans. Like this great K-2 print and some inexcusably rude stickers from @thecalebking.bsky.social in booth J-37.

Watercolor vertical print of K-2 from Andor, upper body with stylized water runoff by Caleb King, signed.

Three vinyl stickers. “Hope” with a stylized guillotine. “Do not comply in advance. Fuck you, make me.” A third sticker in Galactic standard font.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 24d

I transitioned from “not a grown up” to “too old for this shit” over the span of about 3 months in 2024.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 25d

Notably it’s Whitman, the business school, not Newhouse, the actual communications school.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · 28d

20-something techbro: AI will be our perfect anime waifus, our benevolent overlords, and live on in our immortal image after consigning our civilization to blissful oblivion.

50-something Unix dev: Computer is bad now.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 29

I (absurdly) got to spend a summer vacation week with some fairly rich and influential tech-adjacent people and I hope my extremely gloomy and acerbically funny comments about AI contributed to bursting the bubble earlier.

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 23

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Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 20

I love that Batman can do critical damage with a compliment.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 20

“…we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence.”

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column

'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 18

I’d feel a lot better about the future if I knew every union had a well-financed strike fund right now.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Chancellor on TV with Gordon and V - V for Vendetta (2005) - Movie Clip HD Scene

YouTube video by Legendary Movie Scenes

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Why shoe throwing is ‘incredibly offensive’ | CNN

The shoe attack on Iranian President Ahmadinejad in Egypt causes many in the West to ask: Why is throwing a shoe such a big deal?

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Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 12

Really regretting not setting fire to a couple of Trees of Heaven earlier in the spring. They weren’t technically on my property, though.

Erik @elindberg.bsky.social · Sep 11