The John Berry

I am an unemployed shop window bed demonstrator. 'True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks' (John Waters). allmylinks.com/thejohnberry 

[ironmans]

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray

[mumblesplash]

no but the “”ai”” boom is crazy bc they made the entire internet so shitty that the only reason to use it is because it’s where all the people are and now they’re getting rid of the people. like i’m straight up logging off and going to the library there’s nothing on here anymore

[mumblesplash]

‘here’s how to tell if an image is ai’ ‘signs the person you’re talking to is a bot’ ‘how to tell if a song is ai generated’ ah but consider this: i am shutting my laptop and walking outside

[jedusaur]

I saw a bsky post last year where someone said their grandma couldn't tell what was real on the internet anymore so she stopped using it and I really, genuinely think the techbros currently ruining everything have never even considered that possibility. their projections and pie charts and market share research and whatever simply do not take into account a scenario where people lose interest in being online. like yeah we're pretty much all gonna keep using the internet to book travel and look up words and order pizza, but in terms of how we spend our leisure time? I'm still extremely online, but in the last few years I've been learning candlemaking and carpentry and sewing, and I was already spending a lot of time cooking and reading books and skating at the rink and hiking, and an afternoon spent on any of those things always leaves me feeling better about myself than an afternoon spent doomscrolling. I think my daily life is going to keep reflecting that more and more as the slop encroaches, and it sounds like I'm far from the only one feeling that way. silver lining the everything, I suppose.

[teenagedirtstache]

L'Uomo Vogue December 1985 photos Aldo Fallai

[teenagedirtstache]

[theehorsepusssy]

[seventyskid]

[seventyskid]

[grundoonmgnx]

Frank Brangwyn (English, 1867-1956), The Blacksmiths

[angrylovelyheart]

Federico García Lorca e Salvador Dalí, 1925

[thejohnberry]

Might as well let people know.

[thejohnberry]

And now celebrating Masturbation Month. 💦

[wiionme]

[private-idaho1]

Stanley Kubrick: 

Boxer Walter Cartier and his Twin Brother 

(1948)

[wiionme]

Sending London buses to Hong Kong 1965

[thejohnberry]

Crooked houses in Dudley caused by mining subsidence

[elierlick]

An iconic UK bookstore is offering visitors the opportunity to vandalize Harry Potter books for 25 pence. The Bookish Type, the trans-owned bookstore in Leeds running the promotion, will donate all proceeds to gender-affirming healthcare costs. Good fundraising idea or bad messaging? 🤔

[theehorsepusssy]

[toto-a-aime]