A while ago, I tooted about the Seven Horsemen of the Apocalypse … not four.

It wasn’t an error. It was an annual adjusted rate for inflation.

1865 | San Francisco

Forecast

Mark Twain predicts the weather for the apocalypse.

From “A Page from a California Almanac.” Samuel Clemens signed his first newspaper article “Mark Twain” in 1863, publishing two years later this light piece and “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog”.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/future/forecast

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer #climate #insurance #climateemergency #apocalypse

Existential threat. Cartoon from 2023.

I just finished A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber over at Project Gutenberg. It's great post apocalyptic tale about earth thrown into a deep freeze after a rogue Star tears the planet from its orbit. There's not a lot of action but the world building is phenomenal. I'd love to read more stories set in this universe. #scifi #pulp #apocalypse #ProjectGutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461-images.html

First, I thought that I couldn't write fiction anymore because #reality gets crazy. Sometimes, I invent #SciFi plots just for fun, without writing. But now reality gets even weirder. I think that's the plan: We don't believe them. So, they install their #dystopic #apocalypse system while we still laugh about that insanity: https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/ (it's also archived).

Les 4 cavaliers de l'apocalypse
Stylos bic

D'habitude je me fixe 1h ou 2h voir 3 afin d'être plus dans l'exploration, et ne pas entamer de projets graphiques qui vont au-delà, car ça me lasse, mais celui ci me tenait à coeur.
J'avoue qu'après avoir fait les cavaliers, j'étais pressé de faire le sol et le fond (que je fais en premier d'habitude) afin de passer à autre chose.

'A dirty, rotten war is unfolding before my eyes. The world is starting to get used to it. I cannot get used to it.'

László Krasznahorkai talks to Hari Kunzru about #Ukraine and the ongoing #apocalypse

https://yalereview.org/article/l%C3%A1szl%C3%B3-krasznahorkai_interview

#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #bookstodon @bookstodon

Another road under an apocalyptic sky that I stole from Turner. Painted in acrylic and crayon. #MastoArt #art #abstract #acrylicpainting #apocalypse

Wrecked Love: A story without words.

All design** and rendering by me. The only post-work is colour/brightness adjustment.

** I didn't create the assets - life's too short.

So, where do you think we're all headed?
#Apocalypse #Fascism #Totalitarianism #Madness #NoFuture