Imagine having hope for the future. What a time to have been alive.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Must've been nice to have optimistic futurism, now even the fiction is with just modern neoliberalism in space or a glowing worship of fascism
Back then they actually hoped for technology aiding in the liberation of the human spirit, instead of the daily dread of what torment nexus is going to be implemented next.
Imaging wanting a unique style and unique aesthetic instead of Pinterest copy-paste all beige/grey.
All of this is rad as hell.
the taps are sick
Reminds me of 
's ship from Episode 1.
Unfortunately, every time the hot water starts to drip you have to find a nine year old to coerce into doing NASCAR so you can afford to buy a replacement cartridge from a slave-owning racist stereotype.
Yes
the tiles look like they're made out of that radioactive glass used in kitchenware
Uranium Glass!
Interestingly, not available in this aesthetic, since the US banned the use of uranium salts and production ended in 1958. Most examples are from before that, and were typically depression glass pieces.
oh curious, I always thought that was a post WW2 era thing
Most was pre-war. The US government put a huge amount of effort into covertly redirecting uranium salts and ores for the Manhattan Project without clueing people in to the fact that they were doing something weird with it. At the time, it wasn't really a useful element for any industrial processes other than "idk it makes glass a fun color I guess" and wasn't heavily mined as a result.
In the 90s the US dropped regulations and some uranium glass is still made today, albeit not as large glassware pieces anymore. Despite the name and the association of uranium with radiation, uranium glass is only negligibly radioactive and totally safe (assuming they didn't put any lead paint on it).
Yeah! They do make it again, but I just haven't found any more modern pieces that I actually like.
I used to have a floral pattern plate from the 30s that I found while thrifting, but one of my professors was a nuclear chemist so I gifted it to him.
goes hard
I do love those green boomerang tiles
I love the spaceship-shaped faucet.
guys only want one thing and it's rad as hell
rad indeed
Rad is short for radiation in this case
That’s dope but also may as well be a sign that says “asbestos inside”
That's so kitsch. Some of it I love, some of it fuck no.
Kinda like it ngl..
Wish I had the money to own a house and add on custom tiles and faucets...
We have always been building houses with tile in them. The difference is that the market today makes it prohibitively expensive to go through the abstraction of labor hours to wages/savings to products.
But if you short-circuit the process and just do it yourself (and probably break a bunch of zoning codes), you can just get a house directly the way people did it for thousands of years.
this is cool
Your mom’s house… the final frontier…
Fallout house?
I'm not seeing how this is loss
Just got word of another settlement that needs our help, I'll mark it on your map.
I actually think the retro futurism sort of decor could look nice, if it wasn't always surrounded by those pastel pinks and greens.
I absolutely love this.
what