Object Record / FI-EPH-312
Don't Ever Buy No Neuralink from the Gas Station
digital / PNG, 1125×2436 / screenshot / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a phone screenshot of an Instagram feed post whose caption image reads "Don't ever buy no neuralink from the gas station bro." Beneath it is a grim painting of a skeletal figure with one red cybernetic eye, enthroned amid a mass of cables, tubes, and machinery, with a skull at its side. The painting resembles tabletop sci-fi artwork of an emperor fused to a life-support throne; the attribution is unverified. The post shows 4,415 other likes. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.
Restoration relevance
Why it remains connected
accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.
Uncertainty notes
What remains unresolved
digital / PNG, 1125×2436 / screenshot / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.
Relationships
Keep the object connected.
Related objects
Parent system
The Shadow Zone
A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.
Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open
Field logs / dossiers
Archive routes
Source Assets / 1 reference
Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.
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