“Warning: Activating this lamp may summon alternate timelines.”

Perfect for timekeepers, chaos engineers, or anyone who thinks standard table lamps are cowardly.

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Facebook 10th May 2025

A close-up image of a steampunk-style Nixie tube clock with a glowing caged light bulb on top. A plaque behind it, surrounded by dark pipes and gauges, has a humorous caption. The Nixie tubes display "02:38", and the plaque reads: "COMMENCE CHAOTIC TIME-ANOMALY COUNTDOWN: 02:38 PREPARE FOR UNEXPECTED VICTORIAN HIJINKS".

The image is a digitally rendered steampunk-style composition that mimics a real-world object. It features a chaotic, industrial background of dark metal pipes, valves, and gauges, suggesting a complex, old-fashioned machine.

In the foreground, there is an ornate, retro-futuristic steampunk device. It consists of a large, glowing Edison-style light bulb housed in a metal cage on top of a boxy mechanism with brass gears, knobs, and switches. Below this, there is a digital clock display made of glowing, orange Nixie tubes that shows the time “02:38”.

Mounted on the wall behind the device is a plaque with text that adds to the humorous, meme-like nature of the image. The text reads:

❖ COMMENCE CHAOTIC TIME-ANOMALY❖
COUNTDOWN:
02:38
PREPARE FOR
UNEXPECTED
VICTORIAN
HIJINKS”

The meaning of the meme is to set up a humorous, impending event. The serious, dramatic tone of “COMMENCE CHAOTIC TIME-ANOMALY” is undercut by the playful and absurd outcome of “UNEXPECTED VICTORIAN HIJINKS.” The image is a lighthearted joke about the genre of steampunk itself, taking its dramatic, intricate machinery and applying it to a trivial, funny outcome. The fact that the Nixie tube clock is a real, available product on Etsy adds another layer of a real-world object being transformed into a meme, blurring the lines between a product, a piece of art, and a joke.

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