Christopher Walsh
@awkwardisallowed.bsky.social
Hi. I hope I’ll be interesting. Same handle on Instagram (I was splunge2000 on Twitter). He/him
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I know how tempting it is to answer with pessimism or cynicism and you know, maybe you'll be right. But even if you are, nobody is going to find you in a year and say "Good call!" So if you feel like being doomy, I'd like you to pause and consider for a moment the rich possibilities of not replying.
December 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I know how tempting it is to answer with pessimism or cynicism and you know, maybe you'll be right. But even if you are, nobody is going to find you in a year and say "Good call!" So if you feel like being doomy, I'd like you to pause and consider for a moment the rich possibilities of not replying.
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
Someone from Alaska flirted with me on that job! In Feb. 2001 I took a call from a customer in what was then called Barrow and is now called Utqiaġvik, the northernmost city in the U.S. She and I had fun talking. We finished her order (1/2)
Randomly saw the number 907, which thanks to the call-center job I had from 2001 to 2004 will always make me think "Alaska's area code."
December 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Someone from Alaska flirted with me on that job! In Feb. 2001 I took a call from a customer in what was then called Barrow and is now called Utqiaġvik, the northernmost city in the U.S. She and I had fun talking. We finished her order (1/2)
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“Looks like I’m walking…”
One of those mornings when I can't get Danny Elfman's score from MIDNIGHT RUN out of my head.
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Looks like I’m walking…”
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If you start "Rear Window" (1954) at exactly 8:10pm tonight, you'll have time to watch it all over again and finish at exactly midnight.
December 31, 2024 at 11:14 PM
If you start "Rear Window" (1954) at exactly 8:10pm tonight, you'll have time to watch it all over again and finish at exactly midnight.
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My end-of-2025 summary:
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
Nnedi 2025
Nnedi Okorafor
Writing
Stories
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December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My end-of-2025 summary:
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
Darn, we missed the chance to do this with DODGEBALL
If A24 & General Mills had any nerve they would‘ve released these on grocery store shelves nationally.
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Darn, we missed the chance to do this with DODGEBALL
NO ONIONS? OH, NO! #RadiantStar #AnnLeckie
Just a reminder, my next novel, Radiant Star, is available for pre-order wherever fine books are, uh, pre-ordered!
December 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
NO ONIONS? OH, NO! #RadiantStar #AnnLeckie
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I’m going to hype two of my books in light of the Heated Rivalry world domination - because if there’s two things @erincmcrae.bsky.social and I like to write about it’s ice sports and the horrors of fame!
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I’m going to hype two of my books in light of the Heated Rivalry world domination - because if there’s two things @erincmcrae.bsky.social and I like to write about it’s ice sports and the horrors of fame!
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Happy almost new year. I wrote about my old one, ready to take its final, hopefully gentle, bow and ushering in the new.
December 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Happy almost new year. I wrote about my old one, ready to take its final, hopefully gentle, bow and ushering in the new.
Randomly saw the number 907, which thanks to the call-center job I had from 2001 to 2004 will always make me think "Alaska's area code."
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Randomly saw the number 907, which thanks to the call-center job I had from 2001 to 2004 will always make me think "Alaska's area code."
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December 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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An interesting note: my 11yo got a CD boombox and has spent more time listening to few CDs on repeat in her room than using Tidal/Bluetooth downstairs. Ownership + intention is appealing to her. For now, I'll keep sampling bands to her in the car but happily buy her their CDs if this holds up.
Someone said it before me, but I've repeated it a few times:
Everything went wrong when someone decided music should be free.
EVERYTHING.
Everything went wrong when someone decided music should be free.
EVERYTHING.
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
An interesting note: my 11yo got a CD boombox and has spent more time listening to few CDs on repeat in her room than using Tidal/Bluetooth downstairs. Ownership + intention is appealing to her. For now, I'll keep sampling bands to her in the car but happily buy her their CDs if this holds up.
It's gotten colder out since I've arrived at work.
December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It's gotten colder out since I've arrived at work.
Genuine LOL (thread)
We have also cast Liam Neeson as Eminem somehow, and Ben Shapiro as Joe C.
December 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Genuine LOL (thread)
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Sliding into 2026 like
a man is flying through the air in a desert landscape .
Alt: Godzilla is flying through the air in a desert landscape .
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December 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Sliding into 2026 like
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For those following along, your answers were really helpful, and I figured it out. If you want to know which book I chose, Coffee & Conjuring will be out in 2027. :)
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about who enjoy being nosy, here's a list of books people think are sexy.
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about who enjoy being nosy, here's a list of books people think are sexy.
What is the sexiest possible 'favorite book' a male love interest could have, and why?
December 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
For those following along, your answers were really helpful, and I figured it out. If you want to know which book I chose, Coffee & Conjuring will be out in 2027. :)
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about who enjoy being nosy, here's a list of books people think are sexy.
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about who enjoy being nosy, here's a list of books people think are sexy.
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snoopy overall, jawor's fun golf, roseville, michigan, 1986
December 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
snoopy overall, jawor's fun golf, roseville, michigan, 1986
Could there be a ballad version of "Institutionalized"?
December 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Could there be a ballad version of "Institutionalized"?
"This is confusing!" No, you weren't paying attention, there's a difference.
December 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"This is confusing!" No, you weren't paying attention, there's a difference.
Why the HELL was I dreaming that I needed to find somewhere to give birth to Deadpool? Was my mind just telling me I had to take a dump?
(I won’t mention the grosser details.)
(I won’t mention the grosser details.)
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Why the HELL was I dreaming that I needed to find somewhere to give birth to Deadpool? Was my mind just telling me I had to take a dump?
(I won’t mention the grosser details.)
(I won’t mention the grosser details.)
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As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
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December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
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I'm just very tired of hearing, "Most folks are not bigoted but if you don't guide them very softly away from their unconscious bigotry you'll alienate them & they'll never change." It is bonkers to expect the disadvantaged to allow the advantaged to set the terms & timeline for change, FOREVER.
December 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I'm just very tired of hearing, "Most folks are not bigoted but if you don't guide them very softly away from their unconscious bigotry you'll alienate them & they'll never change." It is bonkers to expect the disadvantaged to allow the advantaged to set the terms & timeline for change, FOREVER.
Some truth you can feel good about
there are no Nazis on Mars
December 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Some truth you can feel good about
there are no Nazis on Mars
December 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
there are no Nazis on Mars