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Ann Hedonia
@annhedonia.bsky.social
300 followers 810 following 370 posts
I'd be a pretty meh follow, honestly; my only talent is appreciation. Love art, fiction, film, science.
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"I feel like the movies sold us an idealized version of the end times."
Cartoon by Emily Flake that shows a woman sitting at a desk, looking at her phone. She says to a man behind her, "I feel like the movies sold us an idealized version of the end times."
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"They're eating the checks; they're eating the balances"

"Honk if you never drunk-texted war plans"

"The only person Trump ever hired who was actually qualified to do their job was Stormy Daniels"
Three women are standing on a sidewalk in the sun, in front of a green lawn with an American flag flying against a blue sky in the background, holding protest signs which read, left to right: "They're eating the checks, they're eating the balances," "Honk if you never drunk-texted war plans," and "The only person Trump ever hired who was actually qualified to do their job was Stormy Daniels."
May 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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"Probably not."

Best abstract ever.
(thx to McKinley Valentine's The Whippet for finding this)
Screenshot from arxiv of a High Energy Physics paper titled "Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?" The entire text of the abstract is "Probably not."
February 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Time for a Christmas cocktail. (I'm obviously on the pro-side of the Die-Hard-is-a-Christmas-movie debate.)
A frothy pink cocktail sits in front of a lit Christmas tree surrounded by text that reads "Welcome to the party, pal." The cocktail ingredients are listed as being Tequila Reposado, spiced pear, coconut cream, raspberry elixir, lime, and chocolate bitters.
December 24, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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The best wrapping paper? #lotr
wrapping paper illustrated with the face of Sean Bean as Boromir in Lord of the Rings saying "It is a gift"
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Have a very Die Hard Christmas.
Closeup of an ornament hanging on a Christmas tree. The ornament is a hollow metallic square with an image of Bruce Willis, as John McClane, crawling through the duct work of Nakatomi Plaza.
December 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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'Tis the season
A man dressed in a Santa suit is standing in the checkout line at Walmart. HIs hair is arranged in a spiked Mohawk, and each spike has its own tiny little Santa hat on it.
December 15, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Black and white drawing of two fig halves, shown side-by-side with their interiors facing us. The fig on the left is labeled "fig 1" and the fig on the right is labeled "fig 2." (The image is for sale in various formats by doodlewhale on redbubble.)
December 10, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Out of the blue of the western sky comes ...
Black and white screenshot of a man in a western-style hat, sitting in the cockpit of a small plane, with the words "SKY KING" superimposed over the image.
November 21, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Name a better qualified doctor that Dr. Oz

Dr. Demento
A bearded, bespectacled man (Dr. Demento) wearing a top hat while sitting in front of a microphone tooting a squeeze horn.
November 21, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Here's a photo I'd already taken, where the subject is really the skull in the foreground, but you can see a jumble of titles behind it.
Bookshelf with miscellaneous titles relating to math and philosophy. The books have been pushed back on the shelf to make room for a 3D printed t-rex skull.
November 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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If you see this, post a robot
Robbie the Robot is a metal, bipedal robot with telescoping arms and three-fingered hands, bulbous legs, and a clear-domed "head" containing very analog-looking switches and relays instead of pseudo-humanoid facial features. He first appeared in the classic film "Forbidden Planet."
November 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Post-election/post-apocalypse; potayto/potahto.

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
Cartoon showing a man and three children, all dressed in rags, sitting around a campfire in a bleak landscape. The man is telling the kids, "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
November 8, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
freeway underpass with the phrase "This is why we can't have nice things" spray painted on the median wall.
November 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Tequila IV drip ready for duty
An IV (intravenous) fluid bag hanging from the back of a bookcase, with the attached tubing draped over the back of an easy chair. The IV bag has a Fortaleza tequila label on it.
November 5, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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I love reinterpretations of this theme. Here's one by Judithe Hernandez called Luchadora Trilogy:
A colorful three-panel painting, where each panel depicts a nude woman in a luchador mask. The woman in the central panel faces us, while the others have their back(sides) to us.
November 2, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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I have donuts for breakfast every Halloween
A variety of donuts in a display case. All the donuts are decorated with eyes and long, sharp teeth.
October 31, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Just putting the finishing touches on my Halloween costume
Homey, fifties-style kitchen with a green, big-eyed alien ironing a human costume. Art by Jeff Drew Pictures.
October 31, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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I'm ready to keep my Halloween tortillas toasty warm.
A beautiful tortilla warmer, which looks a bit like a round oven mitt and is adorned with a Mexican day-of-the-dead-style illustration of grinning white skulls wreathed in red roses on a black background.
October 27, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Reminded me of this classic:
In a scene from the film "The Terminator," Arnold Schwartzenegger looks up the addresses of all the "Sarah Connor" entries in a phone book to find and kill her. An inserted image shows the phone book page with Sarah Connor's name, but her name is in the wavy font that the old Captcha system used to display a word you had to type to prove that you're not a robot.
October 11, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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Screenshot of a post by misteranthrope that reads "Voting 101: Nine people on a bus. Three vote to drive over a cliff. Two vote to go get ice cream. Four don't bother to vote. Everyone dies. Like it or not, you're on the bus with everyone else. Make your voice heard."
October 8, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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There is no fourth bowl...
Three bowls are sitting in a row on a table in a sunny room. The bowls are decorated with simple, colorful figures of children. The first bowl is labeled "I scream"; the second "You scream"; and the third "We all scream."
September 20, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #173,046!

Jeez, I've seen a few of these posted from users who now have thousands and thousands of followers, while I've barely broken the 150 mark, ha!
Notification from bluesky that says "Celebrating 10M users" with the number 173,046, and a blue stamp that reads "First 10% - Bluesky Elder Certified"
September 18, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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From "The Human Side of Animals," by Royal Dixon, published in 1918.
Black and white photo of a young man and his dog. The man is wearing a nice suit and the slender, medium-sized dog is white with black ears and one dark eye. The man is seen from the chest up, leaning against a table. His dog is beside him on the table with one leg over the man's shoulder. The man looks adoringly at the dog while the dog stares straight into the camera and seems to be smiling.
September 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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"Trust me, you can dance."
- Alcohol

Apparently you can order these cocktail napkins on Amazon, which is pretty tempting.
A white cocktail napkin with black lettering that reads "Trust me, you dance." Signed, Alcohol
August 27, 2024 at 10:46 PM