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Christian Hendriks
@cerhendriks.bsky.social
210 followers 290 following 2.2K posts
Work & volunteering: arts admin, grant writing, museum collections.
Education: MLIS, English lit MA.
General: Ontarian, Anglican, autistic, leftist, TTRPG hobbyist, he/him/his.

Opinions are never wholly one's own, but I'm responsible for mine.
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A black-and-white photograph of French academic René Girard, with purple laser eyes. The photograph may have been taking while he was laughing; at any rate, his smile looks particularly intense and a little aggressive, though that might be the influence of the aforementioned laser eye treatment.
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The Sia tweet, which originally reads, "I had two people on the spectrum advising me at all times," has been jankily edited to read, "I had one Canadian on the spectrum advising me at all times." Above this is the legend, "Christianity on the Spectrum listeners be like." The title of the Christianity on the Spectrum podcast is italicized.
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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This also seems more or less perfect.
A screenshot of three posts by D&D on the Road (@dndencroad.bsky.social), in order. The first, posted 13 days ago, reads, "Dinarv, a male dwarf thief fleeing the royal guard. He has angered a swarm of hornets, and begs for help." The second, posted 14 days ago, reads, "A male elf hermit named Reone. He lives in an a wooden hut near a pool of clear water. [sic]" The third, posted 14 days ago, reads, "The road ahead is blocked by the royal guard, who seem to be searching for someone." The first and third posts have been Liked.
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Oh, *this* is a neat coincidence!
Two posts from the Wasteland Waystops account (@wastelandwaystops.bsky.social), chronologically adjacent. The first, posted 14 hours before the screenshot, reads, "You stock up on supplies at a rustic militia garrison in an operational train. An unusually high number of residents are identical triplets." The second, posted 21 hours before the screenshot, reads, "You come upon a thriving medical clinic made from derailed train cars. An unusually high number of residents are identical triplets."
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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1382.

"From Allegories to Novels":
A screenshot of a PDF, the page number 340 and the name Jorge Luis Borges appearing in the header. A passage is outlined with a red rectangle; that passage reads as follows: "The passage from allegory to novel, from species to individual, from realism to nominalism, required several centuries, but I shall have the temerity to suggest an ideal date: the day in 1382 when Geoffrey Chaucer, who may not have believed himself to be a nominalist, set out to translate into English a line by Boccaccio-'E con gli occulti ferri i Tradimenti' (And Betrayal with hidden weapons)-and repeated it as "The smyler with the knyf under the cloke.'" At the bottom a date, 1949, appears in brackets.
September 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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And I don't know if anything I've already run has been very much in the line of Poortvleit, but I would like to figure out how to catch the grounded realism of his gnomes and his prehistories.
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a painting by Rien Poortvleit, in which a little gnome with a pointed red cap and full white beard sits on a midwinter deadwood branch; the gnome offers with an extended hand a morsel of some kind of food to a little mouse, who sniffs it cautiously; behind the gnome, taking up most of the space of the image, a doe deer also looks on, stretching her head forward in interest; only her head, neck, and shoulders are visible, the rest of her out of frame or obscured by snow; the suggestion seems to be that the gnome is sitting in the bracken between a forest and a field; the gnome is made to look quite small, and indeed he is
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Re: the *name* Trump.
April 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Again with alt-text.
A graphic on a white background, obviously made in paint. At the top it says, "I am free in Christ"; an arcing arrow labelled "thus" connects this to text at the bottom, reading "I am cringe", which is connected in turn to the upper text by another arrow reading "thus." Inside this loop is the crest of the Anglican Church of Canada.
March 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Oh no, I forgot alt-text. Is the alt-text reminder thing disabled?

Here it is again, with alt-text.
A graphic on a white background, obviously made in paint. At the top it says, "I am free in Christ"; an arcing arrow labelled "thus" connects this to text at the bottom, reading "I am cringe", which is connected in turn to the upper text by another arrow reading "thus." Inside this loop is the crest of the Episcopal Church of the United States.
March 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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(And for my home church)
March 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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This is just one tab. I adjusted the difficulty by changing the number of turns it should take the party to kill the enemy, the number of turns it should take the enemy to kill the party, and the number of enemies.
A screenshot of a Google Sheets page. It has a table with cells reading, "Encounter Variables," "Hit Rate Data," "Party Damage," "Party Survivability," and "Encounter Details"; each of these has more detailed lines with numbers, so for instance to the right of "Party Damage," "Ealis Hit Rate" is "65%" and "Ealis Damage/Turn" is "16.9." There are other less-structured charts to the right, one of which is titled "Melchellor Death Rates" (and "Hits to Kill M" is 0.70). The equation line reads, "=18+(((D14*D2)+D13)/D5)," the result of which is 60.7 ("Average Enemy Hit Points"). The Encounter Variables indicate that Rounds to Kill Enemies is 3, Rounds to Kill Party is 2, Actual # of Enemies is 3, and Effective # of Enemies is 3.
February 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This is one of those places where it is clear that my mathematical intuitions are all wrong, because the 547,383 number looks right to me and the 10% looks completely wrong (ie. I feel like there's no way I was here that early).

(Reposting: forgot alt-text, spelling error)
An image, created by Bluesky, "Celebrating 10M users," telling me I was the 547,383rd user to join Blueksy, putting me in the "First 10%." My name (Christian Hendriks) and username (cerhendriks@bsky.social) are in the bottom left hand corner of the mostly blank white image. Many images like this one have been posted yesterday and today.
September 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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Here is what I was seeing, sort of.

(It is clearly flowers. The little foot is a flower. I get that. Still.)
A crop of John William Waterhouse's /Matilda/, focusing on the flowers in the subject's arms. It has red circles over parts of the flowers (which look vaguely like a little opossum on its back), labelled as follows: "Base of Tail?," "Foot!," "Pale grey face?," and "Ear." Clearly made in MS Paint.
August 26, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Repost with a picture you have saved but haven't yet found a use for.
In a cartoon style against a dark blue forested backdrop a brown pig stands on a stump and says, "It also doesn't matter." From the video game WILDERMYTH.
February 7, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Bluesky, what is your website doing?

For those not interested in counting, that's seven of the same post by @tznkai.bsky.social appearing in a row at the top of the feed.
A screenshot of web browser open to a Bluesky feed, with three identical posts by one user (K. Chen) quoting a post by a different user (Lord Businessman), all marked "From Mutuals." A screenshot of a web browser open to a Bluesky feed, showing seven copies of the same post by user K. Chen quote posting user Lord Businessman, followed by some other posts by other users. All of K. Chen's posts are labelled, "From Mutuals."
December 16, 2023 at 12:43 AM
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The other day my mother cut back the outdoor catnip and brought what she cut in to dry, but first she left it on the floor for a bit for her cat to investigate...
On brown tile floor part of a tuxedo cat is visible (lower right of the image) with her left paw extended into the stems of a cutting of green plant (catnip), also on the floor (about half of the image, clustered in the lower left). The cat is looking over her shoulder, to the bottom of the image.
November 7, 2023 at 7:56 PM
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Also some pictures of what I think is a robberfly eating what must be a damselfly.
An image of a predatory fly (seen from behind) on a metal handrail, with a shiny purplish abdomen, sitting over a dead damselfly; a red dot on the handrail sits below the fly, and the damselflies abdomen is bent nearly parallel to the predator fly's own. An image of a predatory fly (seen from the side) on a metal handrail, with a shiny purplish abdomen, sitting over a dead damselfly; a red dot on the handrail sits below the fly, and the damselflies abdomen is bent nearly parallel to the predator fly's own.
September 11, 2023 at 2:49 AM
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A few pictures from the Pinery Provincial Park.
A mostly grey-brown image of tree bark with two grasshoppers in the lower right quadrant of the image. A close-up image of a sawyer beetle on reflective glass; one of its long antennae pokes out of the frame. An image of a brown eyespotted butterfly on a fern frond; the butterfly is mostly in sunlight, but much of the frond is dappled. A richly amber-coloured mushroom growing from brown leaflitter.
September 11, 2023 at 2:46 AM