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Melissa Kaercher
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Queen of the Lizard People, a benevolent despot.

I also like dogs.
Caught my dog sleeping with Jeff Goldblum this morning.
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Melissa Kaercher
Like some kind of grim Omen of things to come, #Hawaii ’s #Kilauea volcano just unleashed a MASSIVE WING SHAPED eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
In 1986, Andy Rooney said we should get rid of pennies. And casually referenced Pan Am while doing it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnh...
Andy Rooney's penny test | 60 Minutes Archive
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Reposted by Melissa Kaercher
Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Toast has the right idea today, I think.
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Me: I should rein in my impulsive spending habits.

Me, two minutes later: Oooh, Amazon has a flash deal on Geiger counters.
November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
USHA: if you need someone to get you out of there, hold your hand open to the camera, tuck in your thumb, then close your fingers around the thumb.

www.comicsands.com/vance-usha-c...
J.D. Vance Faces Backlash After Saying He Hopes His Wife Usha Will Be 'Moved' To Convert To Christianity
How is this not a dealbreaker?
www.comicsands.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Today I learned that actor Tom Conway was actor George Sanders’ brother, and now the universe makes a little more sense.
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Have we tried paying him to NOT be president?
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If the Democrats can't find something to do with LITERALLY THE MOST PERFECT VISUAL METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING...
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Define your taste in books with 8 authors:

Mary Roach
Alexandre Dumas
Douglas Adams
Agatha Christie
Umberto Eco
Erik Larson
Sinclair Lewis
Kurt Vonnegut
Chinua Achebe
Deborah Blum

Here are more:
Eve Babitz
Margaret Atwood
Deborah Blum
Jennifer Egan
Stephen J. Gould
Oliver Sacks
Neal Stephenson
Define your taste in books with 8 authors:

Mary Shelley
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shirley Jackson
Ann Radcliffe
Mike Mignola
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
The Brothers Grimm
Define your taste in books with 8 authors:

-Kazuo Ishiguro
-Thomas Hardy
-Toni Morrison
-Daphne du Maurier
-Tove Jansson
-Hans Christian Andersen
-Edith Wharton
-Nella Larsen

💙📚 #BookSky
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Funniest thing I saw today:

A Cybertruck was driving on a downtown Minneapolis street today. It soon found itself blocked by the No Kings protest, which was flowing down a cross-street.

You’ve never seen a car pull a u-turn so fast.
October 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I love Minneapolis.
October 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by Melissa Kaercher
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Trump: We have to remove all the criminal immigrants from the streets!

Also Trump:
Breaking News: President Trump commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, the New York Republican who was expelled from Congress. Santos had reported to prison in July after he was sentenced to serve more than 7 years for financial fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
October 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
All US health insurance companies should be burned to the fucking ground. And then anyone who voted against healthcare reform should be forced to snort the ashes until they apologize.
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In the last three days, I’ve watched three different movies named Dead of Night.

One has a trucker-eating blood junkie.

One has a haunted golf ball.

One has Ed Bagley Jr.
October 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Me: I like this thing I bought on a whim.

The weasels in my brain, five minutes later: …AND NOW I NEED TO OWN 37 VARIATIONS OF THIS THING, BECAUSE THAT WILL MAKE ME 37 TIMES HAPPIER.
October 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Fascinating article about Minneapolis’ Muslim diasporas, religious beliefs, and dogs:

sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
More Minnesota Somali Muslims embrace dog ownership
Somali Muslim traditions consider dogs unclean. But some Minnesota immigrants — especially those with children pleading for pets — are reconsidering that.
sahanjournal.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I heard tonight that Christopher Mills has passed away. I did not know him well, but I did work with him on a couple projects (most notably, Femme Noir #1). He was always a gem to work with. May his memory be a blessing, and may his comics live on and on.
I only wrote about 100 comics in my so-called career, but now that I'm dying, I'm grateful that I got to do even that. Comics are such a wonderful medium, and they've always meant so much to me.
October 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Me: “I keep having to move my plants between home and the office because I just don’t have enough sunny window space.”

Also me: [opens box from UPS and sees
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
For some reason, I decided that I'd learn about the stock market on Wednesday. I put a negligible amount of money ($5) into a few stocks, then watched what happened.

What I learned:
* Line go up because capitalism
* Line go down because Trump say "tariff"
* Many hour lost b/c stare at line
October 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Episode 223: Tales from the Hood / Scream / The Sentinel

It's spooky season, dear listeners, so we are talking about our early choices for Halloweentime watching! Movies discussed: Tales from the Hood The Craft Scream The Sentinel VHS Halloween Bone Lake Other things discussed: Spooky Lakes Month…
Episode 223: Tales from the Hood / Scream / The Sentinel
It's spooky season, dear listeners, so we are talking about our early choices for Halloweentime watching! Movies discussed: Tales from the Hood The Craft Scream The Sentinel VHS Halloween Bone Lake Other things discussed: Spooky Lakes Month Fat Bear season
xanaducinema.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Friday is a great day for HOWLING TIME!
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM