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Erin McKean
@emckean.bsky.social
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Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.
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there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions.
Four of the five Marx Brothers in 1931 (top to bottom: Chico, Harpo, Groucho and Zeppo)
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Black and white photo of David Lynch in sunglasses with the text “What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd”
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)
A black metal box on a post. On the front is a decal that says little free ossuary: take a bone, leave a bone surrounded by cartoon bones
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Always nice to see a @parisinbmore.bsky.social shoutout (from @arapulido.bsky.social)
Screenshot of skeet saying “the argument that open source projects should only use open source for everything is weak”
August 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Defend the em-dash
Sticker for the Em Dash Defense League. Has the Latin motto Exspecta Illum at the top and “Wait for it—“ at the bottom
May 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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This is one of my faves
Bright yellow bumper sticker on a Subaru crosstrek reading How am I driving? How does an engine even work? How can a loving god cause such agony?
January 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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it’s today! planning to start my re-read at dusk for the full effect
A well-loved paperback copy of The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper against a plaid background, very festive yet foreboding
December 20, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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Computer Programming as Liberal Art (aka two quarters of HyperCard — the magic words were “fulfills the Common Core requirement in the mathematical sciences”)
110. Computer Programming as a Liberal Art I: Programming Arts (HyperCard) (=ComSci 110, GS Hum 298). PQ: Math 102, or 106, or placement into 131 or equivalent; or consent of instructor. ComSci 110-111 fulfills the Common Core requirement in the mathematical sciences. This course aims to keep pace with how computing technology is penetrating the humanistic disciplines. Students learn to program on an Apple Macintosh in the HyperTalk language, within the multimedia application HyperCard, and to apply the skills of programming more generally as a liberal art. As an introduction to programming, the course presents techniques of problem solving, program coding, algorithm construction, and debugging using the object-like programming environment of HyperCard. D. Crabb, W. Sterner. Winter. 111. Computer Programming as a Liberal Art II: Programs as Arguments (HyperCard) (ComSci 111, GS Hum 299). PQ: ComSci 110 or consent of instructor. ComSci 110-111 fulfills the Common Core requirement in the mathematical sciences. This is a continuation of ComSci 110, enlarging upon programming arts by identifying characteristic forms of computer programs, such as machines, models, simulations, and games as genres of argumentation. Students study such forms as recurrent scientific strategies that are making important contributions to new patterns of thinking in the humanities and in the social, biological, and physical sciences. More complete programming experience in HyperCard's object-like techniques is fostered through case studies in the different programming genres. Topics include Turing Machines as general computing models and an interpretation of hypertextual discourse as a "computer game." D. Crabb, W. Sterner. Spring.
December 19, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Arrived today!
A small dull bronze illegible Roman coin with irregular edges rests on top of a roughly opened brown no 10 envelope sealed with a trompe l’oeil sealing wax sticker with the letters SPQR
December 8, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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is it even Christmas if one of your ornament boxes doesn’t have a label from a defunct store?
Empty ornament box with price sticker from “Brendles” marked down to $1.69 from $1.95
November 30, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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also enjoyed this comment on the seller's profile:
Text of eBay review: Absolute schlock. LOVE IT! Dirty old pieces of metal with smudged markings that were passed around among heathens who did not know what soap was... Oh man, imagine all the germs that rode on these things once!! So cool... I think I will put them in my mouth. It's ok. I have a natural immune system. Survived COVID19 without any vaccinations. My blood is pure and too hot for Roman germs. Pussy germs.
November 29, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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this is not a bit I'm really gonna do this
Future archaeologist: "New evidence shows the Roman empire reached as far as the Pacific Northwest"
screenshot of an eBay purchase receipt for "Random Roman Bronze Coins" for US $4.16 showing a pile of several dozen small coins
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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finally found a source for all my Homeric zipper needs
Screenshot with a list of zipper colors: Turquoise Zippers Orange Zippers Yellow Zippers Wine - Dark Zippers
November 14, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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not the endorsement I’d seek out for MY dry-cleaning establishment but whatevs
(I suppose it does take a lot of work to keep Wilma’s animal-skin minidress so clean tho)
Fred and Wilma Flintstone painted on the window of a dry cleaners with a stone tablet reading WE BRING OUR CLOTHES HERE
July 17, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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really excited for the release of “Music for Microwaves”
A broken microwave display reading “Eno” instead of “End”
July 9, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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I don't know why I find this amusing but I do! I guess they are working their way up to a fire department? (photo from the STL FB account: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=6...)
A Florida Adopt-A-Highway sign in St Augustine, Florida. The adopting organization is the Saint Augustine Libertarians.
June 12, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2024
A Little Lulu comic panel showing Alvin, a small, red-haired boy in a blue and white paneled beanie. He is frowning and holding a small toy hippo, and saying “Hmm … a hippopossimus.”
December 29, 2023 at 1:27 AM
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From The Devil’s Home On Leave, by Derek Raymond
It was what I thought of as banana laws - the law of a society in the process of breaking down. Once properly tightened up, it would have meant that I could stop and arrest a man in the street simply because I didn't like the look on his face, or the way his pockets bulged. It would have synchronized nicely with the plastic ID cards that every citizen would be required to carry by then, and before long we would have turned the country into a birdcage. I asked myself whether this was the type of law I would ever want to enforce. If it ever passed onto the statute book we would effectively be released from any serious accountability to the public. Populations don't like it; I remembered what had happened, in a film I had seen, to the police in Budapest in 1956 when the public had got hold of them during the brief insurrection under Imre Nagy.
November 27, 2023 at 4:27 AM