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Eric of the Poe People
@ericpoe.bsky.social
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Gentle coder, reader, & half-knit/half-wit. Co-org of KCPHPUG and MergePHP. Advisor of CoderDojoKC. Plaid Belt in Kung Fu movies. Connoisseur of dad jokes. Perpetually behind in #DafYomi. Him/He
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Ditto! Oh to be a KU student back then and be used as an extra.
Movie poster for the made-for-tv-movie "The Day After" from 1983. The image shows a mushroom cloud wiping out skyscrapers with a variety of images of the Kansas City skyline.
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Riker is down to the challenge. He'll need help with the skates, though.
Riker looking fabulous in a shimmery light blue blouse that is open down to his appendix. His hairy chest is exposed. Deanna Troi looks like a cat who just ate a canary. Tasha Yar is staring hungrily at Riker's exposed abdomen. Riker stares back at Tasha and his lip gloss and eye shadow seem to say, "Honey, my eyes are up here."
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The sentence "Spelling errors make me see red." The word "error" is misspelled to have two "r"s instead of three, so the editor has underlined it in an angry red squiggle.
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I think that whomever designed the movie poster never saw the movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt6305...
A terrible Photoshop job that shows an Elderly Ed Asner in the passenger seat and an old woman driving. They are in a red Volkswagen Beetle with a mess of prescription drugs and a set of dentures on the dash. Also on the dash are weed buds spilling out of a yellow bottle. The woman is smoking a cigarette and yet there's an oxygen tank in the seat behind her. Ed Asner is surrounded by 6 cats, most of which are staring straight ahead. One cat is wearing a psychedelic hat and its eyes are icy blue and opened wide. On top of the car is a wicker purse that the woman left on the passenger-side roof. This is the movie that you want to see, but it is not related to the story you get.
September 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Chaucer would agree. You are in good company.
The prolog to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in the original Middle English, with "natúre" highlighted. The text reads: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye, So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages, Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke."
September 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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There are 5 books in the penny room. 5. And they look like furniture store prop books. And is that a wooden cigar box?
A glass coffee table with a wooden box (perhaps for cigars), 3 books on top and 2 books below. One has a title but is not legible and is partially obscured by the wooden box atop it. The two books on top have cover designs that look like starling mumurations though one might be a large zayin from the Hebrew alefbet.
September 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This time of year, in the Kansas City area,I find what looks like mud caked on the underside of my hummingbird feeders. Upon closer inspection, it's insect eggs. Does anyone have an idea what kind of insect made these nests? #entomology
August 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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It looks like both albums are related to a movie series starring Connie Chan Po-chu. Google Translate. www.themoviedb.org/person/93588...
Album cover for the 1967 Hong Kong cinema album, "Cat Eyes Girl." The background color is the orange of roasted carrots. A large cartoon face of a black cat with the same-orange eyes takes up most of the cover. Overlaid is a grayscale image of a young man looking at a young woman as he holds her upper arm and she turns away. Both are seated on the ground. The Google Translate text says that the album is called "Cat Eyes Girl" and shows the names, "Chan Po-chu" and "Tsang Kong." The cover for a Hong Kong cinema album. Google Translate shows the title as "Black Wild Cat Overlord Shows Off His Power" and the names, "Chen Baozhu" and "Hu Feng." Two black and white images of a woman in a black trenchcoat wearing a black cat cowl, much like Eartha Kitt as Catwoman. One woman is standing, though we only see her from torso and up. The other woman is lying down on her back in an alert pose that suggests she just heard an unexpected sound from the other room.
August 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A male plyphemus moth! My mother found a female at her place
A female polyphemus moth on a weathered wooden post. It has a thick leading edge like a mono wing airplane. It's eye spots are easy to see on its primary wings.
July 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I made a 3-kiddush lunch martini for Pesach: vodka, vermouth, and pickled herring. Guests declared it "um, interesting."
A martini glass containing a clear liquid and a piece of pickled herring
June 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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#TIL HTTP 218 - only used on Apache web servers. http.dev/218
Cartoon dog with large pupils, wearing a small hat, and sitting in a room on that is in flames. In front of the dog is a mug on a circular table. Written in the smoke collecting at the top of the room is "HTTP 218." The next panel shows a closeup of the dog, smiling, while saying, "This is fine."
June 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🎶 Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks, F*CK OFF 🎶
A woman playing guitar to some children on a mountain. A scene from The Sound of Music
May 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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🎶 I like big buttes and I cannot lie 🎶
A woman playing guitar to some children on a mountain. A scene from The Sound of Music
May 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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🎶 The hills have eyes 🎶
A woman playing guitar to some children on a mountain. A scene from The Sound of Music
May 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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@guess-what.bsky.social

Abandon all hope, followers who enter here.
A screenshot of the @guess_what.bsky.social banner showing 666 followers.
May 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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L'chaim!
A martini glass on a black, brown, and beige speckled granite counter. Inside is a clear liquid with a single piece of herring and one or two tiny pieces of pickled white onion. L'chaim!
April 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Rereading a Deadpool collection from the public library. www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...

A surprise Johnny Dangerously reference!
Deadpool is fighting Taskmaster, outside of this frame. Taskmaster had just cut off one of Deadpool's fingers. We see a dropped sword and a pool of blood at Deadpool's feet. Deadpool says, "Y'Know, my mother cut off my finger once --" The next frame is a closeup of Deadpool clutching his hand, his eyes narrowed to thin angry slits. He says icily, "Once."
March 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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And one would be a mix of everything. Like a camel and a leopard.
An old drawing of a giraffe by someone who has never seen one and has only heard one described. The dimensions and features are wrong, like the spots look like a leopard's rather than a giraffes.
February 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Looks like a microscope image of a triceratium diatom jmcscientificconsulting.com/wp-content/u...
A grayscale magnification image of a triangular diatom. The center of each leg of the triangle is curved inward as if the silicate shell of the diatom were squishy. The interior of the legs show clusters of dots that look like stalls at a souk or shops at an airport.
January 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Never has my lock screen felt more true #snowmageddon

1 2 3 4 I declare a
IPhone lock screen shows a graphic of a snowflake followed by the text: "Blizzard War..."
January 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Not my picture, but what a vibe
Two double-A batteries in a bag with a paper label that says, "GIFT NOT INCLUDED". A left hand is holding the item and the thumb is obscuring some words. So we can read what's left, "...Power you need for the gift you really want."
December 30, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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@hildur.bsky.social look what we received from an Icelandic friend. Had I not seen your posts, I would not have known who these characters were, and I would not have been so excited to see this children's game.

Presented in the order that the cards were in the box.
A red square box with cartoon characters doing a variety of things. In Icelandic, "Litla Jólasveinaspilið -Samstæðuspil" and in English, "The Small Yule Lads Game - Memory matching game" A red square of paper with a bunch of cartoon men, women, and children doing various things. There's also a disgruntled black cat. 5 cards with cartoon pictures of Yule lads: Gluggagægir - Window Peeper, Gáttaþefir - Doorway Sniffer, Bjúgnakrækir - Sausage Swiper, Ketkrókur - Meat Hook, Kertasníkir - Candle Begger 8 cards with cartoon Yule lads: Giljagaur - Gully Gawk, Stekkjarstaur - "Sheep - Cote Clod", Stúfur - Stubby, Pottasleikir - Pot Scraper, Þvörusleikir - Spoon Licker, Askasleikir - Bowl Licker, Hurðaskellir - Door Slammer, Skyrgámur - Skyr Gobbler
December 25, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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I have never seen a gas pump go through diagnostics and reboot itself. I didn't mind the wait because I'm a nerd who likes to watch boot sequences.
A gas pump screen at Casey's General Store going through it's lengthy boot sequence. Provided by Gilbarco Veeder-Root. Starting system... Check filesystem... Starting Secman... Set network... Log compression... Updating config... Verifying hierarchies... Verifying single resources... Loading Cloud... Loading GrindBIOS... Loading diagnostic... Loading display manager... Loading Env... Loading Opt... Loading printer extender... Loading resources... Loading VCL plugin... Loading VFI... Setup permissions... Configurating... Starting applications...
December 7, 2024 at 8:55 PM