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gepandz.bsky.social
@gepandz.bsky.social
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I further entropy, usually by trying (and failing) to bring order to my little corner of the chaos.
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Roger is over there, keeping watch, but will help if you need it (especially if there's food).
Old black Pomeranian dog, laying on a colorful tile floor and bathmat, one paw extended, staring off into space.
October 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I'm a sucker for a good sunset 😅❤️
Picture of a sunset in Portland, OR, looking past the MAX line
September 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I think I've seen this guy before, when I showed my then-13-year-old Army of Darkness for the first time, and she put up a reminder of her favorite character's best line:
Top half of a 6"-tall plastic skeleton perched on a flatscreen computer monitor as if climbing over the monitor with a handwritten note reading, "I'll cut yer gizzard!!" It's a line from the 1992 cult classic movie Army of Darkness, said by one of the reanimated skeletons as it attacks the castle. High art to a 13-year-old. 😂
September 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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🤣🔥😂
Meme image of Michael Dorn as Worf from Star Trek: TNG with the text, "Worf says, 'If a horrible person dies and you do not laugh at them, you dishonor your house.'"
August 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Three-panel image of Marge and Bart Simpson. In the first, top, panel, Marge yells, "War Thunder forums, no!" In the second panel, Bart, standing next to her with the logo of the War Thunder forums superimposed over his face, says, "What?" In the third panel, Marge looks down at him and says sheepishly, "Sorry, force of habit."
July 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Top five I've been going between recently:

- Behind The Bastards by \@iwriteok.bsky.social (though usually on YouTube)
- Manager Tools and Career Tools by \@manager-tools.bsky.social
- Ologies by \@ologies.bsky.social
- Easy German by easygerman\.org
- NADDPOD by \@naddpod.bsky.social
Screenshot of an Android phone running Podcast Addict showing a list of podcast icons, plus the Internet radio German-language station, NDR Info
July 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Came across this in my deep meme stash. It feels like it applies now more than during the Romney campaign, when I first came across it. 😕
A cartoon of a young boy in a single-breasted suit sitting hautily atop an impossibly tall pile of toys with text across the top that reads, "CAPITALISM & other kids stuff"
July 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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I periodically send this around to my friends for good measure. 😂😬
Side-by-side view of two tweets. The first is user CoreyPilat with a picture of a fake explosive vest with the words, "If the IRS knocks at my door I'm answering with this bitch on" The second tweet by the same user is a picture of two plainclothes people standing in the user's kitchen, one of whom has a badge on a chain around their neck, with a paper full-color printout of the same original tweet on the counter. The text of the tweet reads, "This shit does not look good on paper"
March 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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This part pissed me off... Sure, it's been done in the past, but that was as part of a realignment for redundant courts, not to bring the judiciary to heel. Talk about missing the forest for the trees. 🤨 Context matters.

Leaving that out essentially misinforms their readers. 🤬
Excerpt from the article: "Congress has eliminated courts in the past. In 1913, for example, Congress abolished the Commerce Court and its judges were redistributed to the federal appeals court, according to Congress.gov. And in 1982, Congress passed legislation abolishing the Article III Court of Claims and U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, and established the Article I Court of Federal Claims and the Article III U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit."
March 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Three-panel cartoon of stills from The Simpsons. In the first, Marge yells, "War Thunder Forums Nooo!" In the second, Bart, with the War Thunder screen superimposed over his face, standing behind Marge, says, "What?" In the third, Marge turns around and says, "Sorry, force of habit."
March 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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I'm not Danish and don't speak it, but Google Translate thinks it's this:

(If there are people who actually speak the language who can provide a better translation, I'm keen to learn)
Screenshot of Google Translate translating the English phrase, "Fuck off, you're not getting any of our eggs," into Danish, which is, "For fanden, du får ikke nogen af ​​vores æg."
March 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Same, and, yeah, that tracks... 😂
Picture of a blocked profile with the text, "User Blocked by 'Followers of Jesse Singal'" and "Jesse Singal Follower"
January 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Honest review: not a very strong taste of Tajin lime-chili flavor (didn't even notice it on the first two of the three I tried), deeply meh chocolate, okay gummy bears. I'll snack on 'em to kill the bag, but won't buy them, again. 4/10.
A hand holding a bag of Tajin-flavored (chili & lime), chocolate-covered, gummy bears by something called Snack Club
January 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Image of Stephen Colbert from his Colbert Report days, showing a thumbs-up while pointing to the camera, with the quote, "Truthiness (noun) - the belief in what you feel to be true rather than what the facts will support."
December 17, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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Right. If nothing else, the feds can just do the legal equivalent of this until somebody cracks:

m.xkcd.com/538/

We know they do this, because there are *some* Signal exchanges that have shown up in court documents, so it's not 100% foolproof. It's just harder than, say, unencrypted SMS or email.
XKCD comic #538 of two stick figures in two panels. The first panel is labeled "A crypto nerd's imagination" and has this exchange: P1: His laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million-dollar cluster to crack it. P2: No good! It's 4096-bit RSA! P1: Blast! Our evil plan is foiled! The second panel is labeled, "What would actually happen": P1: His laptop's encrypted. Drug him and hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password. *hands the other figure a wrench* P2: Got it.
December 15, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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So kind of Eric to remind me why I canceled my NYT subscription, so I can continue saving that money to give to honest journalists. He also earned himself a block, so that'll be easier on my mind, not having to think about him, again.
Screenshot of a post by NYT writer Eric Lipton decrying Bluesky as an echo chamber and pointing to a CNN poll about the Trump transition that he mischaracterizes to scold us. 🙄
December 11, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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Same mindset. 😂
Photo of an area under a floor, above dirt. There is a pipe running through notches cut into the floor joists with the text, "Not one contractor we contacted would keep our pipes clean and off the ground. So my amazing husband Steve took it upon himself to make some notches on these extra pieces of wood and kept the pipes off the ground. I love you honey 💜"
December 6, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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sportsinsite.com/news/esports...
Meme of a tearful person in a black t-shirt applauding under text that reads "Days since classified military documents have been leaked in War Thunder forums" over a ticker that was just reset to zero. There are images in the background of warplanes and a tank
July 13, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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Right!
Picture of a man turning down a book with a cross on it over the text, "No thanks. I'm not interested in eternal life. I've seen enough"
June 28, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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GIF of a clip from the Avenue Q song, "The Internet Is For Porn"
June 26, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Me, hearing "end of the universe in 5 minutes":
Scene from the movie Waterworld, where an old man with a big beard and glasses watches a flare drop into a pool of diesel fuel, starting an explosive conflagration, saying, "Oh thank God"
June 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Just got an email push from WaPo about how "Microplastics are invading our organs" that made me think of "rainwater and pure grain alcohol" 🤣
Still from the movie Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, a close-up of General Jack Ripper's face. His character was known for mad ramblings about "purity of essence" and said that he only drank "rainwater and pure grain alcohol" to prevent contamination.
June 10, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Still from a common GIF from Futurama showing Professor Farnsworth, having just chuckled at a shared misfortune, saying, "Oh, I made myself sad."
March 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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It is so clear today that I was able to capture Mt. St Helens (far left) and Mt. Adams (far right, near the distant pine tree) in the same shot
Landscape picture looking across a school field with Mt. St. Helens in the left of the frame and Mt. Adams distantly in the right of the frame
March 15, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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Yeah, I've been out for walks the last two days with similar experiences on the clear, thin, sheet of ice on all the sidewalks. I didn't slip, though. Glad you're okay, if slightly bruised!

Remember, penguin-feet! 😂
Safety infographic showing the wrong and right way to walk on ice, the latter being to keep your weight over your feet, like a penguin waddling on ice
January 19, 2024 at 12:30 AM