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Ivan Kowalenko
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Video gopher. Mega nerd. Cat enthusiast. Dogs are cool too. I speak children's cartoons. Ask me about my SDR.
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Wanna take a ride‽
A screenshot from the 1997 movie Contact. A rough image of eccentric millionaire S.R. Haddin (played by John Hurt) is displayed, distorted, from being too close to a wide angle lens. He smiles, wearing thick glasses and a cannula in his nose, pleased as punch to be making his proposition to Dr. Arroway (off screen).
September 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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“You know,” Cap announces, “last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else we ended up disagreeing.”

Marvel had some intestinal fortitude and a spine back in the day.
A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Captain America (Chris Evans) strides through the crowd of kneeling people towards Loki, he comments, “you know, the last time I was in Germany…” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Captain America (Chris Evans) comes to a stop, facing down Loki, off screen, and finishes his comment, “…we ended up disagreeing.” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) has Captain America (Chris Evans) forced to the ground, scepter pressed to the back of Cap's head, Loki commands, “kneel.” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Captain America (Chris Evans) leaps up from his crouch, knocking Loki's (Tom Hiddleston) scepter away, and delivers a brutal kick, declaring, “not today!”
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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An old man rises from the crowd, and looks to Loki, “not to men like you.”

“There are no men like me.”

“There are ALWAYS men like you.”

“Look to your elder, let him be an example,” as Loki charges the scepter. The old man stands firm, resolved, then Cap drops from the sky and blocks the blast.
A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. A single, balding, grey haired old man rises from the crowd of kneeling, fearful people. He says directly to Loki, off screen, “not to men like you.” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) looks smugly up on the single man standing before him amid the sea of kneeling people. He declares, “there are no men like me.” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. The old man in the crowd defiantly responds to Loki, off screen, that “there are always men like you.” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) stands amid the crowd of kneeling people, pointing his now glowing scepter at the single lone standing old man, declaring they should “let him be an example.”
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Rewatched the original Avengers (2012), Loki takes on a crowd in Stuttgart, commands them to kneel (they do, in fear) and monologues that this is humanity's preferred state, that freedom diminishes joy in a scramble for power and identity. “In the end you will always kneel.”
A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) stands against the backdrop of a large historical building in Germany, and commands the crowd before him, “kneel!” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. A large crowd of people in a public square begin to kneel upon the ground, fear gripping their expressions. A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) begins to walk out into the kneeling crowd before him, saying to them, “is this not simpler?” A scene from the 2012 movie The Avengers. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) walks among the kneeling people in a square before a historical building, and asks them, rhetorically, “is this not your natural state?”
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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With a companion book that had YOUR name, number, and address in it, too!
A screenshot from the 1984 movie The Terminator. A close up of the T-800’s finger scanning through names in the White Pages, ending at “Connor Sarah 1823 Doncaster...”
September 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Duh, the hit single “Baby Can You Dig Your Man,” from The Stand!

Seriously I'm sure you could dig one out of Disney. I'm sure there's been a couple songs out of Hannah Montana that have achieved this. There was also The Cheetah Girls, and numerous movies and shows w/ fictional bands in concert.
An album cover for Larry Underwood's single “Baby, can you dig your man?” It features a photograph of the fictional musician, played by Adam Storke, looking into the camera stoically, holding his guitar partially out of frame. It has exactly as much effort in it as you'd expect for a prop for a 1994 miniseries that only appears in a couple early scenes.
September 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Arstotzka so great, passport not required!
A screenshot from Papers, Please. Jorji Costava is shown in the passport control station. He is an older gentleman, wearing a red shirt, with a rounder head, balding, with deep set eyes, a broad mouth with a poorly trimmed beard, and a wide chin.
September 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Meanwhile, we've got the Twins. Hooray.
Box scores. July 29: Twins v. Red Sox, Red Sox win 8 to 5. July 30, repeat showing, Red Sox win 13 to 1. Box scores. June 20, Twins v. Brewers, Brewers win 17 to 6. June 21, same match up, Brewers win 9 to 0. June 22, same match up, Brewers win 9 to 8. June 23, Twins v. Mariners, Mariners win 11 to 2. Box scores. June 12, Twins v. Rangers, Rangers win 16 to 3. June 13, Twins v. Astros, Astros win 10 to 3. A box score from the game today (August 21), Twins play the Athletics. The Athletics win, 8 to 3, having scored six runs in the second inning. The Athletics have 12 hits to the Twins’ 5. The Athletics have a record of 59-70, the Twins are 58-69.
August 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Reddit’s status site says they are “Investigating elevated site errors,” but their official line is that they are “100% operational”! www.redditstatus.com
A screenshot of redditstatus.com. At the top is the Reddit logo and brand name. Below it is a box, titled “Investigating elevated site errors,” citing the text “We are currently investigating this issue. Jul 16, 2025 - 08:52 PDT.” Below are bar charts showing the operational status of Reddit.com over the last 30 days. Each shows Desktop Web, Mobile Web, and Native Mobile Apps as being 100% operational over the last 30 days.
July 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Canadian son & icon James Doohan was among the brave men at Juno Beach.

Also, let's not forget the French were there too. de Gaulle led French troops to retake his country and forced the Allies to support the French Resistance in the Liberation of Paris as Nazis tried to raze the city to the ground
A photograph of James Doohan, posing in his Canadian Army uniform. Hands on his hips he looks into the camera, confidently. A still from the original Star Trek television series. James Doohan sits in the captain's chair as Scotty, in his red engineering uniform. Commanding the ship, he looks defiantly at the main viewer, with steadfast resolve to fulfill his duty to protect the ship, and carry out his captain’s orders. A photograph of Free French forces fighting the Nazis in the Liberation of Paris. Men hide behind a concrete barrier, aiming carbines over the top. One of the men is wearing a uniform, with a domed helmet, the rest are civilians, including the man nearest the camera who is wearing a formal black jacket. A photograph following the Liberation of Paris. Charles de Gaulle leads a parade of men with the Arc de Triumph in the background. The men he leads stride casually, not in a military march, and are an assortment of people in ordinary dress and military uniforms.
June 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Goddamn, BlueSky still doesn't support GIF uploads?
A still image of a Cylon Raider from the 2000s Battlestar Galactica reboot. It shows a central pod with a mask on the front evocative of a classic Cylon Centurion, including the sweeping eye. From either side, long, smooth wings sweep out, with the fine sharp points out in front of the craft. Two large guns can be seen mounted to the underside of each wing.
December 15, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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It's a Cylon Raider.
A GIF from the 2000s Battlestar Galactica reboot. It shows a Cylon Raider flying through space, the camera rotates around to show its front end as it launches a missile at a bombarded space station with a heavily damaged and burning Battlestar docked.
December 15, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was №647,244. Neat, I guess.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #647,244, Ivan Kowalenko ‪@ivkowalenko.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 19, 2023"
September 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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What unique and novel angle of attack! Surely it will yield dividends! If only they had used it in the past.
September 15, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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*Sheds a single Minnesotan tear*
A photograph of the main entrance to the Spam® Museum in Austin, Minnesota. A blue building features a white facade around the glass entrance way, adorned with the yellow words “Spam Museum.” In the area in front of the building is a brass statue of two pigs being lazily ushered along by a farmer.
August 29, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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You're goddamn right, Savers!
A sign on the windows in the entrance to a commercial building in the shape of a banner. The text reads “thrift proud®.” The background of the banner are rainbow colored stripes.
August 26, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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ARRROOOOOOOOOOO!
A hard core picture of a bad-ass skeleton cowboy with a pair of revolvers and a cool hat. In bad-ass typefaces are the words: alright, dad. I've quit being trans🏳️‍⚧️ for good. Now I'm trans for evil!
August 24, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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O RLY? Someone forgot to tell RFK.
A headline from the Associated Press. RFK Jr. announces in Pennsylvania court filing that he will endorse Donald Trump.
August 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Apparently someone forgot to tell RFK about his ultimatum.
A headline from the Associated Press. RFK Jr. announces in Pennsylvania court filing that he will endorse Donald Trump.
August 23, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Similar situation happened w/ Jane Goodall. Far Side once referenced her. Her people were pissed, thought it was insulting and demeaning. When Goodall got back from expedition and heard about it she thought the comic was one of the funniest things ever. They ended up selling reprints as a fundraiser
A single panel comic from The Far Side, by Gary Larson. Two gorillas sit in a tree. One is a female wearing stereotypical housewife glasses, grooming a male who looks uncomfortable. She scrutinizes a single follicle held between her fingers. The caption reads, “well, well — another blind hair… conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
August 22, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Here. Have another one.
Looking up at a transom-style exterior window from a bed, a black and white tuxedo cat looks down from the window sill against the sun.
August 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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It was criminal that we were denied the LAZOR LOON in either our new flag or seal.
A proposed new flag for the state of Minnesota. It is a (somewhat crude) illustration of a common loon sitting on the water fires a red laser beam from its eye at the surface. A proposed new flag for the state of Minnesota. It shows an illustration of a common loon firing four yellow beams from its eye at the white silhouette of a common lake fish. A proposed new flag for the state of Minnesota. It depicts a common loon floating on green and white stylized waves. It fires a red laser beam from its eye to a point off in the distance.
August 21, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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I mean, it's Bethesda. If nothing else it'll at least be festooned with amusing bugs and hacky workarounds.
A screenshot from the video game Skyrim. From the player's perspective we are looking at a non-player character seated at, and leaning on, a table, except they are invisible. All that we can see are their clothes. A screenshot of an asset browser for the video game Fallout 3. Shown on screen is a non-player character standing around wearing nothing except for an object called DL03MetroCarArmor. The object is a “hat” worn on the NPC’s head and is in fact an entire tram car that is an order of magnitude greater than the character. This is how the game implemented ridable tram cars.
August 21, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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A still from the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. Frank Sinatra plays Ben Marco. Sitting in a parlor room he fans out a deck of cards in his hands, revealing it to be completely made up of the Queen of Diamonds, and nothing else.
August 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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A still from The Simpsons episode “Goo Goo Gai Pan.” Outside of a building festooned with red flags, a placard prominently sits outside, reading “Tien An Men Square: On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”
August 20, 2024 at 12:36 PM