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"I will. Never. Forget. You.
I will. Never. Forget. You.
I will…"

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I'll Never Forget You
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
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October 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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MERLIN:
I might open with 'Airbag.'

RODERICK:
Sure. Fucking…let 'em have it!

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Radiohead​ - Airbag, Live on Jools Holland -​ 5/31/1997
YouTube video by Typesonite
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October 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Featuring @aetataureate.bsky.social: "In a volunteer survey, we found almost no significant correlation between the zodiac sign and the favorite Mario items of respondents."
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Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses
It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Every Frame a Painting is probably my favorite YouTube channel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOz...
Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
YouTube video by Every Frame a Painting
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September 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
⛩️The gate in front of Uga Shrine, on a small island in a lake in the mountains of Nagano this weekend. #長野県
September 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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This is a pretty good intro to why I love WILTY.

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10 Iconic WILTY Stories | Would I Lie To You? | The Laugh Track
YouTube video by The Laugh Track
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September 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@alexcoxfm.bsky.social A weir on the Karasu (Crow) River in rural Gunma. A Tonbi (Black Kite) is circling overhead.

The cycling road dead-ended here.
September 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Fukushima-Niigata drive 6/6:

Leaving Niigata City, passing over the Shinano River heading home. The now yellow rice fields waiting to be harvested, with Mt Echigo-komagatake on the horizon.

About 530km round trip.
September 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Fukushima-Niigata Drive 5/6:

We stopped by Tomoko’s friend’s rice polishing office - Her family grows rice and ships it worldwide from Niigata. The rice was harvested this week.
September 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Photos from around Yanaizu - Watch out for bears!
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Fukushima-Niigata driving trip 4/6: A motorcycle meetup event at Pokémon Chancey Park next to the Aizu Yanaizu road station
September 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fukushima-Niigata Drive 3/6:

View from the Aizu Yanaizu road station, quiet side: The Tadami River, a bridge on Rt252, and Enzoji Temple hiding behind it.
September 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Drove up to Niigata through Nikko & Fukushima, passing through the narrow farming valleys and tunnels yesterday

1of6: leaving Nikko, heading north into Fukushima
September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It was awesome collaborating with @tomflood.bsky.social on this project. So cool to see this up!
August 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Three of the strangest yet most indelible minutes of my childhood.

From the 1979 roller disco episode of "CHiPs."

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CHiPs "Roller Disco" – The most Seventies scene in 1970s TV
YouTube video by MeTV
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August 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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🦊Blobun is OUT NOW! Touch every tile and get your slime all over 140 stages in this casual puzzle game! A curious rabbit girl gets turned into slime, and now she and her girlfriend are trying to undo it. Will they succeed?

store.steampowered.com/app/3284270/...

#indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker
March 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The drop-D tuning for "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell is very metal.
March 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The comprehensive index of "Gentle Introductions" playlists has been updated.

Now including playlists for KGLW and The Lemon Twigs.

Also: you can a detailed image of how cool I looked when I was 14.

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Seven Little Pieces of My Heart
Merlin really likes music, and he has a delightfully economical way to share it with you.
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March 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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"I don't know, Tyler. What does your Mommy look like?"

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Is that how you get a pony?
YouTube video by Merlin Mann
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March 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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The audiobook for "Ayoade on Top" is read by the author and it is very good.

youtu.be/wQu063euLXs
Ayoade on Top | Audiobook Sample
YouTube video by Audiobooks Cloud
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February 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Roderick on the Line, Ep. 567: "A High Teen"

The Problem: It was something they had a fifth-hand memory of.

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January 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Roderick on the Line, Ep. 565: "The Magical Table"

The Problem: Susan has taken care of all of these top level problems.

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January 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I just left my first voicemail in years, and I panicked a little at the end and blurted "Kirk out."

Nailed it.
January 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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This is a good one.

dobyfriday.com/episodes/385
Self-Harm Squad | Do By Friday
This week's challenge: play Balatro.
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January 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM