jack the nonabrasive
@karabaic.org
John Karabaic. he/him. BLM.
NYC/BOS/USAF/CIN/PDX
USA/Croatia
Recovering engineer.
The gurney is the reward.
What is protest, if not rage persevering?
#TCMParty #NoirAlley
@bonbpdx @level4isgoinggreat
@karabaic@mastodon.social
https://brooklynbike.org
NYC/BOS/USAF/CIN/PDX
USA/Croatia
Recovering engineer.
The gurney is the reward.
What is protest, if not rage persevering?
#TCMParty #NoirAlley
@bonbpdx @level4isgoinggreat
@karabaic@mastodon.social
https://brooklynbike.org
Just the guy to prick it
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Just the guy to prick it
Aha! It's "autological"! Polysyllabic and eYe are two other examples!
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Aha! It's "autological"! Polysyllabic and eYe are two other examples!
There's a word for words that sound like what they symbolize. Is there a word for words that look like it?!
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
There's a word for words that sound like what they symbolize. Is there a word for words that look like it?!
This is apparently a set of reimaginings of a segment from 21 Short Films About Springfield. The "Banned in the USSR" one is astonishing
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is apparently a set of reimaginings of a segment from 21 Short Films About Springfield. The "Banned in the USSR" one is astonishing
It's cloudy here. Auroras suck.
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
It's cloudy here. Auroras suck.
The official PDX aurora
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The official PDX aurora
I need to rewatch the Bakshi version. I think it's been 40 years since I saw it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I need to rewatch the Bakshi version. I think it's been 40 years since I saw it.
It's actually in the Annotated Hobbit, from the 50th anniversary of the release of the revised 2nd Edition Hobbit in 1986! I'm doing a chapter-a-day read as a wind down.
It floored me. Entire passages got revised, along with some descriptions of Gollum.
It floored me. Entire passages got revised, along with some descriptions of Gollum.
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It's actually in the Annotated Hobbit, from the 50th anniversary of the release of the revised 2nd Edition Hobbit in 1986! I'm doing a chapter-a-day read as a wind down.
It floored me. Entire passages got revised, along with some descriptions of Gollum.
It floored me. Entire passages got revised, along with some descriptions of Gollum.
It's usually obscenity, which has that famous "community standards", I-know-it-when-I-see-it decision. But even that was successfully challenged:
apnews.com/article/free...
www.aclu-de.org/en/news/win-...
But we're going to find out this SCOTUS term. I think
a case is headed there.
apnews.com/article/free...
www.aclu-de.org/en/news/win-...
But we're going to find out this SCOTUS term. I think
a case is headed there.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It's usually obscenity, which has that famous "community standards", I-know-it-when-I-see-it decision. But even that was successfully challenged:
apnews.com/article/free...
www.aclu-de.org/en/news/win-...
But we're going to find out this SCOTUS term. I think
a case is headed there.
apnews.com/article/free...
www.aclu-de.org/en/news/win-...
But we're going to find out this SCOTUS term. I think
a case is headed there.
Now I want a movie involving a teleporter and time travel.
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Now I want a movie involving a teleporter and time travel.
Seriously, I'm not sure banning it would survive a 1st Amendment challenge.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Seriously, I'm not sure banning it would survive a 1st Amendment challenge.
Hm. pretty big yukon gold needed.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hm. pretty big yukon gold needed.
The athletic field may be the one for Walnut Hills High School, which you see right after. They are adjacent.
WHHS is unique in having a national alumni org and investor group that finances Broadway shows. I don't know why.
WHHS is unique in having a national alumni org and investor group that finances Broadway shows. I don't know why.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The athletic field may be the one for Walnut Hills High School, which you see right after. They are adjacent.
WHHS is unique in having a national alumni org and investor group that finances Broadway shows. I don't know why.
WHHS is unique in having a national alumni org and investor group that finances Broadway shows. I don't know why.
They fly right over my old house!
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
They fly right over my old house!
Or a pair of wind-up chattering teeth with a radar reflector attached.
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Or a pair of wind-up chattering teeth with a radar reflector attached.
Hmm. Now I'm thinking the Salem the cat puppet from the 1990's Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Hmm. Now I'm thinking the Salem the cat puppet from the 1990's Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
I'm curious what littering roads with stuffed animals or cardboard cutouts might do.
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'm curious what littering roads with stuffed animals or cardboard cutouts might do.