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counterpoint:
international criminal mastermind Carmen Isabella Sandiego tipping her iconic red fedora after another mission accomplished
October 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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sorry for the poor video quality but someone photobombed my attempt to film fireflies
June 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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if ever a day needed Just Some Stuff …

my 5yo son hiked 3 miles (700ft elevation gain) under his own steam today, and we saw this millipede on the way up and on the way down

i hope it got to where it was headed
an industrious millipede crawling on a rock doing its best to ignore the hop-on; i am afraid the hop-on might be a parasitic fly that lays eggs in millipedes but, uh, circle of life? 😬
June 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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pretty close! 68/100
June 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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no wildlife except swarms of gnats but post-deluge clouds are nice
some altocumulus clouds peeking out from behind some cumulus clouds (though to be fair i am very bad at recognizing cloud types)
June 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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my problem is that there are so many phenomenal movies on my to-watch list that i have not yet to-watched
my reader's choice ballot for best 100 movies of 21st century: arrival (2016) drive (2011) dunkirk (2017) everything everywhere all at once (2022) fruitvale station (2013) the grand budapest hotel (2014) the handmaiden (2016) logan (2017) mad max: fury road (2015) spirited away (2002)
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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this chipmunk stopped long enough to get photographed on today’s walk, during which my 5yo observed (unrelatedly), “walking is just standing on one foot and then the other really quickly”
a chipmunk on a rock—Chip, or maybe Dale; hard to say without their distinctive and distinguishing outfits
June 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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met an excellent farm cat today
a gray and white cat sitting on the steps of a farm building; its penetrating gaze is weighing the worth of your soul
June 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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look at this fuzzy boy i met on my walk today!
a caterpillar if you could turn a 90s boy band member into one—blond highlights, spiky hair, the most wholesome bad boy attitude one can muster
June 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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you guys were such great dog parents and Cooper was such a great little dude; he will be missed!
a beagle chilling under a café table, hoping someone will drop some food a beagle looking out at the Mediterranean and contemplating life a beagle being very sleepy and using a human leg as a pillow while other humans chauffeur him around
May 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know:

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Isaac Hempstead Wright as Bran Stark (Game of Thrones) Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir (Community) Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1)
May 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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a still from the movie Air Bud showing a dog in a basketball jersey and a referee saying “he’s right – ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t be a puzzle answer”
February 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Letterboxd recent activity showing Beyond Utopia (4.5 stars), God’s Country (3.5 stars), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (4.5 stars), and The Quake (3 stars)
January 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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potassium, chemical symbol K, is element 19 of the periodic table

also:
movie poster for K-19: The Widowmaker
January 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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happy WITH MY FISH day* to all who celebrate! @fabioethics.bsky.social

* a moveable feast, as the mood strikes
ornament showing a young girl holding the paw of a snarling cat in one hand and a fish in the other hand; A Four-Year-Old Girl with a Cat and a Fish by Jacob Cuyp, 1647 the back of the ornament, which quotes a tweet featuring the painting: Artist: So how would you like to be painted, young lady? Girl: with my favourite fish A: Are you sure? It might di— G: WITH MY FISH A: … Ok G: … And also this drunk cat
November 30, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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you plonked in the right answer
i tried to cram in HUITLACOCHE (11)
we are not the same
Crossword clue for 17-Across: "Smut, by another name" (7 letters). From The New Yorker, November 26, 2024, by Erik Agard.
November 26, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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i cleared out my download folder, and also look what arrived in the mail!
piles of printouts from Puzzmo and Toronto Globe and Mail; in the center is a beautifully calligraphed envelope with festive piñata stamps, in which i received the crosstina aqua-zine-a, a midi book of midi crosswords by constructor extraordinaire Kelsey Dixon
November 5, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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this poem is from Tayi Tibble’s collection Rangikura

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November 5, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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i finished reading a book of poetry
“Hine-nui-te-pō” by Tayi Tibble, from her collection Rangikura Half-caste daughters of half-castes about to fall into quarters. Cast out into cities and universities and forgotten about. Their umbilical cords cut and dumped in a sludge of hospital waste. The lobotomised smiles on their faces while bumping a line off the back of a phrenology textbook. Shook at all the colours you can find in a skull. the poem continues: Taking boyfriends like appointments with a doctor. A finger in the mouth and wanting to say ah or amen or ugh, men. The migraines. The light coming in. The inherited trauma of deeply existing in the space of separated parents. The long nights and the sleep paralysis. Lying on your back and pushing the sky from your chest with thighs that kill demigods. The violence of divorce, the space it leaves. The shock of the light coming in. The distance. The difference between the poem continues: heaven and the knowledge that your first mother was hell and chose to be. Reconciling what it means to be her daughter. Getting her magic bible bashed out of you. Running away to cities and universities downloading Tinder and getting assimilated in white minimalist bedrooms. Imported plants from Bunnings overgrowing and infecting the whenua. When it was my turn to come clean I said I grew up tacky and hungry and dazzling. I grew up neck-deep in the dirt but all I needed was a good pair of eyes the poem continues: to see the stars first which meant I got a lot of wishes. But I only had one thing to wish for. All my fathers are in the sky anyway I know I don't have to say it but Mum you should have tied me to the ground. Instead I was given to this city freely. Friends on benes. Crown apologies. Wannabe it-girls at parties. I wonder how it feels to be tethered somewhere by a sense of home. To be buried in your urupã and to find that when you die you have been waiting for yourself, this whole time, all along.
November 5, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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asshat ɴᴏᴜɴ
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: a hat with an ASS logo :
Oakland Athletics New Era Team Shadow 9FIFTY Snapback Hat, which features different versions of A’s superimposed on each other such that the hat unmistakably spells ASS
October 18, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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comedian Babatúndé Aléshé reacting to a very strong smell he had bottled himself, with raised brows, bulging eyes, and an expression of mournful regret
October 12, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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at this time of year
at this time of day
in this part of the country?!
aurora borealis! bands of red, pink, and green above a treeline silhouette
October 11, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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you can switch to continuous scroll in the Kindle app if that’s what you prefer! i like page swiping because i find myself skimming more and absorbing less when the experience is more like the rest of the internet
Screenshot of Kindle settings menu, where the Layout tab has a toggle for Continuous Scrolling
October 1, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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could it be NYT is copying r/IAmA syntax?
Screenshot of a few Reddit Ask Me Anything posts, generally with the title syntax “I am [something]. Ask me anything.”
September 25, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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these people are not unbiased

the third screenshot is from a Jeremy Peters article a month ago, where he was more upfront than in this latest article that at least one of the Reeds has already voted for Trump once
In Southern Arizona, Jason Henderson, a defense contractor and retired soldier, had been resigned to skipping the election, unable to stomach either candidate. Like Ms. Miller, though, he came away from the debate leaning, tenuously, toward the Republican nominee. "Trump had the more commanding presentation," Mr. Henderson said. "There was nothing done by Harris that made me think she's better. In any way." Mr. Henderson, who voted for President Barack Obama and then for Mr. Trump, allowed that Mr. Trump "came off as crazy," but he was no different from his appearances at rallies and in interviews. Bob and Sharon Reed, both 77-year-old retired teachers who live on a farm in central Pennsylvania, had high hopes for the debate between vs. Harris and former President Donald Trump. They thought that they would come away with a candidate to support in November. Bob and Sharon Reed, both 77 and retired teachers, will be watching the convention on their farm in central Pennsylvania. They know what they want to hear from Ms. Harris this week, but they are skeptical that they will hear it. Ms. Reed, who voted for Mr. Trump in 2020 but is undecided now, said she wants to Ms. Harris to address issues like immigration and inflation in detail. "I really want her to be specific about what she's going to do when she gets to be president."
September 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM