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I have some kitchen themed stuff posted in my kitchen.
Many many pieces of toast laid out presumably from industrial toast production and/or testing. Postcard of art with anthropomorphized vegetables partying.
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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No no no no no.
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Bluey the cartoon dog doing drake meme. Top panel, Bluey shuns "Your trauma made you stronger." Bottom panel, Bluey smiles and thumbs-up "Your trauma made you funnier."
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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They are quite fine, thanks!
A fat black medium-long haired cat is laying loaf-like on a bright bathroom sink. A tabby cat - official state cat of MA - lays in a bankers box cover that’s sitting on a blue bedspread. She is several shades of brown with black stripes.
September 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
A white guy with glowing eyes and fake fangs. Ronnie Strickland from the X-Files episode “Bad Blood” (one of the show’s best episodes!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood_(The_X-Files)
September 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Adams was great. If you’re not familiar with Philip K Dick’s entry, check out this similarly horribly prescient entry…
Screencap of text from Dick's book "Ubik": Back in the kitchen he fished in his various pockets for a dime, and, with it, started up the coffeepot. Sniffing the—to him—very unusual smell, he again consulted his watch, saw that fifteen minutes had passed; he therefore vigorously strode to the apt door, turned the knob and pulled on the release bolt. The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please." He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you." "I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt." In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. "You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.
August 31, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I forget if I posted this before but SOME FUCKING LOCKED-TOMB NERD has been touching the video content in this elevator.
A breezy “Did you know?” slide/splash screen from an elevator tv, but the fact on the screen is “Cows have best friends” which is totally a phrase that gets thrown around a bit in the flashback(-ish) parts of “Nona the Ninth” when John is talking about the fallout from when he killed a bunch of cows.
August 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Dropping truth on a local politician…
Screencap of SMS conversation: Them (local politician running for mayor): Have you thought about this year's election? I am a real person, but you can also respond Stop to opt out of more texts. Me: I have never received an unsolicited political sms message that made me think *better* of the folks sending it.
August 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Meanwhile in Sequim, WA…

Cc: @tamidon.bsky.social
A green road sign that says “Kitchen-Dick Rd”
August 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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[stares at camera, holding up “survivorship bias” airplane illustration]
Drawing of a WWII bomber with red dots drawn over non-essential areas. It’s an illustration of data for bombers returning to base - the big realization is that these are the places a plane can get hit and still make it back to base so the empty areas are where you should add more armor. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
August 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Wow! This is the coolest fact I’ve encountered in quite a while and I am absolutely going to keep that in reserve and pull it out to flirt with nerds!
Screencap of tumblr post from user deathgasmic. Post text: w y m I don’t know how to flirt! I literally tell you random and unimportant fun facts.
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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A 2 panel cartoon - 1. Edgar Allen Poe reads a letter. 2. He says "what the fuck am I reading?"
August 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Okay, I think this therapy thing could work out well.
A pic of Elvira Mistress of the Dark. She is wearing a low-cut dress. She is wearing a set of Groucho glasses on her face and also has Groucho glasses decorating her cleavage. Caption: “ the vibes I bring to the function”
August 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I like this approach: tilde.town/~dozens/sofa/
Also:
Cartoon dog walking, captioned “dude, sucking at something is the first step towards being sort of good at something”
July 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I mean I don’t want to kink-shame but really, at the very least, ya gotta negotiate before doing that kind of thing.
Screencap from Zootopia. Rabbit Judy Hopps looks appalled while fox Nick Wilde leans forward looking with great interest. Caption: the two kinds of people when you explain your kinks.
July 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Basically straight out of Fahrenheit 451.
"Police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows: Everyone in every house in every street open a front or rear door or look from the windows. The fugitive cannot escape if everyone in the next minute looks from his house. Ready! "
July 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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4 panel comic. 1. Hobbits saying “what about second breakfast?” 2. Aragorn replies “what about third?” 3. Hobbits lose their shit and tell “THIRD” 4. Aragorn is crowned “king of the hobbits” (that’s what it says on the crown!)
July 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The Steam Store splash page says that the Summer Sale is on "now thru July 10th", and, uh, it's the 17th so is this sale on for 300-some-odd more days, then?
screencap of splash page image from the steam store. Text: "STEAM SUMMER SALE - NOW THRU JULY 10TH @ 10AM PT"
July 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I offer this, if it helps.
Neon-style lettering: not all men but definitely this fucking guy.
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Get yourself a robot that’ll make hooch on request.
A pic of “Robbie the Robot”, first seen in Forbidden Planet and later seen in many other things including Lost in Space. He’s grey metal with legs made of spheres and most other body parts looking sort of barrel like. He has antennae that can twist when necessary.
July 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I had not heard of this! Reposting w alt text because it looks like screen readers can’t parse all of that correctly.
Picture of a historical marker. Text:WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE BLACK NITE UPRISING Eight years before New York's Stonewall Riots, the Black Nite Uprising united a community, awakened local activism, and scored an early victory for the emerging LGBTQ rights movement in the United States. On August 5, 1961, four servicemen went on a homophobic dare to the Black Nite, a well known LGBTQ tavern (400 N. Plankinton Ave.) After losing a fight with Josie Carter (1941-2014) a black woman of trans experience, the men vowed to return and "clean up" the bar. "We do not run from a fight," Josie replied. "We do not run from anything." Josie's courage was a call to action. When the servicemen returned later that night, they faced over 70 customers who heroically defended their safe space from invasion, In 2021, the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project obtained official civic commemoration ensure the Uprising will never be forgotten. ERECTED 2023 WISCONSIN LGBTQ HISTORY PROJECT FUNDED BY THE WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION
July 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.
Screencap of a survey question. Q: What gender do you identify with? Possible answers: • Strongly disagree • Somewhat disagree • Neither agree nor disagree • Somewhat agree • Strongly agree
June 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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We’re living in strange times but that does not mean we can call “RENT” a comedy. It’s based on “La bohème” for fuck’s sake.
Screencap of a streaming service movie listing. Heading is “LGBTQ Comedies” (“Comedies” is marked w yellow highlighter and has a red box drawn around it), and below that is the poster art for “RENT”. There’s a red circle drawn around the title and a question mark drawn next to it.
June 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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So, I have no idea how thing thing would be but I LOVE the fact that it looks downright Suess-ian. Yay whimsical design.
it's a vibrator called 'the snail vibe curve' or something and it's bright pink with a main body that's a shallow arc and has a loop handle at one end. The other end has, uh, well, it looks like someone peeled half the main body up almost to the tip and let it curl up so it's a spiral thing with a knurled or slightly-bumpy round thing on the tip. It looks like you could insert the tip a short ways and the blob on the end of the curl would stimulate the clitoris. Anyways, I totally see the reason for the 'snail' name, but it really does look like something out of a smutty Dr Suess book.
June 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Tay, have you seen this amazing intro?
Intro is from ORA book “everyday information architecture” by Lisa Maria Martin Text: this is the best opening to a technical book the world has ever seen and i will fight anyone who says otherwise [picture of into page follows] INTRODUCTION WALTER PLECKER WAS AN ASSHOLE. In the 1920s, he was registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Sta-tistics, the state government office that controlled birth, death, marriage, and divorce records (http://bkaprt.com/eia/00-01/). As a frothing-at-the-mouth white supremacist, Plecker was terrified of interracial marriage. [cut for char limit] Plecker decided that he could use bureaucracy to change this, and he was right: all he had to do was relabel Virginia's racial categories, and racist laws took care of the rest. He reduced the number of racial identity categories to just two, then altered and enforced documentation to reflect his definitions. This meant that a very small and specific group of people were labeled white, and everyone who fell outside of Plecker's narrow view were not—and their lives changed accordingly. The government saw them differently, identified them dif-ferently, treated them differently. They no longer had access to the same public spaces, the same schools, the same services and safety nets afforded to white people. Marriages were invalidated. Children were separated from parents. Virginians lost agency over who they were-all because Walter Plecker changed a label. Changing a label is a design decision —one calculated, in this case, to disenfranchise specific human beings. Now, most of us don't have Walter Plecker's job. [...] We work on the web, and we may not think our work carries that same weight. I'm here to argue that it does. Whatever our role, we are designers of information. Our choices alter the presentation and flow of human knowledge. We control how people find, understand, and use information in every facet of their lives. We must be very, very careful.
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM