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Will "scifantasy" Frank
@scifantasy.bsky.social
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Geek at law.
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I'm feeling decadent.
A mug, a canister of Sticky Toffee Pudding white hot chocolate, and three Tim Tams.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Dear Fairway,

Have these always been here?
A grocery store shelf stocked with Tim Tams.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Now heading to the airport. But this may be the most archetypal picture of London I've ever taken.
A picture of the dome of St. Paul's cathedral under a gray sky, with the leaves on the trees turning yellow. A red double-decker bus is to the side.
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I guess the Seuss estate isn't as trigger-happy over here.

Cc. @hauman.bsky.social
A window decal of the Cat in the Hat holding a stein of beer, saying "I will drink beer here or there/I will drink beer everywhere"
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Like home. But not.
An interior shot of a London Underground carriage.
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Dear NY Times Games and especially Wyna Liu:

Oh, COME ON.

cc @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social
Today's Connections board. Of particular import is that the first two clues are ONLY and CONNECT.
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Yale Shakespeare copies of Henry IV parts 1 and 2.
October 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Yeah, but it's also amazing how common co-option (or adoption) of some level of Nazi iconography is.

From sff180.com/reviews/r/ri...:
Now, here’s the thing. I suspect that if you asked Tom Kratman to his face, “Are you pro-Nazi?” he wouldn’t answer in the affirmative. (Anyone who appears on his website in his US Army fatigues wouldn’t, I would hope.) The view this novel presents seems to fall more along the lines of deploring the Nazis’ genocidal racial policies and crimes against humanity, while perversely admiring the perceived discipline, loyalty, and efficiency of its fascist, militarist caste system, especially as exemplified by the SS. In other words, we’re meant to agree that the Nazis had some good ideas about how to run a country; it’s just too bad all that Final Solution business spoiled everything.
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Tonight's entertainment!

(I looked for a sign at the venue itself but didn't see one; it's at City Winery in the Meatpacking District.)

@honest2betsy.bsky.social
A poster for "Honest 2 Betsy and Her Bawdy Broads: Live and Uncensored."
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/...

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The Bloom County cartoon.
October 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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From the copyright page of one such...
Relevant part of a copyright page: "Any unique characteristics of this edition: Copyright 2001 by Cumberland House Publishing Inc."
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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(see also:)
The cover to the Firesign Theater album "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All," featuring "All Hail Marx (Groucho) and Lennon (John)"
September 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The crime.

The criminal.
About a third of a loaf of pound cake has been pulled off a cutting board and nibbled into. A black cat in arms trying to look like it has never had a single thought and certainly not a thought about what pound cake tastes like.
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Stocking up.

Actually it's broth.
A large soup pot filled with water, root vegetables, and a chicken carcass.
September 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Armrest?
A computer. To its left, a loaf of cat.
September 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Shiny...
Google Pixel 10 Pro XL box. Side of the box showing the words "Google Pixel 10 Pro XL."
September 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Bugs!
A Nintendo Switch home screen showing Hollow Knight: Silksong.
September 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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It's ALIVE!
A mini PC, an external SSD, and an external Blu-ray drive on a desk.
September 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A new arrival! Installation of the RAM and SSD was smooth and it even booted into the old Win11 partition. But I'm doing a fresh install given the new hardware.
A box bearing the Minisforum logo. A mini PC.
September 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Turns out it's Time Traveler weekend at the Faire, and they did Time Travel Trivia.

So now I have some extra scratch for goodies.
Two $20 gift cards to the Renaissance Collection.
September 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Faire bound!
A selfie (with too much sun glare) of a guy in a silk Ren Faire shirt.
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Brown butter buttercream.
A container of a brown tasty-looking frosting.
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Yes, good idea. Go mate with a Like Like.
A Like Like from Breath of the Wild.
August 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Today: baked four 6" diameter cakes.

Tomorrow: swing by NY Cake and get supplies to make chocolate ganache and brown butter frosting.

Friday: make said things.

Saturday: assemble into a three-layer cake as well as cake pops for the leftovers.

Sunday: party.
Four cake rounds on a wire cooling rack.
August 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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New Yorker Test.

It's alternate side hours. The SUV on the right is double-parked, unoccupied, hazards going.

The van on the left pulled up, blocking the street completely, and the workers started unloading, efficiently, but still, no traffic can pass.

Which car do you tell to go fuck themselves?
A Manhattan street is blocked by cars. Workers are unloading a large item from a van on the left. An SUV on the right is sitting unmoving.
August 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM