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That Chip Guy
@thatchipguy.bsky.social
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Podcaster, communicator, writer, pressing the reset button
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Missing #CanesAfterDark for Carbon Leaf at Cat’s Cradle. I’d regret it if I didn’t unreservedly love this band. #IWantToBeLeaf
An empty stage at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC ahead of a concert by Carbon Lead. The stage is dark except for the blue glow emitted by three triangles on the back wall. A vintage flying saucer hovers above them.
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Game on. #RaiseUp
ThatChipGuy and spouse mugging for a selfie on the Carolina Hurricanes concourse. For some reason the spouse has a witches’ hat.
October 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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With respect to my acquaintances who are involved in Worldcon organizing, and my talented friends who have won multiple Hugos, [this piece](miribaker.com/2025/08/22/o...) is spot-on. The distributed culture means no accountability for making the NEXT con less embarrassing.
Even with all the problems above, I had a fantastic time at Worldcon 2025 in Seattle. I saw and hugged people I only ever get to chat with online, I met and shared panels with incredibly eloquent and talented artists, I got to talk at great length about my passion for costuming and the effort-to-effect ratio because someone foolishly gave me a microphone five separate times. Even when World-con is bad, it collects my people in one place, and there are things to love. Even people who hate Worldcon have fun at Worldcon. So imagine a world where Worldcon was good. Where we treated it with the respect we pretend to afford it as the site of one of our major awards, honoring the fact that it might be the most important weekend of someone's life to date. Where announcers and organizers understood the power they wield, and pledged to wield it responsibly. Where we held ourselves and our successors to a higher standard.
August 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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No cheating, post the last pic of your pet. 
The upside-down head of a two-year-old, long-haired tabby named Aries looks to the camera from a top a messy bed.
August 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.
The cast of Voltron: Legendary Defender
August 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I have failed this city and must atone
Aries, the longhair brown tabby, completely lying on his back with his head toward the camera, cocked and displaying no brain activity whatsoever, while his front legs are curled in front of him and his hind legs are splayed out into the distance.
August 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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My sister-in-law races vintage cars and we’re celebrating her birthday and I think I’ve seen this meme before.
A birthday cake with a black “racetrack” of icing. On the track is a plastic race car driven by a figure of Elmo from Sesame Street, smiling, with arms raised in triumph. The burning birthday candles behind Elmo make him look uncommonly like the meme-GIF of Elmo in Hell except for the smile.
June 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I’m on board with this take; it’s not cope. AND I was right there watching last night’s disaster with my son, looking down at Freddie’s first and Pyotr’s net. I was bathed in its futility and endorsed the “shoot the puck” chants. But… (1/6) #RaiseUp
Early pregame inside Lenovo Center for Round 3 Game 2, looking down on the Canes net from the upper bowl
May 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I may look happy but I am a ball of anxiety. #RaiseUp
ThatChipGuy with Stormy, the Carolina Hurricanes mascot. The giant pig is unflappable. The human is quite flapped.
May 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Behold, the #RaiseUp bobbleheads at the Mebane McKay’s used bookstore. The image of the Hardee’s Brind’amour (not in stock) will haunt me forever.
Boxed Carolina Hurricanes bobbleheads in a used book store, with opened bobbleheads of Ron Francis and Jeff Skinner in the foreground. A line of boxed Canes bobbleheads: Jamie McBain, Joni Pitkanen, Tim Gleason, Brandon Sutter, Arturs Irbe (in the box but not identified), and Jussi Jokinen A close-up of the box containing an Arturs Irbe bobbleheads, and let me tell you, this picture of the Rod Brind’amour bobblehead in no way resembles an actual Rod Brind’amour, and I’m actually feeling a little traumatized by its visage. I’m getting Chucky from Child’s Play vibes. If Chucky played center.
March 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Oh, Facebook… (Three minutes ago)
A screenshot of a Facebook ad by Carolina Pro Shop featuring a black Mikko Rantanen Canes jersey. Surprisingly, my phone didn’t explode.
March 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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@kevinmkruse.bsky.social In the middle of (spreads arms) all this, some things endure. Hope you’re good.
“The Cube,” a series of painted plywood panels advertising student activities, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the center of the picture is a panel of a vinyl LP and the text, “WXYC 89.3 FM, Apply, Link in bio” and an Instagram tag for wxyc893. WXYC is the longstanding student radio station at UNC.
March 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#RaiseUp
The “Bro, I’m straight-up not having a good time” meme of a Real Bros of Simi Valley personality
February 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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So, what should the Canes do to make Rantanen feel at home and want to extend with us? #RaiseUp
Actor Maximilian Osinski as the superstar soccer player "Zava" from the Apple TV+ show TED LASSO. If we ever find out Rantanen has an avocado farm I will be concerned.
January 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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An image from the old game Star Wars Galaxies of a Wookie wearing a red Life Day robe
January 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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@imanibarbarin.bsky.social Welcome to Apple News+ puzzle notoriety…?

(Spoilers, I guess.)
The Friday, Nov. 22 edition of Apple News+’s mini crossword puzzle, with the 7-across clue: “Disability-rights activist Barbarin” and the answer “Imani.”
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Opening ceremonies right now:
Characters from Advebtures of the Galaxy Rangers on robot horses
July 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Please join my listeners--there are DOZENS of them!--in enjoying the Two-minute Time Lord #DoctorWho podcast, most recently covering "Dot and Bubble" and "Rogue." twominutetimelord.com
Text conversation. FRIEND: "GREAT job with Dot and Bubble." ME: "INCOMING TEXT FROM CHIP'S INSECURITY." "...and Rogue...?" "(Seriously, thank you re Dot and Bubble)" FRIEND: "Haha I'm listening to it now this is mid play"
June 10, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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This is the way. #LetsGoCanes
Two Carolina Hurricanes fans in jerseys and color coordinated Mandalorian helmets
May 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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(A) Found #LetsGoCanes @wademinter.com again.
(B) OK, time for a better phone camera.
Carolina Hurricanes public address announcer Wade Minter in the press box above section 326, photographed with an increasingly ancient iPhone
May 16, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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#LetsGoCanes
GIF of the Andor character Kino Loy: "There's only then and now. There's only ONE WAY OUT."
May 12, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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I grew up on these streets
The Comet Empire citadel from Star Blazers
January 11, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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I have not done enough on this platform with cat photos.

Meet Aries, Pisces, and Leonardo.
Aries, a brown longhaired tabby kitten, enjoying a lap Pisces, a Siamese mix kitten, enjoying a cat tree Leonardo, a gray and white elder statesman of a cat, enjoying a cat tree
January 4, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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I'm an extremely honest thinker who isn't beholden to anyone and has a lot of hands-on life experience at a quirkily wide array of activities.
Anthony Ainley as the Doctor Who villain The Master
December 26, 2023 at 4:18 PM
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Meep! Meep? Meep.

2MTL 475 reviews Doctor Who's "The Star Beast" and gives it two furry, clawed thumbs up.
The furry, big-eyed alien Beep the Meep as seen in "The Star Beast" episode of Doctor Who
November 25, 2023 at 9:40 PM