James Panek
@thepanekroom.bsky.social
Gadabout, Street Pie-Seller, Paid Mourner (Sliding Scale). 42 years old, oh god
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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why did the crab go to prison
crimes
crimes
August 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
why did the crab go to prison
crimes
crimes
below: i just -- i saw this and i laughed in a sort of high, horrified, breathless way. it's just so, so stupid?
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December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
below: i just -- i saw this and i laughed in a sort of high, horrified, breathless way. it's just so, so stupid?
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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going through old work for a thing
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
going through old work for a thing
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
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A quick and dirty way to start sussing this out is to ask yourself, “Is this person really trying to help a group of people or does it look like they’re trying to punish someone right now, in this moment?”
Yeah. Sometimes, behind all the bellowing and bluster and fluency in social justice verbiage, you might observe a person’s behavior and realize their vision of justice is just “When is it my turn at the top? When is it my turn to do the violence?”
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A quick and dirty way to start sussing this out is to ask yourself, “Is this person really trying to help a group of people or does it look like they’re trying to punish someone right now, in this moment?”
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he’s just like me fr
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
he’s just like me fr
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I finished reading Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry #26 (the return issue!) a few days back, and I’m still feeling a warmly-fond glow
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December 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I finished reading Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry #26 (the return issue!) a few days back, and I’m still feeling a warmly-fond glow
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I would never call ADHD a superpower. It feels more like a pact with the fae tbh. Like oh, yeah you can focus, you just can’t control when and on what and for how long
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I would never call ADHD a superpower. It feels more like a pact with the fae tbh. Like oh, yeah you can focus, you just can’t control when and on what and for how long
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don't bully the weird kid from little miss sunshine
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
don't bully the weird kid from little miss sunshine
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You've read your last free article *aims gun*
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You've read your last free article *aims gun*
based on working the front desk of my urban public library i have received the germ of an idea for a romantic meet-cute, based on events just now when the TWO DIFFERENT FUCKING PEOPLE DELIVERING FOOD TO AN ENTITLED SHITBIRD cannot find said shitbird in our massive public edifice of "quiet" & "order"
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
based on working the front desk of my urban public library i have received the germ of an idea for a romantic meet-cute, based on events just now when the TWO DIFFERENT FUCKING PEOPLE DELIVERING FOOD TO AN ENTITLED SHITBIRD cannot find said shitbird in our massive public edifice of "quiet" & "order"
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December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows
Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
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December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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Bitch I'm gonna get even more colorful go fuck yourself
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Bitch I'm gonna get even more colorful go fuck yourself
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billionaires are CATEGORICALLY people who are comfortable making selfish, cutthroat, cruel decisions for personal gain and to the detriment of functional society. i do not recognize the legitimacy of their demands and i will have nothing to do with them 🤷♀️
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
billionaires are CATEGORICALLY people who are comfortable making selfish, cutthroat, cruel decisions for personal gain and to the detriment of functional society. i do not recognize the legitimacy of their demands and i will have nothing to do with them 🤷♀️
i know this marks me out as some kind of uncultured rube but why in god's name is he recording this in the engine room of the 1960s Enterprise
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
i know this marks me out as some kind of uncultured rube but why in god's name is he recording this in the engine room of the 1960s Enterprise
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
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You will never catch me speaking ill of the humble lentil
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
You will never catch me speaking ill of the humble lentil