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James Panek
@thepanekroom.bsky.social
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Gadabout, Street Pie-Seller, Paid Mourner (Sliding Scale). 42 years old, oh god
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weirdly it was whilst reading a review of this movie that i was reminded of you and finally did look to see if you were on Bluesky
clipping from hollywood reporter review of Ella McCay. relevant text is comparing the film with "the writer-director's last feature, the misbegotten 2010 Reese Witherspoon rom-com How Do You Know"
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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uh what
clipping of a google result page. Book title: Cute Accelerationism; book description: "The objects of cute culture are just spinoffs of an accelerative process booping us from the future, rendering us all submissive, breedable, helpless, and cute ..."; price: 16 pounds and 99 pence
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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incredibly-ineptly edited image which had originally said "my hungry ass couldn't be a brain surgeon (skull emoji skull emoji)" but which now says "my hungry ass couldn't be a sandwich terrorist (skull emoji skull emoji)"
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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below repost making me think of this excerpt from that game i still haven't played despite knowing i really really oughta
clipping from screenshot of Disco Elysium character dialog reading JOYCE MESSIER -- "I can't. That's how simple it is. One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead..."
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"He turns around in the front seat and stabs a thick finger at the notebook that I had set aside. 'Write this down,' he says. 'No matter which way it goes -- taking the senate or the fall of democracy -- whatever the eventuality, the work remains the same.' 'You have to build things for people to access. You have to build the apparatus for change, even if no one else shows up. If you don't build the movement, it won't me there when the day for action comes. It's thankless. People live their entire lives building something they may never see succeed. And you do it anyway.'"
August 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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i'm afraid i dunno what to tell you, bro, but my local grocer even put them next to each other because the Berkeley Bowl knows me that well
A slightly beetlebrowed box of De Cecco Gemelli is leaning uncertainly towards a box of De Cecco Cavatappi, which is itself concerned that its relationship history disproves its sexuality; both are thereby proving the accuracy of statements about fave pasta types and their corresponding personality traits
June 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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this happened to my library in March because someone opened a children's book and found a photo of half of the face of a Palestinian activist included in a mural behind a family. thousands of emails about people's grave concerns regarding the indoctrination of children to support terrorism
series of nine identical email subject lines, "Stop the portrayal of 'violent minorities' and 'violence against minorities' in your library book 'Celebrations'" image of a family posing in front of a mural made up of portraits of women. at the top of the photo near the center half of a woman's face is visible; the woman has on a white jacket and what may be a keffiyeh worn like a scarf on either side of her neck
May 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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midmarket San Francisco google map showing walking times from "your location" to "some other place": standard stick figure, 6 minutes. purple stick figure with rainbow background, 3 minutes
April 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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"martian dialect created for the movie" what the fuck? what?? the fuck??? what is this haphazard, nay, ersatz, nay, tatterdemalion bullshit????
imdb trivia entry: "Val Kilmer's line "I'm Your Huckleberry" took on a life of its own and became something of a catchphrase for the actor who used it in many of his subsequent films, but in ways not everyone would recognize. In The Saint (1997) he speaks it in Czech; in Alexander (2004) he speaks it in Greek; in At First Sight (1999) it's written in braille in a book he is reading; and in Red Planet (2000) he speaks it in a Martian dialect created for the movie." Beneath that it says 14 people found this helpful and 2 people gave it a thumbs down instead.
April 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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i don't believe this was you, only a devoted buckaroo, but just in case it was i scribbled out your incredibly handsome face to protect your privacy
protest sign from a Hands Off protest that reads "POUNDED IN THE ECONOMY BY THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF DUNNING-KRUGER" with some small graphics below it that are not clear enough to understand -- sorry, alt-text readers, you know as much as i do
April 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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got to visit the Farmer's Market on Saturday and someone had Rangpur Limes! so i got to make a batch of these bad boys: www.101cookbooks.com/lime-scones/
a scone bloodbath -- rangpur lime glaze was applied haphazardly to two scones on a cookie sheet. pools of remaining glaze mark where other scones had stood. unused rangpur limes look on in terror from a small bowl with a red interior (rangpur limes are a little larger than a testicle and bright orange)
March 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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due to a minor reorganization, every time i leave my bullpen i see this book facing out on a shelf. i cannot for the life of me come up with a less clever title than 'bed me, duke' (also, a series?! augh); i have been trying.
- hmu if you own peasants
- i wanna fuck a rich guy
- to the manor humped
cover of "Bed Me, Duke" by Felicity Niven. smaller text indicates this is book one in The Bed Me Books. book cover image is of the right arm and leg of a slender person in a blue dress being partially embraced; only the right hand of the embracer is visible around the dress's waist
March 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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another question my library has received that feels like it could go in some pretty disparate directions depending on how caffeinated i am. "like, a really, really happy marriage would probably have to be NC-17? but most marriages are probably just PG-13?? apart from swearing about current events"
portion of screenshot from my library's question management system showing, firstly, a link reading "what is happy marriage rated"; second line: Asked via Widget in green; third line: Queue: English
February 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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finally figured out why i've been getting so many calls from unknown numbers recently
Google News headline: "This firm has been bullish on crypto for two years -- now it's calling a top." Apparently this is an article on MarketWatch, and there's a gross image above the headline of a weird bull that may secretly be a transformer -- glowing blue eyes, body made of lots of metal pieces
February 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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shut up shut up shut upppp
Screenshot of part of the landing page on a professional bookbuying website. Top banner reads "Books to beat burnout" followed by cover images for five books: The Plan by Kendra Adachi, Four Thousand Weeks (possibly a workbook?) by Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, and Night Owl's Guide by E. Azura Spence
February 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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email subject line, black bold text on white backgroun: "Tree inspection work in your area (In your, area)" -- my first instinct was to do some sort of 'what is this, the dance remix of an email subject line???' joke but no repurposed ad. original ad was trying to get me to check my computer for malware but instead it now says "Tree inspection work in my area? In my, area?" and then the original ad continues "It's more likely than you think" as a Black woman looks at the camera to the left of the text
January 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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thought for sure @brackenshape.bsky.social would have hit me with one of these
scar from The Lion King (1994) edited into a meme template with block capitals saying "if you liked it, dear boy, i'm afraid you should have put a ring on it" (i added words to Beyonce's lyrics to make them seem like something Jeremy Irons would say)
January 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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SCAR, ENGAGED
a heart-shaped block of black letters on a white background with the legend "the first two words you see are what you're getting for Valentine's Day," which i stole off twitter
January 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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so as a component of a running gag between myself and a coworker based around how many weird things i've confessed over Microsoft Teams, i drew this Priest Clippy -- with, in my opinion, some sincerely heavy lids
pinned to a cubicle wall, a rectangle of paper on which is drawn in pen a jauntily-curved cartoon paperclip wearing a Catholic priest's collar. on a separate piece of paper, two heavy-lidded eyes with a long paper handle so that they can move around the way that the actual Microsoft Office assistant character Clippy's eyes used to be animated
January 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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wanted to issue some praise for new hairstyles but got so distracted when i tried to remind myself how Dr. Gottlieb's hair looked, because to my mind in this photo he's wearing an Elliot Page
January 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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purely aspirational, this one
picrew of a pale person in a flannel overshirt and ratty tarot card t-shirt with a sort of Gorillaz-character face, weepy eyes, glasses, and blue hair
December 25, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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also it's possible that our mutual forest-dweller friend might be able to help you with repair techniques for your Classic Socks @smitinghedgehog.bsky.social
Grey Muji knit gloves on a work table with visible mending in pink and blue yarn
December 2, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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yes ... ha ha ha ... YES
two riso prints, including the beautiful nebulous sunset question mark image listed in the quoted post, laid out on a jacket with purple flowers printed on it
November 27, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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asked google for Mrs. Doubtfire's first name. post from a wiki below the AI summary says 'Euphegenia'; google's AI wasted a measurable amount of gaia's blood to say that her first name is 'Madame'
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb from the Slough House Apple TV series. A fake caption has been added to the image so that it appears he is shouting "Saltier! And more brittle, dammit!"
October 11, 2024 at 10:29 PM