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Tidings of comfort and joy, mf'ers...
Two large bowls. One with eight pounds of raisins soaking in tea and one of six pounds of mixed dried fruit and cotron.
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Skeet your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
Kate Blanchett as the Lady Galadriel in Lord of the Rings. A tall, pale woman with long blond hair with the light of the first trees captured in it dramatically pours water from a silver ewer.
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band.
Newspaper cartoon Bloom Country, a syndicated strip from the 80s & 90s. A four panel profile of the heavy metal band, DeathTöngue (later Billy and the Boingers), featuring regular characters of the strip. These include: "Wild" Bill Catt. singer/lead tongue (Bill the Cat). Hodge Podge, drums (rabbit). Opus Croakus, rhythm tuba (Opus the Penguin). Steve Dallas, songwriter/manager. This was a moderately long-running gag in the strip sending up both hair metal bands and the ongoing Congressional hearings on popular music.
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Spectacular evening.
View of a rosy pink sky facing west down Market Street in San Francisco. Sutro Tower is visible atop Twin Peaks with a low marine layer at the boundary of the hills. The sunset is reflecting off of the high clouds in dramatic pinks and purple colors.
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Post (unsure if tweet or skeet) by Meg Reid @meg_it_happen. "but that was my emotional support daylight"
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Don't be alarmed.
But be ready for action when it becomes a warning.

PS No need to be on the lookout for George Michael until 28 November at the earliest (1 Dec in the UK).
The gates of Whamhallah do not open until after US Thanksgiving.
Photo of Mariah Carey in a red outfit with a white fur collar. The image is captioned as a meme. The top text reads, "We interrupt this feed to bring you a special news report." The bottom text reads, "A Mariah Carey Watch is now in effect for all counties as of midnight"
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek', 'Doctor Who' or 'Transformers'.
Marvin, the paranoid android (your plastic pal who's fun to be with). A character from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (TV adptation). A boxy silver and grey robot with triangular red eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Classic one-panel cartoon of a dog at a keyboard speaking to another dog saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." It has been modified to read, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're not the former mayor of New York."
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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“Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons."
Cast photo from the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Season 3).
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Hey Medieval Sky, I'm taking a calligraphy workshop and the instructor brought in this fragment as an example.
Does anyone have any thoughts about time period (or even language)?
It gorgeous. The writing is fluid at about 8 points.
@digitalmedievalist.bsky.com
Lines of handwritten text on vellum in blackletter gothic lettering.
October 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Plus an alternate universe.
Playbill cover for the current Broadway production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Pictured are two middle-aged men with scruffy beards in black shirts against a solid cyan background. Keanu Reeves is on the left, and Alex Winter is on the right.
October 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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100% dead on Trek analysis:
Usurname: dragon-in-a-fez '90s Trek had the ideal budget for a Star Trek show. TOS had no money and had to make do with an ice cream cone glued to a dog. Disco has too much money and you can tell they don't have to control themselves at all. the happy medium is a show that overspent on sticking tubes to a guy last week so this week there's something creepy and mostly invisible happening in the same room we always go
September 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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My personal fav: Wealthy
It's $500,000,000.00+ now.
Image of a post by Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff@oldbytes.space I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same. The chart shows a tall red line on the left, one pixel wide representing 345 million people. There are several other names of very rich people moving right including the Koches, Bloomberg, Buffet, and at the extreme right is Musk.
September 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Spoopy Season!
Store display of Halloween decor including a black cat and a skeleton wreath.
September 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Spoopy Season!
A photo of fully stocked shelves in a Daiso store displaying saesonal Halloween items.
September 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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It ain't much but it's honest work.
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Our Lady of the Underground.
#hadestownnl
Hadestown set for Act 2. A mike stand is center stage. The walls of the club have split to reveal electrified lights in clusters of 4 lamps all across the walls.
August 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Sing it again.
#hadestownnl
The set of Hadestown. Interior of a jazz club with tables and chairs stacked in the center of the stage. An s-shaped spiral staircase leads to a balcony with dark green arched doors and shutters.
August 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Tweet from Apr 12, 2019 by Pranay Pathole: Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
August 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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My favorite Doctor and Companion.
John Crichton and Aeryn Sun from the TV series Farscape. John is a conventionally handsome white man with concerned look on his face. Aeryn is a pale-skinned woman with dark, shoulder length black hair. She has an impassive expression and is pointing a handgun at something out of frame on the left.
August 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Feeling sure about that?
Meme: Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a pyramid-shaped diagram, modified so that all the levels (basic, psychological, and self-fulfillment) are covered by one blur of purple. The text reads, "Custom decal'ed tool boxes made to match my vintage Singer Stuff."
July 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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If you see this, skeet a redhead.
Publicity still of Mr. Sebastian Keys, now retired, one of the hottest adult performers of the early 21st century. He is a 6'1" pale skinned man with dark red hair and mutton chop sideburns. He is kneeling on a white wrestling mat wearing a very low-cut black wrestling singlet with red piping around the scoop that exposes his lean, muscular torso, the open sides, and the legs. He has several visible tattoos, notably the animated character Rango, a colorful chameleon from the movie of the same name, on his upper left arm. This is from around 2021.
July 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Once more.
This is both absurd and true.
Image of a post by Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff@oldbytes.space I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same. The chart shows a tall red line on the left, one pixel wide representing 345 million people. There are several other names of very rich people moving right including the Koches, Bloomberg, Buffet, and at the extreme right is Musk.
July 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Day 9: first piece complete!
A panel of Lacunose. A process of applying layers of thinly oared leather to book board then sanding it. This piece is primarily reds and browns with bits of gold tooling and a few pinched shapes showing through.
July 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Line illustration of a human back with large red circles labled: Upper neck "traitor" Lower neck "jackass" Shoulder "absolute fuckwaffle" Midback near spine "and then there's this jackass."
July 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM