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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

to this day I hate puppets & i'm terrified of whales. and i loathe anything pinocchio related. this was even worse than the wizard of oz flying monkeys for me.

picture of pinocchio stuck in the belly of a whale from the animate disney film "pinocchio"

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3 of our manxes. Siamese/calico mix had blue eyes, was nearsighted & her ginger kitten would bring her half dead birds to play with. Among the best cats we've had.

three manx cats resting on a couch. the siamese/calico combo is the ginger's mother. we believe the black one if the mother of the siamese calico.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was getting groped on NY subway but couldn't tell if it was cause train was crowded.Train emptied I asked him to get his hand off me. asked 2x. then slammed him in the balls with bookbag w/Egyptian Grammar, a real heavy text book. he doubled over, fell, cried, got off next station & puked.

Hieroglyphics text book "Egyptian Grammar" by Gardiner. Large format, heavy as hell, hardcover with navy blue cover & gold writing.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

marlon brando and ernest hemingway, too

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

and don't forget, hudson williams, whose cat, Gizmo has a brand deal with TikiCat.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

old enough to remember when people wrote newspaper articles. if the humans provided the data & created the templates, why did they need AI to write it?

screen shot of sj mercury news article that credits "machine written" - "produced w/AI using data provided by human sources & using templates built by human editors".

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i thought it would be 4 horsemen….,

fedex notification that jesus is on his way

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton was a big inspiration for Candice of Farmer's Daughter Yarns. A few years back there was a Dolly Parton yarn club, the only sock yarn club I ever joined.The sticker on the laptop was from the club, i think there might have been a votive candle too. 🧶 photo is my last remaining skein.

skein of "For the Love of Dolly" colorway, the october skein from Farmer's Daughter sock club a few years back, photographed next to the Dolly sticker on my laptop that came with it.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My free friendly public library doesn't waste time....this display was up when they opened this morning. saw some teens checking it out, maybe it will inspire them to listen 🎵

display at the los altos public library "celebrating dolly parton" with a life size cut out of dolly wearing a red suit holding an imagination library book.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

it was even sadder in its final days with empty shelves & no guys on the floor to read the box info to you if you asked a product question.

in store decoration in fry’s palo alto. man in a hot air balloon looking at empty shelves

welcome to fry’s cowboy on bucking horse display with empty shelves behind them

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@nextdoorsv.bsky.social Pawling NY home known as Elmwood Farm owned by Sally Jessy Raphael, over 25 acres with 15,000 sq ft and was built in 1860. Currently listed for only $5,000,000. $5m around here gets you a midcentury rancher that likely needs work

$5 million home belonging to sally jesse raphael.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

the new mission is distraction: from now on we will post pictures to amuse & delight:

ian mcshane in 1962 smiling, wearing a zip up jacket with a shawl collar.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

in a 100 years, I bet those boys waiting tables 18 months ago could never have imagined press like this....

screen shot of people magazine headline about william, Kate & kids in scotland & connor & hudson in canada in the same story.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

my husband would buy one of these in a heartbeat.

$volvo 1800es in an orange/red color with roofrack.$

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

screwed up the puzzle but in my own unique way.

today's connections score analysis. 73 out of 99 but "1 in a million".

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

we still have some souvenirs. the glasses are from the gas station - at one point there was a set of 8, these are the only ones that survived.

brass astray from korean pavillion 1964 world's fair with the "unisphere" in the center"

two tall frosted glasses from the 1964 world's fair on a shelf w/brooklyn bridge centennial glasses & a nathan's commemorative statue of liberty glass. on lower shelf, a raku vase, chemex coffee pot and hand made clay jug

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

verify your age: I saw the "picturephone" at the Bell Telephone pavillion at the NY World's Fair in 1964.

a demonstration of the bell telephone "picturephone" in 1964"

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

i'm no expert on plastic surgery but looks like poor heidi got her mar-a-lardo face from gargoyle's surgeon

spencer pratt & heidi montag. he is wearing a dark suit, open collar shirt. she is wearing a sparkly blue leotard and leggings with high heels & a mar a lardo face.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

there were more people queued up for the Uncommon Threads Superbowl Yarn Swap. 🧶

photo w/caption that reads "sparse crowds have turned out for Great American State Fair on the National Mall, reportedly setting off President Donald Trump"

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

when we remodeled we parked a car in our garage for about 15 minutes just to prove it could be done. it’s been replaced with a lab bench, 3d printer, computer, refrigerator. slop sink, industrial shelving, tools & a shit ton of ceramics (he’s a potter).

silver subaru forester in an empty garage

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is a bookmark I got when my family went to Niagara Falls ~ 1965 when I was a small child. Its gone missing for years at a time, but somehow it always turns up somewhere. It's a treasured possession.

a leather bookmark w/a dog wearing reading glasses that says "a book is a doggone good friend" from 1000 Islands, NY

a leather bookmark w/a dog wearing reading glasses that says "a book is a doggone good friend" from 1000 Islands, NY marking my place in I See You Called in Dead.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

its been quite a year for that boy! first appearance on getty images was 6/26/25 at the eddington premiere. must be surreal.

screen shot of connor storrie at the eddington premiere on 6/26 on getty images, when you search on "oldest". that is almost 1 year ago.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

time to knit the hat again, this time in pink

handknit green frog hat with googly eyes. used the ubiquitous pink hat pattern from the women's march.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

How in god's name is this technology ready for prime time? I do not want my doctors' using this 💩 for anything. Or engineers. Or coders. #fuckAI

dialog w/Google AI after calling it out for giving me a hallucinated version of a Pete Seeger concert I attended.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I am so sick of AI slop & this is only the beginning. I asked it some simple, easily veriable information about an actor's imdb starmeter ranking & called it out when it referred to a "recently released" film that, in fact, was released 3 years ago. I am so nostalgic for objective truth.

screen shot of interaction w/google AI when I called it out on obvious fabrication.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

bombed on connections but at least I got "1 in a 1 million" for uniqueness & i'll take that as a win.

screen shot of NYT connections results. 81 points, but "1 in a million" for uniqueness.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

remembering old friends who are gone.

screen shot of phil ochs “when i’m gone” on spotify on an iphone

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Altho we don't celebrate Mother's Day and hallmark holidays in general, stumbled across a photo of my mother knitting, either on a camping trip or when she was a camp nurse, the year is unknown. She's been gone 10 yrs now. She was an amazing knitter 🧶& no one could weave in ends like she did.

Young woman sitting on a dock on a lake, wearing a short sleeve shirt and pedal pushers, knitting with straight needles, smiling at the camera.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

pretty sure this was '79 post graduation trip to England & France w/the VF from Cornell. We finally broke up a few yrs later, i eloped & moved to California and oddly enough, we're still friends & talk all the time. totally convinced we have crossed paths, especially w/6 degrees of john scher

1979 young woman wearing sunglasses, blue short sleeve shirt blue jeans, a big leather purse and adidas in front of the Eifel Tower.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

no but i saw kingfish at both the beacon theatre & bklyn college the same weekend. don’t know why i still havre that stub….

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

interesting because he generated $14m MIV for St. Laurent, & $3.6m MIV for Tiffany so somebody liked it. bet Yardley gets a raise & a bonus.These results are insane for someone's 1st Met Gala, let alone someone who was waiting tables this time last year.

Met Gala Top 5 Men on the Red Carpet chart. Connor Storrie appears as two of the top 5: #1 w/ $14m MIV for St. Laurent and #5 w/$3.6m MIV for Tiffany.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

we might have been on the same bus from port authority….,

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

patrick stewart in "I, Claudius" as Sejanus.

patrick stewart as sejanus on i, claudius

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

purged many boxes of books, now w/ad-riddled AI slop I miss printed reference books.This is the book i miss the most. from college,heavy as hell.Had in bookbag on subway to NYU. Guy was groping me when train was crowded & asked him nicely to stop.continued after train emptied. hit him w/bag

spine of Egyptian Grammar by Gardiner, third edition, a large format, navy blue book with gold lettering.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

that would have been cheaper- this btw, is one the treasures the boys couldn’t toss.

needlepoint of talmudic scholars in a library

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

after the remodel, we pulled a car into the garage for about 15 mins just to prove it could be done. never replicated.

2106 silver subaru with dented front fender in an empty garage.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

pleased to report breasts are safe again in redwood city.

front page of 4/20 palo alto daily featuring article “city ends suit over breasts”.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

hey verizon folks: love the connor storrie ad, but looks like you need a phone to find out when you can get a phone in palo alto.....

sign on the verizon store door, instructing customers to scan a QR code to find out the store hours.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

my favorite but subtitled only. saw 5 minutes of the dubbed & it made my ears bleed. ps BS translated - i don’t speak german

movie poster for lina wertmullers swept away

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

there is nothing real about that body/face

heather locklear when she appeared on dynasty.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

i wish these kids well, but they've had so much work done, for the life of me I didn't recognize them at all & watched all their shows back in the day.

lorenzo lamas and heather locklear, hollywood's newest couple!

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

@peetscoffee.bsky.social they finally figured out how to order my perfect drink!

order label for a capuccino on a peets cup that includes the words “short pull”, decaf & about 15 “dry” requests.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚨knitting 🧦🧶 content! sock done will be grafted tomw in better light.

pre-grafting completed hand knit sock from wool addicts move self striping marled yarn in bright colors.

pre-grafting completed handknit sock on a foot on a wooden coffee table. sock is knit in wool addicts move marled self striping yarn in bright colors. sock

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I love asking the AI why I can find readily available information & they can't. Also "confident-sounding but wrong" is the very definition of AI slop.

copilot explaining why they couldn't provide readily available data (youtube view counts) but provided "confident sounding but wrong numbers" instead.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🚨 - new knitting 🧶 content: Shawl that was finished ages ago (at least a year) finally getting blocked to be gifted tomw.

Shawl blocking on a colorful floral bedspread. Triangle shawl is Freia fibers gradient with greens/blues. On the yellow wall is a painting based of Divine in red dress, holding a pistol from Pink Flamingos.

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saffron shipper ⚓️ @saffship.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

@edzitron.com It troubles me deeply that this AI slop is being used in medical decision making. I was just inquiring about the velocity of a particular viral video campaign. How can this be too big to fail?

explaination from Gemini that it "hallucinated" numbers.

explaination from Gemini that i am correct to be skeptical and it was just being "too helpful"

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