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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 22h

I’m used to getting campaign texts around this time. Threats, however, are something new.

A text from phone number 217 212 2672 that reads “You’re gonna miss her when she is gone for good.”

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The old McDonald’s in the Broadway building that’s been empty for ever finally has some new inhabitants.

A banner over the entry to a refurbished McDonald’s, that reads “Eduardo’s Taco Shop. Now Open.”

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

About a year ago these protective crosswalks got put in downstairs, to make it safer to get across the street to buy groceries. I don’t know how many times people have illegally used the bike lane as a right turn lane, but I’ve almost been hit by the car doing it twice now…

A crosswalk outside the Safeway on NE Broadway near the Lloyd Center. There are two lanes of traffic, then a concrete island, then a “protected” bike lane, then the corner of the sidewalk proper. The bike lane is, for some unknown reason, able to accommodate cars.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Came across this on my way home from work. I have questions. I suspect I’ll never get answers…

A sign on a telephone pole: a plain white sheet of office paper with black text. It reads:

Dating Dave?
Call 503-282-8496

I haven’t tried the number, but if they want it out in public…

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What was your first computer growing up? (Christ, I’m old…)

An Apple IIC, including the monitor and stand for said monitor.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Does it count if I sleep in one?

That one image from The Simpsons of Milhouse’s dad in his Batchelor Pad, including his race car shaped bed.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Eddie and the Cruisers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

A still from the movie Eddie and the Cruisers, of the titular band playing in a bar.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Was walking home from work and saw this beauty growing up through the concrete. Not only that, turned out I snapped this photo right at 1:07pm. I’m calling that a good omen…

A sunflower growing from a crack in the sidewalk. It stands a good 5 feet tall.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Last four characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party. So I got Grant O’Brien, Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter, Opus the penguin, possibly also as Frank N. Furter, and Prince. There’s going to be a lot of sex while a confused penguin watches in this campaign…

A parody Magic the Gathering card featuring the Room Full Of Grants bit from an episode of Game Changer. I do not have the room to fully explain the context any more than that.

A custom D&D spell that is framed by an image of Tim Curry at Frank N. Furter.

Opus the penguin doing a simultaneous Dolly Parton/Tim Curry cosplay.

A picture of Prince from a high school yearbook, edited onto the cover of A Portrait of the Artist ad a Young Man by James Joyce.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I have just learned that Richard, Daisy’s awkward long-distance boyfriend in the tv show Spaced, is played by the same actor who plays Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso, and I really don’t know how to process this information…

Richard, from the tv show Spaced, as played by James Lance.

Trent Crimm, from Ted Lasso, as played by James Lance.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Got some new drinks in today. They’re… water. They’re just more expensive branded water.

Two aluminum bottles of water. One is Barbie pink, the other is Hello Kitty white.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

An image from an episode of Babylon 5: a mid shot of Bruce Boxleitner as Captain Sheridan, with the foreground dominated by Walter Koening as Psycop Alfred Bester. Bester is seated in the captain’s chair, and Sheridan is being passive aggressive about it.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Been a while since I used this as a Timbers match summary, but…

A still from The Venture Bros. A group of henchmen for The Monarch are standing around a prone Brock Sampson, with the caption “Wow. That sucked.”

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Went back to work, then hung out with some friends I’ve not seen in far too long a time, then when heading home witnessed this bit of beauty.

A large number of people roller skating in the park to Dolly Parton music. Many of them are dressed like Dolly.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I assume we’ll be hearing it the next time these are on my table?

A picture of Mary Sue’s dice vault, dice tray, and mini from D&D game night, where she plays a bard devoted to ska.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No, no, he goes on the back of a motorcycle, like Snoopy in that one movie.

The VHS cover to the tv movie The Big Stuffed Dog. It features a motorcycle and rider. Behind the rider is a 5 foot tall plush Snoopy. No, I can’t explain it.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Your favorite Disney Prince. (Wrong answers only.)

Ncuti Gatwa in a promotional picture for The Importance of Being Earnest. He is seated at a grand piano, wearing a pink evening gown and opera gloves, and a knowing grin on his face.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Someone posted this over on the FB, and I simply had to share…

An image of part of an ice skating rink. On the left is Tonya Harding, on the right is Nancy Kerrigan. Nancy has her back to Tonya, and is in conversation with someone off the ice and out of view. Tonya is side eyeing Nancy hard.

Tonya is labeled “Americans.” Nancy is labeled “Flock cameras.”

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don’t think he knows about second kitten, Pip…

Merry and Pippin, standing in the snow. Merry looks contemplative. Pippin has a confused grin on his face.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s over, isn’t it? Isn’t it over…

The northern entrance to the Lloyd Center.

A scrawl on one of the Lloyd Center walls, that reads Lloyd 4 Ever. The O in Louis a heart.

A banner hanging from the food court level, reading Llong Llive Lloyd.

A note I saw on the window to where Barnes and Noble used to be:

Thank you, Lloyd Center, for being our refuge, our place of rest, of friendship, of community. For being our place to create, hope, and learn. We take you with us always.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Once we were allowed to ride our bikes outside our immediate neighborhood, we’d come here and tear through all the underground parking, because why wouldn’t you? This place was a labyrinth.

A subterranean parking garage, stretching off into the distance.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This was the first place I bought a video game, a GI Joe, a movie on VHS… this place identified the neighborhood. I’ve lived near it my entire life, and I don’t know what life will be without it…

A huge crowd on all three levels of the Lloyd, watching a solitary couple ice skate on the rink.

A huge mass of people attending one final trading card swap meet at the bottom level of the Lloyd.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

These sculptures better be safely removed before any demo, or I’m going to have words with someone…

A Tom Hardy sculpture of a flock of birds, hanging over the escalators at the Lloyd Center food court.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My mom found this badge in her stuff that dates back to at least the 1970’s. Anyway, I’m wore it to the mall, which is packed to the gills…

A selfie taken at the Lloyd. On my lapel is a badge with an image of a cherubic elf in a hat that says Santa’s Helper. Below the elf the badge reads Lloyd Center.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh for god’s… look who appeared out of nowhere on my Roku.

The infamous Easter egg filled Roku screen saver, which has apparently added an image of Seattle’s raccoon sensation Jimothy climbing across a chain link fence.

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Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oh dear god! I’m watching the new season of Batman: Caped Crusader, and I just heard James Urbaniak’s voice coming out of Dr. Hugo Strange. Now that’s goddamn delightful casting, for obvious reasons. Hint: it’s because of the Venture Bros.