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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A small what? Oh, sorry, must have misheard.

Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I checked the rules for planetary nomenclature (craters, rifts, etc.) and here are the important bits: 1) The <International> Astronomical Union runs the show out of Paris. 2) To have a feature named after them, a person must be dead 3 years and have no political notability after 1800.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great thing about going to a con at a local community hall is when they have a bar open in the next room over.

Me as MAJOR ALEX LOUIS ARMSTRONG, LICENSED STATE ALCHEMIST, at the Portuguese Hall in Union City. There's a row of photos of various worthies behind me.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

His clauses are don't let it hit you/where the good Lord split you.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He makes great hyper-concentrated coffee ("Black Blood of the Earth") and great points.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Clever Hans: NEEEEEEEIGH* * "Tell me about it."

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Breaking: Melodia, the Mistress of Musical Mayhem will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Melodia, one of the villains from the 1980s syndicated toy ad series SilverHawks. She has neon green hair, an outfit like early-mid period Lady Gaga, and wields the "Sound Smasher", which looks like a cross between a keytar and a Ma Deuce.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

honey a new Silent Hill boss just dropped

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I keep TELLING you people! Launching someone into the Sun is incredibly inefficient. You want to launch them into a hyperbolic Jupiter flyby to get the maximum schadenfreude per kilogram of fuel. If you still want them exposed to nuclear fires, you can always aim for Ross 248 or something.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Joan Jett and the Blackcurrants

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think it's already well-established he doesn't pay much attention to current events.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Okay, putting a firecracker in someone's boot isn't a violation of the PRIME Directive, but it's gotta bump up against one of them. Somewhere in the mid-teens, tops. A Directive with a learner's permit.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just saw Coyote Vs. Acme and it was great...I mean really great. My hot take: giving a cameo to Cool Cat from the last gasp of Looney Toons shorts shown in the theater was nice. You have to remember the bad with the good.

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Vagabonding 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇸🇪🇺🇸 @vagabonding.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Diesel is the highest in history. Republicans are blaming Ukraine now. I'm old enough to remember when truckers would block interstates side by side at 55 MPH and farmers would block state highways with combines. They are in a cult and not able to criticize.

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OSTAN5000 @ostan6000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My favorite response is this one because it's genuinely heart-braking.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Interesting how the Hellclown Virus starts on one person and then shifts to the other before spreading across the world. I guess R₀ is a complex number.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

She's running too rich, needs to cut back on the andesite.

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brad [Dwigt Rortugal arc] @bradicality.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

his fight against slop is virtuous, he just like me fr

Daffy Duck in “Duck Amok,” he has been painted in gaudy colors instead of the background scenery. He is jumping up and gesticulating angrily and saying “not me you slop artist!”

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh, so NOW he's up on current events.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

[me and Mike Lindell sharing one of his pillows, smoking] You ever think about moss piglets, Mike?

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(sadly crumples up a novel proof of the Pythagorean theorem)

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They had to let Sheldon the ceramic Dalmatian go after a similar incident on Amtrak.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Roko's Inverse Fourier Transform

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Chat-CGISF (Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously)

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

(checks the Hamilton harbor webcam just to make sure this was a joke)

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Loot that drops after defeating me: - Astrolabe - Melatonin - Diet Mountain Dew - To-do lists (2d10+1) - Shiny rock(s) - Sleep mask - 1912 US Barber half-dollar, mangled at some point over the decades

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

SF Giants: <has a terrible year topped off with players offending their fans and their management showing they're weak reeds> SF 49ers: "Hold my Pliny the Elder."

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm sorry, my first impression was that someone put a Cone of Shame on the Grim Reaper. Which frankly sounds like one of the Labors of Heracles that didn't make the cut.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Between this and Minneapolis Spider -Man I think we have our MCU Phase 7h heroes.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger. Pentateuch (my hot take is that they were better after all five Peter Gabriels left to start solo acts).

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Celestial Witch 🏳️‍⚧️ @staroutofspace.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There's a post that compares "legitimate use of AI" to arson and baking, but I think it's more appropriate to say that this is like responding "but bricks are used to build houses" when everyone's saying we should stop giving bricks of cocaine to children.

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auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you want a timeline cleanse I lost it at the Rabbit 🤷‍♂️

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My read, for what it is worth, is the United States, as a country, remains a democracy, but the *republican party* is now a personalist autocracy and brings that nature with it when it is voted into power. Trump is President of the United States and King-Archbishop Lord Protector of Republicans.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Oh, how niche!" I think as I write "the nomenclature of planetary features" in the blank on my own Mastermind application. Small craters on Mars (diameter < 60 km) are named after small cities on Earth (population < 100,000).

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If Free Hamburger Day at work isn't enough to get me to work in the office today, I don't know what would.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I used a senior discount for the first time ever last week for a movie. To see Spider-Man: Brand New Day, all it cost me was $5 and a disquieting awareness of my mortality.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sorry, that ungrizzled a face does NOT have a certain set of skills.

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