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Brian Kane

@briank3387.bsky.social
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Middle-aged, middle-class cishet white dude. Sorry. OG MeFite, recovering blogger, lifelong Trekkie, lover and occasional maker of good food. See also @briank@mefi.social on Mastodon BMK on MLTSHP metafilter.com/user/1951

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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
F.A.B.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The new fridge fit through the door with half an inch clearance and is chilling itself down as we speak. This concludes our Domestic Drama of the Day.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i like this a lot more than the phrase "Artificial Intelligence"
an advertisement for "Claude Smart Toilet"
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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine living in a country where protesting against genocide gets you banned from college, but the only punishment for gangraping a woman is an essay. Oh wait...
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day Four of No Fridge. It felt marginally inconvenient at first, but god DAMN what a pain in the ass. New one arrives between 10-1 tomorrow.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Following up on the earlier repost of Jeri Ryan, this is why you might want to encourage people to go see "Musk". If it plays anywhere near me, I will be there.
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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know what to do, gang… Share this far and wide!
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Introducing the Pervert Pendant!
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Maybe another war will distract from the one he can't win? www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Share your mood for the weekend
A forlorn cat sitting at a bar, nursing a glass of whiskey
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy #Caturday from #Charley! #CatsOfBluesky
Charley is unamused that I woke him up from his nap in the linen closet.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also, from Meta. Pervert glasses are now ADA-compliant. Seriously, why haven't you quit this platform yet?
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Turn these two settings in Instaagram off RIGHT NOW unless you don't mind being in an AI-generated advert.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got up this morning to discover that the freezer stopped working and almost everything inside it thawed out. Had to pitch a few hundred dollars' worth of meat. At least the fridge part is still working for now.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The classic movie tonight is The Graduate
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The Graduate Mrs Robinson
ALT: The Graduate Mrs Robinson
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Prepaid Africa @prepaid-africa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/e...
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El Niño transforms Atacama desert as thousands of hectares burst into bloom
Exceptionally heavy El Niño rains have awakened millions of seeds lying dormant underground, carpeting vast swathes of one of the planet's driest places with flowers.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pet shoo borb
A rotund white and yellow canary
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Share an image that shows how many years you’ve been online (QuantumLink was the original service that became AOL)
A Commodore 64 computer and monitor showing the main page of the Quantum Link online service from the 1980s.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Niles Crane ironing his shirt all alone in Frasier's apartment is one of the greats.
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Frasier's Fire Extinguisher Fiasco
ALT: Frasier's Fire Extinguisher Fiasco
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My own poop, as a baby in a bathtub. My father used to say "Just another shit-eating Kane!"
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Apple cider cinnamon rolls for breakfast
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Got my Le Creuset Star Trek oven mitt! LLAP! #StarTrek
Fra-gee-lay, must be Italian! Exterior of the box it came in. Has a decorative Star Trek image and Le Creuset brandingInterior of the packaging has a blue starburst image and the Vulcan salute mitt Me modeling the oven mitt. Live long and prosper!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Notice what’s happening just in the past few days. AI caused war crimes. AI hacked corporations. AI is denying healthcare. AI nearly caused war with China. Already the concept is becoming a catchall and hiding that, in all cases, there were people and systems getting desired results.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Went to check out Boston Pizza Festival at City Hall Plaza.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe don't fly in or out of DC for a bit if you can avoid it.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Seth Moulton got his ass handed to him a couple of weeks ago for trying this, so why do these other Dems think this is the way to go? Blue Wave should fuck right off if this is how they intend to retake power. A watered-down fascist is still a fascist.
A post from Paul F. Tompkins reads: "Once you start conceding ground to the "protect sports" angle in order to win an election you're not fighting for anyone's rights"
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy #Caturday from #Charley and #Milly! #CatsOfBluesky
Milly and Charley on their cardboard sofas. Milly is looking at the camera, while Charley has his eyes closed, pretending to be asleep.
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Not Invented Here @notinventedhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ah so this is what they mean when they say AI will destroy humanity.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
QT with your first console. Sears knockoff Pong game. I don't think this is the actual model, because I recall different controllers, but it was in this line of games,
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What could POSSIBLY go wrong??
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Cat Gives Suspicious Side Eye with 'HMMM...' Reaction
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Deeply, deeply disappointed.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pleased (and relieved) to hear that our daughter got offered a new job. She's been out of work since the end of June and a couple of ones she was interested in didn't come through.
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Prepaid Africa @prepaid-africa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We don't need Al Jaz to tell us what this means www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
aljazeera.com
US set to approve 60,000 heavy bombs for Israel: What that means
The package of 2,000-pound bombs comes amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and its occupation of southern Lebanon.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#Milly is giving me the cold shoulder this morning because I am the Worst Cat Dad Ever. I mixed up their RFID food dishes last night, so neither would open and nobody got dinner, but didn't notice until I got up to feed them this morning. 1000 years of jail!
Milly sitting on the footrest of my recliner, next to my feet, refusing to look at me.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In 1985 the CPSU released a video of Chernenko voting in what was actually a hospital room mocked up to resemble a polling place. They wanted everyone to rest assured he was alive and well. Two weeks later he died. Thinking of this today for no specific reason.
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Черненко голосует (1985)
В самом начале видео - фрагментик программы "Время" от 12 марта 1985 года (ее дикторы - Анна Шатилова и Евгений Кочергин), затем - фрагмент программы "Время" от 24 февраля 1985 года (ее диктор - Галина Зименкова), в котором показана церемония голосования Генерального секретаря ЦК КПСС, Председателя Президиума Верховного Совета СССР Константина Устиновича Черненко на выборах, затем - фрагмент программы "Время" от 28 февраля 1985 года, в котором показана церемония вручения К.У.Черненко удостоверения депутата Верховного Совета РСФСР, затем - фрагмент информационного выпуска от 13 марта 1985 года (его диктор - Геннадий Чертов), в котором показано прощание с К.У.Черненко в Колонном зале Дома союзов. При голосовании и при вручении удостоверения присутствовали член Политбюро ЦК КПСС, первый секретарь Московского горкома партии Виктор Васильевич Гришин, помощник Генерального секретаря ЦК КПСС Виктор Васильевич Прибытков, первый секретарь Куйбышевского райкома партии Юрий Анатольевич Прокофьев. На самой последней секунде видео мы видим Игоря Кириллова в тот момент, когда он начинает сообщать 13 марта 1985 года, что Центральное телевидение и Всесоюзное радио начинают трансляцию передачи "Памяти Константина Устиновича Черненко". Сообщество "Пятилетка пышных похорон" http://vk.com/club39064312
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So, if he has to play solo, he could skip all those stadium shows and tell Bob Kraft to go fuck himself, right? Has he done that yet?
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chilly morning here (only 54 degrees outside when I got up), so it's the first hot coffee of the season and Milly camped out on my lap.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welcome back, Senator McConnell.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Slaughtering hundreds of Danes, Thracians, and other assorted barbarians to acquire territory for my empire.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is almost nothing a president can do to make the economy much better quickly and a great number of things a president can do to make the economy much worse quickly, which is why it is generally recommended not to elect someone stupid enough to do the latter.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today's project is making chicken stock. Chicken parts are in the oven roasting up now.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@coldchef.bsky.social Happy birthday, GJ!
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Discovered these on our way home from Maine this afternoon, and let me tell you, they do not suck.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Happy #Caturday from #Charley! #CatsOfBluesky
Charley stretched out on the living room rug, belly up
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Flu and Covid vaccinated for another year.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can't believe I missed this pretty comprehensive page of resources for folks facing ICE detention or deportation maintained by ... the Boston Public Library!
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Resources for People Facing Detention or Deportation
With the new presidential administration beginning mass deportations, this is a frightening time for many immigrants and their families.…
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My heart absolutely and honestly goes out to every person directly affected by 9/11, but I am tired of reliving all the "where I was that day" stories every single year for the rest of us. It wasn't about me, and probably not you, either.
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