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Charles Bergquist

@cbquist.bsky.social
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Director and senior producer at Science Friday, a public radio science program. Ask your doctor if SciFri might be right for you. Restrictions apply.

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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Showing up to my job interview in appropriate respectful dress, with 2 iced coffees
Man wearing a blue cap with 2 cand of beverages attached to the sides he seems to be enjoying the beverages via a straw/hose
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Paging Lee Zealand and his amazing boomerang fish act
Muppet Lee Zealand, an orange humanoid with a mustache and spiky brown hair. He has a ruffed white collar on a red top. He is holding a fish in one hand.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank u Google News this is a useful story to surface for me this morning
A screenshot from a Google News panel.  It is a white box with the USA today logo , and an image of an eclipsing sun. The headline says "what time is the partial solar eclipse today?". Underneath is the dateline "yesterday."
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A swirly colored background, superimposed with text NOW you see me now you DON'T, in a style popularized by the 'now that's what I call music' franchise
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Also I rarely get to have gratuitous 'field recording' pix, especially ones that are artsy, so
A view from the deck of a boat. At left, various industrial looking tubes and winches. At right, the lower 2/3 of a human, dangling a microphone off the side of the boat railing. In the distance, above beautiful blue water, the Miami skyline is visible on the horizon.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I couldn't help but wonder, what if we're all Odysseus in our own little odyssey, and our crew has eaten the sacred cattle
Carrie Bradshaw from sex and the city typing on a laptop in a dimly lit room. She is wearing a fuzzy sweater that looks like it needs a haircut
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A white rectangular sign with a truck silhouette and a red circle-slash. Text is YOUR GPS IS WRONG, 4 ton limit ahead '
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Historically accurate Odysseus
A picture of the purple Muppet Grover wearing his 'Super Grover' helmet and cape. He is on one foot in an 'up, up and away!!' pose
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am sorry but I believe that is actually the Mortal Kombat video game logo
Mortal Kombat video game logo, a dragon head in black silhouette on a red/orange background
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Have you all seen how cute the micrographs are of the algae that's causing all this fuss?? Just a Little Guy!! www.inaturalist.org/taxa/326269-.... (This image by Zihao Wang, lots more in the link)
Micrograph of Desodesmus algae. A stack of 4 green oblongs with an X shaped filament extending from the corners.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Trump-yells-at-lawnmower-boy meme image, with text 'its using -dvanced nanobubbler technology'
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A picture of the Muppet Johnny Fiamma, a suave Sinatra-esq lounge singer. He is wearing a dapper suit and has a chunky ring. He is sitting in a dark room, perhaps backstage, in a director's chair
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump yelling at lawnmower boy meme, with text 'hey do you do pools too?'
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
When they told me to listen to the song of the sea is this what they meant
An old dual cassette tape player washed up on a beach.  There are some kind of barnacles? attached to the speaker grilles. There is a smattering of small seashells.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We advise the public not to get hair transplant from turkeys, as turkeys have feathers not hair
Screenshot of an email subject line reading "public advisory issues from leading hair surgeon on turkey hair transplant risks"
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This cover makes me think Wuthering Heights is maybe a zombie book, or perhaps part of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys universe
Book cover of a 'Bancroft Classics' edition of Wuthering Heights.  A dark and brooding man striding away from a house. A fancy man in top hat holds a riding crop in the background.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
There are many things I don't understand about the healing-trump picture he posted. But you know the weird hovering creature in the center top? It is not in this version, posted in Feb on Instagram. Someone ADDED the weird horned beast thing???
Screenshot of an AI slip image depicting Trump as. Healing Christ figure, curing a prone Jon Stewart looking man as a cast of weird people look on.  5 soldier types are hovering in the sky,.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Whew
Artemis capsule descending with 3 good parachutes
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This one. Right in the feels.
The crescent Earth setting in the Moon's limb, as seen by Artemis II.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
You are here* *Some exceptions apply **4 exceptions, to be exact Photo by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman
Full disk picture of Earth taken from Artemis 2.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just touching the mars rock, NBD
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Happy enoordaiil, everyone
An ai generated blue burst decorated with red and white striped ribbon. Text in the burst reads something like "happy enoordaiil"
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Mock DUNE poster art with text 'Hormuz: Now it's even more blocked'. Two actors in silhouette against a yellow sun, one holds a knife horizontally
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Anime butterfly meme, with text reading "can this be a solution?"
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
reading an interesting article about color science (gizmodo.com/the-most-elu...) and WTF is this ad for buying very specific blood products?????
Screenshot of a portion of an article on color science. An embedded ad shows 3 bags of red blood, with a mention of 'high quality PBMCs'. Prices range from $14k to almost $18k.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Where are the settings on society
Screenshot of a website 'cookie permission' dialog. White background with two black boxes. One reads 'yes, I am happy' and the other 'no, manage settings'
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's dangerous to go alone. Take these.
A closeup of a human torso wearing a grey-beige tshirt. The person's hands, in blue surgical gloves, are each holding a black-footed ferret around its midsection. The ferret on the right looks vaguely surprised or alarmed.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Ready for my Vogue photoshoot based on my great taste
A popup from Amazon saying "You've got great taste - Transparent Acrylic Safety Lock, Universal Door is waiting for you.'There is a picture of a see-thru padlock and shiny metal key. It is extremely stylish and trend-setting.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Screenshot of a hhs email saying the announcement will be postponed 'due to a presidential announcement tomorrow afternoon.'
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thank you Google image AI result for giving the detailed tech specs of a laptop you did not see
A screenshot of a Google image search AI result explaining that the image is a completely black square, and that no information could be extracted.

It then goes on to give the tech specs of an imaginary dell laptop that could have been in the black square
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Perhaps this image of Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the just-concluded Osaka Expo 2025, will help
A cartoon image of a bipedal creature. It is bright blue, with stumpy legs and  strangely drippy-looking arms? Hands? It has 5 eyes spaced irregularly around a bright red mane. It is smiling.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
ERROR 444 - BINGUS NOT FOUND
Google search AI mode result for the query 'how can I honk my bingus'
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Dear Google News, thank you for this timely selection of stories in the field of Robotics
As screenshot of a Google News panel labeled 'robotics.'  Stories include a woman stripping to a bikini in a school board meeting, a baseball score, and a story about Scott Bessent's phone.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"Try our great new thing to help you make that Big Important Presentation! It is correct slightly over half the time!!!!" Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word www.theverge.com/news/787076/...
Screenshot of a portion of Verge article on 'vibe working.' the highlighted quote is 'Agent mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent '
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It is September 7
A store display of Christmas decorations, including hybrid garden gnome+Advent calendars. The date is Sept 7.
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Clasped hands meme, text "US DOT SECRETARY <> TEAM OF FEDERAL AGENTS 
Frightened by Subway"
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Did I mention A Lot of Figs
Two dishes piled high with freshly picked figs
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Not as great as eating rocks, but you'd think it could get a math conversion right
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Oh is that what it means google ai overview thing
A screenshot of a google AI overview result, reading "A 40 pound bag of topsoil typically contains around 0.75 cubic feet. This means that one cubic foot of topsoil typically weighs approximately 40 pounds."
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
And so I started to ask myself... Was I cutting tariffs, or were tariffs cutting me?
Sarah Jessica Parker at a laptop in the evening, from Sex and the City
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Getting set for @scifri.bsky.social live with @kuer.org in Salt Lake City!!
A stage containing 3 empty chairs, a band getting set up, and 2 dinosaur head casts
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
TFW you definitely totally certainly do NOT have an AI bot writing captions for your news site
A picture of Trump in front of the White House with a red Tesla. With an embedded caption 'person in a suit exits a red electric car in front of a grand building with columns and stairs.'
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am not sure I want to use this power adapter now
Poorly translated instructions for a laptop power adapter. Highlighted: "when using the product fever is normal"
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Almost missed observing Gibbon Tuesday
A siamang gibbon, arms raised, hooting. (Smithsonian National Zoo image)
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
entirely possible
Screenshot of the top of a phone screen, showing an X logo next to a red alarm clock image and the words 'expiring soon'
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Current mood
Hand holding a white card (credit card size). It is entirely white except for the boring black text "INTENTIONALLY BLANK"
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Tag yourself, I'm Mr 43
Research journal image of a grid of 6 images of different sorghum grains, labeled: bazley, tiger, cracker, mr43, liberty, buster
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Arm (formerly face)
A list of school fair ticket prices including 
Arm (formerly face) painting
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