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Chris Occasionally

@chris-occasionally.bsky.social
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Hobby hobbyist, sometimes writer, lady-person in tech. Kinda emo. California.

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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A work of art takes you through the process of discovering meaning.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I’ve been here long enough that trying to find old posts is a slog now. I’m going back to using hashtags as a filing system. Historically this has led to some freaky consequences.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Baby yuzu! #gardening
Lil tiny bebe limes on a tree.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Apparently people who drive the Wienermobile call it “the dog.” www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/news-multime...
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Oscar Mayer’s Fleet of Wienermobiles Go Head-to-Head in Inaugural ‘Wienie 500’
The Wienie 500 on Friday, May 23 will also mark the first “meat-up” of all six Wienermobiles in over a decade and the first competitive race for the fleet.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is exactly what I’m talking about. Tesselation blog. Cheeky puns.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Particles have handedness, with I-wish-didn’t-know-this implications for our immune system
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The thing about artists is that they can not, will not shut up about any part of their process. They’ll talk about the minutia of like, brush fibers to anyone that’ll listen. So why is it “you plebes don’t get this” instead of “here are my favorite prompts?”
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What is a garden, exactly? Is it plants in place, or plants out of place? If the gardener disappears, is it wild that very first day, or was it wild the whole time?
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I keep coming back to this idea of what it looks like when you play against the algorithm. Like, what does it look like to be uh, anti-viral?
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
When your day is blessed by that genre of person who comes across evil in an email and then is the sweetest person alive on the phone
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
My dog decided to tiptoe through the turnips today so, guess we’re having salad #gardening
A bunch of white Tokyo turnips on a cutting board
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
My most boomer opinion is that dropping cursive from the curriculum was a direct factor in the rise of brain rot pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32849069/
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The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults - PubMed
To write by hand, to type, or to draw - which of these strategies is the most efficient for optimal learning in the classroom? As digital devices are increasingly replacing traditional writing by hand...
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This version of the AI would’ve ripped on you for even asking about apartheid
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Demeter said bless you baby, stay away from those club goths
Orange nasturtiums in the gardenYoung zucchini in the gardenTomato plants in the gardenPeas and a poppy in the garden
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Tales from the Two Lands @talestwolands.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
These little hedgehog shaped pots are around 2,500 years old, dating to the Late Period of Egyptian history. They are a type of pot called an “aryballos” which (as the name suggests) originate in Greece around this time or a little earlier. 🧵1/6 #Egyptology
A photograph of three pots shaped like hedgehogs sitting in a row running diagonally into the photograph.  The faces on the three pots face to our right and at the top of each is the neck of the pot growing out of the back of the hedgehog.  The one closest to us is green-y blue in colour & has a damaged face, the other two are more intact and are an off-white colour.  The pots sit on pieces of museum foam.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Staunchly refusing to go viral
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Too idealistic to survive in politics, too much of a wonk to survive in politics
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I love liar’s spring
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Sky always bluest when looking though through my office window
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Rude to be sick when it’s this nice outside. In the old days we got sick in the depths of winter like civilized people
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I think one of the best things you can learn is how to recognize when your own expectations are what’s holding you back. I’m operating at 20% of my usual output right now. 20%. But when I kept struggling for 100%, what I actually got done was 0. Letting 20% be ok was what let me move forward at all
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My <<deeply irresponsible>> purchase of a (used!) pickup and little camper last summer not looking so stupid now.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Look at my babies
Eight big baby tomato plants and like four jalapeño plants in a raised garden bed in the dappled sunlight. They’re getting watered. The sun is warm.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Somebody told me I was Right About It today, logging off forever since I’ll never top this this
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Work: we have a security situation. BEC. Might need you online. Me: yeah I hate that bitch eating crackers
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Started watching Unsolved Mysteries again and half of the mysteries are just Facebook conspiracy theory posts from your weird uncle
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1929
A Green Ghost cocktail in a coupe glass (sacrilege), it’s from the 30s, it’s mostly gin. 

2 oz botanical Gin
½ oz Green Chartreuse
½ oz fresh lime juice
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Little tomato forest
Tomato starts from underneath. Grow light is giving plur
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
New euphemism just dropped
Front of a legally distinct from style game box that reads ‘blast the pickle.’ 🥒
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Take me to bike church
Sandwich board sign that reads ‘bike church is open’ in handwritten letters. It’s yellow. It believes in itself.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Another 🔥 meeting with my emotional support coworker
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nightbirds
A collection of birds in a downtown tree. It’s dark outside. LENS FLARE
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We gotta bring back Horatio as a name
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Plants are planting
Two trays of tomato and pepper seedlings. You’re doing amazing sweeties
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Seven pages in to Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon and we’ve always been deeply crazy as a species, haven’t we?
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I started writing longhand again. I’m getting the little bump on my finger back and it’s like, hello old friend! It’s been so long. Haven’t seen you since freshman comp.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Hey, there’s a whole galaxy over there and wouldn’t it be cool if we just-
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Potato meme man says, “really? Right in front of my psychological well-being?” He/they is holding hands with a tiny brain and a heart. They are also holding hands.
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Today I learned that the Old English word for ‘vocabulary’ was ‘wordhoard’ and I just love it.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Doing the ‘I’m so good at technology*’ dance. *took an hour to figure out a problem my smart coworker would have solved in 20 minutes, but she ain’t here bro! You get ME.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Apple just tried to sync my home notes app with my work computer and no- NO! No. Not at all. No no no. Not now not then not future not ever- never-never. Can’t fully describe how much I do not want this. Who made this possible? Eight thumbs down. 👎
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
He’s such a handsome boy 🐕
Portrait mode going crazy on a corgi mix fr
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Movies that take place at roughly the same time
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Bantership Potemkin @bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Anti-Renter disguises from the Anti-Rent War, a tenants revolt in Hudson Valley, Upstate New York (1839-1845)
Anti-Renter disguises from the Anti-Rent War, a tenants revolt in Hudson Valley, Upstate New York (1839-1845)
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Something I keep repeating to myself is this: my suffering will not save me.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Me: We are exiting modernism. The old ways are dying, right down to the philosophical foundations on which our grasps of the world rely. The great upheaval does not guarantee the future it only makes way for it, it can just as easily be filled with darkness as with light. Also me: biiig clouuud ⛅️
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Looking at a lot of Hieronymus Bosch tonight, no reason
The right panel of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights in which a lot of ill shit goes down…

…because it’s hell. It’s hell. It’s all hell, we’re in hell, that’s the joke. 

(Might be basic of me, but my favorite’s still the demons partying in the egg looking guy’s torso.)
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
He’s an elite Batman villain tbh. Weird as hell, compelling yet offputting, unnatural hair color? Look me in the eye and tell me that face isn’t going to spend four books trying to take down The Bat.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Nominative determinism
Text message that reads: Hello, good afternoon!
I'm Lena Recruiting Representative at (Adjust), and your resume has been recommended by several online recruiting companies.
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Chris Occasionally @chris-occasionally.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Service outages are snow days for tech workers
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