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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is October 9th and Christmas has had ENOUGH of all you Halloween people! Taken at an HEB this morning.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m Kamina and I would say Gurren Lagann most definitely did NOT save my life.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of all the dangling plot points I was hoping the finale of Lanterns would explain, I did not expect “why the hell is Navy one of Noah’s potential college choices?“ to be one of them. But it was on my list and they did explain it, so good for them, I guess.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This fantasy story has a similar energy to something I’ve heard before. What was it…

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The latest salvo in Target’s “Stop getting mad at us, we just like money!” campaign has arrived, as a key part of their Halloween sections that are just now going up.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great show tonight, totally worth the month I spent binging the catalog in preparation! My 13-year old had an awesome time, too!

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Rocky Flats situation also ended up as fodder for Mario Acevedo’s first Felix Gomez book, a series about a vampire private investigator who takes on supernatural cases.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Republican play is always “Appeal to voters’ worst impulses” • Opponent is a woman? Try sexism! • Opponent is a man of color? Try racism! • Opponent is a clean-cut white man? Try homophobia!

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@houstonchronicle.com I’m not sure I agree with yours and Carlos Correa’s assessment here.

A headline from the Sunday, August 2, 2026 edition of the Houston Chronicle reads, “Correa not ruling out return in 2025.”

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Tonight’s mystery movie was One Night Only. If you were wondering if they could pull off a romcom with the premise of The Purge (premarital sex is legal once a year for 12 hours), turns out they can’t. The premise keeps intruding on the wacky romcom hijinks and it sits together very uncomfortably.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We were SO close to everyone getting to make jokes involving the mostly-forgotten Dreamworks movie Flushed Away, but England took that from us.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One morning on my walk in my parents’ neighborhood in Michigan.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Between the Buried and Me, Colors, 2007

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For reference, Houghton is the green area way up in the middle of the top tip of the Upper Penninsula. It is the 235th biggest municipality in Michigan.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Recent rebrand a handful of gas stations around Houston. Are there any electric chargers at any of these Charge Ups? Nope. Just deep irony.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

These billionaires are getting out of control.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

When Stubhub lets AI generate Facebook ads for them, it gives us things like this.

Facebook ad reads “Don’t Miss Jimmy Buffett. Live at the Moody Amphitheater” accompanied by a file photo of the now-deceased musician.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Man, this episode was so good in terms of explaining how the power structure in Iran actually works. Also, just got this update on my phone and it hits way differently in the wake of hearing this episode.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

New edible version of a toy just dropped.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

@adamconover.net Relevant to today’s episode. Shamwow guy finished 6th in his U.S. House Republican Primary.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Apropos of nothing, just perusing the list of biggest second weekend box office dropoffs of all time this morning. www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/bigges...

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Kevin Hassett looks like a junior Christmas Adventurer.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Have I ever seen Angus? Nope. Do I love that soundtrack? Yep!

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

That skeletal Cyclops cover just makes me think of the Gazer Beam skeleton in The Incredibles, even though this predates that.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If anyone in the current Trump Administration had ever opened a National Geographic, this level of pedantry would be infuriating to them. Nat Geo essentially says, “Sure, you can rename your own waters The Gulf of America, but the rest of it is still The Gulf of Mexico whether you like it or not.”

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Evan Gorelick in the New York Times morning newsletter reduces the Writers’ Strike and Nurses protesting against AI to mere “freakouts”.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Pepsi has tried numerous times to compete with Sprite and 7 Up. Currently they have Starry, and before that it was Sierra Mist. But before Sierra Mist there was Slice. They’ve revived that brand name as a competitor in the “healthy” soda area, going up against fruity stuff like Oli Pop and Poppi.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Kill Bill vol. 2 plays so much better as part of the same movie with vol. 1, rather than separated by 6 months or however long it was originally.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Here is the actual Houston area Congressional map:

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Finishing up Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher, a fascinatingly sideways riff on the Snow White story.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On the one hand I know that three shelves of Sarah J. Maas at this Target means she has a lot of fans who are probably passionate about her. But it also means she doesn’t need them to defend her. She’s gonna be fine even if you don’t take criticism of her as fightin’ words, folks.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

So Pete hates Nordic Pagans? There’s a guy who’s getting back into warfighting shape that I’d like to introduce him to.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This thread reminds me of a Weather Channel app notification I received this week that I found extremely inappropriate, for the same reasons.

Weather Channel app notification that reads: “‘A Humanitarian Crisis’ - Jamaica is on the brink after Hurricane Melissa. See the desperation.”

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If you’ve ever thought, “Eggo Waffles are pretty tasty, especially with syrup,” but also thought what they needed was to be smaller, crunchier, had the maple syrup flavoring already included, and to be covered in milk, well, have I got a Limited Edition cereal for you to try! Also, marshmallows.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Kind of amazed that the NYT found a couple people willing to go on the record and say, “Yeah, the ballroom is needed and the East Wing probably had to go.” Yet, having watched Netflix’s The Residence this summer, which spends considerable time on the logistics of a State Dinner, I kind of get it.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is delightfully unexpected! Hoping the music is as well.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We won the Houston area trivia championship for the second year in a row today!

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