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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 28/09/2026

I read @fritinancy.bsky.social religiously, but I’m going to need a second coffee to steel myself before I open this email

An email preview that says: “Nancy Friedman/
/Three words of the week/
Pervert glasses, meat proxy, vagmaxxing.”

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 17/09/2026

@premeemohamed.com Wickhills enjoying prime shelf real estate at Mosaic Books in Kelowna BC. That cover is so good!

A shelf at Mosaic Books in Kelowna, BC. Wickhills has a prominent placement on the top shelf, front cover out, directly underneath the “fantasy” section sign.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 12/08/2026

Kobo store in Canada is doing it too!

Screenshot of the book on the Canadian Kobo store, also for $1.99 CAD

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 22/07/2026

I feel this so much. I got a telescope a few years ago partly to be able to look through the blank gray sky and see what’s behind it, because you can’t see much just by looking. Anyway I took this picture with that telescope. It gives me some sense of hope or wonder, and maybe it will for you too.

Square picture of the Iris nebula, taken from my backyard in Kelowna, British Columbia. There is a very bright bluish white star in the center, surrounded by an expanding cloud of dust. The star is lighting the dust cloud from the inside and making it glow. In the background are more stars than I can count.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 18/07/2026

At a certain point, a delivery estimate should just say “look nobody knows, we’re not even sure if this thing exists”

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 14/07/2026

This all seems right to me, but this paragraph is especially sharp. Consumer tech has a way of becoming tribal anyway (windows vs mac, android vs iPhone) but these wearables are something next-level. Extremely visible symbols of allegiance to toxic companies.

I've seen bad press make otherwise great products dead on arrival. For example, I have still yet to see a video-calling device as simple and delightful to use as Meta Platforms Inc.'s ill-fated Portal. Meta smart glasses are already being dubbed "pervert glasses." An OpenAl device risks becoming the Cybertruck for the body, the wearer's visible endorsement of a company's disruption: the threat to jobs, the pilfering of creative works, the energy-guzzling data centers.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 14/07/2026

Are you kidding me? This is…literally everybody I have never heard of this film and I was alive at the time!

SAM NEILL
HELENA
JOHN
BONHAM CARTER
GIELGUD
RUTGER
HAUER
MIRANDA RICHARDSON
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI
MARTIN SHORT

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 09/07/2026

What in the name of gastrointestinal distress is this

CBC News push alert that says:
'Explosive' diarrhea parasite sickens more than 1,000 in U.S. Should Canadians be concerned?

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 11/05/2026

The most important thing I’ve learned from the multi-day-mayo-discourse is that the Association for Dressings and Sauces exists, and now I need to know so much more

The Association for Dressings & Sauces
The Association for Dressings and Sauces (ADS) was founded in 1926 and represents manufacturers of salad dressing, mayonnaise and condiment sauces and suppliers of raw materials, packaging and equipment to this segment of the food industry. Its purpose is to serve the best interests of industry members, its customers, and consumers of its products.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 30/01/2026

@moxiest.art just went to your website to pick up a t-shirt for my daughter, and all I can say is you’re the realest one. Don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone as willing to sacrifice their own security to benefit others. We see you out here.

A screenshot of Mox’s current website. It just says “Fuck ICE” in large letters, and then “don’t buy things today, to give money to someone who needs it.”

All of the e-store links are gone.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 30/12/2025

Timeline serving up an incredibly on-the-nose example of this very thing just now:

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 24/12/2025

After the riot in Vancouver (the one in 2011), people from all over the world grabbed their sharpies and wrote healing messages on the boarded-up shop windows downtown. Including this person who I hope is living a blessed life.

A sharpie drawing of Trogdor on the plywood of a boarded up window, saying “Dirty Trogdors Burned our City.”

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 09/12/2025

I read half of this (excellent) @katiederosa.bsky.social story waiting for the legal gymnasts to appear before I realized I’d misread the first sentence, and they were not coming, and neither were the implied *illegal* gymnasts and their underground parallel bars scene www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The days leading up to John Rustad's resignation played out like a dramatic soap opera of secret meetings, legal gymnastics and even a gingerbread making competition.
The climax came Wednesday with the party announcing Rustad's removal, and the denouement came Thursday, when an at times emotional Rustad bid his job as leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia farewell.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 08/12/2025

I’ve never heard of a Wreckhouse Wind Warning, is that bad? It sounds bad.

A weather forecast tile for Victoria, BC, Canada. It’s going to be 8 degrees Celsius there, and alarmingly there is something called a “Wreckhouse Wind Warning” in effect. This sounds bad to me? Unless it’s, you know, named after Sir William Wreckhouse, who was famous for evoking gentle, unseasonably warm breezes that remind one of their childhood. (It isn’t)

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 25/11/2025

The DETAIL on these three! I want to read this book immediately to find out what nasty business they are up to

A crop of one of the covers, showing three green-tinted witch-like faces who look very very pleased with themselves

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 19/11/2025

I have no context for this and it is perfect on its own, I will not be reading further to find out what this exchange is actually about, lol

Screenshot of a text exchange between TMC and Pierce Presley about sex robots

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 03/11/2025

Local news is important for many reasons, but maybe the most important is that nowhere else can you find a one-two punch of headlines like this.

Two headlines from Castanet, the local news outlet for the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. The first one says “Tree of Hope festival returns”, and the second says “Porta-potty fire in Kelowna”

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 29/10/2025

Finally catching up on yesterday's Toronto/LA game and this line from @laurenthiessen.bsky.social just levelled me in the Vancouver airport Gift link defector.com/vladimir-gue...

"This time, Ohtani was a little less careful. He fell into a 2-0 count, and that forced him back in over the plate. He went with a fastball in the low middle, and Guerrero was a little late on it, fouling off a juicy pitch. As Clayton Kershaw looked on from the bullpen like a divorced dad told to stay away from his kid's soccer game, Ohtani tried a breaking ball, higher in the zone, and Vlad Jr. pounced. He launched the ball over the left-field fence to deliver a 2-1 lead that the Jays would never surrender."

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 21/09/2025

@premeemohamed.com the preorder is now a real order and is in my house, LET’S GOOOO Also who does this cover art, it’s gorgeous

Three books by Premee Mohamed side by side: The Annual Migration of Clouds, We Speak Through the Mountain, and The First Thousand Trees

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 11/09/2025

Completely captivated by this soldier who is holding some kind of explosive stave, and looks like he’s just realized he won’t have time to eat lunch before his next meeting Also the soldier in the foreground, who I think may have the most intensely furious expression I have ever seen.

Crop of the OP image showing three of the soldiers on the right, one who looks bored, one of whom looks extremely dejected even though he got to hold a fire stick, and the other of whom looks as if he is about to kill a wild boar using only the ferocity of his gaze

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 21/08/2025

DONE. And, since I haven’t read the first two, picked them up as well, so it’s going to be Premee Mohamed central over here for a while IT BETTER BE GOOD lol (It’s going to be excellent and I am very excited)

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 19/05/2025

This bothered me enough that I looked up the answer. It’s the official declared pronunciation, based on a pulverized French rendering of a native tribe’s name!

JOINT RESOLUTION
OF THE
General Assembly of the State of Arkansas.
WHEREAS, Confusion of practice has arisen in the pronunciation of the name of our State; and it is deemed important that the true pronunciation should be determined for use in oral official proceedings; and, whereas, the matter has been thoroughly investigated by the State Historical Society, and the Eclectic Society of Little Rock, which have agreed upon the correct pronunciation as derived from history and the early usage of the American immigrants.
Be it therefore resolved by both Houses of the General Assembly, That the only true pronunciation of the name of the State, in the opinion of this body, is that received by the French word representing the sound; and that it should be pronounced in three syllables, with the final "s" silent.
The "a" in each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables, being the pronunciation formerly universally and now still most commonly used; and that the pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable, with the sound of "a" in man, and the sounding of the terminal "s" is an innovation to be discouraged.
Approved March 15, 1881.
T. J. CHURCHILL,
Governor of Arkansas.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 17/05/2025

I promise this is not me fact-checking a joke, but I just had the Ngram viewer open for other stuff and put these terms in and the big surprise to me was not that nobody uses “amuseballs”—YET—it’s that a lot of people are still saying “amazeballs” in 2025.

A graph of the Google Books Ngram for “Amazeballs” and “amuseballs”. From this graph it is clear that this thread is the first time on earth that Amuseballs has ever been used, and a shocking number of people are still using Amazeballs although slightly off the 2016-2020 highs.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 16/05/2025

@keezyyoung.bsky.social the boob job question is old now and I got sidetracked before I could post this, but I can’t waste the fact that I typed these terms into the google books Ngram viewer, so here you go anyway lol

A screenshot of a Google Ngram search query. The search terms are boob job, tit job, and breast enhancement. The graph shows none of those terms were commonly used before the mid 1980s and then “breast enhancement” usage skyrocketing in the 1990s. The other terms are much less used.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 28/04/2025

This post reminded me that I hadn’t subscribed to The Onion, and I just fixed that, partly bc The Onion has remained funnier than the Simpsons longer than the Simpsons (yes they used to be funnier than themselves, somehow) BUT ALSO because supporting this attitude is important as hell, keep on team

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 06/04/2025

Having missed whatever came before this, I’m now just going to assume that all blocked posts are inherently British

A screenshot of Faine’s quote post above the OP, which is blocked, so it looks like blocked posts are inherently British

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 03/04/2025

Second playthough of BG3 (or, really, starting over after abandoning a game in Act 3 due to life), and just noticed this: when Raphael teleports you to his lair, they positioned him precisely so the fire-shadow behind him carves out a demon wing. Such a nice touch.

Screenshot of Baldur's Gate 3, where the player is talking to the demon Raphael in human form. Behind Raphael, a fire is burning in a huge fireplace, and the shadow thrown by the flames resembles an enormous demon wing positioned exactly where a real one would be.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 22/03/2025

I love this so much. Maybe the most uncomplicated, wonderful sentence ever written that contains the word “cow”. (From The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf)

A screenshot from The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf, which says:

“His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.”

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 22/01/2025

The HBR story about why people don’t like AI may be the funniest thing I have ever read. It doesn’t mention accuracy, ecological impact, or producing very bad writing and art after stealing good writing and art. It DOES say that we are needlessly hesitant about using AI for dating advice, though.

A photo of a Harvard Business Review story about AI, and why humans don’t like it, and how companies can make us like it anyway. The pictured section is about how people think AI is not good at subjective tasks like, and I swear this is real, DATING OTHER HUMANS. An excerpt is highlighted and says:

“For example, people are just as open to financial recommendations from AI as they are from humans, because that task is viewed as subjective. However, when it comes to something like dating advice, which is seen as highly subjective, they have a clear preference for human input.”

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 30/09/2024

I ran up that ramp daily for a few years and now I miss the musician who used to sit at the end with his guitar, and as everyone rushed by him heading up to the station he would strum his guitar and go “welcome to Vancouver, it’s lovely to see your backsides” and then sing puff the magic dragon

The pedestrian bridge to the Seabus terminal at waterfront station in Vancouver. There is a bright orange reflection of the sunlit water on the glass and you can barely see people walking along the bridge thought the reflection.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 26/09/2024

I only regret that my state of record is California, which doesn’t need the help, but I have still never filled out an overseas ballot faster and with more savagery in my life.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 21/09/2024

If you see this, post a bird! 🐦‍⬛

A bird with a red eye patch, dark gray head, black wings and an orange chest. I am not sure what kind of bird it is, but it is very close and looking at me as if he’s about to try to eat me.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 17/09/2024

A Bluesky Elder stamp! I am on the ragged outskirts of Elder, where the streetlights don't work and you should have a buddy. The true elders were here long before, and were forged in the fires of Alf hogs, Tom Boobadil, and shitposting about food wait I think i'm just describing @faineg.bsky.social

The bluesky 10M celebration badge, for which I am but a lowly number 616,966, but i guess counts as a bluesky elder in some kind of extremely generous fashion. I'll take it but it feels like stolen valor

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 13/09/2024

Buyers apparently also do not believe it is real!

Screenshot of this real estate listing showing the property repeatedly being offered for $500,000 and then removed from the market 3 months later. This happens 3 times in the screenshot view but more times in real life.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 12/09/2024

This was August 2023 from my house in BC Canada (Kelowna). Doesn’t matter how far away the fire actually is, seeing it come down the hillside like that messes you up (the bright spots on the right side of this image are houses burning).

A wildfire advancing down the hillside outside Kelowna, BC, Canada. It is night and the city lights are bright but the sky is orange and full of smoke. The fire extends the entire width of the picture.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 11/09/2024

I do wonder what is going on in the minds of those two women in the “Trump won” column.

A Washington Post story called “who won the debate? We asked swing-state voters.” There are headshots of each of these voters in two groups, one for Harris and one for Trump. The Harris group has 23 voters, both men and women. The Trump group has only 2 women.

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 01/09/2024

If you see this, quote-post with a beach from your gallery.

A picture taken from the top of a cliff, showing horizontal bands of ocean at the top, then beach, then running track, then train track, then the cliff at the bottom

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 23/08/2024

I won't fight you but I will share this screenshot of a tweet that caught me completely off guard and nearly ended me 6 years ago

Tweet that says "faramir: since you were robbed of boromir, i will do what i can in his stead; if is hould return, think better of me, father / denethor: this is so sad peregrin took sing despacito"

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 19/08/2024

Quote skeet with a photo you took of a sunset

Picture of three palm trees silhouetted against a sunset, with lots of ragged orange clouds in the background and telephone poles and wires in the foreground

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 04/08/2024

A loss to the clothing and jizz communities around the world. All I’ve got is this (current and real) shop in Kelowna BC, which is maybe not as funny, but does make you stop and think when you walk by