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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 6h

BARCS is doing an adoption event this Saturday (10/10) at the Fire Museum of Maryland ( @firemuseummd.bsky.social ), 12 to 4pm, w/ kittens and dogs according to the BARCS facebook page

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 12h

As a regularly sized ogre who likes books, he gives me something to aspire to.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Currently building my backyard smelting forge as we speak. I have many old pewter plates from the 17th and 18th century that I can repurpose in our glorious future.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*I wonder what "Anarchist Intelligence" looks like. Like, a black-flag AI with anarchist principles: "Property is theft, information wants to be free, mankind is in chains everywhere, the planet is in crisis, the family is a prison, the only church that illuminates is a church that's on fire."

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course. All of the people winning US gold in the winter olympics are winning because of natural talent, and not because their insanely wealthy parents could pay for daily access to skate, snowboard, and ski facilities and coaching.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When told to get dressed this morning, the 5-year-old announced: "You can't make me, I have FREE power!" Thinking he'd somehow constructed an argument for free will from first principles, I asked for clarification. "NO! FREEZE POWER!" he shouted, and zapped me with imaginary ice blasts.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the entirety of 2023 I made a dedicated effort to focus on my awareness of nature during my 3x daily dog walks, and to take notes on the process. For the past month I've been cleaning up my notes, one day at a time. I've only finished 12 days of notes, but I'm pretty happy with the end result.

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Attention [with] dog — Jan 1, 2023

Jan 1.1

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You should have seen the dirty look my Spanish grandmother gave me whien I mispronounced the name of the spice anise.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Q: What's brown and sticky? A: A stick!

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Discussing the planets with my 10-year-old son I realize he's only known a solar system with eight planets. Which means I can say, "You know, there used to be nine planets. But we don't talk about what happened to the other planet."

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The opposite of razzmatazz is snoozematooze

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Excuse me, @gonebabygone.bsky.social, which season of It's Always Sunny is this?

Glen Howerton, Charlie Day, and Kaitlin Olson posing for a faux late-19th-century American Gothic daguerretype.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New theory: Community associations are the indie rock bands of dudes in their 50s. "Hey, you should come out to the community center next Monday night, we're having a Community Association meeting and we've got some great guests!" (This theory is 100% autobiographical)

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, the danger of speech to text encapsulated in two distinct variations on the same message "You're going to love this colon" "You're going to love this:"

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One night, 30 years ago, my best friend, a freshman dunk beyond comprehension, banged on a frathouse door and announced: "I got beef with every one of you motherfuckers, and I want you all outside now!" They beat the shit out of him. But in retrospect his impulses were correct.

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🪐 Saturn 🪐 ✧ $50/$350 (Weekly) ✧ @saturniibae.com · 03/10/2026

Wishing everyone the financial security to have bills on autopay, to be able to get necessary medications without worry, to not have to check prices and look for discounts on groceries and self care items, and to still have some leftover to save and/or use on a treat 🫶

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wonder if it's not the actual mechanism itself, but simply AI's continued availability to be persistent in the face of exhausting stupidity.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Walking past a church w/ the 5-year-old. Him: What's that? Me: A church. Him: Are there churches in real life?

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not saying they would have hated it. But they probably would have disliked it immensely.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mom died more than a decade ago. Dad died last year. Last night, for the 1st time I can remember, I dreamed that I was with them both & for some reason I used that time to explain Chicago House music to them and I COULDN'T FIND THIS VIDEO ON GOOGLE. Here you go, guys: Chuck Roberts.

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Chuck Roberts - In The Beginning (There Was Jack) feat. Monique Bingham (Official Video)

YouTube video by Ultra Records

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was 1997. Minimum wage was like $5. He totally made the smart call.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The thing I learned from that is that some people (reasonably) believe that $100 cash in hand today is better than coming in to work as a dishwasher tomorrow.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know, waiting at the bar for the dishwasher from the restaurant you work at to show up with the bag of weed you already paid him for only to have him not show up, and no-call/no-show for his shift the next day also counts as a drug deal gone bad.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last night my 10 year old son got angry at my wife because she said she'd rather have an early '70s International Scout convertible than a Bugatti.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Halloween episode of Venture Bros is my #1. But that one is up there.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm excited about this as well, but what the fuck was that shitpile of a second-to-last paragraph in the linked article? Incomprehensible verbiage? Unedited AI slop? What the hell, Adrian?

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I taught anthropology, I had one student write a frustrated note at the end of one lesson complaining that I hadn't provided an opportunity to debate human evolution, and I told him it simply wasn't something that was up for debate.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes I'll see an interesting article on librarians and archivists that I really want to read, and I open it up and it's just some stupid crap about libertarians & anarchists.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This morning the 5-year-old complained that the hash brown patty I gave him for breakfast was too salty, and he asked if I could get some that were "minty" instead.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Honestly, I think that habaneros are one of the most beautiful peppers. Watching them ripen is like watching a sunset.

Four habaneros on a pepper plant in front of a stucco wall.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just inadvertently dropped a very casual f-bomb in conversation with the ten-year-old, saying, "...you know, your fuckin' pillows or whatever..." We both acted like it didn't happen.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I was a waiter I used to have to do this table side at this one place I worked. I hated it. At best about half of the ones I did came out looking half as good as this. At best. Other folks made it look easy. I just never got the feel. For doing it smoothly.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As the parent who does most of the cooking in my home, responsibility for choosing what to feed to my children is one of the last things I would ever hand over to an AI. If you know how to feed them, feed them. If you don't, then fucking learn. If you need ideas use fucking Google or ask a friend.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok. Streaming channel concept: Like "Shudder," except for cozy romantic ghost stories. Call it "Flutter."

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Driving to school this morning and a car sped past pumping loud music from its open windows The 5-year-old declared, "That music is INAPPROPRIATE." Curious about where he learned to say something like that, I asked why it was inappropriate. He paused. "I think it was a song about monsters."

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Indeed. But that version of Smooth Criminal slaps way more than it should.

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