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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/10/2026

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Hiding in Plane Sight theonion.com/hiding-in-plane-sight

Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's try-hard when they do. I have an uncle that worked in building, but visited on a weekend gifted-kid program school trip thing. Hit up other things, like Al Lewis (Grandpa from the Munster's) restaurant in the village, FAO Schwarz, the 21 Club, etc. I've old pictures from a disposable camera.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, it's never had the same balance. It's a lot of middling buildings, Freedom Tower included, rather than the substance the twin towers had. I still have commemorative squished pennies from the roof, but..

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Will! We biked down from Midtown to Battery, ducked in to Fraunces Tavern, toured ships at South Street, hit up Chinatown for dinner. Plan on walking the bridge to the Transit Museum, if not next time then one of the next times, so I might alight on fae ground sooner or later!

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Jads @jads-i-rutan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pro tip for retail interactions: become big and intimidating to win

A sketched scene of two anthro red pandas raising arms to be big and intimidating at each other. One is saying, "I want to speak to your manager." The other is replying, "I AM the manager." They are in an electronics shop and other customers mill about in the background.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zohran was not mayor in 2025.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fair! Anyhow this restaurant did them well, I was very happy.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh it's pretty easy to make, and they've got ready boxes at the store! It depends on the region of the country, too, there are some places settled by Germans, and it still shows, when it comes to cuisine.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fried hot dog and burger dipped in gravy at Rutt's Hut, Clifton, NJ~

Rutt's Hut sign, with a seagull sitting over the S.

What happens to any sign near Rutt's Hut (stickers!).

The mentioned fried hot dog with (I discovered) too much mustard, and a simple little burger dipped in gravy.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A little Octoberfest treat at Cooper's Seafood House (www.coopers-seafood.com), where I had really good schnitzel~

Schnitzel, Spätzle, and Apple-Bacon cabbage slaw.

The best of the wurst! 3 Wursts, Spätzle and Cabbage/Apple/Bacon slaw, as well as some dipping mustard.

Shrimp scampi, not very Octoberfest, but whatever! There's an apple cider behind it!

Key Lime Pie. All times are times for Key Lime. This one has a cocktail umbrella.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A: Big Boy, (specifically en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_P...), is So Much Bigger than the pictures do justice to, and B: There's so much articulated, visible machinery set to a tangible purpose... The mechano-organic interstices of the locomotive feel like they're alive in a way.

Big Boy, a truly enormous steam locomotive, at Steamtown Historic Site in Scranton, PA.

A view looking forward from roughly the conductor cab of the Big Boy locomotive. It goes on, and on, and on.

The strange, almost mechano-organic interstices of the locomotive.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah! I've come no where near to running out of things to do there; this time, we snagged a bike from Midtown, took bike paths to Battery Park, got a drink at Fraunces Tavern, toured South Street, the Wavertree and Ambrose ships, and ducked up to Chinatown before taking the ferry back.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a place called Harmony Beverage (and they did have plenty of drinks, naturally) that my family would regularly hit up on the way to the Poconos mountains, in Pennsylvania. We got a few bags of extra dark roasted in shell salted peanuts, too!

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Treats to be found at Mitsuwa, Edgewater, NJ~

Macrons at Kai Sweets, colorful and varied!

Tonkatsu on a bed of rice, with pickled ginger, a tub of curry behind waiting to be poured over!

Delightful looking Takoyaki and Shrimp Crazy breads!

A haul of treats, such as gummi strawberry fettuccini, yuzu potato chips, pumpkin spice Pocky, and Boss coffee!

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now you see, therein lies the problem, because the process makes your weight a moving target..

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Colorful Treats~ At Delicious Orchards, in Colt's Neck, New Jersey.

Deeply colorful Old Monmouth Candies Fruit Slices.

Nonpareils, from Old Monmouth Candies, with colorful sprinkles.

A sea of chocolate covered pretzels, cookies, nonpareils, almond bark and more on display.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a set of people who understood that this was the research that the market would never support on its own, and yet whose value could be immense, and were content to leverage the fact. Without this wind at their backs, though, unrestrained finance runs unchecked, until, well. Here we are.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I suppose nothing like it will find a place in American institutions now, public or private. Not to over-romanticize the oddities of such a time and place, but, the work today feels so much like devising better scams to entrap people in one malign scheme or another, and anything else is incidental.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They have, in building, explanations of all the things discovered or developed by at Bell Works, and all the workers who got Nobel Prizes from their research here, and it was a little overwhelming. To see so much hinge on a place like this, and wonder, what place is like that now, if any?

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listen, just make sure the spatula is clean!

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think this could end in the Break Room if I'm not careful..

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, it's mostly the distance of the shots, once you get past the water tower and onto the horizon, they were doing more of a composite with an upper Hudson river shot, often with that bridge. Where this is in reality is much more flat in the distance, sandy, more ocean influenced.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An earlier cousin, I looked this up earlier as well! I've got to wonder what Bell Works was like when it was all Bell. It's kind of hard to imagine one business occupying that entire space, now, given how deeply varied the tenants were inside now.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's quite a landscape, independent of the show or not!

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe, but, I cannot ask them!

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spent the day visiting Bell Works (or, perhaps, Lumon Industries), in Homdel, New Jersey~

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Zyonji @zyonji.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Goodbye blue. The true hue.

A scene in all blue hues, depicting Zyonji, the anthropomorphic striped hyena, standing on a bridge with a fait cityscape in the far distance. Zyonji wears a blue dress with an aquatic print and many decorative elements adorned on it. Zyonji's hair is softly animated by a gentle wind.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, selling your soul could help one end up caprine, too, which could be part of the solution! But, yeah, no regrets, this was extra minty, at least worth a lien on your soul for, I'd say.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Their menu has page and pages of desserts, and I have but one stomach. This is my fault, I should have chosen the caprine model instead.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grilled Cheese, Creme de Menthe Sundae, at the Riverside Creamery in Port Jervis, NY, close to closing for the season. :9

What looks like a house converted into a restaurant called the Riverside Creamery. White with pink highlights, it looks like it might need to be repainted soon, but is otherwise lively.

The old fashioned interior of the Riverside Creamery, with checkerboard pattered tables, a warm color scheme, bar seating, and lots of signage behind the bar.

A delicious grilled cheese sandwich, with pickles on the side, in a basket, on checkerboard paper, black and white.

A Creme de Menthe Sundae, with Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, mint chocolate chunks, whipped cream, and fudge.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Why yes I have a secret power! I am completely invisible to automatic sink facets, hand dryers, and paper towel dispensers!"

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Jackaloo 🪴 @jackaloo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This may be my greatest YCH yet. Dedicated to those who know the struggle 😂 Comment to inquire, I will DM if chosen!

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apfelhund @apfelhund.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fleshed out that stripey lass from a while ago.

Design sheet of an anthropomorphic striped hyena character

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punkitt ‼️🧣 @punkitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Send this to a 30 or 40 year old to watch them SMILE into the middle distance about how WONDERFUL life is

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A sadde thinge that we have to worke arounde alwayes ys that the quiet, steadye, patient labor and kyndenesse required to holde up the worlde and keepe us all goinge ys nevir a newes item. Unshowye, ordinarye, hard-won skill at the job you must do for othirs to get on. The greatest honor ys ther.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sable: A Ghost Story Chapter Two

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's all the worse if it's some bias from whatever the AI helping write the code now has been digesting, I imagine. I've, at times, halted any automatic updates, but the longer it's been the preference at Microsoft, the harder it is to prevent this, and choose what gets adjusted or not.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Suddenly, computer starts putting itself to sleep, when all my settings remain set to 'never do this'. Have to do a registry thing to change the fact (we'll see if it works). Why did this behavior start? Heaven knows. Microsoft seems to decide these things gleefully and capriciously these days.

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Tanya Red/Tersi @jaql.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is right out in the open between some tables, which means our bill was pretty reasonable, all in all!

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