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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/04/2026

To be safe, I'm not reposting anything today.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It's December 1st, it's 37 degrees this morning. Why is my rhododendron blooming?

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Status: like chain-smoking, but with cough drops

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

If you're in PDX this weekend, here's a great way to start your Saturday evening!

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Dude wants to learn how to use my grandfather's slide rule

A black and white cat standing on a Slide Rule Manual, next to said Slide Rule inside its brown Slide Rule Carrying Case With Belt Loop (I shit you not)

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

At the #Thorns game. The ball was kicked out of play & took out a beer cup 10 rows in front of me, a shower of spray in the air. The ball gets thrown back down to the field. Reyna Reyes picks up the beer-covered ball, makes a super disgusted face, and runs down the sideline to find a clean ball.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Has anyone ever gotten yellow last before without trying? Connections Puzzle #681 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Let's make a jigsaw puzzle, said my daughter six weeks ago. It'll be fun, she said. It was not fun.

A completed jigsaw puzzle is on a table, with one chair present. Puzzle image is a labyrinth in green and white.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Just another casual weeknight dinner at Chez Mashek. What was I thinking?

Every burner on the stovetop is in use & the adjacent counter is full of staged items

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ugh, helping my kiddo on HS physics. We got the right answer (thank goodness for a kiddo who works backwards from the answer key when necessary) but can't come up with the right equation

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“I just feel so [why does it even matter what this person said when no words can bring 20 dead kids back to life?]” said some person who, just like everyone else, is completely unable to process or handle any of this. “It’s awful. Just too awful to bear.” theonion.com/fuck-everyth...

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Fuck Everything, Nation Reports

WASHINGTON—Following the fatal shooting this morning at a Connecticut elementary school that left at least 27 dead, including 20 small children, sources across the nation shook their heads, stifled a ...

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Any other fellow children of the 80s have one of these? #bloomcounty

Opus the penguin, looking quite the life of the party with reindeer antlers strapped to his head & green and red ornaments hanging from said antlers. The poor guy is fashionably perched, for once, atop an Art Deco clock

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The most favorite ornaments must be stored at the top of the box & must go on the tree first

Christmas ornaments! These are balls made up of smaller pom-pom balls. Two each of reddish, yellowish, light bluish and blue-greenish. They sit in the sunshine on a round walnut table, with a sliver of tree in the background.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I finally understand why people buy pre-lit Christmas trees. I've been procrastinating starting on the lights for two hours and can't convince my daughter that she wants to take the lead.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🎶 She's here She's there She's every-f'n-where Shae Harvey Shae Harvey 🎶 #GoStanford

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Don't ever use this map to get anywhere

Photo from the book "The Map As Art" of an Ed Ruscha etching from his "Los Francisco San Angeles" series.

The streets in red from the San Francisco grid are Webster, Fillmore, Steiner, Pierce. They intersect at right angles with the streets in blue from the Los Angeles grid: Sunset, Selma, something ending in -wood.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

@analysisevolved.bsky.social I just shared the NWSL Tableau with my teen. Is there a metric like passes per defensive action? We can't find it in the list.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

It's almost the time of year when the sunrisebeams come in through the kitchen window and exit through the living room window

Sunlight and shadows near the lower corner of a window

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

We have 100% by-mail voting here, is it really necessary for stores to close for Election Day?

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Um how did I miss this part??????

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

This tree was so brightly lit that my bedroom was glowing yellow

A sunlit yellow maple tree in front of a dark cloudscape

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Watching the Stanford volleyball game & my daughter's singing along to The Marching Band playing a song that, how should we say, wasn't in the charts during my time

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Nearly drove off again wearing the readers instead of the progressives

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Ballot arrived Saturday & returned today

An extended blue arm inserting a completed ballot envelope into the dropbox in front of the neighborhood library.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Another Thursday evening, another HS soccer game

Warmups before a soccer match. The field is inside a 400m track. Sunset in the distance.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

I think my poor little engineer brain just exploded.

In fact, the first branded apple wasn’t Jazz but Pink Lady, an Australian variety that has become, according to Grandy, “probably the most branded piece of produce in the world,” as well as an exemplar of the grand confusion of it all. Pink Lady is a trademark name for the variety whose generic version is called Cripps Pink. The Cripps Pink patent has expired, which means that anybody can grow it, but “Pink Lady” is still trademarked, which means it’s illegal for farmers without a license to sell their Cripps Pinks as Pink Ladies; they must use the generic name. However, if you go to the store and buy a Pink Lady, it may not actually be that variety at all, since the management company in charge of the trademark — which happens to be overseeing the launch of the Cosmic Crisp — has allowed it to be applied to newer varieties that color better or harvest sooner. Your legal Pink Lady may, biologically, be a Barnsby or a Ruby Pink.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Crap, looks like the foul weather season is here

10-day weather forecast. Sadly only one day is labeled "Sunny". Most range from "Chance of Rain" through "Thunderstorms".

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

It's been over two years since I felt uninjured enough and strong enough to run this route. My glutes are killing me, and my hamstrings don't hurt at all. It only took about 10 years to understand and implement what my physical therapist has been trying to explain to me all along

Chart of elevation vs time from my run this morning

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Reposting now that we're actually into the traditional Halloween season. And, no, I did not pick up a bottle, and it wasn't available to sample. I have no idea how truthful the label is. I just took a photo of the crime scene, put the bottle down, and slowly backed away.

Blame Trader Joe's, that's where I found this display of "Pumpkin Spice Chardonnay". The bottle most definitely did not come home with me.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

This waking up at 4am crap just has to stop

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

We found a college water polo match on streaming, and it's funny how many obstructions are blocking the view of the pool. There's a tall light post and a lifeguard umbrella. We can't see one of the two goalies because he's hidden behind a 3-meter springboard.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

There's a bird chirping outside that sounds just like the smoke detector's low-battery alert

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Why in the year 2024 do I possess an ironing board?

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

If you don't want me to take you seriously, write something using Comic Sans.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Awesome website design, Verizon. I can't log in to check for info about this service outage because you require text-based authentication

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Show me picture in your phone that has your energy, not a selfie

A soccer player borrowed the yellow card & showed it to the referee

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Dude is inspiring me to nap in the sunshine all afternoon

A black cat named Dude sleeps in the sunshine, lying on a wooden dining chair with blue upholstered cushion. Please ignore the mess in the background

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I'm in the office today for back-to-back-to-back meetings & forgot to block out half an hour to get lunch from the cafeteria. Ugh.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

In today's episode of "seasonal products that didn't need to happen"

Apparently this bottle contains Chardonnay with strong notes of pumpkin spice

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

It's almost curling season! Putting the rings down in the ice tonight.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Hopefully I win this game - she skunked me last time!

A messy coffee table, a tiny purple cribbage board from Minnesota, and the first hand of the cribbage game.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

We said goodbye to Other Dude this morning. I just realized it was 13 years ago today that we brought him and Dude home as kittens. What a trip he went on with us.

Human working in the home office, wearing headphones over his ears and Other Dude (a black cat) over his shoulder.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

A penny for Dude's thoughts. He's been working his way up the Bonkers scale all day, no catnip involved as far as I know. If I had to guess, he's beginning to smell his brother dying.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Other Dude took a sunshine break and is back to resting outside my office for the afternoon.

Other Dude (black cat) resting hard inside a grey cat bed. I think there's a blue cat toy under his head or neck.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

TIL that kiddo's HS newspaper is published ... on Medium. Silly 20th-century me assumed it was physically printed on something.

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Jim Mashek @jmashek.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

I was NOT ready to see 2025 calendars at the supermarket

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