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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 11/09/2026

hope you enjoy my forthcoming iPhone Duo app, Hot Dog Bun, that looks like a hot dog bun and lets you apply condiments so you can eat a hot dog out of the Duo. The front screen means that you can even make a proper Chicago Dog since you can correctly portray the poppyseed bun

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 20/07/2026

from my small son, transcribed in real-time: dad do you know about virus software because what if a virus gets in your computer and it deletes everything and your computer falls apart and our whole house too and your own body falls apart everything could fall apart

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 11/04/2026

Odysseus: we now set out in our Odyssey Sailor: what's an odyssey? Odysseus: a family-focused minivan known for its versatile interior

screenshot of a search for Argo with photos of a car and text reading:

The Argo was the legendary ship in Greek mythology that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis. Built with the help of the goddess Athena, the ship was a unique and magical vessel that could speak and offer prophecies to its crew. The tale of the Argo and its journey is a significant epic in Greek literature, most notably detailed in the poem Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. After successfully returning to lolcos, the ship was dedicated to Poseidon and later transformed into the constellation Argo Navis.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/06/2026

the tarp isn't set up to cover the letter removal, it's so the workers can eat ortolan bunting

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 08/06/2026

I mean... yes? Exactly that.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 08/06/2026

for secret reasons, I was thinking about TextDrive/Joyent/Dean Allen/etc, and re-found this on @archive.org: web.archive.org/web/20020721... Which made me think a lot about that very particular early online McSweeney's/Arts & Letters Daily/etc aesthetic. Anyways, I'm still thinking about it.

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DJ Aged P @akma.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We couldn’t believe our ears, we wouldn’t have believed it, but Matt assured us that he heard it too. Forty-five years ago. This afternoon, Si pointed me to the Internet Archive bootleg page: archive.org/details/bs19...

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 05/05/2026

this winter was so mild that my sage overwintered and is now enormous, and producing incredible flowers. I don't think I've ever seen a sage flower before

photograph of a large sage plant with purple flowers

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

photograph of two large chicken legs browning in a pan on the stove

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 12/04/2026

I have no problem with this (it's a reshipper that I used 3.5 years ago IIRC) but I just like the phrasing of the subject line

screenshot of an email with subject line:

Your account will be destroyed

and body:

Dear Jonah,

You have an account with us (REDACTED) that has not been used for some time. For privacy reasons, we do not store our customers' data longer than necessary and therefore your account will be deleted as of 2026-05-09.

This means that you will no longer have access to invoices or other information.

Do you want to keep your account? Then click on the button below or follow this link

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 11/04/2026

Odysseus: we now set out in our Odyssey Sailor: what's an odyssey? Odysseus: a family-focused minivan known for its versatile interior

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 07/04/2026

I had an extremely weird experience yesterday, which is that I woke up with an absolute conviction that it was the superbowl. Like, I planned my day around avoiding places that were going to be potentially crowded, and said aloud to at least one person that I was avoiding the superbowl? ???

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 30/03/2026

get in loser, we’re decorating eggs

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 30/03/2026

excuse me I am trying to read my book and go to sleep in peace

photograph of two cats just laying all over me as I am trying to go to bed

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 24/03/2026

Meatball investigates Neuschwanstein Castle

photograph of a gray cat stepping around a Lego build of Neuschwanstein Castle

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 04/03/2026

OK, I did a bad thing. I just won this Auction. I need to pass the hat. Please DM me if you want to throw money at this so I can actually make bill payments.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 02/03/2026

Took the kid to the Lego bulk bins today and he found maybe the two creepiest BeatBits tiles. He's now made a "television" that he's using to identify where in the house ghosts may be haunting doors.

photograph of two lego BeatBits tiles:
"Touch Harmony", a spaceman-like helmet with a colorful explosion within and incoherent writing above
and "Spooky Filter", a VHS-like illustation of a ghost with a door in the background and some incoherent writing

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The Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Don't trust these companies to do right by any films, but especially radical ones. Preservation is important. Art and media that challenges the status quo too often appears to be forgotten on purpose by those who have the power to make those decisions.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 23/02/2026

it is my great regret to inform you that the salty sea air finally consumed the mounting brackets for this dish and hurled it unbidden to the roof beneath (it had also been deprecated for some years so the primary impact is to myself)

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 22/02/2026

My coworker left me a datacenter surprise

photograph of a Lego minifig reading “Moby Brick” sitting on a device in a datacenter rack

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 19/02/2026

And the strict master Death bids them dance. He wants them to hold hands and to tread the dance in a long line.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 15/02/2026

Everyone should go and immediately read the subsection Property under the Themes heading in the Wuthering Heights wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutheri...

screenshot of text reading:
Each of the four bodies of English property law could assure a lifetime income to support a widow out of their husband's estate; 'freebench' from copyhold land in manorial law, 'reasonable parts' from moveables in ecclesiastical law, 'jointure' from a marriage settlement in equity, and 'dower' from freehold land in common law. In administering a deceased's estate these rights in widowhood took piority over unsecured creditors, or stipulations in the will. Dower and jointure functioned as legal alternatives; a widow without a jointure could always claim dower (assuming her husband owned real property), though at this date, as almost all propertied daughters married with a settlement, they would expect jointure rather than dower in widowhood.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/02/2026

Volcán de Fuego from the edge of Acatenango, less than a mile away

photograph of an erupting volcano with city lights and stars in the background

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 09/02/2026

ok fine I’ll climb the other one

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 02/02/2026

Five-year-old had a dream/nightmare about “the long owls” (which he emphasizes by stretching his hands apart vertically). They: - are nocturnal (sure) - are taller than anything - are also known as the “virtrix” (sp?) - can assume human form - have, and I'm quoting here, “hundred-pack abs”

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 01/02/2026

giving my small son unfettered access to the Lego has resulted in seraphim, please advise

photograph of a small lego structure consisting of a circle mounted at the base, which has an eye on it, with heads at 90, 180, and 270 degrees from the base, with a central eye and eight more eyes placed symmetrically around)

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 31/01/2026

big deal, I can do that

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 29/01/2026

A few substitutions, a few missing pieces. Rebuilding my childhood Lego sets

photograph of two built Lego sets, Forbidden Island and Caribbean Clipper

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 20/01/2026

North, in Providence. Opened in a formerly-loved space, kept it, served some of the most complex but straightforward food I've ever eaten. The "Almost Boneless Whole Fried Chicken" is one of the best presentations I've ever had in my life. I think about it all the time.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 16/01/2026

This device was invented by Wilson Call, who, according this 2016 article leading up to his 100th birthday (he passed away at 100 in January of the following year): - was an architect who designed 3000+ structures - mined uranium and skinned skunks for $2 a pelt www.bakersfield.com/archives/arc...

bakersfield.com

Architect and his work: Built to last

Granted, his life has been long — 99 years and counting — but most people would need three lifetimes to get as much done as Wilson Call has.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 16/01/2026

MOST T.V. SETS ON TODAY’S MARKET ARE ALWAYS ON AND ARE ACTIVATED BY AN ELECTRONIC BEAM. SINCE THE T.V. IS ON BUT ASLEEP, THE COMPONENTS ARE WIDE AWAKE.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 11/01/2026

I’m at the Hot Dish Competition

Photograph of hot dish with label reading:
White Castle Breakfast Casserole
Sliders, onion, tater tots, cheese, jalapeno, bacon, milk, butter, red pepper, Gigantic IPA

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Trees To Know @treestoknow.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Today's vintage find -- a Hugh J. Hayes printing block from 1948 (image flipped horizontally for your benefit):

photograph of a printing block with an illustration of people driving a car and putting their cigarette out in the car ashtray with text reading:
USE YOUR ASHTRAY
and
KEEP OREGON GREEN

11-22-48
H. Hayes

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 28/12/2025

to celebrate his fifth birthday we experimented with Barry Lyndon-style illumination

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 25/12/2025

My father has outdone himself in the realm of whaling-themed serveware

photograph of a serving board made from a tree round with a wooden whale tail looming above

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 24/12/2025

If you're looking for a nice fireplace video tonight, or really anytime, we have an excellent three-hour fire with lots of crackling on @archive.org -- streaming, or to download for later: archive.org/details/TheB...

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 22/12/2025

the machine translation of the tracklist of the CD of the songs from the play based on the kid's book series about "the world's oldest motorized regular public transport system in continuous service" (Kristiansund's Sundbåten, which I do recommend you ride if you are ever in Kristiansund)

screenshot of text reading:
Tracklist
1 Seven is a sun boat boy
2 It bubbled like red soda in the stomach
3 The sun shines inside your island
4 Muck day
5 Oh, destroy the love
6 Pretend that you are playing a pretend game.
7 I sat on top of the hill and saw

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 19/12/2025

when you're doing Networking™

screenshot of an ASCII-art eye diagram of one lane of a DP-DQPSK modulated 100G coherent signal

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 15/12/2025

The kid has developed a serious interest in carnivorous plants so I picked up a few easy ones. Now, to lure bugs into my home, I guess?

photograph of a sundew, a t-form sundew, and a nepenthes in pots on a windowsill

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/12/2025

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke, and a grateful nod to the noble porpoises that saved him after he fell asleep on a surfboard and drifted out to sea fifteen years ago, without whom he might not be with us today www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...

theguardian.com

Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke

Mary Poppins star feared death after apparently falling asleep on his surfboard but friendly sea creatures pushed him to shore

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 12/12/2025

New on Flickr Commons -- magic lantern slides from meteorologist and theosophist Clement Lindley Wragge, who invented naming tropical storms web.archive.org/web/20171118...

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14. When did the naming of cyclones begin?

The convention of naming Australian tropical cyclones began in 1964. The first Western Australian named cyclone was Bessie that formed on 6 January 1964. Female names were used exclusively until the current convention of alternating male and female names commenced in 1975.

The naming of weather systems in Australia began much earlier than the 1960s, however. The flamboyant Clement Wragge, Government meteorologist in Queensland from 1887 until 1902, initiated the practice by naming weather systems after anything from mythological creatures to politicians who may have annoyed him.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 07/12/2025

in the ~hour of sleep I got (ref bsky.app/profile/arch...) I had an incredibly vivid dream in which the plot was that we had to stop some group who were instantiating an ancient evil by "killing ghosts" in order to produce a computational resource that they were using to mine bitcoin? Much to ponder

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 02/12/2025

A THANKSGIVING TALE According to the earliest record I can find, about fourteen-and-a-half years ago, I wondered: Does anyone know if I can buy a gravy boat that has a little sculpture of a boat in the center, so when it's full of gravy the little boat appears to be sailing on a sea of gravy?

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