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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 05/10/2026

[Illinois politics, death] .

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 03/10/2026

now where is that cantina?

the moon, making an early appearance at 1pm Central

below there is a rusted metal cone covered in greebles that looks very Star Wars but is actually the roof of some sort of agricultural silo that has been converted into a donut shack

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 28/09/2026

the thing I hate most about modern web/app design is these fucking fake-ass placeholders with grey blobs all over everything, especially when they _pulse_ I think the conventional wisdom is that putting something up like this makes a site seem faster while […] [Original post on sometimes.social]

an example of the grey blobby placeholder images that apps and websites are littered with these days

the "under construction" banner of the modern age

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 27/09/2026

I love the aesthetics of this thing also, it has a floppy drive!

a silver/grey electronic Casio keyboard, on a stand, in a grassy outdoor area

it has large speakers covered with fine metal mesh on either end

it has a variety of knobs and buttons

closer view of the bottom-right corner of the keyboard, which houses a 3.5 floppy drive

a view of the right side of the keyboard

there are more buttons, including a D-pad and a numpad

there are several logos:

“Zpi sound source”

“General MIDI”

“SmartMedia” (in red, near the back)

I verified that there is indeed a SmartMedia slot on the back of the keyboard (not pictured)

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 25/09/2026

they'll put literally anything into Unicode these days

a screenshot of a custom emoji in discord

it is a person wearing a long sleeve green shirt with a protruding belly, on the belly is the face of a rat

:rat_pregnant:
Click to learn more

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 12/09/2026

[eye contact with convention attendees] #VCFMW I am in you

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 11/09/2026

damn I haven't been following The Phantom but maybe I should be

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 09/09/2026

[very lazy low effort meme, re: folding iPhone] 🖼

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 08/09/2026

after yesterday’s adventure, Kerby had one walk in him today but not quite two

Kerby is a small brown and black brindle dog

in this photo, he is sprawled out on his side in the corner of a plush grey couch

he looks exhausted

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 08/09/2026

shoutout to the fake Portillo's trash in today's Dick Tracy

a single comic panel

a foot in a black sneaker kicks a wadded up white plastic bag with the word "Petrillo's" written on it in red, in obvious imitation of Portillo's pacagking

(there is a credit to Charles Ettinger and Mike Curtis in the corner of the panel)

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 08/09/2026

dystopian vision: an air machine that takes Apple Pay

a pay-per-use air compressor at a gas station

it is festooned with the logos of several payment technologies, including Apple Pay

back in my day, this shit was free

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 07/09/2026

dog! is! meeting! so! many! dogs!

Kerby between my ankles

he’s a small black and brown brindle dog

he’s just happy to be here

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 04/09/2026

wow we really fucked up the way Arizona talks huh

my mydialect.us map, which has nailed me to the fucking wall has having a north suburban Chicago accent, which is apparently also the common accent in Phoenix and Albuquerque

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 04/09/2026

goddammit dialect test I just told you 50 questions ago that those are the same goddamn vowel

from mydialect.us

Question 87 of 148

How do you pronounce 'dog'?

- Dawg (vowel like in caught)
- Dahg (vowel like in cot)
- Something else

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 01/09/2026

grats to the new Apple CEO, didn't think you could rise higher than Roger Rabbit but here we are buddy

it's not really the new Apple CEO

it's Droopy Dog

he's holding a sign that says "I'm so happy"

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 26/08/2026

🚨 #Heathcliff animated series referenced 🚨

The Heathcliff strip for today

Heathcliff and The Cadillac Cats (his backup cast from the 1984 animated series) are walking past the City Dump. One dumpworker says "it's where old friends get together" to another.

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 17/07/2026

why are Apple News ads like this? (btw don’t fucking do this)

someone is shoving a pair of pliers into an electrical socket

caption: 1 Simple Trick To Cut Your Electric Bill By 9

a presumable trailing “0%” is hidden by a tiny “Ad” badge

found in Apple News

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 15/07/2026

had no idea this had even shipped, let alone that it was arriving today! spam filter must have eaten the notification?

the box for Retro Remake’s SuperStation One

the picture on the box looks a bit like an original PlayStation without the CD drive

the inner box, with the console still inside, revealing that I ordered the translucent blue model

the console out of the box, it has two PlayStation controller and memory card ports on the front

it sits atop a matching SuperDock, which adds 4 USB ports and a tray-loading optical drive

the back of the console, showing assorted ports, and the rest of the stuff that came in the box: a little card with a QR code on it leading to the quick start guide, an HDMI cable, a very nice braided USB-C cable, a port cover that I would presumably want if I removed the dock, and oddly, an L336 Learning Remote

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 09/07/2026

[eye contact with ice cream vampire or something] Sweet Jesus indeed

the sign for an ice cream store called Sweet Jesus

it features a photo of a young girl grinning ghoulishly with pink splatter all over her chin

it looks like a recorded photo from a vampire horror thing

closeup of terrifying ice cream vampire girl

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 08/07/2026

she begged me to snuggle her out of the butterfly reformatory

looking straight down my shirt at a butterfly clinging to my belly which is staring adoringly up at me

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 30/06/2026

rate my remote working setup

in the foreground: a ThinkPad balanced on someone’s crossed leg, showing a browser open to GitHub doing some horrible Docker shit

in the middle distance: folding chairs and green space

in the background: the municipal swimming pool, full of my fellow villagers

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 21/06/2026

Crankshaft is missing its black layer today this looks kind of cool I wonder how their publishing pipeline works that an error like this is possible

Crankshaft comic strip for 2026-06-21

As published, it's missing the color black; the colors of characters bodies and faces and backgrounds are filled in, but there are no black outlines and all the text is missing

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 16/06/2026

[Nancy comics spoilers] bi Fritzi bi Fritzi bi Fritzi BI FRITZI

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 11/06/2026

aw they’re all grown up, I remember when my generation killed everything

Screenshot of a headline

FOOD
Is Gen Z really killing the baguette?

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 29/05/2026

finally figured out my pronouns

A picture of a card from Magic: The Gathering

It's called Themberchaud

It's a very chubby but fierce looking red dragon, sitting on top of a hoard of gold coins and screaming at the viewer

It's a 5/5 Legendary Dragon with Trample

Oracle text:

When Themberchaud enters, he deals X damage to each other creature without flying and each player, where X is the number of Mountains you control.

You may exert Themberchaud as he attacks. When you do, he gains flying until end of turn. (An exerted creature won’t untap during your next untap step.)

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 20/05/2026

apparently Superman at Six Flags is the Snyder version (he kills people)

a sign posted under the tracks of the Superman roller coaster at Six Flags

it says

🛑DANGER!🛑

YOUR LIFE IS AT RISK!

(picture of handcuffs)

PERSONS ENTERING THIS AREA WILL BE ARRESTED AND BANNED FROM SIX FLAGS PROPERTY FOR LIFE!

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 19/05/2026

got an ad for "Kuru Footwear" today and it's like people don't even search words anymore before naming their company (kuru is a prion disease that you get from eating people)

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 18/05/2026

[sorry I am mentally an adolescent] uh huhuh huhuhuh

a headline

Asia’s endangered dhole is being pushed towards extinction as range collapses

the joke is entirely about mispronouncing dhole as “d hole”

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 12/05/2026

enjoying how Thunderbird refusing to load remote images gives a Zalgo effect to this shipping notification

A bit of a screenshot of a shipping notification email

It shows a 4 stage timeline: Ordered, Shipped, Out for delivery, and Delivered. We are currently at shipped.

Each stage of the timeline has an associated image, which my email client has not loaded. Instead, it is displaying the alt text for the images, but because the images are so narrow, the alt text is awkwardly split on to multiple lines, and overlaps the text below.

"Completed" looks like

C
o
m
pl
et
ed

...and "Pending" looks like

P
en
di
ng

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 10/05/2026

I wish I knew the names of these other buildings #chicago

shot from below: Wrigley Building to the left, 419 N Michigan to the right, 505 N Michigan in the middle (it has a dome!)

Foreground: some people lean over a stone balcony

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 04/05/2026

🎼 Heathcliff, Heathcliff, no one should, invite Hutts to your grandma's home

Today's Heathcliff comic

In the foreground: Jabba the Hutt is watching TV with some sort of little green squishy alien

In the background: Grandma is telling Heathcliff: "I want your friends to leave when the game is over."

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 24/04/2026

uh is this an official logo? stolen from some bot that posts sports stories

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 18/04/2026

when I was a kid, they would have arrested Sluggo for making a violent threat at school, and forcefully medicated him these days they'd charge him with terrorism and disappear him

A Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller

Panel 1:

A pair of scissors is lying in the windowsill
Nancy, distressed: "Take those scissors away from the window!"
Sluggo, quizzical: "Why?"

Panel 2:

Nancy, strident: "Scissors attract LIGHTNING"
Sluggo, joyful: "Really?"

Panel 3:

The pair of scissors has been stuck by its point into the roof of a school
Sluggo is walking away, carrying a ladder

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 24/03/2026

ahhhhh there was another woims strip and I missed it

Nancy for 2026-03-13

Panel 1:

Nancy: How's the treehouse?
Sluggo: Ah, well,

Panel 2:

*Sluggo steps aside to reveal a nest in the windowsill, containing two chirping birds and some eggs*
Sluggo: decided to rent out half of it.

Panel 3:

Sluggo: Thought it would be a good investment

Panel 4:

Sluggo, whispering: But they paid me in woims

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 19/03/2026

looking at this large box with antennae sticking out of it in the corner of this Far Side comic and thinking: > _I_ know that's supposed to be a TV > > would my kid know that's supposed to be a TV? > > how many generations before "large box with antennae" is unrecognizable as a TV?

a cropped corner of a Far Side comic

depicted: the corner of a large CRT television (that is, a big box with antennae) from behind

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 16/03/2026

tfw looking for Commander's Plate on eBay #mtg

a Star Trek commemorative plate featuring Commander Spock, Commander Chakotay, Commander Riker, and Commander (Starfleet rank) / Colonel (Bajoran rank) Nerys

this is not the Magic card I am looking for

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