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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster

@jschuster.bsky.social
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Fully recovered IT Guy He/him Cis-het white dude. Or, as the philosoper once said: "lowest possible difficulty setting" (h/t John Scalzi)

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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So...whether it were heated leather seats, or variable windshield wipers, I get this as my interface? Take my money!
An image of a linear rheostat.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Make this the gearshift, please?
Picture of a lever, similar to what the railroads used in control towers. Later, adopted as part of the steampunk esthetic. 

There is a metal handgrip at the end of the lever, below that is a quarter circle of metal, attached to the lever release. A safety feature to keep the lever in a fixed position,  until the operator needs to change the setting.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Does my breakfast feel pain?
A sad pancake. Two large bubbles have broken through the batter, appearing like eyes. An upside down u shape below that resembles as mouth.

It appears to be suffering; that pan is so hot. Poor pancake.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*rimshot*
Cartoon of a stick figure playing a drum. Above the figure is a rimshot sound effect: ba dum tsss
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are four different sets of distinct textures in this shot. I'm happy with it...
A snowdrifted drainage ditch between a field and the verge of a road on a bright Ohio morning. The wind has carved an inticate lattice of peaks in the snow drift. There are many dark blue-gray shadows between the ridges of snow. In the foreground the snow has built up into tiny little mounds in the dead grass.

The overall impression is one of cold.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We still have places like this where maybe we can spend an hour or two...
Photo of a bay on Lake Michigan, taken from the shore just before sunset. The sunset is way out of frame to the right. Some sunlit clouds are visible over the water, which is covered in small ripples.

At the shore, the grass and shrubs are in shadow. Centered at the bottom of the photo is a large grey boulder, also in shade.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey, look what I found! "Study in humiliation" AKA "You've pissed off the backstage riffraff one too many times"
Big deal (Shakespearian Trained!) actor William Shatner, from the original Star Trek series. He is holding a gigantic styrofoam dildo for plot reasons.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I wish I could send you a bottle of this:
Photo of a channel leading out to Lake Michigan. The picture is cropped to emphasize the blue sky, cloudless,  but a bit hazy toward the horizon. There is green dune grass at the bottom of the frame, with a large white boathouse on the other side of the channel. 

A sailboat is heading out to the lake. In the bottom left corner, far in the distance, is a bright red lighthouse. The low morning sun is almost directly behind the photographer, so there are some dark contrasting shadows in various places.

For any vacation we take out here, my goal is to get one good photo, early morning or sunset. I'm fairly pleased with this one. Not to shabby for a phone camera!
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Wheeeeeee! Murderbot time! It has been a long wait, but Martha Wells never disappoints. So excited!
Notification from my library that the hold I placed on the latest novel by Martha Wells is finally ready (after three months (!!!))

Embedded in the libray notification is an image of the book cover, featuring a humanoid-shaped, armored and visored figure. Apparently in micro gravity, in a vertical tunnel or conduit, they have one hand on a ladder. A starfield is visible through a port behind them.

A ladder in a tube implies there is usually gravity in the tube, so something has probably gone very badly wrong. If Murderbot is there, there is a strong chance someone is going to get some FO they didn't expect during the FA phase. 

Let's gooooooo!
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I *knew* that Barron reminded me of somebody...
Photograph, in black and white, of Al Capone

Nothing funny to add, here. The guy was a shit human being.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not as apocalyptic as it *could* be, I suppose...
The picture was taken close to sunset, at Grand Haven, Michigan. The sun is low in the sky, about to drop below the tree line. It is much more red than usual, and the sky is a murky pinkish color. The Air Quality Index is 164, "unhealthy"
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Grand Haven MI sunset says; "Trans Rights Are Human Rights"
Photo depicts streaky clouds at sunset. The colors are a mixture of blues and turquoise and pink and red, somewhat resembling a Trans pride flag. Sort of. 

There is a layer of irony here, because Grand Haven is the heart of Ottawa County which is part of West Michigan's version of the Bible belt. Not exactly a bastion of inclusiveness. Ah well, the scenery is outstanding,  even if the politics are strictly stone age...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Meme of a "Khajit" character from the Elder Scrolls video games. The words "Khajit cut a bitch" are superimposed over the image of a cat-likd humanoid figure
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Tbptbpttpbh!
Fictional rock group "Billy and the Boingers" fron the Bloom County comics
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
LFG!!! It isn't the one I'm saving for The Day It Happens, but this is a good one!
Photo is of a grey table, on a green lawn. Only the corner is visible.  On the table, center is a cocktail on ice. Very humid out, the glass is wet. 

In front of it is a colorful glass vial, containing a 1.25 gram pre-roll. It's a celebration!
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎶...eye in the sky, looking at yoo-ooo-oo...🎶
An oval shaped swirl of thin whispy clouds with other streaks of cloud in a line perpendicular to the oval clouds. It looks like an eye, with an arched eyebrow above.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Dinosaur Attack!
Photo depicts a wild tom turkey walking across grass in front of a white SUV parked under a tree. This is a big animal. One leg is raised, mid-step, displaying the spur on his foot. 

You might think to frighten him away. Even thinking you could fight him. You would be sadly mistaken. Those foot spurs would cut a bitch. 
(while the beak would punch holes in you)
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wake up babe, new Charlie Kirk just dropped...
Zoomed in clip of one of the faces from the original post. The picture shows a white man (Joshua Abbotoy) with dark hair. His large head and small face makes him somewhat resemble Charlie Kirk.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The latest from @marthawells.com is *finally* at my public library (yay!) There is a long wait list (boo)... But, I am *on* that list (yay!)!!!
Screen capture showing a book on hold at my local library. The cover art (heh!) depicts a masked and helmeted figure in white body armor (Murderbot) clinging to a ladder in microgravity. Doesn't look safe. Or fun.

Can't wait to find out how they got into that situation.  Most likely because one or more of their humans did something foolish and potentially life-threatening. (again)

Now Murderbot has to get involved. 
(*sigh* again *eyeroll*)
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Things are weird in the world today. Can't do much about it, but here's some cool clouds:
Photograph of clouds crossing a ridge in the hills of East Tennessee. The wind has swirled some of them into ovals (lenticular clouds) and others into ripples (a wave cloud). 

The sky is bright and the background hills are dark and underexposed. A few trees, with early spring foliage,  are in the forground.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
From up close, it could be a tiny kaiju
Close up photo of a brown moth on a sunlit piece of wood
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Greetings from Pigeon Forge! Here, have a bügge!
A moth, warming itself in the sun on the rail of a deck fence.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Late-breaking update: today's breakfast
Home cooked BaconEggnCheese bagel sandwich. Non-traditional use of pepper jack cheese and a Hawaiian Bread bagel. Oh well, I do what I can.

Pictured: a toasted bagel, with a slice of cheese,  then a layer of bacon, topped with some scrambled eggs, then another slice of cheese below the bagel top to sort of glue everything together. The sandwich sits on a red glazed stoneware plate. There is nothing else on the plate but the sandwich.

The plate rests on a marble (?) countertop behind which is a dining table (out of focus) and windows overlooking a deck, with some hills in the far background (very blurry).
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I don't know if we're still jerryfying in these perilous times, but if we are might i have a label? jon "late adopter" schuster
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Initial testing indicates the answer is "yes it waffles", but further experiments are obviously required. For science, of course.
The same donut, now waffled. There are the traditional waffle squares pressed into the donut, but the glaze has melted and become crispy. The glaze in the squares has soaked into the pastry from both sides, resulting in a thin layer of crispy sweet dough.

(Not pictured: the *cronch!* of the cooked glaze)
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Will it waffle?
A glazed brioche donut, on a paper plate. The donut has a date with the waffle maker...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fake movie poster for the new Dune film. The text reads:

Not getting less weird
Really, this is the least weird it will ever be

So while the poster is fake, the text is true...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Maybe
Picture of a "troll" doll toy, with bright orange hair.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Most of those great numbers were me, buying these:
A bag of Kirkland branded Caramel S'more Clusters. They are like Turtles candy, but graham cracker pieces instead of pecans. And with mini-marshmallows added. 

The caramel is approximately 105% butter
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We have strayed so far from the light...
Boar's Head brand "dessert hummus" - French Vanilla flavor. The label encourages the buyer to "enjoy with graham crackers" which:

A) I'd actually have to buy the crap to do that, and 
B) is a cruel thing to do to a perfectly innocent graham cracker.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I seem to recall this may be an option:
Logo the musician Prince used for a while. 

It is a circle above a swirly line that ends in a sort of trumpet looking thing on top of a downward pointing arrow with a bar through the middle of it. I'm sorry, but I can't explain it any better.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Buahhahahahah... *gasp* *wheeze* ...hahahahahhah!
Discord promises two things that I find hilarious:

"Key privacy protections of Discord's age-assurance approach include:

On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user's device.

Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly- in most cases, immediately after age confirmation."

I'm sorry, but this is Grade A bullshit...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Curtis Sliwa-assed streetlight
Another streetlight photo, taken some days later than the picture in the quoted post. The ground is covered in snow, and the sky is a deep blue with fluffy white clouds. 

Again, the snow has piled up on the top of the streetlight. This time, the snow has half melted and sort of droops down on one side. It has the appearance, somewhat, of a white beret hat.

I don't know why a streetlight would want to look like it's wearing some kind of beret, but at least it's a white one, not a red one. Looking at you, Curtis Sliwa, you dork-ass mfr...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is the time of year when the streetlights don jaunty little caps.
A cylindrical streetlight with a round layer of snow atop. The background shows various snow covered trees and shrubs with mounds of snow where the plows cleared the road. There are some wooden stakes driven into the ground to mark the edges so the plow driver knows where the road is.

There might be 3 or 4 inches of snow on the metal disk that tops the glass cylinder of the streetlight. When the snow falls without much wind, it tends to stay in a straight-sided pile. The effect is similar to a hat...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Clint Eastwood, in his role as Officer Harry "dirty harry" Callahan, saying:

"A man's got to know his limitations"



Look, the movie character was a garbage human being and Eastwood isn't a bargain either BUT it's a classic bit of Hollywood script and so, yeah, I'm not apologizing for using it here...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Photo of an automobile dashboard. The temperature outside is 80°F
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Who... TF! ...put their damned cookies in the sewing tin? Utterly damn rude, you ask me!
A round tin container, holding the stereotypical assortment of "Danish butter cookies", each flavor of cookie stacked in a fluted paper cup. 

The tin *should* contain buttons, sewing needles, and small bobbins of thread. Who put cookies into the sewing tin is unknown- however! ...being the nice person that I am, I will do my very best to remove them.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Stole your idea!
Picture of a bag of Ghirardelli chocolates. They are milk chocolate, caramel filled, and shaped like cartoon snowmen.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Bii-ii-iig stretch!
A solitary seagull on the beach, my morning coffee companion. They hung out for a while, hoping for a handout. After an hour or so, they gave up and left. The picture was taken as the bird was preparing for flight.

In the photo, the gull has both wings fully extended upward, head and neck bowed down toward the beach. The sand is light grey/white in the sun, and dark grey in the shadow of the trees behind me.

The ocean is calm and smooth, with one small wave breaking on the beach. The sky is very blue.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This schmuck? We're cooked...
Photo of Senator Chuck Schumer "cooking" hamburgers...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I'm no structural engineer, but aren't these elements "not good"?
Close up photo of some brick wall construction. The bricks appear to be in stacks, and curving(?) in what look to be unsafe ways...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? The good news is it's still these folks. I still like my chances, but the bad news is I need to find time to watch some of the *new* entries in my TBW queue
Screen capture from "The Expanse" video series. Interior of a spaceship with the faces of characters James Holden and Naomi Nagata.

He looks confused, overwhelmed, out of his depth.  She looks like she's about to ruin some asshole's day...

(Disclosure) I may be somewhat Team Nagata
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
An image of a box of "Post Toasties Corn Flakes", an old-timey breakfast cereal. 

The text had been altered so the Post logo now reads: "Host" while the word "corn" now reads as "flesh".

Host Toasties Flesh Flakes

Even by my low standards, this one is pretty borderline. Thought it was cute, might delete later...
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Polish "solidarity banner" from the 1980s. Red text on a white background reads: Solidarnosc, with the upstroke of the N becoming a flag with red stripes
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Jerry, yes
A bowl of leftover Halloween candy on a kitchen counter.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
You could always move to Hoth, man
Screen capture from the film "Empire Strikes Back" - Luke Skywalker riding Tauntaun-back on a snowy outcrop.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Sam agrees. "Can we just not?"
Orange tabby cat, giving a bit of world-weary side eye.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Dog sitting this guy...
Small black dog with white paws, laid down on the lawn with crispy autumn leaves all around him.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Cf.
Man with a Confederate flag, inside the US Capitol on Jan 6 2021
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
West Michigan Lakeshore Mid-October Priceless
Photograph of a lakeshore about one half hour before sunset. The sun is hidden by a still-green tree, but evident on the bright clouds at the mouth of the channel to Lake Michigan. The largest part of the picture is taken up by gorgeous shades of blue.

The upper right-hand corner is a pure blue. The colors fade left and down toward the hidden sun, gradually fading into a yellow-white cloud. How did blue turn into yellow? No idea. But it's beautiful.
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