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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 15h

#snackposting Calbee Ham & Cheese Chips - 6/10, not because they taste bad, but because they barely taste like ham or cheese. Basically plain potato chip with a vague umami note. Just boring.

Calbee Ham and Cheese potato chips, as held up in my car.

It was supposed to have a "Rich and savory cheese and ham flavor" but they don't.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 18h

Rappers claim that they're the greatest But I wonder what they spit for With their played out bars From the

Raps Thrift Store

(No really that's a real place)

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 02/10/2026

Go to any release on my page (like ultraklystron.bandcamp.com/album/abyss) then find the full discography purchase are. Here's screencaps for desktop & mobile for it. @bandcamp.com can we just get direct links for full discographies in future? I've been asked this how to find it repeatedly.

The desktop download link area for buying my full digital discography on bandcamp as highlighted on one of my releases in red highlighter.

The mobile and download area for my full digital discography on bandcamp. The link to buy my full discography.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 30/09/2026

Nearly 10 months of this chronic pain runaround with my jaw, which then effects my ear and neck. It's not this bad all the time anymore, but it's still clearly not fixed. Probably going to have to take something for it today. I need to check in with my family doc again; I see my RMT tomorrow.

Me pointing to exactly where on my face jaw area. I feel literally like a knot or lump or abscess or something is there, and that has decided to flare up and hurt today.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 27/09/2026

Is manga at the Winners/HomeSense a recession indicator, or just market saturation?

Copies of Jujutsu Kaisen and One Piece in the clearance books at a Winners/Home Sense

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 26/09/2026

#snackposting Doritos Century Egg Flavor 7/10 - they basically taste like hot spring eggs if you've ever had those, but surprisingly mild, and return to the base corn note very quickly. Only other gotcha is that they are made dark with carbon black, so not great if you're on meds.

A bag of Doritos Century Egg Flavor, corn chips, they are dark, black and basically just taste like hot spring eggs. About a 7 out of 10. I really expected them to taste more pungent.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 25/09/2026

#sodaposting & #snackposting Full reviews in the alt text but basically an 8 out of 10 experience all the way around. Nothing particularly outstanding here, but nothing offensive or gross either.

Cherry lemon trolli mountain dew. 8/10, does taste like gummy worms. A bright, red liquid in a clear bottle with gummy worms all over the label.

Madagascar vanilla cream pejoy - 8/10, basically tastes like Oreos. The box art is a chocolate pejoy stick with white cream flowing out of it and a vanilla flower and vanilla beans in a creamy lake.

Lay's cilantro potato sticks - 8/10, excellent flavor, but the the hard stale fry-like texture of them detracts. The box art is something that looks like a bunch of short crispy fries over a field of cilantro.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 25/09/2026

On a BC Ferries ad screen, Pattison slop (most obvious when zoomed in):

A floral looking Pattison ad on a large display screen, but on closer inspection, the line work has that tell tale ai sloppiness.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 22/09/2026

All of this to feed the silicon tulip bulb mania, right as its customers are realizing it was all hype, and their fields will never bloom:

Summary: Two articles about Shopify's CEO - one from Spring 2025 stanning AI, another from September 2026 where he bemoan AI slop grenades screwing everything up.

full text:

529 days can change a man He doesn't even wear hats indoors anymore

Forbes Viral Shopity CEO Manifesto Says Al Now Mandatory For All Employees By Douglas B. Laney, Contributor. ® Data, Analytics and Al Strategy Advisor and... Follow Author Published Apr 09, 2025, 12:43pm EDT Updated May 06, 2025, 10:44am EDT
Tobias Lütke, CEO, Shopify (Photo By David Fitzgerald)

FORTUNE AI • TECH Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else By Mia Osmonbekov v News Fellow Follow September 17, 2026, 5:33 PM ET

[Photo] Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke COLE BURSTON-BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 19/09/2026

meanwhile, in Canada (because we're dependent on US refineries,) it's $3.059 CAD per liter, so only $8.44 USD per gallon. 😬

Esso station in suburban Vancouver (Burnaby) showing $3.059 CAD per liter

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 19/09/2026

Realist anime running this season. I have definitely been on the other side of this conversation with my wife, down to her smoking while giving me the fashion lecture.

Tayama declares while smoking, "Fashion doesn't care about the cold, the heat, or the pain!"

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 18/09/2026

Again, my neighborhood is a nature sanctuary. It's so wild. They literally snuck up on me while walking up to the corner store.

A deer with another deer behind it. Both half caught in the headlights of a car behind me that's waiting at a stoplight.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 16/09/2026

Euro Harvest Moon box art coming through with the same energy as American Mega Man 1 and 2:

The awful box aren't for Mega Man 1 and 2 in their US release where you have a very misshapen airbrushed looking adult man in a Mega Man outfit in backgrounds that don't particularly evoke the games.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 16/09/2026

I wear anime and cartoon shirts that I bought at Hot topic on stage, but I'm not trying to sell the image Drake is either:

From left to right, Beefy in a One Piece shirt, myself in Nana/Black Stones shirt, MC Lars in a jean jacket which is Roger Rabbit themed on the back IIRC.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 16/09/2026

Breaking: The Black Stones (aka Blast) will also no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Nana, Nobuo, Shinichi and Yasushi of the band the Black Stones, one of the fictional bands from the manga Nana, on a sick looking poster.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 13/09/2026

Didn't pick up much at PAX, but getting my hands on this to finally see these @mega64official.bsky.social live holiday specials is another highlight of the weekend.

Holding up a copy of Mega64's Seasonal Menu Blu-ray live shows.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 11/09/2026

Also, what a great explanation for what happened:

Outage cause other from the BC hydro website

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 09/09/2026

My first laptop had a plexiglass top on it meant for putting a print or photos underneath it. It was still at my parents', so I grabbed the Haibane Renmei poster from Animerica I had on it, cut it down, and put under the protective case for my MacBook Air. An otaku millennial throwback look:

My MacBook Air an old Haibane Renmei centerfold poster from Animerica under the protective cover.

My MacBook Air an old Haibane Renmei centerfold poster from Animerica under the protective cover in its desk stand, with my mixtrack go dj controller in front of it.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 08/09/2026

Some of you don't even know about segmented annelids 🪱 but Optimus Rhyme does:

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 08/09/2026

Optimus Rhyme & Beefy y'all. Y2K is over, we're back in late 2000s:

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 07/09/2026

LMAO I still got it, at least as much as I had it when I first played the game nearly a quarter century ago. #PAXWest2026 cc: @100yenlife.bsky.social

My A grade on Pump It Up for playing "Bad Apple" on hard mode. You can see me reflected in the screen taking the photo. This was at 100YenLife's free play area at PAX West 2026.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 05/09/2026

#snackposting Coriander Doritos 10/10 Like a Szechuan Salsa Verde. Spicy with a hint of sweetness and a lot of coriander. They're so damn good. Probably the best new chip flavor I've had in years. Up there with Beef Summer Sausage Doritos.

A bright green bag of coriander flavored Doritos imported from Taiwan. I do not know the celebrity who is on the bag but that guy has amazing taste. Again. A 10 out of 10 flavor.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 05/09/2026

#sodaposting Both 7 out of 10s, check the alt text for more information.

A can of Fanta crimson sour cherry - The text is white on blue and red. It celebrates the xbox's 25th anniversary. It tastes like a cherry red jolly rancher. 7/10

A bright orange can of Sprite tropical mix. It. Basically just tastes like Sprite with generic tropical flavor. I can't pin whether it's guava or pineapple or what. 7 Out of 10.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 04/09/2026

#sodaposting Crush Back to the 90s Big Troppa Punch - the soda that takes you back to being sick off too much Shasta punch at your grandma's in 1992. 9/10. If they made a stevia version I'd probably cases of it.

A can of crush limited edition back to the '90s Big troppa punch.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 04/09/2026

They will die if they have to face what's basically an EV Honda Fit that costs what a Honda Fit would if they still sold them in the US:

Side view of the BYD Dolphin Mini in an airport display in Mexico

Rear view of the BYD Dolphin Mini in an airport display in Mexico

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 01/09/2026

Post something random, or you'll have an awful September

The SpongeBob/One Piece crossover toys for the Happy meals.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 23/08/2026

Maybe this year is the year I treat myself.

The 12-ft skeleton for sale at the local home Depot. Surrounded by other Halloween items.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 20/08/2026

Metro Van? Dunno. Liquor Planet down the street from me? Yes, just look at the place:

The trex headed building containing liquor planet

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 20/08/2026

You're paying more for beef in the US than we do in Canada especially after accounting for the exchange, but even before that:

A listing for the Real Canadian Superstore for medium ground beef which shows that it is 8.50 Canadian for 450 g, roughly a pound.

A listing for Walmart Canada which shows 450 g of medium ground beef is $8.28 Canadian.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 18/08/2026

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 18/08/2026

I don't want to say American McDonald's is screwing America, but these are the prices at Canadian McDonald's for our "value menu," and keep in mind, our dollar is worth 3/4 of what a US dollar is on a good day. Nothing is above $4 Canadian and we have a meal for $5 Canadian.

A screen cap of the McDonald's app showing the junior chicken equivalent to the US.McChicken, two baked strawberry pies, strawberry and apple pie, two baked apple pies and a vanilla cone ranging in prices from only $2 to at most $3.79 for the Junior Chicken, if not $5 for the entire meal.

A screen cap of the McDonald's app showing Small fries, McDouble, cheeseburger, sausage McMuffin, chocolate chip muffin, and ranch chicken snack wrap with grilled chicken, All for prices between $2.39 and $3.89 or again $5 for a McDouble meal with a small fries and small drink, or $5 for a breakfast meal with the sausage muffin with a coffee and hash brown. All Canadian prices.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 17/08/2026

Yet again realizing I just live in a nature preserve.

A dear, with horns that seems unbelievably close but it's all zoom.

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