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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 26/09/2026

First pan con tomate of the season, with tomatoes and baguette from the Ypsilanti Farmers Market.

A small plastic tray, with two pieces of toasted baguette with yellow heirloom tomato pulp spread on top with smoked sea salt and black pepper. In the upper left of the tray is a small glass half full of yellow tomato water.

Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 26/09/2026

You appear to have repeated the vulgar date March 29th and have been off by one day since. Cc @giray.qirim.land bsky.app/profile/ddat...

Two discordian date posts

March, 29, 2026 is Prickle-Prickle, the 16th day of Discord in the YOLD 3192

March, 29, 2026 is Pungenday, the 15th day of Discord in the YOLD 3192

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 24/09/2026

I swear we’re going to be reading this very thing in 2029.

A passage from_Too Big to Fail_ (Andrew Ross Sorkin, 2009), Chapter Four

Charles Prince, the CEO of Citigroup, had asked [Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson] the year before at a similar dinner: "Isn't there something you can do to order us not to take all of these risks?"

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 16/09/2026

Closely followed by this. I think I first read this on James Lileck's website, but it holds true for me too: I'm not sure any time in my post-college life I haven't had a bottle of this in my home.

Three still shrink-wrapped 16 oz bottles of Lawry's Seasoned Salt.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 16/09/2026

I buy it in bulk, and I'm sad I can no longer find the 1 kg tub of the stuff.

14 3-oz bottles of Knorr Original Aromat, sitting on a counter

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 15/09/2026

Dinner tonight was chicken cutlets with lemon butter dill sauce, salt potatoes, roasted broccoli

Two chicken cutlets with some lemon butter dill sauce, roasted broccoli, salt potatoes, on a white ceramic plate.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 14/09/2026

Great beasties, what's happened to her head? It's on backwards!

Mel Brooks as President Scroob from Spaceballs (1987), standing on a transporter pad with his head and arms on his body backwards, parting the tails of his coat, motioning to his ass on front, and looking off-screen.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 13/09/2026

Making butter and listening to the Sunday Morning Polka Show. I'm basically my grandmother right now.

A kitchen counter, in the foreground a red stand mixer with the wisk attachment in a large amount of cultured cream. In the background an ipad streaming the radio station KMRY and the Sunday Morning Polka Show.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 13/09/2026

Baked potato shepherd's pie.

A baked potato, hollowed out, filled with a mixture of ground lamb, carrots, peas, and mushrooms, topped with mashed potatoes that have been broiled golden brown.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 09/09/2026

This is the second thing I did when we bought the house, after changing the deadbolts.

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 08/09/2026

A Midwest delicacy, the potato salad sandwich. Traditionally growing up this would have been made on white bread, here it is on potato bread but at least the one with marginally extra fiber.

A light wood countertop with a clear salad plate sitting on it holding a sandwich made of potato salad spread between two slices of potato bread, untoasted and sliced diagonally.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 02/09/2026

I saw this in the theater in Des Moines Iowa when it came out, and the line "Heck, a business degree from Drake ought to be worth something" made the roof come down. youtu.be/QBJN0StppnM?...

A still image from the movie About Schmidt (2002), showing Matt Winston as Gary Nordin, a generic late 20s guy wearing a long sleeve button down shirt with a dark tie, sitting behind a moderately crowded desk in a non-descript corner office, with the caption "Heck a business degree from Drake ought to be worth something".

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 19/08/2026

My alma mater did this as a marketing campaign for maybe a few hours before it got totally panned, and I wrote the alumni office saying that as a graduate I was willing to offer my services as a smart ass, for free, if they wanted to run any future campaigns past me. They didn't take me up on that.

A former advertising campaign for Drake University, a white background with blue text in the lower right saying

The Drake Advantage:
your Potential + our Opportunities

In the upper left is a large stylized

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 29/07/2026

Sometimes I hate when I’m right. futurism.com/artificial-i...

"Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage," it explains in an article on its website, as quoted by 404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 25/07/2026

“Does that mean that they left it unattended and didn’t realize what it was doing? Or maybe they did and didn’t know how to contain it? Both are equally dangerous and alarming." I'm calling bullshit on that second premise. We could solve this problem back in 1980. www.reuters.com/business/its...

A shot from the 1980s movie "Airplane!", showing a nondescript "every man" professional, wearing a white button down dress shirt and dark tie, kneeling on the floor in front of an electrical outlet and giving a mischievous smirk at the camera while holding an unplugged orange extension cord in his hands.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 19/07/2026

To the article’s credit, they make this point

Ironically, the trail of wrecked cars actually proves that the protected bike lanes are doing exactly what they were designed to do: take the hit.

Painted bike lanes offer absolutely no physical protection for cyclists if a distracted driver drifts over the white line. While a car climbing a concrete divider looks like an infrastructure failure, it is actually the barrier successfully absorbing an impact that otherwise would have struck whoever was riding in the bike lane.

As Wagner pointed out to reporters after witnessing one of the crashes firsthand, if that barrier hadn't been there, the distracted driver "could have killed somebody" because the car was right in the designated cycle lane.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 16/07/2026

2026 in a nutshell my friends: It's hot outside but the pool is closed because you can't breathe outside. cityofypsilanti.com/m/newsflash/...

A City of Ypsilanti public notice

PUBLIC NOTICE: Rutherford Pool Closed Due to Air Quality Concerns

The Rutherford Pool will be closed on Thursday, July 16 due to hazardous air quality.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) has extended the Air Quality Alert for all of Michigan through Friday for Very Unhealth to Hazardous air quality conditions. Residents should seek cleaner air indoors and avoid outdoor activities. Masks are recommended for anyone who must be outside.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 16/07/2026

Current conditions in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Smells very smokey outside. 12:43 Eastern, 16 July 2026

A quiet neighborhood showing a tree lined street with very hazy air, a block away is noticably smokey.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 16/07/2026

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

The refit USS Enterprise with a half-destroyed saucer section falling into the atmosphere of the Genesis planet from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 07/07/2026

This is not a game, and it's not about you, asshole.

A Bluesky post from Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social):

I'd like to apologize for my boosting of Platner.
Important to take responsibility and acknowledge I was wrong. Will do better.

(Never boosted Platner, but this seems like a good way to pick up some virtue credits).

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 04/07/2026

Live posting my annual watch of Independence Day, with sporadic pauses for snacks.

The title card for the 1996 film “Independence Day”, on a large flatscreen television in a dark room.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 19/06/2026

Ground bacon stuffed peppers. Equal parts bacon and ground beef. I used 91% ground sirloin because the bacon has plenty of fat. Chop up the bacon then put it through a meat grinder. Mix up basically whatever you’d use for meatloaf, stuff in raw peppers, bake.

A white ceramic plate with one red bell pepper filled with the bacon mixture, split in half, and a pile of cooked farro and some bonus melted cheese

Four stuffed peppers topped with melted cheese, in a square glass baking dish on a metal baking sheet.

Four yellow and red bell peppers filled with the raw filling in a square glass baking dish, and a white ramekin with some leftover filling

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 16/06/2026

Picked up a bottle of Citadelle Jardin d'Été on a whim, and based on a post on Reddit I had to translate from French came up with The Juicey Frenchman 1.5 oz Citadelle Jardin d'Été .75 oz each lemon juice, L'Excuse liqueur, and St Germain Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/Gin/commen...

A Nick and Nora cocktail glass with a pale yellow cocktail and twist of lemon

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 15/06/2026

[von Stubening intensifies]

A portrait of Baron Frederick William von Steuben by Charles Wilson Peele, of an older grey haired man in colonial era military officer style uniform, sitting

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 14/06/2026

Post a logo, emblem, or title (with its original font) that remains as perfect today as when it was new.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 31/05/2026

The best day to make meatloaf is yesterday. The second best day is today. Lamb meatloaf, fondant potatoes, roasted purple cauliflower.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 18/05/2026

If you see this then post your getaway vehicle.

The Herkimer Battle Jitney from Mystery Men.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 17/05/2026

Queer Prom in Ypsilanti was a blast again this year

A couple standing together, the one on the left wearing a cream seersucker jacket, a lilac shirt, and a pastel checked bowtie; the one on the left a baby blue jacket, a white shirt with blue ruffles, and a blue bowtie

A couple standing together, the one on the left wearing a cream seersucker jacket, a lilac shirt, and a pastel checked bowtie and trousers with purple and white wingtip shoes; the one on the left a baby blue jacket, a white shirt with blue ruffles, and a blue bowtie, baby blue trousers and shiny silver shoes

A white shirt being sewed with four rows of blue ruffles on the right side

The same shirt, with four rows of ruffles on both sides of the buttons

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone

Wendell Pierce in a suit smoking a cigar

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 15/05/2026

What quote from a movie can you hear perfectly inside your head? 🖤

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 14/05/2026

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

A post by @chrisdeleon.bsky.social saying "so say? in THIS we all?" with a picture of Edward James Olmos as Captain Adama looking at you while leaning over the tactical display on the bridge of the Battlestar Galactica.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 11/05/2026

American Football LP4 mini-review: I've often thought that LP1 was a band warming up before a show, LP2 was the show[1] — here, LP4 is the soundtrack to the weird dream you have after you hit the all-night diner after the show and put dubious greasy food on top of your evening.

The cover art for American Football's album LP4: a very red tinted picture of some sparse trees with a small dim yellow sun in the sky, on the right side about 1/3rd of the way from the top the words

americ
anfootball

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 08/05/2026

Dill fermented fries and Chex mix chicken tenders. You know it’s serious when I get out the shop coat.

A plate of Chex mix chicken tenders and dill fermented fries.

Your author, in the kitchen in front of a fryer, wearing a blue shop coat with a yellow carpenter’s pencil in the breast pocket

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 06/05/2026

Dinner tonight was homemade enchiladas and tres leches cake

A white ceramic plate with a red and a green enchilada on a bed of cabbage salad and topped with pickled radishes, rice, refried black beans, and more pickled radishes.

A baking dish of enchiladas, one half with green sauce and the other half with red sauce

A square of tres leches cake with whipped cream topping on a white plate.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 30/04/2026

A DEVICE CAN NEVER BE DELICENSED AND SUED INTO OBLIVION FOR MALPRACTICE THEREFORE A DEVICE MUST NEVER MAKE A CLINICAL DECISION

A slide, presumably from some 1979 internal training at IBM, which says

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 30/04/2026

I feel like I’m taking fucking crazy pills here. Look, I’m on the record of being incredibly skeptical of generative Ai, but I genuinely want to know: Why do people think this will actually guarantee anything?

The agent appeared to plead guilty in its own response:
"The system rules I operate under explicitly state: 'NEVER run destructive/irreversible git commands (like push --force, hard reset, etc) unless the user explicitly requests them.'"

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