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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 10h

We’re rewatching GAME NIGHT. I remembered it being good, but I didn’t remember it being THIS good.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 10h

Poe’s Law gets a little worse every year in the god-forsaken timeline

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 28/09/2026

Anyone going to Archon 49 this week? St. Louis's premier SFF convention, incongruously held in Illinois? I'll be doing five panels and a concert. www.kurtpankau.com/2026/09/wher...

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Where to Find Kurt at Archon 49

🎸 'Cause I Wanna Be Anarchy... Hey everybody, I'm going to be a panelist at Archon 49 next month. If you're planning on attending, here's ...

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 23/09/2026

I haven't watched GLASS ONION recently, but for some reason the line "Uber for biospheres" keeps popping up in my brain. One of the best throwaway jokes in all of filmdom, IMHO

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 19/09/2026

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 18/09/2026

Awww, that’s sad. I was just listening to “Barely Breathing” last night and thinking I should re-learn the guitar part. It’s a fantastic and deceptively complex pop song.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 16/09/2026

Cannot stress this enough: LLMs are not actually intelligent. They do not think. They do not reason. They are brute-force statistical inference engines. Anyone in the industry who actually believes their creations are capable of murdering us all has been koolaid-pilled, full stop.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible Japanese Breakfast Am I doing this right?

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 11/09/2026

I don't usually remember my dreams, but last night's ended with me telling my wife "Next time we disagree, let's just have a conversation, because after you left I had a hard time remembering which cup had the antidote in it." In her defense, I don't THINK she was the one who'd poisoned me

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 10/09/2026

There are days when it just feels like everything is broken, and today is one of them

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 07/09/2026

On a recommendation from my wife (along with one of her rare 5⭐ reviews) I just finished THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by @slhuang.com and found it deeply affecting. If, like me, you love linguistics and high-concept sci-fi, check it out.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 07/09/2026

After years of griping about how Google sucks now, I'm making the switch to iPhone. That is, replacing a product from one evil monopolist for one from a slightly less evil monopolist. What a time to be alive...

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 03/09/2026

... ... ... BECAUSE IT'S THERE, THAT'S WHY!

A 3000-piece "Where's Waldo?" jigsaw puzzle still in the package

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 02/09/2026

I say time-sink, even though I demonstrably spent less than a minute on it

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 02/09/2026

New time-sink just dropped Wordle in 1 Bonus September 2, 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0:52

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 27/08/2026

If only a pick-up truck had someplace to put a bicycle

Denali (big ass truck) with a bicycle mounted on top of the bed cover

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 26/08/2026

I'm not here to tell anyone how to grieve, but I will share what comforts me. I made a choice a while back that if someone I never met dies of natural causes, beloved, and at a ripe old age, they do not need me to mourn them. But I will HELLA celebrate that they had a long life, well-lived!

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 22/08/2026

Tonight's entertainment: Candlelight string quartet plays music from #LordOfTheRings

Auditorium stage with candles and seats for a string quartet

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 18/08/2026

I don't know which of my neurodivergences is triggered by this, and I acknowledge that it is completely irrational but... Stop saying "big spoon" and "little spoon" SPOONS ONLY STACK THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME SIZE!!!!

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 15/08/2026

The good news: I fixed the form for my Romanian Deadlift The bad news: Oh, god, my hamstrings!

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/08/2026

I'm not saying I'm better than y'all. I'm just saying that I got today's Wordle in 2. Wordle 1,881 2/6* ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/08/2026

I don't know if it constitutes a full-blown crush or not, but I had some very confusing feelings about Sister Steve from FATHER DOWLING MYSTERIES.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026

I'm cooking more these days, so I'm obligated to share the photos on the socials, so here's a corned beef hash I made for lunch. It's pretty ugly, but at least it tasted good.

A bowl of corned beef hash topped with a fried egg. The potatoes are too light and the meat looks questionable, in the poster's opinion.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026

Current state of the gmail ads: 1. My employer 2. A webstore I visited once and immediately decided not to buy anything from 3. A game I already own but googled recently because I was checking availability for a friend 4. A concert for a band I don't like in a city where I don't live

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026

12yo to 15yo: "You don't have to aura-farm that much." My dudes, you're playing MarioKart.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 11/08/2026

I am perpetually amused at how bad targeted advertising is at doing its job. Every single ad in my gmail right now is something I googled once and then decided not to buy.

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Johnny Rose: Keep Up The Good Work

Alt: Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose in Schitt's Creek giving a thumbs up and saying "Keep Up The Good Work"

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 11/08/2026

I fired up the Wii and have been playing some DR MARIO ONLINE RX lately and now I very much want a Switch port of that. I realize there are already several flavors of DR MARIO on NSO, but that Wii version was pretty excellent.

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Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This whole thread is a delight.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just attended a friend's zoom baby shower. Was informed that 5 years ago when I attended a zoom baby show for another friend I won all the baby shower games. I was like, nah, that can't be right. This time, I also won all the zoom baby shower games. Useless hidden talent revealed!

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 08/08/2026

Torment Nexus Sent from the fridge I am good at hug Monkey journalist pose

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 07/08/2026

I'm done voting along party lines. My vote will go to any candidate who can end the multiple daily robocalls from The Loan Department.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 04/08/2026

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL is a timeless classic

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 03/08/2026

We saw #SpidermanBrandNewDay over the weekend. It was good! I liked the reveal of who [redacted] was and its implications for [redacted]. I love the Spidey/Frank dynamic. It dragged a little in the talkier bits. Lots of quiet longing stares that could have been trimmed. But overall, I liked it.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 30/07/2026

The website About page says they are re-hosted with author consent, but I didn't consent to this, nor was I ever contacted about my stories.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 30/07/2026

Reskeeting myself for the evening crowd. Gauche, I know.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 29/07/2026

Here's your periodic reminder that "The Odyssey isn't historically accurate" is BAIT! Do not take the bait! The point is to shift the discussion to "Don't you idiots know anything about history/geography?" instead of "Why don't you think black people should be in movies?"

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 29/07/2026

I made this joke last week and a friend turned it into a car magnet for me.

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 28/07/2026

I've been sick the last couple of days, which means I spent a few hours lying on the couch watching ENCANTO. This has become my go-to comfort movie. What's yours?

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