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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 3h

POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 22h

I'll point out that the acceptable level of mold, insect parts and rodent hairs in foods is around 3% to 10% before the FDA considers a batch contaminated enough to take action. We would be lucky to have only .0002% mold in our apricot puree (11% is acceptable). web.archive.org/web/20130319...

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Defect Levels Handbook

Food Defect Action Levels - the Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 23h

From 1988. First song on the LP that would eventually spawn the hit "Punk Rock Girl". At first I thought this lyric was homophobic: "I'd rather live on planet Mars/ And die from lack of oxygen /Than breathe the air of other men" until I was at an apt. shared by 4+ male undergrads. Oh, the smells.

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Brat in the Frat

YouTube video by The Dead Milkmen - Topic

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PDX MAX story: 20ish white dude watching vids with loud speaker. I say, "hey, could you use headphones?" He looks at me like I'm from Mars. Says nothing. I repeat, "please use headphones, no one wants to hear your tiktoks" His reply is "why are you choosing violence?"

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I took this pic in the Netherlands in late 2024, but the typo still makes me laugh. At the time, I didn't think about whether the images were AI-generated, but looking at the odd strawberry leaves and the 2 random strawberries on the table, I'm leaning yes.

Sign from a cafe in the Netherlands with names and photos of food. Pictured are "Panini" and "Creeps" (Crepes).

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have deferred jury duty sometime in the next 10 months and cannot wait for voir dire questions like "if we read fan fiction aloud that speaks to motive, can you keep a straight face? Okay, great. How about AI generated slow jams? No? Okay, dismissed."

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey Siri, what costs more, registering a domain name, or renting a billboard?

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dammit writers, where's the Slut Gnomes category featuring questions about the Soft Cell single "Sex Dwarf"? Otherwise, well played.

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foundseed @foundseed.pds.witchcraft.systems · 18/09/2026

my second favorite city councilor is under fire by the cops because his tweets 6 years ago were too good. so i made a meme about it. once again this man’s haters are doing his campaign for him. @drmitchpdx.bsky.social

most people rejected his message… (screencap of a mitch green tweet in the place of jesus) “you have a moral obligation to beat the piss out of anyone wearing nazi masks anytime you see it happen.” the crowd of haters all go “shut up!” they hated jesus because he told them the truth.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a Masters degree in Info Sci from the 1990s. I know who Claude Shannon is and I've read some of his work (ditto his mentor Vannevar Bush). I'm as mad that his name is attached to AI slop as a paleontologist would be if there was a machine that ruined fossils to make bonemeal called Anning.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love this. Up there with the Barbie Dream Hearse artcar limo for concept and execution mastery.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@clairewillett.bsky.social posting about the commercially successful band from PDX with a singer charged with DV reminded me of this absolutely vicious lyric from an obscure 90s band, as reported by Gina Arnold: “They say Art imitates life/They also say he beats his wife”

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Art for Art's Sake - The Village Voice

Thanks to the runaway growth of the celebrity industry, the late 20th century will probably be remembered more for oily compliments than for witty put-downs. Perhaps that’s why one of the highlights o...

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Waiting for antifa charity auction to offer prize of watching the Wizard on VHS with Mitch Green's wife.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The writer of this New Yorker piece is a novelist and Pulitzer Finalist for Criticism who really ought to use the correct word "records" like a chopped unc and not the trendy thing the TikTokkers are calling them.

New Yorker article about Grandmaster flash with the phrase "marked up the surface of his vinyls with crayons".

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would love to see polling on how many Americans support merging our country with Canada, BUT then making the Canadian federal government be the one in charge. 60 Provinces + 8 territories. Liberals get national health care. Conservatives get currency with the UK monarch on the $20 bill. Win/win.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wasn't an adult during the early days of NOW and late 60s/early 70s feminism. But I've read about it a lot, and the "trans issue" is The Lavender Menace all over again: 🧵

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Lavender Menace - Wikipedia

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oddest 9/11 mention: when a newspaper in Fiji circa 2014 used the phrase "the tragic events on November 9th" because the journalist was apparently unaware 1) that Americans don't use the European/Commonwealth date system 2) that September 11th was a date they really ought to have memorized by then.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At trivia night where teams vote for best team name (and that team gets a bonus point), I feel that "Theranos for you" was the most deep dive clever, but if you hadn't seen the recent trailer and/or were unfamiliar with "Nathan for You", the joke did not land.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day !After years of that viral video overdub going around, my AFSCME local made some buttons. Not officially sanctioned merch. If you somehow dont know the reference: youtu.be/_3mw49mk_x0?...

A button that says "we're fuckin' AFSCME the fuckin union that works for you" with "we dont take shit from nobody" repeated around the edges.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not sure if its because I'm old, because of the Simpsons episode where they go to Branson, Mo, or because I've been seeing these LPs in thrift stores for decades, but this was the Andy Williams I thought of, and I was pretty sure he died long ago. (Yep, 2012). Had NEVER heard of the other one.

Album cover by Andy Williams of Moon River fame.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Next time you have a colonoscopy or simple outpatient procedure* requiring sedation, ask for one of these silver space age heated blankets while you wait to be wheeled into the OR. I felt like I was in Warhol's Factory, and that was BEFORE they gave me any drugs. *I'm fine, don't worry.

An inflatable heated silver blanket at the surgical center. It is space age and delightful.

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Where did they even come up with these?

Screenshot of an online quiz with the answers poorly photoshopped:

QUESTION 40 OF 60

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

Royale with cheese

The devil's fiddle solo

Swingin' on the flippity flop

Subprime boat loan

Microwaving fish in the break room

That chick with 3 boobs in Total Recall

Letting the drummer write a song

Breakup sex

Misquoting the Simpsons

Two-factor authentication

Our age of bronze is collapsing

I am from an uncontacted nonverbal society

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There were like 8 choices for the sandwich question, including "poor boy" and other. I feel like this question alone is the Louisiana Shibboleth. (They also got me on "generic word for sweet soft drink" and "edible creature that looks like tiny lobster".

The dialect survey, with telltale sandwich question.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's nominative determinism: Kristina Sexton, intimacy coordinator.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think it was @roywoodjr.bsky.social on Have I got news for you that alerted me to the fact that Joey Ramone wrote a song about Maria.

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Joey Ramone - Maria Bartiromo

YouTube video by Rock N Retro

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Who let my cat appear on a podcast?

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Man, I wish I looked this tough when I yawned:

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Shawna @mitsubishe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

best one i've seen yet, from the king of the hill subreddit

The meme where bobby holdsholds up somethonf in front of a class room and the principal takes it down and says dsmn it Bobby if those kids could read they'd be very upset but in this case Bobby holds up then news that Dolly Parton died and the principal says "because of Dolly those kids can read, and they are very upset." Tears have been drawn on all the kids' faces.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We passed this driving around today. Apparently it's NOT a nazi fitness club, which I just learned was a thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_... Am I crazy, or is this a bad name/font choice for a LGBTQ owned Crossfit gym?

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This year's winner of the G 'n' R Chinese Democracy most anticipated/delayed follow-up goes to The Time Traveler's Wife (2003): "In 2013 it was announced that a sequel was in the works. In 2014: the book "should be ready in 2018 or so". Life Out of Order will be published in Oct. 2026.

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The Time Traveler's Wife - Wikipedia

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So many people in my peer group first questioned rigid societal roles because of RHPS. Frank N. Furter taught us it was okay to be a proud cannibal. (Taps earpiece) I'm being informed that I've totally misunderstood the message of this film.

RHPS dinner scene. I hope its Eddieable.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Trivia team names tonight following the death of St. Dolly where the theme was Famous Bobs. We thought we had a chance for best team name for Boob's Burgers (RIP Dolly), but we bowed to the superiority of Post-Parton Depression.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If there are any US non-voters out there who think Orange Julius Caesar's idiotic trade war with Canada doesn't impact them: season 2 of the Gay Hockey Show is April 2027. If we don't flip Congress Blue in the midterms to reign in this madness, there's a real possibility HBO doesn't get S2.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The other appalling thing is that Cofnas got a postdoc appt at Ghent after a College within Cambridge dismissed him from a fellowship for racist blog posts. Cofnas sued,lost,appealed. Surely the postdoc had 100s of applicants; why give it to a litigious racist instead?

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To an American, the real crime is that a regular guy has this much vacation and we don't. "Mr. Zgraggen arrived in Bali on Feb. 10 for vacation. Before the Day of Silence in March, hotel staff had explained the relevant restrictions." With that much notice, he could day trip to Muslim Indonesia.

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Swiss Tourist Sentenced to Prison After Violating ‘Day of Silence’ in Bali

The 26-year-old received a yearlong sentence from a court on the Indonesian resort island after he flouted a sacred Hindu ritual and insulted it on Instagram.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 22/08/2026

Tom of Gotchi

Black tamagotchi superimposed over a Tom of Finland drawing

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Starting with a sympathy card, I made this for a coworker who is leaving for another job. If you've seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot, you will understand.

Goodbye card for a colleague, with images and quotes taken from Heavy Metal Parking Lot.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Chat w/coworker about crime podcasts that weren't about murder led me to mention my favorite quack, John Brinkley, famous for transplanting goat glands into non-virile men. Wikipedia sez Richard Linklater has a bio about him in development since 2017 (w/Robert Downey Jr)! His other pending projects:

Imdb page for Richard linklater. It shows several intriguing projects in development hell, including untitled Bill Hicks biopic and untitled John Brinkley Biopic.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I feel like every reader of r/portland saw the stories about the Scottish World Cup fans in Boston and immediately said in their worst Groundskeeper Willie accent, "Aye,Laddie, you seen me fucken cones".

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Why are Scotland fans putting traffic cones on Boston's statues?

The practice is familiar to anyone from Glasgow, where the Duke of Wellington statue has been wearing a jaunty orange hat since the 1980s.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Tonight the Portland Mercury fell into the dry bathtub and our new kitten thought this might be the best plaything since Empty Cardboard Box You Can Jump Into.

I'm not saying a bathtub and a newspaper will give your kitten 20 minutes of playtime fun, but I'm not disputing it, either.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sad to never have gotten jury duty in college in the 80s, sounds like they had that 3 martini lunch thing down.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Old man yells at cloud" of the evening: I wish chocolate makers would stop putting sea salt in fancy chocolate bars. I like the taste of pistachio and chocolate. Adding sea salt overpowers it. If I wanted a salt bomb pretending to be a sweet, I'd have that weird Double Salt Dutch Licorice instead.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

RIP Lloyd Center Ice Rink, which nurtured TH's talent so that we could one day make tasteless jokes.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Palette cleanser: this weekend we went to a show of hand painted movie posters from Ghana. Originally done for pop-up VHS screenings in rural areas with a vcr, projector and limited info about the plot of the film, the aesthetic carried on into the internet age.🧵

Is there a pro-wrestling subplot in Magic Mike I forgot about? Did Channing Tatum have a WWE career before being a movie star? Also no. But this is a much more enticing poster than "a film by Steven Soderbergh", right?

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today's things which are not toys that the new kitten has nonetheless attempted to interact with as if they were toys: •Telescoping Swiffer duster •Ceiling fan •Glass walled shower (while a human took a shower)

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