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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wishing you best of luck from our household, which also includes a Biscuit!

A buff orange tabby sleeps on a colorful blanket in front of a window

Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I missed the call, but I still gotta share. This cafe near our house had horrific AI images in their menu when they first opened up. They’ve wisely switched to actual photos of their food.

AI image of a “spinach knish” that looks like a croissant with a gaping maw of melted nacho cheese

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We had a cat that was deeply committed to radical politics, albeit sometimes incoherent; she was never sure whether she was a black bloc anarchist or a Marxist-Leninist. Anyways we had this hanging over her water dish:

Sticker saying “my cat is a communist and there’s nothing you can do about it”

Link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1602078039/my-cat-is-a-communist-sticker-sticker?ref=share_ios_native_control

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

But I also think some men got a real transgressive thrill getting to be socially acceptably misogynist about Hillary in 2016. It happened a lot early on w/ white men realizing they could be socially acceptably misogynist about white women by using ‘Karen’ devoid of its crucial original context 2/2

Gun labeled ‘sexism’ with a silencer labeled ‘white women’

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thank you for your attention to this matar

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Makes sense that there are other versions of the overall joke but this is the tweet in question:

Tweet by im on the ither sight @jon_snow_420

god: i have made Mankind
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
2:54 PM • Oct 28, 2015

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I’ve lived in a lot of places and I know what I like.

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Xennial raised mostly in the south weighing in with Quincy’s rolls, seen here in a horrifying ad, one of the few images I could find with a quick search

Quincy’s family steakhouse. A basket of rolls is on the left and an extremely unappetizing anthropomorphic Quincy roll stands to the right

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A movie from the year you turned 18 LA Confidential (1997)

Guy Pearce as Detective Lieutenant Ed Exley

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Last celebrity in your camera roll is your therapist

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My nephews’ cats have to be a strong contender for the synchronized division

Two light colored kittens sleep curled up together forming a heart shape with the tails as the V and their heads and shoulders forming the top of the heart

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We’ve gone through 3 or 4 of those yeowwww bananas

A catnip banana is chewed up and coming apart at the seams. A buff orange tabby reclines in the background, defiant, refusing to look at the camera

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is Sadie. She was my soulmate.

Closeup on face of a beautiful medium haired dilute tortie cat with large green eyes

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Science writers on the second anniversary of chat gpt’s launch:

Parker Posey with an airplane bottle of I think J&B. Caption says “no machine can replace me until it learns how to drink”

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

VIPS (very important paw stretch) from baby Marbito

A sleepy brown tabby has his eyes closed and his front paws streeeeeetched out

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Not new, just a little quiet. But always happy to share cat photos #proofofcat

A sweet-faced green-eyed brown tabby boy snuggles on his human’s legs in bed while she’s reading

Close up on a buff orange tabby sleeping with his paws curled up over his face. His nose and paw pads are very pink.

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

We adopted our idiot sons a year and a half ago at ~2 (orange tabby, Biscuit) and ~5 (brown tabby, Marbles). Great ages!

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Thank you for reminding me of one of my fave tweets of all time

Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1
Tweeted:
In 2049, I plan to direct 78-year-old Jon Hamm in the two-hour TV special "Mad Men Returns" where Don Draper ends his advertising career in 2004 by pitching the Quiznos spongemonkeys ad.
There is an age progressed photo of Jon Hamm as Don Draper and a photo of those insane Quiznos creatures

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

I was told not to use the term “brown bag” for a lunchtime meeting at work. It took some googling to figure out why. I’m not gonna use it any more, bc I don’t want to make anyone feel bad, but the idea that it’s going to make people think about colorism seems a bit over the top?

From https://lib.arizona.edu/help/employees/anti-racist-guide
Brown bag
• Context: Within the Black community, colorism is a significant problem that stems from slavery. Many slave owners raped enslaved women, producing biracial offspring of a lighter complexion. Slave owners gave preferential treatment to those whose complexion was a lighter brown and often their unclaimed children. A brown bag custom began in the 20th century, where a brown paper bag was placed at event entrances or merely held up to a person of color. If their skin color was darker than the bag, they were not permitted to enter or participate.
• Alternatives: lunch in, lunch and learn
Sources:
• Audrey Elisa Kerr. (2005). The Paper Bag Principle: Of the Myth and the Motion of Colorism. The Journal of American Folklore, 118(469), 271-289.
Blackthen (2021, April 29) The Back Story:
How the Brown Paper Bag Carried "The Color Complex" From Slavery

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Can an article be a barn burner? This one is. He’s furious, and I missed him being furious. Please see free link below:

He was astonished by the plain truth of what he saw: the walls, checkpoints, and guns that everywhere hemmed in the lives of Palestinians; the clear tiers of citizenship between the first-class Jews and the second-class Palestinians; and the undisguised contempt with which the Israeli state treated the subjugated other. For Coates, the parallels with the Jim Crow South were obvious and immediate: Here, he writes, was a "world where separate and unequal was alive and well, where rule by the ballot for some and the bullet for others was policy." And this world was made possible by his own country: "The pushing of Palestinians out of their homes had the specific imprimatur of the United States of America. Which means that it had my imprimatur."
That it was complicated, he now
understood, was "horseshit." "Complicated" was how people had described slavery and then segregation. "It's complicated," he said,
"when you want to take something from somebody."

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Most important thing she’s said on the campaign trail. I really dig seeing a candidate willing to make big moves. This will restore bodily autonomy - a basic precondition for full humanity - to American women.

"I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do," Harris said.
Harris has for months promised that she would sign legislation codifying Roe v.
Wade's protections in federal law but had yet as a presidential nominee to specifically weigh in on whether she supports an exception to the filibuster to do so.
President Joe Biden has long said he supports such an exception, and in 2022 Harris promised as vice president to cast a tie-breaking vote to end the filibuster for reproductive rights and voting rights.

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

it’s the 4 year anniversary of this invite for a high pandemic era work zoom happy hour.

“this is a microaggression” comment on a screen shot of a covid era zoom happy hour at my work. Text of the invitation uses an aggressive number of colors and font styles.

SO, who is excited about tomorrow's virtual happy hour?!?!?!
If you're not yet, then GEEETT EXCITED!!!
Because we have a really fun agenda planned...and will party like it's 1999!!! If you can, please dress up in decade attire (e.g., roaring 20s (gloves, fur wraps, fringy dresses), groovy disco 70s (bell bottoms, flower prints), punk rock 80s (track suits, sweat bands)).
And don't forget, bring your favorite drinks and appetizers as well!

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Extremely rare moment of Biscuit seeming to realize he’s not supposed to be doing something

An orange tabby is standing on top of one of those tall white IKEA storage thingies. He’s looking right at the camera with as guilty a look as cats ever get (extremely slightly guilty).

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I just had Chasing Sunsets in Amarillo at a work HH last week and it was delightful, delicate and complex, got both the orange blossom and the chamomile. My forever answer is Corpse Reviver #2.

Page from Old Ebbitt Grill’s cocktail menu to show Chasing Sunsets in Amarillo, which contains Barr Hill gin, cocchi americano, chamomile orange blossom honey, lemon, and hopped grapefruit bitters

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Last time I was in a Philly liquor store I saw this suggested pairing.

Jack Daniels Tenneesee Fire bottles at a liquor store with a tag from the store suggesting it be paired with beef.

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Remembered this one this morning, an incantation to summon the McRib

McRib McRib McRib McRib McRib
Overpass in Philly, 2021

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

They’ll have to increase it to 10 when this thing makes its way to Philly

The dismembered body of Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot summarily executed in Philadelphia, whose brave maniacs will hold the line against Skynet

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Chris Knight @lasttraintocool.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Search “drinks” in your camera roll. That time I opened the recycling at work to discover someone had either had a much better or much worse day than I had.

Empty bottle of Don Amado reposado mezcal in a lined recycling bin.

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