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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s so stupid. No, socialism isn’t taking your house. It’s letting you get through college and covering your healthcare.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Etymology note: The word pale in the phrase “beyond the pale” has an archaic meaning of a spiked fence around a camp. Thus if something is beyond the pale, it’s out of bounds.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Fall of the House of Usher is arguably the best Vincent Price Poe adaptation. The creepy ancestral portraits by Burt Shonberg add atmosphere. Like this one of Vivian Usher, the infamous blackmailer.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shopping at B’More Lexington Market. A local institution:

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You’ve seen this type of ad before. They all share a common property: Whatever is shown in the photo will not appear at the link, which will be mostly women’s skincare products.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The tagline for Harry Harrison’s hero was: When the world is a steel trap, you need a stainless steel rat. I think maybe we’re going to need some robot rabbits.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pop-up ads like this one are appearing more often. They violate a design rule that requires any visual element obscuring content to display a close button—usually an X. It can be closed with a force-quit, and the newer versions require you to wait for a set period before closing automatically.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FDA inspectors are not a nice-to-have. Firing them all was a bad move.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The two-part episode of Speed Racer in Egypt is memorable. Still available online. Maha Go-Go-Go!

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you have $40 lying around, here's a block of metal shaped like a typewriter, for décor. The real thing can be had for roughly the same amount. Or you could purchase the illusion.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hard to believe that Mobile Suit Gundam is coming up on 50 years old.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In a world where nothing is certain, ONE MAN ONE CAT ONE GLASS ONE CHAIR ONE BOOK… The math here is working out nicely.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Attending this tonight. It’s a stage where people go up and read embarrassing things from their school days. Shame so thick you can slather it.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Guardrails," schmardrails:

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please note: On this day of September 2026, a man finally learned his lesson. Wrapping up a small hardware installation project, I had a few miscellaneous parts left over. Instead of tossing them in the junk drawer, I threw them away. Took every iota of willpower I possess.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Aha! My rowhouse had a similar problem: water seeping through the subterranean bricks. The solution was to replace the alleyway floor. $$$

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Attending a Profs and Pints lecture on the Victorian Sexual Underworld. Most interesting.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Didn’t have “Popular Mechanics turns into the National Inquirer” on my bingo card.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Aha! OK—that sounds plausible. I just checked. The lid doesn’t seem to offer an angle and no scratches. Doesn’t rule the idea out. Great thinking.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey, BlueSleuth—calling all detectives: When I collected my mail this morning, I saw something orange at the bottom of the mailbox. A pair of scissors. The box is locked, so someone had to open the lid to drop them in, knowing they would be irretrievable. Why?

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good casting. And I’m loving it!

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I often listen to down-tempo lounge music; spy-movie tracks, you know. On YouTube, there’s dozens of channels. Most look like this, with variations in the same style. I noticed that the songs were kinda generic with no track or artist info… Soundhound doesn’t recognize them… because AI slop.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Turns out that shuttering the FDA and firing all the inspectors is not the best move:

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Montreal Notre Dame cathedral and some street graffiti:

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m here in Montreal right now. Here for several days. So far, the food underwhelms.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Carpenter ants on the march!

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Botanical Gardens have a lepidoptological center.Impossible to be in a bad mood when you’re surrounded by butterflies:

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Le Lion de La Feuille, at the stunning Montreal Botanical Gardens

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

View from the Birks. Montreal feels more like Europe than Canada. Also, getting out of the States is calming.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And settled into Hotel Birk in the old district. Old School

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This channel will be broadcasting Montreal-centered content for the n xt few days. Gotta say, it feels good to be out of the States.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you’re out of potato chips, videos of outraged Republicans bemoaning their loss of food stamps and Medicare are eminently snackable.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You’ve heard of bodega cats. Here at the Pickett brewery, they have a bar cat. Meet Tuna:

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Entrance detail of my local Catlick choich.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Life is good when you’re enjoying a cold one on the upper level of a double-decker bus touring the cats of downtown Baltimore. Did I mention that this city totally rips the tits off anything in Florida?

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Well look at who just got leopard-faced: “Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE, held at major deportation hub in Louisiana”

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sci-Fi novelist John Brunner’s 1972 “The Sheep Look Up” is a dystopian prediction of the future. Most of the terrors he describes are happening right now. The slow collapse of our food-safety protocols are a case in point. Planes crashing, general crumbling of our infrastructure, he nailed it.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I highly recommend these, if you can find them:

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A bit. First-time workmen headed into the basement meet this, and there’s more down there.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Another ace—I tell ya folks, it’s all skill.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#Wordwatch: Polyester (adj). Gen-Z slang for cheap, generic, or low-quality. May have origins in the video editing community; ex: “That new Ben Stiller film looks polyester.”

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

According to reports, it’s getting worse than this.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The military publication Stars & Stripes isn’t exactly what you’d think. For soldiers in the field, it’s the last thing they can trust. The editorial staff walk a thin line, but they do their best.

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Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Chilli’ at the Cross Street Market. An institution since 1840. There’s a butcher and a fishmonger. Developing relationships with them is a pleasure.

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