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Ilene Tatroe (she/they)

@murphgrrl.bsky.social
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Boston-ish area software product manager, mom to teen, SFF con runner. Supernatural (Dean), Frank Turner, The Weakerthans, John K. Samson. Destiel is Cannon.

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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 21h
Review any state and local measures on the ballots and know how you plan to vote. Local organizations (like LWV and state-level orgs with similar ideologies; Progressive MA for me) have some great guidance, because measures can be murky.
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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is, hands down, the best thing to ever come out of the Trump Administration. 🫡
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Weird definition of "down". I was paying an average of $70/week for groceries under the Biden administration. Now it's something like $110/week, and that's really in the last year. (I can get it lower, but it means I buy no meat.)
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OK ... @mazianni.carterhaugh.net and I were JUST talking about this song like 30 minutes ago because it has been stuck in my head as I watched Riot Women the last week. (GREAT show.)
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Worbler @worbler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
now playing on uncertain.fm » Hole, "Violet"
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💥
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've been thinking about this a lot, since I had to move my parents out of their house a few years back since everything was stairs, and my Dad was pretty much wheelchair-bound. Our house is also stairs. We will need a plan, which will likely be moving.
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AI flyers are the Comic Sans of marketing.
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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You don't want to push Canada too far and make them unleash their deadliest weapon
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Kids In The Hall: Crushing Your Head!
ALT: Kids In The Hall: Crushing Your Head!
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you don't throw out the Nazis from your bar as soon as they appear, then it's a Nazi bar. That's the rule.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
A sundowning old man, addicted to AI slop, surrounded by supplicants and apparatchiks, with control over the US nuclear arsenal.
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Me: Trump dyed his hair. Spouse: There are 2 too many words in that sentence.
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google now has Lake Ontario as Lake America (but only for those of us in the US). Let Google know this is THE DUMB. Click the three dots next to "Lake in North America" and Send Feedback. I told them the information is Incorrect and it is Lake Ontario.
Screen grab showing Google search for Lake Ontario returns Lake America and how to send feedback (at least form my laptop).
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Note: you can send feedback from within Google Maps and I hope they get inundated. They're literally opting to provide inaccurate information for political expediency.
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I did that. I also reminded them about HOMES. (Did not tell them about SHAME, but maybe I should).
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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The TikTok girlies are referring to Amanda Palmer as “steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell” and damn
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
TBH, the nod toward empathy terms AI is using have always made me feel like it was fake. At least in text. E.g.; "Great idea!", which Claude uses. When someone says it in Slack ... I don't believe it. When it's spoken, well, I might believe it (depends on how it's said and source and then backup).
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Dominic @domoffinland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
this guy gets it
Listen to this king at a Huntington City Council meeting on Flock Cameras:

"I'm not gonna waste your time, I'm kinda hungry, but one last thing. Every single Flock camera has about 2-3 lbs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold. Do with that information what you will."
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mazianni @mazianni.carterhaugh.net · 31/07/2026
Radio Free Entropy has music from Glen Hansard, The Commitments, The Frames, The Swell Season, and a bunch of bands that didn't have Glen Hansard in them (but maybe sound like they did). Tonight at 8pm ET (replay Monday at noon ET) on uncertain.fm #music #uncertain.fm
A half full whiskey glass sitting on an acoustic guitar.  Radio Free Entropy.
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Well, that's a number.
AP headline: Average 30-year US mortgage rate rises to highest level in a year at 6.66%
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
And then, as the Scots have taught us, get harvested as hats for our statues?
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In a single tweet 6 years ago Seth Moulton undercut his entire reason for running.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/07/2026
MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I need a meme where Satan is checking his tracking info for Mitch McConnell's soul and it says "label created."
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is the point in Sim City where you’re like well I’m fucked
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Orange Colored Sky is stuck in my head. Because the sky here is orange from the Canadian wildfires. (Heard when I did Sweet Adelines before I ever heard it in Fallout.) #orangesky #canadianwildfires
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Nat King Cole - Orange Colored Sky (Visualizer)
YouTube video by NatKingColeVEVO
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Verify your age" I watched all 16 hours of Live Aid on MTV and whatever local channels had it, getting up for the start in the UK and staying up until the end in the US. (41 years tomorrow)
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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Now that Lindsey Graham is dead . . . South Carolinian Stephen Colbert has the potential to do the funniest thing
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I can't help the feeling that this is one more obsequious act, dying to distract us from the other guy who may or may not be dead.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In a shocking breach of Republican protocol, Lindsey Graham has informed the press and the public that he’s dead.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 06/07/2026
I don't think it should be legal to hide whether an elected official is conscious and or alive.
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I was reminded today that this exists and I want to share it to bring joy to others. #westwing #linmanuelmiranda #whatsnext
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What's Next? featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda
YouTube video by The West Wing Weekly
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I mostly listen because I'm in the room with a listener/DJ. And it is pretty great.
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hang in the the Louvre
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The award for alt text should go to…
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Known for playing cantinas in evil hives of scum and villainy, Figran D'an and the Modal Nodes will NOT be playing the Great American State Fair, noting that that is way too scummy and villainous, even for them.
Star Wars cantina aliens playing some tunes
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
They put one of those blue toilet tank cleaning tablets in the Lincoln Memorial.
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ТЬМА НЕ СКРОЕТ СВЕТ 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @fortmaligator.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Sign 999,999,999 and counting…
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
we'll know if it happens because this site fully won't load when it does
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I still remember this one and giggle occasionally
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Listened to a playlist that served up some tried-and-true REM today and went "Oh. Wait. Wow." So yes.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Fascinating Bloomberg piece about how AI is used as an excuse for downsizing, but isn't usually the real reason: > “We’re restructuring around AI” is a growth signal. “We over-hired during the pandemic and revenue softened” is an accountability signal. /1
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
WTAF?
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We use Claude at work (don't hate it, actually), but yeah ... all I see is a butthole. And I am so glad it is not just me. (Google Authenticator also looks like a butthole, BTW)
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
When I was growing up, my parents had one odd and one even numbered license plate. Why? Gas rationing in the 1970s was odd numbered plates on odd days and even numbered plates on even days. So they could always tank up a car if needed.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 08/03/2026
WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Fox News video of President Trump welcoming home the coffins of fallen soldiers this weekend
Smithers worshipping Mr. Burns in a golden muscle suit
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day. Or, here in the US, Women's 23 hours.
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