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@noelkirkpatrick.com
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American copyeditor and English conversation tutor living in Nara Prefecture || Views are mine || www.noelkirkpatrick.com || boxd.it/kZr9

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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 21h
Well, I was going to see Resident Evil, but the theater changed the schedule because the distributor released some behind the scenes stuff to play before the flick. Sigh. Came out to the mall and everything.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 23h
Apparently there was a lot of Zima stuff at a pride event @serenityfound.bsky.social went to today with a bunch of younger folks who did not know about Zima and why Saralyn was tickled by its presence.
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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 10/10/2026
hey this might be some of @duckvalentine.bsky.social's best work
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 10/10/2026
For me, THE FOG is not necessarily the greatest movie, or even Carpenter’s best. But it’s also the movie that if someone told me they didn’t like I would question why they watch movies at all.
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thinking about this all day
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip
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Kuji (Comms Open!) @kujikawaii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if frieren came out in the mid 2000's we'd have a mid-budget fighting game with a roster of maybe 12-14 characters, with like a couple alt costumes for the main party and Denken would be extremely broken bc his hitbox is so small it'd be a 5/10 at best and I would play it every day of my life
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 06/10/2026
There's an errant period on a quest item description in Control Resonant (one of the instant photos), and it was driving me batty the entire time. Where's my patch for inconsistent punctuation? 😅
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 03/10/2026
Seated for Disclosure Day. Stoked to finally weigh in on.... What was the deal with this one again?
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 03/10/2026
The Japanese poster for Resident Evil advertises, right at the top and in HUGE characters, that it is only 90 minutes.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 24/09/2026
Finally catching up on the new season of Traitors US, and, man, I still love it when people say, "I can only go on the evidence..." when there's rarely any evidence, and, also, you don't have to vote with the herd, folks.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 24/09/2026
"Hey, Gemini, can I get a spaghetti recipe?" "This recipe is from the Year of Spaghetti 1971 AD. Drink tea with your spaghetti and eat a simple cucumber and lettuce salad. Cooking spaghetti is a delicate business, so don't answer the phone."
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Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A NYT Top 100 TV Voter Shares Their Brutally Honest Ballot
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Pat W @tekgo.org · 22/09/2026
Secure Cats in Purritos
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 20/09/2026
Morning view of Obama.
Beach along Obama, Fukui, Japan. The clouds are gray and heavy.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 20/09/2026
Still true as it pipes in Billy Joel's "Honesty" this morning.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 19/09/2026
But when I try to convince patrons of this cafe I haven't eaten in several days, the management asks me to leave.
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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 19/09/2025
If Wonder Woman isn't willing to play nice with Nazis, why should you? Be more like Wonder Woman.
A two-panel screenshot from the television series WONDER WOMAN that shows Queen Hippolyta saying, "Diana, why don't you just reason with the Nazis?" in the first panel, and the second panel below shows Diana saying "Mother, there is no reasoning with Nazis."
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 18/09/2026
I'm normally the youngest person in this monthly exercise group, but I think there's someone my age or younger here. Basing this on her looks but also because we're the only two checking our phones during rest breaks.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 18/09/2026
No Wednesday in Wednesday? Reacher out of reach(er)? Colin from Accounts withdrawn?!
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looks like Financial Times is first to report on today’s incredible revelations about OpenAI and Microsoft. /12 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, New York Times claims
Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I missed this from earlier this year by @nilsgilman.bsky.social but it's really useful for thinking about the middle powers as a concept and what they're actually in the middle of. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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A New Non-Aligned Movement? - Dissent Magazine
The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 17/09/2026
Am in this skeet, and I don't appreciate it.
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
YESSSSSSS
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 15/09/2026
Melissa Barrera wondering where Macklemore was in 2023.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 15/09/2026
Melissa Barrera wondering where Macklemore was in 2023.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
only send your strongest, buffest, most handsome men to watch mr hegseth
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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
you guys are making a lot of jokes, but the episode of Lost where they found the Harlem Globetrotters inside the Hatch was sick
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 15/09/2026
During a copy editing certificate course I did, the pro-AI speaker and instructor were all high on, "It'll always need a human at the wheel to check it." Well, hey, guess that turned out to be true. Just not how they meant it.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 14/09/2026
About to go see The Odyssey (it came out on Friday). Really glad the discourse is still going.
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The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.com · 12/09/2026
Welcome to the Era of the Dumbass Unforced Errors, Part A Million. gizmodo.com/the-v-h-s-sc...
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The 'V/H/S: SCP' Movie Doesn't Involve the Actual SCP Foundation
A24 thought 'V/H/S: SCP' could tap into another internet community, but that same community isn't happy about the studio's plans.
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yuzuBOO @yuzupool.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
yeah. they caught you loafed. yeah all four of your paws were tucked in. what the hell were you thinking its all over the news. you became bread
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Maybe not the most politically relevant aspect of that Fetterman clip but it had more janky cuts than a Dharma Initiative video
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 11/09/2026
No walking group today due to rain, so we're playing pétanque indoors. Which means.... youtu.be/Oi1MULqSg-k?...
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Disco Elysium Harry plays petanque
YouTube video by neokaio _
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 09/09/2026
The Yamato-Yagi Mister Donut always has the best music. Currently: Kool & the Gang's "Cherish"
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 08/09/2026
I can't update my priors because Big Prior just keeps shoving AI into them.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026
no that's totally different, that's a guy
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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 07/09/2026
Someone pointed out that a crystal shop is basically a warhammer store for women and I can’t stop thinking about it
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
are you the kind of person who orders their shopping list based on where items are in relation to the store's entrance and exit, creating a quick and handy guide for yourself as you traverse the store, or are you a pervert
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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The person who told Tim Walz to stop calling them “weird” should be in The Hague
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 01/09/2026
Instagram ads are currently only coming in two flavors: 1) Hey, if you're a US citizen living abroad, you can still vote! Here's how! 2) Here's what you need to know about renouncing your US citizenship.
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 01/09/2026
Would love to know how everyone knew I was done watching TV and had decided to clean the bathroom and so decided to message me constantly
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Holodeck Four @holodeckfour.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Right?!?!
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noel @noelkirkpatrick.com · 29/08/2026
Man, beautiful people just have all the worst problems in the world.
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