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Software developer at a library.

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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The flying monkeys attack from the Wizard of Oz.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Could be good, good be ... bad.
A screenshot of a Merriam-Webster post of a gif, that says "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.  Let's. Go."

There is an animated GIF image on the post which shows a sequence of words almost too fast to read, and this screenshot shows the  GIF stopped on the word "theatrical."
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The world is unfortunate enough to know about my hometown soda.
The Moxie soda logo, a white and blue drawing of a young man with hair drawn in blue with a short haircut, in a white suit jacket with a white band-collar shirt and a blue tie with a capital M at the top of the tie, his right hand pointing at the viewer; this is on an orange background, and the word "Moxie" written out in capital letters, with the M in a large capital, and the upper right and lower left arms of the X, and the left leg of the M, curve beyond the lines.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born. [OK, maybe a _little_ more than fifty years.]
An image of Henri Gaudier-Breszka's small, stylized modernist sculpture of two stags in red, pink, and white alabaster.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A movie that takes place where you're from.
Movie poster for "The Fighter," showing Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg leaning on the ropes of a boxing ring, with Wahlberg wearing boxing gloves.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My brothers, just the web archives are multiple petabytes (around 5 PB).
Fastnet promises to be a "state-of-the-art" fiber optic cable system, transporting over 320 terabits per second. That's enough to stream 12.5 million high-definition films simultaneously, or "transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second," Amazon says.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Image of the pink panther cartoon.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Ocean City, MD last night.
A sliver of the sun setting red behind a cumulus cloud, over a shoreline and bridge, with salmon, white, gray, and blue clouds, and several prominent rays rising above it.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise — you know. How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell one's name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog!
Quote from "Feline Feces (lib catturd) <@kitttenn.bsky.social>): 

M dashes (the long dash) are a dead giveaway. LLMs love using them for some reason, while actual human beings have no idea how to type that into the computer. They also love sets of three, overtly parallel structure, and impersonal writing.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Picture of the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer, a metallic console with a black keyboard on the left and a cartridge slot in a black inset on the right, with a rear panel at the back of the console extending about 3 inches that has a speaker grill on the right.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
A picture of the early evening sky, with Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS faintly visible in the upper-right corner and a faint glow of light on the horizon.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Maryland. _Maryland_
Photograph of the aurora borealis, mostly a pink glow with a single brighter pink tendril reach up from behind a house.
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ptrourke @ptrourke.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Sounds about right ...
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