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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 22h

i picked up my wife at her office once and there was Vitalogy literature just sitting on a desk. it was a loaner from the Vitalogy Health Association hawking their wares

a cardboard-bound pamphlet labeled Vitalogy, with the title styled like the Pearl Jam cover, but it's plain brown board, not gold debossed leather-texture. it has a label on it reading "this pamphlet is only loaned. kindly read, handle with care and return when call for. Any information desired will be furnished free by our representative. very truly, vitalogy health association

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

when it's hot out but you can see the harvest festival on the horizon

a tabby cat looks intently at something over your shoulder. there is a set of deer antlers on the wall behind her and it looks like they're her antlers.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

KITTEN ADOPTION KLAXON Gravy needs a home in the Baltimore/DC area ASAP, preferably one with other young cats. After the sudden death of her only sister, she really craves playtime with other kittens. Gravy is fully vaccinated and spayed, cuddly and playful, and learns what is ok and not ok fast.

gray kitten sleeping, curled into a cinnamon roll shape

gray kitten sitting on a wooden letter box, looking up expectantly

gray kitten lying on her back reaching her paws out to you

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

wake up babe, new eadweard muybridge just dropped

a tabby kitten stands on a box, below her is a larger tabby cat looking at the camera.

in a blur, the tabby kitten leaps over the tabby cat

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michael's, a Michael's Experience by Michael's in collaboration with Michael's for Michael's

the store front of an establishment called, apparently, "Michael's." it is painted black with all the trim painted gold, and the word "MICHAEL'S" is lettered on transom window, the front window, the awning, and on the wall above the awning, plus there is a sign out front that reads "welcome to the michael's experience"

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

always stop to photograph mantises, no matter what size

a large brown mantis walking out from behind some branches. her front legs are loosely folded in front of her and she is looking right at the camera

a very tiny green mantis with its front legs held folded in praying position and rear legs reaching wide, standing on the finger of a silicone barbecue glove.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

meanwhile, here in the mirror universe:

A box of limited edition (!) chicken ramen flavored kraft mac & cheese (kraft dinner)

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i saw them when they opened for Crush Zone

a warning sign. at top, in an orange box, it reads ! WARNING

The text at bottom is Crush Zone. Keep Clear.

The center of the sign is a stick figure warning man being crushed between two black and white striped boxes, with arrows pointing in their direction of travel, which is right into the poor guy's ribs. he is flailing his arms in the air, presumably in deathly agony.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the kittens have matching gear for their upcoming spays

two kittens playing, both wearing sleek black shirts

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this cat is looking for investors in a new medical diagnostic technology that will change everything

A slender tabby cat in a tight black shirt

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Morgana O'Reilly navigating the Taskmaster New Zealand house while it's packed full of objects starting with the letter B that she is not allowed to touch is one of the most breathtaking feats of athleticism, cleverness, and catlike grace i have ever seen.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i have the same timecard clock that was featured in tonight's Taskmaster

a tall oak timecard clock, the kind you punched in on in the olden days. it is in a museum of water and steam works.

closeup of a tall oak timecard clock, the kind you punched in on in the olden days. it is in a museum of water and steam works.

a timecard clock of almost the exact same model, in a normal person's house.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

results of favorite finger poll (adjusted for respondents with a preference only)

a human hand, held with fingers together and palm toward the camera, but the fingers have been adjusted for length according to the survey results for respondents' favorite fingers. the thumb is stubby, the index is a usual size the middle is a full knuckle shorter than the index, the ring is another knuckle shorter, and the pinky is a tiny stub

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's tragic that the numbers aren't such that this could be the graph

A hand held with the fingers together and pointing up, palm toward the camera

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

before Gritty grew his hair out, he made ends meet as an Uber driver

An old timey Halloween post card, witha jack-o'-lantern headed chauffeur driving an old timey open topped car with two more jack o lanterns for headlights. The driver's expression and orange skin tone is very reminiscent of gritty.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is what fed triangle looks like if you're trying to get to t he metro

the arches of the federal triangle metro stop in DC, with a fancy building in the back, but all access to pretty much everything is blocked by weirdly intersecting temporary metal barrier fences

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we need an investigative report into the sequence of events between the article's unnamed sources saying, presumably, that the dialogue would all be elizabethan, and the writer thinking the actors would be speaking from, presumably, a vat of:

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

metalocalypse was prescient about so much

cartoon black metal singer Nathan Explosion on his Dethphone, a licensed cell phone with a tiny red screen and a pre-smartphone button array and also it is covered in spikes that would penetrate your ear if you held it to your head normally, which is why he's gingerly grasping it between thumb and forefinger and holding it away from his ear. also there's a metal chain hanging off of the phone, which makes it more brutal.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

now i'm imagining the "Draw this monster the Taskmaster is going to describe" task as an anglo-saxon riddle

The angry monster has three arms.
Two of which are lumpy.
She has two eyes, and two more eyes.
And one leg.
And two more eyes.
And a huge tusk that looks like a tree.
She is urinating, and waving, and holding a cake.
And she is stripy all over, and is very very cold, and she has three more legs.
And she's doing a star jump.
And she has a pet dog, that is small and furry and red and black and has one leg missing.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the good news is i've finally secured a location for the new summer camp. the bad news is...

google maps screenshot of massacre bay, which is home to an island called skull rock

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

we had a monarch pass through our yard yesterday

Looking up at a clear blue sky. A monarch butterfly grasps a lightbulb hanging from a line.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

throwback to when i found this sweetie pie with her miniscule kittens

A tabby cat nursing two tiny tiny kittens in an empty woodpile structure outside

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

she has become the cuddliest cat in all the world. not sure how much is due to loopiness from anaesthesia, and how much to being separated from her kittens. regardless, she just wants to be held 24/7 now.

I am holding a sleepy cat in a onesie like a baby

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