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Roberta Ecks

@robertaecks.bsky.social
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Writer, retrotechnologist, owner of many typewriters and yet fond of digital widgetry, too. An amateur monkey pusher in re human origins. Most of all, a friend of cats. I block AI.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 42m
It's odd. I could not be more clear that I block AI, and yet people with AI avatars and banners keep following me. Look, if somebody uses AI to crunch huge data sets, I think they're foolish but I get the motive. For casual art? That's just wasteful, and damaging to visual artists. Out you go.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 7h
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Marcie808🧡🖤⚾️ @marcie808.bsky.social · 7h
A look at the evolution of the tamale share.google/YbLWQWZn6FiP...
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From Cup Tamales to Tamale Pie: A Historical Look at the Formation of Mexican-American Cuisine
By the late 1930s San Francisco was a bustling city teeming with nightlife and cultural foods. Restaurants ranged from classic oyster and seafood houses and American grills to the ethnic tastes pro…
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 6h
Are they gonna use water, or have they been saving up the effects of eating tainted lettuce?
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 6h
Oh, @tamslick.bsky.social ....
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah, and they stuck stuff on the White House, too. Which will be easier to scrape off, I wonder? The gold-colored crap, or La Lake?
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are a number of cases the Supreme Court hears without briefs. This is known as the Commando Docket.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is that my neighbor, or an instance of Neighbor 2.0 running on his former wetware, hacked with algae and flashing lights? Thanks, Nobel-winners; not only do the living envy the dead, now we can barely tell the difference between them. George Romero, prophet.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's a job like a pustulent wound, leaking poison into the body politic.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Isn't Leavitt the third Trump press secretary to get a gig at Fox?
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Behind glass, with the legend, "Break In Case Of Alien Invasion," perhaps? Good to know that one man stands strong against the extraterrestrial menace! ;) Or, you know, ready to serenade 'em in if they happen to enjoy that sort of thing. It's a win either way.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Now I want to know what kind of person pays that much for a steak and then microwaves it.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yknow, I was hearing they'd gone more green-gray and sticky-fingered than usual, but I thought it was just wartime rumor.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My Decaying Hearing: RX: Why do Russians have plague labs? Tam: Because they don't adhere to trees. RX: ponders, starts giggling, can't stop. Tam: Treaties! TREATIES, RX: Oh! I thought they'd added tree frog genes; I was thinking they invaded Ukraine to get more human genes before anyone noticed.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's quite a story connected to peposo, too: theflorenceinsider.com/peposo-recip...
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Peposo recipe and history of the fuel of Brunelleschi's dome
Peposo is a typical tuscan dish, linked to Brunelleschi and magnificent dome of Florence. Here's the history and my traditional peposo recipe
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sit down with them and engage them? Ask Michael Servetus how that approach turns out. If the name isn't familiar, try searching for it alongside John Calvin.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wait -- orange, stupid, limited vocabulary, wears a diaper? That's Baby Huey! Whew. For just a second there, I was worried it was the President.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I made peposo for supper tonight and it was wonderful. Little too salty, I'll fix that next time, but beef, garlic, what looks like way too much cracked black pepper and a whole bottle of chianti, the beef browned, then simmered for hours in pepper and wine! With fresh steamed mixed veggies.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That is one assertive line o' type!
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm pretty sure the "legal slave ownership" aspect is a big part of the appeal for them.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tamara, have I not told you and told you how unbelievably dangerous it is to let the passenger drive?
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Step outside, look at the sundial, think about the President's tiny clock. Thanks, Trump.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is it that every on of the men heading up these "A.I." firms has a facial expression that looks as if they were just smacked in the head with a cricket bat, flatways? A job half-done isn't worth doing, y'know. Hint, hint.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I let MeTV play in the TV all day Saturday -- morning cartoons give way to Westerns. Early "Gunsmoke" episodes are staggeringly bleak (like the radio show). The other shows, um...today, the Cartwrights on "Bonanza" appear to have met the Rabbi of Romani, or I don't know from accents.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The interesting thing about Joni Mitchell's music is, a lot of the time it's some simple-sounding little song, but to play it she's got her guitar tuned in some impossible way and the backing musicians had to take a calculus class to figure out the time signature.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So many of the searchers are connected to Purdue that I'm starting to suspect she'd signed up to teach another semester and been paid in advance when she was lost. Ask any Purdue prof, the university administration are world-class cheapskates. They want their money back.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I pulled out my copy to reread when the promotion hype started for this, and the pages were falling out. Too many reads! Had to buy a new copy. The series is stepping into big shoes. Big damn shoes.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's no way to read this except as an endorsement of fascism as an acceptable political system. Leader Principle, contempt for democracy, unequal justice, slave labor, death camps? Tucker's AOK with it! Stop treating him as if he was a decent person. He's a barbarian inside the gates.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Man, these people are still looking for Amelia Earhart like they think she owes them money.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Man, the disappointment was palpable when he did a lengthy live interview at the radio station where I worked (staff presence strictly limited to essential people only) and it quickly became clear he was utterly insensible to irony. Talented performer but as subtle as a hammer.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also, oxtail would like a word.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Originally, it meant a guy who fexes ponts, but the present meaning is more of a metaphor.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"We're gonna need bigger breading."
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
14 words later....
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still walking around in a robot made out of meat, which would be okay, if the damn thing wasn't defective.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(Now I want to do an update to the Basque story about the Devil arriving to ensnare 'em with glib talk and only learning to say hello and count to five after a year. I'd have him give up and head north. Does he get stabbed or reformed in Finland? Both seem likely.)
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm thinking you could have a class of specialists communicating in Chinese ideographs -- the PRC has really streamlined the lexicon and it would be a good common ground.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have you considered an alliance with the Basque speakers?
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tumescent tube-worms of Dune? Is this a parody?
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That gives me the opportunity to write: Thank you for an interesting and informative series of lectures, @stephenressler.bsky.social
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Point taken.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just finished watching the Great Courses series "Understanding the Marvels of Medieval Technology," conceived and taught by this guy, as kewl an engineer as there is (also a retired Brigadier General). Highly recommended geek history! stephenjressler.com
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Stephen Ressler, P.E. | Teacher + Engineer + Builder
Dr. Steve Ressler is an educator with a passion for communicating the joys of engineering to anyone who is curious about the role of technology in our world.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No dog, so he's not FBI. They always bring a date.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The biographical film about Robert E. Howard remains one of the best movies about a writer. It's not terribly flattering of us as a group, but still....
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
True, and yet -- did not The City With Broad Shoulders develop them, in part, wielding so-called Chicago typewriters in Valentine's Day surprises of the worst sort against "rats" in the pejorative sense? Just be careful what service you're hiring, is all.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Perhaps most saliently, in what sense are they using the word "rats?" I've seen too many noir films to take for granted the actual pestilential rodent is on offer.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In what universe is it considered ok to name the team mascot "Blue the Horse," and nobody even blinks? Look, if I wanted to hear that kind of talk, I would have joined the FBI.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dawn comes up like Maxfield Parrish on a deadline.
Trees in dark green silhouette in the foreground; above them a V of sky loaded with clouds, pink and underlit purple and golden highlights, churning like the froth of a stream
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skynet.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Super Intelligence"
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