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A gachapon/capsule vending machine, in light blue with a pink capsule cage with a design of hearts. The colors go better together than the flash version suggests.

There is/was a nearby store called "JUST CABINETS" and then in smaller print "FURNITURE AND MORE" and I'm always thinking "you got off to such a great start but then you diluted the brand, c'mon man."

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 5h

I've bought from them a lot and someday I am going to actually visit. (I don't have occasion to sew dancewear but I am a sucker for shiny stretch fabrics for doll/plushmaking)

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 12h

I would just be "welp, I guess I live in Pennsauken now, easier to start a new life than find my way back to Galloway."

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 12h

I learned to drive, and spouse grew up entirely, in the Midwest where the roads were laid out on a one-mile grid. Sometimes before any towns were founded. We moved to New Jersey in the age of GPS and the roads are all deer trails, there is not a 90-degree intersection here, HOW did people live.

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 14h

a window i made probably 10-15 years ago just came back to the shop because the owners moved and wanted the hanging loops reoriented so it can hang horizontally instead of vertically. i loved this one, what a joy to see it again!

a stained glass panel in teals and turquoises of radiating circles emerging from a starting point at the tip of an arrow. the arrow extends most of the length of the panel and it is done in ambers, oranges, pinks, and greens

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 14h

Spouse keeps answering Google Maps questions on the principle that "it helps other users." We've been married 30+ years and that is the most "he's a ten but" thing about him.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 15h

Cage walls and lid are the only things left on this one, which is functional except for occasionally sending one of the balls rolling away.

The lower half of a light blue GachaPop Lite capsule vending machine. The upper cage is just the corner posts.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 17h

Update: the sparrows had absolutely stripped the bushes, which usually keep their fruit through late winter, and just now I realized there were some disturbing noises coming from the window and house sparrows were... attempting to pull the window screens off?! THEY ARE COMING FOR ME, SEND HELP

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 17h

After battling the settings, got it printing PETG again, except possibly the orange. Put it in the filament dryer (countertop oven on dehydrate mode) for awhile, but sidetracked myself printing a Lite (doesn't have to have the AMS disabled) and that'll be done in [checks notes] another 8-9 hours.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 03/10/2026

Ordered some small mochi (not water bead) squishes to put in the Halloween gachapon but they're completely unlabeled and kids are absolutely gonna eat them, this is not gonna work.

Tiny squishy toys in clear plastic. They're problematically bite sized. Like 100-calorie snack packs.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

have now heard or seen from multiple reliable people that this was leased pianos being returned and not the KC liquidating anything not that this will convince anyone but a few of you who follow me basically for dc debunking

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 03/10/2026

Picked up some zines from this person who really needs to be on Bluesky (he is on Instagram, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social, you should connect up if you aren't already) and some squishy GITD dice because you can never have too many dice.

etsy.com

StinkbugDraws - Etsy

Shop items by StinkbugDraws.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 03/10/2026

Went to the Witches Market at Rancocas Woods, got absolutely dumped on by rain out of the blue (vendor, frantically scrolling phone: "This was NOT ANYWHERE in the forecast!") but fortunately saw most stuff before the rain started and then just went "eh, won't melt" for the last half-dozen booths.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 02/10/2026

Does it have to be ocean fish? Because paddlefish are freaks, more so because lake fish are supposed to be *normal*. I was camping one time in IIRC Oklahoma and there was an enormous dead one on the shore and everybody was like "nope, not swimming in that lake now, that ain't right."

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 02/10/2026

I watched that video fully expecting one or more of the other kids to go "I want a piece of this" and stick their head in the fence, rather than a very vanilla rescue. Kids do that all the time!

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 02/10/2026

Every other word in that thing was in quotes! I don't think they could have sent out a more suspicion-inducing email if they tried.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 02/10/2026

Bisky has just flagged it as "needs review" rather than suspending it because hey, maybe it really is him. 😒

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 22/08/2026

When you order your Snail Facts calendar, there is a thingy to also make a donation. Do that, tell me you've done that, and I will send you the slug (slugs is snails!). Not sure how practical shipping a slug and an 11x14 calendar is together but if you want I can try to make it happen?

squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Snail Facts Advent Calendar

Let's talk about SNAILS BABY! Learn about snails for 24 days straight, with the Snail Facts Advent Calendar! Scratch off a snail shell a day to reveal a new fact about the snails of the world. They were designed by Philly illustrator Kelly Nichols! https://www.instagram.com/kidnichols/ These are 11x14inch...

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Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alexander* is yours for the low, low price of sponsoring four matches between a scientist and a classroom full of kids. * and the satisfaction of having facilitated four matches. Also, four different matches, not the same classroom four times. Unless you want? Sarah could probably arrange it. 🤷

silverseams.com

Alexander Mason, Slug | Silver Seams

Alexander Mason: a slug plushie, made with squishy foiled plush leopard fabric.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 02/10/2026

Red October seemed brief this year, but maybe it's just me.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 02/10/2026

My favorite mailbox is gone, alas, and not an official US mail type one. It lives on on the contact page here though:

silverseams.com

Contact | Silver Seams

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 02/10/2026

Right? The last time I set a Christmas pfp it became my year-round one (Karen from Frosty the Snowman).

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 01/10/2026

I used to drive past the signs for it on US400 between Wichita and Joplin visiting Mom but by the time the baby was a toddler Mom has moved back to Wichita and we never made the trip just for that. I have some regrets.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 01/10/2026

Wuloo, six-unit. Breaker one nine!

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 01/10/2026

("kids" are all their 20's, I should specify)

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 01/10/2026

One of the kids' friends was unfamiliar with strip mining(!) so I pulled up a picture of Big Brutus on my phone and he instantly went "it's a museum?! we could go SEE IT?" (alas it's 1500 miles away)

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 01/10/2026

We got some wireless intercoms that are really just walkie talkies with an intercom form factor, which is gonna result in the Gen X members of the household going full 1970’s CB Slang.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 01/10/2026

This is my one problem with the Skywalker bisky client: it doesn't allow text selection from the reading column. I didn't realize how often I did that.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 01/10/2026

I had to send this to the rest of the people at the table last night because I couldn't talk for a little bit in the middle of a ttrpg.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just got a text from a phillies fan absolutely furious that his favorite team has given him hope

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 30/09/2026

(granted maybe that's because I'm always stepping off the same train people who just bought it legally on the Jersey side were stepping off and lighting up? I don't ever *see* it happen though)

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 30/09/2026

Just read that PA lege is likely to legalize marijuana depending on election results and was like... it's not already? Center City sure always smells like it's legal!

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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 30/09/2026

are you all following this business with the flydubai flight where the first officer stabbed the captain, dived the plane so fast it tore the rudder off, was subdued by the passengers after somebody got the door open, and then two off duty pilots landed the plane* *all preliminary information

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Started listening to a Discworld novel that mentions “the Ninja Morrismen of New Ankh” and I immediately heard Alex Trebek’s voice go “Bizarre little men, you’re still in control of the board.”

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 30/09/2026

he's from the tin/ten convergence

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Make some good (or bad!!) art with your own brain today just bc you can ❤️

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 29/09/2026

Those punk Dem kids, always doing donuts in the policy parking lot.

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 29/09/2026

Well, I jinxed it: tried to print the bracket to hold the filament cutter out of the way and wiped out my PETG settings? maybe?

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 29/09/2026

Come for a great example of "if your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't try so hard to suppress it," stay for the nonmailability of infernal machines.

trumpconlaw.com

Nonmailable Matter | What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law

The twists and turns of Americans’ ability to vote by mail in the 2026 midterms....

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 29/09/2026

But! it was not a bobtail squid. CHECKMATE (actually giant cuttlefish seems important RN too though)

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i got one of my favorite kickers in ages published this weekend www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Given the difficulties Trump has had, there’s no telling when or how the Iran war will end. But the longer the conflict persists and oil shipments remain hindered, the more likely the shifts in oil demand we’re seeing are to become permanent.

This administration doing anything to purposefully encourage that outcome is deeply unlikely. But if I had a nickel for every time Trump accidentally drove down global carbon emissions through a terrible policy decision, I’d have two nickels. Which, as a fictional mad scientist once said, “isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?”

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 28/09/2026

I guess the bar for success now is "no debris hit any passenger flights."

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 28/09/2026

I saw Moby Dork, the glossy white one, again yesterday, but that's pretty much the only one I see around. (It was coming out of a Best Buy this time; I can only conclude the owner stopped in because it is making a funny noise on the delicates cycle.)

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 28/09/2026

I read it in his class every day thereafter, and got about halfway through. (I continued to read trashy paperbacks outside that class though.) It was exactly the right amount of "you should read something better but I'm not gonna force it... but I know you can't resist a challenge."

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 28/09/2026

could finish it before class and then read uninterrupted) would lift the cover of the book with his blackboard pointer, grunt, and lower it. One day he showed up with a garage-sale copy of War and Peace, dropped it on my desk with a thud, and said only "You won't get through that in a day."

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Karen C @silver.phoenyx.net · 28/09/2026

When I transferred to a new high school I was delighted to realize that meant a whole new library of trashy sf&f paperbacks to go through and I did so, about one a day. My English teacher (who recognized I was way ahead of the class and dropped the assignment on my desk as soon as I showed up, so I

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