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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I won't live down that brief Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Crunch bars obsession, huh

Screenshot of an Amazon 'About You' Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) surveillance result based on previous Whole Foods purchases (and probably data from other grocery stores' tracking data): 'Brands: Prefers Yasso for frozen yogurt products'.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That thick Irish hair 🥵 www.instagram.com/p/CGcH6AJJvoD/

Mark Litton, contestant on Series 11 of 'The Great British Bake Off' ('The Great British Baking Show' for US viewers), poses with his Showstopper White Chocolate Celebration Cake that he called 'A Baking Show Birthday'.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You guys, this is a catastrophe lying in wait for the videotape head cleaner fans

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also, whenever one of these meme quizzes making the rounds spits out a California/San Francisco/Los Angeles result, I get all astrologically cuckoo and wonder if I've been denying a destiny or greater purpose on Pacific coast.

MyDialect.us Standard Language Quiz "Cities most and least like you" results, interpolated from the nearest survey responses. Most Similar are San Francisco CA (54%), Los Angeles CA (54%), and Seattle WA (54%). Least Similar are Oklahoma City OK (48%), Dallas TX (49%), and New Orleans LA (49%).

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well, duh...though I'm skeptical of the stronger affinity with the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula. IIRC, the dialect in those areas was more country bumpkin two decades behind the lingo curve, with a Fargo-esque "Minnehsewtah"/"Wiss-kahn-sin" accent.

Screen capture of an MyDialect.us Standard Language Quiz results. "You talk most like someone from Michigan - about 55% of your answers match a typical resident". A color map of the United States shows "More like you" areas through northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and most of the country west of the Rockies (including Alaska). The "Least like you" areas centers on Oklahoma City and covers most of the South, and New England centered on Boston.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When your big spoon cuddles a little too tightly 😳

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Re: Hunt for Gollum (I wonder if there will be a soft reboot element to incorporate novel’s the seventeen-year time gap omitted from the film trilogy)

Screencap of an iMDB Trivia item for "The Hunt for Gollum" film. It reads "Elijah Wood will be 46 at the time of this film’s release, three years older than Viggo Mortensen was when 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' was released (2001)".

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Forgot I did that Pantone Birth Chart Palette thing (probably another PII scam). Not sure about some of these results...

Screenshot of a 'My Pantone Birth Chart Palette'. The chart is a square split into four quadrants. Each quadrant is filled with a color, and includes the color's name, its hexadecimal color code, its RGB color triplet code, and the Pantone color number that is the closest match to the displayed color.

The upper left quadrant features the Leo Sun sign. The color is Solar Gold; hex triplet #F0A72E; RGB triplet 240, 167, 46; closest Pantone color match number 130 C.

The upper right quadrant features the Aries Moon sign. The color is Ember Pulser; hex triplet #C84632; RGB triplet 200, 70, 50; closest Pantone color match number 7619 C.

The lower left quadrant features the Sagittarius Rising sign. The color is Horizon Violet; hex triplet #8A72D8; RGB triplet 138, 114, 216; closest Pantone color match number 2101 C.

The lower right quadrant features the Leo Venus sign. The color is Velvet Apricot; hex triplet #F29A62; RGB triplet 242, 154, 98; closest Pantone color match number 6016 C.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Piling on the Reflecting Pool documentation. Didn't see or know about the poor duckling until later 😢

Photo of southeast corner of the Reflecting Pool, Washington DC, highlighting the algae bloom due to the Trump Regime's desecration/money laundering.

Photo of eastern edge of the Reflecting Pool, Washington DC, highlighting the algae bloom due to the Trump Regime's desecration/money laundering.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Detail of Raspberry Icicle (1967), by Gene Davis, at a 135-degree angle. Acrylic on canvas, 116 inches by 219 ⅞ inches (294.6 x 558.4 centimeters). Photo taken at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, on January 1, 2017.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I bought far more books than I read, apparently 😔

My StoryGraph Wrap-Up 2025, featuring the covers of the books I read in 2025. These include the Wheel of Time series, and Philip Pullman’s The Secret Commonwealth and The Rose Field.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Ohio is keeping it real...real Puritan.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Remember, it's only a *real* crime if the capital class was the victim

Screencap of Reddit's mobile app News feed. Two posts are featured: from r/news, "Oklahoma high school student convicted of sexual assault serves no prison time." From r/television, "Carl Rinsch found guilty of scamming Netflix out of over $11 million over a never finished sci-fi series, faces up to 90 years in prison."

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

1) [citation please]. 2) Love it when commentators from the Institute of Centrist Purity Control hide behind slippery “pragmatism” to accuse progressives of purity testing 🙄

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Cover image of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Recent acquisitions: • Boys and Oil, Taylor Brorby • Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas: Revised and Updated Edition, @aduralde.bsky.social • The Butcher's Daughter, @daviddemchuk.com and @corinneleighclark.bsky.social

Photo of the paperback spines of Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas: Revised and Updated Edition by Alonso Duralde, and The Butcher's Daughter by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Posting hole (belly button with weird white snaggletooth hair)

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Wasp Rick and Morty might have been on to something.

Alternate reality Wasp Rick and the Smith family happily feast upon a living caterpillar Mr. Goldenfold as Rick C-137 (in a Wasp Rick clone body) watches.

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All words are made up @sjbertorello.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"We don't have inalienable rights, we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever [sic] currently holds the reins." www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTum...