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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You post this calendar-quality picture and label it simply as a “woodpecker”? You, whose own post years ago taught me how to identify a Northern Flicker? (A female at that, in your gorgeous autumn photo, sans moustachio.) Janet, are you okay?! (Your ID guide is one of my favorite things ever.)

Annotated photograph of a Northern Flicker:
— “Ant cruncher” beak
— nape patch “Red spot because it’s so extra”
— black “Moustachio” face markings (on a male)
— black “Bib makes the outfit pop”
— belly feather pattern “Polka dots are fun”
— wing feather “Stripes too?! Sure, OK”
— “Yellow shaft”
— and curved pointy claws “Because dinosaur"

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can personally vouch for the Medline Premium Empower. We got one in early 2020 for a trip to WDW (huge amounts of walking, much need for stopping and sitting) and love it. Very comfortable seat and soft back, nice grips, easy to stash in a Prius — perfect for travel, and we’ve been using it since.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Continuing to see signs of a healthy mycelium in my yard. This little friend popped up today.

A small, slender white mushroom with a hemispherical cap, looking giant from a ground-level perspective, surrounded by leaf litter and backed by sunlight filtering through a cherry tree canopy and Virginia sweetspire.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A third of my comics collection is Matt Howarth. I collected Post Bros., Savage Henry, and Keif Llama, plus specials like WRAB. My reader letter included thanks for the “Love That ‘Bob’” comic that Matt wrote for The Stark Fist of Removal, and he reprinted it as the extra story in Post Bros. #11.

A few panels of Matt Howarth’s “Love That ‘Bob’”:

Ron Post, sitting in a living room armchair, is asked “Can I be of assistance?” and replies “Prob’ly…wait…I have a letter of introduction…”

He holds up a card: “BOB SENT ME”

“Bob,” pipe ever in mouth, examines the card with surprise: “I did?” Ron answers, “We have to talk — in private.”

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So great to see Angine de Poitrine get some merchandising opportunities.

A display of insulated polka-dot drink mugs. Two are white with black dots; the other is matte black with lighter-looking glossy dots. Caption:

Only on Amazon
Shop the polka dot collection
HYDROJUG

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just found this photo of a remote for a stair-lift chair. I’m genuinely impressed: If someone handed this to me without explanation, I would have no idea what any of the buttons do or what kind of device they control.

Catalog photo of the remote control for a Flow X stair lift. It’s a long rounded off-white rectangle, looking a bit too large for the hand that’s holding it. Near the top is a rounded rectangular button divided into top and bottom halves: the top has a simplified silhouette of a person’s head and torso, with a dashed arrow pointing inward to the middle of the body; the bottom is an uppercase letter P. Below that large button and still above the midline of the remote is a rounded square button with no markings at all. The bottom half of the remote is an empty flat surface.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Quote with a ship that makes you happy: The Ship of the Imagination.

The Ship of the Imagination from Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. It’s a thin-edged oblong lozenge with a seamless chrome mirror finish and a spherical module embedded near one end. As pictured, it’s hovering in a vertical orientation just off some seaside cliffs with its lower tip touching the water, and it appears to be about 200 feet tall. As a ship of the imagination, it can change in size and is not restricted by the laws of physics, able to travel freely within and across space and time. It is a vessel of scientific communication and speculation.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@weirdguita.rs Different guitar! Check out the headstocks!

Khn, guitarist for Angine de Poitrine, playing a double-neck guitar/bass with a reverse Strat-style six-in-line guitar headstock and a Tele-style four-in-line bass headstock.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This reads differently after my colonoscopy this morning.

An Apple Store notification on an iPhone:

Get ready for pre-order now

Choose the new iPhone 18 Pro and get the prep work done now before pre-order starts on 9.12.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He deserved a world and a self free from patriarchy. We all do. He’d have been 97 today. He was a brilliant editor, writer, artist, and wit. It’s said the pen is mightier than the sword; his blue pencil was a godddamn lightsaber of clarity. Thanks for doing everything as well as you knew how, Dad.

My father, a youthful 60 or so, circa 1990. He’s editing at his desk at home, pencil poised between his fingertips. He’s photogenic, he knows it, and he’s happy to smile wryly for my camera.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have some California mixed in somehow. And a little Florida?

A U.S. heat map showing that St. Chris speaks a predominantly New Jersey dialect, with a slight California influence and just a tinge of Florida.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Decent crop of boneset in the yard this year. This red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) was unhurriedly enjoying the flowers.

A brownish-grey butterfly with a jagged stripe of red, black, and white perches on a tall, spindly green plant with white flowers. Its head, legs, and antennae are striped white and black.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@weirdguita.rs My only acoustic is a Yamaha FD01S, a beautiful-sounding huge boxy Martin-style dreadnought. I was in Guitar Center today and saw this. Fender California Standard Monterey CE. It is weird. It is terribly comfortable. It is on sale for $80 less than the price tag. Please send help.

A Fender California Standard Monterey CE acoustic-electric guitar with a natural spruce (laminate) top. It’s orchestra-sized with a Venetian cutaway, walnut fretboard, mustachio bridge, laminate sapele sides and back, and characteristic California series six-in-line Jazzmaster headstock.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I set up the shot again and used the Analogue camera app, which bypasses most of Apple’s computational-photography hyperprocessing but (optionally) adds film grain. There we go. That’s the stuff.

A cylindrical black-and-silver 512 Audio Skylight microphone in an angular silver Samson SP01 spider-type shock mount on a black desk-mounted boom arm, dramatically side-lit by a cool white light. The background is dark and warm-colored with a variety of out-of-focus shapes.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My audio interface has a different vibe.

An Elgato Wave XLR MK.2 audio interface. It’s a black rectangle with a big circular dial in the middle. Around the dial is a ring that’s partially lit in green. Next to the interface is a Stream Deck, same black rectangular design, with 15 buttons showing various functions from Microsoft Teams.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My microphone now has a right-angle XLR cable. Nice and neat; not sticky-outy.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Jon and I were born in the same year and we’ve never met or even spoken with each other and he’s one of my favorite people and we are aging like it’s our professional craft. Happy birthday, Jon.

A middle-aged white guy with short brown hair parted on the side and sticking up a bit because he slept in. He wears a black t-shirt and is standing in front of a wall of guitars because he thinks it makes him look like a musician.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I got a reminder (my last one for the evening) and completed it. The Unforgetful screen now confirms that I’m done doing things for the day. This is my kind of UI. You know your people, @marcoarment.bsky.social.

Cropped screenshot of the Unforgetful reminder app for iPhone. The phone is in dark mode, and the top edge of the app screen, above a few simple control buttons and behind the iOS clock and network/battery status icons, is a starry blue night sky. Between that and the lower-positioned “Tomorrow” list is a large, friendly dark gray panel with a simple line-art icon of a tree, and the words: No more tasks today!

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“This one I took this.” Nobody pointed that out? For that, you get me and my Pacifica. I took this one this evening this.

St. Chris smiling with his metallic red Yamaha Pacifica PAC012 electric guitar with a walnut fretboard and a white pearloid pick guard.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Although: I do keep coming back to this one I took this four weeks ago.

Close-up of the upper bout of a Yamaha FD01S dreadnought acoustic guitar, sort of a shoulder-down view. The nato wood on the sides is a rich, variegated reddish-brown. The spruce top is golden yellow. The binding between the two different tonewoods is black with two fine white pinstripes. The dark fretboard is at the left edge of the frame; the black pick guard and bridge are below it and somewhat out of focus.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My microwave has buttons for this! You can choose a beep or a little jingle, set the volume, or just turn it off. I turned it off. …the beep. You can turn off the beep. That other thing is a different problem.

Control panel on a Breville Smooth Wave microwave oven. There are buttons for:
SOUND 🎵
BEEP VOL 🔈
MUTE 🔈🚫

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If ChatGPT is your lifestyle brand, you’ll love the Codex Micro! It’s an officially licensed accessory. But you’re paying for the logo, not exclusive functionality. Chris mentions the Elgato Stream Deck, which costs far less and is far more capable. This or a Stream Deck + would be far more useful.

An Elgato Stream Deck Mk.2 desktop keypad. It has 15 buttons that are all customizable LCD displays. The buttons are currently showing controls for Microsoft Teams conference calls via the MuteDeck app, which makes common actions like muting/unmuting, screen sharing, emoji reactions, and recording into single button presses, and shows when the microphone is muted or the camera is turned off.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WOW. You are not kidding. I have Chromes on my Ibanez Mezzo, and the nylon .88 adds flavor I didn’t know I could get. You just gave me a new bass.

Close-up of the red headstock of an Ibanez SR Mezzo SRMD200 bass with a grey Dunlop .88 mm nylon guitar pick wedged between the blue silk ends of its D’Addario ECB81M flatwound strings.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I got a couple variety packs of guitar picks, and they’re blowing my mind. It’s like playing a dozen different guitars.

A multicolored assortment of guitar picks scattered on a black desk next to a metallic red Yamaha Pacifica 012 electric guitar with a white pearloid pick guard.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Anyway, I got this 512 Audio Skylight microphone on clearance. I don’t like the shock mount that came with it, so I tried my 17-year-old Samson SP01 spider mount. I’m in love.

A cylindrical black-and-silver 512 Audio Skylight large-capsule condenser microphone, cradled in a silver Samson SP01 shock mount with black suspension elastics. The background is blue with a light retro geometric pattern.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I made this thirteen years ago when Sears was going through a rebranding phase. I mean, if you’re one of the most comfortingly normal brands ever, just remind people to go to your store.

Large dark blue lowercase logotype with an all-caps light blue art-marker tagline:

sears

YOU KNOW…SEARS!

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Atlassian Confluence documentation system now has a “Listen” button that can speak the words on the page, but the default audio is an AI “briefing,” not straightforward text-to-speech. Technical writing now requires anticipating not just human readers but an LLM that rewords what you’ve written.

Cropped screenshot of a technical document on a website. An information bar includes several items: “Ready for review,” (status), “1 min” (estimated time to read), “Listen” (hear an AI-generated voice), a count of how many times the page has been viewed, and “Add a reaction” (to put an emoji reaction on the page)

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

According to JCP&L’s outage map, 11% of their customers in New Jersey have a power outage.

Customers Out: 128,116
Customers Served: 1,158,126

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