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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You're gone. It still seems unreal and yet all too real sometimes. Our paths diverged, occasionally crossing at random intervals, but I knew you were there as I was for you. I didn't get to say goodbye and it still hurts. I see you out of my eye's corner and half speak, mistaken. I miss you.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Three on the tree" used to have a different meaning.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The youngest son and I found a recipe for a Nestle Quick copycat. He thought the final product was worthy to keep On a side note, if you swap the ratios for sugar and unsweetened cocoa you get a dark chocolate version.

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The More You Know Star Logo

ALT: The More You Know Star Logo

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Apparently, I offend some people just by existing. Good to know.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Not many bands covering Nancy Sinatra! (The Nightcaps at The Hog Wallow, Cottonwood Heights, UT)

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I guess I'm not going anywhere for a while ...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/07/2026

I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...

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Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing

Back in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@jesszafarris.com I followed a wild hare (figuratively) this morning and found the phrase "unmitigated gall" as far back as 1832 in "Review of Ritson, 'Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots', Westminster Review, January 1832". Do you know of earlier usage? babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nj...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hey @zachweinersmith.bsky.social I don't know if did the Arthurian joke before you but @xkcd.com put an Arthurian joke up a bit after you: xkcd.com/3274/ > Suddenly terrified that Matthew Wills already did this joke at some point.

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Arthurian Connector

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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Humble Book Bundle: The John Scalzi Collection: Old Man's War & More by TOR Books

Discover your new favorite author with this bundle of books from sci-fi humorist John Scalzi! Pay what you want and support World Central Kitchen!

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EuphoricFuzion🕯️ @euphoricfuzion.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Pay Attention, y'all. It's coming.

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tbird (she/her) @tina-bird.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

it's critical to ensure neutering and spaying in your neighborhood! #gopoutofnorthamerica

an old-ish masculine presenting person looks into the camera and wags his finger. text reads "help control the asshole population - have your trump supporter spayed or neutered."

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Kristin 🇨🇦🤓 @faierius.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ATTENTION!!! I have made the #ebooks for Binding Moonlight and Moonlit Memories free ONLY ON ITCH.IO! I'm not sure how long I will leave them at this price, but if you download them and read them, all I ask in return is a rating and review on goodreads/amazon. Thank you!! faierius.itch.io

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My understanding: tiktok was a site for sharing video clips and commenting on said clips. The US Govt was afeared China would be seeing those comments and made them sell out to us investors. Now, after the sale, tiktok has the feature of buying stuff directly in partnership with Venmo. Yes?

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So, I'm growing out my beard. I think the last time I gave it a trim was mid-March, before I went on vacation to Canyonlands. I look ... scruffy. I am trying to make it to the end of August (birthday) but I may give in and shave it off before then. I've had a beard of some sort for ...3 years?

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

PSA: artists don't owe you ANYTHING. Artists create as they want and as the muse takes them but George Martin doesn't owe you the last Game of Thrones novel, Molly Turtle doesn't owe you a new album, and Robert Downey Jr. doesn't owe you a new Sherlock Holmes movie.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Sunset on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. We drove out to see the fireworks as the salt flats were one of the few locations statewide where it is currently legal. There were a few hundred people at the rest stop trying to set off their stuff without killing each other. Funny stuff.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

May your celebrations have plentiful ale, potent pipe weed, and fireworks worthy of Mithrandrir himself. (Yes, I'm watching The Fellowship of the Ring, why do you ask?)

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sleepy, happy, content kitties.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Leo tries his hand at Mario Kart.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I found my cache of 45s which I thought were lost 30 years ago. Some of them were from my DJ years, some from my dad's time as a radio host. I need to clean them but ... I had to play one. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", the original pressing.

45 RPM record of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Maui the kitten watching the 45 playing.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You notice that the criminal-in-charge who sues everyone for everything is drop dead quiet about this. Says a lot.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My sister Maya and I were profoundly shaped by the influence of our mom, Ann Dunham. Giving Maya a preview of the Obama Presidential Center, including a new sculpture by Maya Lin dedicated to our mom’s memory, was truly special.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hey @glenphillips.bsky.social and @toadthewetsprocket.bsky.social - I didn't realize until today that Darth Vader was a fan!

Darth Vader life-sized cut out wearing a Toad the Wet Sprocket cap from the 2025 tour.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Leo REALLY likes Looney Tunes.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Found a pristine copy of The Rainmakers at @graywhaleslc.bsky.social and gave it a spin after dropping the car at the shop. Leo likes it, Maui wants to catch the label, and Little Miss sits on the couch, absorbing the ambiance. Musi-cats.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"Hi dad!" (Yes, I don't pull the comforter over because they like the boundary to snuggle into)

Little Miss, Leo, and Maui snuggled on a bed

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Little Miss is still very shy and reluctant to allow affection so her cuddling up on the bed with me and sleeping is a huge step for her! 3 feet away but it doesn't matter; she is relaxed and comfortable.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Also, because I am feeling a bit chatty, I've been training the kittens. First, three different sounds: hiss! when they need to stop it NOW (usually clawing something which shouldn't be clawed); second, three clicks when I want their attention;

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Turned my (now) 19 year old and his friend on to John Carpenter's The Thing tonight. I remember watching this movie with Stu and Greg in my mom's basement, the movie rented from Blockbuster, sitting on a set of scavenged movie theater seats, with BBQ and pilfered tequila.

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Kurt Russell in The Thing

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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

The NABB found in a 2025 report that there are 14 states without a Black-owned bookstore. Utah is one of them. On Juneteenth, Olivia Nightingale is going opening her bookstore there. Or, the starting version of it. By: Palak Jayswal #BlackskyNews #BlackskyReads www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...

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This woman is on a mission to open a first-of-its-kind bookstore in Utah

Nightingale, an author and editor, stated she will start taking her book mobile out during Utah's Juneteenth festival.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I decided to watch one of my favorite shows again as I'm a bit down and need a bit of comfort 'food' for the soul.

Title screen for the TV show "Cowboy Bebop".

Opening scene to "Session 1: Asteroid Blues" in the TV show Cowboy Bebop.

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Feeling this song tonight with our current cheeto-in-chief. youtube.com/watch?v=WzJB...

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Guv'ment (1985 Original Broadway Cast)

YouTube video by John Goodman - Topic

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

One of the kittens has discovered Shawn the Sheep and has watched two episodes so far (they're short).

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Sunsong23 @sunsong23.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Stopping Trump is a short term solution. The long-term solution - and it will be more difficult - is fixing the educational system that has created so many people ignorant enough to vote for Trump." Andy Borowitz

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My homemade MTV style music video station is predominantly Nathaniel Rateliff (with or without The Night Sweats), Molly Turtle, Sarah Jarosz, The Brothers Comatose, and the like. I do throw in some youthful throwbacks and recommendations are always welcome.

Still image of Nathaniel Rateliff singing "All or Nothing".

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"Day 12 without chocolate: I've lost hearing in my left eye." - stolen from the internet

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Books completed... - Intervention - Jack the Bodiless - Diamond Mask (just finished!) Three of the four books of The Galactic Milieu trilogy (technically, "Intervention" is a vinculum between the two series) read, starting the last, Magnificat, tonight!

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Chris H. @tchansen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Laid on the bed for a moment and Wynkin decided I needed a snuggle while he took a bath.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

📌As we celebrate the arts, and their ability to lift us up during these dark times, remembering the great John Bonham, who would have been 78 today. “The Hammer of the Gods” was the supersonic engine that made Led Zeppelin’s music roar and why upon his too-early death they broke up the iconic band.

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