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Kari in PDX

@themetatron.bsky.social
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Gen X. Recovering librarian. Portlander (Oregon). Tired. Married to @dougmakingstuff.com.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s easy to panic, but that’s just one of the many good reasons to do it
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My company @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk is putting out a Murderbot graphic novel, All Systems Red, with a new @marthawells.com Mb short story too! @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Remembering that it’s Fat Bear Week has certainly perked me up after a blue day yesterday. BRING ON THE CHONKERS #FatBearWeek #art
Illustration of an extremely corpulent bear surrounded by a halo of autumnal leaves
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The Enigma of Amigara Walt @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A guy in The Prisoner will say a line like “Milk is the perfect food. It creates good temper.” and it won’t be one of the 100 most bizarre things to happen in that episode
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 13/09/2026
bob's root beer sign, fallon, nevada, 1980
bob's root beer sign, fallon, nevada, 1980
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I had jury duty today. Apparently there were 7 trials set for jury selection today, and the parties settled ALL of them without selecting a jury. We started at 8:30 and were out of there by 11:30. (dusting hands off) My work here is done.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Scientists have mapped a route to chase down Halley's Comet and fly alongside it for months when it returns in 2061 Gravity assists from Jupiter and Saturn plus ion engines would match its backward orbit Launch has to happen before 2040 or the window closes
An artist's concept of a spacecraft with solar panels and glowing ion engines flying alongside a rocky, icy comet with a bright white tail against a starry space background.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 07/09/2026
["Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen? - I'm aware - Wow, rude" inside a yellow speech bubble pointing to the Microsoft Office Assistant, Clippy.]
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Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Got to see Coyote vs ACME yesterday and it was fantastic. Here's my Etch-a-Sketch tribute!
Etch-a-Sketch drawing of Wile E. coyote, frowning, holding up a sign, which is a pocket Etch-a-Sketch drawing that says "It's a limited number of signs"
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#suckitzaslav
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Roses are red HERE IS THE NEWS
WSJ headline: Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes (plus photo of marmot about to choose violence)
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In case anyone needs it, to have the ‘mubble-fubbles’ (16th century) means to have a fit of despondency or low spirits, such as the end-of-summer blues.
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s like they made Coyote vs Acme specifically for me. Legitimately great and a huge nostalgia ride for anyone who grew up watching Looney Tunes on Saturday morning network TV. Go see it!
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Post your getaway vehicle
Herbie the Love Bug, Volkswagen Beetle, late 60s era, with racing stripes from the windshield down to the front bumper and the number 53 on the door
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/08/2026
if you're a normal person please do not play the fucking strip mahjong game. do not let the fun and friendly appeal of something as inoffensive as pornography trick you into playing a game as evil as mahjong
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 27/03/2026
i got into journalism for the same reason most people do: i wanted more pictures of spider-man
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KL @kliakos.com · 29/08/2026
What I’m going to call every rabbit I see for the rest of my life
Screen cap from a YouTube video of the 1987 Budweiser Classic bowling tournament of a participant named Leroy Born hop
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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
16. And Jesus opened the bottle of bubble gum Faygo, saying 17. Check out this sick trick, 18. we're gonna pretend this shit is my blood, 19. whoop WHOOP
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Me. @zarq.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A friend living in a red, oppressive state needs help accessing gender therapy / resources for their trans teen. I know there used to be a google sheet with links / info. If anyone has that link, can you pls send it to me? Any advice would be helpful. If you can boost this post i'd appreciate it.
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Watched this last night, it was VERY funny! But Nato’s right, it is not for the politically faint of heart. Gird your ideological loins and go watch it!
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Ho-hum Lorazepam Microaggression
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Date: What do you do? Me: I'm a kleptozoologist Date: Isn't it cryptozoologist? Me, stuffing my pockets with lobsters from the tank: that's a common misconception
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Vale, Mr Sprints. 🍻
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Purple BirdHouse @purplebirdhouse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
wtf godzilla movies are my faves. Artist Kukul Art Via www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ku...
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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
somebody called in today asking about our 70mm Odyssey screenings and the caller ID said Ithaca NY and I really wanted to say "You're already home, why make more trouble for yourself"
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'll straight up listen to elevator music in a house and house music in an elevator. I really don't give a shit anymore.
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy birthday to Mavis Staples. Here are the Staple Singers with their version Slippery People by Talking Heads. Mavis has two shows lined up at London's Union Chapel next month
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
At long last, Mitch McCo—wait, what?
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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I spoke with Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today. I asked him where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. Make her laugh at that.
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Jussie Smollett Speaking To Dead Skull
Alt: Laurence Olivier as Hamlet with the skull of Yorick
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.
A photo of a Magnapinna squid captured by a deep sea drilling company.
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
if you say "moses supposes his toeses are roses, but moses supposes..." to the lads they holler back "ERRONEOUSLY!" beastie boys style it's incredible
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This really puts my problems into perspective.
My problems, in perspective.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
legs: nature’s napkin ™️
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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.
A screenshot from here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

It explains that the machine learning involves only the detection of ink
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.
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𝖏𝖆𝖘 @vores.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw
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Comic Tropes @comictropes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What I see.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
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stu of the living dead @rinbcage.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just watched the Taco Bell CEO talk about how excited he was “for the storytelling opportunity” around their chicken nuggets. Just insane bullshit but it’s also its own orthodoxy. The corporate class is a secular priesthood and to witness their madness is to know this is something to actively oppose
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Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Why do state seals look like this?
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I don’t necessarily think it means I’m out of my mind but it’s maybe not great that for MONTHS the voice of Beck will occasionally come to my brain unbidden and say “tHaT wAs A gOoD dRuM bReAk”
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (Official Music Video), Full HD (Digitally Remastered & Upscaled)
YouTube video by Enhanced Music Videos
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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Kari in PDX @themetatron.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@dougmakingstuff.com For you.
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