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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 5h

would jokes about 'Peggers still work in this context? anyway, unless it involves illegal brooms, curling rivalries really don't get that heated

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 02/10/2026

I've literally never heard of hyperbole before now.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 01/10/2026

you may ask "why bother doing this?" but it actually does remove the temptation to just post it anyway

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 27/09/2026

Finally, I'm woefully bad at figuring out how much force to use, unless I'm trying to knock out a single stone and can just go full bore. Otherwise I'm as likely to not make it across the far hog line as I am overshoot (make it into the house is less likely).

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 27/09/2026

Had my intro to curling class and it was so much fun, definitely found a new hobby. It was way more physically demanding than I realized, particularly in muscle areas my physical therapy addresses (is this good?).

static.klipy.com

Curling

ALT: Curling

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

this joke involves translation from French, references to both experimental & garage rock, and medicine. College me would be so proud.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

If @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social played a cover of Nitroglycerin by The Gories, would they cease to exist?

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

Got my tickets for Wildwood, only a month early. At a McMenamin's for extra Portlanditude. Thank you to all the folks who moved things ever so slightly for months on end to make this film happen.

Process image from the making of Wildwood. A large open set. An animator sprinkles something on the miniature wood set. A puppet of the main character is seen from behind towards the left. A camera is behind the animator (you can see their back on the screen on the far left). Someone in the background has a ladder.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

I used to watch Grimm just to see how warped the geography would get. Portland stretches all the way out to Mount Hood? Ok. A park in Sellwood comes out in Irvington? Just fine. (although my favorite is apparently California execs asked why the crew glued so much moss to the trees)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

wouldn't a Gail Simone joke be more: How come Taskmaster never has any funny computer geeks like Maurice Moss or that Dobby/Debbie?

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

I'm kinda surprised neither Natasia nor Ellie (her usual comedy partner) have been on

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 24/09/2026

More Eleanor & Williams! (and some other folks in "lead" roles too)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 18/09/2026

There's a really inappropriate joke that I'm working really hard on not posting here and I just want you all to appreciate my restraint, and no I won't elaborate because I don't want to be one of those people who post "well I could've said X but I didn't" (you just did mate)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 17/09/2026

This is probably about not wanting to regulate AI.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 16/09/2026

Don never thinks to look in the basemen if you don't tell him to

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 14/09/2026

dood, a fahkin bahket of mayo? That'd make a wicked lotta lobstah rolls!

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 13/09/2026

This one, in front of City Hall by Maya McDarragh was our favorite. In addition to the cherry blossom theme, there's also lots of references to the history of Japanese-American Portlanders, and depicts the Japanese American Historical Plaza on the bird's back.

Various images within the cherry blossom on the bird's breast depicting historical buildings/moments

The bottom of the tailfeathers recreates the approach to the Japanese American Historical Plaza as if entering it by crossing Naito Parkway.

And the back, showing parts of the interment memorial, the cherry blossom grove and the Steel Bridge in the distance

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 13/09/2026

Various Wildwood Crows spotted around Portland today. Unlike a couple of years ago with the cats, the website doesn't list all of the Crows and all of the artists. Instead you need to download an app which isn't free (so two ways I'm not getting it). So I'm not able to credit the artists here.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 11/09/2026

just had some quick service done on the car at the Jiffy Lube on Beaverton Hillsdale Highway and one of the mechanics had multiple Nazi tattoos... so I don't think I'll be stopping there again.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 11/09/2026

There is nobody writing about comics I find more enjoyable to read than Chloe, and this one is ever better than usual.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 11/09/2026

Hear me out for a second: wintergreen gum with chili flakes, or Icy Hot the chewing gum

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 10/09/2026

If we do end up getting the $5k, I'm booking a week at the Château Frontenac.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 09/09/2026

have lots of lower-cost items so people can buy something to break a $20

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 08/09/2026

I just find Pilkey grating. Thankfully my kids do too.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 08/09/2026

I'm on atorvastatin now, but both meds dropped my cholesterol level from way high to normal-to-low (same was true for my father, who didn't eat as healthy, but in part because it didn't seem to matter).

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 08/09/2026

I'll second a rec for statins. I went through years of doctors convinced I was lying when I told them I was a vegetarian who avoided foods associated w/high cholesterol bec/ my numbers were off the charts and eventually got a prescription for simvastatin & an apology from another doctor.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 07/09/2026

meanwhile my spouse and I used to break out into song when we opened up a box of seedless Thompson raisins (talkin' about the grape)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

huh, bsky now auto-numbers bleat storms. When did that start (also, impressed at an actually useful new feature)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

so I find this/these dialect quizzes frustrating, even if sneakers + soda somehow nails me as a New Yorker.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

Similarly, a large multi-lane highway w/o lights can be a freeway or a highway, but also an interstate (if it is one) or a 'pike, or also a parkway, which is usually smaller than a freeway, but I've been on sections of interstates that are less wide than parkways where I grew up.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

I'll use hero or sub most often, but occasionally hoagie or grindah. (Po' boy would imply some sort of Cajun sandwich filling, like how a banh mi isn't a sub/hero). But for most of my youth, this was a wedge (and served on half a loaf of Italian bread)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

likewise I'll use different "regionalisms" for the same thing with no real preference (rotary, roundabout, traffic circle). I feel like some of the questions don't get to my accent, like this one. I'll use most of these depending, although youse is never alone, it's always "alla youse"

What do you usually say when talking to a group of people? You guys;y'all;youse;you all

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

I grew up exposed to multiple accents just in my community, let alone ones from travel and summer camp. I kinda use bitsa alladem. I'll add eh, no or yo to the end of sentences (the latter less since leaving NY) consistent w/dialects, but inconsistently to myself.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 03/09/2026

if you're stealing toilet paper, at least leave unlaminated flyers so they can be useful

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 03/09/2026

where can I find pants for my gothling who is apparently now too tall for girl's clothes, but doesn't seem to quite fit women's clothes? (or does fit some women's clothes but somehow only pants that are in bright colors, which are no-gos)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 02/09/2026

what's a good free (pref. open source) software program for making fumetti comics?

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 01/09/2026

Hearing all these longform interviews and seeing all these books about the weird quasi-religious beliefs of silicon valley billionaires and thinking maybe more people should've watched an Adam Curtis documentary.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/08/2026

in her honor, it's now called the Donald J. Trump Imagination Library program

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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