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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Quinn is the only one in these stories that doesn’t die. I’m beginning to think he’s really the Crypt Keeper from the comics.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What with the cool, the fog, and the onlooking crows, I hope they had blankets.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But it would have been GREAT!

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On a tour of Boston’s cemeteries, a squirrel ran up my leg. I shook it off, and it ran straight up the tour guide and sat on his shoulder like a damn parrot. We had to buy it off with food. Not my favorite animal.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The duck pond at Queen Elizabeth park had enough water for a duck.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interesting fact, the chemicals severely wrinkled the feet of the “stompers”, making them look old or “aged”. “Foot-aged film” was soon shortened by the fast-talking journalists of the 20’s to “footage”.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Balderdash! It was because those long strips of film couldn't be developed in ordinary photography trays. They had to be dumped into vats of developing chemicals and stomped like grapes until the images appeared. I hear it was a communal and joyous activity, though strangely, no one ever filmed it.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Burke’s universe is just mean.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It should work, but I doubt the effect would be instantaneous, considering the amount of energy involved. You might keep withdrawing heat when you've gone past an unseen tipping point and end up in a deep freeze. Also a lot of air movement? Very interesting problem.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is there a tax advantage to having a catacomb? Also, if somebody turned all the skulls into cups, is it just a bar now?

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think every group of humans thinks some other group is smarter, bigger, or tougher. So, they freak this out into "us versus them". Stupid decisions and destructive hijinks follow. Rinse and repeat (except for sudden, shining moments of sanity).

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A guy so nice, they ascended him twice!

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m sorry you are hurting. May trees, clouds, and delightful people lift you up.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m repeating my proclamation that Washington D.C. be renamed New Moose Jaw. If it needs to be made official, I have a Sharpie around here somewhere.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I hereby declare that Washington, D.C. will be henceforth called New Moose Jaw.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Plus no rolling chairs to scoot down the line of books on a table.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Her first sentence shows that she thinks of herself as a third party in this dispute: no longer Canadian but not yet American.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not happy with CBC switching away from the PM after a couple of minutes. It’s kind of important to know what is going on in a trade war.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

AI over-sampled the Dadaists.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Poltergeist” had a haunted subdivision.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You gotta love the one-word quotes. I'm waiting for a preposition, or maybe an adverb.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"The Sound of America" is apparently a cash register 'ka-ching!'

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thanks, I can live with dorky.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yes! After some time I've started writing again. The main obstacle wasn't inertia, but dread.

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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The look on the dog's face is just perfection

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Not tonight, dear. I'm feeling a little run down." "Don't you mean 'tired'?" (Sorry)

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Thank you, this puts a nice glow to the end of the day.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thank you for the update and my best wishes for your recovery.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bank clerking and dealing with PTSD from WWI (or, on the other side, selling logging trucks on the west coast of Canada).

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You'd have thought that with all the human screw ups the horse senator would have turned things around.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

That’s the curse; we can’t hear you. I mean, I guess it’s a curse.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You have contributed to my well-being, now please contribute to your own.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If your characters were masochists, it would all work out.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The support is appreciated. Also, I don't know if anybody in the history of the world "managed" their forests so well that they avoided fires, especially those caused by lightning.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I was always surprised beard guy was alive at the end of the episode. (Canadian view of grizzlies, maybe?) The Littlest Hobo was much more believable.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Your survival into this era is admirable.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And the maids. (I really loathe that part of the story.)

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Congratulations. It's a fantastic book.

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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Happy birthday to Rick Sternbach, production designer/illustrator for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, TNG, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Chances are that if you love a Star Trek ship, he was one of the designers on it (as well as the PADD and the DS9 space station).

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If they ever read Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books, their heads would explode. I swear to God dictionaries look him up.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Well, it was our first win in a World Cup. Ever.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

You gotta stick your noggin in the hole.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ursula Le Guin, in The Lathe of Heaven, writes about jellyfish (not whales): "Current-borne, wave flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. . . it has for its defence the violence and power of the whole ocean . . ." Much like sleeping whales.

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Kevin Harkness @tkhark.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It only works because the ship is trying to get away from the smell.

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