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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Autumn MIGHT FINALLY arrive next week. Highs only in the 80s! (~27-32°C)

A ten-day weather forecast showing high temperatures in the 80s and lows in the 60s starting on Tuesday

vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

When people say "don't speak ill of the dead" my response is always "don't live your life in a way that people want to speak ill of you when you're dead" Nobody is speaking ill of Dolly. We are learning she was *even more* generous than we knew.

A black and white picture of a younger Dolly Parton smiling. Her head is visible above a post screenshot put over the picture

Post by kristademcher on Threads:
Imagine spending 80 years on the planet, writing over 3000 songs, winning 11 Grammy Awards, 10 CMAs, 1 Emmy, countless nominations, having 55 top 10 hits...and at the end of your life, no one talks about that.
Instead they talk about the kind of person you were; how you loved others well, how you stayed true to yourself, how you were generous and would champion others, and how you inspired others to do the same. If that's not the goal, I don't know what is. RIP Dolly.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is *actually* fine. It's rather nice outside, after weeks of high temps over 100°F

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

9PM in Central Arkansas in August This is fine.

WeatherBug 8:51PM
95°F
Feels Like: 102°F
Hi: 106°F | Lo: 84°F
Mostly Clear

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

No. Absolutely not. Unacceptable. (That's 40°C with a "feels like" temperature of 45.6°C for our international friends.) It's not often they break out the icon with the cactus in it. I'm giving the AC Shade credit for the fact that it's not warmer than 80°F in my house right now.

WeatherBug 4:25PM
104°F
Feels Like: 114°
Hi: 104° | Lo: 80°
[a light blue circle with a hazy sun icon and a saguaro cactus icon inside it]
Very Hot

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 20/07/2026

I wish to register a complaint! Can I speak to the manager?

A screenshot from the WeatherBug app showing local weather information. The time at the upper right is circled in red and shows 11:12 PM. On the left side, the temperature is shown as 85°F in large text, and under that in smaller font the "feels like" is 96°F. Under that, it says the high temperature forecast for the day was 99°F and a low of 82°F. On the right It shows a circle with a crescent moon and stars inside for the current conditions. Under that it says "Warm and Humid". There is a starry background.

A screenshot of the current conditions from the WeatherBug app laid out like the previous image. It shows a time of 3:20 PM. The temperature is 101°F with a "feels like" of 114°F. The forecast is a high of 101°F and a low of 79°F. There is a slightly-blurry sun icon in the circle and it says "Hot and Humid" below that. The background is sky-blue with part of a lens flare in the lower right corner.

A forecast for the next nine days, featuring high temperatures near or above 100°F on six days, and highs still above 90°F on the other three days.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 09/07/2026

Me to every stray cat: "Goddammit stop running away and get in my car so I can take you home to a life of safety and luxury!! Get over here already!!!"

A mostly black and orange cat lying against a yellow parking block thing (?) with front paws folded under it and back paws with white fur stretched out. It lives outside the Waffle House.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 30/06/2026

Nothing against this poster personally; it's about the sentiment.

When people say, "we have made it through worse before"
by Clint Smith

all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones
of those who did not make it, those who did not
survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who

did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.
I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms
meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant to

convey that everything ends up fine in the end. There is no
solace in rearranging language to make a different word
tell the same lie. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe

does not bend in a direction that will comfort us.
Sometimes it bends in ways we don't expect & there are
people who fall off in the process. Please, dear reader,

do not say I am hopeless, I believe there is a better future
to fight for, I simply accept the possibility that I may not
live to see it. I have grown weary of telling myself lies

that I might one day begin to believe. We are not all left
standing after the war has ended. Some of us have
become ghosts by the time the dust has settled.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

What, me worry? (image credit: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters, via Al Jazeera)

President Pedophile behind a podium, in front of a G7 Summit press conference background. His small hands are spread wide, palms facing the audience, with an expression that seems to say "Oops, I did it again!"

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 10/06/2026

Cave salamanders! (at Blanchard Springs Caverns in the Ozark National Forest)

Two cave salamanders on a rock wall at the exit to the cave. They are red and shiny with little black spots all over them. They're long and skinny with a long tail. They have black eyes. One is at the bottom facing left, and one is near the top facing upward and to the left.

A cave salamander on the edge of a door at the cave exit. It looks orange in the picture but is actually red with small black spots. It's body is in kind of a stretched S shape, head up and to the right. Its little toes are visible on its feet, spread out on the metal and glass.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 09/06/2026

If not friend, why friend shaped? I swear it's entirely possible I'll die trying to pet a brown or black bear. (The poor thing was hit by a car outside of the William Carl Garner Visitor Center many years ago and put on display as an example of local wildlife.)

A taxidermied brown bear, approximately two years old when it died, is posed on a stand of fake rock. The bear's front paws are on a larger rock on the left side. A black-framed sign on the floor says PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE BEAR

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's so weird that this person is defending Trump from being called silly names when she clearly doesn't like him. Would it have been better if I called him President Pedophile?

Post by vortmax (@)vortmax81.bsky.social:
Another problem from Diaper Donnie's Mad Mideast Misadventures
[Removed by author]
36 minutes ago

Reply from battlestar selectrica (@)selectric.space:
do you have to call him that [sic]
10:17PM - Jun 8, 2026

Reply from vortmax:
Yes.
2 minutes ago

Reply to the OP from vortmax:
Don't know why the link was removed but here's the article
[an incomplete link is here]

Link preview:
An illustration of a container ship, visible above and below the water level. The ship is laden with standard shipping containers. Exhaust rises from the area of the bridge tower. Below the water line the hull is covered in green biological growth with many tendrils hanging from the bottom. Inset images at the bottom show close-ups of sea life that clings to ship hulls, such as barnacles. The sky behind the ship is gray. What looks like oil refineries are visible in the far distance, with fire from flare stacks and dark smoke rising into the sky.
Headline: The Barnacle Problem Waiting Behind Hormuz
Preview text: My first serious encounter with biofouling was at Teluk Semangka, Indonesia, where my vessel, a modern VLC...
thedeepdraft dot com
10:46PM - Jun 8, 2026

Reply from battlestar selectrica:
it's because calling trump that is fuckin' juvenile. [sic]
4 minutes ago

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is the source of my drinking water, in the midst of a severe drought. That should be a floating platform for fishing. And some nameless billion-dollar company hiding behind an LLC wants to build a hyperscale AI data center.

A short wooden walkway with metal railings leads down from a gravel area to a wooden platform resting on muddy land. Water begins several yards away. The muddy land, dotted with plants, extends along the edge of the water into the distance. Far away there are trees along what was the lake's shore.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 23/05/2026

I don't care if it violates the Prime Directive, make it happen Picard.

A generated title screen from Star Trek: The Next Generation featuring the Enterprise D with the curved edge of a blue planet in the background. The text reads "Maybe It Will Happen Today"

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 21/05/2026

Had to traumatize the cats today with a vet visit, but it's their own fault for deciding to not use the litter boxes. 😿 Also took the opportunity to get rabies vax updates (even tho they never go outside) & "geriatric" blood work done because they're 13 years old. Results tomorrow!

An orange tabby cat on the left side and a calico cat on the right side are smooshed against each other in a pet carrier, viewed from above. The tabby is looking out the mesh window at the front, and the calico is hiding her face in the corner of the carrier, pretending this isn't happening.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 13/05/2026

Remember this from yesterday? Yeah, I started a new project. See all the yellow stitching outside the bee? I had to undo ALL that because I started it two rows too low and didn't realize until I got this far. Can't make it look "right" with everything else, so out it came. Fixed now! #WIPWednesday

A cross-stitch piece in a wooden hoop. There's a bee on the upper right in shades of peach, golden yellow, and sage green. There are splotches of yellow stitching down and to the left of the bee, which will be flowers when the other colors are added. If one looks closely, the stretched holes in the aida fabric from the previous undone work is visible. Part of the cross-stitch pattern is visible above and to the right of the hoop.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 11/05/2026

Just started the game and I'm already in love 😍

An image from a browser-based sprite game about Diaper Donnie and Iran. Trump has run into Vice President Couch Fucker outside the Oval Office. There's a dialog box at the bottom with a detailed pixel image of Vance (based on the infamous meme) on the left. He's saying "I love couch."

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 05/05/2026

Some loser leaves stacks of these at work & I usually toss them in the recycling before they're scattered everywhere. But I want to try making seed bombs with native wildflowers. So I'm going to shred this garbage newsprint & mix with soil to make something that *actually* spreads joy and happiness!

A stack of about three dozen small newspapers full of American Evangelical Christian nonsense titled "Christian Ranchman" published by "Cowboys for Christ" with the sub-header "We're not trying to build an organization. We're trying to fill the Kingdom of God." The center of the front page above the fold features a picture of a young woman, a horse, and an older woman, captioned "Elizabeth, Zi, & Chaplain Amy Stroble"

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 03/05/2026

It's a good thing my cat's tail is so fuzzy or she'd have some serious burns from trying to put it into a candle on my desk. Instead there was a puff of smoke and I swatted her tail and she ran off. I had to brush off a lot of burned hair but I don't think she knows anything happened.

A man wearing glasses is seated in a chair, visible from about the chest up, with a box fan and some colored lights in a lamp behind him. An old calico cat is laying across his chest, held up on the left side by the man's arm. Her front paw is on his other arm, which is stretched out to take the photo. Only the underside of her head is visible, mouth and nose and whiskers and one ear, because she is rubbing her forehead on the man's face.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 01/05/2026

Look at this beautiful sight (and site)

A browser window open to infowars dot com. It's just the text "Off Air" in tiny black text on a white background.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 30/04/2026

He is a "Drunkard and Citizen of the World" Must be posting while drunk. I used to have stupid internet arguments while drunk too. But I got better.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 21/04/2026

Check it out! I found Jesus! I wasn't even looking for him!

A small plastic figure of a smiling White Jesus (long straight brown hair & a beard) wearing a robe with a sash that reads "JESUS [heart] YOU", standing in a small hole in a wall where some wood is missing

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 19/04/2026

Congratulations to Blue Origin on the second landing of the New Glenn booster! We have another working partly-reusable heavy-lift rocket! And more rockets = better.

A close-up shot of the base of the New Glenn booster on the landing ship Jacklyn. The landing legs are extended holding it upright. There's a lot of white vapor (venting fuel or oxidizer from the rocket) partially obscuring the view.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 04/04/2026

Incredibly woke shit from Old Testament God

Highlighted text from the Bible, Leviticus chapter 19 verses 33 and 34:
"Do not mistreat foreigners living in your country, but treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners as you love yourselves, because you were foreigners one time in Egypt. I am the LORD your God."

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 03/03/2026

What's this about the Federal Reserve having problems with transactions??

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 03/03/2026

Look at my adorable sleeping nearly-13-year-old cat

A calico cat curled up sleeping on a blue blanket. The toe beans on her back feet are visible.

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 26/02/2026

As promised to @islandofreil.northsky.social I present the goatse shot glass: Hello, old friend.

A shot glass made of fired clay as seen from above. On either side of the rim are hands with fingers on the inside and thumbs pointing down. Yes there is a ring on the third finger of the left hand. The bottom of the glass has a pinkish tint.

The bottom of the shot glass has "Joel Patton 2014" scratched into the clay by the artist

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 25/02/2026

I was not expecting the "handwritten" note from Catherine either. It's a nice touch!

A piece of paper with what looks like handwritten text. It was found folded in half in the back of the instruction booklet. It reads:

I am glad this totem has found
you, but fearful for your task
ahead. The people of Riven are too
afraid of Gehn to leave their homes.

Take this talisman to Riven --
show it to the villagers and tell them
of Gehn's capture. It is the only way
they will follow us to Tay.

Hurry, time is so short!

Catherine

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 25/02/2026

I finally put together my LEGO Moiety Dagger from @cyan.com and I love that they included the Star Fissure in the base. I didn't notice that until I was putting it together. I am still slightly annoyed that the handle has an oval instead of a circle, but I will survive somehow. 😂

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 25/02/2026

Don't play a drinking game, it might kill you

State of the Union BINGO (with a picture of Trump next to the title).
The boxes read as such from left to right, top to bottom, in the standard 5x5 BINGO grid:
Claims the 2020 election was stolen
Claims he ended "X" number of wars
Bashes SCOTUS
Says the phrase "Transgender for Everyone"
Mentions Nicki Minaj
Hints at refund checks
Mumbles something incoherent
Mentions Greenland
Hints at war with Iran
Calls Melania a "movie star"
Says the phrase "fake news"
Rambles about China
Mentions Joe Biden (FREE)
Claims Epstein is a hoax
Talks about a woman's body part
Claims fraud in California
Pushes the SAVE Act
Lies about the economy
Bashes Canada
Says "nobody's ever seen anything like it"
Claims poll numbers are fake
Mentions Obama
Praises tariffs
Claims prescriptions are down by over 100%
Mentions the Olympics

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 23/02/2026

Whaaaaaat?? This might actually be more insane than the original Evangelion. And I'm excited to see it! (included alt text) Original source in Japanese: www.evangelion.jp/news/260223-1/

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 07/02/2026

I absolutely did not need to spend money on this. But it's gonna look so good next to my Riven Mag-lev Lego kit

A box for the Riven Moiety Dagger Lego kit from Cyan Worlds

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vortmax 🌀🌪️ @vortmax81.northsky.social · 31/01/2026

It's the Arkansas version of the Rebel Alliance bird logos going around, with a diamond at the top celebrating the fact that we have the only diamond mine open to the public in the world, Crater of Diamonds State Park, near Murfreesboro, AR.