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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 27/09/2026

Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it…

Harrison Ford, as Hans Solo, smirking with gun in hand, in a still from Star Wars

Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 18/09/2026

I'm outdoors at Salt Shed, Chicago, for Sleater-Kinney and Liz Phair. Very overcast, but rain has petered out. Chicago River on the left.

Long shot of the Salt Shed, Chicago, outdoor venue. On the left, Chicago River, running alongside. On the right, in the distance, half of the stage with large open space in the foreground.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 05/03/2026

I didn't get to touch the Liberty Bell, but I did run into the massive crowds at the convention center there for a . . . flower show! And the thousands of suburban flower lovers getting lunch at the same time in the adjacent Reading Terminal Market. #kitschrules

Crowded interior of the covered Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 13/02/2026

Gallup is compromised. NYT headline

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 02/01/2026

No cheating, repost w your most recent picture of your pet.

Orange and white cat sitting upright somewhat uncomfortably in a small, shallow box for a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle underneath is partially completed.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 20/12/2025

I do most of my personal reading via the iOS audiobooks app. I'm kind of shocked by the total hours. Definitely surpasses other, non-world-on-fire years.

Text on green background: You read a total of 76,489 minutes on Apple Books in 2025.
In other words—53 days, 2 hr, 49 min.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 04/12/2025

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

Old-timey animatronics display, with an old man form with arms stretched out in bed reacting to a devil form poking into the room through a door.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 04/12/2025

Carnegie Mellon deciding at the last minute that they can't host the annual Code4Lib conference is some lame fuckery.

Text: Recently, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ordered Carnegie Mellon University to review all third-party partnerships for compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. As part of this review, the university determined that aspects of Code4Lib's diversity scholarship program raised compliance concerns under Title VI and Title IX.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 04/12/2025

Outlook using (2020?) AI in grammar checks now. Real screen capture from work

Grammar check by MS Outlook, suggesting the user change an inline date from 2026 to 2020. It says, "Double-check that you're using the best noun"

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 23/11/2025

There's one thing I wanna know What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh-oh What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

Meme pope holding a microphone with both hands.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 30/10/2025

When your deconfliction plan fails

Two cats trying to occupy the same space in a donut-like toy made for one cat.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 24/10/2025

What's it like inside your head?

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 13/10/2025

Post you from a different era. Like "another" era fr

Photo of myself a couple of decades ago, with curly mid-length hair, large prescription glasses, and wearing a thrift-store sport coat. Probably high and ready to go out.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 19/09/2025

Love this groove GOAT (Sweden) Live in London 2018

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 02/09/2025

Love this pull quote. Impact of state tax cuts on Indiana libraries. www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...

Quoted by Indiana Public Media: "Sure, the library is an old-fashioned concept. So is democracy, so is equal opportunity, so is knowledge." Carri Randall, Johnson County library patron

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 31/08/2025

Found kid's craft table like this, with a line of Lego superheroes.

Well-used craft mat with line of Lego mini figures in the foreground, left to right: Batman, Superman, Green Goblin, Wonder Woman, Flash. Some Star Wars and Warhammer figures in the background.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 03/08/2025

Happy to be in Minneapolis for a few days

Night-time view from a second-story roof deck. Jumble of partially lit one-and two-story buildings, murals, utility wires and poles, and a green-painted water tower-like object above one building.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 14/06/2025

Courthouse Square, Bloomington, Indiana #nokings

In front of the crowd at a No Kings protest, two people in foreground holding signs that say, "Fuck I.C.E." and "No Tyrants, No Fascists. No Kings."

Tight shot of No Kings crowd. Visible signs say, "No Dicktators in America," "Fox News is news like cowpies are pies," No kings in America, 8647."

Short line of demonstrators along the street, holding Mexican flags, with T-shirts that say, "Fuck I.C.E" and "Por Vida." A gold sign in red letters says, "Donald Trump sucks."

Crowd of protestors on a street corner, with a large banner in the foreground that says, "Honk to impeach Trump." Several other people are holding up large peace signs, some intertwined with hearts.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 07/06/2025

The energy I bring to bluesky

Meme "I'm not a robot." Harrison Ford staring at a screen. Superimposed is a reCaptcha challenge box, with which a user clicks to prove "I'm not a robot."

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 02/06/2025

What we did over the weekend

Tarot-like card called The Update, with a vertical image of a stylized server rack.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 17/05/2025

Melvins, Mercury Ballroom, Louisville, KY, May 16, 2025

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 10/05/2025

Guillotine hot sauce. Fuck yeah!

Store display for Guillotine hot sauce, with EAT THE RICH in large letters and a cartoon drawing of a guillotine chasing sweating rich guys with vegetable-like heads.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 06/04/2025

Good turn out in Bloomington, Indiana, despite steady rain. #handsoff

Big group of “handsoff” demonstrators at the corner of the local courthouse square.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 16/02/2025

Surprise snow Sunday morning

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 11/01/2025

While in N California I ventured into a Costco store for the first time — I live in Walmart land. Love this huge display of Spam at Costco

Pallet of spam at Costco. Stacked as tall as a human person.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 04/01/2025

Holiday puzzle complete — sans a couple of missing pieces

Completed jigsaw puzzle called “Meet The Aliens: Xantara and Nykara,” a human-like, hetero-coded couple with octopus limbs at the mouth and fingers, standing for a portrait.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 19/12/2024

Alan Moore in 1987. Wearing a red hammer & sickle t-shirt. flaminghydra.com/issue-225/

Alan Moore 1987 photo, standing in verdant garden, with large bushes behind him. Moore is looking straight at camera, with long, frizzy hair and beard, and hands in jean pockets, wearing a sleeveless red t-shirt with a large hammer & sickle printed on it

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 19/12/2024

Apple Books audio has lately been my primary app. But it will take more courage than I have at the moment to post an end-of-year, genre-heavy collage of covers. So here’s 2024 quantified

Solid color background with text: “You read a total of 78,304 minutes
on Apple Books in 2024.
In other words-54 days, 9 hr, 4 min.”

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