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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 1h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Not significant, but trending…”

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks to The Discourse about the importance of owning physical media even in the streaming age, I am the proud* owner of S1 and S2 of Teen Wolf.

*(I, a 48 yo man, brought them to the counter at half price books and said to the checkout lady "don't judge me")

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 15h

A notice on weather.gov, because the weather reporting is necessary to protect life and property, unlike (for instance) the CDC.

A notice on weather dot gov reading "The U.S. government is closed. However, because the information this website provides is necessary to protect life and property, this site will be updated and maintained during the federal government shutdown. To learn more, visit commerce dot gov backslash news backslash blog"

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 17h

Don’t love when celebrities younger than my parents pass away.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 17h

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 19h

Loving you isn't the right thing to do.

Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 19h

Downtown. Second Ave Commons - Caller says that some lady is outside smoking and spreading rumors. Caller doesn't like this.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 19h

Not what I was looking for, but thanks for the tip.

AI reply from google when you are trying to remember the name of the fleetwood mac song that includes the lyric "thunder only happens when it's raining"

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 21h

Oh! It's National Coming Out Day. We're probably on a list somewhere! So exciting, the times we're living in! Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 22h

I have many questions, including “how is a fucking KIA outrunning police cruisers” but anyway lots of cops living out their jason statham fantasies today in pgh, sounds like

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 22h

A fic trope I dislike: a character on deathbed, visited by ghost of loved one, who tells them they can/must choose to live or die.

a) not how it works, b) makes it seem like people we lose IRL didn’t fight hard enough, or some bs, c) so fucking overdone it is cliche at this point

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 23h

I folded the towels my downstairs neighbor left in the dryer. Is that sending a passive-aggressive message to move his fucking shit? Is it creepy flirting? He can take it either way, I’m fine with both interpretations.

(every goddamned weekend there’s stuff in the dryer, ffs dude)

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 23h

BULLCALF
O Lord, sir, I am a diseas’d man.

FALSTAFF
What disease hast thou?

BULLCALF
A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 1d

Just sleep with your windows shut to keep the miasma out, and see your physick if you feel your humours may be imbalanced.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up and apparently while I slept there was a lot of baseball and we’re all gonna contract yellow fever, looking forward to it.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 1d

zombie uprising sounds restful about now

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 1d

In any of the apocalyptic fictions I’ve consumed, they didn’t have social media or 24/7 newsfeeds.

I want to go there.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 1d

All that stuff with Kimmel was, like, two weeks ago but it feels like a million years.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 1d

I have been *busy* and I haven't even turned on the television since Monday and I was binging True Blood last weekend, stop *judging* me... #LastOneWatched

Also I checked this out from the library *right* before the Kimmel thing when we hated Disney and I felt guilty for watching it the whole time.

A screencap from a letterboxd email in which they seem kind of sad I haven't been engaging with their website, but no, actually, this is correct; the last movie I watched was 23rd September and was Captain America: Brave New World, which I thought was a little boring and Harrison looked ~very~ his age.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 2d

♥️♥️♥️

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 2d

I’m twitching because that tank is not strapped to a wall bracket or anything.

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 2d

Up here in the highly coveted Fox Chapel school district, when you order the scrambled eggs only at [the yellow double arc place] it comes with the biscuit that is normally just part of the Big Bfast. Fancy!

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 2d

I know some people don’t enjoy the theater, but they seemed really obsessed about bad actors. Well, that’s why we should fund the arts!

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 2d

(I have been refreshing news sites since I woke up a half hour ago.)

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Kevin @kevin9y9.bsky.social · 2d

Womp womp.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Prize committee recognized María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader in hiding, for fighting for democracy in her country.

www.washingtonpost.com

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