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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 11h

InDesign freezing when I try to print a page is literally the most obnoxious kind of nonsense.

Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking back to that scene in Civil War when they're spit balling questions for the president and one of them is if he regrets launching airstrikes against Americans.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 1d

Frodo: I wish it need not have happened in my time

Gandalf: (has side business selling hobbit hair for wigs) You’re long overdue for a haircut Frodo

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Post food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down after 25 years — and is finally showing his face.

In his final column, Tom shares some tricks of the trade after decades of reviewing restaurants anonymously. https://wapo.st/4pWgp8K

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 2d

This was my favorite Dark Tower ending

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 2d

Just letting you know, I appreciate these and the other works you highlight. I've got a copy of The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature headed my way for my Halloween read based on your Bulwark piece.

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 3d

Sure, Surf Dracula out surfs Van Helsing every episode. But that's what makes it good!

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 4d

Rhomandre Stevenson probably shouldn’t like play football anymore

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 5d

I was going through the digital archives of my paper a while back and found a series of wedding rumor headlines from the 20s about a bachelor senator (iirc). There was a lot of speculation about his marrying a socialite while in Paris. Anyway, newspapers were great back then.

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 7d

I worked on a podcast earlier in the year and was told after the fact that I would need to narrate on camera for the YouTube version. Madness.

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 8d

I, too, often confuse the Michael Crichton thriller "Congo" with real life

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 8d

The problem is when I go back home, everyone says I've lost my accent.

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 8d

Me fail English? That's umpossible!

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Stupid Smarch weather.

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 8d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 9d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 9d

But dreadnought sounds so much cooler

Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 12d

I thought the new PTA film was about as subtle as The Departed but damn does he know how to use music to ratchet up the tension.

Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 12d

I go watch one movie about The Revolution and you're all talking about magically healing beds?

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 12d

I'm not the work wear guy and can't explain why it doesn't work, but I had a physical reaction to that wardrobe choice

Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 12d

I mean the shirt tie combo gives it away

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 14d

It's like when Sam visited Frasier in Seattle

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 14d

The guy who prosecuted Blagojevich is representing Comey.

The writers are really pulling from the old seasons here

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14d

Former U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgeral will represent Comey in the case.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 14d

I wasn't aware I had a Cranberries-meets-Garbage itch, but this scratches it:

open.spotify.com/track/5FxdLs...

White Horses

open.spotify.com

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 15d

CHOTINER: Take me back to April 1805.

ENGLAND: NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE.

CHOTINER: Right, a worrisome situation there.

ENGLAND: ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM

CHOTINER: Yes, but the Royal Dano-Norwegian fleet remains intact?

ENGLAND: OCEANS ARE NOW -- oh I see where this is going

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 15d

I'm actually fine with the scare quotes here.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15d

A gunman opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas Wednesday, killing a detainee and critically wounding two others before fatally shooting himself in what authorities called a “targeted” act of violence against immigration enforcement agents.

Dallas ICE facility targeted in fatal shooting

One detainee was killed and two others were wounded in a “targeted” attack on an ICE facility.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 16d

fwiw my mother, who splits time between Lake Winnipesaukee, NH and Florida, is deeply invested in solving this case.

Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 16d

This is probably one of the most fascinating stories we've run this year. Local mysteries are the best kind of mysteries.

Derrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 17d

When the sexton of Conrad Cemetery in Kalispell and his son vanished earlier this year, so did some of the burial ground's most important paperwork. Now the cemetery is stuck in limbo:

dailyinterlake.com/news/2025/se...

Conrad Cemetery left in limbo after sexton disappears with burial records

The longtime groundskeeper of Kalispell’s Conrad Memorial Cemetery and his son vanished earlier this year, disappearing with crucial records needed to sell burial plots and inter bodies.

dailyinterlake.com

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