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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 3d

And over at the Metropolitan Opera House, mezzo Isabel Leonard is featured as Diana in a special Saturday matinee performance of Donizetti's "Golden Lasso d'amore."

(Okay, sorry! But they're actually performing an opera adaptation of Michael Chabon's _Kavalier and Clay...)

Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 4d

Stay tuned. :)

Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. This was another of those times then I gave Gemini a prompt and was so pleased with the result that I uttered a grateful profanity.

(This was definitely the first time I've said "I'm very happy with my speaker headshot.")

"Convert this photo to a 1-bit bitmap, using Atkinson-style dithering."

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 4d

Today's writing output, so far:

2500 word draft to explain a nuanced interplay between technology, government policy, and freedom (roughly two hours)

150 word author bio (roughly an hour)

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 7d

If I had an iPhone, I wouldn't have had a menu of options to get it working again without either connecting it to a host Mac or taking it to an Apple store.

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 8d

Rich Siegel: REDEEMER of MIXERS

presented in V I S T A V I S I O N

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 8d

If you know, you know. And if you know, you know that this indicates I've had a spicy week.

Photo of an Android phone in "Fastboot Mode." Screen is black except for a list of device data in white lettering, and a menu of options to the upper right.

Screen of an Android phone in its diagnostic mode. Screen is black except for a 3D cartoon of the green Android droid mascot on its back with its "front panel" open.

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks!

Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 11d

Good eye!

Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 12d

ive been living a lie for the past three or four years and i gotta say i feel much better now that ive gotten that off my chest

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 12d

FINE I GIVE IN

I'M MIDDLE-AGED AND I CAN READ WHAT'S ON MY MACBOOK SCREEN MUCH MORE CLEARLY NOW THAT I'VE GOT THE "DISPLAYS" SETTING AT ITS "SLIGHTLY LARGER TEXT" OPTION

But I'm still young enough that I only use caps-lock for dramatic effect

Also I can still eat spicy foods after 6 pm

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 14d

Postscript: then I move from my @officialgocomics.bsky.social page to my @comicskingdom.bsky.social page and am reminded, as usual, that @danschkade.bsky.social is an absolute topmost-tier graphical storyteller. This stuff needs to be collected into anthologies.

comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon...

Flash Gordon Comic Strip 2025-09-28 | Comics Kingdom

Read the Flash Gordon comic strip from September 28, 2025, and check out other Flash Gordon comics by Dan Schkade.

comicskingdom.com

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 14d

...And when this same Sunday funnies page ALSO happens to have one of those "Pearls Before Swine" strips in which Pig is his awesome self and he puts things into perspective for everybody, that's a hell of a bonus.

www.gocomics.com/pearlsbefore...

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 28, 2025 | GoComics

Read Pearls Before Swine—a comic strip by creator Stephan Pastis—for today, September 28, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

www.gocomics.com

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 14d

…A Sunday with a "Charlie Brown kicks the football" strip AND a "Calvin and Hobbes play Calvinball" strip is an EXCELLENT day…

(Cartoonist friends: we need a comic where Calvin and Charlie Brown play against Hobbes and Lucy in a Calvinball doubles match.)

www.gocomics.com/calvinandhob...

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 28, 2025 | GoComics

Read Calvin and Hobbes—a comic strip by creator Bill Watterson—for today, September 28, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

www.gocomics.com

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 14d

A Sunday when there's a "Charlie Brown kicks the football" strip in the funnies is a Very Good day…

www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2025...

Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 28, 2025 | GoComics

Read Peanuts—a comic strip by creator Charles Schulz—for today, September 28, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

www.gocomics.com

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 17d

My first sighting of Roof Racc at night. Just chilling and contemplating his evening plans.

He's been around the neighborhood for months. I'm sure he's clocked the dumpster schedules of all of the restaurants nearby.

Some of them are quite fancy. Roof Racc probably eats way better than I do.

Night shot of a raccoon lying atop a roof on its belly.

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Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 17d

That just means more screen time for my character!

"You city college perfessers with your satellites and your beep-boop detector boxes don't know anywheres NEAR what I know about that mountain just by havin' lived under it my whole life! It ain't no vol-KAY-ner! And it sure ain't gonna blow up!"

Andy Ihnatko @ihnatko.bsky.social · 17d

I don't have any kids, so I can't say "I want to live long enough to dance at my grandchild's wedding."

After some thought, I've decided on "I want to live long enough to play that codger in the disaster movie who refuses to obey the evacuation order because he 'ain't scared of no tor-NAY-dey'."

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