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J.K. Rockin'

@jkrockin.bsky.social

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Your buddy Jenn! Queer, fat, old af legend of emo. Mostly cat pictures. She/her.

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · Mar 13

Every time I take the car through an automated car wash, I wonder how it feels to be pummelled by those big spinny silicone brushes that go whappawhappawhappa. Another sensation denied me by my fragile mortal body.

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 5h

Very interested in the little guys on the boat.

A grey-brown dilute torbie cat lying on a blue blanket, looking intently at something off screen (she's watching Master and Commander with me)

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 6h

All I ask is a tall ship and a big beefy blond fellow and a weedy little Irishman and a crew of lanky drama school lads and a sprinkling of older character actors and a sack of glue-on sideburns to sail her by

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Ren, Noted Boat Media Enthusiast @softoctober.bsky.social · 7h

It is traditional to open negotiations with the emissary of the Mouse Queen with a bottle of WD-40. A bottle of vegetable oil will work in a pinch, but don't you DARE insult her with PTFE, lest your home be descended upon by her mouse legions

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 6h

I do still feel a little robbed of the Aubrey-Maturin concert room meet ugly, and when someone gives me several hundred million dollars to helm a Hornblower style series of painstakingly faithful movies that's where I'll start, but I do think the choice to open with hot ship on ship action was wise.

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 7h

Peter Weir knows what the people want, and it's Russell Crowe sweating and bleeding and confused in naval uniform.

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 7h

you know what fuckin time it is!!!

A wall-mounted TV showing the opening title card of Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World. Text reads, in all caps: "April — 1805. Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields."

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 10h

Only caught one on camera, but this beast had a LOT to say during my international committee meeting.

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 13h

Meeting up for food or bevs is good, museum or gallery trips are good (depending on how much you want to chat and how noise-friendly the venue is!). You want a chill, public hang where it's fine if you're not feeling it and you wrap up early, and also fine if you kick on to another thing together.

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 13h

The nerves are SO real. Tips: for first time real life hangs, aim for relaxed, low-pressure, easy to curtail or prolong depending on how you feel on the day. I've met internet pals with whom I did not turn out to vibe in real life, and others who I've ended up spending six hours with just yappin'.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Nov 4

“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“

Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

Here's one of the sleepy snoozer.

A grey-brown dilute torbie cat curled up asleep on a blue blanket. Her fluffy ear furnishings and tiny white nose patch are visible.

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

Added a bunch of choy sum to Eric Kim's gochujang buttered noodles recipe. Slapped like hell.

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

I cried at least three times watching Togo. Cracking film.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 2d

FIREFOX USERS

Mozilla shoved LLMs into your browser a short while back, here's how you get rid of it

-Search about:config in the URL
-Copy+paste the following terms in the search bar one at a time (you can copy them from the alt text or the next post!)
-Toggle each one to False
-Humanity Restored

browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.enable
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

You're not getting pics because I took my shirt off when I got home and have yet to put on another, but: cat on me 🥰

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

Me on my initial listens to Sabaton tbh!

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 6d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

and it's EVERY DAY with this shit. Multiple TIMES a day. Food could be so fun if it was optional!

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it is bread we fight for- but we fight for pudding too.

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

WHY IS FOOD SO HARD

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

UUUUGHGHGHGHH REAL, I have VIVID memories of encountering things in Wiccan magazines- I id'd as Wiccan sufficiently long ago that I was reading actual paper magazines- that were just... blatantly Nazi shit with flower crowns on.

J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

This complaint brought to you by learning the main guy/last guy standing out of Iced Earth was a Jan6er. YUCK.

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

Surely this is also a problem in other genres, but man, it can be challenging to be a metal enthusiast while trying to avoid right-wing shitheads! I don't like having to research bands whose sounds I dig to make sure they're not politically fucked!

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J.K. Rockin' @jkrockin.bsky.social · 1d

Jeff I'm chewing drywall

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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