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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 5d

playing the NES game first is maybe the funniest way for a kid to be introduced to any movie they haven’t seen. watching the actual thing a decade later like…hold on, where’s the part where they have to fight all the bats

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 5d

same, and at some point it became sort of funny to me to just never look up a plot summary of the movie Goonies, and keep sailing along with a vague frankenstein construct of what I think it might be about

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 11d

Aw, hey, thank you! (and I very much agree, I love @lostcity.bsky.social ‘s Phobos and Deimos too!)

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 12d

2004! Yeah, it’s the kind of thing that just wouldn’t occur to you until it comes up, that A) you’ve never done this, and B) it’s specifically forbidden

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 12d

Oh man! Yeah, I’m not sure when this was introduced in Photoshop, but I first saw it in maybe…2009? when someone in the design office where i worked wanted to add money texture to the background of a graphic about finance or something. DENIED.

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 12d

also of course i'm aware that this is not entirely unrelated as an interest to get into! the mood is pushing back, even in small-scale ways, against various aspects of Bad Futures. tangible items you own offline > constant data collection & surveillance

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 12d

(actually spending most of my free time worrying about everyone and everything I care about being killed under 21st century fascism) yeah, i've been getting back into physical media. it's nice to watch DVDs again

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 17d

It’s so good!! Almost wish I could erase all memory of it from my brain to replay it fresh.

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 17d

a well-worn observation at this point, but: okay, this sentence starting a news article would make a person from the year 1990 malfunction and catch on fire

screenshot: “U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his first in-person address to the United Nations General Assembly in seven years on Tuesday, telling those assembled that “your countries are going to hell” “.

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 18d

Hi, Cloudscape! Is local pickup instead of shipping a possibility for this book?

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Sep 5

big fan of their escalation in frowns and masks from orange to red to purple to brown, and have been saying for years this really visually calls for a final one that's just a skull

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Sep 2

they would come home saying they used ai for fun at school and get a "I need to make sure you UNDERSTAND" talk rivalling how much my science-loving dad disapproved of a picture book where dinosaurs underground were "only sleeping"

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just as well I never had kids. Besides, you know, everything about state of the world, they would probably be horrified about how I'm going way out of my way to get an old non-smart TV

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 30

just thought the phrase “the toonie is the waluigi of canadian currency”, which may be a first

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 29

I like the Field Roast ones! con: usually more expensive per dog / pro: they’re pretty good and come in a few different flavour versions

dang, RIP Yves, tho!

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 18

Totally variable, and I've seen that upstairs cave disputed often enough to consider buying a second one!

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 18

we have achieved maximum parallel. I’m delaying vacuuming the floor because I don’t want to disturb them

a white cat and a black cat on parallel cardboard scratchers, same pose

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 17

dare you answer our three riddles

a white cat and a black cat sitting on parallel cardboard scratchers

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 17

a real highlight of having two cats is constantly seeing them in various parallel configurations around the house

a black cat and a white cat both curled up on a floral blanket

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 17

as above, so below

two cats on a shelving unit. white cat Rose is on an upper shelf in a little blue cube house, and black cat Luna is on a lower shelf lying on a folded-up spare gold couch blanket.

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Aug 1

BOTLICKERS. Did you come up with this? it’s perfect

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Jul 29

in my restless dreams I see that Tape

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Jul 28

cat report, got a new chair and i’m really pleased by how clearly the fabric shows their tiny paw prints

black cat on a gold velvet chair, with a little paw print next to her

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Jul 26

It's not ultra high resolution like you'd get with a modern "home theatre" setup, but you know what, that's fine by me. we're not fancy here. I'm pointing that shit at a wall without bothering to get a screen

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Jul 26

Ok, update: I finally did this, and it's great? I got a decent but plain no-internet-nothing-smart LED "business" projector...and now i guess one of my little joys when everything feels like the walls closing in and the world burning is i get to watch old dvds of the simpsons at like 5 feet wide

Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · Sep 29

I sort of want to get back into physical media and DVDs, and set up a projector in here, and turns out it's a little Hard Mode if you DON'T want Smart Features. I want these devices dumb as a box of rocks, and Not Allowed Online like homeschooled Amish children

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