Karen C
@silver.phoenyx.net
Midwesterner in South Jersey, tired Gen Xer, sometime Perl developer, doing weird things with sewing robots.
Once and future gamehawk.bsky.social
She/her, generally.
(Header image: cropped Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry for the Kansas Capital.)
Once and future gamehawk.bsky.social
She/her, generally.
(Header image: cropped Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry for the Kansas Capital.)
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Karen C
@silver.phoenyx.net
· Sep 17
I made a South Jersey feed, because the Philly feed is nice but Philadelphians will be quick to tell you that just because I can see the Linc from my neighborhood, and it's closer to City Hall than Chestnut Hill is, doesn't mean it's a Philadelphia suburb: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Genuinely thought this was an Onion headline or at least referencing a Nic Cage movie.
(Still not 100% sure it's not.)
(Still not 100% sure it's not.)
🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326
President Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ...
Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...
electionlawblog.org
February 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Genuinely thought this was an Onion headline or at least referencing a Nic Cage movie.
(Still not 100% sure it's not.)
(Still not 100% sure it's not.)
Reposted by Karen C
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
I moved halfway across the country in the tail end of my junior year of high school, and only went half days my senior year so I didn't make many friends, and I wrote letters to a couple friends from the old school but it would be 15+ years before email would be remotely common so... 🤷
watching John Green talk about his buddy from high school who is still his friend and I’m curious, is that common for people on here?
February 14, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I moved halfway across the country in the tail end of my junior year of high school, and only went half days my senior year so I didn't make many friends, and I wrote letters to a couple friends from the old school but it would be 15+ years before email would be remotely common so... 🤷
Reposted by Karen C
There's a market tomorrow, so it's time for my pre-market ritual...
My plea for you to buy a t-shirt right here & now so my box of t-shirts isn't as heavy tomorrow!
THAT'S right! I want this box to be a manageable weight!
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net!
Currently trying to fund a biodiversity mural 😘
My plea for you to buy a t-shirt right here & now so my box of t-shirts isn't as heavy tomorrow!
THAT'S right! I want this box to be a manageable weight!
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net!
Currently trying to fund a biodiversity mural 😘
February 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
There's a market tomorrow, so it's time for my pre-market ritual...
My plea for you to buy a t-shirt right here & now so my box of t-shirts isn't as heavy tomorrow!
THAT'S right! I want this box to be a manageable weight!
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net!
Currently trying to fund a biodiversity mural 😘
My plea for you to buy a t-shirt right here & now so my box of t-shirts isn't as heavy tomorrow!
THAT'S right! I want this box to be a manageable weight!
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net!
Currently trying to fund a biodiversity mural 😘
Multicolor filaments have arrived! Two of these are very fast changing and more suited to the smaller prints we do most of the time. Bigger prints will be more stripey than ombre.
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Multicolor filaments have arrived! Two of these are very fast changing and more suited to the smaller prints we do most of the time. Bigger prints will be more stripey than ombre.
Lindenwold is on the PATCO line, with lots of inexpensive apartments clustered near(ish) the station. Guess it's time to start handing out whistles on *this* side of the river. 😡
ICE operation causes students at Lindenwold bus stop to flee in panic, school district says
Security video showed the fourth- and fifth-grade students running, with some shouting: “ICE! ICE!”
www.inquirer.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Lindenwold is on the PATCO line, with lots of inexpensive apartments clustered near(ish) the station. Guess it's time to start handing out whistles on *this* side of the river. 😡
OTOH, *I* saw the container of tonkatsu sauce just sitting by the sink instead of back in the fridge, so knowing there are two more slices of tofuyaki in the fridge is merely okay.
(chances *are* non-zero that I'm the one that left it out of the fridge though)
(chances *are* non-zero that I'm the one that left it out of the fridge though)
Remembered I have half a cheesesteak in the fridge I can have for lunch, and my morning got brighter.
February 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
OTOH, *I* saw the container of tonkatsu sauce just sitting by the sink instead of back in the fridge, so knowing there are two more slices of tofuyaki in the fridge is merely okay.
(chances *are* non-zero that I'm the one that left it out of the fridge though)
(chances *are* non-zero that I'm the one that left it out of the fridge though)
Consciousness of guilt!
Disaster capitalism.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Consciousness of guilt!
Gonna be able to make whistles appropriate for distribution in the Gayborhood!
Part of why we were so excited about these is that he designed them to print on their sides, so you can pack 100 onto the A1 mini plate easily! I did my first 100 whistle test run and omg I LOVE THEM NOW THE RAINBOWS GO ACROSS THEM???
(teeth grooves added by suggestion of folks using them!)
😍
(teeth grooves added by suggestion of folks using them!)
😍
February 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Gonna be able to make whistles appropriate for distribution in the Gayborhood!
Generally nope to stinky dairy product (Bleu cheese, cottage cheese, sometimes ranch), never had oysters (aside from Rocky Mountain...) but would give them a try.
(Actually might have had fried ones on a mixed shellfish plate, I dunno though.)
(Actually might have had fried ones on a mixed shellfish plate, I dunno though.)
February 12, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Generally nope to stinky dairy product (Bleu cheese, cottage cheese, sometimes ranch), never had oysters (aside from Rocky Mountain...) but would give them a try.
(Actually might have had fried ones on a mixed shellfish plate, I dunno though.)
(Actually might have had fried ones on a mixed shellfish plate, I dunno though.)
Broke my "if they have a veg option in the menu, take it" and for a shrimp quesadilla and... it's tail-on shrimp.
That is certainly a textural situation.
That is certainly a textural situation.
February 12, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Broke my "if they have a veg option in the menu, take it" and for a shrimp quesadilla and... it's tail-on shrimp.
That is certainly a textural situation.
That is certainly a textural situation.
I'm always saying this
February 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I'm always saying this
I always have little things from my freebie box (things I threw in Etsy orders back when) on me so I'm honor of Liam I put one of them on my purse. Gave one to the PT guy because I overheard him telling my passenger he was a big Spider-Man fan. (I have three more so replaced it.)
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I always have little things from my freebie box (things I threw in Etsy orders back when) on me so I'm honor of Liam I put one of them on my purse. Gave one to the PT guy because I overheard him telling my passenger he was a big Spider-Man fan. (I have three more so replaced it.)
This morning's waiting room: guy in a Marine veteran cap and Puerto Rico shirt getting impressive volume out of his phone watching bagpipe tiktok(?)
He politely turned it down when someone else took a call loud enough to be speakerphone but held to her ear.
He politely turned it down when someone else took a call loud enough to be speakerphone but held to her ear.
February 12, 2026 at 1:04 PM
This morning's waiting room: guy in a Marine veteran cap and Puerto Rico shirt getting impressive volume out of his phone watching bagpipe tiktok(?)
He politely turned it down when someone else took a call loud enough to be speakerphone but held to her ear.
He politely turned it down when someone else took a call loud enough to be speakerphone but held to her ear.
One of the fun things about the MendelMax was that it itself was very 3d printed, so you were supposed to immediately print another printer with your printer (either for spare parts, or to build another printer).
Haha, it'll be nice to have an already complete printer out of the box, we said,
Haha, it'll be nice to have an already complete printer out of the box, we said,
February 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
One of the fun things about the MendelMax was that it itself was very 3d printed, so you were supposed to immediately print another printer with your printer (either for spare parts, or to build another printer).
Haha, it'll be nice to have an already complete printer out of the box, we said,
Haha, it'll be nice to have an already complete printer out of the box, we said,
Okay yes, it would get me discounts, but I'm not sure I would want a credit card that would elicit sniggers anywhere outside the Midlantic (and sometimes in).
February 11, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Okay yes, it would get me discounts, but I'm not sure I would want a credit card that would elicit sniggers anywhere outside the Midlantic (and sometimes in).
A yacht rock song for every county in South Jersey. Sure. Absolutely. Why not.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx6a...
NJ Songs I: Greetings from South Jersey (full EP stream)
YouTube video by Earth Kenan
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
A yacht rock song for every county in South Jersey. Sure. Absolutely. Why not.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx6a...
You do not gotta show ID to board a train anywhere I know of. You do to fly on a plane but I have flown on the tiny pixelated B&W picture on my Costco ID: you get to go through "enhanced screening" if you do that. (This may not still be the case with the Real ID nonsense; this was a few years ago.)
Markwayne Mullin defends "show me your papers": "If you're here legally, there's nothing to hide. Most people already are walking around with a government-issued ID, meaning your Real ID or your driver's license. If you go board a train here, you gotta show your ID."
February 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
You do not gotta show ID to board a train anywhere I know of. You do to fly on a plane but I have flown on the tiny pixelated B&W picture on my Costco ID: you get to go through "enhanced screening" if you do that. (This may not still be the case with the Real ID nonsense; this was a few years ago.)
A filament box holds 500 whistles. 🌠
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
A filament box holds 500 whistles. 🌠
Kids these days should do it the way we did (by selling a bunch of unopened Magic boxes we got for playtesting Antiquities).
a few weeks ago i saw a reddit post that was like “if you recently bought a home how did you get the down payment” and 9/10 replies were either “parents gave it to me” or an inheritance
February 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Kids these days should do it the way we did (by selling a bunch of unopened Magic boxes we got for playtesting Antiquities).
Guess I should get filament for the 2D printer too.
February 11, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Guess I should get filament for the 2D printer too.
Sure did, boss, real sexy-like just like you asked for.
February 11, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Sure did, boss, real sexy-like just like you asked for.
Reposted by Karen C
winding down this afternoon with the zen task of isolating random lending library kits on a white background... i think the party dragons are my favorite
February 11, 2026 at 12:22 AM
winding down this afternoon with the zen task of isolating random lending library kits on a white background... i think the party dragons are my favorite
Feel like I should clarify: this is such a traditional place that they *don't* have [cheese] steaks or pizza on the menu (which most otherwise-traditional ethnic restaurants do around here). No frozen chicken nuggets and fries on a kid's menu or nothing.
And yet: "tofu hoagie."
And yet: "tofu hoagie."
There is a really excellent Vietnamese restaurant a couple blocks from us but because we're near Philly I have to call it a "tofu hoagie" and not a "banh mi." 😬
February 11, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Feel like I should clarify: this is such a traditional place that they *don't* have [cheese] steaks or pizza on the menu (which most otherwise-traditional ethnic restaurants do around here). No frozen chicken nuggets and fries on a kid's menu or nothing.
And yet: "tofu hoagie."
And yet: "tofu hoagie."
Reposted by Karen C
I'll never get tired of watching the Delaware River in all its stages
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I'll never get tired of watching the Delaware River in all its stages