Talcott
@talcotts.bsky.social
Widowed and nonbinary. I talk a lot about Star Trek, Ohio, cats, dinosaurs, and whatever I’m watching. The Columbus Dispatch once called me a “local cartoonist and customer-service rep.” (They/Them)
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Talcott
@talcotts.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi new followers, here’s what you’re in for:
Weird bits of late-20th century nonsense from Columbus, Ohio (a city that’s as much a sitcom town as Springfield or Pawnee).
A fair amount of Star Trek talk.
Rambling about what I’m reading/watching/playing.
I write and post a poem every day.
Cat photos.
Weird bits of late-20th century nonsense from Columbus, Ohio (a city that’s as much a sitcom town as Springfield or Pawnee).
A fair amount of Star Trek talk.
Rambling about what I’m reading/watching/playing.
I write and post a poem every day.
Cat photos.
Turns out it won’t update if you’re listening to music all night. It probably will eventually, and I’ll wake up to the update I don’t really want. My phone and I have entered our Dread Pirate Roberts era.
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Turns out it won’t update if you’re listening to music all night. It probably will eventually, and I’ll wake up to the update I don’t really want. My phone and I have entered our Dread Pirate Roberts era.
I wish “we’re updating your phone” didn’t feel so threatening.
January 18, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I wish “we’re updating your phone” didn’t feel so threatening.
“The cilantro pork ball soup chips are good, but not as flavorful as I’d hoped” I say, becoming even more of a weird sitcom neighbor.
January 18, 2026 at 2:31 AM
“The cilantro pork ball soup chips are good, but not as flavorful as I’d hoped” I say, becoming even more of a weird sitcom neighbor.
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We’ve reached the “I didn’t realize it was so warm out” part of winter.
January 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We’ve reached the “I didn’t realize it was so warm out” part of winter.
Not many people know that squirrels evolved to blend in to wet sidewalks.
January 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Not many people know that squirrels evolved to blend in to wet sidewalks.
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New desktop background!
January 17, 2026 at 12:24 AM
New desktop background!
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The opening of I am Wrath is genuinely upsetting. I’d remembered that it’s is a right wing fever dream about gangs in the Short North, but seeing the neighborhood where I grew up as a warzone is not fun to watch tonight.
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
January 17, 2026 at 12:06 AM
The opening of I am Wrath is genuinely upsetting. I’d remembered that it’s is a right wing fever dream about gangs in the Short North, but seeing the neighborhood where I grew up as a warzone is not fun to watch tonight.
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
Salami, tomato, banana peppers, and red onion.
January 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Salami, tomato, banana peppers, and red onion.
Since we’re doing 2016 photos.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Since we’re doing 2016 photos.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
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Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
He's an elderly cat with arthritic joints, his jumping days behind him, and a questionable sense of balance.
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...
January 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM
He's an elderly cat with arthritic joints, his jumping days behind him, and a questionable sense of balance.
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...
Important Kanopy news!
They just added I am Wrath, a terrible John Wick knock-off that was filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up (which it casts as a dangerous haven of crime).
They just added I am Wrath, a terrible John Wick knock-off that was filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up (which it casts as a dangerous haven of crime).
January 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Important Kanopy news!
They just added I am Wrath, a terrible John Wick knock-off that was filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up (which it casts as a dangerous haven of crime).
They just added I am Wrath, a terrible John Wick knock-off that was filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up (which it casts as a dangerous haven of crime).
I drew a straight for this week’s #LastFourWatched. Which is to say Twilight is much better than the sad divorce standup, though not as good as hundred year-old homoerotic Olympians in slow motion. But of course the highlight was the John Woo slapstick heist movie that maybe ends with an OSU game.
January 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I drew a straight for this week’s #LastFourWatched. Which is to say Twilight is much better than the sad divorce standup, though not as good as hundred year-old homoerotic Olympians in slow motion. But of course the highlight was the John Woo slapstick heist movie that maybe ends with an OSU game.
Did Malcolm in the Middle win some sort of guest star grant? This is just from a random third season episode.
January 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Did Malcolm in the Middle win some sort of guest star grant? This is just from a random third season episode.
Falling asleep as I drink my coffee, thinking about what a long day it’s been. That’s maybe not the best start.
January 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Falling asleep as I drink my coffee, thinking about what a long day it’s been. That’s maybe not the best start.
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i think the other guys on this old house should be meaner to kevin. they are far too patient with him
January 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
i think the other guys on this old house should be meaner to kevin. they are far too patient with him
Peanuts at the top is totally respectable. I’m a little thrown by Garfield beating Calvin & Hobbes, but I see how that could happen.
But my main take-away is that I’m about to make a fortune selling think pieces about Dilbert beating Doonesbury.
But my main take-away is that I’m about to make a fortune selling think pieces about Dilbert beating Doonesbury.
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Peanuts at the top is totally respectable. I’m a little thrown by Garfield beating Calvin & Hobbes, but I see how that could happen.
But my main take-away is that I’m about to make a fortune selling think pieces about Dilbert beating Doonesbury.
But my main take-away is that I’m about to make a fortune selling think pieces about Dilbert beating Doonesbury.
The movie was mediocre, but the walk home was beautiful. It should be 20 degrees all year long.
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 AM
The movie was mediocre, but the walk home was beautiful. It should be 20 degrees all year long.
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![Titlecard from the television program FAME. In colour, fuzzy, faded, and replete with dulled earthtones, the daytime image of a dense crowd of people on a city* sidewalk.
It's well bustling. At least twenty people -- a patchwork of multivarious human forms clothed in shades of taupe, chocolate, chestnut, and sand trundling about their daily concerns.
Through a long lens, there appears to be concentrated movement in all directions; closing in and moving away on a slight diagonal inclination from the frame's bottom left, on what feels like a wide sidewalk in front of a row of unidentifiable shops and street level businesses along its left and top sides.
A few flat caps, a few pairs of glasses, and one obscured darkhaired gentleman at the frame's right edge wearing a shortsleeved red shirt festooned with silhouetted white... horses? Jaguar...s? Difficult to say!
In the upper left quadrant, a small visible rectilinear section of what appears to be a wall of tan-coloured running course brickwork. Slightly above and beyond that to the right, what may be a sign or placard -- a pale yellow sliver upon which seem to be black block letters or upturned directional arrows .
Every vague detail suggests New York City in the last quarter of the 20th century. Without obvious visible shadow, its ambience suggests either morning or afternoon.
Overlaid centred in the frame's lower third, in a blurry-edged white all-caps serif font**,"'Feelings'".
*(This is Manhattan, c.1982. It's not stock or b-roll; in alternate frames [unrepresented, but lacking any other identifiable specific detail] you can clearly see the late actor -- and breakout FAME co-star -- Gene Anthony Ray (Leroy!) weaving his way through the crowd.)
**(likely a bold Casad?)
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My obituary nearly read “flattened in the United Diary Farmers parking lot.” Which, for someone with an Ohio history self, isn’t the WORST fate.
Drivers really don’t like it when you walk through the part of the sidewalk with a curb cut.
Drivers really don’t like it when you walk through the part of the sidewalk with a curb cut.
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 AM
My obituary nearly read “flattened in the United Diary Farmers parking lot.” Which, for someone with an Ohio history self, isn’t the WORST fate.
Drivers really don’t like it when you walk through the part of the sidewalk with a curb cut.
Drivers really don’t like it when you walk through the part of the sidewalk with a curb cut.
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watched a news report about Ohio's first "ai-powered crosswalk," which is just a crosswalk with a big ass motion activated light on it
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
watched a news report about Ohio's first "ai-powered crosswalk," which is just a crosswalk with a big ass motion activated light on it
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The "Relationships with Other Animals" section of Larry the Cat's Wikipedia page is just "controversies" but for a cat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(...
Larry (cat) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The "Relationships with Other Animals" section of Larry the Cat's Wikipedia page is just "controversies" but for a cat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(...