Laurel Krahn
@windowseat.bsky.social
Polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 critic, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, grey-ace, Minnesotan. Masked & vaxxed. Tired. (She/her)
Widow as of 11/12/24 💔
Contact, links, donate: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn
Sports talk: wintwins.bsky.social
Widow as of 11/12/24 💔
Contact, links, donate: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn
Sports talk: wintwins.bsky.social
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Laurel Krahn
@windowseat.bsky.social
· Jun 28
New pinned post/thread. 🧵
Contact info, wishlist, ways to send support:
linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn
My husband of 19 years @kevingaustin.bsky.social passed away suddenly on 11/11/24; our cats died that year too & my parents in the year before that & it is A LOT. 💔
I do post about other stuff too...
Contact info, wishlist, ways to send support:
linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn
My husband of 19 years @kevingaustin.bsky.social passed away suddenly on 11/11/24; our cats died that year too & my parents in the year before that & it is A LOT. 💔
I do post about other stuff too...
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I just gave as part of this match. I tell you the sick times saves lives. It is the best new source on the ongoing pandemic
We're kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year by participating in NewsMatch, a national campaign to support newsrooms across the US run by the Institute for Nonprofit News.
We need your help to keep telling #LongCOVID stories. Will you donate today? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
We need your help to keep telling #LongCOVID stories. Will you donate today? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just gave as part of this match. I tell you the sick times saves lives. It is the best new source on the ongoing pandemic
A Spotify playlist I shared previously has (or tries to have) 186 songs, this YouTube playlist has 176.
Picture 1990s Laurel ordering CDs and ripping them to collect all these songs and then putting them in a playlist in Winamp or something. I don't think I ever tried burning them to CDs . . .
Picture 1990s Laurel ordering CDs and ripping them to collect all these songs and then putting them in a playlist in Winamp or something. I don't think I ever tried burning them to CDs . . .
Homicide's arrival on streaming should've led to positive talk about the outstanding use of. music on the show. But alas . . .
Oh cool, someone made a playlist on the 'Tube with most of the songs featured on the show. (I know there's a Spotify list too IIRC.) 🧵
Oh cool, someone made a playlist on the 'Tube with most of the songs featured on the show. (I know there's a Spotify list too IIRC.) 🧵
Homicide: Life on the Street [near complete soundtrack] - YouTube
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A Spotify playlist I shared previously has (or tries to have) 186 songs, this YouTube playlist has 176.
Picture 1990s Laurel ordering CDs and ripping them to collect all these songs and then putting them in a playlist in Winamp or something. I don't think I ever tried burning them to CDs . . .
Picture 1990s Laurel ordering CDs and ripping them to collect all these songs and then putting them in a playlist in Winamp or something. I don't think I ever tried burning them to CDs . . .
Great thread that includes useful info for folks in Minnesota in particular.
If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
eLibrary Minnesota
elibrarymn.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Great thread that includes useful info for folks in Minnesota in particular.
Oh right, I was looking at and posting about deals and some of them are ridiculous (and some of the pricing makes no sense). As ever, I prefer physical media but DVD/Blu-Ray sets for TV shows rarely come with digital codes so . . .
(& some of these aren't out on DVD or DVDs are out of print.)
(& some of these aren't out on DVD or DVDs are out of print.)
Right now Fandango At Home (formerly known as Vudu) has some great deals on complete series bundles:
athome.fandango.com/content/brow...
$10:
SportsNight
$20:
Lower Decks
NewsRadio
Psych
Warehouse 13
$25:
Homicide
Magnum, PI
Star Trek
Xena
$30:
B99
BSG
House
Moonlighting
NorthernX
+ lots more.
athome.fandango.com/content/brow...
$10:
SportsNight
$20:
Lower Decks
NewsRadio
Psych
Warehouse 13
$25:
Homicide
Magnum, PI
Star Trek
Xena
$30:
B99
BSG
House
Moonlighting
NorthernX
+ lots more.
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oh right, I was looking at and posting about deals and some of them are ridiculous (and some of the pricing makes no sense). As ever, I prefer physical media but DVD/Blu-Ray sets for TV shows rarely come with digital codes so . . .
(& some of these aren't out on DVD or DVDs are out of print.)
(& some of these aren't out on DVD or DVDs are out of print.)
Up all night and now it's late enough in the morning I'm not sure I should even try sleeping. If only I was good at napping. (I have a therapy appointment at 2pm which is the only thing on my schedule today.) I could crash early tonight and sleep through the winter storm. Hmm. Could be a plan.
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Up all night and now it's late enough in the morning I'm not sure I should even try sleeping. If only I was good at napping. (I have a therapy appointment at 2pm which is the only thing on my schedule today.) I could crash early tonight and sleep through the winter storm. Hmm. Could be a plan.
This is obviously the most important post in my pinned thread. Haven't tried the search lately; I really should make it into a feed or something.
(This all started when I caught myself talking back to pictures on here & actually saying "hey buddy" out loud.)
(I've been alone for over a year now.)
(This all started when I caught myself talking back to pictures on here & actually saying "hey buddy" out loud.)
(I've been alone for over a year now.)
Do I need to explain in my pinned thread that I've taken to saying "hey buddy" or "hey buddies" to cute animals that come across my skyline? My way of saying "hey buddy" but also sharing them. 🧵
Paste this in the search box to find that sort of thing:
from:windowseat.bsky.social hey buddy|buddies
Paste this in the search box to find that sort of thing:
from:windowseat.bsky.social hey buddy|buddies
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is obviously the most important post in my pinned thread. Haven't tried the search lately; I really should make it into a feed or something.
(This all started when I caught myself talking back to pictures on here & actually saying "hey buddy" out loud.)
(I've been alone for over a year now.)
(This all started when I caught myself talking back to pictures on here & actually saying "hey buddy" out loud.)
(I've been alone for over a year now.)
I've got a bad feeling about this.
(Seriously, no good can come of this. Humans struggle to navigate Minneapolis when there's snow and ice making the lanes super narrow and parking tricky and the roads slippery and—)
(Seriously, no good can come of this. Humans struggle to navigate Minneapolis when there's snow and ice making the lanes super narrow and parking tricky and the roads slippery and—)
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle ride-sharing service, is currently on the streets of Minneapolis beginning testing. With six months of winter weather, the car will have to learn to navigate snowy and icy conditions.
Waymo is coming to Minneapolis. But can the self-driving taxi navigate winter weather?
With six months of winter weather, the car will have to learn to navigate snowy and icy conditions. An autonomous vehicle researcher at the U of M says that Waymo cars may not be able to drive when it...
www.mprnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I've got a bad feeling about this.
(Seriously, no good can come of this. Humans struggle to navigate Minneapolis when there's snow and ice making the lanes super narrow and parking tricky and the roads slippery and—)
(Seriously, no good can come of this. Humans struggle to navigate Minneapolis when there's snow and ice making the lanes super narrow and parking tricky and the roads slippery and—)
a thread full of buddies
(hey buddies)
(hey buddies)
i'm on PTO this entire week, so I went to the Como Zoo, where I found out on Mondays, they give all the big cats bones to play with an chew on. I shall now post some of that.
Giraffes are wholly unserious creatures.
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
a thread full of buddies
(hey buddies)
(hey buddies)
When I say this, I mean "charge all your devices" before storms and such things, not run headlong into stuff but hey, I'm not the boss of you people. CHARGE ALL THE THINGS!
I should uh probably keep my phone charged in the event I don’t actually beat the snow on my way home from the office lol
Or as @windowseat.bsky.social says, charge all the things
Or as @windowseat.bsky.social says, charge all the things
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
When I say this, I mean "charge all your devices" before storms and such things, not run headlong into stuff but hey, I'm not the boss of you people. CHARGE ALL THE THINGS!
Awww, these guys seem sweet. Having two cats really is the best, especially if they're buddies.
(Hey buddies!)
(Alas, my house is not in good enough shape nor am I in good enough shape to adopt any more cats just yet. Maybe one day.)
(Hey buddies!)
(Alas, my house is not in good enough shape nor am I in good enough shape to adopt any more cats just yet. Maybe one day.)
Urgent MSP #Caturday 🧵: these two handsome boys need a loving home as circumstances sadly force their person to part with them.
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Awww, these guys seem sweet. Having two cats really is the best, especially if they're buddies.
(Hey buddies!)
(Alas, my house is not in good enough shape nor am I in good enough shape to adopt any more cats just yet. Maybe one day.)
(Hey buddies!)
(Alas, my house is not in good enough shape nor am I in good enough shape to adopt any more cats just yet. Maybe one day.)
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lol love how they send one guy out to negotiate
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
lol love how they send one guy out to negotiate
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
Up all night so fuck it, doing an early morning grocery order before the weather takes a turn.
And hey, I think I now have all the components for a Thanksgiving meal or three sorted. We'll see.
And hey, I think I now have all the components for a Thanksgiving meal or three sorted. We'll see.
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Up all night so fuck it, doing an early morning grocery order before the weather takes a turn.
And hey, I think I now have all the components for a Thanksgiving meal or three sorted. We'll see.
And hey, I think I now have all the components for a Thanksgiving meal or three sorted. We'll see.
Oh, Mikey.
Homicide: Life on the Street (Kellerman speaks Yiddish!)
YouTube video by Patrick Jones
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Oh, Mikey.
I appreciate whoever decided to put this clip online. 😂
It's A Pig
YouTube video by Global Dome Blower
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I appreciate whoever decided to put this clip online. 😂
I also need someone to investigate trackers & see if a version of Homicide: Life on the Street is up yet that is Peacock video + DVD audio as I know some people were working on that project.
(Or I just need to return to the world of bittorrent my own damn self.)
(Or I just need to return to the world of bittorrent my own damn self.)
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I also need someone to investigate trackers & see if a version of Homicide: Life on the Street is up yet that is Peacock video + DVD audio as I know some people were working on that project.
(Or I just need to return to the world of bittorrent my own damn self.)
(Or I just need to return to the world of bittorrent my own damn self.)
I should shift my sleep schedule back to more normal but I confess I like middle of (my) night Bluesky a lot. (hi.)
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I should shift my sleep schedule back to more normal but I confess I like middle of (my) night Bluesky a lot. (hi.)
As you know, I by far prefer buying physical media over just digital copies (the best is, of course, when you get both together).
I wish more TV series DVD/Blu sets came with codes for digital copies, but it's pretty rare.
But you can buy digital copies of lots of things . . . 🧵
I wish more TV series DVD/Blu sets came with codes for digital copies, but it's pretty rare.
But you can buy digital copies of lots of things . . . 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
As you know, I by far prefer buying physical media over just digital copies (the best is, of course, when you get both together).
I wish more TV series DVD/Blu sets came with codes for digital copies, but it's pretty rare.
But you can buy digital copies of lots of things . . . 🧵
I wish more TV series DVD/Blu sets came with codes for digital copies, but it's pretty rare.
But you can buy digital copies of lots of things . . . 🧵
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soylent green but with muppets: thread
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
soylent green but with muppets: thread
A cousin offered me a Thanksgiving meal with their fam in Sioux Falls and even a place to stay, which was kind of them but I had to beg off because of the blasted pandemic though there are other reasons it might not be a good idea. At least they were cool when I declined & didn't make it weird.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
A cousin offered me a Thanksgiving meal with their fam in Sioux Falls and even a place to stay, which was kind of them but I had to beg off because of the blasted pandemic though there are other reasons it might not be a good idea. At least they were cool when I declined & didn't make it weird.
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I can’t believe the knife alien has been equaled
SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I can’t believe the knife alien has been equaled
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I was in a hipster coffee shop today when some rude teens burst in chanting “dersh, dersh, dersh!” and flinging Martha’s Vineyard pierogis at me
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I was in a hipster coffee shop today when some rude teens burst in chanting “dersh, dersh, dersh!” and flinging Martha’s Vineyard pierogis at me
Just mindboggling the shit that billionaires are doing that is causing harm to the world when they could be doing so much good. Wouldn't that feel better? Helping people? Spreading some joy? Or just hole up and buy all the cool shit and enjoy it and leave everyone else alone.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Just mindboggling the shit that billionaires are doing that is causing harm to the world when they could be doing so much good. Wouldn't that feel better? Helping people? Spreading some joy? Or just hole up and buy all the cool shit and enjoy it and leave everyone else alone.
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well the vast majority of Americans are legally allowed to eat pierogi so obviously Alan Dershowitz does not represent us
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
well the vast majority of Americans are legally allowed to eat pierogi so obviously Alan Dershowitz does not represent us