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durham, nc. | public media. | big nerd for journalism, music, boardgames, genre fiction, videogames. | online MADC student @ UNC-CH, beware grad school brain worms
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But this is why you shop local! Cuz dudes rock
A very nice email exchange about an album being out of atock
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Support local businesses! Just ordered some albums from Chaz's
An order summary with four vinyl records listed: Car Seat Headrest "The Scholars", Chris Farren "Death Won't Wait", The Thermals "Now We Can See" and The Thermals "The Body, The Blood, The Machine"
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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She wants to make sure I know that she made two vegan salads ("salads" loosely, means she used vegan Hellman's instead of regular mayo)
A marked up text exchange with Mom in which she said "I made you vegan salads" in some form three times in five messages
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Started rereading this children's scifi classic for the first time in ... 24 years? My grandma got the original trilogy for me one Christmas. I remember really enjoying the juxtaposition of faux medieval with mind control robots.
The cover of "The White Mountains" by John Christopher, with THE TRIPODS across the top
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Liquor Ferris wheel at the hotlot
A blurry light up Ferris wheel with twelve shots on a table with hot pot broths, a bearded man left of frame holds chopsticks
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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This is a cute card and also 50$
The alt art magic the gathering card Badger ole Cub
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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👁️👄👁️
Magic the Gathering card "The Walls of Ba Sing Se," which is a legendary artifact creature - wall that costs 8 colorless mana and has 0/30 and makes other permanents you control indestructible
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I just really like opening packs y'all
An open display box of Magic the Gathering booster packs from the Avatar the Last Airbender set
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Set full of elemental benders and I got an Azula prerelease box and still built Jeskai Sokka
A stack of magic the gathering cards with a card on top that is a 3/3 blue, red, and white legendary creature called Sokka, Tenacious Tactician. He does cool stuff to allies.
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
heyitswhitney.bsky.social
I have a book order on the way with a couple systems thinking books and "communities of practice" by etienne wenger, which seem like they would be right up your alley
Screenshot of a bookshop.org order consisting of "Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller" by Daniella H Meadows, "Systems Thinking for Social Change" by David Peter Stoh, and "Communities of Practice" by Etienne Wenger
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I did not do great, I couldn't get combo actions to pop off 😭
The score sheet filled out for boardgame Tend showing a final score of 76
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Attempting to learn Tend while watching DS9
Several sheets of paper and a neoprene map with cards on it from the game Tend
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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He is mad at me
A black and white cat laying down under a bench with his face in a corner, looking away from the camera
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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And because the 'geam are first but I didn't post photos yesterday, my planta queen brunch:
Thousand layer crispy potato with vegan sour cream, chives, and vegan caviar A vegan Korean chicken sandwich with kimchi and a side Caesar salad A decadent brownie topped with vegan ice cream and a cherry and crumbled peanuts, with a small carafe of fudge sauce on the side
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Can't be traveling without buying more books I don't need
The spines of four books, from left to right: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz, A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, There There by Tommy Orange, and Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Was going to go to Cafe Deko downtown to do homework but they have a no screens policy on weekends which is dumb and pretentious, but that led me to Necessary & Good Coffee, which is much cooler and has much better vibes and had vegan pastries so I got an apple fritter
An apple fritter on a small plate
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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And right next door is vegan garbage food Fry Like an Eagle, double plus good
A display of retro looking CRT monitors that way Fry Like an Eagle; a sign under it says VEGAN DOGS A foil wrapped hamburger and fries An impressive looking vegan big Mac
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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They have an animatronic misfits cover band called the Biscuits, apparently salvaged from an old showtime pizza band
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Logan Arcade is great
A photo of a display of items behind a bar, including liquors and Halloween decorations and a collection of spooky dolls Several videogame cabinets along a brick wall and light up signs hung on the wall above them A dance dance revolution extreme machine in an arcade with a brick wall and wooden floor A big Japanese arcade cabinet for a game called DariusBurst EX Another chronicle
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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The exhibits were still really neat and interactive... Just sad I missed the game one. :( h/t to @cypheroftyr.bsky.social for mentioning it on bsky or I wouldn't have known the museum existed at all.
A sign that reads: story of the day: start a story and let someone else finish it Or add to one already begun. Complete a thought, post it on our wall, or take it home. Type away and have fun! A typewriter with a story started on it A wall of paper tags with handwritten notes, it says "share your family's immigration story" An Octavia butler quote and illustration on the wall: "you don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence it's just so easy to give up"
October 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The sign for the American Writers Museum in Chicago An exhibit with a voidt kampff test from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep An exhibit about the Black Press A customized bookmark exhibit
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Chris Thile is a little mandolin gremlin
A program that reads: "Symphony Center Presents AN EVENING WITH CHRIS THILE. Chris Thile mandolin and vocals. The program will be announced from the stage. There will be no intermission." A man in a blue suit with wild hair stands on stage and plays a mandolin A man onstage with a mandolin from further away, surrounded by the symphony dome, he is gesturing to the audience
October 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
heyitswhitney.bsky.social
Weeee
The ceiling of a symphony Hall, with the ellipsoidal lights hanging off the balcony A photo of a symphony dome stage from the middle of the audience A symphony program that basically says "Chris Thile will do his thing"
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Okay listen
A strawberry and dragon fruit horchata in a transparent plastic cup, pink and kind of cloudy, with a straw in it Corn on the cob on a green and white plate, dressed as elote with mayo and cotija A chimichanga cut in half and stacked to show off all the yummy goodness
October 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Cross function with meeeeeee #npasummit
A title slide for a presentation labeled Data with Direction: building bridges and driving organizational strategy with loyalty data
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM