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Karl Henderson
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Electrician, soapmaker, veteran, Catholic, baritone , Starkville MS, UGA alum
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What's a perfect album from the year you turned 16?
Album art for Into the Great Wide Open by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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This is the only bird I have on my phone. One time someone said everyone draw a crow and I'm an electrician, not an artist but they said everyone.
A crow drawn inexpertly with a mechanical pencil. A line drawing with some more lines as shading.
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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@michaelachiaradio.bsky.social just sent this text. It's a text about health care and also about fighting back stronger. I figure if I click that link and send a few $, when the party asks about his fundraising, he can point to it and say people want fighters.
A long political fundraising text from Michael Chiaradio who's running for congress in MS03. There's an image with: - his letterhead - A quote from from CBS News: "Senate government shutdown deal leaves many Democrats furious, with little to show on health care after 40 days" - A picture of the Capitol from a street with a barricade saying "STOP" with a red line light above it. Full text as follows: (Continues on the next picture) Senate Democrats had a full hand at the healthcare negotiating table – and they just folded. Karl, 8 Senate Dems just broke from the party and gave in to Republican demands. All the momentum we had from last week’s blue sweep? Stopped in its tracks. (in bold) Here’s the bottom line: this won’t stop healthcare premium hikes for Mississippi families. (end bold) This will only make life more expensive. We need strong Democrats in Congress who will hold the line on healthcare for working families. Not spineless leaders who cave at the slightest hint of pressure. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work. Are you with me? → Donate here to kickstart our high-powered voter outreach right here in Mississippi: m4ms.org/shutdown-deal?t=tDv3kp Michael A. Chiaradio Candidate for Congress, MS-03 Text STOP to quit. The rest of the text. The full description is on alt text of the first picture.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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If you see this quote with a robot not from Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, or Transformers.
Poster from the 1885 movie D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform) Two images on the left holding a baseball bat, on the right in combat flight gear.
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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If you see this, post 4 female characters you love.
Written word edition makes images a bit more difficult so I'm using the covers. (No particular order)
1. Elma York
2. Eileen O'Reilly
3. Miryem Mandelstam
4. Ista
The cover of The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal for Elma York The cover of the novel Blackout by Connie Willis for Eileen O'Reilly The cover of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik for Miryem Mandelstam The cover of Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold for Ista
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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If you see this, quote post with a vampire who isn't Dracula
The cover of Steven Brust's novel "Sethra Lavode", the eponymous character being a vampire. A woman in black pants and a white tunic holding a very large sword.
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Close to 200 in Starkville I think.
A courthouse with people surrounding it carrying various signs
October 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Prepped for tomorrow.
What do you think of my sign?
A 12in x 15in paperboard sign on a pine stick with a couple American Flag stickers and IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE written in red and blue quite amateurly. A 2ft x 3ft flag on a narrow extendible pole. An Osprey 2.5 liter water reservoir backpack.
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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He's gotten a car now but most of last year, I was giving a ride to and from church to our Nigerian grad student in the choir.
He always wears handmade African outfits and when he came back this year, he brought one for me.
Me (on the right) with John. I'm in the handmade African outfit he gave me. It is a mustard yellow with large black polka dots. John is wearing a similar outfit in an olive green.
August 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Modor:
Dick Tracy and the kid sitting on the cot of Tracy's jail cell.
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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This is the flag of my city.
The flag is just a maroon field with white letters. The middle is "STARKVILLE" in all capitals. The letters have been copied behind slightly left and down in a poor attempt to make them look 3D. Above "STARKVILLE" is an arc formed from the word "HISTORIC" in smaller capitals going from the A to the I. Below "STARKVILLE" in even smaller capitals is "MISSISSIPPI'S COLLEGE TOWN".
August 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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A light green frog clinging to the siding in my doorway. Perhaps it's a tree frog.
August 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Without saying Black Beauty, what's your favorite Anna Sewell novel?
The cover of Black Beauty from its Wikipedia article. It's faded geeen. There's a line drawing of a horse and stitching around the edges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Beauty
August 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A while back I made a map of what the US might look like with all the states a similar size to California. There are 10 and CA was still the biggest.

* These are 2019 NIST population estimates. Populations might have changed

** This is only for the population comparison. I'm not advocating it.
A map with the state combined into 10. These are the combinations with the population. 2019 NIST estimates. 39.5 CA 38.8 AK AZ CO HI ID MT NV NM OR UT WA WY 37.3 IL IA MI MN WI 34.3 CT ME MA NH NY RI VT 32.1 FL GA 28.5 AL AR LA MS MO TN 39.4 KS NE ND OK SD TX 29.4 DE DC MD NJ PA 27.4 NC SC VA 24.7 IN KY OH WV
August 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Age verification
This is what game controllers look like.
Old paddle controllers used for games like pong and breakout in the 80s.
August 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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My favorite doctor and companion
Dr. Beverly Crusher from Star Trek TNG holding a phaser. Wesley stands behind her.
August 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Stop scrolling and post 2 characters that give you joy.
Dr Mensah and Murderbot from the Apple TV series Murderbot based on the books by Martha Wells. Dr Mensa has her hands in her lap palms up and is looking downward anxiously. Murderbot is sitting ramrod straight, also anxiously.
August 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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How your email finds me
John Cusack in Better Off Dead. He's standing in the doorway in a robe with the $2 paperboy outside.
July 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.
Dave Bowman from 2001 A Space Odyssey is reflected in the eye of HAL 9000
July 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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My fantastic four
Movie poster from The Princess Bride Fezzik, Inigo, Buttercup, and Wesley
July 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Sometimes I post from here instead
The old man sits on the stump at the end of the children's book "The Giving Tree"
July 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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This is where I post from
The kid from Flight of the Navigator sits in the control chair of the alien space/time ship. He and the robot eye look suspiciously at each other.
July 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Look what showed up!
I'm not doing a long video on it. Adam Savage already did one much better than I could.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmZj...
July 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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QUICK everyone post a picture of Starfleet officers in a turbolift so as everyone scrolls up the officers also go up, heading for the bridge. Just inexplicably numerous posts of officers waiting patiently in the turbolift for you to shoot them upward
Picard and three children trapped in the turbolift from the episode Heimlich Maneuver. Picard sits on the floor exasperated and the kids stand around him.
July 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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That happened to me once. I had to call the utility.
A single story yellow brick house in early morning twilight. there's a three story gyser coming out of the front yard because the water main which goes through my yard burst.
July 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM