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Katherine Duke
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Writer. Editor. Comedy geek. Trivia nerd. Podcast junkie. Creator of the book Kissability: People with Disabilities Talk About Sex, Love, and Relationships (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24738917-kissability#CommunityReviews). (she/her)
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My mother sewed me a new Christmas stocking
February 13, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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I posted this a few days ago, but it's so frequently relevant:
Comic from lunarbaboon.com about a man who calls out of work for the day. His boss is angry until the man explains that there is a soft cat purring on his lap, to which the boss replies, "Take all the time you need!"
February 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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this is who runs this account
Sepia-toned photo of me around the age of 2, seated in a chair and holding crutches. I was literally a poster child for some kind of cerebral-palsy-related thing (not, as my outfit might suggest, for Oktoberfest).
February 2, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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Linked on the DARVO Wikipedia page is a page on "Accusation in a mirror," which also seems frighteningly relevant.
Opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article: "Accusation in a mirror (AiM)[a] is a technique often used to incite hate speech, where someone falsely attributes their own motives or intentions onto their adversaries.[3][4][5] Along with dehumanization, accusation in a mirror is one of the indirect or cloaked forms of incitement to genocide, which has contributed to the commission of genocides such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Armenian genocide. By invoking collective self-defense, accusation in a mirror is used to justify genocide, similar to using the right of self-defense to justify individual homicide.[5][6][7]"
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Heated Rivalry, but all the athletes are these guys

(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
The widely memed list, from a '90s Japanese video game, of baseball players with names that sound almost-but-not-quite American.
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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yesterday afternoon vs. this afternoon

(and it’s still comin’ down!)
The considerably thick, flat layer of snow that had accumulated on and around the table on my patio. The even bigger, rounder pile of snow that has now accumulated on and around the table.
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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"Oh dear! Is it soft?"
"So soft!"
Comic from lunarbaboon.com about a man who calls out of work for the day. His boss is angry until the man explains that there is a soft cat purring on his lap, to which the boss replies, "Take all the time you need!"
January 25, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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This image from Ren & Stimpy led to a running joke in my family. For years, whenever anything grossed us out, we would say, "Sick! Tub o' mayo!"

I was reminded of it last week when, for an office retreat, the caterers gave us an actual huge tub o' mayo (and another of mustard).
Ren & Stimpy sitting on the lap of a half-naked fat man, who in turn is sitting in front of some wall art that says "AMERICA". The three characters are all sipping with straws from a bucket labeled "TUB O' MAYO".
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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(Adult) Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as (13-year-old) Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone on PEN15. They are smiling and embracing in front of their school lockers.
January 15, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Alex Trebek posing with his arm around me on the day in 2008 when I came in third on Jeopardy
January 9, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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Fred Savage as The Grandson in The Princess Bride, asking, "Is this a kissing book?"
January 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Logo of the "Now That's What I Call Music" discography.
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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:: Band Aid voice ::

The greatest gift I got this year is knife
My shiny new set of knives (and a pair of scissors) in a new wooden knife holder on my kitchen counter.
January 4, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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S1.E19: "The Purple Testament"

This episode features Dick York, who would go on to star on Bewitched.

But I got distracted looking at William Reynolds, my first nominee for the title of Twilight Zone's Hottest Man. Sweaty, brooding, haunted by a supernatural gift/curse. God DAMN.
Black-and-white closeup on a model-beautiful young white man, bright eyes staring off into the middle distance, face glistening with sweat.
January 2, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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… laughing and playing

(Note that these annual lists don’t include things that I discovered in previous years and have kept up with all along. These are just the new-to-me titles, plus a few rewatches.)
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Another interesting year of watching, listening, reading…
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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S1.E17: "The Fever"

A guy starts out staunchly believing that gambling is bad, and then suddenly gets addicted to it to the point of financial and psychological ruin, thereby learning... that gambling is bad? I guess?

P.S.: Rod Serling created Gamblor.
Homer Simpson, teary-eyed and angry, saying, "The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor!"
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Midday seems to be Dove Happy Hour at my mother’s bird feeder. DOVES EAT FREE!
Six doves eating seed at a feeder on a table on my parents’ back deck, seen through a glass door.
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Currently ruining Christmas at my parents’ house :0(
My positive COVID test.
December 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits…
The same photo of three cartons of different kinds of milk.
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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¿TRES leches? ¿En esta economía?
Three cartons in my fridge: dairy half & half, oat milk, and soy milk.
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I'm not good at Photoshop, but this gave me an idea:
I have taken the "Inclusive Restroom" sign pictured in the quoted post and (sloppily) altered it to overlay the accessibility symbol onto the all-gender symbol such that the circle is now the wheel of the wheelchair. The human figure is sitting on it, and sort of holding the "male" arrow that sticks out.
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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[“Weird That It Came Up Twice in One Day”list, continued:] * 10/14/2025: Montpellier, France * 10/16/2025: The Hamburglar * 11/12/2025: Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance * 11/18/2025: artist Alexander Calder * 11/24/2025: the emu and kangaroo on Australia’s coat of arms * 11/26/2025: Australian “democracy sausages” * 11/28/25: The Biblical hunter-king Nimrod * 12/1/25: walking into the sea with stones in one’s pockets * 12/4/25: actor Bronson Pinchot * 12/10/25: actor Jack Warden (whose name I never even knew until today!)
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Sights on my travels this evening:

1. wildly orange sunset!

2. Snow Friend!
Sunset over a snow-covered parking lot with bare trees. The clouds are an intense red-orange under a yellow sky. A cute snowman my neighbors built, with twigs for arms and a fat, smiling face.
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Here, finally, is the crisp. I made it with wild blackberries and black raspberries I foraged this summer. It smells and tastes better than it looks!
Berry crisp in a green baking dish on my kitchen counter. Bits of the berry filling are visible through small holes in the golden brown oatmeal topping.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM