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Talcott

@talcotts.bsky.social

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Widowed and nonbinary. I talk a lot about Star Trek, Ohio, cats, dinosaurs, and whatever I’m watching on TV. (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.

A March 1997 issue of Columbus Monthly with the title “Columbus People and Their Cats (or Columbus Cats and their People).”

Ignoring the film I fade out
one daydream overlaps another—

A man walks in to the saloon.

We're lost within a game store
outside Cleveland, a labyrinth
of shelves that felt unreal
even in the moment.

I think a fight just broke out.

Bare trees shudder
through small windows
and I wonder if clerks
watch the sky when
no one else is here.

A photo of the alley at sunset. Half-bare trees and garages in silhouette. Bits of light reflect of the top of trash cans and power lines.

An orange cat snoozing on a blanket made of comic strips.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 9h

This is the tone I want from future Alien movies/TV shows.

nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · 9h

This is stellar lmao

youtu.be/3NHd7oC1w58?...

Alien Recut as a Comedy | Trailer Mix

YouTube video by Mashable Screening

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nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · 9h

This is stellar lmao

youtu.be/3NHd7oC1w58?...

Alien Recut as a Comedy | Trailer Mix

YouTube video by Mashable Screening

youtu.be

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nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · Jul 20

Everyone else says they get right wing stuff pushed to their YouTube homepage and I get stuff like this

(ASMR) Goofy dies in a car crash while listening to post Malone

marmot can be cleaned with a paint roller.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 9h

I somehow missed this entire thread!
I can’t even blame an algorithm.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 9h

I can’t believe I missed this when you posted it.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 10h

Live footing of me guiding Melinoë through Erebus.

KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 11h

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 9, Episode 15

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Dye Mad Yarns @dyemadyarns.bsky.social · 12h

Our staffer Tobi has made a sock pattern to pair with our Halloween yarns!! You can check out the kits we made dyemadyarns.com/products/mon... #knitsky #yarn

A variegated dark knit sock on a white wooden with a red drippy cuff design. There are two other cuff designs in other sizes, one orange and black, the other neon green and purple.

Our Halloween collection of yarns with twisted hanks in neon pink, bright orange, neon green, neon purple, black and a ghostly green. Product photos have Goosebumps books, netting, and Halloween candy.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 13h

“The Else” by They Might Be Giants.

The cover of The Else, featuring two bird men in the snowy woods with a bird man briefcase.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 14h

See, I don’t even take my wallet out of my pocket when I’m home (thanks, brain), so that never occurs to me.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 14h

I never do it either. I did in NYC when riding the subway, but as soon as I got back to Columbus I forgot that was an option.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 15h

I hadn’t heard that. Hollywood and money can make for weird politics, so I’m not going to rule it out, but any time I hear of her is as the leader of SAG.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 15h

Every day I feel more vindicated about Mallory Keaton being my favorite character on Family Ties.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 15h

Yes! And I think this also hits on my stubborn streak of not wanting to change just so other people won't make assumptions about me. I'd just like to never hear "sir" again.

(It would be nice if I wasn't trying to navigate this in the midst of a regressive backlash aiming to make gender MORE rigid)

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 16h

No line at the Franklin County early voting center. Go get yourself a sticker!

(Even though they’re not as good as the old “I [Ohio] Voting” design.)

Car selfie of me with an Ohio Voted sticker.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 18h

"The Song of the Cloud Forest" (1989)
Dir. Jim Henson

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · Jul 22

Chicago's alleyways are so good

photo of a neighborhood alleyway in Chicago in late afternoon

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 22h

Hah. Possibly another good reason to never sort it at least.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 22h

Ugh. I’m sorry.
I know this feeling. Or at least a closely connected feeling*. It sucks and you shouldn’t have to be chill about it.

*(In my case, frustrated at being seen as Boy, unaware of any type of presentation that will let me just opt out of gender entirely.)

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 23h

Hit the limits of an archive unread. It’s time
to wrap up the year in a bow. Each one
sits on the shelf, a temporal slice bound
together until the end marks another
system to contain the flow of chaos.

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jaci skellington @wickedjaws.bsky.social · 1d

In better news it's Tuesday & time for #firstvoyage (though tonight's episodes look depressing, sry2say. We'll see how it goes.)

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

The rain tonight sounds so nice.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

The Discover feed is the absolute worst, and the entire reason I started limiting responses.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Fonda saw Pablo Picasso paint. I know this because he told me when we were in a Thomas the Tank Engine movie together.

Yes, it’s as surreal as it sounds.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

Same here. On all accounts. It also saved me when I was trapped in the airport over the summer.

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Ben Leland @benlelandoh.bsky.social · 1d

Early voting for the 2025 General Election started today. Vote Jesse Vogel for Columbus City Council.

Early vote center is at 1700 Morse Rd, and is generally* open from M-F 8am-5pm for the next few weeks, w/ expanded hours closer to election day. Info: vote.franklincountyohio.gov/voters/absen...

Selfie of me with an "I ohIo voted" sticker

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