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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 · 34m

Lots of deer out and about today as well. It’s easy to forget how big they are. Not moose big, but there was definitely a moment where we all had to decide who was anxious about who.
(The first two are on the Olentangy trial, the other on Midgard, just off of Walhalla.)

A couple of deer in the trees and undergrowth.

Another deer looking right at me in the woods

A buck walking away from me on the curb.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 39m

Instead of what’s become my normal Thursday movie, I wound up going on a two-hour walk. Which is exactly what I needed. The early evening makes me feel like myself again after a too-long summer.

Sunset behind tall grass in the wetlands

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Tron: SCARY @asterionhex.monster · 2h

Are we supposed to know this guy’s movie, or

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 2h

Are… are you in Severence?

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 1d

Making a settings menu and got an idea:

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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · 6h

Duh

screenshot from one of the mirror universe episodes of Star Trek DS9, of Mirror Kira Nerys speaking with regular Kira Nerys. The are staring into each other's eyes homosexually

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Lydia! ⭐ @lydia.lol · Mar 17

if you were in high school in 1997 you sometimes get Walkin' on the Sun stuck in your head for the rest of your life. it doesn't matter how much you hated it. it doesn't matter if you were too goth to listen to smash mouth. it just happens and you just have to deal with it. i'm telling you

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 8h

Positive!

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 9h

while it may not seem like it to someone scrolling by with a cursory look, what i am creating is not ‘ironic’ nor a ‘get rich quick scheme’ and it is certainly not AI GENERATED. it is a genuine expression of my heart and my beliefs about sexuality and art and love and freedom and curiosity and joy

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, this Titanic-themed hotel is a comically terrible idea, BUT if they put a 1912 movie theater inside I'll book a weekend stay.

I also appreciate this commitment to the Local Angle.
www.dispatch.com/story/busine...

The city of Columbus even has its own ties to the Titanic, Messing said. Roughly 55 of the over 2,200 people aboard the ship were on their way to Ohio, and one — a Columbus native — even met her future husband on a lifeboat.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning, monsters.

Fallen leaves are not only pretty, but an excellent place to hide. Or listen to sputtering rain tap on the leaves while you rest, where human concerns cannot find you.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 11h

I blocked them right away. People really need a better hobby.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 11h

"If you could somehow bypass gerrymandering" is basically the answer to everything at this point.

If 2026 is a wave, enough to break through the obstruction, that is the number one thing that needs to be taken care of. And I wish I had faith that it would be.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you! Just a mechanism to allow individual cities to join would help a lot.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 12h

*looks on wistfully from Ohio*

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 12h

Charlton Heston about to throw that CD at you like a shuriken.

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 14h

photo and caption, cd-rom today, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/CDRO...

a photo of charlton heston, holding a shiny cd-rom, his arm resting on top of a monitor that is showing a vague image of himself.
caption:
charlton heston's first interactive epic will be a double disc voyage through the bible.

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Tracy @theothertracy.bsky.social · 12h

We're in the final 48 hours and are approaching 200% funded! This, in my opinion, is almost exactly how Kickstarters should go.

Tracy @theothertracy.bsky.social · 21d

You Are the Dungeon
You Are the Tavern
You Are the Wilds
You Are the Palace of Dreams

You Are... The Kickstarter!

Four solo worldbuilding TTRPG zines, all in print, all you!

Create the world, create yourself

www.kickstarter.com/projects/san...

You Are... The Kickstarter!

Four solo worldbuilding games in print! You Are the Dungeon, Tavern, Wilds, and the Palace of Dreams (plus play a game as it funds!)

www.kickstarter.com

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 13h

when I meet you at night, we acknowledge
the distance as a simple vacation

sometimes I worry I’ve learned too much
to see meaning in the chemical waves
slashing through a disorganized desk
an attempt to sweep chaos into folders

but even if these thoughts are still
your smile, our plans, this project
we need to finish before the show
we can find what we need
as each still image flicks past
drawn from the movement implied

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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 1d

"it sounds better this way" is a 100% legit way of doing grammar

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 21h

All we had to do to get passenger rail was get Mike DeWine stoned and explain how many other state fairs he could visit on a train.

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 22h

Yay! A step toward passenger rail service for Columbus, which has none.

But the photo/video attached is our governor holding up bags of quasi-edibles. Heckuva job, Dispatch AI!

www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

Screenshot of Dispatch article:

MORPC, rail partners commit $650,000 toward Chicago to Columbus train route
Nathan Hart, Columbus Dispatch
Published 12:22 p.m. ET October 15, 2025
Updated 12:32 p.m. ET October 15, 2025
Passenger rail
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Video of Governor DeWine holding up bags of what look like candy.
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The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission and its out-of-state rail partners are committing $650,000 to a Chicago-Fort Wayne-Columbus-Pittsburgh passenger rail line, MORP announced on Oct. 14.

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Tanooki Joe @tanookijoe.bsky.social · 1d

Just came across this really bizarre Bull (from Night Court) plush puppet in a 1990 Warner Bros. catalog...

$54 in 1990 money? What?!

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 23h

Oh. My. God.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 23h

I’m not sure if it’s on disc, but I think most of the songs are on the streaming platforms.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

That’s what my dating profile says!

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Krusty the Clown. You would have loved Jo Ann’s Chili Bordello.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · Oct 7

Jo Ann’s Chili Bordello!

JO. ANN’S. CHILI. BORDELLO.
Get in the time machine with me, we’re going to the SEXY CHILI RESTAURANT.

A photo of five women in lingerie

Jo Ann's Chili Bordello
15 varieties of chili served in an atmosphere of sin; 4 varieties of chili available each day. Sandwiches served for lunch and other dinner entrees served after 5 pm, including stuffed chicken breast, crabmeat stuffed flounder and tender Bordello strip steak.
Elegant Victorian style decor with French corsetted waitresses as seen on NBC's Real People. Decadent cocktail lounge with Happy Hours Monday-Friday, ladies' night Tuesday, men's night Wednesday and football Saturday specials. Chili served all day long. Lunches served Monday-Friday 11 am-2:30 pm; dinners Monday-Thursday 5-10 pm, Friday & Saturday 5-11 pm and never on Sunday.
1692 W. Fifth Ave., 486-9797