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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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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 4m

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

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 10m

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

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 54m

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 · 15h

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

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 12h

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 · 10h

Oh. My. God.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 13h

That’s what my dating profile says!

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 13h

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

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 13h

Yep!

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 13h

Watching “Bart the Lover” and coming to the inevitable conclusion that I am Edna Krabappel, reading a local interest magazine, alone in my kitchen with the cat.

Edna Krabapple in her messy kitchen, with her cat on the counter, reading a magazine.

The close-up of Springfield Magazine with Kristy Picks Springfield’s Best Chili

A new issue of Columbus Monthly. Fall Arts Issue.

Columbus Monthly
Columbus People and their cats. Or Columbus cats and their people

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 15h

As all good things are.

(Also lots of terrible things.)

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 17h

I got curious and opened one of the bags. I expected them to be crunchy, not wet and slimly. They say they’re ready to eat, but maybe I’m still supposed to roast them again? That or I’m being punished by Santa for opening my presents early.

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Kira Magrann @kiraserpentine.bsky.social · 18h

Andromeda decided the Barbie mansion was the perfect perch to hunt from lolllllll

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 18h

Renewed my zoo membership!
Yet again I paid a little extra so I can bring a guest, even though I pretty much always go by myself, with this exact energy.

I Go To The Zoo (Explicit) - feat. Scott Michael Foster - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

YouTube video by racheldoesstuff

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 19h

I remember going to church camp for the first time and being shocked to discover a lot of things were real (like the counselor who believed in actual demons), but one of the most stunning was the guy who was super racist about cars. Something I didn't even know you could be racist about until then.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 20h

Yessss! I think at this point I can confidently say it’s my favorite of the century’s Star Treks.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 20h

I’m just saying, the first time I watched all of Star Trek was in the year after I was widowed. They’re basically the same thing. That’s why Starfleet has counselors!

jaci skellington @wickedjaws.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not going to therapy; I'm just watching Star Trek 🤭

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 23h

“Sorry, I can’t work today. My animal companion and I are busy fighting the Titan of Time.”

A sleeping orange cat on my lap, Hades II on the TV.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

the opposite is the red
behind closed eyes

how much is real and what
are colors I think I should see
on the other side of eyelids
pointed to a sunbeam
that shifts when the curtain
wafts back to shadow

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jaci skellington @wickedjaws.bsky.social · 1d

This week was one of my all-time favorite Aubreyad episodes: when Stephen fell out the window, Jack jumped in after him, and they were rescued - begrudgingly - by lesbian separatist cannibals.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh! I love that!

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

It wound up being the perfect fit for me, but I’m honestly not sure why I applied in the first place. I just knew I had to move out of town for college and it came down to BGSU and Kent. No idea why OU wasn’t on the list.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d

There should have been more Would You Rather games in the Would You Rather movie.