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z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 9h

Nice! I wish I had sewing skills. :)

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 11h

At least we don't need our membership card to see those?

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 11h

Eek.

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 12h

Book 164 📚 for 2025.
Disclaimer: McEnroe is my favorite athlete of all time, so my eye is somewhat jaundiced when it comes to his writing. For me at least it was a fun read, which is important, amirite? Only quibble: he's not/wasn't middle class. Available everywhere, including your local library.

An image of the front cover of former pro tour tennis player and current tennis announcer John McEnroe's memoir, But Seriously (2017). This picks up where his first memoir, You Can't Be Serious, left off in 2002, so perhaps there'll be at least one more book before the decade ends. The cover is plain white, author's name in black text, title in red italic text, and McEnroe is sitting atop an umpire's chair, which is clever given how many umpires he feuded with during his playing days.

R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 2025 (Jacknife Lee Remix) RFE/RL Dispatch

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 11h

Good evening #BookSky Well, #BannedBooksWeek may be wrapping up but the fight for the right to read continues. Here's a quick thread of things you can do all year to help...

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z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 14h

#MusicChallenge
#DavidsMonthOfMusic

A song from the last album I bought

YouTube video by remhq

YouTube video by Lacy J. Dalton - Topic

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 14h

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes

Regan from the movie The Exorcist 👀

Turn My Head Around

Neko Case - Bad Luck (Live on KEXP)

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 14h

#MusicChallenge
#Howl-A-Ween
#MusicSky

bad luck

YouTube video by KEXP

Dogmatix’s Big Bark – Dogmatix POV (An Asterix Song)

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z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 15h

#BlueZicos
#MusicChallenge
Monday: Dogmatix

YouTube video by The TT Bug

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 15h

FYI it might also be just the thread too, that's happened to me before in just those areas. But yep.

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 17h

🫂

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 17h

Good luck with that insanity...

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 19h

Diminish a song and band.

Handshake by Duke and the Protest

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Diminish a song and band.

“Merely a Feeling” - Brookline

“Speak a Little” - Some Doubt

“Wonderpartition” - Puddle

“Closed Mouth Kissing on Fire” - Princes of Leon

“Birdhouse in Your Wrist” - They Might Just Be Kind of Tall Guys

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 20h

I mean... it's a good place for a wedding ;)

Two hands with wedding rings on in front of Minnehaha Falls, one is doing the live long and prosper gesture a la Spock

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 20h

She needs to get a job 😜

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Zombified Chawkeye @chawkeye.bsky.social · 20h

Book 163 📚 for 2025. I am sure that the Nisei experience wasn't as positive in other states, particularly after reading so much about the South, but nice to see many opportunities for growth in my adopted state of last residence. Good read. Available everywhere, including your library. #LocalAngle

An image of the front cover of St Olaf College Asian Studies professor Ka F. Wong's 2025 book Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota during World War II. On the cover, which shows several American GIs in dress uniform, two Nisei Americans are displayed in the foreground.

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 22h

Someone needs to tell the manager I’m not scheduled to be in the office until Monday.

#CatsOfBluesky

A brownish and black tabby cat with a white chin, Obi-Wan Katnobi, sitting on a chair pad on a desk

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z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 22h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Alive? In the returns?!?

Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 22h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Scotch tape tear repair.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 23h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Heldenleben --> Mendelssohn Scherzo --> NEXT

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z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 22h

She’ll need to show me any receipts…

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly, for me, it could be almost everything that I hear that I know the lyrics to…

Phantogram "When I'm Small" [Official Video]

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 22h

Ours won’t even eat her dry food when we added water to make it a bit softer when she had a tooth problem…

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 22h

You’re welcome, but then again I have a tiny theremin, so…

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 22h

#MorningEarworm is underground.

YouTube video by Barsuk Records

z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 1d

Nope... but she hates everything we've offered that is not her crunchy food.