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Steve
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Reskeets are self-criticism. He/him

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This paragraph is like a Mandelbrot set of unexamined assumptions. Why have we had such incredible productivity growth over the last century? Why assume that this rate of growth absolutely must be maintained? If we have too much information to sift through now, why is it imperative to generate more?
An image of a paragraph. Heading: "We really need better ideas" Body: "But before I get there, here's the bad news: There's growing evidence that humanity is generating fewer new ideas. In a widely cited paper with the extremely unsubtle title 'Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?' economist Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues looked across sectors from semiconductors to agriculture and found that we now need vastly more researchers and R&D spending just to keep productivity and growth on the same old trend line. We have to row harder just to stay in the same place."
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Look, I actually leave the house sometimes, and even enjoy one or more of the arts.
Yr humble correspondent (left) and a nice lady who sometimes drags him out of the house to another city to enjoy the theatre (and the Highline, where this photo was taken). If you zoom in and then look through a jeweler's loupe, you might be able to see the Statue of Liberty in the background. The Playbill for Waiting for Godot, starring two of the members of Wyld Stallyns, in the foreground of a photo of a stage from the nosebleed seats (relatively speaking; it wasn't a huge theater).
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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If you see this, qts with a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health.
The scene from Heat where Al Pacino's character is interrogating Hank Azaria's character. In this photo, Pacino is in the midst of yelling, "'Cause she's got a GREAT ASS!" although for the purposes of this meme, I would mostly emphasize the crazed expression on his face, rather than the context of the line we know he's delivering.
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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The cat sitter sent us the most perfect photo of Patches I think anyone has yet taken.
A one-eyed calico cat peers around the edge of a doorway from the next room at the photographer.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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A picture of Jaghatai Khan, primarch of the White Scars legion from Warhammer 40K, with an inverted word balloon added to the bottom to make it look like he's saying the words in the quoted skeet.
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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By way of thankful repayment to anyone who is postin their cats:
An orange tabby cat sits in the open tea-towel drawer of what I'm going to call a hutch. His little sleepy eyes are closed.
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Dumb Dumb City must be like a Springfield or a Newport, 'cause it seems like you can find them all over the place.
Two cats, a calico girl and an orange tabby boy, nap in croissant pose on a blue couch. The photo is taken from a position next to them on the couch, and slightly above.
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Even assuming, as one might from how young he looks, that this photo was taken back when men were wearing their jackets tight and cropped, the depicted fit is just egregious.
Jacob Bernstein, in a photo that I'm guessing was taken taken many years ago. He is wearing jeans, a white shirt, a black tie, and a blue sport coat that he presumably bought at The Children's Place.
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I feel like Belly's second album, King, was pretty slept-on, but it absolutely rules. "Now They'll Sleep" is one of my favorite songs by anyone.
The cover of the album King, by the band Belly.
October 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Lol, currently on her website (if you stay right, you don't have to get right):
A snip from the biography section of Leigh Alexander's website, which reads, "I spent ten years as a progressive critic, website editor, and presenter in technology and games, usually controversially (oops), and my work is still concerned with the complexities of existing in digital spaces. "I'm passionate about and influenced by: Text adventures, reality television, music videos, consumer aesthetics (especially the space-age poptimism of Y2K), Tarot and other systems of prediction, genre blends and remixes, technomancy, malls, cultural garbage, Sailormoon, The Thong Song and magical realism. "Many of my current projects are unannounced, but a selection of some of my favorite representative works are here." I have highlighted, "I'm passionate about and influenced by," and, "The Thong Song."
September 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Once again reminded that I have a real tendency for Sephiroth-posting when I'm not paying enough attention to my writing voice. At least I'm Sephiroth-posting for good, I guess.
An image of a quote skeet. The original says, "it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying 'I wish ill on JK Rowling' is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people. reinstate Jessie, thus is ridiculous." My comment is, "Here, let me use my cisgendered, hetero, privileged voice to say I too wish ill upon JK Rowling. Anyone who aspires to decency should wish ill on someone who works to take rights away from our trans siblings, or any other human beings."
August 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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If you see this, post a bad woman you love

(This might be more of a "Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good" scenario, but Crystal does do a whole lot of murders in this movie.)
Betty Gilpin as Crystal in the movie The Hunt, brandishing a sawed-off shotgun at some off-camera baddies
August 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Apparently yesterday was National Perfect Babbies Day, and I did not post any pictures of the babbies. I regret the error.
A calico cat lies stretched out on a blue couch. Her front end and back end are twisted like 90 degrees and all her legs are extended and her little belly is showing. An orange tabby lies on his side, on the same blue couch but at a different time. He has one forepaw paw near his face, his little jackrabbit legs are sticking out a bit, and he seems contemplative.
August 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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This little goblin, who lives on our porch, got herself a chicken wing at some point. I thought someone should know, so I'm telling you all.
A tuxedo cat eats wet food off of a saucer on a concrete porch. To her immediate left is a metal food bowl, and to the left of that is a cooked chicken wing.
August 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Google Photos keeps sending push notifications to my phone, like daily, inviting me to look at my "memories," and let me save us both a click, Google Photos, it's a picture of a cat. They're all pictures of the cats. (Example attached, obviously)
Close up of a sleepy orange cat on a blue sofa. His adorable little face is partially obscured by his adorable little paw.
July 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I'm a cool guy who does cool stuff, like sitting indoors watching TV but with cool sunglasses on (I went to the eye doctor and have anime pupils).
A white man with a beard looks into the camera. He is wearing sunglasses, a gray tshirt, and a pair of Koss KSC-75 headphones. Behind him, an adorable calico cat sits atop a cat tree, looking out the window.
June 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Okay, time to stop doomscrolling and go do something useful, like feed the porch cat.

(I post this both as self-motivation, and as motivation to whomever is reading this and also might need it)
A tuxedo cat, chonky, with a tipped ear, sits on a porch in front of the wrought-iron railing, looking grumpily at something off-camera.
June 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If there's one good thing about unemployment, it's being able to spend more of my day with adorable sleeping cats. Pay ain't great, but it's pretty low-stress.
An orange tabby cat with a white muzzle sleeps on his side. His little paws are up by his face, and one back leg is fully extended.
June 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Let's try to observe what this cat is up to
A photo of a calico cat from above. She is lying on her back, and has her two little forepaws near her face, and her two little rear legs spread out. We're mostly looking at a white, furry belly.
June 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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beans
A close-up photo of a reclining calico cat, framing her little face in profile, and one white forepaw with pink-and-black toe beans facing toward the camera.
May 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Team, I think one of the neighborhood cats left us a gift of fried chicken out on our porch tonight, and I can't tell you how good that makes me feel about myself.
A photo from inside a home's security door showing a piece of white meat fried chicken right in the center of the path between the porch stairs and the front door. In the foreground right next to the door is the grumpy tuxedo cat who lives on the porch looking inside and judging everyone. Did she leave the chicken? Maybe. Maybe? Did another neighborhood cat leave the chicken? I would assume so. Either way, it is true that our home has been blessed by a street cat, which is one way to get into heaven, I contend.
May 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Sleepy boy
Close-up photo of a sleeping orange cat. He has one forepaw in front of his face.
May 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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*very Peter Dinklage voice*: That sizzurp came from the Moon!
A carton of Capri Sun pouches that I impulse-bought at the grocery store. The limited edition flavor is MOON PUNCH, and it has a graphic of a giant pouch of Capri Sun against a starry sky. On the graphical pouch itself is a further graphic of the full moon against, again, a starry sky. There is a yellow, rocket-ship shaped text box in the upper right of this side of the carton, exhorting the consumer to collect all eight glow-in-the dark moon phases on the individual pouches. Having already drunk a pouch of that New Moon, I can tell you that the fruit punch they make on the moon tastes, perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot like the fruit punch they make on Earth.
May 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Obligatory:
The meme from The Good Place where Chidi says to Eleanor, "Okay. But that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?"
May 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Facebook decided I should see this. I don't know what comic it's from, and it makes less than zero scientific sense, but kind of one million percent Superman sense, so sure okay I now believe Superman can smell brownies in a closed environment in space.
Three panels of a comic page, with two above a wide panel on the bottom. Panel one: Speedy says, "Is it just me, or does he seem kind of h--" "HIGHLY UNSTABLE," Batman interrupts. "Superman, I want you back in the infirmary, NOW." Panel two: Superman says, "Wait, do you smell that? Somebody's making brownies." SFX: sniff sniff Panel three: Superman continues, "Yes! Brownies! In North Dakota! We have to go to North Dakota. RIGHT. NOW. Guys?"
April 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM