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The Kid La Croix
@croixb.bsky.social
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Extremely broke Queer musician/moth girl. I love my family and my art.
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The second taxi cab number, 87539319, as shown in Futurama.
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I was going through my Signalcon set earlier when I noticed I put the Gen Alpha funny numbers in before I even knew it was thing.
If you're an elderly millennial like me, you should know that 6,7 means the two eggs in Perkins' Magnificent Seven breakfast:
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6,7 and a picture of two eggs. And a watermark I guess
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Shot (or rather, IV injection), chaser.
Close-up of spreadsheet showing that a lot of people were pointing out that Trump had visible bruising on his hand the week of August 24, 2025. The prevailing conjecture being that he took an IV for medication. Later that very same week, per the wikipedia article for lecanemab: "On 29 August 2025, the FDA approved a new subcutaneous auto-injector form called "Leqembi IQLIK". It can be given one weekly after 18 months of IV therapy every 2 weeks" Sure there needed to be 18 months of IV therapy beforehand, but the doctor's not going to tell the diaper in chief "no" when the toddler needs to stamp out rumors that he's in serious decline.
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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I'm guessing he has another MRI in March, unless he has ARIA (amyloid related imaging abnormalities) in which I would guess he has additional MRIs to make sure he's not getting microhemorrhages or excessive brain shrinkage.
If he's on anticoagulants, the risk increases.
A rough spreadsheet loosely correlating the Google Trends of "trump mri" and "trump hand bruise" with the recommended schedule of doses and MRIs for a treatment of lecanemab, an monoclonal antibody used to treat Alzheimer's. The image is from this paper: https://www.jpreventionalzheimer.com/7041-lecanemab-appropriate-use-recommendations.html
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Certain straight people:
"I'm coming down from that Christmas feeling, gimme another hit of that MLF goo."
A mere 28 of the over 500 Lifetime Christmas movies in the list on letterboxd. Almost entirely filled with heterosexual couples.
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Yes, you can build an interior like this.
Close-up detail of the cover.
November 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Sweet time capsule I found today of a magazine all about turning your van into a swanky love nest.
The very orange cover of "Vans & Trucks Magazine" issued April 1976. It advertises the first part of building your own custom interior. We're talking shag carpets, minibars, and TVs.
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving from Cicely, Alaska.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Hub Corn - New Mexico rancher.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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But it's amazing. I'm going to get a lot of use out of it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Mine might need a little work.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This cassette case style has it's label on the outside, and no room for J-cards, and occasionally the cassette falls out too easily, or too difficult, but there's just something I love about these side-loading cases.
And yes, I'm aware it's been 50 years today.
The monochrome cover of Gordon Lightfoot's album "Summertime Dream." The label is worn and the glue has come off the textured case. The back of the case which is even worse looking. The tape is 49 years old, and on it is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" which occurred exactly 50 years ago today.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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The cover is amazing. I love this aesthetic. The wood, the fern, the chunky appliances, the idea that a whole Pyrex(R) baking tray with a whole chicken and vegetables that you can all cook together in your microwave.
Cover of the Sunset Microwave Cook Book, originally $3.95 (in 1976) on Special for $1.19. 184 recipes and basic how-to's. A woman in a robe/apron is taking a tray with a full chicken and veggies out of the microwave next to some kitchen tools, bread rolls and butter, and silverware. The walls are a dark wood paneling and there's a fern growing there as well.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Back in 1976, they thought you could microwave a turkey. Check out these pics from a Microwave Cookbook:
On the left is the below text, on the right is a drawing of an older woman in glasses proudly holding her 20 lb microwaved turkey. The microwave behind her is massive. Poultry How to cook the big birds .and the small ones Cooked by microwaves, poultry becomes tender in a matter of minutes-and the meat will be extremely Julcy, But because poultry pleces (and even whole birds) cook so fast, they brown less than when cooked In a conventional oven. Cook whole birds breast slde down fortha first half of the cooking time, then breast side up until done, You'll need to elevaleh bird above the pan juices on a nonmetallc rack made for mlcrowave ovens (avallable M In some appllance stores) or on an Inverted saucer. Cook cut-up poultry in a shallow dish wide enough to cook pleces in a single layer for even heat penetration; arrange meatlest portions near edges of dish with drumstick ends, wings, and backs in center. Lack of browning Is no problem when you Slmni.. want cooked meat for sandwlches or cooked chicken pleces for use in PDCCOrAA But when eye appeal counts, there are some easy ways to overcome the pale appearance: . Brown the mlcrowave-cooked blrd (except turkey) 3 or 4 inches below a preheated broller before serving, watching It carefully untilthe skin is crisp and browned. . Partiallycook chickenand turkey pleces in the microwave oven and flnish them on the barbecue. . Liberally baste the skin with a sauce, adding dstinctive t flavor along with rlch color. Cook allipoultry just untllit loses its pinknes when slashed near the bone; then cover and let stand briefly before serving. Meat wll continue to cook a few minutes. Total cooking time is about the same whether the bird Is roasted stuffed or unstuffed For attractive oven-frled chicken,you can shake the pleces in crumb mlxtures and then sprinkle with paprlka before cooking. Giblet lovers should stick to conventlonal cooking. In the microwave, the gizzard and heart tend to become tough, and whole lIvers may explode The next page of the cookbook. For a 20 lb turkey, you should cook for 140 to 160 minutes. In your microwave. --- Roasted Whole Birds may be browned under the broller. no longer be plnk near bone when slashed, Skin uck and Domestilc Duckling. Before cook Ing, prick skin with the tines ot a fork to allow fat ust wild generously under the skin to drain into the Then frequently pour drip- plngs out of baking dish during cooking. dlsh to cut down on oven done when drumstick moves easily when jlggled splatter. Cook for the estlmated time; duck IS Skin may be browned under the broller.
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Even better in context.
Shelly Duvall in an awkward but fantastic pose, out of a page of Vogue in the 70s. Text is mostly illegible.
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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This sounds like both a HIPAA violation and potential malpractice when the computer hears a slightly different medicine.
Exercpt from story: I'm not convinced that most people want to talk to their computer, even if it's great for accessibility and scenarios like getting help with apps. Doctors are taking transcriptions while they're performing examinations, people use it for searching, and our work with the accessibility community has taught us a lot about how make voice access and voice typing really valuable," says Mehdi
October 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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As an (autistic) kid in the 90s, I loved the McDonald's Monopoly game so I had to pick up this flyer for the 1982 version before they partnered with Parker Brothers.
I don't have a large-format scanner, so I had to stitch the tri-fold scene together.
And look, I won a free order of french fries!
Front cover of the $20,000,000 Quality in the bag collecting game, with over 50,000,000 cash and foot prizes. Art features cartoon ingredients. Inside cover with places to collect all the stamps needed to win each prize. Some are filled in. Also has fun facts about each of the ingredients. One panel has a place to put your instant win prizes, including one actual game piece that would have been good for a french fry prize in 1982 Back panel of the tri-fold are the rules with odds.
September 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Here's an ad from when the Microrave was introduced:
August 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I don't think I managed to read this one cover to cover. Instead I poked at it, stretched it, tried to unravel all the nuance and meanings in the narratives.
It showed me that everything can be described in patterns larger than itself, and as a pattern of smaller elements.
Cover of Godel Escher Bach by Douglas R Hofstadter
August 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.
Kermit and Fozzie in a driving scene in "The Muppet Movie."
August 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Nobody told VCA Pictures.
Photo of a Betamax tape of "Femme" distributed by prolific smut peddler VCA Pictures
July 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Seriously, I hadn't even tried out this TV I got for maybe $10 at an estate sale a few months ago & I just learned that the individual channels can be configured through this panel.
Meaning I can take that little "L-H" wheel and knock it just out of alignment that it glitches out. Glorious.
A panel that opens up behind the channels on my ECR-137 TV from 1986. There are three different yellow dials per channel, 12 sets in all. Also contains a tool to help turn the tiny dials.
July 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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I think I found a new micro-hobby. This was created from my VCR's blank blue screen into a DIY AVE MOD video enhancer into an old CRT with those little fiddly dials that you can tweak the channel with.
July 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I have a promo VHS of Nine Inch Nails' "Down In It (Shred)" which I haven't seen listed on any collector's sites. There's a low quality version on YouTube, and that's all I can find about it.

Check out this title card:
Title card from the video: Client: TVT Records Artist: 9" Nails Title: "Down In It" Code: 12" MIX Length: 6:58 Production: H-GUN Date: 09/15/89 CinemaVideo Center
July 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Can you explain this one @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social ?

It's an ad for "Rave," a snack from 1991 that looks like a flavorless wafer, one of several ads in this program that advertised to people who snacked too much.
June 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM