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Thomas G. Atkinson
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Is there any tea on this spacecraft?
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Social media post by trond_solberg 71 Hi. Norwegian here. Some people seem to think that high taxes destroy freedom. But in Norway, a lot of our freedom comes from what taxes protect: - Study without lifelong debt. - Change jobs without losing health care. - Have children with no medical bills. - Get sick without going broke. Freedom is not the absence of taxes. Freedom is the absence of fear. Follow for more glimpses into life in a social democracy, where dignity is not a privilege.
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

I’m gonna be okay.
Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) in one of her signature catsuits, and John Steed (Patrick MacNee) in his signature bowler hat and tailored suit, raise a toast of champagne after successfully rescuing me.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Somebody once told me "Two legs, trunkless and stony, immensely in the desert they stand... and a shattered visage lies near enough to see its eyes and its sneer, shrewdly carved by an old hand. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. Passions survive by the sculptor's cold cunning. The hand that mocked and the heart that fed; the stamp of life onto rock that's dead. Who was the one in this antique? Cold and frowning, that face cannot speak. The pedestal still remains near. The passages still emerge clear: He is king above kings, may he rule till doomsday! Look out on his works and let your thoughts bring dismay! Words that now decay while the level sands stretch away."
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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A diagram labeled “Hierarchy of Needs.” A pyramid is divided into three levels, with silhouettes and labels: Cup of tea. Cup of tea and a biscuit. Cup of tea, a biscuit, and a nice sit down.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Reskeet with a time you looked cool
Me near the Moorish Tower in Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. The sky is blue with fluffy clouds, the tower looks like a big white marble chess rook, and I’m on a green lawn and wearing a fantasy renaissance-ish outfit with a long flowing surcoat.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Crabcakes from G&M. Steamed crabs are probably more iconically Baltimore, but I’ll pay extra to let somebody else pick out the meat for me and serve it in broiled cake form.
Two crab cakes on a platter with a lemon wedge and some french fries. They’re broiled to a golden brown, and look kind of like some sort of chunky hash. If I’m out with friends someplace known for their crab cakes, I’ll hop off the vegetarian wagon; they’re that good.
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Someone (in “Cooking Out of This World,” iirc) described it as giving the ingredients time to overcome their mutual antagonism.
The cover of “Cooking Out of This World,” a book of recipes from science-fiction and fantasy writers, edited by Anne McCaffrey. It features very colorful, trippy 1970s artwork, of a creature with a humanoid face floating in space with maybe planets all around.
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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A bumper sticker which reads: How’s my driving? How does an engine even work? Why would a loving God cause such agony?
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I can’t choose.
YES 90125 Michael Jackson, Thriller Vangelis, Antarctica Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, original soundtrack.
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
A soda fountain has two drinks labeled “I WRITE AND DRAW FOR ME AND MY OWN FULFILLMENT” and “… I really hope people like it, though…” A cup is under both drinks nozzles and a hand is pressing both buttons.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Skeet your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
Avon (Paul Darrow) from Blakes 7, in a very sci-fi geometric outfit in black and greys, on the flight deck of the alien super-starship Liberator.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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My time is yours...
Very good, proceed...
Yes... yes, I understand...
Yes, fine...
Excellent...
Yes...
Could you be more... specific?
You are a true believer. Blessings of the state.
Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.
A greyscale image of a painting of Jesus by Hans Memling used as OMM 0000 in the movie THX 1138.
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Image is an etching of a hippopotamus with a baby hippo riding on its back, both looking very happy and domestic. Meme text reads: what I like about hippos being the most dangerous animal in the world: they're vegetarian. not even omnivores. they don't want to eat you, they just hate you. and I think that's a beautiful thing. quote: @rebmasel Image: Heimkehrendes Flußpferd Gustav Mützel (1875).
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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A photograph of a shelf displaying Star Wars action figures, including gold robot C-3PO, prototypes of wise old alien Yoda and robot 8D8, and two prototypes of bounty hunter Boba Fett in his elaborate armor with rocket-firing backpack. Also on display is the note included with the original mail-away Boba Fett figure from 1979, which reads: NOTE TO CONSUMERS Originally our STAR WARS'™ Boba Fett™ action figure was designed to have a spring-launched rocket. The launcher has been removed from the product for safety reasons. If you are dissatisfied with the product, please return it to us and we will replace it with any STAR WARS™ mini-action figure of your choice. Thank you for (note extends past the photograph edge at this point).
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif (if you feel like it)
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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post by @ourshallowstate: It's so harmful to society, and humanity at large, to have someone so classically and pathologically aberrant in control of a population's welfare. As we're seeing clearly, trump doesn't show empathy because he CAN'T; doesn't feel contrition because he is UNABLE. As you said so well, he CANNOT and DOES NOT see beyond himself, ever. He is NOT strategic - he is transactional, playing a zero-sum game. And he cannot easily pivot, stop, or shut up, even when it serves his interests to do so. That so many have been emotionalized, radicalized, or fooled into believing that they'd be best served with him - a madman - in control, is beyond frustrating, irksome, and a sad testimony to the impressionability and frailty of the human psyche.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Skeet something random or you’ll have an awful November.
November 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek', 'Doctor Who' or 'Transformers'.
Prisoner Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) walks through The Village where he is imprisoned, looking angry and (temporarily) defeated. He is closely followed by Rover, the robot “security system” in The Village. Rover is portrayed by a large white weather balloon, but within the show is seen to be nearly indestructible, quick, and possibly existing in multiple dimensions. Is Rover a robot, or is it alive? Is it a giant white blood cell? The show never told us what the hell it was, and it was brilliant. Behind them on a lawn, a man relaxes in a cloth folding chair, because Rover catching people trying to escape just happens all the time.
October 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek', 'Doctor Who' or 'Transformers'.
A wind-up walking toy robot from Russia in the 1970s, maybe. It’s shiny chrome, vaguely cylindrical, with two cylindrical projections to the front (eyes?), and two similar cylindrical projections, one on each side (arms maybe, but also probably how you wind it up). It has two domes on top, and some other lines and circles. A lower angle of the same robot, showing its feet, which are vaguely rectangular and also shiny chrome. I don’t know if it has a name, or the source of the design apart from a Russian toymaker a lifetime ago.
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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A sign in someone’s yard with multicolored letters on a black background. It reads: IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE THERE'S A SPIDER ON YOUR SHIRT NO HUMAN IS LEGAL BIRDS ARE FINE... I GUESS SCIENCE IS A TYPE OF DANCE SIMILAR TO A TANGO THE MOON IS A CRIME PLANTS ARE SENTIENT AND THEY HATE US.
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Wensleydale being adorable:
October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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“Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
The cast of the BBC sci-fi drama Blakes 7, but the skeet is about the sitcom Friends.
October 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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my intrusive thoughts during fall (infectedmetaphysic: 15h: puppercat:) young man there are leaves all around i said young man eat a leaf off the ground i said young man won't they make a cool sound when you stuff! them! in! your! leaf hole It’s fun to chew on the Leaves On The Ground!
October 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Clouds in a blue sky, over the desert, from one of our road trips. Clouds over countryside, out the window of our van, from another road trip, or possibly the same one. Clouds in a blue sky, through some trees and vines, nearer home. Clouds over sunset in my suburban neighborhood.
October 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
Six rectagular wooden charms or key tags, each engraved with the words “Don’t Panic” in large, friendly letters. I made these with the laser at work, and am very proud of them.
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM