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James "The X-Stein Files" Dominguez
@jamesjdominguez.bsky.social
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50-year-old teenager. Writer, thinker, video game fan, obsessive cat dad. Creates things when ADHD goblins allow. He/him, proud poly bisexual, living on stolen Woiwurrung country in Naarm (Melbourne). Avatar by Hien Pham, kitty photo by me.
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The first novel I ever read where some events happened only a few blocks from my house. The movie version is little-seen but excellent.
A promotional image for the film Stiff, featuring a photo of David Wenham in the lead role as Murray Whelan, looking scruffy but hot.
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Usborne World of the Unknown books were also influential on my baby brain, but Strange Unsolved Mysteries did the original damage.
Covers of three volumes of the Usborne World of the Unknown series, each with a title in large red letters: monsters, ghosts, and UFOs. Each features one large central image (Nessie, ghostly monks, and flying saucers) as well as a grid of smaller images.
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Strange Unsolved Mysteries was my formative spoopybook. The Grey House story basically set the agenda for several decades of nightmares.
The cover of the paperback book Strange Unsolved Mysteries by Margaret Ronan, featuring a strange mosaic of a human face with one eye torn away to reveal a yellow, reptilian eye.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Cinnamon wants you to put down your phone and give her face rubs.
A ginger cat lies on her back on a grey quilt. Her left paw is stretched out toward the camera with claws lightly extended, causing a foreshortened effect that makes her body look smaller.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Now that Zohran Mamdani appears to have won election as NY mayor, I guess it's time for...
CGI rendering of a sad-looking blue dodo with a traveller's bindle slung over its shoulder. Text at the bottom of the image reads "EXODODUS".
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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An image of The Narcissist Prayer, which reads: That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, it's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it. - Dayna Craig
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Billions of dollars invested and it's still incredibly dumb.
Screenshot of a Google search for "warsong lyrics daas". The first two results are correct, showing the Lyrics Mode page and the YouTube lyrics video for the DAAS song Warsong. Next is the AI overview, which begins "The search for "warsong lyrics daas" likely refers to the lyrics of the song "Warsong" by the band White Lion... "
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Timeline cleanse: Cinnamon being a snuggly little angel.
October 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I told Aniseed how pretty she is, and she sauntered over and climbed into my lap. She's such a sweet little snugglebug.
First in a series of photos showing a long-haired black cat with green eyes sitting on a glass-topped outdoor table with some colourful potplants on it. In the first photo she's sitting and has just turned to face the camera. In the second photo she is approaching the camera and is gently headbutting a red and gold potplant with one eye closed. In the third photo she is mid stretch with her tail in the air and her front legs stretched out in front. In the final photo, she is stepping off the table and onto the just-visible knees of the photographer.
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Awww, I knew my lovely ginger girl was special.
CLose-up photo of a ginger cat lying on her back with her front paws wrapped around a person's hand and wrist. Her claws are retracted, and she appears very relaxed, looking calmly off the right side of the frame.
October 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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You just have to glance at it to recognise immediately that it was originally a railway station.
A wide angle photo of the main gall of the Musee d'Orsay in paris, showing the view from the top of the entrance steps and looking toward the back of the building. The vast open space has been divded up into smaller display areas, and a row of sculptures runs through the centre.
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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My wife is away for a week, and I was lying on the bed talking to her on speaker-phone. This sweet kitty heard the voice of one of her favourite humans and came over to look for her.
A selfie of a white man with short-cropped dark hair lying face down and smiling as an inquisitive ginger cat perches on his back and peers over his shoulder.
October 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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I love the way Cinnamon will hear me moving around in the morning and will run in to say good morning. She does this adorable little tail wiggle when she's happy to see you. Just an absolute joy of a cat.
A ginger cat lying on her side with her face upside down from the camera's perspective. She's lying on a purple quilt in direct sunlight.
October 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This cover art is SO Doom, and I 100% approve. #starfinder #paizo
Digital mock-up of a handcover book, showing the planned look of the Starfinder Second Edition Alien Core rulebook. It features a huge red demon with multiple pairs of horns, exposed ribs, and belts of machine-gun ammo drooping from its abdominal cavity like entrails. Its right arm eds in a massive rotary-barrel machine gun making use of the ammo belts emerging from its body. It seems to be fighting a swarm of small, blue, alien things that resemble tentacle-covered dogs.
October 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Marge Simpson holding a potato labelled "trans icon" and saying "I just think she's neat."
October 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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It's a QC reference. Roko has a fetish thing around freshly baked bread and it makes her chassis overheat.
A Questionable Content strip, in which Roko bashfully enters a bakery and gets so worked up by her bread fetish that she has to vent steam from her robotic body.
October 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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If you see this, quote with an image from a game the released the year you were born.

(I am extremely old.)
The classic arcade cabinet for the 1974 game Gran Trak 10, with a full steering wheel and a monochrome screen.
September 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The ur-example...
The shiba inu giving side eye that has been immortalised as "doge".
September 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Oh well, I guess I live here now.
Close-up selfie of a white man with short clippered hair laying face down on a bed with a ginger cat lazing comfortably on his back.
September 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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A red cap with white embroidered lettering that reads "It can only good happen".
September 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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A red cap with white embroidered lettering that reads "It can only good happen".
September 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Here, have one of mine:
A black metal fence post.
September 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Box! New box! New box for playing!
September 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Today's weather report in Melbourne...
A fluffy red fox stands in a snowdrift with its fur ruffled by the wind. Text added to the image says "It fucken wimdy".
September 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: Cinnamon had dirty toebeans. This situation has now been remedied.
A short-haired ginger cat lying on her back on a bed, pulling one of her back legs up to her face by grasping it with her front paw and licking the toebeans clean.
September 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM