Roberta Ecks
@robertaecks.bsky.social
Writer, retrotechnologist, owner of many typewriters and yet fond of digital widgetry, too. An amateur monkey pusher in re human origins. Most of all, a friend of cats. I block AI.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Today started with multiple clumsinesses, including a small kitchen fire. I was up past 2 a.m. with trouble at work and a clogged drain, and I just realized there may be a roll of cough drops in a pocket of one of the pairs of work slacks I'm about to put in the dryer.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today started with multiple clumsinesses, including a small kitchen fire. I was up past 2 a.m. with trouble at work and a clogged drain, and I just realized there may be a roll of cough drops in a pocket of one of the pairs of work slacks I'm about to put in the dryer.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Dems: "The GOP is running roughshod over us. Quick, come up with a great slogan!"
Meanwhile, approval numbers for the Prez are tanking and carrying his party with them.
Might be time for something more substantial than a catchy phrase. "Accu-ray Chesterfields" ain't gonna cut it.
Meanwhile, approval numbers for the Prez are tanking and carrying his party with them.
Might be time for something more substantial than a catchy phrase. "Accu-ray Chesterfields" ain't gonna cut it.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Dems: "The GOP is running roughshod over us. Quick, come up with a great slogan!"
Meanwhile, approval numbers for the Prez are tanking and carrying his party with them.
Might be time for something more substantial than a catchy phrase. "Accu-ray Chesterfields" ain't gonna cut it.
Meanwhile, approval numbers for the Prez are tanking and carrying his party with them.
Might be time for something more substantial than a catchy phrase. "Accu-ray Chesterfields" ain't gonna cut it.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
Watching "Lost in Space" and Will Robinson just tried to buy a big bottle of carbon tet to clean something on the Jupiter2. The past was a different country, and so was its future.
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Watching "Lost in Space" and Will Robinson just tried to buy a big bottle of carbon tet to clean something on the Jupiter2. The past was a different country, and so was its future.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Possibly the most started-looking buildings you will see today.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Possibly the most started-looking buildings you will see today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blists_...
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Well that's my evening sorted.
need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin
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"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin)
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November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Well that's my evening sorted.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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You'd never guess who took a step wrong on the basement stairs, came down hard on their dodgy right knee, and now cannot bend it more than a few degrees without pain. I'll give it overnight see if it's any better in the morning.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
You'd never guess who took a step wrong on the basement stairs, came down hard on their dodgy right knee, and now cannot bend it more than a few degrees without pain. I'll give it overnight see if it's any better in the morning.
I just want to know which one of you weirdos is pouring straight 30-weight engine oil on roasted, unsalted cashews -- haven't you seen the ad that explains that's what causes dementia?
Stop oiling your dang nuts!
Stop oiling your dang nuts!
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I just want to know which one of you weirdos is pouring straight 30-weight engine oil on roasted, unsalted cashews -- haven't you seen the ad that explains that's what causes dementia?
Stop oiling your dang nuts!
Stop oiling your dang nuts!
"At LCMD, we didn't make the bandersnatch; we made the bandersnatch frumious."
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"At LCMD, we didn't make the bandersnatch; we made the bandersnatch frumious."
"Computer, end this simulation."
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November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Computer, end this simulation."
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Thanksgiving feast at Roseholme Cottage.
Turducken and bacon-mushroom gravy.
Turducken and bacon-mushroom gravy.
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thanksgiving feast at Roseholme Cottage.
Turducken and bacon-mushroom gravy.
Turducken and bacon-mushroom gravy.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I don't know if these photos will show up. They're in some format I can't save to the Photos folder or edit. But it's turducken and bacon gravy. ...Nope, nothing. Well, take my word fit, it was good, and didn't look too awful. #frikkentographers
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I don't know if these photos will show up. They're in some format I can't save to the Photos folder or edit. But it's turducken and bacon gravy. ...Nope, nothing. Well, take my word fit, it was good, and didn't look too awful. #frikkentographers
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The death of two national guardsmen is a horrific tragedy.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The death of two national guardsmen is a horrific tragedy.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
I'm not a fan of flavored coffees generally, but a nice cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain sweetened with a lump of the pure maple sugar candy I need to eat up today is about as pleasant a treat as I have had.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm not a fan of flavored coffees generally, but a nice cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain sweetened with a lump of the pure maple sugar candy I need to eat up today is about as pleasant a treat as I have had.
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*And of course musicians
"We programmers are currently living through the devaluation of our craft, in a way and rate we never anticipated possible. A fate that designers, writers, translators, tailors or book-binders lived through before us."
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"We programmers are currently living through the devaluation of our craft, in a way and rate we never anticipated possible. A fate that designers, writers, translators, tailors or book-binders lived through before us."
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I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
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November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
*And of course musicians
"We programmers are currently living through the devaluation of our craft, in a way and rate we never anticipated possible. A fate that designers, writers, translators, tailors or book-binders lived through before us."
fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i...
"We programmers are currently living through the devaluation of our craft, in a way and rate we never anticipated possible. A fate that designers, writers, translators, tailors or book-binders lived through before us."
fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...