Ken Applebaum
The artist formerly known as @License_Farm
- @wolvendamien.bsky.social My editor-in-chief from our college newspaper @ethicking.com is now a pretty influential attorney, and she just posted this, which strikes me as a resource you may find useful. www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
- Fuck: I was hoping that by now enough snow would have accumulated to merit shuttering the museum for today, but instead it's still modest with what I can hear is an intense wind. That may be even more treacherous conditions in which to commute, though I doubt my employer will see it that way.
- @megaran.com Who ya got? Waiting for Rock & Roll & Ran.
- Our art-director and looooooong time Megaman fan @snakepixel.art got nominated for the official #Megaman Design Competition by Capcom! Throw your vote for 'Cactus Man' 🌵 - among the 20 designs that made it! 🤩 👉 www.capcom-games.com/megaman/do/e... 'Design Q'
- Reposted by Ken ApplebaumAgain, when folks say “He can’t do ______” at this point, the question is “and who is going to stop him?” As long as he remains in office, while these things - each of which on its own is the worst scandal/crime in 🇺🇸 political history - are happening on a daily basis, we must assume he can & will.
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- Only if "fire department" is a euphemism for "unemployment office"
- A guy I knew in college who was a year behind me passed away last night from cancer at only 48. Deeply sobering: I'd gone so long w/o almost anyone in my age bracket dying, but it appears those days are over. His wife is still saddled w/bills: plz help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/in-hospice...
- After 17½ years I thought I was slick: in prep for an imminent app't to schedule annual leave I reset my pwd on our perfunctory intranet & compiled a list of events for which I want time off. When I was called to do so today I was unable to b/c said intranet doesn't live on my phone, spoiling 2FA.🙄
- Reposted by Ken ApplebaumSeems to be accurate now. Don't forget that you have many alternatives!
- Reposted by Ken Applebaum'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- Much love to & no shade on Joel Hodgson, but the Jonah/Emily #MST3K eps felt like a misfire on multiple levels. With the recent sale of MST3K to Shout Factory I wondered how they'd pivot, & this seems like the best 1st step possible. We get the true Tom Servo back, & Bill cements his legacy as Crow.
- In the not-too-distant future, RiffTrax is making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Support us on Kickstarter: rifftraxmakesmst3k.com #RiffTraxMakesMST3K @mst3kofficial.bsky.social
- As dire as things seem right now, with every day and every thrash of the dying behemoth I do believe we are closer to the end of this era than to its beginning. And yes, I do mean Tr*mp, but also the system & culture that made his ascension possible. 🎼"It's almost over..."🎶 youtu.be/0AA2YELCbY4
- When I got home I went straight to bed for >3 hrs, and would've stayed if the cat didn't need to fed. I got him Sheba, which is normally efficient, coming in 2 segments you break apart, tearing the foil across the top. This foil was like leather: I ended up spilling a segment all over the counter.
- I've seen a bunch of smug posts to the effect of, "Guess who ISN'T in The Epstein Files? The ○bamas!" 😏 Yeah, that's great, but you know what else #44 didn't do? Prosecute the banks & finance bros who caused the 2008 economic crash. "They would've eaten him alive!" As opposed to WHAT, exactly?
- This is who runs this account
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- I wasn't interested in reacquainting myself w/a coworker who left for a few years then returned: I'd previously tolerated their more-hipster-than-thou shit for the sake of a mutual friend who is no longer here. I began to wonder AITA, & began softening my clinical approach to them, up to yesterday.
- As usual I slept through my housemate's return after 5 am, but shot WIDE AWAKE at the unmistakable sound of the cat horking in the hall shortly thereafter. Cat-dislike reflexes.
- Reposted by Ken ApplebaumScoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- There's a lot of horrors in the world right now. Here's another. But at least this one doesn't hurt anyone.
- Reposted by Ken ApplebaumWild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him
- Formal jackets w/only an inside left breast pocket are an anachronism that needs to die. Cellphones make it disadvantageous to grab it w/one's dominant hand first, since that's likely w/which they'd tap, handicapping righties. Gotta have First World Problems while there's still a First World.
- I was going to post the "Day-Oh" scene from BEETLEJUICE, and rightly so, but #CatherineOHara had her own beautiful singing voice. This song is appropriately mournful, both for this loss & this moment. 🎼"The worst is just around the bend"🎶 #RIPCatherineOHara youtu.be/nCd0D5Fv9SE
- After E|°n ended syndication at The Old Place we lost a lot of automated acc'ts that were Doing A Thing. I'm very glad to learn that @neilcic.com has finally brought over @endlessjeopardy.bsky.social, one of the most fun & Dadaist games ever. Who is Ken Jennings?
- Reposted by Ken ApplebaumAfter Amazon bought and destroyed ComiXology, they continued the ComiXology Unlimited service, and I kept subscribing. On Wednesday they announced big layoffs, powered by AI, which reportedly affect ComiXology. I canceled my subscription immediately. www.comicsbeat.com/amazon-layof...
- "Hail Hydra"
- Conservatives weren't wrong: they were lying. That's what they do. It's their main tactic. The only time they tell the truth is when it allows them to lie more perniciously. They do it to hurt ppl 1st, and help themselves 2nd. B/c in the end, they prefer to hurt others, even if it doesn't help them.
- Anyone who fancies themselves a #mashup DJ, some questions: * Beyond analogue mixing, what apps/programs do you use to isolate stems(?) and mix them? I've been using BandLab for an unrelated project: does that work? * How do you doublecheck that you're not remaking another DJ's known pairing?
- 2:30 am thought: It's wild to see Trekkies arguing whether STARFLEET ACADEMY is truly the moment that the franchise has jumped the shark, when I mostly lost interest in 1994 with the end of TNG, which I now realize is longer ago than the debut of TOS was then. I am quite old & tired. Good night.
- Somehow, despite losing so many precious items since, I managed to hold onto this random pet claw grinder I found ~10 years ago but never tried b/c I rarely had AA batteries, AND I worried Pavement would murder me if I did. This week I tried it on him for the 1st time: tho he fidgeted, it works! 🙀
- Reposted by Ken ApplebaumFinished my entry for the 48-Word RPG jam! Did a bit of a vent game, this round. #icog incaseofgrace.itch.io/politishit
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- Reposted by Ken ApplebaumComics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
- I managed to go to work this morning despite being extremely drowsy much of the day, which was surprisingly active considering, y'know, there was an EPOCHAL snowstorm outside. Luckily the museum made the call to close an hour early for the sake of everyone's commutes home: I look fwd to a tasty nap.
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- I largely stopped writing opinion essays a decade ago when Tr*mp was 1st elected. I realized there was no point in talking if one didn't know what to say: if anything, it seemed those w/who did either needed to be more versed in politics than I was, or they were sabotaging the signal/noise ratio.
- Seen on the F train: HBO is really getting their money's worth: all but one screen was aligned wrong. But then, so was I: after a campaign publicized the F & M route switches, the F ran on its old route. Impeccable start to what I'm sure will be an uneventful weekend. 😬
- While preparing to do a particular inventory, I saw a Fb memory from 7 years ago that inspired this #ravedj #mashup. The old girl's got some life left in her after all! rave.dj/Hw16jDW-_Sl4xQ #JethroTull x #SpinalTap = "Big Bungle"
