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Brian Kane

@briank3387

Middle-aged, middle-class cishet white dude. Sorry. OG MeFite, recovering blogger, lifelong Trekkie, lover and occasional maker of good food. See also @briank@mefi.social on Mastodon BMK on MLTSHP https://metafilter.com/user/1951

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Poor doggo. Hope he's doing better soon.

13.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

English muffin, for sure. Biscuit is #2 on my list.

12.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bought tickets to go see Randy Feltface in October. Now I have to go explain to my wife about the Australian standup comic who is a purple puppet.

12.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RT if your cat is an asshole. Like if your cat is an asshole. Look, my cat is a giant asshole is what I’m saying.

12.03.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Let us also note that someone who is 85 is from the generation BEFORE the Boomers.

12.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised and on a bank note.
Which picture are you submitting?

12.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump reportedly has kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his bedside table for years.

12.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.

1. 90% of the snow melted this week
2. I started my 4-week writing prompt workshop
3. My new USS Enterprise model arrives tomorrow

12.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Name your favorite film from the year you were born

12.03.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0214
Pretty average

Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

12.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Having read the thread, I mostly agree with the people who say the biggest problem is the likelihood that it might melt the plastic. Ours get washed in the bathtub. MeFites are overly germophobic in my experience.

12.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did NOT need that mental image!

12.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE once again using children to lure their parents to be captured.

12.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, the price of fame, right @elittlechild.bsky.social ?

11.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very heroic pose, Mr. Ca'at

11.03.2026 12:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Kiss my shiny white ass!"

11.03.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So jealous. I won't see a fresh tomato for four or five months yet

10.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Deep cut

10.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cat-6 Ethernet, duh.

10.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But is it the deep substrate foliated kind?

10.03.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

3 or GTFO

10.03.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

10.03.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Favorite episode: The Lives of the Stars
Favorite regular: Kerrice Brooks
Favorite recurring: Tig Notaro
Plus, of course, Paul Giamatti

09.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
star trek themed doctors office that looks very like much the TNG/VOY era consoles. there is also a cardboard cutout of seven of nine!

star trek themed doctors office that looks very like much the TNG/VOY era consoles. there is also a cardboard cutout of seven of nine!

one of the waiting chairs that looks like the bridge of the enterprise-D’s navigation console except that the chair is black.

one of the waiting chairs that looks like the bridge of the enterprise-D’s navigation console except that the chair is black.

im at the eye doctors. there is a doctor here who has a whole ass star trek themed setup

09.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 932 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 40

Can't un-see that now. He's going to be Robbie Rotten for the rest of time.

09.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The pearl is in the river.

The rooster crows at midnight.

Mairsy doats and doesy doats and I'll be home for Christmas.

Your loving son, Queen Victoria.

**END TRANSMISSION**

09.03.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is how I access Bluesky

09.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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My wife made these pastries for breakfast this morning. Sort of a cross between croissants and danish.

08.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our bases are being bombed.
Our embassies are under attack.
Thousands of Americans are stranded.
Innocent Iranians are being murdered.
We’re spending $1B a day to wage an illegal war which has resulted in the deaths of 6 US soldiers & injuries to countless others.

And where is Trump?

Golfing.

08.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 2658 πŸ” 907 πŸ’¬ 209 πŸ“Œ 37

I was a grown-ass man with a teenage child of my own when I saw "Inside Out", and I am still not over Bong Bong myself.

08.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0