Programming Note

My "Tweets" on the left side of the full screen version of this page are from Bluesky now. It's been about a year on Mastodon, which I liked just fine, but I can't find anyone to follow over there. Bluesky seems fine for now. So to round them up, Twitter is full of nazis, Mastodon is a ghost town, Threads is full of stupid, and Bluesky is the closest I've gotten to Twitter in its heyday. I'm still looking for some of the comedians that I liked to follow. Scroll to the bottom for a little surprise having to do with this topic.

Table Wiper

October 22, 2024

Yesterday, I went to one of the normal places I go for coffee in the morning. I set my bag down on a table outside, and then I noticed that there was some dried up jelly on the table. I went in, paid for a coffee, and asked the lady for a towel to wipe the jelly. I expected, "Oh, I'm sorry. Let me come wipe that for you," but instead, she just handed me a damp towel.

The Daily Photo

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shelly
"I don't think the new layout of the skinny. Too busy. You suck." -- Shelly Williams, February 15, 2011 via text message

A New Toy

Can't get enough of the picture of the day? Follow theskinnyonbenny Bot on Bluesky.

This bot randomly chooses one of this site's daily photos from any time over the 18 years that they have been posted, and it posts that image to it's Bluesky feed. Before I launched, it chose this entry on only my second succesful test from my laptop:

My mother teaches the local children about the joys of smoking cigarettes during a vacation to the Virgin Islands several years ago. (Another photo from the archives of old scanned pictures.) Originally posted August 01, 2007 on theskinnyonbenny.com

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— theskinnyonbenny photo bot (@theskinnyonbenny.bsky.social) October 10, 2024 at 12:55 PM