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Stephen J. Beard

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Graphics journalist at @usatoday.com, based in Indy. News graphics + animation

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“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.”

03.03.2026 16:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eh, looks a tad drafty for my tastes, but that desk chair certainly promotes lumbar support!

09.02.2026 13:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spotted this magnificent barred owl earlier today on the Nickel Plate Trail. She’d fly ahead of me as I walked, pause in a tree, then fly ahead again.

05.02.2026 22:43 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry, Micah. Fwiw, I’ve long admired you and your team’s work on the video side there. Best wishes on whatever’s next.

04.02.2026 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Here be dragons!”

04.02.2026 19:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Airing on TBN” 😂😂😂

03.02.2026 00:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Extremely cool map of NYC!

28.01.2026 18:26 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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20 Best of Kenny Rogers

Earlier while cleaning I was hankering for some “Lucille” and “Gambler,” so I asked Alexa to play “best of Kenny Rogers,” but it returned this hot garbage. It’s Kenny singing mostly covers of the seminal works of other singers.

open.spotify.com/album/5MjhIu...

25.01.2026 18:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Whew! That was the first thing I read this morning … and I couldn’t stop. Great chronicling of slowly intensifying aggravation. I felt like I was on that bus.

20.01.2026 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can’t believe I have an opinion here, but I’ve had a board by “Board Dudes” for nearly 20 yrs. Cork is thin but affords good purchase for pins applied with minimum pressure. Only nitpick, little bits have sloughed off in places with a denser cluster of pinholes, revealing cork to be +/- 1/8 inch.

19.01.2026 01:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of Lloyd Bridges' character Steve McCroskey in "Airplane!" with a quote that reads, "Looks like I picked the wrong month to try 'Dry January.' It's a twist on a running gag that features prominently through the movie in which he starts sentences with, "looks like I picked the wrong time to quit …"

Image of Lloyd Bridges' character Steve McCroskey in "Airplane!" with a quote that reads, "Looks like I picked the wrong month to try 'Dry January.' It's a twist on a running gag that features prominently through the movie in which he starts sentences with, "looks like I picked the wrong time to quit …"

07.01.2026 23:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
24.12.2025 09:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good Luck GIF Alt: Good Luck GIF of Morgan Freeman’s Lucius Fox character in “The Dark Knight.”

Reading Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification” right now, and this certainly feels like “Stage 3 (Good for Shareholders).”

19.12.2025 17:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Totally! It’s one of those viral phenomena that I could’ve sworn was YEARS pre-Covid.

28.11.2025 03:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Internet is messing with my brain right now. Has it really only been four years since Sharon heated up that Marie Callender’s pie on the surface of the sun?

28.11.2025 02:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I didn’t know this podcast existed and just went to bookmark it for later today — thanks for sharing!

14.11.2025 14:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nards

30.10.2025 11:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For Disney, for consumers or in general? Kinda feeling overall. I went on a streaming diet a while back and haven’t missed it, tbh.

22.10.2025 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from a Disney Plus email that reads, "As part of our continued investment in delivering world-class entertainment, the price of your Disney+ Premium will increase to $189.99 per year on November 19, 2025. Your plan will automatically renew at the new price unless you switch plans or cancel via Account Settings before then."

Screenshot from a Disney Plus email that reads, "As part of our continued investment in delivering world-class entertainment, the price of your Disney+ Premium will increase to $189.99 per year on November 19, 2025. Your plan will automatically renew at the new price unless you switch plans or cancel via Account Settings before then."

Canceled our annual Disney+ a while back (long before the Kimmel Kerfuffle) but was told service wouldn't officially stop until Nov. 19. Just got this email and had to double-check that cancellation was still on track (it is), but a $30 price hike for loyal annual subscribers seems a bit … goofy.

22.10.2025 20:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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lol post-call Microsoft Teams survey

07.10.2025 17:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, the free food & drinks kept us around, for sure! It was a great night. Also looking at that date … 24 years?!? 😳

05.10.2025 23:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hey, @kordcle.bsky.social … remember this? We were at this game! PD design team in Machaskee’s suite. I think we were among the last few left in the park by the time CLE bats came alive.

05.10.2025 23:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

(sorry)

23.09.2025 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

After getting mine I only saw a $10 merch coupon (promptly spent it using my good arm). Ferrari Duck would’ve been more interesting. :(

08.09.2025 20:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love it. Do they go out for ice cream afterwards?

04.09.2025 18:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pizzeria Combos in my cab. Always.

17.08.2025 01:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣🤣🤣 This explains why I probably didn’t really share an elevator with Pope Leo last week.

08.08.2025 13:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

See, that’s cool. I thought I espied my doc at the booth next to me at IHOP once but it turned out to not be him (which was fine, because I didn’t need the judgment anyway)

08.08.2025 13:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oddly enough, this doesn’t seem to be the case for PC annual exam. Doc kept rescheduling to the point my annual checkup crept back to Dec. every year. I tried to push up to Oct. to reset and was told insurance required a calendar year between exams. Now I need to check the fine print … 👀

08.08.2025 12:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Grand Canyon fire adds to 7.5 million acres of burned national parkland, analysis shows A USA TODAY analysis found more than 600 fires that burned at least partly inside national parks in the past four decades.

Grand Canyon fire adds to the 7.5 million acres of national parkland that have burned in four decades. @usatoday.com
www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

31.07.2025 16:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0