Michael Crider

@michaelcrider.bsky.social

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News, reviews, and short-form videos for PCWorld. Formerly Android Police, Review Geek, How-To Geek, Digital Trends. Opinions are my own. I have a personal website, almost never updated: thegumshoe.com I write fiction: http://amazon.com/author/crider

Great blue heron, poised to strike in shallow water
Great blue heron flying over a river
Beaver chompin' on some grass
A horror poster for "Merch Drop," only in theaters (crossed out) streaming Halloween. A woman with dark hair stands menacingly behind a bearded man in glasses, holding up a sweatshirt and smiling.
The Spot from Across the Spider-Verse
Air Quality Index meter showing East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. 23, green rating.
Chonky beaver chomping on some grass, half submerged
Small section of Electronic Gaming Monthly page from 2001, showing a purple GameCube on a dark background. "THE LOOK OF THE 'CUBE... Sorry, PS one, but GameCube is the new king of console cuteness. It's so compact you can fit it almost any- where, and the handle on the back is great for hauling GameCube to your bedroom for late-night gaming. One of Nintendo's design goals was to make GameCube sound like a cartridge-based sys- tem. In other words: They wanted it to run as silently as possible. The end result: This thing is mouse-fart quiet-you can barely hear the fan or disc-drive whir. GameCube is so compact and light, you really don't think about how much power it's got packed inside, and the discs are so small that you could practically fit a stack of 'em in a Pringles can."
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Bald eagle spreading its wings in a tree. "July 4th, 2026" title, "Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area" subtitle. "America 250" logo in the bottom corner. "FUCK TRUMP" watermark all over the damn place.
Two large salamander puppets on sand. Voyager episode "Threshold"
Black bear drinking from a river.
Fairly Odd Parents "If I Had One" meme: "And Here's where I'd put my Steam Machine purchase invite" on top, with man pointing at empty pedestal. Bottom: Same man screams "IF I HAD ONE"
Bald eagles in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
A chonky beaver slips into the river and past the nose of a kayak before diving into the water.
"Two Thousand Yard Stare" painting: A soldier in green fatigues stares into the viewer, with a tank, soldier, and wartorn landscape in the background.
A small screw held in a palm.
Pinky and the Brain
Dead as Disco screenshot: Charlie at the drums in his white outfit, four band members on stage in front of him.
Michael Buble, dressed as James Bond, fights three henchmen/Bond girls in stylized stop motion. From the Feelin' Good music video.
A Walmart bakery cookie display, with two blue kiddie pools and white baloons making the shape of Sesame Street's Cookie Monster chomping down on the cookies.
Futurism article: "Angry mom defeats entire AI data center." Photo is a woman with dyed red hair and a blue dress.
tintin "Captain it's Monday" meme: Cartoon bearded man in blue shirt says "What a week, huh?" Tintin, a boy with red hair, says "Captain, it's Wednesday." Wednesday is crossed out and replaced with Monday in a clear edit. The bearded man, in another clear edit, says "FUUUCK." A cute little dog drinks a beer. Fuck, I could use a beer right now. And a cute little dog.
Nite-Ize S-Biner Ahhh carabiner, very old with wear and scratches all over the black steel.
Batman, from The Dark Knight Returns, shatters a rifle. Bullets with ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok logos on them fly out. Speech bubble: "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
Photo of the Delaware River from the perspective of a man sitting in a red kayak, holding a paddle.
A giant wall of text for search terms, from Bitcoin to Bentley, crapping all over the Craigslist search tool.
Three-panel "finger up" meme: stick figure holds up a finger as if to say "yes, but," reconsiders with a look of doubt, and walks away.
Brennan Lee Mulligan suffers in a plaid shirt, in front of a projection of IMDB ratings.
Anakin and Padme meme, youn man is talking to young woman in four panels: Young man: "We at Costco want to be repaid for our losses from Trump's illegal tariffs." Young woman, smiling: "So you can pay back your customers, right?" Young man, deadpan: "..." Young woman, no longer smiling: "So you can pay back your customers, right?"
Pontiac Grand Prix commercial: "Wider is better" in front of a black sports car
Ify in a Joker-ish costume on Um, Actually
Bastion from Overwatch with the Overgrown skin, holding a yellow bird.
Ariat work boot with a skull wearing a cowboy hat and a bandana
Slack notification icon
Red-shouldered hawk sitting on a small tree branch.
Charlie brown on the pitcher's mound, looking up and screaming: "AAUGH!"
Mastodon social post by Dan Wentzel: “My hot take on “15 minute cities” is if you can get to the coffee shop within fifteen minutes, but the barrista who makes your drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, then you live in a theme park.” - Gareth Klieber #cities #urbanism #housing #transit #cycling Apr 05, 2023, 02:40 AM
Windows 11 alert over camera icon: "Let Camera access your camera?"
Book cover art from 90s book series Animorphs: a boy in a brown jacket shifts into a red-tailed hawk in five stages, on a purple cloud background.
Google Discover screenshot of an AI slop story about a "2026 El Camino."
BlueBrixx Star Trek ships top to bottom: DS9, Enterprise 1701, A, C, D, E, Defiant, Excelsior, Voyager.
Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier being tortured in an elaborate sci-fi chair.
USS Enterprise NCC-1701 C spaceship from Star Trek: The Next Generation
Flatfoot (gender swapped John McClane) skin in Fortnite
Hand holding a PS/2 to USB adapter, above an old keyboard.
Plannosaurus dinosaur toy, Ankylosaurus skeleton with plastic body panels on top.
Text conversation: "What kind of dinosaur is this?" Photo shows a small child with a dinsaur pattern on their sleeve. "That is some variety of ankylosaurus. And I have a model of it right her at my desk." Photo shows a small ankylosaurus toy held in front of a keyboard "Why am I not surprised"
bear puppet meme: a brown puppet with a green shirt looking at the viewer from the side, then looking away
President Thunderbolt Ross (Harrison Ford) gives a speech in Captain America: Brave New World.
Amazon URL with all the tracking junk
Meme image: doodle guy holds up finger and opens mouth to speak in top image, closes mouth and lowers finger in hesitation on bottom image
Knock-off Wolverine figure from "Dbapdool & Wolvbrlne"
Hades II art: Dionysus' rubber ducky in his pool.
screenshot of the Land Before Time fan wiki page for Daddy Tops.
Battlestar Galactica screenshot: Starbuck in a pilot's helmet. Subtitles: "Inbound nuke, brace for contact!"
child version of Captain Picard, pointing phaser to the right
Delaware River on a calm, sunny day, photo taken from the cockpit of a red kayak.
A rusty, worn sledgehammer mounted on the wall above computer monitors.
Variety web page screenshot, with highlighted text: "Jacob discovers an original VHS of the Air Bud movie in his father's belongings"