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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 8h

This game is really stressing Wil Trapp out.

Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 8h

Holly, I was trying to come up with some kind of witty something—“Hey, psychotropic amphibians is a Wednesday thing” or some dumb thing, but instead I’ll just say thanks for inspiring the google search that lead to me to the discovery of the phrase “smoking toad”:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Smoking toad has ben likened, in one
guide to psychedelics, to "being strapped to the nose of a rocket that flies into the sun and evaporates." An account from the nineteen-eighties describes how, unlike most hallucinogens, which distort reality, toad
"completely dissolves reality as we know it, leaving neither hallucinations nor anyone to watch them." Michael Pollan, who recently

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 14h

We can make up a clarinet folder.

RF @zerodice.bsky.social · 1d

The committee should hit a game in brookings just so you can go to nicks burgers

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 17h

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 21h

Given the current—everything—I’m going to need the campus safety office to refrain from all caps emails describing a regularly scheduled safety audit that takes place two weeks from now.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1d

giving the "no, you go ahead" wave when you have the right of way is just as wrong as not respecting someone else having the right of way

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 1d

When you get to the part of the Wikipedia article that says one of the primary sources of profit for the Vikings had been slave-taking from other European peoples

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus, Vikings, that shouldn’t happen.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 4d

The sheer contempt I feel for videos that misuse POV. "POV you are a cheeky dog!!!" Then why can I see the cheeky dog, hmm? Explain that? How dare you? I went to film school.

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 4d

a man in a superman costume is laying in a chair .

ALT: a man in a superman costume is laying in a chair .

media.tenor.com

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes you just have to buy the thing that makes you happy.

A box containing a 4.5 foot tall inflatable Christmas tree styled to look like a Little Debbie Christmas tree cake.

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 6d

More like feel A LOT.

Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t believe we’re getting nationwide marches about it.

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 6d

The Fish Police implies the existence of Fish Talking Heads, Fish Simply Red, and Fish Thompson Twins.

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 6d

Day #139: Fish Police (1992)

A teal lunchbox with a white handle, with an undersea tableau of a city skyline and taxi, with sea creatures dressed in 1940's/50's film noir outfits, including a fish in a trench coat, and devious-looking squid. Next to it is a white thermos with a teal lid, and image of a smirking fish in a fedora and trenchcoat next to the words "Fish Police"

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Michael @bravesandbirds.bsky.social · 7d

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 7d

This made me realize that I ALSO have by elementary school best friend’s home number still in my brain. A number I haven’t used in something like 30 years.

What’s my daughter’s cell #? Mind your own business.

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 7d

I can tell you the phone number of my best friend’s parents house right this moment and also have no clue what his personal cellphone number is

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 7d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 10d

Here you can read the beginning for free

“Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.” Sometimes you encounter a sentence so perfect, so obviously right and true, it makes your bone marrow vibrate. Jimmy Fallon … wants to turn Wordle … into a TV show. Just reading the words is like tuning in to the resonant frequency of the universe. Yes. Yes, he does. I think I was born knowing it. I think plants know it. In 1730, peasants in Holland were troubled by a strange, unspeakable thought that flickered at the edges of their consciousness. This was their knowledge that all times are as one, and Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.

Princess Leia looks up. Her eyes are sad but full of dignity. Around her, the nighttime chirps and trills of the forest moon of Endor echo through the Ewok village. “I know,” she says to Luke Skywalker. “Somehow, I’ve always known.” Luke has just told her that Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 10d

To paraphrase @themountaingoats.bsky.social, Jordan is the best death metal VP out of Denton.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 10d

Jordan, VP of stuff, will be on site tonight in Denton!

I’ll be in front of the Beth Marie’s Ice Cream under the north side stands during the 3rd quarter, and I’ll have stickers for y’all.

I’ll post a pic of exactly where I am once the 3rd quarter starts.

Come say hi!

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 11d

Was not expecting one Disco Duck mention in the podcast feed this week, much less one on each of @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @sleepwithcelebs.bsky.social

Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 12d

Boomer Sooner!

This was my senior year at OU. Pretty great way to close out my time in that band and at that school!

Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 12d

25 years ago, Oklahoma crushed Texas on the way to one of college football's most unexpected national titles. But how unexpected was it? I ranked the 20 most surprising title runs, from Jimbo's Noles to Murray Warmath's 2-loss Gophers.

www.espn.com/college-foot...

The 2000 Sooners and 19 other unlikely champions

OU's 2000 title team came out of nowhere to win it all. Honoring their 25th anniversary, we look at other surprising champs.

www.espn.com

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Tuesday Badell @americanoonline.com · May 15

it's all "AI this" and "AI that"

but never "Ey I got you a pizza"

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 14d

"Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard.”
William Zinsser, born on this day in 1922

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 14d

‪Is anyone promoting their pumpkin-flavored products with the tag line, “Go on, en-gourd yourself?” Because that seems like a no-brainer. ‬

Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 14d

This Peter Shickele slander will not stand, man.

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 14d

Cherry Pez, Boogaloo Shrimp fine, though.

Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 14d

New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits.

New Kids lunch box held a bunch of chips.

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Day #133: New Kids On the Block--The Animated Series (1991)

An orange plastic lunchbox with the illustrated images of the 5 members of New Kids on the Block, avec mullets and incredibly 1991-style outfits. The background is a perriwinkle color, and has images of guitars and TV sets

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