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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 23h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 15h

From a materials engineering perspective, the bathroom is basically the place where you store your surfactants.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 15h

Turns out it could be worse. www.instagram.com/reel/DMWVRm8...

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 23h

Most of the time if I see a Romanesque building in the US, my brain says, "That is a building from 1890."

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

You pop up on my feed so much, I thought I was already following you! That's been remedied.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

This thread is locked, but the Platonic Ideal is a fresh poppyseed bagel with cream cheese, Nova lox, and maybe a thin slice of tomato.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

We're like the rabbits in "Watership Down," who can only count to four.

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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 2d

Timeline cleanse.

Please enjoy a minute with a couple of blue jays at the birdbath.

#birds

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

There are only so many basic holiday party themes. Santa vs nature, Santa vs self, Maccabees vs Seleucids, and so on.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

When we were at Chatsworth, my brother mentioned that the previous duke, who was married to Deborah Mitford, threatened to give up his title if hereditary seats in the House of Lords were abolished.

"Yeah, that'll show 'em," I said, "Left with nothing but his giant estate and inherited wealth."

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

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Monk Gloats Over Yoga Championship

‘I am the serenest!’ he says

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

It really feels like Jessica was doing her best to make up for the rest of them.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

Some time ago I got some samples of scents from @bpal.bsky.social . This morning when I went to pop open the cap on the one called "Satyr," it came off quicker than I expected, spilled some drops, and made a bit of a mess.

That seemed appropriate.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

Especially since two of Jessica's sisters were acknowledged fascists.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

I read a couple of stories where I decided that Lovecraft was considerably more freaked out by fish than I was.

You'd think he'd like birds that eat fish, but maybe that just makes them more frightening.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

Conversely, back when they were together, Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi were my example of "Couples who don't look like they belong to the same species."

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

Well, now I'm thinking back to my organizational behavior classes and thinking about how different motivational levers could be used for espionage.

I don't think that was the intended lesson.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

You know, one of the main things about having to learn academic writing is that it forces you to *organize* information and determine a specific thesis to state and defend. That's really what college is about, regardless of your major: presentation and discussion of information in a critical sense.

👻Pooka! 🔜 MFF @spookypooka.bsky.social · 2d

Being able to crank out and/or make up shit of an adequate quality in a short amount of time on your own is such an important skill and I am NOT kidding.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

In the mid-90s, we introduced a friend to the Web, and he decided to search for his favorite animal: bears.

He learned a lot quickly.

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 2d

Remember the thing about how younger Gen X and elder Millennials were somewhat inoculated because we got to absorb Internet at the right age and at the right intensity, more or less? But that boomers and younger folks were utterly vulnerable and went insane? They didn't have the antibodies?

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hell ya someone got Trump into the weird anti-circumcision stuff. Keep talking about baby dicks sir! People will love that!

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Nov 14

“average guitarist knows three chords” factoid actualy just statistical error. Guitar Georg, who lives in London & knows all the chords, is an outlier and should not have been counted

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite Bradbury quotes, from "Zen in the Art of Writing," is: "We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 3d

So I dug deeper into why, with input from @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social @bbolander.bsky.social

Big big gratitude to them for sharing their awesome insights.

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why do we still like Ray Bradbury?

Greetings, fellow undercover artists embedded in the apocalypse! It's a funny business, connecting with other covert operatives across time and space. Tracking what holds true and what changes. What ...

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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sarah margaret (scary) 🍂 @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 3d

U just need to know 3 words to get an English degree:
- ostensibly
- aesthetic
- posits

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 3d

I got into the office and *part* of the building doesn't have power. This seems like a problem that would be either very easy or very difficult to fix.