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Captain Awkward

@captainawkward.bsky.social

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Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 5h

Cleaning up ok

Selfie of a disheveled nerd in funeral weeds.

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Jeremy D. Nichols @jeremydnichols.bsky.social · 4d

Services for Jan Nichols will be held at 2:00pm Saturday October 11, 2025 at:

CHRIST CHURCH
1750 East Airport Freeway
Irving, TX 75062

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 6h

Just listening to Kenny & Dolly while we get ready for the funeral. Seems appropriate.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 7h

Our loins shall host a new Dust Bowl

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Jeremy D. Nichols @jeremydnichols.bsky.social · 2d

My Uncle John sent some pictures of Mom yesterday and here’s one I’ve never seen of us before.

A smiling young mother holds her smiling baby boy.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 8h

Write it in the sky with hundred foot letters of burning flame

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 9h

youtu.be/zSWNWWREtsI

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Dead Oceans

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you.

Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 9h

I’m back in Euless and that light you see is the rising sun.

A Waffle House coffee mug lit by the rising sun

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 1d

They are also old & rural so maybe that’s one common thread?

I’m heading to TX for a family funeral where I fully expect to be referred to as “that Yankee gal cousin Jeremy married” without irony.

Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 1d

Resistance & neighborhood defense is hot!

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 1d

I’m from white Yankee “bedspread” people, how interesting to see this context.

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frayed @frayed-symphony.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone else been calling it Silent Hilf

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 3d

...oops?

All Of Us Murderers flyer with book cover. tex says: Readers Say, followed by quotes: All Of Us Murderers is why I am sleep deprived at work today.

Kept me up until 2am on a
work night!

I read this in one sitting and stayed up until 3am because
I couldn't put it down.

I was only going to read a chapter before bed and then I blinked and it was 8am.

end tagline reads: Out Now. sorry about that.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 2d

I loved it. Most viscerally accurate depiction of adhd + a cracking good tale.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 2d

Your last name is so common 😂

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 2d

Happy anniversary too

Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 3d

That arepa looks amazing!

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! I like presents that don’t cause clutter and Wicker Men are good for the earth.

Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 3d

Leftenant Sinjun’s

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

one of my most durable political lessons out of Occupy is: not only is it a bad look to instruct people at protests you are not part what to do based on posts online, it’s bad tactics to order around people with local experience and who are doing countless things you won’t know about from posts

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 3d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 3d

The traditional 9th anniversary gifts are pottery or wicker so here’s wishing you love and a bountiful harvest @jeremydnichols.bsky.social

The wicker man from the 1973 film The Wicker Man surrounded by people holding torches

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, friend!