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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 1h

As someone who used to be an engineer but now is not, I can assure you that my brain is fully normal, probably.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 22h

Every two years I watch David Schwimmer do another sexual harassment. Will no one stop this man?

Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 1d

Me failing my book report on Moby Dick because I skipped the last chapters.

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

mariners won

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 2d

My nine year old doesn’t care that the dialogue is stilted! Every word out of your mouth is stilted when you’re nine. I’m not going to ruin his good time by pointing out the flaws in the Phantom Menace.

Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate the logic behind the machete order, but it severely underestimates how much pod racing whips ass when you are nine years old.

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to the 20th anniversary stalk-tacular.

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 5d

It took weeks of negotiations, but we finally got a weed analogue for Star Wars that George Lucas would sign off on. Get ready to see all your favorite scoundrels smoking blants of dank Kashyyyk chronologic.

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 6d

Counterpoint: the sweet release of death is the privilege of mankind, the horses must live forever.

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 9d

Cardi B is short for cardiologist (board-certified)

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 10d

He can’t even do a decent Scottish accent, smh

Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 11d

Being into hiking and biking means I know about ALL the local quarries and cemeteries 💅

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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 11d

Then Satan rose up from hell and bellowed, “Little bunny Foo Foo! My most dedicated worshipper! Continue your reign of terror against the field mice in my name.”