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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · Dec 2

And again, another note to anyone who makes assumptions about my life based on my posts

I’m openly non-binary in every part of my life. Unapologetically so. You wanna try telling me otherwise, or view me as anything other than that, then get the fuck away from me

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 1d

You do look good abs it’s a very cute outfit!

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 3d

It’s coming back and it’s coming back at a reasonable price

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 5d

It’s criminal that none of the screen used sharks survived, I fucking love this goober so much

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 5d

I love that I now have not one, but TWO photos of Bruce the shark dinking his oiter in my collection

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 6d

My boss got bored and taught me how to do a monkey’s fist and for a first go at it, I think I did pretty alright

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 6d

17 year old me leaving the high school parking lot at mach fuck in my Oldsmobile Achieva with a massive exhaust leak

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 14d

Another quick visit from the Jayhawk today

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve taken a huge liking to wearing some of my more tame button downs as jackets

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 16d

This is the last Oswald post I promise (if you follow me on insta or twitter there’s a longer memorial vid)

But it’s so hard to let go of my memories with this little shit. So many amazing people, cars and experiences have come from these past 6 years. I wouldn’t be here with any of you without him

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 17d

I was, but after sitting for a year, mold, mice, and rot took their toll on top of the electrical and mechanical issues

There was no saving him

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 17d

I just checked the website for the yard Oswald was at

He’s gone. For good. For real

Goodbye my friend

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 18d

There’s also the weird category of “screen used survivors” that have been so restored they’re hardly the same

Martin Sanchez took the cool route though, restoring his screen used Christine using parts from the other wrecked Plymouths that were set to be crushed

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 18d

She’ll be happy to know that some more surviving parts of one of the sharks (aside from teeth) turned up at auction recently!

Bob Mattey saved the eyes and gifted them to his neighbor and somehow they found their way onto the auction block

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 18d

The backlot however was not kind to her…

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 18d

There’s photos of Orca I (the fully operational boat) pre-scrap in her brief private ownership as well as in disrepair on the backlot after universal bought her back. They’re really upsetting as the guy that bought her initially clearly put work into restoring her

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 18d

‪Bluesmobile: all destroyed during/after filming‬

‪Orca: both the main and stunt boats were kept around but rotted away and were broken apart ‬

‪W900: fate of all 3 trucks unknown‬

‪The Car: 3/4 destroyed during filming the 4th apparently in a collection but has not been seen since‬

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 18d

Thinkin about iconic movie vehicles that have either been confirmed destroyed or lost to time…

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 19d

Nope! That’s the conveyor from the taconite facility to the loading rigs

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 19d

Boat stuff

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 20d

I ❤️ my job!

(End the suffering please)

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 20d

I failed spectacularly

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 21d

Just me and my “you’re gonna need a bigger boat” ass fit against the world

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 22d

Think a new F150 with its high beams on is bad? Try taking one of the Jesus beams to the face while half asleep

Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 25d

“I’m so scared of sharks because of Jaws”

How?? Bruce has such a big dumb baby face and despite the movie’s portrayal of them, I think it made me love sharks even more as a kid

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Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social · 25d

Been sailing almost 4 years now and this still goes through my head whenever we leave a dock