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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 1d

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 12h

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 · 13h

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.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/why-do-we-st...

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 · 1d

“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 · 15h

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

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 16h

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.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

There are in fact salespeople who take GGR as a good training tool.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

This one? I remember it from the Virginia earthquake, the only earthquake I personally have experienced.

A plastic lawn chair is tipped over. It says 8-23-11 (the date of an earthquake being felt throughout the eastern USA), with the words "Never forget."

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

Best review I've read since the one that said Twelve Angry Men would be improved if you knew for sure whether the defendant was guilty or not.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Easily the coolest desk I've ever seen in my life, all steam bent plywood in high Art Moderne style.

Check out how the drawers are made!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Imd...

Rescue beavers making little dams out of assorted stuff is a top tier drug

Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in house

YouTube video by Holley Muraco

www.youtube.com

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 2d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

Or in the future!

Two Starfleet officers from the 23rd century are standing next to each other: the human Captain James T. Kirk, wearing a green command-division tunic, and the half-Vulcan/half-human Commander Spock, wearing a blue science-division uniform shirt. Spock is saying "Quadrotriticale is a high-yield grain."

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

I have wept that I shall never write a line as good as Parry Gripp's "Transporting guinea pigs from point A to point B/Utilizing the latest guinea pig bridge technology." youtu.be/bq9ghmgqoyc?...

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

Coming soon: Lauren and Brian tell stories about the old days of the 1990s and 2000s when they tied onions to their belts, as was the style at the time.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

Time broke in 2020.

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Kay Profundo @unicornosis.bsky.social · Feb 18

An idea came to me in a dream that Columbo is not so much a cop as he is a ronin*

*masterless samurai

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Willie Dixon needs to be mentioned as important, even if he's not best known as an artist in his own right.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

You could use it for rating music or fizzy drinks.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

It's short and memorable! That's better than a lot of email addresses.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1d

With luck it's closer to "Braindead" ( youtu.be/3uxf--fGOzw ) and not as upsetting as "Meet the Feebles" ( clip not provided due to emotional trauma ).

Brain-Dead (Dead-Alive) - I Kick Arse For The Lord!

YouTube video by Robert Spooner

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