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Credentials, Dan

@dancredentials.bsky.social

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Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large. Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 5h

Almost certainly the same white humpback that Australian whale scientists asked local Aboriginal Australian people to name after the scientists observed it and they called it "White guy" (Migaloo).

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 6h

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Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 8h

Come to Alabama, we have Pilates beneath the mounted skeleton of an archaic whale

A Pilates class taking place in the University of Alabama Natural History Museum, women stretching on mulicolored mats below the hanging mounted skeleton of a Basilosaurus

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 13h

“No nutritional value and many functional substitutes” fucking LISTEN to yourself!

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 14h

That’s how I’m so good at the game 😎

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 14h

It’s from Europe, that’s how they spell it there

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

Fingers crossed for you buddy!

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I'll meet you at the corner of 29-5/8ths Avenue and 7-15/16ths Street. I don't see what's so hard about this.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

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The Wedding Present - Cattle and Cane

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

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Kirsty MacColl - A New England

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

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Somebody's Baby

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

Yo La Tengo's "Somebody's Baby"
Kirsty McColl's "A New England"
The Wedding Present's "Cattle and Cane"

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 1d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

Honour Mode run update: tore through the Minsc recruitment fights handily (druid in Owlbear shape making Crushing Leaps is a great invisibility remover) and just dispatched the hag with a 75 damage Critical Divine Smite from Minthara 💅

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot of Marcomer the Bard and Minthara, Paladin of the Oath of Vengeance posing before the crumpled heap of the hag Ethel.

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

Maytals fuckin rip, you listen to their early ska stuff and you get how it one-shotted three generations of white boys

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

If I crack open your book and find first person present narration, I will throw it into the nearest body of water. Cheap crutch to simulate narrative urgency, you and I both deserve better.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 1d

we should be celebrating the combined efforts of Italian-americans Al DiMeola, Frank Zappa and Steve Vai as National Shredders’ Day

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 1d

Chef Boyardee, who earned the Gold Star from the War Department in 1946. During the war, his canned food plant ramped up production to 24 hours a day keeping soldiers and civilians fed the world over.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

It's so crazy that the US doesn't do Giovanni Caboto day instead. That's the first Italian guy who clapped eyes on actual US territory!

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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1984, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions released their debut studio album “Rattlesnakes” featuring "Perfect Skin" "Forest Fire" "Rattlesnakes" and "Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken"

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 2d

Facebook likes to show me posts from this Baldur's Gate 3 group I am not a member of and lmao at the packed bowl in shot. That's fucking right, lady 🥂

Screenshot of a post from a Baldur's Gate 3 Facebook group, a woman sits at a desktop computer playing the opening portions of Baldur's Gate 3. On the desk before the keyboard and monitor lay a glass weed pipe packed to the brim and a lighter

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 2d

Between this and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" you are on a tremolo journey this morning

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 2d

cool mug

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 3d

Brother there are track sites of deep scratch marks in a circle pattern that have been interpreted as Allosaurus engaging in ground scratching mating display, a behavior observed among birds to this day

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Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era) @acidlich.bsky.social · 4d

I love these lads

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 4d

Editor: You get that cover of Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin hard as hell just like you asked.
Editor: what

Cover of a paleontology monograph Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America by J. Alan Holman, with a cover painting featuring three adorable green tree frogs in the foreground while a gigantic bolt of lighting strikes amid a heard of rearing and panicking brontotheres in the background

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 4d

They should have done an hour — no TWO hours of Hobbiton business. These things I believe.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 4d

I love that its a cross platform hit

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