Credentials, Dan
@dancredentials.bsky.social
Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large.
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Oh fuck, the paleontologists have discovered pick up artistry
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Oh fuck, the paleontologists have discovered pick up artistry
Last night I fell asleep listening to Gentle Giant's The Power and the Glory and I woke up with all hit points and magic points restored
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Last night I fell asleep listening to Gentle Giant's The Power and the Glory and I woke up with all hit points and magic points restored
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Philip Clark on Steely Dan’s quest for studio perfection
The Dude Ranch Above the Sea | Philip Clark
As a teenager, growing up in New Jersey during the 1960s, the pianist Donald Fagen routinely took a bus into Manhattan to hear his jazz heroes in the
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December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Philip Clark on Steely Dan’s quest for studio perfection
Not the same situation, but library patrons asking "What are you reading right now?"
I used to hedge but now I'll just straight up tell them about some paleontology monograph or New Wave science fiction paperback that's been out of print for forty years and watch the light fade from their eyes
I used to hedge but now I'll just straight up tell them about some paleontology monograph or New Wave science fiction paperback that's been out of print for forty years and watch the light fade from their eyes
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Not the same situation, but library patrons asking "What are you reading right now?"
I used to hedge but now I'll just straight up tell them about some paleontology monograph or New Wave science fiction paperback that's been out of print for forty years and watch the light fade from their eyes
I used to hedge but now I'll just straight up tell them about some paleontology monograph or New Wave science fiction paperback that's been out of print for forty years and watch the light fade from their eyes
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"I just think trans people should be bullied out of public life, but I'm saying it nicely so the trans people look like the crazy ones"
Always liked Parker, so this nastiness is rather disappointing.
I’ll always defend trans rights as I have all my career. But I also believe in the First Amendment’s protecting people being wrong.
And that’s where my engagement will respectfully end for the day.
I’ll always defend trans rights as I have all my career. But I also believe in the First Amendment’s protecting people being wrong.
And that’s where my engagement will respectfully end for the day.
Here's what this is actually about, dumbass
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"I just think trans people should be bullied out of public life, but I'm saying it nicely so the trans people look like the crazy ones"
What’s wild to me is that even in like 1250 AD, when the university was almost purely an institution of church training, “because God says so” would have still gotten you laughed out of the room in any subject. You gotta show more work than that.
i'm sorry but if your response to the school assignment is "because the bible said so" you deserve a 0
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What’s wild to me is that even in like 1250 AD, when the university was almost purely an institution of church training, “because God says so” would have still gotten you laughed out of the room in any subject. You gotta show more work than that.
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something that's wild about this on top of uh, everything here: The theme song for the Franklin cartoon was written by Bruce Cockburn. One of his most famous songs is about wanting to shoot down the helicopters of a far-right regime in Guatemala www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqP...
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
something that's wild about this on top of uh, everything here: The theme song for the Franklin cartoon was written by Bruce Cockburn. One of his most famous songs is about wanting to shoot down the helicopters of a far-right regime in Guatemala www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqP...
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The typo for Alabama briefly made me wonder if it was the right one and then I saw the billboard
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The typo for Alabama briefly made me wonder if it was the right one and then I saw the billboard
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Has this been posted yet
You’re hearing it more and more!!
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
You’re hearing it more and more!!
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Very easily. Every person in there is miserable and doing an impression of what they think is a cool and self-actualized person looks like. It must feel like being surrounded by ghosts
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Very easily. Every person in there is miserable and doing an impression of what they think is a cool and self-actualized person looks like. It must feel like being surrounded by ghosts
Through God, all things are possible (getting my professor in trouble for grading my dogshit essay appropriately)
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Through God, all things are possible (getting my professor in trouble for grading my dogshit essay appropriately)
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Epcot being the last gasp of the utopian communal settlements that were all over the US from the 19th century onward feels like a metaphor for something. not sure what, exactly, but i'll figure it out
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Epcot being the last gasp of the utopian communal settlements that were all over the US from the 19th century onward feels like a metaphor for something. not sure what, exactly, but i'll figure it out
You can just buy party crackers and party cheese for yourself. They can’t stop you
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
You can just buy party crackers and party cheese for yourself. They can’t stop you
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A lyric Johnny Cash tossed aside:
Just watched a man wash a cucumber in the water fountain at a rest stop in Kentucky
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A lyric Johnny Cash tossed aside:
Just watched a man wash a cucumber in the water fountain at a rest stop in Kentucky
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just watched a man wash a cucumber in the water fountain at a rest stop in Kentucky
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[writing Wicked For Good]
...and...then...the...witch...rides...the...broom...like...a... skateboard...
...and...then...the...witch...rides...the...broom...like...a... skateboard...
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
[writing Wicked For Good]
...and...then...the...witch...rides...the...broom...like...a... skateboard...
...and...then...the...witch...rides...the...broom...like...a... skateboard...
Just had a lovely fifteen minute walk from my hotel to the greasy spoon to meet an online friend who coincidentally also celebrates Thanksgiving in Madison, IN for breakfast. This is what anti-fifteen minute city activists want to take from you
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Just had a lovely fifteen minute walk from my hotel to the greasy spoon to meet an online friend who coincidentally also celebrates Thanksgiving in Madison, IN for breakfast. This is what anti-fifteen minute city activists want to take from you
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November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I’m firing my wife tonight before she can do this to me
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I’m firing my wife tonight before she can do this to me
That’s Sloss!
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
That’s Sloss!
I have made the Hajj
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I have made the Hajj
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Fun national jukebox day fact: the popular “Rock-ola” brand, which could not sound more like an exercise in exuberant Fifties pop culture marketing, was actually designed and sold by a guy named David Rockola.
The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for.
The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for.
On national jukebox day I must come out against being able to control the jukebox from your phone, people should know who put on that awful song and you should stand there and support your taste with whole heart
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fun national jukebox day fact: the popular “Rock-ola” brand, which could not sound more like an exercise in exuberant Fifties pop culture marketing, was actually designed and sold by a guy named David Rockola.
The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for.
The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for.
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I call ramifications "rammy fammies." I.e. insulting that witch is sure to result in dire rammy fammies.
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I call ramifications "rammy fammies." I.e. insulting that witch is sure to result in dire rammy fammies.