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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 13h

I know I've gone sufficiently far into the depths of Tubi when I'm watching a movie I've never heard of then realize that the "notice me Senpai" satanist is in it (I think the internet's proper term for him is 'weird satanist guy')

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 1d

Hopeful bright side: no one falls up to the top of a tree.
So there's worse ways to exit a tree.

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats, the only thing better than going is not paying to.

One extra thing that I'll mention is that getting there a bit before it officially opens is worth it imo - they let people get through security/ticketing and just mass at front of park til they open with scare actors in the crowd

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 3d

After listening to the full episode, Porky's got off a lot easier than I'd expected

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 3d

We've wrapped up season 3 of The Old SwichAroo podcast

These season finales are a lot of work, but worth it for the fun of getting to bring back so many of our season guests in one go. And both seasons we've done this I've been very blown away by the creativity people can pack when quizzing us

The Old SwitchAroo @theoldswitcharoo.bsky.social · 4d

In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, we're celebrating the end of season 3 by looking at the highs and lows of this season's games and playing a trivia game featuring this season's guests.

Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

An NES cartridge with a label that reads "The Old SwitchAroo" and "24-game-pak 16th bit retro-spective" with an illustration of a number of video game heroes and enemies. The additional text below the label reads "Season 3 Finale" and the text to the side reads "with Kat and 15 guest cameos!"

Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 3d

The Halloween version of the logo looks absolutely awesome, btw

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 3d

Was on the theme park podcast Wild Mouse to talk about Knott's Scary Farm and my favorite time of year in theme parks with the world of haunts. And Knott's really is one of the best.

I choose to interpret the bottom image as artist's interpretation of the skeletons of me, Donald, and Panchito

Wild Mouse @wildmousepodcast.com · 4d

New episode! @lowbacca.bsky.social of @theoldswitcharoo.bsky.social returns to discuss ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and other things that go bump in the night at Knott's Scary Farm!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gsZ33uo9asLHqfhUoR2n5?si=RjiAFqKZSVqI7k6ZI9IJjA

#podcast #halloween #themepark

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 4d

Always be prepared

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 4d

Connections is where it's at

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 4d

Wordle?

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 4d

Ask and ye shall receive

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 5d

I like to think that I was ahead of the curve when it came to putting questionable requests for unfettered telescope time on ArXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2003.13879

So it's interesting to see the rest of the field catching up.

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 8d

I've not heard of it, and neither has my wife (so that suggests it's not too Australian)

Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 9d

0 to 60 hundred in 3.0 decades

Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 10d

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!

To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.

www.nature.com

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 9d

Ok, hope you get it worked out easily and if it helps to verify it's working on pocketcasts (my preferred app) by having someone check, just ask. (I always find the apps i don't use more of a headache to check than the web stuff)

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 9d

And maybe it's been like that and i just didn't notice before. Totally possible i didn't.

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats on the milestone.
Though i wanted to ask, it lists 476 episodes there, but I noticed on pocketcasts yesterday I only see your last 100 episodes (other podcasts don't have that 100 ep cutoff for me).
Hope this doesn't feel like raining on the well-earned parade, just was looking for backlog

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 10d

At a comedy show called popular kids club. And the stamp to verify they checked my ticket says "I'm a popular kid".
It took four attempts to get that stamp to work on me and not sure if that's the stamp rejecting me or my skin rejecting social status.
Could be either, really.

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Mike Lund @lowbacca.bsky.social · 10d

Great, thanks

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