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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 4h

Polyphemos is Greek for "a lot of famous" which is why he was the opposite of Nobody

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 5h

Jesus Christ, I thought his dad was a lumberjack but this guy plays like the drums owe him money and also insulted his mum www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx04...

Tallah Live Concert | Max Portnoy

YouTube video by Drumeo

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 7h

Y'know who deserves a Nobel prize? The inventor of the knock-knock joke.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 21h

Gamergate (ant)

A gamergate (/ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/ GAMM-ər-gayt) is a mated worker ant that can reproduce sexually, i.e., lay fertilized eggs that will develop as females. In the vast majority of

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 22h

Quack

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 22h

They really struggle with snapping their fingers

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 22h

Such dopplering

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 22h

Accurate

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 22h

Quite probably

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering how the Tim Burton Wonka has a horrible bit where he goes all "groovy daddy-oh" and if you said it was awful, loads of weird nerds would show up to explain that Wonka is a shut-in and only knows outdated culture, and not one of them grasped that a thing can have an explanation AND be bad

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

That feels right

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

I've never actually heard him speak but I love his beard

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

That man can do anything he puts his mind to

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

Missed opportunity that this guy never did an autobiography called "The Titulaer Hero" tbh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chriet_...

Chriet Titulaer - Wikipedia

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

I do now want to see ballet dancers flop around like fuzzy baby birds though

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a poster for 'Swan Lake: The Next Generation' and went "presumably starring Ryan Gosling" to myself but then I remembered that's a baby goose, not a swan, and I'm an idiot

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

I go through them every now and then to see if I forgot anything important and there's usually a bunch of "oh yeah, that's a recipe I meant to bake some time"

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly I'd probably be happier if I'd never worked it out

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I saw a bunch of geese sneaking up on some jackdaws but they kept softly honking to themselves so it didn't work very well

Six geese walking down a path around a pond towards one visible jackdaw. There are more jackdaws but they are obscured by a bin.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 3d

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

I do all my tab hoarding on my phone, which turns the tab number into an infinity symbol at 100, so I dunno where that tops out

On my own desktop it'll be somewhere between 5 and 15 usually and they get closed every night, work laptop anything between 5 and 35 depending on what I'm working on

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

That's absolutely valid

I'm not sure I ever actually had regular luncheon meat before I went veggie but this comes pretty close to ham cubes for me

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

This stuff is pretty good if you dice and fry it up first www.ocado.com/products/unm...

www.ocado.com

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

We go on about how cinema has no original ideas any more but the second oldest film on this list of ghost movies is a remake of the oldest film on this list of ghost movies

The Haunted Castle 1896 France
The Haunted Castle 1897 France

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

Classic

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