PhDsurfbum
@phdsurfbum.bsky.social
My screen name covers some of it, except the part about being a progressive, middle-aged, white guy with young kids.
Things that make me happy (don't read into the order... too much): 🌊🏄🏽🤙🏽🏖️🌅 🌈♀️⚧️☮️♂️ 🐯🐕😻🐬🐳 🎷🎸🎹 🌝⭐🌠☄️ 🗺️
Things that make me happy (don't read into the order... too much): 🌊🏄🏽🤙🏽🏖️🌅 🌈♀️⚧️☮️♂️ 🐯🐕😻🐬🐳 🎷🎸🎹 🌝⭐🌠☄️ 🗺️
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PhDsurfbum
@phdsurfbum.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Four things I skeet a lot about right now:
1. We outnumber them
2. I want to know who the alleged abusers are in the files
3. Following orders you know are illegal does not absolve you of guilt
4. Due to the season, beachy things. Waves, sunsets (once the time starts working out), maybe some birds
1. We outnumber them
2. I want to know who the alleged abusers are in the files
3. Following orders you know are illegal does not absolve you of guilt
4. Due to the season, beachy things. Waves, sunsets (once the time starts working out), maybe some birds
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This was day 10 of my One Person Protests, 9th consecutive day in a row. Yesterday and today, I was on stand two hours. Literally hundreds of cars are passing by seeing the sign. Three people joined me today. It was a good day. Two beautiful young women brought water for me.
February 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
This was day 10 of my One Person Protests, 9th consecutive day in a row. Yesterday and today, I was on stand two hours. Literally hundreds of cars are passing by seeing the sign. Three people joined me today. It was a good day. Two beautiful young women brought water for me.
As cons go, it might be the longest of long cons. And I bet you all know exactly who and what I am talking about
February 10, 2026 at 5:30 AM
As cons go, it might be the longest of long cons. And I bet you all know exactly who and what I am talking about
I just watched Bad Bunny's halftime show. There was a lot of foot tapping and head nodding going on. Watching the couple ACTUALLY GET MARRIED brought tears to my eyes. I don't watch football anymore, but the halftime show has become high art (see Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Shakira + JLo...)
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I just watched Bad Bunny's halftime show. There was a lot of foot tapping and head nodding going on. Watching the couple ACTUALLY GET MARRIED brought tears to my eyes. I don't watch football anymore, but the halftime show has become high art (see Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Shakira + JLo...)
Kai is my fav waterperson. He is literally using the same mechanics a pelican does here to surf the updraft in front of the wave. Another thing I've never seen another person do. He's insanely inventive and talented
youtu.be/nAwpWUrC8iw?...
youtu.be/nAwpWUrC8iw?...
Surfing like at Pelican over Jaws!
YouTube video by Kai Lenny
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Kai is my fav waterperson. He is literally using the same mechanics a pelican does here to surf the updraft in front of the wave. Another thing I've never seen another person do. He's insanely inventive and talented
youtu.be/nAwpWUrC8iw?...
youtu.be/nAwpWUrC8iw?...
Swell is still running. Not a great green flash, but a green flash nonetheless
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Swell is still running. Not a great green flash, but a green flash nonetheless
I normally wouldn't name a break, but South Mission Jetty has the worst localism I've ever encountered (in my admittedly limited surfing travels) so I'm outing them. The jetty was firing about head high this morning
February 8, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I normally wouldn't name a break, but South Mission Jetty has the worst localism I've ever encountered (in my admittedly limited surfing travels) so I'm outing them. The jetty was firing about head high this morning
I've been away for a week, and I was welcomed back by some swell. And a not bad sunset. No green flash, though
February 8, 2026 at 2:02 AM
I've been away for a week, and I was welcomed back by some swell. And a not bad sunset. No green flash, though
Anybody seeing any surprising activity on the back nine of any Rancho Palos Verde golf courses in the last couple of days?
February 1, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Anybody seeing any surprising activity on the back nine of any Rancho Palos Verde golf courses in the last couple of days?
A hint of green at the end of the sunset tonight, maybe? But not enough to get the green flash call. These Santa Ana sunsets, man, nothing to see after the sun goes down
February 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM
A hint of green at the end of the sunset tonight, maybe? But not enough to get the green flash call. These Santa Ana sunsets, man, nothing to see after the sun goes down
My guy, Luis Arraez, is now a Giant. I'm glad he's getting paid, and I wish him well. But I will miss him as a Padre
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
My guy, Luis Arraez, is now a Giant. I'm glad he's getting paid, and I wish him well. But I will miss him as a Padre
Thanks to her. As I've said before, removing the memorial flags was insane-level pettiness 🙄
This young Danish woman single-handedly placed more than 500 flags outside the US Embassy in Denmark!
She did so after the embassy had removed the 44 flags that were placed to honor the fallen Danish soldiers who died fighting for the US under NATO Article 5.
Seen on Threads
She did so after the embassy had removed the 44 flags that were placed to honor the fallen Danish soldiers who died fighting for the US under NATO Article 5.
Seen on Threads
January 31, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Thanks to her. As I've said before, removing the memorial flags was insane-level pettiness 🙄
Baseball!
January 31, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Baseball!
Not a great green flash, tonight, but a green flash nonetheless. This is a little bit before that
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Not a great green flash, tonight, but a green flash nonetheless. This is a little bit before that
I'm in a melancholy mood this evening, and, apropos of nothing, I wish Brad Delp was still with us. He was a singular talent
January 30, 2026 at 5:18 AM
I'm in a melancholy mood this evening, and, apropos of nothing, I wish Brad Delp was still with us. He was a singular talent
Anyone else glad they did not grow up as one of Ilhan Omar's brothers right now? [complimentary]
January 29, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Anyone else glad they did not grow up as one of Ilhan Omar's brothers right now? [complimentary]
It is my theory that everyone that voluntarily joined ICE to happily participate in what they are doing these days also suffers from a great deal of self-loathing
Beneath it all, the man in the WH experiences a deep... touchy sense of “I’m not enough / I’m defective.”
I take comfort in that.
I take comfort in that.
January 29, 2026 at 4:28 AM
It is my theory that everyone that voluntarily joined ICE to happily participate in what they are doing these days also suffers from a great deal of self-loathing
Skeet of the week nominee
Nope! Go to hell!
January 29, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Skeet of the week nominee
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Carter wasn’t the best POTUS in my lifetime for a bunch of reasons, most of them external (stagflation carried over from Ford, ‘79 gas crisis, etc.), but I’m pretty sure he was the best human being to hold the job.
January 29, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Carter wasn’t the best POTUS in my lifetime for a bunch of reasons, most of them external (stagflation carried over from Ford, ‘79 gas crisis, etc.), but I’m pretty sure he was the best human being to hold the job.
I was impatient at sunset tonight. I said to the 2yo "that's probably the best it's gonna get, let's head home". And then on the walk away from the beach nearly the entire sky turned the into hot coals
January 29, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I was impatient at sunset tonight. I said to the 2yo "that's probably the best it's gonna get, let's head home". And then on the walk away from the beach nearly the entire sky turned the into hot coals
This is probably a me problem, but my mind is incapable of formulating a model for the phrase "professional demeanor of criminals." I intuitively understand it's not good, but I really can't picture what that would look like. That's it 2026, is the year my brain broke.
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM
This is probably a me problem, but my mind is incapable of formulating a model for the phrase "professional demeanor of criminals." I intuitively understand it's not good, but I really can't picture what that would look like. That's it 2026, is the year my brain broke.
We removed flags from our embassy memorializing Danish soldiers? 🙄 The pettiness is astounding
January 28, 2026 at 10:02 PM
We removed flags from our embassy memorializing Danish soldiers? 🙄 The pettiness is astounding
Distinct green flash tonight. Then this happened
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Distinct green flash tonight. Then this happened
Reposting this comment out of context, because it really doesn't need context. It stands alone as a thing of beauty
I just hear it now…. “Yes I’m wearing one glove. It’s a great look, many people are saying. You know Michael Jackson? Yes the singer, Michael Jackson. He got the idea of one glove from me, many years ago. He came up to me and asked why I wore one glove and I told him FASHION. Then he got a glove.”
January 28, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Reposting this comment out of context, because it really doesn't need context. It stands alone as a thing of beauty
Saw one of our local ospreys with breakfast this morning
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Saw one of our local ospreys with breakfast this morning
"A whole ruling class unaware of the concept of homophones." might be the single pithiest analysis of our current predicament I have yet seen
This is the same as Trump thinking migrants making asylum claims literally escaped from other countries' insane asylums.
A whole ruling class unaware of the concept of homophones.
A whole ruling class unaware of the concept of homophones.
January 26, 2026 at 9:33 PM
"A whole ruling class unaware of the concept of homophones." might be the single pithiest analysis of our current predicament I have yet seen