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Karl Appuhn
@appuhn.bsky.social
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Historian of Renaissance Italian trees, critters, medical practitioners, and assorted other stuff. Californian in exile. Veteran. Semi-pro Curmudgeon.
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Nothing is more cursed that Tomlinson in a Jets Jersey (and I stand by the statement that anyone ending their career in a Jets jersey is a gimme).
December 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Seahawks Franco Harris
December 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Jets are a gimme:
Boomer Esiason wearing #7 for the Jets.
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Working on eighteenth-century sources is usually relatively easy. Then every once in a while there's some secretary who was apparently mad at posterity.
An eighteenth-century manuscript. The person who wrote it appears to have started suffering from seizures about halfway through.
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Happy Veterans Day. But I wish the radio stations would stop playing fucking Lee Greenwood. Speaking only for this veteran, I hate that song. It's shitty on the merits, and shittier because of who has appropriated it.
A stick of paratroopers descending under canopy. You can see the C-130 they jumped out of receding in the distance. I took the picture. Taylor DZ. If you know, you know.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This is the one and only good Fluffernutter.
A calico cat in the loaf position on a white floor. She is looking at the camera with a pained expression of contempt for the stupid human taking her picture. "This again?"
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I could smell the mustard and the onions
the actress Sharon Stone in a still from the movie Basic Instinct. She is being interrogated by police while wearing a very revealing white dress. She is about to uncross her legs and flash her interrogators.
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I could smell the mustard and the onions
The actor Tom Berenger as Sgt Barnes in a still from the Oliver Stone Film "Platoon" Berenger is smoking a cigarette while staring menacingly at another soldier.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Palate Cleanser: Yonkers warehouse cat:
An orange and white cat sits on the windowsill of an ivy covered brick warehouse building. The cat is very focused on something going on on the street below.
September 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Palate cleanser: Yonkers warehouse kitty
An orange cat sitting on the widowsill of an ivy covered warehouse building.
September 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Who's the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.
A man in a red muppet (Elmo) costume walking in Times Square.
August 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I take that back. I would have paid money to see all the broken ankles from these guys doing a fast rope insertion. Just a giant pile of dipshits at the bottom of the rope. And you just know someone would have been knocked out cold when the helo crew cut the ropes loose at the end.
Screen shot of a section of the op planning for the MacArthur Park shitshow today. It says "No Fast Rope Insertion; Rotary Wing for Medevac only." That this needed to be said suggests that at least one dipshit must have been pushing for it.
July 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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you may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like
Publicity still for the sitcom "The Odd Couple" Jack Klugman and Tony Randall as Oscar Madison and Felix Unger against a pink background. Klugman is wearing a backwards baseball cap and smoking a cigar. Randall is wearing a brown houndstooth jacket, striped shirt, and paisley necktie.
June 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I'm pretty sure this is exactly how the minutemen rolled up to the battle of Lexington.
April 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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It's Triton Time. LFG.
Me, a middle aged man with a lot of gray in his beard, holding up a UCSD coffee cup and wearing a dark blue UCSD T-shirt. This is an illustration of how, despite their evident problems, college sports can make adults who should know better behave like absolute dipshits.
March 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.

Hard Mode: No villains
The character Joey Tribbiani from the TV Sitcom Friends. Sitting on the couch, holding a half eaten slice of pepperoni pizza with a "death stare" expression on his face. Probably because Chandler just told him to get vaccinated.
March 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Why get an overpriced Dodge Ram stuck in a narrow Italian street when you can support the EU by doing it with your Ferrari?
Ferrari incastrata in un vicolo stretto (Ferrari stuck between the walls of a narrow street)
March 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Treetop level is the best level for bird watching.
A calico cat stares intently out of a second story window.
March 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Was cleaning out some boxes and these were in there. Going to have to update them to include NATO aircraft in the enemy suits
A 2980s era army-issue deck of playing cards. Each card has an aircraft on it. The cards are both playing cards and flash cards to help soldiers memorize and recognize aircraft. The red suits had enemy aircraft and the black suits had allied aircraft, thus the joke.
March 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Reviewer #3, caught in the act.
A long haired calico cat with a defiant expression on her face, stares into the camera while loafing in front of a manuscript she has just shredded.
February 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Lexington and 33rd. This is amazing.
January 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Park Ave, live shot. I love congestion pricing.
Park Avenue looking north from 31st Street on a Monday morning. Only a single taxi cab in the southbound lanes
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social in the wild at the AHA book exhibit.
January 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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"You will be visited by three spirits"

The three spirits:
Still from the movie "Three Amigos" showing Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, dressed in ridiculous mariachi band costumes and sitting on horses.
December 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Screenshot from the 1992 Video Game "Syndicate" Chorographic view of a dystopian future city with a group of four cyborgs preparing to gun down members of a rival criminal corporation.
December 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM