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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 2h

All publicity is good publicity!

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 8h

3% of the population of NYC in 1870 was made of of homeless orphaned or abandoned children. We just don't have a mental model for what pre-1900 destitution looked like because it's too horrific for us to consider.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · Jun 16

In the 1870s, there were 20,000-30,000 homeless, orphaned, and abandoned children in New York City each year. The population of New York in 1870 was 940k. 3% of the cities population were abandoned, homeless children. They didn't all make it.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 2h

I’m imagining you cracking the skulls of the Lost Generation in Paris and smiling warmly

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 2h

They were so excited to see anyone at all step up lol

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 6h

one thing i think about all the time is that Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway on October 9, 1986 and ran until April 16, 2023 and many of the members of its orchestra stayed for the entire run, playing the same music 8 shows a week for 37 YEARS

Original cast of phantom on Broadway in the 80s

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 6h

Reconnected with the woman I would marry when I noticed her name among the list of invitees on a mutual friend’s Facebook event (remember those?) and shot my shot with a DM

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 19h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 7h

I would never have guessed arctic migration began all the way back in the Mesozoic, incredible

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 9h

My own great grandmother was born in the world of horse drawn carriages and lived to see man walk on the moon. That had to feel crazy as hell

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 20h

I grated the fontina cheese. I whipped that roux together. I poached that chicken with garlic and bay leaf. This is gonna be the shit

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 20h

Started a Mass Effect playthrough while this cools. Not playing FemShep this time, a mode I call ButchShep

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 20h

The Night Tetrazzini

A casserole dish of chicken tetrazzini steaming hot out of the oven, the breadcrumb topping nicely browned

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 20h

I live life on the knife’s edge

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 20h

The Night Tetrazzini

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

I think its nice that he went out in 1946, after the calamitous industrialized slaughter and nuclear fire he predicted and feared came to pass and when the green shoots of an internationalist world order he dearly hoped for led by the UN was still plausible. Didn't have to see it wither on the vine

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

Such a bizarre property to attempt that with

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

H.G. Wells lived to see the atomic bomb. The son of the last Eastern Roman Emperor lived to learn of the New World and bequeathed his imperial title to Ferdinand and Isabella (never used). Birds lived side-by-side with pterodactyls for 80 million years.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Yooberz 🍤 @yooberz.postes.club · 1d

Ortolan hot pockets

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

Hey check it out, I watched a very stupid episode of Criminal Minds and talked about with your friend and mine @johnnysex.bsky.social !

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Rhymes With Nerdy – Deliver The Profile Episode 336: Hunters of Men (guest: Dr. Daniel Daughhetee)

A vacation from ourselves as Daniel slots in for Jazz in this episode of Deliver The Profile. “Open Season” is about men hunting other men, inc

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

I would be white knuckling that conversation

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 1d

I really enjoy them

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 3d

Prejudice against alarm clocks. Anti-dishwasherism. The silent bigotry of low expectations for Windows products.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 3d

"Gang members" is such a funny thing to be so hung up on. I know its all racial synecdoche, but still, "Cop Killer" was 33 years ago man!

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 3d

don’t threaten me with a good time etc etc

Cernovich @Cernovich
X.com
In an alternative timeline, Kamala Harris is in office, by now over 5 million gang members are in the country, Elon is in prison, Trump is dead, X is controlled by the DNC, I'm dead or in a gulag, your family is being rounded up, about to be murdered.
We were that close.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 3d

Oh and under no circumstances attempt to rescue the captured civilians in the mind flayer colony on the your way there. That's none of your business, too much of a risk for a completely avoidable fight. Zevlor can take it for the team. Zevlor would understand.

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 3d

What's extra funny about this is that thanks to post-high school and college diaspora and twenty five years of Online I have personal friends on the ground in just about every major metro area in the country. We can ask if somewhere burned down!

Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 3d

The regime can produce zero footage of anything wrong. It simply lies because it is insecure and weak and hateful, and lives in fear of being exposed. So it sends armed brutes to project power. It also never faces real accountability. We must never back down. The fight is never over. They will fall.

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 5d

he is paying for his sins

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