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Bentley
@getbentley.bsky.social
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Average Geek.
Hobbies: Fixing Computers, Reading, Gaming (High and Low Tech).

Currently working Food Retail
(Don't speak for my employer, they have a whole PR Department.)

He/Him
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This is an incredibly important step, and delaying the necessary paperwork is deeply negligent.

I got shipped a recalled product once (after the immediate watch period). It had a newer Expiration and a different Lot Code, so it slipped through. The register stop is the only reason we caught it.
A cropped excerpt from the article. "The retailer also said it has a 'sales restriction' in place on ByHeart products, which electronically stops the products' barcode from being scanned and sold to a customer when they check out."
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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We were warned about people like him:

(Can't read watermark for original artist, sorry.)
A drawing of a fictional Instagram post from the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Azula has shared two selfies of herself swimming. Mai comments that Zuko, her brother, is drowning in the background of each photo. Azula replies that, "This ain't about him."
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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It's election day! Make sure you vote, even if there's only smaller (state, county, and/or municipal) matters on your ballot. Democracy needs your participation to keep going.
A voter sticker declares, "I'm a Georgia Voter! I secured my vote!" In black text over and around and peach drawing.
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Without downloading anything, where are you at mentally right now?
A Therapist and Client are sitting in a traditional therapy setting. Therapist with notebook asks, "What happened the last time you used a public toilet?" Client, demonstrating by pouring gasoline into the lot fire in their groin area, replies, "I set my crotch on fire.' Therapist pulling out phone to record, "Hang on. I've totally gotta get a video of this." Comic randomly generated by: The Oatmeal // Horrible Therapist Comic Generator
October 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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11
A screenshot of the quoted quiz showing 11 questions answered correctly.
September 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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...and the final product note:
🤣🤣🤣
Note: This candle is about the fall of the Western Roman Empire. If you are looking for a candle about the fall of the Byzantine empire, you are going to have to make it yourself. (It probably won't be as popular as our candle, but it will outlast it by about a thousand years.)
August 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Me: Costco run took longer than expected, I'll buy dinner tonight.

Fortune Cookie from Dinner:
*Judgement more intense than midnight under a new moon*
The paper fortune from a Panda Express fortune cookie sits on a generic tabletop. The fortune reads: "Save More, Spend Less."
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I love this shot. It was a STEEP descent (although helpfully rough paved).
Lovely green trees in a dense forest. A few fallen logs are littered about the forest floor. Dappled golden light from the nearing sunset splashes across everything through the canopy with glimpses of clouds in a blue sky
August 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Timeline Cleanse from my hike tonight:
August 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Heads up for everyone who has Spotify: you can block artists via their page. It's under more options menu (the dots).
The more options menu for Azealia Banks Spotify artist page. The third option, "Don't play this artist," is underlined in red highlighter.
July 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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A moment of calm after her passing.
July 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Unfortunately Relevant:
The Trolley Problem as a Meme. The text for the lever holder reads: Everyday your job is to pull the lever and prevent the trolley from causing injury and death. You barely make enough money to pay rent. Someone needs to do it, but they will probably not be able to find someone to replace you very easily, at what they're paying, if you decide to quit.
June 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Day off, but still feeling stressed, went to the park for woodland walk therapy.

Nothing has changed, but it all feels less terrible and heavy.

Don't know who else needs to hear this, but go visit a park.

(Not pictured: massive firefly rave happening all over)
A heavily wooded area with many varieties of trees, most are large and old. Dappled sunset shines through the canopy onto the forest floor covered with old leaves and fallen branches.
June 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Who's your favorite pokemon? Wrong answers only.
A Wonkidoodle, a knock-off version of an Oompa-Loompa, stands behind a table strewn with chemical equipment and looking, not just sad behind a sarcastic smile, but deeply demoralized, as if wounded to the very soul by her present circumstances and knowing the only way out is to endure. Smoke billows behind, an ode to the dumpster-fire of her circumstances. (Willy's Chocolate Experience. I wish the perfomers well, but for the organizer to stub his toes every time someone sees this image.)
May 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Grand Canyon Sunset Sky is beautiful, also says Support Trans Rights.
An early sunset at the Grand Canyon. The blue sky fades to pastel stripes of pink and blue on indistinct clouds. The striated red rocks of the canyons below showcase the unique scale of the geology. Trees dot the foreground.
March 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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This mead hall is VERY on brand with decor and presentation. None of us were daring enough to get the longship flight though.
(Drinking Horn Meadery in Flagstaff AZ)
A thick wooden carrier platter with 6 shot glasses of various colored liquids sits on a wooden table next to a small wine glass filled with ice water. There is a drinking horn symbol printed on the glasses and platter befitting the name of Drinking Horn Mead Hall. Small Nordic symbol magnets indicate the mead flavors.
March 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Birb!
A brilliantly colored duck (malard?) swims in calm, shallow, and clear waters. The streambed is greenish, but red above the low water mark. A heavily weathered gray rock sits mid-stream. The bank above is red, heavily weathered, rock, and has another gray rock with some vegetation. Slide Rock State Park, Arizona.
March 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The Shade. So well done.

(TLDR: Pasteurize your damn milk! With historical AND FAFO evidence.)
'...Perhaps if I were to rephrase this process and talk about a "sacred, ancient French ritual that uses the heat of the hallowed flame to warm ethereal resistance molecules, coaxing them from a deep slumber to create vitality that balances evil humors" Paltrow and RFK Jr. and the rest would be all in!'
March 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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In-flight Reading:
Partial Screenshot from Archive of Our Own (AO3): Chapter 3: A Goran, A Mando'ad, and Two Jedi Walk Into A Clusterfuck
March 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Seen several years ago in Charleston:
A metal sign, in a historic iron style, hangs above the street sticking out from the arched entryway of an old brick building. It reads "Savage Law Firm." A second placard hangs below it, "Francis J. Cornely, attorney at law." There are some lovely trees and a bright, but cloud filled sky in the background. There is a glimpse of a more modern building that is attempting to blend into the historic style of the area in the corner behind the trees.
March 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Like @theoatmeal.bsky.social depicted about tree pollen, but with yellow flower jizz on a blue shirt.
A cartoon from The Oatmeal of a man sneezing very wetly and violently, complete with watery eyes, in front of two trees blooming. The first tree, upon witnessing the sneeze, speaks to its companion, "Look, Cindy! Our lovemaking has moved that man to tears." Cindy, the second tree, replies, "Let us never stop!"
February 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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if you see this, post a photo from your device with no explanation
A Push-To-Exit Safety Button on the inside of an industrial chiller door. It has a shape that asks, "What if Georgia O'Keefe, but functional shades of Goatse?"
February 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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A suggestion from @ASmallFiction and @theoatmeal.bsky.social
A comic drawn by The Oatmeal based on a tweet by A Small Fiction. A rabbit sits by The Oracle and admits they have a hard time taking compliments. Beautiful gemlike butterflies land on The Oracle's hand and then its cloak as it replies, "Then don't take them. Borrow them. Tuck them away, for the person who needs one." The last panel has The Oracle releasing its beautiful butterflies above a cliff, casting them upward, now glowing, to light the darkness.
January 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Not sure what vibe this is, but....yeah.
A Christmas Light display shaped like a Praying Mantis Santa, complete with hat and sack of toys and sweets stands in a bed of greenery in front of a stone wall. It is unsettling on a level difficult to convey. There are more lights wrapped around the handrail of some stairs in the foreground. Their eerie white color combines with the evergreen wrap to lend a haunting element to this overall disturbing scene. Shattered dead leaves litter the ground, like the souls of naughty children reaped this night.
December 21, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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Not pictured: several smaller shreds that needed to be filtered from each pour via sediment filter from an older wine aerator set, and which were immediately discarded.
A wine cork with a large central column missing and a spiral shred of cork that would fit loosely within it. There are several tears and an indentation around the hole in the cork, implying the violence needed to rip it from the bottle. The cork has the trademark scrollwork pattern of vines sprouting from and around the letter A logo of Apothic Wine. The name Apothic Inferno is partially blurred by the camera lens, but is still legible. There is a small indentation near the bottom of the cork, as if, even in defeat, it wished to defy the completion of its purpose with a final, pyrrhic, struggle.
December 10, 2024 at 4:26 AM