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Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large. Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social

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Weed before cider, you meet the spider. Cider before weed, the centipede.

04.02.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 608 πŸ” 312 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

I had to sit through an entire My Morning Jacket concert film just to buy an eighth, these entitled young'uns have no idea

10.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Where the Amish get hooked up

10.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spielberg knows what people want to see

10.03.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me and my buddies in high school would listen to CDs of his old standup. I performed a selection from Without Feathers at a drama competition. And now (rightfully)…

10.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Grimly interesting from a military standpoint that the US Navy can’t just park some destroyers in the strait to pop unarmed minelayers because of anti-ship missiles. Get too close to the coast and we’ll be treated to the spectacle of watching a couple billion dollars become an artificial reef.

10.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This was EXCELLENT, a really wonderful & deeply thought through postapocalyptic story. A beautiful synthesis of anthropology, philosophy, history and psychology, as well as a deep examination of the midcentury American mind. well worth your time.

10.03.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

SPATS

10.03.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
John Lennon doing that stupid walk

John Lennon doing that stupid walk

Walking away from Omelas like

10.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 1904 πŸ” 272 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 11
A NO sign with "NEVER TRUST WOO WOOO" in the text, overlayed on top of a cluster of crystals

A NO sign with "NEVER TRUST WOO WOOO" in the text, overlayed on top of a cluster of crystals

New Sticker I need

25.02.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 196 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Lol I read that one in middle school and was like "Boy this sure seems stupid. But it's Star Wars, so the problem must be me"

09.03.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Ride Or Die For That Tampa Freak - All Thrawn Trilogy Badreads | Thrawnderdome

Or let a couple pals do it for you πŸ˜‰

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09.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Read five star reviews of Star Wars novels on goodreads

09.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Instead of the Bernie exit ramp we're just jackknifing off the freeway

09.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Do they know who they're meeting?"

NO! That's why they're meeting for a date! To get to know each other!

09.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

students hanging around after class to argue about the grandmother in A Good Man Is Hard To Find. keeps ya living.

09.03.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

08.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 4721 πŸ” 1405 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 72

I laid new flooring on a diet of Your Kickstarter Sucks and an audiobook about Midway

09.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is going to be such a great tidbit of cultural context in a Rick Perlstein book published in 2060

09.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But enough about Lieutenant Worf…

09.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A med journal once published an article by an MD describing his method for calculating the area beneath curve on a graph, seemingly no one in the process realizing it was just Newton’s integral calculus

08.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Children have to learn about Water Temple sooner or later

08.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Positive Thinking is directly downstream of the New Thought movement which also birthed Christian Science, and which was itself downstream from Anton Mesmer. It’s literally crank bullshit inspired by a charlatan but it has parasitically burrowed into a wide swath of American religion

08.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A latern jawed actor with a day’s stubble makes a β€œshush” gesture while presenting a hamburger sandwich. He is dressed in the costume of the Hamburgler.

A latern jawed actor with a day’s stubble makes a β€œshush” gesture while presenting a hamburger sandwich. He is dressed in the costume of the Hamburgler.

The Sexy Hamburgler fandom is dying. Reskeet if you remember Sexy Hamburgler

07.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The pose of rejecting β€œhippie shit” contributed much

07.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is like that episode of Doug where everyone starts wearing Doug’s outfit

07.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
dangerfield his arms wide

dangerfield his arms wide

boy I tell ya I don't get no respect. my wife joined the Red Guards. she said we need to denounce the Four Olds. I looked up and it was four pictures of me.

07.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Directions on the back label of ArmorAll Wash & Wax:

β€œUse on a cool car”


(It continues β€œpreferably in shade to avoid water spotting”)

Directions on the back label of ArmorAll Wash & Wax: β€œUse on a cool car” (It continues β€œpreferably in shade to avoid water spotting”)

FUCK, the car wash I just bought isn’t compatible with my modest hatchback

07.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Filip rocks, it’s makes for a real difference for an actual Arabist to dive into Islamic topics.

07.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to report from the 12:30 Taco Bell drive thru line that we are in β€œmockingbirds sing all night” season in Alabama

07.03.2026 06:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0