Credentials, Dan
@dancredentials.bsky.social
Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large.
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
You just blew the case wide open
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
You just blew the case wide open
Wanna know what else? The ocean they evolved to live in is now the Himalayan plateau.
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Wanna know what else? The ocean they evolved to live in is now the Himalayan plateau.
The Italian Regions are such a rich source of flatly insane history
February 10, 2026 at 12:07 AM
The Italian Regions are such a rich source of flatly insane history
There's a half-way insightful but annoying essay to be written comparing the 2024 Christmas day game halftime show Cowboy Carter stuff with this super bowl's America, Americá: The Musical and how they are in different conversations with the idea of assimilation into White Culture
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM
There's a half-way insightful but annoying essay to be written comparing the 2024 Christmas day game halftime show Cowboy Carter stuff with this super bowl's America, Americá: The Musical and how they are in different conversations with the idea of assimilation into White Culture
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some wikipedia articles are gay heist movies waiting to be made en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggli...
Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Roman Empire - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
some wikipedia articles are gay heist movies waiting to be made en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggli...
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
That's how you end up with a song called "Making Flippy Floppy"
February 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
That's how you end up with a song called "Making Flippy Floppy"
The fundamental laziness is really foregrounded in this interpretation because the user must also be unwilling to LEARN how to do whatever it is they're expected to be doing. Explains AI's lopsided popularity among owners and managers who have always been bedeviled by their own sense of inadequacy.
February 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
The fundamental laziness is really foregrounded in this interpretation because the user must also be unwilling to LEARN how to do whatever it is they're expected to be doing. Explains AI's lopsided popularity among owners and managers who have always been bedeviled by their own sense of inadequacy.
I had not considered this angle before, what if the true use case of generative AI is soothing "impostor syndrome" style insecurity? You already know you don't know what you're doing, just think how enticing it would be to believe you can paper that over.
There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I had not considered this angle before, what if the true use case of generative AI is soothing "impostor syndrome" style insecurity? You already know you don't know what you're doing, just think how enticing it would be to believe you can paper that over.
Something all the AI boosters have in common is that they fucking hate the process of creating something. Like this woman clearly does not enjoy or respect writing as an act!
February 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Something all the AI boosters have in common is that they fucking hate the process of creating something. Like this woman clearly does not enjoy or respect writing as an act!
Back when I bothered to look into it, libertarians considered this their world-beating argument, that the only real rights are property rights. “Human rights” supposedly derive from the fact that humans are all de facto someone’s property, free persons simply being those humans who are self-owning
February 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Back when I bothered to look into it, libertarians considered this their world-beating argument, that the only real rights are property rights. “Human rights” supposedly derive from the fact that humans are all de facto someone’s property, free persons simply being those humans who are self-owning
We’re posting bowls? The Sassanians commissioned some excellent ones
February 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
We’re posting bowls? The Sassanians commissioned some excellent ones
Let’s start some Food Discourse about how much I beasted on Publix with these savings. Your burrito taxi could never
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Let’s start some Food Discourse about how much I beasted on Publix with these savings. Your burrito taxi could never
Yeah! We’ve had dekopons for months and that’s been holding me over but I was beginning to despair for my tangelos
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Yeah! We’ve had dekopons for months and that’s been holding me over but I was beginning to despair for my tangelos
ITS FINALLY TANGELO SEASON AND THE DEALS ARE HOT
February 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
ITS FINALLY TANGELO SEASON AND THE DEALS ARE HOT
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Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!
February 8, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!
This is what work is like.
February 8, 2026 at 6:28 AM
This is what work is like.
Against all odds, the American radio listener was down to clown between 1991-1998
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Against all odds, the American radio listener was down to clown between 1991-1998
I'm not against them at all, just never hit. My wife on the other hand was somehow strongly polarized against them and considers them the worst band of the 90s lol
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I'm not against them at all, just never hit. My wife on the other hand was somehow strongly polarized against them and considers them the worst band of the 90s lol
Respect for writing the one Cake song I fuck with, "The Distance"
R.I.P. Cake founding guitarist Greg Brown
Cake Founding Guitarist Greg Brown Has Died
Greg Brown, the founding guitarist for Cake, has died. The band’s social media account announced the news today, saying he passed “after a brief illness.” “It is with heavy hearts that we share the ne...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Respect for writing the one Cake song I fuck with, "The Distance"
Peanuts-ass kid
February 8, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Peanuts-ass kid
They sold out
February 8, 2026 at 3:18 AM
They sold out
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Milan Winter Olympics kicked off on a stage shaped like a giant centrifugal pump, the primary pump type used for pressurizing water systems today. The centrifugal pump was invented by Italian engineer Francesco di Giorgio Martini in 1475.
February 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Milan Winter Olympics kicked off on a stage shaped like a giant centrifugal pump, the primary pump type used for pressurizing water systems today. The centrifugal pump was invented by Italian engineer Francesco di Giorgio Martini in 1475.
There’s a bunch of documentary materials on those Shout dvd sets. This one isn’t “muckraking” necessarily, but you get Joel’s side of his exit from the show and some of his reasons why
youtu.be/H7ptSb9qPzg?...
youtu.be/H7ptSb9qPzg?...
Mike, by Joel | MST3K VOL XXXVIII DVD Extra
YouTube video by MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
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February 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
There’s a bunch of documentary materials on those Shout dvd sets. This one isn’t “muckraking” necessarily, but you get Joel’s side of his exit from the show and some of his reasons why
youtu.be/H7ptSb9qPzg?...
youtu.be/H7ptSb9qPzg?...