@gcoffin.bsky.social
Pretty okay kitchen gardener, bookish, records management type. Fond of amphibians. 40s, Ontario. He/Him
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It finally happened, I finally broke under pressure
I
I stopped myself from using em dashes in a situation, out of fear someone may assume I used genAI instead of writing something myself
I hate this
I love em dashes, always used them, I have the ASCII number memorized
But I admit defeat
I
I stopped myself from using em dashes in a situation, out of fear someone may assume I used genAI instead of writing something myself
I hate this
I love em dashes, always used them, I have the ASCII number memorized
But I admit defeat
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 AM
It finally happened, I finally broke under pressure
I
I stopped myself from using em dashes in a situation, out of fear someone may assume I used genAI instead of writing something myself
I hate this
I love em dashes, always used them, I have the ASCII number memorized
But I admit defeat
I
I stopped myself from using em dashes in a situation, out of fear someone may assume I used genAI instead of writing something myself
I hate this
I love em dashes, always used them, I have the ASCII number memorized
But I admit defeat
Cool thing about keeping reptiles and amphibians is sometimes you wind up placing orders for live insects and squeezy package things of a roach and fruit puree for delivery to your house.
January 18, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Cool thing about keeping reptiles and amphibians is sometimes you wind up placing orders for live insects and squeezy package things of a roach and fruit puree for delivery to your house.
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Pro tip; wear gloves if you're staining wood, cause other wise you will use a shitload of rubbing alcohol swabs to get that off your fingers and then your wife will see them in the wastebasket and ask if you are okay in frightened tones.
Not that i'm speaking from experience. Just heard tell.
Not that i'm speaking from experience. Just heard tell.
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Pro tip; wear gloves if you're staining wood, cause other wise you will use a shitload of rubbing alcohol swabs to get that off your fingers and then your wife will see them in the wastebasket and ask if you are okay in frightened tones.
Not that i'm speaking from experience. Just heard tell.
Not that i'm speaking from experience. Just heard tell.
if i learn that the little girl in the pink hat with bear ears who spent our entire bus ride staring with rapt interest at the cover of the book i was reading and singing that one song from kpop demon hunters had anything less than a great day i will be really annoyed.
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
if i learn that the little girl in the pink hat with bear ears who spent our entire bus ride staring with rapt interest at the cover of the book i was reading and singing that one song from kpop demon hunters had anything less than a great day i will be really annoyed.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Barren-Ground Caribou
Arctic Hare
Ringed Seal
Snowshoe Hare
Blanding's Turtle
Barren-Ground Caribou
Arctic Hare
Ringed Seal
Snowshoe Hare
Blanding's Turtle
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Spotted salamander
Eastern newt
Red-backed salamander
Jefferson salamander
Two-lined salamander
Spotted salamander
Eastern newt
Red-backed salamander
Jefferson salamander
Two-lined salamander
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Gray wolf
Black bear
Albino deer
Canadian lynx
Beaver
Gray wolf
Black bear
Albino deer
Canadian lynx
Beaver
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Barren-Ground Caribou
Arctic Hare
Ringed Seal
Snowshoe Hare
Blanding's Turtle
Barren-Ground Caribou
Arctic Hare
Ringed Seal
Snowshoe Hare
Blanding's Turtle
I think i can count on one hand the number of times i have made a non weird pastry dough that has the correct hydration.
Weird crusts are fine for some reason. If it has like cheese or poppy seeds or a blend of flours and some olive oil we're golden, but normal pastry eludes me.
Weird crusts are fine for some reason. If it has like cheese or poppy seeds or a blend of flours and some olive oil we're golden, but normal pastry eludes me.
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I think i can count on one hand the number of times i have made a non weird pastry dough that has the correct hydration.
Weird crusts are fine for some reason. If it has like cheese or poppy seeds or a blend of flours and some olive oil we're golden, but normal pastry eludes me.
Weird crusts are fine for some reason. If it has like cheese or poppy seeds or a blend of flours and some olive oil we're golden, but normal pastry eludes me.
Hit me today that i could roll up a vampire the masquerade character who ocassionally loses his grip on modern english and starts speaking with like a Shakespeare original pronunciation accent. Brilliant idea.
On an unrelated note nobody will play vampire the masquerade with me.
On an unrelated note nobody will play vampire the masquerade with me.
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hit me today that i could roll up a vampire the masquerade character who ocassionally loses his grip on modern english and starts speaking with like a Shakespeare original pronunciation accent. Brilliant idea.
On an unrelated note nobody will play vampire the masquerade with me.
On an unrelated note nobody will play vampire the masquerade with me.
Went looking for foxfire book three at a used bookstore. Found foxfire 12. So i was in the right section, but that's still nine too many foxfires.
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Went looking for foxfire book three at a used bookstore. Found foxfire 12. So i was in the right section, but that's still nine too many foxfires.
It's snowing. the dog is very perplexed.
Seems likely that it won't accumulate to shovelable depth until later than shovelling is practical.
Seems likely that it won't accumulate to shovelable depth until later than shovelling is practical.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It's snowing. the dog is very perplexed.
Seems likely that it won't accumulate to shovelable depth until later than shovelling is practical.
Seems likely that it won't accumulate to shovelable depth until later than shovelling is practical.
I say to myself "i have no obligations or responsibilities for the next bit, i think i'll play my dulcimer". Exact moment i get my tuner app open somebody rolls down the street with their stereo turned up way beyond a sensible level. So, interesting to note, the app can pick that up.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I say to myself "i have no obligations or responsibilities for the next bit, i think i'll play my dulcimer". Exact moment i get my tuner app open somebody rolls down the street with their stereo turned up way beyond a sensible level. So, interesting to note, the app can pick that up.
My bullfrog has been in the aquatic side of his tank since yesterday. I would really like it if he moved, i need to clean there. I could remove him, but i don't really feel like having the argument.
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My bullfrog has been in the aquatic side of his tank since yesterday. I would really like it if he moved, i need to clean there. I could remove him, but i don't really feel like having the argument.
i classified it "general"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
i classified it "general"
One of my frogs is eyeing me from across the room. I assume he has realized i, too, am meat.
Fun fact; i was attempting to play scotland the brave on a dulcimer yesterday and he kept croaking loudly. I don't know if that was objection or cooperation.
Fun fact; i was attempting to play scotland the brave on a dulcimer yesterday and he kept croaking loudly. I don't know if that was objection or cooperation.
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
One of my frogs is eyeing me from across the room. I assume he has realized i, too, am meat.
Fun fact; i was attempting to play scotland the brave on a dulcimer yesterday and he kept croaking loudly. I don't know if that was objection or cooperation.
Fun fact; i was attempting to play scotland the brave on a dulcimer yesterday and he kept croaking loudly. I don't know if that was objection or cooperation.
Okay, so. Sometimes you get file folders with foldy metal prongs. The idea, you see, is that you hole punch the paper and then put the prongs through the hole(s) . I reccomend doing that. Bit of professional advice for you, there.
August 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Okay, so. Sometimes you get file folders with foldy metal prongs. The idea, you see, is that you hole punch the paper and then put the prongs through the hole(s) . I reccomend doing that. Bit of professional advice for you, there.
The business i got Manic (pictured below for reference) from is currently selling banded bullfrogs, aka the other bullfrog i was watching for at the reptile expo the day i got Manic. If i was planning on getting more frogs right now it would be like they saw me coming
August 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The business i got Manic (pictured below for reference) from is currently selling banded bullfrogs, aka the other bullfrog i was watching for at the reptile expo the day i got Manic. If i was planning on getting more frogs right now it would be like they saw me coming
This is Hector. Hector is a cranwell's horned frog. Hector is like owning a pet rock with complex emotional needs. Hector is an unmitigated delight. He makes an undignified sound lie a duck playing the kazoo badly
August 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is Hector. Hector is a cranwell's horned frog. Hector is like owning a pet rock with complex emotional needs. Hector is an unmitigated delight. He makes an undignified sound lie a duck playing the kazoo badly
I feel like posting frog today
August 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I feel like posting frog today
Post a picture of when your pet was little
June 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Post a picture of when your pet was little
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from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB
June 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB
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now this is the kinda shit im talkin about. saguaro cactus. hell yeah. these bad boys can sequester the carbon equivalent of 40 gallons of gas, not releasing carbon back into the atmosphere during decomposition but interacting with the soil to create the mineral calcium carbonate(just a fuckin rock)
May 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
now this is the kinda shit im talkin about. saguaro cactus. hell yeah. these bad boys can sequester the carbon equivalent of 40 gallons of gas, not releasing carbon back into the atmosphere during decomposition but interacting with the soil to create the mineral calcium carbonate(just a fuckin rock)
-tukey bacon rocks
- carnation milk is a very good dairy product to add to coffee
-red current jelly pairs well with white meats
- pancakes made with a blend of flours are really good. Try about 1/3 millet flour by volume.
-just right was the best cold cereal and should be revive
- carnation milk is a very good dairy product to add to coffee
-red current jelly pairs well with white meats
- pancakes made with a blend of flours are really good. Try about 1/3 millet flour by volume.
-just right was the best cold cereal and should be revive
Ok, controversial food takes but WITHOUT yucking other people’s yums.
Here goes:
- Best fruit: grapefruit
- IPAs are Very Good
- Seltzer >> water
- Subway is a good restaurant, and when you are on the road it becomes a great restaurant
Instead of saying my takes are trash, feel free to add yours
Here goes:
- Best fruit: grapefruit
- IPAs are Very Good
- Seltzer >> water
- Subway is a good restaurant, and when you are on the road it becomes a great restaurant
Instead of saying my takes are trash, feel free to add yours
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
-tukey bacon rocks
- carnation milk is a very good dairy product to add to coffee
-red current jelly pairs well with white meats
- pancakes made with a blend of flours are really good. Try about 1/3 millet flour by volume.
-just right was the best cold cereal and should be revive
- carnation milk is a very good dairy product to add to coffee
-red current jelly pairs well with white meats
- pancakes made with a blend of flours are really good. Try about 1/3 millet flour by volume.
-just right was the best cold cereal and should be revive
It hit me the other day that i haven't seen a porcupine in years. Used to see them all the time, but i don't walk in the same places that i did then.
January 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It hit me the other day that i haven't seen a porcupine in years. Used to see them all the time, but i don't walk in the same places that i did then.
Yknow what? Isopod photodump. Cause that's the kind of day i'm having
January 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yknow what? Isopod photodump. Cause that's the kind of day i'm having