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Michael Blumenthal
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What happens when a very logical approach to problem solving meets poor impulse control

Guitars, synthesisers, Doctor Who, role playing games, model making, taijiquan, history.

Software developer by trade.

Pseudoparent to two cats.
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“It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!”
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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A study published by The British Medical Journal has shown that if there is a new Doctor Who episode broadcast during the period from Christmas to New Year’s Day, the UK sees a lower mortality rate the following year.
December 29, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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good morning bluesky friends ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Kitty snoring is the Best Thing.
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Your seasonal reminder that Quality Street chocolates are a cash-in on a hit play by J M Barrie, and used to feature the characters on the box. So a bit like people in 2100 buying 2.22 A Ghost Story chocolates every Christmas with Lily Allen on the tin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
Quality Street (play) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Rereading the Watch books from Discworld and remembering why they should be even more widely read…
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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i will never tire of this meme
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Don't kill the part of you that's cringe, kill the part of you that cringes
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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"Say 'the Son is not of the same substance as the Father' one more time. I dare you. I double dare you."
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page

Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026?

The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities

Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...
Jobs and volunteering - Mary Rose
Jobs, academic placements and volunteering opportunities at the Mary Rose Trust.
maryrose.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Ok, ok, ONE more

The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!

#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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😆
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
The Space Exploration Logo Archive
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. There is also a book, but it looks like it was only
kottke.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A special one for Doctor Who Day: a great long post on the novelisation of one of the best stories ever, Genesis of the Daleks: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #doctorwho
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks, by Terrance Dicks
0tralala.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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From the Terrance Dicks Archive. I very nearly cried when I saw this.

Never cruel or cowardly…never gives in and never gives up….

#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Happy #DoctorWhoDay the question is always..
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM