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Michael Blumenthal
@mikeyb137.bsky.social
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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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fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social
“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!”
CLIFF AT 85 THERE'S NO STOPPING HIM
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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qi.com
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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squeamysalami.likes.earth
good morning bluesky friends ❤️
A depiction of sisyphus rolling the boulder up hill "Keeping my fucking glasses clean"
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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sesmith.lol
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
mikeyb137.bsky.social
Kitty snoring is the Best Thing.
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
Get a load of this. 😆
A post from ViperThreat: Worked as an on-call computer tech for about a year, and I've seen some weird shit. Plenty of Hoarders, elderly men with interesting sexual fantasies, Multimillonaire Lawyers with closets full of gay porn, etc. The weirdest one was this cool old dude who had retired and lived in a double-wide trailer in a fairly nice retirement trailer park. His house had one of those trains that traveled along the walls from room to room, occasionally poking through walls and such. The primary purpose of this train was to carry his bird (a blue macaw IIRC) around the house. From his explanation, the bird had some birth defects and had difficulty flying, so they built the train for the bird to cruise around the house on. This may not sound all that weird to you, but let me set the stage for you: You're a college student removing a stupid browser hijack from some old guy's computer. You're nearly done with the job when you hear a clacking sound and look up to see a toy train crossing your vision. Aboard the train is a decently sized bird that makes eye contact with you and says "choo choo motherfucker" before disappearing into the next room. One of the most surreal moments of my life.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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neglectedbooks.com
The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE THE Author regrets that in arranging the materials for this book the morals were unaccountably mislaid.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
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
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December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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erik-squarebear.bsky.social
Rereading the Watch books from Discworld and remembering why they should be even more widely read…
“Down there,” he said, “are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no."
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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globalmuseum.bsky.social
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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aelkus.bsky.social
i will never tire of this meme
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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alkennedy.bsky.social
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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adcpainting.bsky.social
"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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rachaelstott.bsky.social
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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rosemarymosco.com
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
A six-panel comic. In the first panel, a yellow warbler says "Hey so I'm going to go out on a limb here." In panels two through five, the warbler hops along a long branch against a blue sky with clouds. In panel 6, it stops at the end of the branch and sings.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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justkeepskeeting.pro
this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
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.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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garybrannan.bsky.social
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
(THE TARDIS NOISE STARTS. A STEP. THEY MOVE BACK THE TARDIS DEMATERIALISES) SPANDRELI: Look! (THE GOLDEN COLUMN IS ALSO VANISHING) A Type 42... The Master! ENGIN: Can't you stop - SPANDRELL : Too late. They've gone... ENGIN: heading? Where do you think they're SPANDRELL : Co-ordinator. And, you know, the iniverse, And, you know, feeling it isn't big enough for the two of them・・・ BACK: TUPTON: Grateful thanks are due to the High Council of Time Lords, Co-ordinator Engin, Keeper of the Records, and the Curator of the Capitol Museum, Gallifrey, for their help and advice. Closing titLes： A BIDS:
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
😆
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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kottke.org
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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0tralala.bsky.social
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
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November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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garybrannan.bsky.social
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
'Much has changed about the Doctor over the years, but much has remained the same. .. He is still impulsive, idealistic, -ready to risk his life for a worthy cause.He still hates tyranny and oppression, and anything that is anti-life. gHe never gives in and he never gives up, however overwhelming A the odds against him. *—The Doctor believes in good, and fights evil. Though often A caught up in violent situations, he is a man of peace. He is A never cruel or cowaraly. 4— In fact, to put it simply, the Doctor is a hero. ' That, at least, hasn't changed Band it never will.
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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mattcunnington.bsky.social
Happy #DoctorWhoDay the question is always..
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November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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oldsixie.bsky.social
Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM