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@rickdeux.bsky.social

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Ich komme aus Kalifornien und wohne in Berlin. Endlich verstehe ich ein bisschen mehr als nur Bahnhof. French-to-English translator. Editor. Music, dogs, art, baseball, books, weights, what-have-you. He/him. Be excellent to each other. ✌️

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 2m

This could be a lyric from, like, a really heavy doom metal band.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 11h

just had the immense pleasure of learning that the yiddish word for “quotation marks” literally means LITTLE GOOSE FEET (gendznfislekh, גענדנפֿיסלעך)

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 12h

I'm in Berlin, and we just had a neighborhood get evacuated overnight because they found a bomb in the Spree. Happens a couple times a year when digging for construction, but "in the river" was new to me.

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 16h

I will beat down the doors of the movie theater for this.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger

Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

The legendary cat meme that started an era

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 19h

a close up of a pink llama with a pink mane on a pink background .

ALT: a close up of a pink llama with a pink mane on a pink background .

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 19h

If I ever miss a question with a 99% get rate on a day I actually remember to play, i.e., didn't forfeit, then I will post here so you can dunk on me. I'll have earned it, and I'll take it in stride.

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 20h

I appreciate when I visit the Internet and people make thoughtful points. Thanks for that.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 1d

how much coffee lethal for human

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

L'chaim!

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

This shit, and the government's ongoing failure to fix it once and for all, is a huge part of the reason I haven't moved back to the USA.

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't that just be "3825"? ;)

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

I submit a vote for rugby. There are a couple international tournaments in the dark months.

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. I must be out of it. That really is the same guy I (a non-statistician and non-political professional) used to respect for considered, impressively accurate analyses and forecasts of elections? He just sounds like some jackwagon there.

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

(That jazz clubs are attracting young audiences. Good jazz is great. I haven't read the whole thing yet, though, so apologies if the writer drops a bombshell that I seem to have endorsed by sharing.)

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

Groovy.

‘Young audiences are less scared of it’: why London jazz clubs are expanding and thriving against the odds

As the Jazz Cafe and Ronnie Scott’s expand, and Blue Note eyes its arrival, proprietors say there’s an energy in the scene – but financial pressures remain

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 1d

Been watching from Germany, and you rule. I hope you keep kicking ass.

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know you, but a mutual reposted this, and you sound like someone I'd WANT to see on a game show.

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 2d

We have a challenger for "We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin."

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

What we're watching: A new take on
"Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 2d

I coulda told 'em that any day of my whole time in the (otherwise very good, in my hometown) public school system.

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, sure, I'd have volunteered to get up at 4:30 AM to hit the track. In December. After probably having not gotten to sleep until after 1.

I would have had a damn breakdown.

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Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 2d

High school already started at 7:25 for me. 6:30 when I was taking advanced-placement physics. (I dropped that class.)

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 2d

Spotted this in the New York Times ('s sports partner/subsidiary[?] site) and immediately recalled this thread. An example in the wild:

A headline from the NYT-affiliated sports site The Athletic:

"In a MLB offseason with some outside-the-box hires, there's risk in getting too cute"

Accompanied by a photo of Craig Stammen, the new San Diego Padres manager, wearing a Padres T-shirt and baseball hat.

Rick | ירחמיאל @rickdeux.bsky.social · 3d

Neat!

How about laundry?

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Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 3d

Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays #OTD in 1895 when he noticed that emanations from a Crookes tube caused a platino-barium screen to fluoresce. The rays exposed photographic plates but were blocked by bone and metal.

This early plate shows his wife's hand. 🧪 ⚛️

Image: Wellcome Trust

One of the first X-ray photographs, an exposure of the left hand of Rontgen's wife. You can see her four finger, the dark mass of a ring on her ring finger, and the faint shadow of the soft tissue.

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