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Tim L
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I help take people to space and sometimes do things with swords.
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
If I restrict this only to perfect albums that came out *and I listened to* that year:
Album cover for Bone Thugs N Harmony’s E. 1999 Eternal
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Am pleased to report that The Mars Volta are still as weird and rocking as always
Red-and-blue lit photo of a band on a stage
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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From the same article…this is somehow worse than a ChatGPT summary.
“a reminder that the United States does not welcome single sovereign rule post-1776” is somehow a phrase that somebody decided had to be in this article
Why are they protesting? The name of the movement is derived from some protesters' stated belief that Trump is behaving like a monarch - and a reminder that the United States does not welcome single sovereign rule post-1776. On its website, "No Kings" has compared Trump's military parade on June 14 to an "attempt at a coronation.
October 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Somebody needs to check with the editor at the WaPo or Reuters - that is CLEARLY a Yip Yip Martian costume
Photo of a person wearing a blue fuzzy costume with big ping pong balls for eyes and yellow antennae, which is obviously the Yip Yip Martian from Sesame Street. They are holding a sign and are in front of the Washington Monument, with other people including one in a banana costume behind them. The photo caption erroneously reads “A demonstrator wearing a Cookie Monster costume holds a placard depicting Trump and members of his administration. (Leah Millis/Reuters)”
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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*Dire Straits intensifies*
Box of Annie’s Organic Shells & White Cheddar
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Ok that’s it I’ve found the most cursed hotel room art
Cheaply printed poster in a black frame, on a beige wall next to a window. The poster has words in dark red, red, and yellow with various words like (and this is a direct paste from my phone’s recognition) “t antastid ifentrins astic terrific ismag cessIve expressi eved TOneglect beexplorativ verywhere lived everything”
September 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I recently discovered Bill Duke’s amazing DEEP COVER…it’s perfect
Movie poster for DEEP COVER, with a redly-lit Larry Fishburne in a handsome short cropped beard, and a side-lit Jeff Goldblum pointing a gun
September 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Better Off Dead
Grosse Pointe Blank
Being John Malkovich
John Cusack in Better Off Dead: young, cool, throwing the horns, in a sleeveless tshirt, mouth and ears full of q-tips John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank: haunted, beat up, staring at Minnie Driver like she’s the only thing that can keep him sane John Cusack in Being John Malkovich: scruffy, ponytailed, tired
September 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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I helped to host a swordfighting tournament+symposium! It was our 10th year, and we added sumo and luchadores to our usual HEMA topics…plus flaming tetherball and a tattoo artist! (I got this sweet tattoo of a jousting bunny on a monk snail guy)
Tattoo of a bunny jouster riding a snail with a monk’s face
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Lots of things are pretty fucked right now, but I did get this sweet tattoo at the swordfighting tournament I help run this weekend.
Photo of my arm with 2 tattoos. An older tattoo of the Fram, a sailing ship, is below my elbow. A fresh tattoo of a bunny holding a shield and spear, sitting on a nautilus shell with a bearded monk’s face, is above my elbow.
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Photo of a man in a white suit and a Panama hat, seen from behind, looking up at a steamboat on the side of a mountain. Overlaid in white text is the movie title, “Fitzcarraldo.”
August 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Editor: you finish that okapi illustration for our fruit roll-up knock-off kids' snack?
Artist: sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what
Alt text: photo of a card with an illustration of an okapi against a red background. The okapi is facing away from the viewer, presenting its substantial white-and-black striped rump, and looking back while sticking out its long blue tongue.
August 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
Photo of a white guy with reddish hair and beard, wearing a checked shirt and a skeptical/confused expression, in front of a giant blue statue of a cock (aka rooster).
August 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I see the Criterion Collection continues to hyper-focus on Movies Tim Will Always Watch. Grosse Pointe Blank! Ghost Dog! Singles! Pump Up the Volume! Honestly the only thing missing to make this perfect is Empire Records.
August 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The perfect album that came out when I was 16? I mean, come on.
July 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Also I built a thing.
I don’t buy myself Lego kits very often, but this one needed to be mine.
Photo of a Lego Space Shuttle atop the back of a Lego 747 Photo of a Lego Space Shuttle atop the back of a Lego 747
June 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Listen to @tmbg.bsky.social and Danny Weinkauf’s shirt in particular
Photo from today’s TMBG concert in Seattle. The bassist, Danny Weinkauf, a white guy with dark hair, is smiling while wearing a black shirt reading “gender affirming healthcare saves lives”
June 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Roger Ebert once expressed his appreciation of the Mohawk hairdos that my wife and I had at a party in Boulder
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I think Mom would approve of her yahrzeit candle. Not of the Malört, but that’s for me.
Photo of a bottle of Jeppson’s Malört (clear bottle with a yellow label and red text, filled with a brownish yellow liquid as if someone had left cigarettes in a glass of water for 20 years) next to a short burning candle in a glass jar. The candle has a black label with white text reading “Don’t Be A Nazi. Smells like punching a racist & lavender sandalwood”
June 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Decided to stay up late and finally watch my Blu-Ray of Barry Lyndon. I think this baby in a fabulous hat sums up how stunning it was.
Image from the film, a baby with blue eyes and a fabulously fripperous white hat, held by his mother who is equally well be-hatted
June 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The smoshed potatoes have been crispied. Then topped with an egg, and the bacon that had been cooked in this sheet pan just prior to the potatoes. Amazing.
Golden gold and brown smoshed potatoes on a deliciously shiny sheet pan Smoshed potatoes with bacon and a runny-ish egg on a plate with a jack o lantern motif
May 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I am doing it @darthbluesky.bsky.social I have smoshed the potatoes and now they are going back in to get crispy
Brown and creamy smol potatoes that have been smoshed on a baking pan that is a nice brown color
May 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Re-reading George Dyson’s Project Orion, and finding much still relevant:
York urges us to remember the forgotten part of Eisenhower's famous farewell address. "Everyone remembers half of it, the half that says beware of the military-industrial complex. But they only remember a quarter of it. What he actually said was that we need a military-indus-trial complex, but precisely because we need it, beware of it. The other half: we need a scientific-technological elite. But precisely because we need a scientific-technological elite, beware of it. That's the whole thing. It's a matrix of four."
May 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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If you see this, post a sword! 🗡️
A blurry white dude with red hair and beard (me) making a Very Serious Face while cutting a rolled up tatami mat with a sharp cutlass. The mat is vertical on a wooden post, on a concrete patio with some green rhododendrons behind it.
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Well I’d call this a #recordstoreday win
Record sleeve with an upside-down Mel Brooks in a suit, amidst a black and white spiral, surrounded by yellow words on a red background reading “HIGH ANXIETY MEL BROOKS” Record sleeve with movie posters on it from SILENT MOVIE, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, BLAZING SADDLES, THE PRODUCERS, and THE TWELVE CHAIRS
April 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM