David Rheinstrom
@icarusfloats.bsky.social
English Language Arts video-maker at @KhanAcademy.org.
Children's book author, bean evangelist, wife guy, bon vivant, bon-bon vivant.
He/him
davidrheinstrom.com
Children's book author, bean evangelist, wife guy, bon vivant, bon-bon vivant.
He/him
davidrheinstrom.com
Who knew: he's glancing to the left at the artist doodling him from the side!
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Who knew: he's glancing to the left at the artist doodling him from the side!
This illustration from that same article feels indistinguishable from a prog rock album cover from 1974
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This illustration from that same article feels indistinguishable from a prog rock album cover from 1974
omg
What's the plushy of? Like, what form does it take?
In recompense, please accept this photo of Phryne flopping around with my sister's dog, Indy.
What's the plushy of? Like, what form does it take?
In recompense, please accept this photo of Phryne flopping around with my sister's dog, Indy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
omg
What's the plushy of? Like, what form does it take?
In recompense, please accept this photo of Phryne flopping around with my sister's dog, Indy.
What's the plushy of? Like, what form does it take?
In recompense, please accept this photo of Phryne flopping around with my sister's dog, Indy.
I bought a darning mushroom (a wooden hemisphere with a socketed handle), some tapestry needles, and a mini-skein of merino wool in a colorway called Whales' Road ("Oh, like the old english hwan-rad!" I said to the bewildered saleslady), AND I learned to use a YARN SWIFT and winder.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I bought a darning mushroom (a wooden hemisphere with a socketed handle), some tapestry needles, and a mini-skein of merino wool in a colorway called Whales' Road ("Oh, like the old english hwan-rad!" I said to the bewildered saleslady), AND I learned to use a YARN SWIFT and winder.
Some personal news: I have darned my first sock!
Is it beautiful? GOD no
Am I inordinately proud? Yes.
Is it beautiful? GOD no
Am I inordinately proud? Yes.
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Some personal news: I have darned my first sock!
Is it beautiful? GOD no
Am I inordinately proud? Yes.
Is it beautiful? GOD no
Am I inordinately proud? Yes.
Say, that reminds me
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Say, that reminds me
At the subway franchise they had at my university in St Louis, "veggie delight" came with a weird little soy patty? It wasn't quite tofu and it wasn't quite a veggie burger.
There's a hissing blank spot in my memory as to how it tasted.
There's a hissing blank spot in my memory as to how it tasted.
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
At the subway franchise they had at my university in St Louis, "veggie delight" came with a weird little soy patty? It wasn't quite tofu and it wasn't quite a veggie burger.
There's a hissing blank spot in my memory as to how it tasted.
There's a hissing blank spot in my memory as to how it tasted.
What is happening here
How did this rhyme in such a way
How did this rhyme in such a way
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
What is happening here
How did this rhyme in such a way
How did this rhyme in such a way
Why am I just learning now that Brad Lander's given name is BRADFORD
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Why am I just learning now that Brad Lander's given name is BRADFORD
Also lookit how cute Jillian is
October 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Also lookit how cute Jillian is
By the end of the afternoon, this is how full it got. Ruth and Avi purchased *15 bushels of apples*.
I don't think I've done anything quite so autumnal in a really long time.
I don't think I've done anything quite so autumnal in a really long time.
October 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
By the end of the afternoon, this is how full it got. Ruth and Avi purchased *15 bushels of apples*.
I don't think I've done anything quite so autumnal in a really long time.
I don't think I've done anything quite so autumnal in a really long time.
Letter of recommendation: get you a friend who has a 50-gallon cauldron and spend the weekend making an UNSPEAKABLE quantity of apple butter. My old college friend Ruth invited us out to her place for an apple butter shindig, and we're already scheming about more ways to use that magnificent kettle.
October 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Letter of recommendation: get you a friend who has a 50-gallon cauldron and spend the weekend making an UNSPEAKABLE quantity of apple butter. My old college friend Ruth invited us out to her place for an apple butter shindig, and we're already scheming about more ways to use that magnificent kettle.
I forgot that he looks like the exact midpoint between Kevin Kline and Brian Dennehy's characters in SILVERADO (1985)
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I forgot that he looks like the exact midpoint between Kevin Kline and Brian Dennehy's characters in SILVERADO (1985)
I received exactly one real phone call today. Everything else has been spam. I used to enjoy getting phone calls! Now, my default assumption is that a robot or a recording is lying to me about a parking ticket in a place I've never lived.
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I received exactly one real phone call today. Everything else has been spam. I used to enjoy getting phone calls! Now, my default assumption is that a robot or a recording is lying to me about a parking ticket in a place I've never lived.
Incidentally (sorry nick)
if you have never read the pardoner's tale, he ends it with a sales pitch for how he's got all these holy relics for sale, and he goes "Oh hey! How about our trip leader starts us off by buying a relic?"
and what follows is my favorite kissoff in literature:
if you have never read the pardoner's tale, he ends it with a sales pitch for how he's got all these holy relics for sale, and he goes "Oh hey! How about our trip leader starts us off by buying a relic?"
and what follows is my favorite kissoff in literature:
![[the relevant bit, where the Host says he doesn't want to buy relics from the pardoner, in both middle and modern english]
946 "Nay, nay!" quod he, "thanne have I Cristes curs!
"Nay, nay!" he said, "then I will have Christ's curse!
947 Lat be," quod he, "it shal nat be, so theech!
Let it be," he said, "it shall not be, as I may prosper!
948 Thou woldest make me kisse thyn olde breech,
Thou would make me kiss thine old underpants,
949 And swere it were a relyk of a seint,
And swear it was a relic of a saint,
950 Though it were with thy fundement depeint!
Though it were stained by thy fundament!
951 But, by the croys which that Seint Eleyne fond,
But, by the cross that Saint Helen found,
952 I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond
I would I had thy testicles in my hand
953 In stide of relikes or of seintuarie.
Instead of relics or a container for relics.
954 Lat kutte hem of, I wol thee helpe hem carie;
Have them cut off, I will help thee carry them;
955 They shul be shryned in an hogges toord!"
They shall be enshrined in a hog's turd!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vwobp7h6pugqnyw22tqp3zdn/bafkreidjs5fmucbwl6k25m72r464sxdd3bhttdahtytygxhr7xwalnducu@jpeg)
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Incidentally (sorry nick)
if you have never read the pardoner's tale, he ends it with a sales pitch for how he's got all these holy relics for sale, and he goes "Oh hey! How about our trip leader starts us off by buying a relic?"
and what follows is my favorite kissoff in literature:
if you have never read the pardoner's tale, he ends it with a sales pitch for how he's got all these holy relics for sale, and he goes "Oh hey! How about our trip leader starts us off by buying a relic?"
and what follows is my favorite kissoff in literature:
What is HAPPENING
also I think those are just sodastream refill tanks
also I think those are just sodastream refill tanks
October 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What is HAPPENING
also I think those are just sodastream refill tanks
also I think those are just sodastream refill tanks
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Or baby Imperial Commissar
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Or baby Imperial Commissar
You say FRONT BABY and I imagine the world's cutest Claymore mine
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
You say FRONT BABY and I imagine the world's cutest Claymore mine
I daresay that's overly familiar, Mr. Blount
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I daresay that's overly familiar, Mr. Blount
and I almost don't want to explain this one
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
and I almost don't want to explain this one
Really not beating the dweeb allegations here at work lately
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Really not beating the dweeb allegations here at work lately
The consumer reports piece says that plant-based proteins are the worst offenders, but that whey-based proteins also often contain lots of heavy metals. Good lord! Nobody is safe!
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The consumer reports piece says that plant-based proteins are the worst offenders, but that whey-based proteins also often contain lots of heavy metals. Good lord! Nobody is safe!
I came here to say the same thing! Yikes on bikes!
I found an archived version of the bloomberg piece, because I don't have a membership: archive.is/72d2P
It looks like they're using whey and wheat proteins to up the protein in the poptarts.
I found an archived version of the bloomberg piece, because I don't have a membership: archive.is/72d2P
It looks like they're using whey and wheat proteins to up the protein in the poptarts.
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I came here to say the same thing! Yikes on bikes!
I found an archived version of the bloomberg piece, because I don't have a membership: archive.is/72d2P
It looks like they're using whey and wheat proteins to up the protein in the poptarts.
I found an archived version of the bloomberg piece, because I don't have a membership: archive.is/72d2P
It looks like they're using whey and wheat proteins to up the protein in the poptarts.