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Dan Lawson
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Community college math instructor. He/him
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Back to the Beach movie poster with Stevie Ray Vaughan, PeeWee Herman, Don Adams, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello and others
September 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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A list of muted words for my Bluesky account including yarn, t’kor, and tkor
September 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Profile picture of Senator Mark Warner with the text, “5:30 PM votes to confirm another Trump appointee”
March 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
Cute chihuahua peeking his face out from under a comforter
March 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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For much less than that, they could have paid the rent for a studio apartment for each of those people for 5 years.
Apartments.com* Property Type: Apartments く Floor Plan Type Avg. Rent Avg. Sq Ft Studio $1,017/mo. 446 Sq Ft One Bed $1,298/mo. 717 Sq Ft Two Bed $1,499/mo. 1,057 Sq Ft Three Bed $1,616/mo. 1,254 Sq Ft
February 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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What I made while waiting for my students to finish their stats final. #mathsky #desmos
An animated gif of the graph of xy=a(sinx+siny) for a ranging from 0 to 225. When a=0, it’s just the x and y axes and a a gets larger, it’s starts to look like a 45 degree tilted, disconnected checkerboard.
December 11, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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(1/2)*5*2^2=10
Three copies of the same puzzle in black and white, with a different blue triangle in each of them. In the bottom left of each figure is a square with area 5. Lined up on top of this original square is the second square, which is exactly the same size. Touching these two on their right is a larger third square, which is as tall as the first two put together. And on the right of the third square is the fourth and largest square - we can’t tell exactly how large this one is compared to the others. In the first figure, the following three points are joined to create the blue triangle: the top left corner of the original square, the top right corner of the second square, and the top right corner of the largest square. In the second figure, the following three points are joined to create the blue triangle: the top left corner of the original square, the top right corner of the second square, and the bottom left corner of the largest square. In the third figure, the following three points in the double-sized square are joined to create the blue triangle: the top left corner, the bottom right corner, and the bottom left corner.
December 7, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Largest triangle has area of 5*3^2=45, so red triangle has area 45-30=15.
The base of the largest triangle is horizontal along the bottom of the picture. On its left edge, and sharing the left vertex, is a smaller purple triangle with area 20. On the right edge of the large triangle, and sharing its right vertex, is a yellow triangle with area 5. All three of the red triangle’s vertices lie on the edges of the large triangle, and the vertices on the left and right are shared with the purple and yellow triangles respectively. In the centre of the red triangle is a question mark. Copies of the smallest triangle have been inscribed inside the largest triangle at each vertex, along with annotations showing that the three triangle inside the largest triangle that border the mystery triangle have areas of 10 each.
December 1, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Show me your pet and what they're named after
A fluffy white cat sleeping on a pillow. His two front paws a pressed together with a tuft of tail fur sticking up between them Cover of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD issue 4
October 19, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,015,483!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,015,483, Dan Lawson ‪@noswald.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 14, 2023"
September 25, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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The woman who played Vyvyan’s mother in The Young Ones has a pretty interesting Wikipedia bio.
Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English-Guyanese writer and former actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England. Among awards she has received for her writing - which encompasses short stories, novels and essays - are the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Salman Rushdie has said of Melville: "I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years."(1] Vyvyan’s mum from The Young Ones
September 10, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Alpha Papa is on the way!
Some of the cast of I’m Alan Partridge
September 5, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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“‘Susquehanna hat company?!?’ Slooowly I turned —“
Australian Olympic breakdancer looking like she’s from the ministry of silly walks
August 11, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Flaming Carrot illustration with text “Fortune Favors the Bold!”
June 19, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Fun problem. This is my first math solution on BlueSky! (I hope it’s correct!)
June 5, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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Scrooge McDuck lighting a cannon A Scottish cousin of Donald Duck swinging a bag of money like a weapon
May 8, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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If you see this, post a dog
A light brown Chihuahua mix and a large white cat sit on a sofa. The dog stares into the camera lens in the foreground while the cat looms in the background.
May 6, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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April 5, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Mr. Burns from The Simpsons saying, " Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing --" NY Times article with the headline, "Warming is Getting Worse. So They Just Tested a Way to Deflect the Sun."
April 3, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Let Them Eat Jellybeans — Alternative Tentacles compilation album
Let Them Eat Jellybeans album cover showing a dystopic distorted back and photo of Ronald Reagan in front of a US flag background
March 13, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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Screenshot of The NY Times Spelling Bee game, showing an attempt to enter the word LAWDORK. There is an error that says, “Not in word list”
February 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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There is a large graveyard filled with my enemies. i do not wish to add to it, but will given no choice. Those who pick fights with me do so at their own peril, but maybe this is their lucky day
The goose from the video game Untitled Goose Game. He has a knife in his mouth and he’s hiding under a picnic table.
November 22, 2023 at 3:15 AM