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Alexander Basek

@alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Shoe cat. I’ve been to Prague.

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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The biggest tiger there was named Sherman. He liked getting sprayed by the hose on his belly.
Tiger getting scritchies
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I’d say this place is the model for the restaurants that came after
Sign for Ur restaurant
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Agave death bloom in tha hood
Agave death bloom
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Sometimes, I feel like there’s so much ziti in this world that my heart is gonna cave in
American Beauty manicotti
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Some excellent analysis of Violent Femmes’ American Music
Screenshot of comments about American music. 

Butters
Gordon was born in 1963, American Music was on the album Why Do Birds Sing that came out in 1991, he was 28
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He was born too soon.
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He was born too late.
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Garringer Lifestyles
He wrote it in high school and it was released later
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Morning at PDX.
Sunrise over Mount Hood at PDX
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s not Edge Case Bee, ok?
NYT spelling bee but it says “you’re 1 points away from genius”
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“So what you’re gonna see, Pat, is Pakpour over there in the flat while Khameni is the spy. That leaves Larijani wide open on the post pattern and wham! Six points.”
Iranian regime diagram from the NYT telustrated to look like Madden describing a football play
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I enjoyed but short Ethan Hawke felt like this every time they cut to him
Martin Short in Clifford
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Even though it's not Steve this came to mind too
Still from the Aerosmith Crazy video where a guy is wearing a silly VR helmet
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
They’re just doing it out in the open now. In the mall!
Store called White House black market. Can you believe it?
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Also!
Penny from Inspector Gadget
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Homer eating a six foot sub
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Baseball fandom isn’t about joy!
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Also:
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The incident caused an immediate rupture: Starkey labelled his bandmate "Toger Daktrey" and complained he was "bringing formal charges of overplaying" against him.
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Perfection.
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Aaron Judge (moose for scale)
Aaron Judge and the Mariner Moose
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“We’re not so different, you and I.”
Fans in nyy and sf gear sitting together eating hot dogs
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Got ‘em
We found hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud — Trump 
NYT: this lacks evidence
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Cleansing the timeline with a story about Czech beavers (I won’t elaborate). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...
Oftentimes we don’t want to allow the beavers to make the choices, because it’s hard to plan around that uncertainty; it’s hard to turn over control to a giant water rodent,” she said. “But that’s when beavers are at their best.”
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Cracked the code on the file names in Severance.
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Been trying to flag down my waiter for an hour but he won’t look up from playing Candy Crush on his phone
A restaurant with the name New York Pizza Dept
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
My favorite Rickeyism, from @davidgrann.bsky.social’s 2005 profile. “All I’m asking for is what I want” beats anything Scott Boras ever said.
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Experienced this just yesterday in the ESPN fantasy app
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Rough out there for the white sox roster these days (in ESPN fantasy at least)
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Wake up babe, new theory of the Enlightenment just dropped
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Hmmm
AI Overview
The idea of computers taking over the world is a poplar concept in science fiction, but experts say it's unlikely to happen in the near future.
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
Reading the new Challenger book (as a new father, my prerogative) and guess who closed his notebook on the Space Shuttle program, @drewmagary.bsky.social?
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Are these two different events or the same event? I know which one I am rooting for.
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
“My philosophy? Simple.”
No cash left on premise overnight
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
How many times are these two going to pretend that any of the conservative op-eds were fact-based when every time they defend themselves they get additional facts wrong?
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Met this little guy today and my inner Philadelphian was instantly activated
A security robot at a Portland security garage
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Recently spotted in the PNW…
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
There’s some concern here too
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Rothko morning here in PDX
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Bluesky improving a little bit every day.
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
I can confidently state that all 550 of these positions could be filled by AI. DOESN’T FEEL SO GOOD NOW, DOES IT?
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
My personal favorite of the genre is in England. “Norwich: a Fine City”
Norwich a fine city sign
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Greatly entertained by Mushroom Pat today.
Achewood Pat is zonked on mushrooms
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Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Portland bumper stickers do not disappoint
The bumper sticker reads “I love sodomy”
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