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Nathan

@aliendog496.bsky.social
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Minnesotan in the Emerald Triangle, far from the land of my people. Former data analyst, former pot farmer, current wreck.

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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Haven’t been around for a while, but shit. As I’ve said, MN Nice has its limits, and it is very much Not Good when it becomes MN Not Nice. See 1st MN Volunteer Infantry.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I've had white in my hair and beard for decades, no big deal. But I just found my first white chest hair and this is just too much to deal with.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“I am so done with this.” (Tagging @quinncy.bsky.social because kitten)
A black mother cat with a nursing kitten. Her look says she is so over this bullshit.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is how I know anyone objecting to trans athletes isn't actually concerned about fairness of competition. No one is talking about trans-men. And there are plenty of cis-women athletes who could or should compete with men.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Top-level professional athletes are all biological freaks--they have larger lungs, their blood is better at carrying oxygen, their muscles are more efficient, whatever. I'll never be a professional cyclist, because my body will never be able to compete no matter how hard I train.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I first started playing DragonRealms (a high fantasy MUD) in its first year, 1996. Have played off and on in the intervening years, most recently about 4 or 5 years ago. Playing again on a free-to-play account and currently a level 5 paladin if anyone else out there plays or would like to start.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Oh my God this fucking headline. Removing the dam and erasing Lake Pillsbury will restore the Russian River *back to its natural state*. The water diversion is unnatural and has completely changed the Eel River for the worse. Sick of Mendocino and Sonoma thinking the water is theirs by right.
mendofever.com
PG&E submits plan that will erase Lake Pillsbury and change the Russian River forever - MendoFever – Mendocino County News
The July 25 filing outlines dam removal timelines, restoration goals, and unavoidable economic and environmental impacts, as well as the proposed construction of a new diversion facility.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/08/2025
He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
nbcnews.com
Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
As a rule I don't bring a person's looks into an argument, but Kristi Noem always makes me think about getting a blowjob from a mannequin and I can't help it.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/08/2025
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy (from 2022)
motherjones.com
It didn’t start with Trump: The decades-long saga of how the GOP went crazy
The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
At this point 50% of my FB feed is comprised of entirely made up shit like this. I'm a historian who studies politics and media, so it's easy for me to be a critical consumer of this schlock. But for the average consumer, this sort of social media is like putting a stick blender in one's brain.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Pasteurization is one of those things like vaccines that most of society has forgotten how many people died before it was invented.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/08/2025
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.
News article titled "Trump orders firing of BLS commissioner, after large summer revision" by Andrew Ackerman. It reports that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released major downward revisions to May and June jobs data. Trump announced the decision on social media, stating she would be replaced with someone "much more competent and qualified." The revisions removed 258,000 jobs from earlier counts, marking the largest two-month downward adjustment since the pandemic.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Honestly, I could be doing better.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Even if you did include all the shows mentioned below, the answer would still be The Twilight Zone.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I actually have no idea where I'm going to go or how much, if any, money I'm going to have to get there. Starting to get a little worried about winding up homeless.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/07/2025
Listening to someone else watch short videos on their phone is the most annoying thing in the universe, and I believe our society has not adequately grappled with this
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Really missing when the internet was fun and not a nightmare. I know most people have seen these GI Joe PSA redubs but I'm gonna post a few of my favorites for the 6 people who haven't seen them yet.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It's nice that the photo of the South Fork of the Eel River they used in this article was taken in the fall or spring. In the summer the Eel is nearly dry.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Saw this in a post from someone lamenting the economic impacts to the Sonoma vineyards due to not being able to irrigate. To which I say, "Oh well." Seriously, if your business depends on environmental devastation, your business sucks. www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...
sfgate.com
Letting a Northern California river run free comes at a cost
A dam is coming down. And Northern California is tearing itself apart.
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DOOHAN @sonomalife.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Yet *another* reminder that the Russian River isn't a mild-mannered creek. Wear a life jacket, people! Your "natural swimmer" ego isn't worth it. Stay safe out there.
abc7news.com
East Bay man dies in Russian River, 3rd drowning this month; 1st responders urge use of life jackets
First responders in Sonoma County are sending out an urgent message of safety for everyone visiting the Russian River after three drownings this month. A man from the East Bay drowned over the weekend, authorities said.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Oh my god...now I'm imagining if Tim Robbins character in High Fidelity came into the store singing "Oh she may get wooly, women do get wooly, because of all the stress..."
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I got screwed when I bought this farm. The seller failed to disclose a whole bunch of shit that impacted my ability to operate legally, not to mention they represented themselves as a legitimate business when in fact they were selling everything black market. 🧵
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Ugh...PP is blaming *me* because they sold one of their paintings for a song, because I wasn't there to support the negotiations.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
And as I was just saying today, it's been that way in much of Europe for almost 1000 years!
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Octopi? Octopodes? I don't care! This is English and octopuses is never wrong!
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Hey @tkingfisher.com , I'm currently listening to a real life weird tale of a girl in France who found a beaver hanging in the forest with its head unattached and reattached to its feet. Fucking fairies.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I still play with Silly Putty and lift comic strips with it.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Additionally, this guy is historically wrong. In most of Europe child marriage hasn't been acceptable for around 1000 years (nobility excepted). Romeo & Juliet? The audience knew from their ages that they were stupid kids and things would end badly for them. 1/n
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Damn it, Tom Lehrer died?
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Also, prairie grasses and other plants are quite beautiful. Plant them if you live somewhere that used to be prairie.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
On top of everything going on in the world I have to deal with the narcissist enlisting their friends to help pressure me into doing things I don’t want to do.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A lot is being said about what an awful person Hulk Hogan was. I'm not going to disagree, but it should be noted that he was a pretty shitty wrestler too.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Let's be clear. Reagan in large part started the Republican party on the trajectory they've been on for the last 40 years that has brought us to the place we're at now. Fuck Reagan.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22/07/2025
arstechnica.com
EFF moves to stop power utility reporting suspected pot growers to cops
EFF says the “mass surveillance scheme” violates Constitional protections.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Look, @tkingfisher.com , I overlooked the bit in A Sorceress Comes to Call when you made me think too much about my blinking, but now I have the theme song to Cheers stuck in my head and you just can't do these things to people.
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon
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DOOHAN @sonomalife.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
windsortimes.com
Beck’s surprise appearance in Healdsburg next month - Windsor Times
Beck, one of pop music's most influential artists, will drop by Healdsburg's Little Saint on Sunday, Aug. 10 — the solo performance following a high-profile appearance at Outside Lands in San Francisc...
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
That tritone.
youtu.be
BLACK SABBATH - "Black Sabbath" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Holy fuck.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Holy shit, Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowned.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I just saw someone talking about an 80mm film version of Laurence of Arabia and the fucking post didn't allow replies and I'm going to die because it was 70mm (specifically Super Panavision 70) and I have to tell someone.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Got a six-pack to make beer battered fish. That takes one can, so whatever will I do with the other five?
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I've been talking about my community radio station lately and how great they are, and they're on this list, losing 24% of their revenue.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Can confirm. Not that I thought I couldn't be homeless. But how close most of us are to the precipice.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I've said before how one of my favorite things about social media is the ability to tell authors whose work I enjoy that I enjoy their work. One of the worst things about social media is how I want to talk to authors whose work I enjoy about their work.
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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Now I'm halfway through A Sorceress Comes to Call, and @tkingfisher.com , your description of living with a narcissist is terrifyingly accurate.
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