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Tim L

@apollo18.bsky.social
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I help take people to space and sometimes do things with swords.

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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is time.
Photo of a 12-foot-tall skeleton, in its disparate pieces, stuffed uncomfortably into a large black duffle bag.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at KSC is really something else.
Close up of the port wing of the Space Shuttle AtlantisSweet angled front view of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis, from nose to OMS pods
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
John Varley’s STEEL BEACH. Humans live on the Moon, exiled from Earth, change gender whenever they want, and have morally challenging interactions with the AI that runs civilization.
Book cover for John Varley’s STEEL BEACH. Grey bold text of the author and title, with a robotic butterfly with yellow and black wings on the L of the title. Background is a blue circuit board.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On the twenty-third day of the month of September In an early year of a decade not too long before our own The human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do In the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places
A white guy with a red beard, wearing a black hoodie, has his head inside the mouth of an inflatable Venus Flytrap
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Poster for the film KOYAANISQATSI
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just finished (by staying up way too late) @sarahgailey.bsky.social ‘s Spread Me, which was fantastic
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lots of weird films I *don’t* recommend to more people… but I do recommend Cory McAbee’s masterpiece:
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Many parts of the film, but somewhat specific for me was that Marston and his partners Elizabeth and Olive came up with DISC theory)
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I mean…
Cover of the They Might Be Giants album, Apollo 18. A giant red squid and a dark gray sperm whale are depicted fighting on a black background. The band name is in bold white text in the upper left, and the album name in the lower left. Off to the side of the squid & whale is a small Apollo lunar lander.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
Photo from the Apollo 9 mission. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, in a white spacesuit with a red helmet and gold visor, has his head and shoulders out of the Apollo Command Module, with its hatch open in front of him. A portion of water-and-cloud-covered Earth is behind the Command Module.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Checking in on Joel and the bots
Photo of a TV showing the movie Silent Running. Bruce Dern, a white guy with long brown hair, is in a blue jumpsuit covered in patches, sitting at a low white table, playing poker with two small robots, one blue, and one orange.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Saw this one at age 8 or 9, and for years after, thought it was a fever dream.
Movie poster for GANDAHAR. The film’s title is in red text across the middle of the poster, with the tagline “LES ANEÉS LUMIÈRE” under it. Above is a lifelike cartoon head with no hair and wings sprouting from it. Below is a bunch of black metal robots in a triangle formation, with the foremost holding a nude female body.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sweet views from the train from LA to Fullerton.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cradle Will Rock - Bill Murray, Cary Elwes, Susan Sarandon, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, John Cusack, written & directed by Tim Robbins. And that’s just the A-listers.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Came downstairs to find my wife had made this lamb rice krispie treat. Judging by the expression on its face, this may be the last you ever hear from me.
A Rice Krispie treat in the shape of a lamb, about the size of the dinner plate it’s sitting on. There are brown Skittles piled up around its hindquarters and green Skittles under its belly. It has two orange Skittles for eyes and a brown one for a nose. It’s sitting in a sunbeam on a brown table.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I met a frog today.
Photo of a brownish frog, chilling on a very mossy log, with fern fronds behind it. In the background is a lot more moss.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Seattle ferries are escorted by armed Coasties today, for some reason (World Cup, presumably)
Photo out the side of a car ferry, of a wee boat with a big gun in the bow
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hell yeah Seattle
Photo of two signs on a wire fence, above a green hedge. One sign reads “No Dumping”. The other reads 
THIS PROPERTY IS OWNED AND
CONTROLLED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE.
IT SHALL NOT BE USED FOR CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT STAGING,
OPERATIONS, OR PROCESSING.
City of Seattle
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It’s been years since I’ve seen it but
Movie poster for CRADLE WILL ROCK. A white background with the movie’s title overlaid on photos of the all-star ensemble cast.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Boglins! My mom’s best friend Alice Z”L took me to Toys R Us one summer when I was 7 and bought me this nasty puppet. I loved the heck out of it for a couple of years as its eyes lost their glow-in-the-dark and its rubbery skin slowly deteriorated.
A rubbery brown goblin puppet’s face with glowing eyes looks out from behind some plastic bars in a toy package that looks like a cage. The “name tag” on the cage reads DROOL.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The 6-year-old wanted a rainbow on her wall, so this is how we spent Mother’s Day
Wall of a kid’s bedroom with a giant rainbow painted on it and lil fluffy white clouds around the rainbow
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Surely in this crowd someone else has seen Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards and been permanently affected
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“Slab Bulkhead!” “Fridge Largemeat!” “Punt Speedchunk!”
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Tears in rain.
Photo of the side of an apartment building. There is a sign halfway up the side that says “Tannhauser” with an open window below it…might be a gate. No C-beams are visible.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Oh cool. We have a square rubber mat with a strip of metal weatherstripping at the Rail side. Have to weigh it down with a kettlebell to keep it from slipping on the puzzle mats in our club.
Two people in black HEMA gear are swordfighting in a club space with a green floor. The one on the left (me) is extending a low thrust while the one on the right is attempting a low parry.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Movie poster for The Battle of Algiers (1966). The name of the film is in capital letters in black text at the top. The background is all yellow. Two red hands are pulling on the top and bottom of a Red Crescent with a red star inside it. A crowd is at the bottom of the image.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Met a good snek today.
The head of a smol snek is seen poking through some blades of green grass. The snek head is mostly greyish-green, with reddish eyes and an orange band just behind where its little ear holes are.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Obvious answers are too obvious, but I mean this one sincerely
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
(slightly trolling answer) Our Man Flint
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Don’t make me tap the sign
Simpsons cartoon gag, top panel has a bus driver with the caption
DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.
Bottom panel is the sign reading
MONEY ISN'T REAL 
IT'S JUST WHAT WE AGREE IS IMPORTANT
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Movie posters/covers for Blade Runner 2049, Oppenheimer, Furie, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Post a ship that’s not Star Trek or Star Wars
Still from the movie Fitzcarraldo, depicting a good-sized boat on a muddy path on a hillside next to a river.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Kids and I discovered the Tomb of Treasure, a delightful little horror movie shop in White Center, WA. Blu-rays and VHS and Goosebumps books and, of course, Leatherface. www.tomboftreasure.com
A little white girl (with face blurred to hide her identity) in a pink jacket is holding her hands up to her face, pretending to be scared by the mannequin in front of her, which is dressed as Leatherface. Behind her is a wall of shelves filled with VHS tapes of horror movies.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Album cover of The Crow original soundtrack
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Good grief but James Ensor could draw
Zoomed in photo of the lower right corner of James Ensor’s “L'entrée du Christ à Bruxelles” etching, of a crowd of grotesque figures etched in black on off-white paper. Prominent in the foreground is a skeletal face wearing a top hat.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Movie screen-capture of Blade, played by Wesley Snipes, a Black man with sunglasses and short hair wearing a black leather tactical vest. A caption from the film in white text reads “Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.”
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Magpie wants to know where her gelt is
Photo of a black-and-white cat (who is the most perfect baby) sitting in a wooden chair at a table. On the table is a menorah with 5 lit candles in it. The cat (who is the most perfect baby) is looking at the candles, or possibly at the chicken nugget that is held just out of frame above the candles.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
2026 is gonna be my year
A muscly white dude is yelling while looking at the camera. We only see his face and a sort of helmet with a big clear plastic face shield and a microphone on it. Something may be exploding behind him. The sobriquet “CRUD BONEMEAL” is overlaid in blue text in a futuristic font.
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Movie posters for The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013), How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck (Werner Herzog, 1976), The Great Ecstacy of Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog, 1974), and First Men in the Moon (Nathan Juran, 1964)
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Joan Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank
A white woman with short brownish hair, smoking a cigarette and wearing a black outfit and a long pink coat is pouring a can of gasoline onto a pile of papers in the middle of an office
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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
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Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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
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