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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why is guy in the stands holding a D# sign? Oh, it’s a fence.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Slate headline changed from “begs the question” to “raises the question.” A pedant just got his wings.

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Lauren Morrill @laurenmorrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cam Scattebo looks like he scaled a wall next to a perfectly good staircase on January 6th

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I try to remind myself every day that the least normal people do the most posting. Or at least I hope that’s the case.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love this. My personal least favorite kind of critique is when someone points out you’ve done something suboptimal without considering whether you may have had good reasons, like balancing competing interests, or working within constraints.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Received my first sponsorship offer from a personal injury law firm and I think this means my little corner of the advertising business has finally arrived. Think of who we can get now — Chia Pet, the Foreman Grill, “HEAD ON — APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.”

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Will someone please let Bo Nix go to bed and tell him this too shall pass

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The phrase I would like to smack out of the mouth of every sports commentator is “like we talked about” and all its permutations. Nobody cares if you mentioned this earlier in the broadcast or predicted it or whatever. We probably weren’t listening then and it doesn’t matter now anyway. Move on.

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Garth Algar: Live in the Now! (Wayne's World)

Alt: Garth Algar: Live in the Now! (Wayne's World)

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Commanders could have sent this game to OT if Stefon Diggs hadn’t insisted on hugging a pole.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Free NFL halftime show idea: the Normal People Bowl. Recruit 22 people ages 30-50 who meet minimal physical requirements for safety but are otherwise as physically average as possible. Coach them up to play a single series in full pads, film it like a normal game. Make sure they sign waivers.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You know what happens when you get a half sack? The ball comes out.

The Tennessee-Furman college football game on tv in my living room where I think up dad jokes.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

FYI, if you ever really need it to rain, just top off your koi pond with a few hundred gallons of water. Works every time.

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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 03/09/2026

I plan on implementing a lot of what I learned from @aragusea.bsky.social’s latest video. I hope you’ll implement a subscription to his channel and to Wholesome, our podcast! youtu.be/613Xbz7nJUw

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My guide to lifting (for people who eat)

YouTube video by Adam Ragusea

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V.S. McGrath/Vicki Essex @vsmcgrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I very much enjoy the manwich that is Adam-Ben-Adam, talking about things that are wholesome to them, from secondary fridges to vulnerable mental health talk. Listen to their free eps and consider joining their Patreon, especially if you already love @greatesttrek.com or @aragusea.bsky.social!

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Train Man Emeritus @m0narch113.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wholesome is among my "only cancel in the event of actual bankruptcy" podcasts because listening to @benjaminahr.mobi @cutfortime.bsky.social and @aragusea.bsky.social just talking about delightful things actively pushes back against the otherwise constant stream of terribleness in the world.

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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 02/09/2026

It’s Wholesome Awareness Day! To celebrate 100 episodes of the show I make with @cutfortime.bsky.social and @aragusea.bsky.social, we’re releasing a bunch of content that has never been outside of the paywall before! Try it out and if you like it, become a Somehole! pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly93...

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Listen to Wholesome wherever you get your podcasts!

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Quixotically entering my first aquascaping competition, trying to take the contest photo and remembering that being ok at video ≠ being good at photography.

Planted aquarium in my greenhouse at night, backlit, with my good camera in the foreground taking the picture.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yo nerds my drive thru order cost $21.12 and I’ll be riding that high all day.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s really not an overstatement to say that Dolly’s death is to East Tennessee and greater Appalachia as QEII’s death was to the UK. And Dolly was vastly less polarizing. If she were to lie in state at Dollywood, the line would stretch into North Carolina.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The phrase “she was the best of us” has never been more applicable.

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A thought spun off of an @aragusea.bsky.social video: using an LLM to write means throwing some amount of thought in the garbage. The human thinks less than they otherwise would have, and the computer still doesn't think at all.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Saccharine, self-congratulatory NFL promos about character and community service turn out to be exactly the kind of nauseatingly hypocritical public performances of virtue that were holding civilization together all along.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Damar Hamlin picks off Shedeur Sanders. What is dead may never die.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey, let’s hear more from the owner! Don’t cut away! I want to hear more from this NFL owner.

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'd guess this too but only 4/15 were on GH or an analog. But researchers may have gotten a better read if they'd asked current and PRIOR use. Might narrow it down. Also not noted in the article GLP-1 use. Getting more common in that group to try and counter some of these bad effects

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“That Buccaneers running back looks TINY” I think about the man who is checks notes 5’9 that’s how tall I am oh ok I see.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It might not seem fun siphoning fine particulate matter into a bucket but wait until you see those particles arrange themselves into compact geometric shapes because science.

Aquarium mulm at the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket of water that arranged itself into a tight triangle in the center.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

With this vid, I feel I've gone as far as I can with my Canon EOS R5. I've invested a lot in Canon glass but I have no loyalty to them. Any thoughts what my next camera should be? Needs to be reasonably light to work with my boom rig. youtu.be/dKKf-QrdwJE?...

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Ragusea's aquascaping skillz in 4k

YouTube video by Adam Ragusea

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

24 hours to a football game I’m so starved for football I will actually watch THIS football game god help me.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

1) “I see you have pistachios.” 2) “Ok, it’s just you, me, and the pistachios.” 3) “Now look, see, it’s just you, me, and the pistachios.”

Red English Labrador retriever peering coyly over a table at a bowl.

Red English Labrador retriever peering matter-of-factly over a table at a bowl.

Red English Labrador retriever peering with a mobster’s squint over a table at a bowl.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

1) Eat spoonful out of center of ice cream cup; 2) Dump in entire contents of pudding cup; 3) Refreeze for 30 min or until a brittle shell has formed; 4) Don’t let this knowledge die with me.

An individual Mayfield Dairy paper ice cream cup with a chocolate-vanilla swirl pudding heaped on top and a bite taken out, side view.

An individual Mayfield Dairy paper ice cream cup with a chocolate-vanilla swirl pudding heaped on top and a bite taken out, overhead view.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Magnificent animal. Looking for figs to eat that’ll make her poop weird.

Red English Labrador retriever in golden morning light standing under my fig tree.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Really coming into fruition, one of my “Dutch modernist” aquascapes! In time the grassy vallisneria in the back corner should grow much longer and kinda drape over the whole thing a bit, creating a more dappled light effect on the carpets underneath. And the red lily will get bigger.

A colorful planted aquarium in my greenhouse, with plants grown into painterly shapes reminiscent of impressionist or modernist art.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My third attempt executing this basic plant design. It’s still young but I think it’s reached escape velocity! School of rummy nose tetras looking very yellow submarine.

School of tiny silver and red fish in a Dutch garden style planted aquarium. Closeup of fish.

School of tiny silver and red fish in a Dutch garden style planted aquarium. Wide shot of the whole tank in my greenhouse at night.

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Lauren Morrill @laurenmorrill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Guys, this is getting out of hand. They didn’t grow the lettuce

A construction site featuring A pile of rubble, a backhoe, and the Taco Bell sign

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Hanging plants drop down into the aquariums and put out roots. It’s like they’re drinking from both ends. Double fisting.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Was reading a news story about how opioid deaths are down in Knox County and I can’t stop thinking about this man’s incredible logical journey.

Guy on Facebook: “Just because it doesn't make the news doesn't mean its down..Go watch Burger King on merchants..” I reply: “Buddy, the news is that it is down. It is down, and that empirical reality made the news. The fact that people still OD at a Burger King can easily coexist with this other fact.”

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’m lying in bed for some reason wondering if I can formulate a more satisfying definition of the musical term “riff,” so here goes, for no particular reason…

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I have an aquarium with a surface environment which means every now and then you get to see aquatic creatures briefly leave the water, and I always find it so surreal! Like somebody jumping out of the tv screen. You’re not supposed to be in this plane of existence!

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I always think it’s especially pretty at this stage!

A big pot of red sauce just starting to simmer with the dried herbs still floating on top.

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