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Brad Proctor

@bdproctor.bsky.social
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Historian at the Evergreen State College, occasional/lapsed banjo player, IndyCar fan. Olympia, WA. 🏳️‍🌈

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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's been a hard couple of weeks to be an IndyCar fan with a moral compass. But I present to you my new office wall
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not sure I'm consistent on my "stayed a while" rules but here goes Need to get to New Mexico sometime
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Made a "moving weekend is finally happening" veggie lasagna and very pleased
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Dear crazy IndyCar fans/collectible people: I've amassed a lot of diecast 1/64 cars that I've kept in their packaging (like this sweet Dr. Jack Miller Crest car), and am interested in ways to display them. Any creative suggestions? What do y'all do?
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Spatchcocked and roasted a chicken, roasted veggies, mashed potatoes and turnips, and made a mushroom pan sauce/gravy
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My man is out of town and for some reason I made a meal without any gluten
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
And some general shots of what it's like being at the Speedway during the Month of May
Corvette pace cars around Victory CircleIMS Pagoda on a partly cloudy dayScott Dixon signing autographs for enthusiastic young fansBTS at the ELF IndyCar garage, with Sarah Fisher looking over data as the car's engine cover is removed
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Qualifications at Indianapolis Motor Speedway are on hold for rain so here are some race car pics I've taken the past week
David Malukas in the #12 Verizon Chevy IndyCar at the Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayTakuma Sato in the #75 Honda IndyCar at the Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayPato O'Ward in the #5 Arrow McLaren IndyCar at IMS, with out of focus photographers in the foregroundConor Daly's IndyCar in Turn 2 of IMS in front of a grandstand with a giant US flag behind it
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Oh look Brad's at a race track
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
45th birthday self portrait in a 1930 Duesenberg
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A screenshot of text messages sent to Jeff, one saying "Duke is just trouncing UConn so I'm not even bothering to watch", followed an hour later after Duke lost with the screenshot of a Bsky post by Chris Vannini of a scene in the White Lotus with Jason Isaacs in a Duke tshirt with a gun to his head.
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
On a little trip to the South and we were blessed by the Spring Possum of Good Fortune
A possum on a stone wall amongst tree branches
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Search your camera roll for hell
A Bsky post from iucounu, which reads
GORDON RAMSAY: and the eggs, they are?
UGLÙK: they eggs. Taste good.
Canapé.
RAMSAY: no I mean, where do you get the eggs
UGLÙK (gesturing towards Shelob's lair): Get from big spider
RAMSAY: from big spider. Fuck me.
Canapé eggs from big spider.
Fucking hell.
Oct 18, 2023 at 1:17 PM
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Pork, pickles, collards, tomatoes and okra, and banana pudding. Not pictured: cornbread and cole slaw
A large platter of barbecued pulled porkTwo jars of pickled cucumbersA plate with barbecue, collard greens, and stewed tomatoes and okraA dish of banana pudding
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Update. Been on the fire for 10 hours. Past the stall and coasting to home.
Smoked pork shoulder and ribs on a smoky grill
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The sun came back out
Barbecue grill with ribs and a pork shoulder smoking
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The stall is real
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Up early to elect a pope
A Weber barbecue grill with a lit chimney starter of charcoal sending up white and grey smoke
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Speedy the Geoduck, the mascot of the Evergreen State College
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A few days late to the discourse, but needed to share this meme a student made from my in-class comments about the Mexican-American War.
A picture of Lincoln with the caption "We shouldn't invade Mexico; this is a trumped-up, fake-ass war. -Abraham Lincoln"
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
On my office filing cabinet
A fridge magnet with an artist's illustration of Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose with the caption "Do what you must"
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Today is a good day to remind people to disable autoplaying video in all your social media apps, especially BlueSky. Go to Settings (gear icon), then "Content and Media," then disable the "Autoplay video and GIFs" toggle.
A screenshot of the Content and Media page of BlueSky mobile app Settings.
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The Christmas table train before I boxed it up yesterday
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
About to board a plane and it is so early I am not entirely sure which direction is up
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This moment has extra salience this year
Clark Griswold exclaiming "Hallelujah! Holy Shit! Where's the Tylenol?"
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Sharing my favorite aesthetics, answers to what the future should look like, from the left/liberals/anti-fascism:
Benjamin Sisko from DS9X-Wings on the trench run of the Death StarShane and Ilya of Heated RivalryBrandi Carlile and Joni Mitchell
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This is why I grieve.
A screenshot of The Princess Bride of Peter Falk reading to Fred Savage saying "Where is that written? Life isn't always fair."
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I've been told I look like Linguine for over a decade. Tonight I reunited with Remy!
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Yeah okay but they seldom make history
A sign at an outside restaurant saying "Well behaved dogs on leashes welcome."
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I wish I was the moon tonight
A clear photograph of the full moonA photograph of the moon with some clouds around it and a dark pine tree visible on the right of the image
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This happened.
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Today in educational dystopia... Check out the truly incredible rationalizations and unstated assumptions!
Join leading information technology experts Corrine Hoisington and Dr. Mark Ciampa for a workshop-style webinar focused on AI fluency integration across the technology curriculum.

They'll explore and discuss:
-Innovative approaches to teaching AI concepts
-The ethical imperative of future-proofing students' career paths
-Insights from their textbook. 'Introduction to AI: A Business Perspective'

Providing an actionable framework for embracing the algorithmic advantage, the workshop will help you ensure your graduates are not only competitive, but well-prepared for a world where responsible AI collaboration is the new normal.
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Earlier in August, I went to two very different race tracks with two very different races. Posting these pictures without context because it's better that way.
Two stripped down Model T Fords racing on a dirt track with drivers each holding a pigletA stripped down Model T Ford racing on a dirt track with a driver wearing a blue tshirt and backwards baseball cap holding a pigletTrack marshals at the Portland International Raceway relaxing in the shade on a hot dayThe Number 12 red and white Verizon IndyCar driven by Will Power turning into the chicane at Portland International Raceway
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A few more
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Random pictures for July
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The world is filled with loss and grief but I made a sweet and sour tofu with bok choy and fava beans tonight
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Thank you for settling which Golden Girl I actually am, spam texter!!
A screenshot of a spam text reading "Enjoy every second, it's your day Sophia!!"
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Watching IndyCar at Road America
A meme of a frog in a union suit saying "I do not know what is even hampening."
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Andor meme that cracked me up, stolen from the internet
A picture of Anakin and Padme from SW: Ep 2, Attack of the Clones, with the caption "I don't like Kalkite. It's deep, substrated, and it's foliated everywhere."
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Chicken, potato salad (ancient family recipe), and okra, squash, and mushrooms.
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Update
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hey hi
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Summertime on brand
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It is inconceivable to me that any human would be surprised to not see those fake CGI rocks, let alone prefer the version with them. That is categorically insane!

Aldridge noted differences "like R2-D2 isn't hiding behind rocks when the Tusken Raiders come for them ... there are so many little things that I noticed the cantina... there's been cleaning up of James Earl Jones' voice [as Darth Vader ..
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Night 2 of the rock show
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Hey @whatahellofawaytodad.com appreciate the technical I saw in Lacey, WA today
A jeep with a nerf minigun mounted on its topA nerf minigun on the roof of a jeep (behind the car I was stopped next to)
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The movie itself seems to be a thoughtful prestige WW2 movie but it's just unrelentingly and excessively graphic and fetishizes violence in the the ways that should have worried us more about the Call of Duty generation
WIKIPEDIA
Fury (2014 film)

Fury is a 2014 American war film written, directed, and co-produced by David Ayer. It stars Brad Pitt with Shia LaBeouf, Logan
Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal as members of an American tank crew fighting in Nazi Germany during the final weeks of the European theater of World War II. Ayer was influenced by the service of military veterans in his family and by reading books such as Belton
Y. Cooper's Death Traps, a 1998 memoir that underscores the high casualty rates suffered by American tank crews in combat against their better-equipped German counterparts.
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
From Wikipedia
of Judaism" (125) LaBeouf had described himself as Jewish, 1261 but declared in 2007 that religion had "never made sense" to him. 16)
However, LaBeouf said in an interview in Interview magazine in October 2014 that "I found God doing [the film] Fury. I became a Christian man [...] Brad [Pitt] was really instrumental in guiding my head through this."
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In an August 2022 interview with Bishop Robert Barron, LaBeouf said that he had fallen in love with the Catholic faith while studying for the titular role of the film Padre Pio and staying in a Capuchin monastery in the process. He stated that the Traditional Latin Mass played a key role in his conversion. 1281|1291 In May 2023, LaBeouf confirmed that he was undergoing the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. 1301 On 31 December 2023, LaBeouf was confirmed into the Catholic Church by Bishop Barron and it was said that he had expressed a wish to enter into the diaconate. 131|11321
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Look at me, happy in my natural habitat
A selfie of me smiling in the stands of the short chute of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on race day, with the pagoda tower in the far distance
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