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Brian Curtin

@briancurtin.com

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staff software engineer, tech lead, long time Python guy // trail maintainer // photographer Chicago → Brooklyn → Denver

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 12/08/2026

Miles in a yellow suit

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 24/07/2026

Just guys being dudes

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 07/07/2026

Setting up a new laptop and Google is being a hater

Google search result for "vim" immediately sais "Did you mean: emacs"

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 26/06/2026

There he is

The Smiling Man behind Sam Altman

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 25/06/2026

I love the look as he’s pondering this

Man staring off wondering how Popeye’s Chicken exists

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 25/06/2026

Getting pummeled with rain in Marston. It was maybe small hail for a minute but has just been wild rain for the last 20 minutes.

1.82” of rain per hour, and 0.39” total via Ecowitt WS90

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 27/05/2026

Proven track record. He’s got my vote.

Tim Heidecker with a sign saying “WE HAVE A RAT PROBLEM!”

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 04/05/2026

Security footage confirms this (safe for work version)

Rudy Giuliani

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 03/05/2026

1 update available for Toilet Firmware

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 01/05/2026

This kid’s absolutely using Oracle these days

Brumbpo Tungus

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 24/04/2026

Can we ensure that he sees this?

Tim Heidecker holding up a folder with "The China Connection" written on it

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 20/04/2026

Tim Heidecker from “Mister America” holding a piece of pie with closed captioning saying “You have to create your own momentum.”

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 18/04/2026

but Eric Adams invented the trash bin

Eric Adams pushing a trash can with the text “trash revolution” over it

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 12/04/2026

Feels more like this

Guy punting one gun at someone else and one gun at his own head

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 06/04/2026

James Cigarettes

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 03/04/2026

Sam Altman with The Smiling Man behind him

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 01/04/2026

Plucked right out of a diner to appeal to the regular folk

Tim Heidecker in Mister America, holding a slice of pie and saying “you have to create your own momentum.”

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 01/04/2026

Absolutely not.

A screenshot of the unsubscribe dialog after a company emailed me a “perfect match” pair of sunglasses that are so stupid looking I regret having bought anything from this company (Smith Optics).

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 27/03/2026

Michael Scott on The Office tearing up with joy

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 27/03/2026

Leo (Robert Prosky) staring down

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 25/03/2026

theonion.com/basketball-r...

Basketball Rolls To Stop At Cheney's Foot
Published: August 20, 2008

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 23/03/2026

There are better ways to serve

Tweet saying “I’ll serve crack before I serve this country”

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 20/03/2026

✅ Transmission from a tank ✅ Worse visibility than the tank ✅ USA, USA, USA

Comparison of forward visibility between an M1 tank and several civilian trucks, with the GMC Sierra being worse than the tank.

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 17/03/2026

Gregg Turkington with Nvidia DLSS off and on

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 11/03/2026

I was under the impression it would be Turmoil

A comparison of The National Anthem and Turmoil’s “The Process Of” album

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 09/03/2026

I’m picking Lori Lightfoot

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in huge pants

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in a double breasted suit she probably borrowed from former Alderman Ed Burke

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 27/02/2026

Let me know when it’s time.

Stringer Bell taking a test at night school

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 25/02/2026

Hearing he just did this the entire time and Don Jr won a lot of money by taking the over on how long he’d do hand glasses.

Donald Trump with his hands over his eyes like they’re glasses

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 13/02/2026

Like the classic:

Tweet: brandAn is good @LeBearGirdle
[Dentist waiting room]
Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-
Other patients: teeth, TEETH
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
2:30 PM • Aug 17, 2017

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 11/02/2026

Securing my future ahead of the layoffs by applying for this job tomorrow.

Guy driving a mini steam train

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 07/02/2026

Good to see another version of this.

Text “If the hardcore bands guitarist looks like this you are about to die in that pit” with a picture of Toby Maguire in glasses as Peter Parker from “Spiderman”

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 01/02/2026

This is who runs @pickle-bucket.bsky.social account

Man at a bar with his hand over his mouth, with a transparent image of the same man with a blank look on his face overlaid on the right side. (Source: The Onion)

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 01/02/2026

This is who runs this account

Guy slouched on the couch drinking a New Glarus “Spotted Cow” beer, so he’s in Wisconsin, with a semi-transparent overlay on the let of his face making a slightly different empty stare. (Source: The Onion)

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 27/01/2026

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 24/01/2026

Sure, gmail, this not only isn’t immediately filterable spam, it’s worthy of the “important” label. Good work, I agree.

Obvious spam email trying to give me $13963.99 to Ducky Luck Casino

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 11/01/2026

Yeah man, fuck it…*uses salt*

Neil McCauley and Donald Breeden in the movie Heat when Neil spots Breeden as a line cook

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 05/01/2026

While flipping channels on Christmas Eve I happened upon a channel that was starting Dumb and Dumber. It was really laggy and got stuck here for like 3 minutes, and I just laughed the entire time.

Lloyd Christmas sticking his head out the window of a black limousine.

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 31/12/2025

A tweet saying “I bet this hits so hard if you’re stupid.”

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 26/12/2025

Deep from within the latest Epstein doc dump. How’s he going to get away this time?

Donald Trump trying to catch a baseball but his face is blacked out as if it’s redacted from a file incriminating him.

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 24/12/2025

Creating my own momentum by watching this again

Tim Heidecker with a piece of pie and a closed caption saying “You have to create your own momentum.”

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 24/12/2025

I got my wife a sewing machine. Hope she likes it.

Sewing machine with wrapping paper that repeats “passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood” from The Onion

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 23/12/2025

@pickle-bucket.bsky.social here’s my new truck

Truck that says “I’m glad I’m cummin not strokin” on it.

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 18/12/2025

Marco Rubio standing while looking down like a helpless child who just vomited on themselves, while a man does the pose of holding up The Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 09/12/2025

Picture of Connor O’Malley yelling “it’s not fun to be on the fucking computer”

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 04/12/2025

@pickle-bucket.bsky.social

Eating a meatball sandwich at 10:30 AM

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 28/11/2025

I never knew Mom’s spaghetti meant it was cooked in warm water for 19 seconds, still rigid.

A kid eating spaghetti like it’s a breadstick

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 28/11/2025

They’re just normal men

Donald Sutherland as an arsonist in Backdraft

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 20/11/2025

The Smiling Man behind Larry Ellison, looking like Bud Dwyer

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 19/11/2025

The Smiling Man behind Sam Altman

Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com · 15/11/2025

Me looking up what this means

Guy pointing simultaneously pointing a gun at someone else and his own head.