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Frightening Brian ☠️

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One of the Brians you will meet Illustrator & Designer Preparator at a Research Library www.bgeorge.com

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11h
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Goodnight. 🖼️ Linette No
Little ghost and owl perched on a branch, three trees and moon in background, painting.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Picture it: Sicily, 1640…
Sophia Petrillo at the stove, cookingA cartographers map of Sicily, on parchment, from the year 1640. All costal
Towns are written in tiny script. The southern portion of Italy can be seen as well
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ghost, Hester Cox.
Deer amongst trunks of trees in forest, painting.
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CONAN, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
God Save Colleen, Butternut Sage Ravioli with Dijon Candied Walnuts. 


Longtime fans of the blog may notice that this is the first recipe I’ve featured that calls for sage! For years, I’ve been gesturing at a vague distaste for sage. (For my White Bean Soup with Brown Sugar Garlic Bread, I said, “Those with a naive palate could also add some sage, and perhaps later, Brad will ask you on a drive to Lover’s Lane.” How unspeakably rude!) You see, it’s time I come clean. It’s my husband who doesn’t like it. Actually, it’s my husband who claims he doesn’t like it.

His list of professed dislikes is infinitely long and includes spinach, mushroom, lettuce, tomato, paprika, carrot, curry powder, corn, avocado, fish, tarragon, oregano, broccoli, and much, much more. As a food lover, it has been difficult to work within his parameters, but any good chef loves a challenge. And though it stings my heart, every meal…

ADS: Paper money being KILLED in 4 nights. 

Drinking trick. Appearance of amazing drinking. 

Stop squeezing your bags! Gentle munch dot com. sloughed off into the garbage is a chance to try anew.

Imagine my surprise, then, when a few weeks ago, while out to lunch with his boss, I watched my husband happily eat a Cobb salad.

Having chosen the venue, the boss, a domineering galoot, ordered for the table. Tomato! Lettuce! Boiled egg! Some of my husband’s most reviled things, I thought. But I observed as he cleaned his plate with a smile, and as he dutifully laughed at the horrid oaf’s unrepeatable jokes.

Picture a hopelessly picky unitiate, ducking under the napkin to come face to face with an ortolan! The disgust of such a person does not begin to rival what I felt that afternoon. I said nothing of the incident. But I have been running my own set of private experiments.

The trouble, I realized, often begins when my husband asks me what’s in our meal, before even taking the first bite. Chefs delight in relaying the provenance of a dish! The preparation! The technique! But he has been using this all the while to torture me. To latch onto one dash of an herb, as a frustrated cop might a pinch of jaywalking, to sentence the whole dish to the bin.

So I have been making fabulous, decadent meals, and lying about…

ADS: Lovable Mouse Fan. 

What’s in homes to choke everyone? Your gasping family begs for the butter technique. 

YOU CAN STOP THEIR BIRTHDAYS, YOU KNOW.

what’s inside. I’ve been preparing whatever my heart desires, but when asked, making sure to stick to only to those ingredients which I know are pre-approved. Curries! Gazpachos! Do you know I made a haddock stew and said it was chicken? All lustily consumed as if he‘d never eaten in his life. How could I have ever married this inattentive rube, who would rather eat half the ingredients of two “Woppers Junior” than an artfully composed meal made by his meticulous wife?

Now, I know my husband has been lying about his distastes to anguish and vex me, so he’d have found some objections sooner or later. For this reason, I built in release valves at regular intervals. I cooked some of his favorite things—things that he frequently requests and adores, and said I’d experimented with a grating of nutmeg or a sprig of sage. (He hates sage most of all.) So he got to criticize me, and I got to watch him sadly get up, and with legs animated by pride, fight through the quicksand of our kitchen to set his full plate back on the counter. 

Do not despair, foodies! Myself, my friends, and our neighbors have frequently eaten well due to this hideous habit of his. Though he does sometimes like to employ the trashcan for more severe offenses, he couldn’t bring himself to scrape his beloved meatballs away, as if his mind was hoping it would change itself.

ADS: HUH?? I guess you’re still using expired crud. 

It pays to behave. Yum!


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Move away from this geographic feature known for spewing who knows what.Then came today’s recipe, my butternut squash and sage ravioli with candied dijon walnuts, made just last night. A quick one, as I wanted to leave time for quite an after dinner speech.

Plates licked clean, I began coyly. “I’m surprised you liked that so much. It had quite a bit of sage in it.” He sputtered. I rose.

“Because of me, your life has been full of all good things. Your heart full of love, your home full of children’s laughter, your table full of friends, and for the past two weeks, your belly full of sage! And mushrooms! And everything that makes life worth living!”

He slept at a hotel last night. His boss wouldn’t answer his calls.

I dedicate this recipe to CarolFromBristol who scolded me months ago for referring to my Crispy Duck with Black Cherry Gastrique as life-changing. “please. a recipecan never change you[sic] life,” you said.

Carol, a recipe can make you cry. A recipe can put hair on your chest. A recipe can lift your feet off the ground. A recipe can make your cat leave home and a different one can make it come back. A recipe can take an actor to bed. A recipe can change your life.

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How more in danger could you be.
Power line buried underground?
Funeral friends come from out of town.
ExtendYourOwnLife.biz.

Ne’er-do-well bait. Scofflaw trap dot com.
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Picture it: Sicily, 1640…
Sophia Petrillo at the stove, cookingA cartographers map of Sicily, on parchment, from the year 1640. All costal
Towns are written in tiny script. The southern portion of Italy can be seen as well
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Silmarillion Sauron is the kind of guy that would capture a bunch of elves but then make them listen to his album and be very invested in their feedback
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
15 years ago, beauty products were called Aunt Mim’s Garden: Herbal Nourish Creme And now they’re called Helix Mind Laboratories: Triple Restore reFutureMist
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Giving up physical media means giving up this
The same record with the gatefold displayed showing the full body of the woman floating with balloons and a helium rank. The balloons at the right edge are cut out to the shape of the balloon edges which fold over on to the other side. It’s really coolA record cover for Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra. On the cover along with the track listing is a woman floating in the air with balloons
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Been trying to articulate something like this for a few weeks now. Good thread
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
FATA
MORGANA 
André CASTAIGNE
THE CENTURY Co
Green cover, gold lettering, flower design.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is true
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Damn these covers are 🔥
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i like when i’m walking too close to where a pigeon is walking and he does his bitchy little flap-hop. well excuuuuuuse me
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It was great to see this project and hear Maya Lin in conversation last night at Princeton. Check it out and share a memory for this #Sciart project. I love how the information is presented. www.whatismissing.org
Three people sit on a stage, conversing in front of an audience. The artist, Maya Lin, in conversation with a curator and an ecology professorA text introduction to Maya Lin’s project called “What is Missing, A Multi-Sited Memorial to the Planet” people are gathered in front on the text and images, looking at them
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 23/09/2026
Bluesky has a feed of art inspired by science. With zero AI. #academicsky #medsky #ArtHistory #nature 🐡🎨🧪
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 23/09/2026
now here's something to celebrate!
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
The Herb Moon by John Oliver Hobbes, red cover, gold lettering and design.
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you haven’t been to the Brandywine Museum and gone on a tour of his studio, get there. Life-changing
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026
LET THE PRESIDENT BUILD THE TERRORDROME!
Chris Farley and Adam Sandler in one of their The Herlihy Boy sketches
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
Among The 
Mushrooms
Green cover, white lettering, fungi decoration
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every news outlet shames itself by using the word “skeptic.” Skeptic implies someone waiting for evidence, not someone committed to ignoring it. Vaccine denialism does not deserve to be lent the prestige of critical thinking.
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Last time I had this was my two year anniversary with my high school girlfriend
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He got bit by an animal and became that animal
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis lib: no, no, no. You don't get it. You have to vote for the transphobic Democrat because otherwise bad policies would affect ME and not just you.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Newspaper headline: WOODLAND FAIRIES DEFEATED IN FLORAL ARRANGEMENT CONTEST. In the article’s photo we see a man in a sweater vest posing next to his winning arrangement with a 1st place medal around his neck. To his left we see his opponents: a defeated band of woodland fairies with their losing arrangement. They look distraught and confused and they should be, reader. How could this happen to the heavy tournament favorites? They’re woodland fairies. Flowers are their life and yet when it was all on the line, they came up short. The winner was just a floral enthusiast not even a professional florist. A shocking defeat and an inspiring win.
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John in the Mountains of Madden @mathletesfoot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ape attack survivor
@pissvortex

Tried to flex this on a first date but the waitress
took it and asked what it was and why it said
"pissvortex" on it. I explained that it's called X
Money and she said they don't take that but
when I tried to explain she just kept laughing. I
told her just to try it so she did but it declined
which made her laugh harder. WTF @elonmusk
@Support

Follow

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Austin
@pissvortex

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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@wprb.com everything okay over there? *crickets*
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Leger-Felicite Snorlax🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
getting kicked out of the fancy dinner for 'going denethor mode'
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Multiple times I responded to people saying things like ‘we should turn the Middle East into a parking lot’ with ‘you know I’m part Lebanese right?’
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know it's where we're at in 2026 and we all know it, but it bears stating the obvious that every major company in the world is openly throwing a tantrum that people expect them to provide goods and services instead of just sending them a payment of $200 every month for nothing
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You should go see this
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
How To Sleep, George, pale green cover, poppy design.
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 12/10/2024
good morning
Lisa Simpson coffee meme. the coffee pot is labeled "coffee" and the cup is labeled "my coffee cup". Lisa Simpson, holding the mug, is labeled "me." She has a weird expression with her eyes narrowed. Usually this image is used to show a person's appreciation for something that isn't coffee in a sort of metaphorical way (e.g. by labeling the coffee "gay shit") so I'm kind of doing an anti-joke thing here by using it for what it's literally depicting. Please clap
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just bare-hand-snatched a mosquito out of the air in the bathroom. I will sleep tonight
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thank you lesbian tractor witch
image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day
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Kliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mad Magazine predicts social media.
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