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Dylan Murphy

@cotangent.space
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Transplant to the Sonoran desert. Perpetually underbiked. he/they. Resident Stan whisperer for the Tampa Bay Rays. Formerly: U of A Mathematics and iSchool.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16h
#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...
Recalled electric bikes.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 30/09/2026
"These hummingbirds are too graceful. I need them goofier." "How about if it's soaked by the rain?" "Not good enough. SILLIER." "Drenched and directly facing the camera?" "That'll do." #birds
A male broad-billed hummingbird perching at a feeder. The bird is facing the camera with its beak pointed straight at the camera, and its feathers are damp and ruffled
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 27/09/2026
One of these days the Ravens will show up to play on the first drive instead of the third or fourth. I'm sure of it
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 20/09/2026
h e r o n 🪶
A green heron standing with its head up high facing to the left, wading in shallow water covered with some kind of leafy aquatic plant
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 15/09/2026
Make a band deadly: Death Cap for Cutie
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 12/09/2026
h e r o n 🪶
A great blue heron standing in the shallows at the bank of a river, facing out onto the river
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 12/09/2026
かに
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible: Snack Sabbath
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 09/09/2026
Shit, looks like they've mechanized my job
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 31/08/2026
Today's workout setup: clown face
A pair of wooden gymnastics rings hanging from a pull up bar in an outdoor gym. A red elastic band hangs between the rings, making the rings look like eyes and the band like a droopy cartoon nose.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 27/08/2026
Is it me or is the disc horse becoming more and more tethered to reality (as the world gets less so, I suppose)
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 27/08/2026
There are many photos of the moon just like this one, but this one is mine
The moon. That's it
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 23/08/2026
Defying the extreme heat warning for gravel and flowers
A gray touring-style bicycle standing on the side of a trail through the desert, with an assortment of cacti and shrubs in the background, under a blue sky with scattered clouds.Close up of a cream colored, cup shaped flower with a pale orange center (I think it's a Coulter's hibiscus)
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 21/08/2026
Is there any reason to believe the nightmare burrito poster is a real ad in the real world and not a fake ad created to riff on the AI poster backlash?
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 19/08/2026
Strongly agree. I also like to drop a can of smoked oysters/mussels or mackerel fillets in for bonus protein, and, if I'm feeling like something spicy, a small dollop of the Calabrian chili paste from Trader Joe's (their jarred harissa is very serviceable here too). No additional prep, still cheap.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 18/08/2026
Who is the Orioles announcer who always says Junior Caminero's name like "Camiñero" and is anyone going to tell him
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 18/08/2026
Censored data
Still of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation with a black censor bar over his eyes
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I'm the driver of a hatchback in the Catalina Foothills who didn't look for oncoming bikes at a stop sign. Or, I'm the driver of an SUV making a right on red a block from my home, who looked for oncoming cars but not pedestrians in the crosswalk.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 09/08/2026
A few from me, in no real order: Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King Susanna Clarke, Piranesi Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police Olga Ravn, The Employees
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 09/08/2026
I drink plenty of coffee, but I've never had an "energy drink" a la Red Bull, Monster, Celsius, etc.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 04/08/2026
You know it's been a long deadline season when the dingerbot breaks and you recognize the MLBAMIDs on sight anyway
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 30/07/2026
I think it's got to be the Hobbit
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 23/07/2026
I won a six-pack of beer off my grad school classmate in a bet over whether I could run a mile backwards in nine minutes.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 22/07/2026
If the answer isn't the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic then I'm unsubscribing
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 16/07/2026
Someone needs to recreate the old "Millennials to Snake People" browser extension but make it "Testosterone to Precious Bodily Fluids"
Screenshot of a Guardian headline:

Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency

US defense secretary unveils plan that will work to ensure service members have the 'right testosterone levels'
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 11/07/2026
Wow what a shot
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 07/07/2026
Nobody's allowed to score again, Andres Cantor has fully lost his voice
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 07/07/2026
Can't deny that one!
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 06/07/2026
happens to the best of us, dingerbot
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 04/07/2026
HOLY SHIT
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/07/2026
[person who has never seen soccer before] “oh no is that guy hurt?”
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I hope vozinha never has to pay for a drink for the rest of his life
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 03/07/2026
Man, Salah made that look so smooth
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 30/06/2026
Can we have another 30 minutes extra time? As a treat?
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 30/06/2026
!!!
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 28/06/2026
Went out looking for birds, found some honorary birds instead
A sky-blue colored dragonfly perching on the end of a reed in the Sweetwater Wetlands park in Tucson, AZ
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 27/06/2026
Years ago I did some internet digging to try to look up the maker's marks on the assorted cast iron skillets I had accumulated from thrift stores, and I'm pretty sure one of them is from the 1930s.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 26/06/2026
you've piloted your last stone temple
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 25/06/2026
Ooh a new Connections-like (also if you haven't heard Green's interview with the author of NYT Connections on his podcast a couple weeks ago, it's a fun listen)
Score image for the June 24 4x3 game showing 176 points
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 19/06/2026
Aww yeah, love to be an unknown or ambiguous identity There were of course like 10 more specific cards too, of course, at least one of which contained a factual error ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. All of us Dylans Murphy just blend together, can't tell us apart at all
Image of output from the "in the weights" tool describing Dylan Murphy as an "unknown or ambiguous identity" and a "name shared by multiple lesser-known people
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 18/06/2026
How have I lived so long without knowing the Colombian football team are called Los Cafeteros??
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 31/05/2026
It happened to me and it can happen to you! I do not want to admit how much lint I pulled out of my phone's charging port a couple of months ago
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CJ @virmalised.us · 24/05/2026
Sea monkeys depressed? Krill issue
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Saskya @saskya.com · 24/05/2026
Your burgers catch on fire? Grill issue.
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 24/05/2026
Holes in your chinos? Twill issue
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 15/05/2026
let's make today flower friday
Beach plum flowers (small white flowers with yellow stamens inside) clustered on a tree branch; in the background, there are more branches and a blue sky with scattered clouds
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 03/05/2026
For the trivia question, @neilsolondz.bsky.social: based on Morgan Freeman, maybe Shawshank Redemption? Can't remember what year it came out
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Dylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 30/04/2026
One segment of car culture I will never understand is when people get vanity plates that are just a literal description of the car. I biked past a Land Rover Discovery today. The license plate read LRDISC. Someone paid real American dollars for that!
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