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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

People thought we should trade Tatis. 🤣🤣🤣

Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

AI overview of meeting: Participants discussed tree varieties and shared stories about Spanish moss and armadillos John mentioned health risks associated with handling Spanish moss due to pests like lice David and John discussed the potential for armadillos to transmit the leprosy virus to humans

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Prospects looking at AJ Preller.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Finished @alanallport.bsky.social Advance Britannia. Lowered my view of Churchill to a degree. Thoughtful ethical takes on the Bengal famine, the impact of racism and the strategic bombing campaign. Together with Britain at Bay, my favorite history work since Gerhard Weinberg's World at Arms.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mitch McConnel is Schrodinger's Senator, both alive and dead until he is observed.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mildly rooting for Norway as they have the most US football adjacent player.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Man riding his bike the wrong way, no helmet, five year old sitting behind him. Come on man.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Astronauts had Outlook freeze up on them and the toilet back up. They could have just come to my house.😂

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Had somebody send me a text with filler words which I had not run across before. I will say 'um' and 'ah' as I think of what comes next, made me wonder if their fingers just needed to keep moving as they thought of what to write next?

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I remembered to get the suitcase down for my wife.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

January has been fucked up for two years running. I ride my bike around the neighborhood and at the end of January there are always kids headed to the school for Baseball tryouts. These kids are saving January every year for me.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Found out ICE picked up our gardener. He has been working with us for 10 years, two teenaged kids. So much for 'worst of the worst.' Not sure how these bastards sleep.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I hope everyone realizes that Minnesota moms bring more logistical prowess than any of those insurgencies - perhaps on order the Ho Chi Minh Trail level of logistics, but at the tactical level. Insurgents are incredibly unimpressive when it comes to logistics.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Battle of Waterloo Minute by Minute In 60 Seconds credit: Mapsinanutshell (Youtube) More about the battle: brilliantmaps.com/waterloo-...

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

What we 'reply all' to echoes through eternity.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

There was a woman at the gym working out in a full length dress. Have to admit, I respect it.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

There is a family of spiders in the back of our mailbox and I enjoy greeting them every day. Pretty sure our neighbor thinks I'm quite mad.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Every year around Christmas the Y has a Poinsettia dinner and they close off the squat racks for like a week to set up. Is it even Christmas if there is no squat rack?

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande has been gathering dust on my bookshelf for about ten years. My wife saw it and now when I don't check my todo list she whacks me in the head with it, so ... very effective!

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Smaller guy next to me at the gym hitting three plates easily; I need to figure out when he comes and pick other times.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Thinking the ultimate Advent Calendar for Dad's would be a new tool every day. But obscure tools, ones you need like once or twice in your life. It would make you a king among your peers. "You needed a pickle fork? Should have just asked..."

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I saw this woman in a walking boot working out at the gym. I mean if I have a hangnail I am skipping leg day.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Told a young woman her front passenger side tire was very low on air, so think I have achieved peak boomer. In my defense her tire was really low and it worried me.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Joe Alt out for the season.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

lol, Herbert will not talk to the TNF crew and they ran off to the studio.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Bandy flashback there.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Things that make you go hmm...

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

When my daughter was in college she volunteered at a suicide hotline. Then she worked at Americorp teaching reading at an under resourced school. Now she is a school psych at a bilingual school that is losing mental health grants. This administration has cut everything she has worked for.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/04/2025

The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We are being liberated from our retirement accounts.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Wait until Elon does for Social Security what he has done for Twitter.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

“In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.”

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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Apparently cheese lovers live longer; I knew it!

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It feels like they can just fire all the writers at SNL now.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

That's how you pronounce Camus? Why am I not informed of these things.

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/02/2025

Boromir: one does not simply walk into Mordor Frodo and Sam:

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Jake @brehlol.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Eagles winning because of DEI (a white cornerback)

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Eagles do not skip leg day.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

@alanallport.bsky.social Britain at Bay finally popped to the top of my read stack. Excellent writing and analysis; I particularly enjoyed the first chapters. The background on the Arab revolt was eye opening for me. The context on Munich has me rethinking Chamberlain.

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Brian @dabolts.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My sister loves plants and growing things. I am a history buff, particularly wwii. I found her a book on botanists in Leningrad saving seeds while besieged by the Nazis; it was the crossover story I was not expecting.

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