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Credentials, Dan

@dancredentials.bsky.social
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Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large. Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 9h
Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.
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Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 11h
Tom Heidecker on cinema with the dootle dots, terrible cartoon characters he made up
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nationalize the Ivys. Turn them into the low-amenity Regional Federal Universities that Freddie DeBoer proposed in one of his lucid moments. Ban frats from these universities. admit applicants who pass some very basic qualifications by sortition.
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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look, I can't be bothered to set up Google's home automation because my life has enough exceptions that it doesn't make sense
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grab your pilae, hastatus, we've been called up for legion.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lmao well this quote from Isaac Asimov certainly elucidates the experience of reading his women characters.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For me its the smug sense of superiority
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seen in Birmingham
And flyer posted on a bathroom bulletin board at Saturn music venue in Birmingham, Alabama featuring the pencil drawing version of the front man from A-Ha as seen in the video for “Take on Me”, labeled “Take” with pull away tags labeled “On Me”
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You done hired the hitmaker
Framed magazine advertisement for MPV electric drums featuring frequent Steely Dan contributor Bernard Purdie behind a kit
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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.
The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads:  "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."
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Yod of Nobunaga @yoda-nobunaga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The best TV show of the 21st century is Iron Chef reruns
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If someone came to interview with me for a job and brought an iced coffee I would wordlessly take a huge noisy slurp out of my boba tea to big dick them
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
$22 dollar burgers and $8 PBRs just hit different in one of these
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bringing an iced coffee to an interview with me would definitely be rude because then I would feel embarrassed to offer you a cup of Bunn-burned Maxwell House, the god fearing honest working man’s coffee that I offer to all prospective hires
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perfect for anyone experiencing diarrhea after devouring a couple of sea turtle nests
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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
:Lateralus plays softly in the distance:
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everyone knew you
A gigantic sign in the hardware store reading “TOOL WORLD”
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 25/09/2026
Lost being above Twin Peaks The Return is a certified New York Times moment
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just heard an American Byzantinist describe herself as “neither Greek nor Turkish” on a podcast and my mind instantly filled in “but a secret third thing.”
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MST movies that I think are Actually Good: Kitten With a Whip The Soviet fairy tale movies Tormented Parts: The Clonus Horror The Deadly Mantis
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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
follow-ups could have included Fripping the Script What the Fripp Fripp’s Quips Power Fripp
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is exactly how a guy who was writing lyrics for Hawkwind at the time is supposed to look, no notes
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Check out this badass Dimetrodon bookplate that 20th century dean of American vertebrate paleontology Alfred Romer used for his personal library
A line sketch of a Dimetrodon at three quarters view, surmounting a name plate reading “ROMER”
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's this one and "More Than a Feeling"
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On Demons and Wizards by Uriah Heep, track one side A is a ballad about a wizard with kind eyes. They fuckin delivered right away.
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Cheer Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 21/09/2026
“ACAB includes the dream police” listen you buffoon, if media literacy wasn’t dead in this country you’d understand that the Cheap Trick is anti-dream law enforcement already
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm at a loss to explain how "having a funny little guy live in your house" became gendered, but glad to see the tide turning I guess.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm not super interested in the various depraved escapades of our petit bourgeoisie, but I AM highly amused that a physical altercation which required calling police pertains to this rundown TWICE, once at Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar and later the Miner's Claim and Silt Restaurant
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Her: you must be NRBQ keyboardist and vocalist Terry Adams holding a Jazz pattern paper cup while being interviewed for A&E's Breakfast With the Arts in 2003 if you think we're fucking Me:
NRBQ keyboardist and vocalist Terry Adams holding a Jazz pattern paper cup while being interviewed for A&E's Breakfast With the Arts in 2003
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A big exception to this seems to be late 70s/early 80s power pop generally, which I am ga-ga for but every record seems to have supplies vastly outstripping demand. This offends me from a DIFFERENT angle, but I welcome the relief on the ol' pocketbook.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What it feels like as a Swede when they're hosting Italians and someone asks for a glass of water
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Rick @crystalpepsi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The answer to “which bird is the biggest asshole” depends on perspective. If you’re a human it’s geese, if you’re a bird it’s blue jays.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was astounded to learn that “Smooth” is basically all Rob Thomas, Santana didn’t write a lick of it he just laid down some noodling over the completed track. Rob Thomas is the writer of the biggest pop single ever.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did you know you can listen to early Genesis records and read wikipedia articles about extinct languages and no one can stop you? They don't have a legal leg to stand on.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
alex trebek's wardrobe furnished by GUY MR GUY GUY GUY BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the library is the most sacred of public institutions
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synapsid @synapsid.wtf · 18/09/2026
THE DOLLY ZOOM
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dipping my toe in record collecting has largely been a cycle of "Oooh, I bet this cool old album I love would sound amazing on the original vinyl {typing} FUCK" again and again.
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 18/09/2026
At the end of the day, even though he's a bad guy, I'm having a hard time watching Mitch McConnell be a victim of elder abuse. I wish there were something I could do to help, like scream at him until he soils himself or trick him into adding me to his will.
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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Charles Entertainment Brown
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of the times I've laughed hardest in my life was one time in conversation at the dinner table when my dad, making a comparison to the classic football bit in Peanuts, said "It's like Lucy pulling the football away from Charles Brown." It took minutes for me to regain my composure.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 18/09/2026
he donated it all to two charities, Guide Dogs for the Blind & The National Autistic Society as big a piece of shit as Morrissey is, that's how awsome Johnny Marr is
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The Smith's Johnny Marr's guitars sell for almost £4m at auction
One instrument was used on the The Smiths' debut album and also appeared on the cover of Oasis's debut single.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Important to remember that Jim Cramer was a college Trotskyist. Where the typical business pervert invokes Stalin when talking socialism, Jim reverts to his old conditioning by invoking Lenin as the avatar of socialism instead of that midwife of the deformed workers state Djugashvili
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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
is this anything? i can no longer tell if this is anything
An edit of some media for the game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, replacing the protagonist's face with that of Cathy from her eponymous comic, and the title edited to read "Ackackin's Creed IV: Ack Flag".

The font isn't a particularly good match because I couldn't be bothered downloading the right one but it's otherwise surprisingly good for a lazy edit.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're back with French Fuck Friday, where we admire a different fucked up looking airplane from France. It may not be fair to pick on experimental designs, but just LOOK at how fucked the Gérin 1938 Varivol V.6 looks! The idea was a variable geometry wing that extends to aid take off and landing
A small propellor driven plane with an elongated nose hosing a very unusual pair of wings: a naked spar with several smaller spars hanging off the back with a very thing wing surface only beginning several feet from the fuselage. An aerodynamic model of the aircraft showing how the variable geometry wing works: for increased lift at take off and landing, a wing surface extends out from the inner wing surface to increase wing surface and reduce wing loading. This can be retracted at altitude to take advantage of performance improvements gained with a smaller, slimmer wing. A photograph from above of the aircraft with the lift-improving wing extensions deployed.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Honorary mention for French Fuck Friday
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is what it feels like every time therapy-speak crops up in sitcom scripts
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spinning Marshall Crenshaw and starting a Pillars of Eternity 1 playthrough, as one does
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