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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like I’m sorry I’m not learning what a fera fruit is. Not a serious restaurant

Screenshot from Buckhorn grill:

BUCKHORN
BBQ + GRILL

Served with clean-fried® Roadhouse Onions and chipotle ranch
clean-fried®
Zero Acre
We fry with organic Fera fruit oil, not seed oils, consciously sourced from Zero Acre Farms.

Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Had a really wonderful time riding the Bay Area Super Prestige cross series first race at Cesar Chavez park in Berkeley yesterday. Or as it might more properly be described: the most rock lobsters in one place ever until the next race

A big cyclocross start line with riders staged and in the background is the San Francisco Bay with the city behind it

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Acnistus australe” at FlowerLand in Albany Ca

Purple flowered plant with a tag saying Acnistus

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is a creature that is inhabiting my wall of grapes and he’s been sitting like this for the last two hours

Citrus the white/yellow dog sitting attentively watching a big grape bush a few feet in front of him

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

the best spy we’ve seen in decades is active right now. Seems like obvious choice. Suave, gadgets, sleeps and whatnot

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

LinkedIn really getting into it this year

Email inbox:
Ruffwear
Introducing the PoopZ™
5:30 AM >

LinkedIn News
Oracle conducts sweeping layoffs
5:16 AM >

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This fellar just defoliating pigeons in my tree and refusing to be interrupted by me standing right by it

A Cooper’s hawk (probably?) eating a pigeon in my back yard

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Thinking new year new me so going to commit fully to vibes based training starting with zwift companions fitness tracker. Maybe fuck about and get one of those RNG oora rings and whatnot

A very silly zwift companion line chart with rows detraining, fresh, productive, and overreaching. I have only barely bumped in to productive like once in the last three months leading me to wonder how far past death I would have to be to hit overreaching

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I rode a cross race at the local microbrew/farm and had the best teammate ever to support and hang out

Me and the kiddo after the race. I’m a bit muddy, my bike is very muddy, kid is fine

Hanging out on the sofas after the race in our matching hand up shirts

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Help the internet is roasting postdoc me

of those things. If you're a person who uses R primarily as a statistician you'll probably have tripped over these problems occasionally (and most likely caused them for other people): code doesn't work on other people's systems, packages overwrite each other, you don't really track versions and all in all it becomes really easy for an R project to turn into a complete, irretrievable rat's nest of defects and error messages.

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Stormin through the party like my name was El Niño

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It means you dropped them on the group ride even though they paid 23,000 for Wouts alternate from the 2021 MSR

r/CasualConversation
Join
u/asaltoo • 15h
Dentist stared at my teeth and asked "have you been to Slovenia?" then refused to explain - what does this MEAN?
...

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is basically me describing all my movies to my wife these days

whit
@whitneyarner

now that I'm older and wiser I realize it is only weak fools who worry about things like "plot holes" and "logical inconsistencies" in movies. I'm sorry I'm not a nerd and more importantly, what is happening and how things work are none of my business.

7:09 PM • 12/11/21 • TweetDeck

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Repost with an iconic fictional band

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Every day that I’m remote working from here on I’m going to be like “I wonder if the neighborhood cat is going to come piss everyone off again today”

The stupid black neighborhood cat clinging to the screen outside the window. Below you can see the dogs nose and in the upper right you can see my cat

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Update: our visitor made the mistake of returning when The Big Boss was around

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I made it 2 1/2 years but finally broke down and bought the baby synth

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Currently having a train beer and admiring some big boats in Suisun Bay

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

He’ll yeah I saw one irl not too long ago

A lifted smart car with winch, brush guard, rack, and off-road tires in a parking garage

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Citrus was completely insufferable in my office while I was trying to work and it it turns out that he had discovered a spy

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Flea has been playing Gangster Crony #2 for like 30+ years and it’s one of my favorite recurring bits in film

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could etc etc

A tiny smart car with big off road tires, a grill guard, winch, and rack on top

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Spoiling my cat by letting him do his two favorite things: drugs and inflicting pain on the bearded human

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Ok but what if I’m looking for 1 recipe using 96 lbs of ground beef

Screenshot of and msn article
Copied contents:
Home
msn
Taste of Home
96 Recipes Using 1 Pound of Ground Beef
Story by Rashanda Cobbins • 1d
1 / 96

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I don’t usually go out of my way to hand it to them but it really seems like the whole world is aligned against them here

Headline that says

Starbucks Is Launching Olive Oil-Infused Coffee Drinks-Here's What to
Know
To say we're intrigued is an understatement.

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The 65 feet of hesitant one pedal coasting into the step through is just completely sending me.

The Simpson’s Milhouse dad showing his car bed in the first panel. The second is Homer with the original quote replaced with “I ride to where I need to stop and then get off my bike”

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Ok but what if I told you the company was called Devastating Pyrotechnics, their slogan was Exceeding Your Expectations, and their website looked like my geocities page from 28 years ago

A website for Devastating Pyrotechnics: Exceeding Your Expectations and the whole thing looks about what you would expect of it
Copied image text:

DETHSTAING
囍
MRONECHNICS
Exceeding Your Expectations
HOME
ABOUT US
EVENTS AND MEDIA
PLANNING YOUR EVENT
TRAINING
CONTACT US
WELCOME TO DEVASTATING
PYROTECHNICS

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This was in the next town over from me and it still shook the garage door on my house so hard I thought someone backed a truck into it

Sacramento
CBS NEWS
LOCAL NEWS
Fireworks facility explodes, causes fire in Yolo County town of Esparto

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Backed up in cover calling for air support because on of the elite hammer throwers has taken the hill and is up there with a 30 pack of labatts and crushing your comrades with a hail of 16 lb shot

Ethan katzenberg after winning gold last year

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Waking up on the west coast and checking pcs this morning

I don't know what any of this shit is, and I'm fucking scared.

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just picked up this bottle of olive oil at the market and realized it’s the harvest from when I was riding cyclocross around their orchards and now focaccia can have subtle undertones of sweated out PBR

Me holding a new bottle of Bariani olive oil with the harvest date fall 2024

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It was! I believe the one in Oakland was a favorite of Pixar’s studio there, but I forget the exact lore

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Today I learned that somewhere on Al Gore’s internet there is or was a guide to Bouldering in Vacaville written by the beloved ice cream store featured in the 2009 Pixar movie “Up”

Screenshot of a blog on a Fentons creamery webpage. Highlighted is the passage “Check out our Guide to Bouldering in Vacaville for more info about this incredible sport and area”

Full text:

After an arduous hike, you make it to the top of your favorite hill. A short climb up and there stands Mother Boulder itself with its impressive height in front- no small task for anyone who lacks b
Idering know-how! It's
time to get climbing! Check out our Guide to Bouldering in Vacaville for more info about this incredible sport and areal The boulders aren't just limited to rock climbers, so go ahead and explore some of the stunning hill trails while getting an amazing workout with all those scenic views we offer up here on
top (and take advantage if you find one
Instagram-worthy swing)!
What's the best way to explore this area? Be courteous and careful of your surroundings.
When you visit, please remember that cattle are in close proximity with their cows - may be very sick or injured so make sure no @ fentonscreamery.com - Private

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