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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Should have gone to bed but locked in finishing #marvelcrisisprotocol version of Green Goblin for the boys. Some day I'll learn how to photograph these things. #40k #mini

Green Goblin mini of a grinning Goblin double fisting pumpkin bombs escaping on a glider

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One for grad school but I'm reminded of a Hans Moleman joke: I'll take the saddest, most frustrating book about Native American treatymaking you have. No, that's too sad

Pen and Ink Witchcraft by Colin G. Calloway

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ironically even the FUCKING DUH Institute remains solely human authored

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

what about bruce banner makes the hulk such have a broke ass haircut

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Honestly think I've never done a better #miniature coloring and highlight job than on this #marvelcrisisprotocol version of Hulk! Was very fun, plus a good reason to buy bright green and deep purple!

The Immortal Hulk jumping off of some vague rubble about to - get this - Hulk smash with both hands. He looks very strong.

The Hulk's back muscles and more of the vague rubble with some smoke plumes that... Didn't turn out!

A slightly 3/4 frame of the Hulk and you can really see his serratus anterior, one of the muscles I feel smart for knowing about

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm beginning to think this "Chaos Daemon" character is up to no good... Pretty great, gross stuff! Pretty neat!

Paperback copy of Fulgrim by Graham McNeill

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Repeating but 1 year in, 2 years in, and 4 years into this hobby! I got a lot more practice in the first two years but that's life baby

Lord Discordant on Helstalker in dark red with no base decorations. Pretty good for one year in imo

Venomcrawler on concrete for two years in actual Word Bearers colors

The Forgefiend which I hope we can all agree shows a steady improvement in skill

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bought this one to celebrate being done teaching for the year and finished the day before I went back to work. Summer was crazy okay #warhammer #40k #worbearers

A Word Bearers Forgefiend on a muddy base done... Pretty good?

The same Forgefiend from an alternate angle with clearer understandings of its shortcomings

A piece of interest is because of some gluing gone wrong I had to had it balance on something so I kitbashed an Ultramarine something in the mud for it to be stomping on

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Resume writing is so funny because it'll be like - Construct low-carbohydrate meals for nutritional success in afternoon scenarios (Eating lunch meat straight out of the bag)

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Marvin it’s your Cousin! Cousin Montresor! You know that fresh cask of Amontillado you were looking for? It’s down here in these mysterious catacombs follow me

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

PATIENT: Doctor, I'm depressed. Life feels miserable and pointless. What do I do? How do I become happy again? THERAPIST: I know what'll cheer you up. The cask of Amontillado I have down in the basement! Follow me MAN: But doctor, I thought this was a Pagliacci tweet THERAPIST: It can be two things

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

-on the Planet of the Apes- Me: uh oh is this even legal? I don't want to break Ape Law The orangutan lawyer who has taken pity on me: we just call it "law" here

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

From a pamphlet from 1836 that blames abolitionists for the rising tension over slavery; "So much for the tolerant left!"

"It is not by argument; that the abolitionists have produced the present unhappy excitement. Argument; has not; been the characteristic of their publications. Denunciations of slaveholding as man-stealing, robbery, piracy, and worse than murder; con- sequent vituperation of slaveholders as knowingly guilty of the worst of crimes; passionate appeals to the feelings of the in- habitants of the northern states; gross exaggerations of the moral and physical condition of the slaves, have formed the staple of their addresses to the public. We do not; mean to say that there has been no calm and Christian discussion of the subject. We mean merely to state what has, to the best of our knowledge, been the predominant character of the anti-slavery publications."

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You simply love to see it. @kleinman.bsky.social have you heard about this yet?

Daily Iowan (University of Iowa's newspaper) reporting that the conservative make work program Center for Intellectual Freedom) is on hold until 2028.

Roast Beef from Achewood saying Oh hee hee hee! in rapturous glee

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Mixing the two hobbies I should spend more time doing with a surprisingly character-rich take on a very dumb (complimentary) setting. Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter.

Paper back cover of Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter in front of a Word Bearers zealot mini and a huge Titan (both very relevant to the story hilariously)

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My decades based Solar Auxilia project continues! These heckin minis are totes the 2010th Legion command squad, colored in the traditional Millennial Grey. #warhammer #minipainting

The 5 solar auxilia figures in millennial grey, light blue, and off-white. They have a banner that reads "LOL" and "MM" for 2000, though I should add an X for 2010. Pretend I did that

A detail picture of two figures. One is the radar guy and I tried to color a glow from the radar handset and didn't do awful. The other is the banner guy previously mentioned.

The other three in detail including the main guy and two, uh, other guys. I tried to make it look like they were on laminate flooring but it looks more like cobblestone :(

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Airport delays aren't all bad! A Central California noir (that old genre) with characters you really might know (for good or for ill). Get Lost by Justin Halpern!

The hardcover edition of Get Lost by Justin Halpern in front of the airport tarmac that my last picture was in front of thanks to forgetting to have pilots (...?)

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In a quick trip to a Seattle book store I snagged a book I missed when I read Vonnegut last year-- THE Vonnegut! Very funny and full of "woof." heavy statements. Also snagged this quote that means a lot as a dad!

A paperback copy of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut in front of a airport tarmac.

"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.

I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that."

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's amazing what I can do without interruptions or literally any other entertainment options! Read this entirely on the plane to the PNW and liked it. Basically the toxic masculinity version of Jane Austen 'just people going to each others' houses' though.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway in front of a copse of large skinny pines with what you'll have to believe me is a mountain beyond that. While I've got you in the alt text can you believe Hemingway wrote this immediately after taking basically the exact same trip with the exact same people and then was like "check out these assholes and drunks I hate"

Also also it's like the Great Gatsby (guy who has read two books voice) but from the perspective of Tom and Daisy and I mean that with pride as clearly they suck

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Watching my hairline move up my head rooting for it to stop like the Price is Right Mountaineer game

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Watching my hairline move up my head rooting for it to stop like the Price is Right Mountaineer game

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Another mini for the other boy, this time he picked out the model and the colors but I did it all since 3 year olds aren't known for their fine motor skills

Pretty big standard dwarven warrior with axe and shield, a big red beard and overexposed light in the helm but whattaya gonna do I'm a mini painter not a photographer

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Okay so a nesting doll of analogy here but: This is nothing like Catch-22 but like Kurt Vonnegut wrote Asteroid City. Joseph Heller writes about an author with nothing to write, struggling through multiple failed starts and ruminating on aging and writing and creation and it's all very good.

Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man, by Joseph Heller in the classic Catch-22 art style

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Back to the fiction. Liked this one too but it felt time-LY while the other one felt time-LESS. Stories to smoke cigarettes to.

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Now HERE is some theory folks. Read the teaching focused one and it was good but a list of actions. This went far deeper and taught me a heck of a lot more! Unfortunately still looking for that "if-then" book of strategy.

The cover of Doug Lemov's Coach's Guide to Teaching

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

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Otto DeFay @speedmariachi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Taking 90 minutes to explain this to my wife

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

First mini after soccer is the $8 one I bought to do with my son. Got the details done myself but he helped a pretty significant amount! He picked the model and the color scheme!

A 4.5 year old boy paints the belly of a monster yellow as his dad holds the mini. But then who was phone?

A close up view artfully obscuring the boy's face as he focuses on painting the same mini

A monstrous ground sloth (according to the box). It has metal claws cause that's what the boy chose to color them.

It's giving "knock off Skaven" but in a less perjorative way than that sounds

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

More of a collection of handouts than any actual theory but hey sometimes you need a collection of handouts especially when you coach JV and 75% of the way through you realize your new center mid thinks "carry" means "pass it" (a true story she has no explanation for)

A paperback copy of Soccer IQ by Dan Blank

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Right on its heels is @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's pandemic work and I know I'd didn't get ALL of it thanks to kids etc but it immediately changes your brain monologue and the last two... I don't know if he saved the last two for the last two but got damn the last two stories are something else

The paperback copy of "A Creature Wanting Form" by Luke O'Neil on an orange table and this is special to the alt text it's really good and challenging and since I have more characters I'll tell you that I love that some stories are analogies and some stories are satire and some are lyrical and some are "just thinkin' bout stuff" and it's up to you to tell the difference

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Back after a soccer season was a re-read and one that was much longer than I remembered. LOTTA reverie in this one, but still very much worth it. Is there anyone for whom the critics are exactly right but you still love anyway? For me that's Hemingway.

A paperback copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Did you know that the Ship of Theseus allegory originally had a totally different moral? But over time the telling has changed bit by bit such that it's practically a completely new idea

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Even though it's technically more correct, people get weird if you say "I'm gonna go receive a shower"

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Getting a bunch of for-real French emigres to sing Le Marseillaise and drown out the Nazi anthem in Casablanca... dats da movies baybee www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...

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La Marseillaise Casablanca

YouTube video by Andrew Barbin

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The overworked theater owner when I asked him when Chewbacca was going to show up

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 23/04/2026

Welcome to the office. Please fill out the same forms again on our iPad. Thank you

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Okay falling behind the pace but grad school gave me an excuse to read Heart of Darkness and it was pretty good. Better than the movie and probably quicker

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and it's a large print edition because I'm getting old (and didn't want to wait for the normal edition)

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 13/04/2026

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Out walking a wagon in circles around my yard in the rain...

Stu the dad from Rugrats saying "Because I've lost control of my life" about giving in to children's demands

An artfully hidden face picture of my child in a wagon in the rain and a rain coat

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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thomas gets taken to a black ops site

A replica of Thomas the Tank Engine being transported on a large flatbed truck. It’s strapped down in multiple places and the face portion is covered by a large black bag

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My heart goes out to the researchers at the Fucking Duh Institute for the work hours they're putting in lately

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This time Woke 2 will have guillotines [I nudge my friend] who's a madam, by the way

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This time Woke 2 will have guillotines [I nudge my friend] who's a madam, by the way

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Your Friend and Mine @dickimaa.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

In addition to being a war crime, "no quarter" is a fucking stupid thing to say when your objective is just to replace the leadership with a new set of names like you're not even good at the realpolitik

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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

sorry basically the problem of my life is that i internalized and believed a lot of stuff people said about valuing children and loving your neighbor and living in a society at the exact moment that everyone in power decided all of that shit was fake and gay and not a way to make a living

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