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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 12h

Apparently i can play 500 miles on the dulcimer from memory. Neat!

gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can't think when i've seen it done right. Nobody ever has records on open shelving, they're always in ancient bankers boxes. The shitty ones. Never use those. You don't see them being signed out, chain of custody on them is going to be for shit. Bad colour coding.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was going down the stairs at work and i suddenly, without warning, remembered that i exist. As you might imagine this was a terrible shock for me. I might need to go lie down.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My bullfrog is redecorating his enclosure. He does this sometimes. Today he and i differ as to which way his cork bark hide should face, and african bullfrogs are really big and have very strong legs, so i'll just be sitting here and then i'll see this big half round of cork wander.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yknow what's good? Beans. Beans fucking rock. There are so many iterations of beans, there's got to be something you'd like.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I purchased a fantasy novel partly because it has a map, and i love that shit. Have since discovered it also has an appendix and a table of contents. I am delighted.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I have finished the knitting portion of the sweater i have been making. Let joy be unrestrained.

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

TODAY is MAY DAY! Celebrating the RIGHTS OF WORKERS and the continued struggles to gain them! 🗳️ This is the story of The First Union by @hbomberguy.bsky.social and @skutchdraws.bsky.social 🛠️ Read this and more in FAILURE TO LAUNCH, on sale today for 30% off! store.ironcircus.com/products/fai...

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Weaver and Carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world.

Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There are much larger issues in the world. in the tapestry that is life this is but a stitch. That being said i really fucking miss Just Right cereal.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A few years ago i went for a walk around Mud Lake, which is a conservation area in Ottawa. Wood ducks nest there, which is pretty great but that's not why I'm remarking...though i will add there was a mallard that just decided she was going to follow me around for a while, which was neat.

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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Reposting this cuz it's important, if you live in Canada and use roads *in whatever capacity* (driver, cyclist, pedestrian, public transit) our government needs to hear from you

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I do not wish to engage with things that are not amphibians, folk instruments, wool, or anything related thereto. Life, sadly, almost certainly has other plans for me this week.

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Boo London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The hardest room to escape.

Chalk board with a conversation.
Me: This escape room is hard.
Friend: This is a bookstore.
Credit: Daisy Chain Book Company

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Saw a car with a bumper sticker that read "honk if you're a goose" while i was walking the dog. I think that had a certain style.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Thought i saw a bald eagle on my lunchbreak, but as it got closer it turned out to be a raven carrying something white and vaguely head shaped in its' beak. Which is pretty good too, when you think about it.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It finally happened, I finally broke under pressure I I stopped myself from using em dashes in a situation, out of fear someone may assume I used genAI instead of writing something myself I hate this I love em dashes, always used them, I have the ASCII number memorized But I admit defeat

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Cool thing about keeping reptiles and amphibians is sometimes you wind up placing orders for live insects and squeezy package things of a roach and fruit puree for delivery to your house.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Pro tip; wear gloves if you're staining wood, cause other wise you will use a shitload of rubbing alcohol swabs to get that off your fingers and then your wife will see them in the wastebasket and ask if you are okay in frightened tones. Not that i'm speaking from experience. Just heard tell.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

if i learn that the little girl in the pink hat with bear ears who spent our entire bus ride staring with rapt interest at the cover of the book i was reading and singing that one song from kpop demon hunters had anything less than a great day i will be really annoyed.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild Barren-Ground Caribou Arctic Hare Ringed Seal Snowshoe Hare Blanding's Turtle

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I think i can count on one hand the number of times i have made a non weird pastry dough that has the correct hydration. Weird crusts are fine for some reason. If it has like cheese or poppy seeds or a blend of flours and some olive oil we're golden, but normal pastry eludes me.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Hit me today that i could roll up a vampire the masquerade character who ocassionally loses his grip on modern english and starts speaking with like a Shakespeare original pronunciation accent. Brilliant idea. On an unrelated note nobody will play vampire the masquerade with me.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Went looking for foxfire book three at a used bookstore. Found foxfire 12. So i was in the right section, but that's still nine too many foxfires.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It's snowing. the dog is very perplexed. Seems likely that it won't accumulate to shovelable depth until later than shovelling is practical.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I say to myself "i have no obligations or responsibilities for the next bit, i think i'll play my dulcimer". Exact moment i get my tuner app open somebody rolls down the street with their stereo turned up way beyond a sensible level. So, interesting to note, the app can pick that up.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

My bullfrog has been in the aquatic side of his tank since yesterday. I would really like it if he moved, i need to clean there. I could remove him, but i don't really feel like having the argument.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

One of my frogs is eyeing me from across the room. I assume he has realized i, too, am meat. Fun fact; i was attempting to play scotland the brave on a dulcimer yesterday and he kept croaking loudly. I don't know if that was objection or cooperation.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Okay, so. Sometimes you get file folders with foldy metal prongs. The idea, you see, is that you hole punch the paper and then put the prongs through the hole(s) . I reccomend doing that. Bit of professional advice for you, there.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The business i got Manic (pictured below for reference) from is currently selling banded bullfrogs, aka the other bullfrog i was watching for at the reptile expo the day i got Manic. If i was planning on getting more frogs right now it would be like they saw me coming

Afrivan bullfrog submerged in shallow water

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This is Hector. Hector is a cranwell's horned frog. Hector is like owning a pet rock with complex emotional needs. Hector is an unmitigated delight. He makes an undignified sound lie a duck playing the kazoo badly

A horned frog sitting between two pieces of bark

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Post a picture of when your pet was little

Closeup of a juvenile african bullfrog in a water dish

Overhead of a juvenile african bullfrog in a water dish

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

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HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

now this is the kinda shit im talkin about. saguaro cactus. hell yeah. these bad boys can sequester the carbon equivalent of 40 gallons of gas, not releasing carbon back into the atmosphere during decomposition but interacting with the soil to create the mineral calcium carbonate(just a fuckin rock)

photo of a big and tall saguaro cactus. it is not moving, it has been standing still for like a hundred years. it is also not speaking. it is a cactus.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

-tukey bacon rocks - carnation milk is a very good dairy product to add to coffee -red current jelly pairs well with white meats - pancakes made with a blend of flours are really good. Try about 1/3 millet flour by volume. -just right was the best cold cereal and should be revive

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It hit me the other day that i haven't seen a porcupine in years. Used to see them all the time, but i don't walk in the same places that i did then.

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Yknow what? Isopod photodump. Cause that's the kind of day i'm having

Dairy cow isopods of different sizes i hiding in a lotus seed pod.

Powder orange isopods on a piece of cork bark being held over damp soil and leaf litter

Powder orange isopods on a piece of cork bark being held over damp soil snd leaf litter

An adult powder blue isopod on a piece of corkbark, with juveniles in. the bottom left corner. Damp soil and a pothos leaf underneath

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El Sarahnico @sarahcakes613.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

We finished Fellowship and then took the dog out when the credits were rolling. They were still rolling when we got back from the walk.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 18/12/2024

Remember. Don’t be a reply guy. Be a reptile guy.

Red striped gargoyle gecko (Rhacodactylus auriculatus)

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm bored. waiting for plumbers is boring.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I don’t condone murder, but I damn well hope the billionaire class realizes after the killing of the UHC CEO that their fear & outrage mean nothing to a world crushed by their greed & cruelty. After all the devastation they’ve unleashed on countless lives, why should anyone care about their pain?

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Kiersten Formoso, PhD(epressed) @formorphology.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Let's test how my memes do here

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

You ever think "somebody should write a book about that" and then realize technically you had the idea but you don't particularly want to write a book?

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gcoffin.bsky.social @gcoffin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The squirrels are *fat* this autumn. It's quite wonderful.

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