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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Sunday afternoon pairs well with a well-loved Star Trek paperback.

The cover of Peter David's Stat Trek TNG novel Q-in-Law which features Picard standing between Q on his left and Lwaxana Troi

The inside cover which features a blue stamp of a shelf with the words From the Library Of: and then an ornate stamp reading Amanda.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A little cryptid/ufology action to kick off my spooky season reading. The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel.

The cover of The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Now watching Blow Out (1981)

The criterion 4K of Blow Out. The cover features Travolta in a chair with his head on his hand looking tired. Sound equipment surrounds him. There's some other criterion discs behind this one, which sits on an easel.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Using my scariest coffee mug today

A white coffee mug that says The News sits on a coffee warmer.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I just finished The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp. Stunning, brutal investigative journalism. I can't recommend this one highly enough.

A hardcover copy of The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces. It features a black cover with a truck parked sideways on a dirt road surrounded by trees.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Back from my business trip. Recuperating with a little Tom Baker.

The blu-ray release of the fourth Tom Baker / Fourth Doctor season. It features a orange toned image of the Fourth Doctor clad in a grey coat, scarf flying over his shoulder, jelly babies floating out a pouch. Monsters in front of him. Gears behind him. I'm holding it up in my living room with some movie posters on the walls.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I appreciate that Star Trek Strange New Worlds commits to still doing the fun episodes that get lost in the streaming era of television. I do still wish we were getting like twice as many every season of course but.

Maxwell Saint (as portrayed by the transporter buffer version of SNW James Kirk) mugs into the camera.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I think it would be nice if the Jersey Devil got to play mini golf

A pencil drawing of the Jersey devil playing mini golf. He's like a dragony goat fella with bat wings and hooves. He's putting quite close to the hole. There's a windmill and an igloo behind him and a barrier in front of him. A small barrier separates his ball from the hole and flag.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Now rewatching the Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 2 finale (Hegemony) ahead of starting the new season tonight (Hegemony, Part 2)

Spock and Chapel wearing white EV suits in space, an explosion in the background

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This Texas Rangers/AEW World Series fanny pack I got at #AEWAllinTexas is of the more Nathan objects in the world

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This is called a Relief Pitcher. Very good. Ordered this and then Adam Cole came out and was very sad. Not so good. #AEWALLINTEXAS

Adam Cole possibly retiring. Me drinking a green and red Margarita thing behind a lady wearing a cowboy hat.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

They have a Topps baseball cards vending machine at Globe Life Field. Also I got brisket nachos on top of my Dr. Pepper. #AEWAllInTexas #TexasRangers

Some guys stand in front of a Topps The Fan Stand baseball card vending machine. One holds a wrestling championship. One points at the cards. The machine is red and has a big clear window.

Many baseball cards and some basketball and football cards in a vending machine

Topps MLB 1990 wax packs and 2024 Topps Heritage

Brisket nachos on a cup of dr pepper in front of a ballpark

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Trekkies: If you see this post your first experience with Star Trek.

Plastic Star Trek Generations cups featuring Kirk and Picard on a yellow starry background. The cups sit in a white room.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Checking out the Second Sight 4K of The Nice Guys. Imported this what feels like ages ago. Worth the wait. What a beautiful box. It has a nice hardcover book and a set of art cards as well.

The Second Sight 4K of The Nice Guys. It features a nice painterly image of the main cast in a retro style. It is in a hard case with a hardcover book inside as well as the discs. There's are some Arrow blu rays behind this box set. An X-Files blu-ray is off to the left. You can see a little bit of a Spock Mego in a plastic case.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The best photo of me ever taken

I am in my 20s with like blonde streaks in my undercut lmao. I am in a crouched prayer pose in front of an impossibly large hamburger being taken off the side of the a McDonald's in Dallas back in 2018 or something. I have a red shirt on.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

You get a primary challenger! You get a primary challenger! You get a primary challenger! Everybody gets a primary challenger!

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Obviously the episode of The X-Files that Stephen King wrote is set in Maine. Chinga is the only episode of The X-Files set in Maine.

Agent Scully at a gas station. She is wearing a Maine tshirt. Behind her the building says WE SERVE. There is a gas pump to the left of her.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Mounted the pelvis sculpture that I made in my anthropology class last year.

A small sculpture of a human pelvis painted in none with weathering. It is nailed to the wall with two nails. It's mounted over a black coffin.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Happy Father's Day, everybody! I got some pretty great goodies today.

The Polar Lights Gallileo shuttle craft model kit, blu-ray box set of Star Trek the Animated series, an anthology of supernatural baseball stories called Field of Fantasies, and a great coffee mug featuring Snoopy's design throughout time.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Grindage! Grindage, Eli! Drained dry, you boy! Here. If you have a juice, and I have a juice... And I have a straw. There it is, it's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room and starts to wheeze your juice. I... Wheeze... Your... Juice... I wheeze it up!

The drainage scene in There Will Be Blood but Pauly Shore has been superimposed over Daniel Day Lewis who raises a finger to Paul Dano

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Best energy drink on the market, honestly.

Redcon1 Sour Peach Rings energy drink. It's an orange and black can and I'm holding it in front of greenery

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It's the same song over and over

An NBC article from 2003, 22 years ago

POLITICS NEWS

Gay rights: A liability for the Democrats?

The Democratic president candidates, who all support gay marriages or civil unions, are at odds with most Americans, creating what some see as an advantage for President Bush.

A photo of Howard Dean cooking in front of some "real American types" in an attempt to pander

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I think I am going to get a tattoo of the Jose Chung smoking alien from The X-Files

Scully reads Jose Chung's From Outer Space which features an alien smoking a cigarette

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Really enjoyed Mute Witness (1995). It's been a while since a random horror pick has delivered this hard. Some real edge of your seat stuff. I was terrified for Billy throughout. Something like a De Palma survival horror game. Twisty and tense with great comedic timing. Streaming on Shudder.

On the left, Billy, a young mute white woman with short brown hair holds a key and hides behind a drink machine as an out of focus man approaches with his hands in his pockets.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A little graduation present to myself.

Baseball Snoopy Timex weekender. Red NATO strap. Snoopy's hands are the hands of the watch. The hour hand holds a baseball, the minute hand a bat. Snoopy wears a red cap.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Being asked to leave the firing range because I keep shooting at Cookie Cop cookie jars

Smug fucking talking cookie jar that looks like a smug little cop.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Took the ebike out again tonight. Now it has rearview mirrors!

Silver and black cafe racer style ebike with a look saddle with a camo bag on the front. Fat tires, bmx style handlebars with rearview mirrors. It's on a paved concrete path on front of grass and a bridge. There are trees in the distance.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What I'm eating right now lol I also really love apple ones

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Final class in the books. I have finished my Associate's degree! Time to relax. Here are my Ceramics pieces during critique, including "2 Liter Bottle."

12 bowls in various finishes, many are split colored. Browns and creams. Deep blues and greens. The largest bowl is bisqueware and about 10 inches wide. Above them towers the gigantic soda bottle now beautifully blue. A still life of a studio sits in bisqueware.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The face Brad Pitt makes right before he gets shot in Burn After Reading is one of the funniest faces of all time

Brad Pitt about to get shot with the funniest faces in the world

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

So exhausted that I might stream something I own on blu-ray because I don't want to go all the way over there

A shelf of blu-ray boxsets all the way over there

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Put an ✨ inspirational quote ✨ up above my desk

A strip of legal paper features a who're "You're not supposed to feel anything about it. You're just supposed to do it. That's all. - The Conversation. There's various Doctor Who figured above including a small K9 and a LEGO twelfth doctor.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The History Channel has a new show about declassified intelligence agency and government secrets hosted by David Duchovny. Secrets Declassified. Checking it out now since it was clearly made for me specifically.

David Duchovny in blue with a red stripe over his left eye. The title Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It's an art book that is written as an in-universe survey of propganada from various periods of galactic history!

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Took my ebike out for the second time tonight. Will probably go out later next time when there's less traffic but it was still really nice. I found this little park with a fountain and some benches.

A black and silver electric bike with a cafe racer saddle, a cargo rack and BMX style handlebars. It is parked in front of a fountain with a mosaic tile pattern. There are trees in the park.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I am not sure that is how I would describe Klaus Barbie, Google.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

He is back there with the Rebels crew! Took me a minute tho.

Zoomed in shot of the above with Hondo visible

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don't know how to post here tbh

The "all my homies hate" meme, a sepia toned photograph of roughly 7 young black men standing in what appears to be a small shop which may be a liquor store. The caption is: FUCK MILTON FRIEDMAN
ALL MY HOMIES HATE MILTON FRIEDMAN AND THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Kurt Cobain... Frasier... Always you wrestle inside me.

Still from Tree of Life which this post riffs on. The hands of a person behind a mirror holding their hands in front of the mirror, the hands also visible in the mirror.

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

In case you haven't seen these:

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Uh oh, my Doctor Who Series 5 blu-rays fell into my Xbox

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Second Sight limited edition 4K of The Nice Guys was an instant preorder.

Limited Edition 4K of The Nice Guys featuring a painter cover. There is a book with the same cover, 9 character cards, and a folder with the LA skyline

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Nathan @humanstein.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Truth. There are a lot of options nowadays. You can get a solid DAP that supports high fidelity audio for under $150. Actual buttons! Click wheels! Knobs! Custom equalizer!

HIFI Walker h2 digital audio player which features a black aluminum case, dedicated buttons, a click wheel, and a square screen.

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