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Nerdy stuff, Gay stuff, Transformers, Academia, Comics, TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Theatre, Cats (dogs are great, too!), poisonous/dangerous things from nature, he/him, pro-empathy, anti-bigotry, trans lives matter!, trying to help repair the world.

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Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Your mom: "We have a Blake's 7 ship at home" The Blake's 7 ship at home:

Photo of The *Scorpio* from the 1970s British sci-fi television show *Blake's 7.* It is an orange, wedge-shaped ship generally considered far inferior to the *Liberator*.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A still shot from the opening titles of the sixth Doctor era of Doctor Who. The fake tile reads, "The Banality of Evil"

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The background of the opening titles of the fourth Doctor era of Doctor Who. The fake title reads, "THE ONE WITH THE TARDIS"

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Let's start an over 30 selfie thread 50

Selfie photo of me (middle-aged white male wirh brown and white long hair, mostly grey beard, and glasses) on a wooden patio.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

"Thank you! Your friendship means a lot to me"

Photo of the corner of a room with white walls, a poster, and a miniature television set. Everything is covered in large, dripping blood spatters.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

First and only combiner team as a kid. Got the Power of the Primes ones. Love them. I have a soft spot for Blot.

Photo of th Power of the Primes Abominus Transformers toy, posed on a wooden bookshelf next various other Transformers toys.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Adopted a new kitty, our outdoor-now-indoor stray, NC (for "Neighborhood Cat").

A middle-aged guy with long hair and glasses leaning back, wearing a blue shirt. On my stomach, curled up, is NC, a gray tabby with a notched ear.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Me, too! (The other one is in a box somewhere)

Three mini transformers toys from yhe 1980s in car mode.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fat Cat Friday

Hidey, a long-haired black and white cat, lounges on a bed with a blue sheet. She's a big, lovely girl.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Date yourself with toys that were newly available when you played with them.

In-package toy of Crystar, an 80s action figure of a crystalline warrior.

In-package action figure of Mantor, a bearded guy with insect eyes and antennas, and Raptor, a big blue bug companion, from the Sectaurs toy line.

Package for the Track Patrol toy from the Sky Commanders 80s toy line. It’s like a futuristic ski lift with guns. An action figure is included and pictured riding the ski lift: Commander Cliff Baxter.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Baton Rouge, LA hands-off protest at the capitol.

Wide shot of a crowd of people, many holding protest signs, outside on the steps of the Louisiana state capitol. In the distsnce, behind speakers, are various flags being waved, including the trans pride flag and an upside-down US flag.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sending you love, precious person. Love and pics of my kitty

Enormous longhair black and white cat Hidey lounges in a sunbeam on a wrinkled sheet.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Let my kitty Solo go today. He fought his lymphoma hard and was ready. Such a good little guy

My big foot next to tiny kitten Solo, and orange tabby.

My leg with a now-big Solo (an orange tabby) lying on it, asleep.

Orange tabby Solo on a wooden floor next to a christmas tree. He is wrapped up in gold tinsel.

Me, long haired bearded guy, lying on a sofa. Huge orange tabby Solo is sprawled across my chest snd neck. I'm smiling.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Age yourself with a toy from your childhood

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Dramatic B&W selfie thread

Black and white selfie of me, a white middle-aged guy with glasses and long hair. My hair is pulled back. I look stressed out, haha.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Post a picture of when your pet was little.

Closeup of a tiny orange kitten fast asleep on a blue sheet witha green pillow beside him and a striped pillow behind him. The pillows tower over his tiny, fuzzy form.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Post a fictional death that devastated you. (IDW's Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, #55, writer: James Roberts, art: Alex Milne, colors: Joana Lafuente) If you'd have told me fifteen years ago that a Transformers comic book would make me cry, I'd have scoffed. But this series--boy howdy.

Page from a Transformers comic book. Top three panels--a battle-scarred Megatron bends over the dying Decepticon Ravage. Megatron wears a Decepticon emblem over the Autobot symbol on his chest.
First panel, Megatron: "I'm here, Ravage. I'm here. It's me." Next panel, Ravage (putting his paw on the Decepticon emblem): "Don't . . . change . . . back" Third panel, overhead shot of Ravage, dead.
Next row, first panel, marked "Elsewhere"--closeup on Soundwave's face, registering shock. Next panel, side view of Soundwave, grasping a table in front of him. Next panel, side view of Soundwave, collapsing in grief, holding onto the table.
Bottom row, first panel: back to Megatron, his face and front in shadow, leaning over Ravage's body. Last panel: the crew of the Lost Light (Autobots), staring in shocked sadness.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Gotta take advantage of snow while it lasts...

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Nature: Just say when! Baton Rouge: yay snow! ... ok, "when." Nature: BR: Uh, I said when? You can stop? Nature: BR: ... please, when? Uncle? Stop? Nature: *frigid, otherworldly chuckling*

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Heavy snow in Baton Rouge. This is more than I've seen in 20 years living here.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hidey is also helping, modeling watchful readiness.

Orange cat curles up in the well between my legs as i sprawl on the couch. A longhaired black and white car curls on the back of the couch, just above the orange cat.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Solo taking all precautions before tonight's winter storm.

Orange cat curled up between my legs as I sprawl on the couch.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Sleepy kitty Caturday

Two cats lying back to back on a gray couch. One is a short-haired orange boy. One is a longhaired black-and-white tuxedo girl. They are precious.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

GIF of Stitch slapping his hands over his face and pulling them down in exasperation. The caption reads "UGGG!"

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"No really, human. Stop doomscrolling."

Orange cat lying on my laptop keyboard with head on my hand, his paw outstretched and placed on my wrist. Blue transformer in background.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Solo, helping with administrative tasks.

Orange cat hanging his head on my hand, which is hovering over a laptop keyboard. A blue transformer toy (Cloud Cover, for what it's worth), stands on a shelf over the cat.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Fine Cat Friday

Hidey, a longhaired black and white tuxedo cat, sprawls on a mauve blanket.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Solo sends late night Orangecat Energy™️ to all of Bluesky.

Closeup of an orange cat with hazel eyes looking at camera. My hand is behind his head, giving him scritches.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

That's right! He fails ultimately because he, like, doubts himself for a second. Poor Puma!

Cover of Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #111. Puma, a huge, glowing were-cat-looking guy looms over the Beyonder, a white guy in a purple jumpsuit and with 80s Michael Jackson hair. Spider-man in his black costume swings between them. Spider-Man says, "The Puma's beeen given incredible power...grown to three times his normal size! I've got to save the Beyonder--!" "NO!" interrupts the Beyonder. "Don't interfere, Spider-Man! The fate of the universe is riding on this!" A red title box says, "...and then the GODS CRIED!" Rich Buckler drawing, Jim Owsley writing.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Phases 2 and 3 of "please don't leave."

Rocket the gray and white pit bull and i lying on a couch. He's snuggling closer.

Rocket the pit bull and I lying on the couch. Rocket's head is hidden fully behind my legs now.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My sister's dog Rocket would prefer I not leave to go back home tomorrow.

Rocket, a gray and white pit bull, lies with his head on my outstretched leg.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Me as a kid vs me now.

Old photo of me, a blond little boy with a cast on his right arm, smiling at the camera.

Me from now: long brown hair, gray beard, glasses, wearing a low v-neck that shows a hairy chest. I'm looking off to my left.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

"No grades. Only cuddling matters, human."

Orange cat draped across laptop keyboard and my arm as i attempt to determine students' final grades.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Solo contemplating violence, as always

Orange cat looking at camera. Behind him is a lit Christmas tree decorated with fragile glass ornaments.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Such great suggestions in this thread. I'd add some of IDW's first Transformers series, especially Lost Light by James Roberts. If you'd told me 15 years ago that Transformers comics would make me cry, I'd have scoffed. But man.

The cover of Transformers: Lost Light #25, cover A, art by Jack Lawrence, colors by Joana LaFuente, with a smirking Hot Rod surrounded by all the other characters from the series.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My cats instructing me on the proper way to spend a Saturday

Overhead photo of an orange cat and a longhaired tuxedo cat sleeping together on a gray ottoman.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I've learned to read with one hand occupied.

Orange cat lies on a desk, his head resting on my right hand. A thick book I'm trying to read is displaced, awkwardly propped in my lap. I do not mind.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Peaceful cat pic for tumultuous times.

Orange cat curled on a grey ottoman, lit by a sunbeam.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

If you have pet photos, let's see them. We all are gonna be going through it for a good while.

A longhaired tuxedo cat lies beneath a short-haired orange cat. The orange cat has his tongue sticking out.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Stop scrolling and post your lock screen!

Lock screen of a phone. Picture is a bearded white guy with hair pulled back smiling and cuddling a sleepy orange kitty. Various app icons partially obscure the pic. The temp reading is 83 degeees in Baton Rouge.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

So anxious about the election that I'm actually posting a selfie.

White guy with long brown hair, black glasses, and a graying beard in a loose blue and black shirt. The sun lights up half his face as he looks up and to the right, worried.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Some old and new. In many, cat positioning restricts me to showing only part of me.

Lonhair guy lies on a couch. A big orange cat drapes across him, obscuring most of the guy.

Closeup of orange cat on my lap. My leg extends beyond him. In the background, a little blurry, my black and white tuxedo cat watches.

Orange cat head held up above my laptop keyboard by my hand. A blurrry zoom session is on the screen, and my wrist has a rainbow wristband for gayness.

Longhair guy on couch, camera looking down at him. Longhair tuxedo cat looks up from perch on guy's chest. Orange cat naps beside guy. Sunbeam cuts diagonally across all three.

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Love this. Saber class is a favorite of mine. Tiny but punchy.

The Saber class (basically a tiny half-saucer with 2 nacelles attached) from Star Trek zooming through warp