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@lancebretthall.bsky.social
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Stories are a clinical and public health tool. Native Midwesterner, accidental Arkansan.

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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s hard to keep these straight… Greek has two Os, a little one, and a big one: κόλον o-micron, the colon κῶλον o-mega, a limb Ironically, the omega actually looks more like the colon.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Library’s explanation: they had found salami as a page marker in a book, and because they thought that was a bad idea (and it wasn’t the most oddball find they had made), they offered paper cold cuts as free bookmarks. Just my sense of humor!”
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe he’s just from New Zealand.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Went down a rabbit hole in a meeting about the past tense of “gatekeep”. “Gatekept” or “gatekeeped”? Gatekept sounds like someone put the gate in their car and drove off, but gatekeeped sounds juvenile.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As a native midwesterner, I’m always a little baffled when fellow Illinoisans pronounce it “AL-uh-noy”.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can Scorsese make a film about the measles vaccine?
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A sign is posted on a bird’s cage, stating, “Please don’t put your hands in my cage! I might—“ and the paper is ripped off where the bird chewed it off. A reply states, “environmental storytelling”.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I was today years old when I found out there’s only one B in “cummerbund”. I can’t be the only person who thought it was “cumberbund”.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Today’s hilarious acronym: skilled nursing facility change in ownership is referred to as SNF CHOW, pronounced “sniff chow”.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It is a shining example of a life well-lived when people say, “Dolly Parton worked to get kids free books. Also, what an incredible singer and songwriter!”
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Once in a while, cheat on your cell phone with a book.”
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I haven’t seen one Karoline Leaved-itt joke. I mean, it’s right there.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Happy back to school day, Arkansas!
espn.com
High school football player in Arkansas finds viper in helmet
A high school football player in Arkansas wore a unknowingly wore a helmet with a venomous snake inside it for nearly an hour before discovering the unwelcome intruder.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Most of adult life is breaking down cardboard boxes, punctuated by deleting emails.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This reminds me of the war when Great Britain went off to help Greece fight Turkey. With Homer proudly tucked under their arm, they couldn’t tell the difference between Greek and Turk. It’s that, but with a data center and the heir to an apartheid emerald mine.
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Retro Blast 👻 @retroblastpod.com · 13/07/2026
Damn, this one hurts. Thanks for giving us one of the most iconic movie protagonists ever with Alan Grant. You made me more hyper-fixated on Dinosaurs than I already was as a kid after seeing Jurassic Park. Rest Easy, Sam Neill. 🦖
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Looking at everything Star Wars has become, it’s hard not to see Marcia Lucas’ influence on the original trilogy as the central check on… worse impulses.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The 10-game losing streak is over!
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Tyler K. Stroud @stroudarian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What you see in the Sun, is the Chicago skyline from the Indiana Dunes beach, across Lake Michigan. You can see it from 50 miles of distance due to a form of superior mirage, because the skyline is seen above where it's actually located. [📷 wesskywalker]
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Cubs lost today, but you can still end your evening with some poetry. Look at this catch, slide, and shoulder roll!
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Thom @nmfr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Write down your origin story. Somewhere. Anywhere. Just make a record of the thing(s) that made you who you are. Even if it’s painful. Even if no one will ever read it. But most especially if someone one day will. It matters.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/04/2026
This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
But it’s creating such tremendous shareholder value!
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Please congratulate me on finally figuring out what person from history I’d most like to have over for dinner: “[Alexandre Vattemare] trained as a surgeon, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
en.wikipedia.org
Alexandre Vattemare - Wikipedia
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Sort of upset I didn’t get to this punchline first:
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
#amreading The Relationship between Patients' Perception of Care and Measures of Hospital Quality and Safety doi.org/10.1111/j.14...
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#TIL that the only surviving example of the German feminine ending -in (earlier -in or -en) in English is “vixen”. (cf. modern German der Fuchs/die Füchsin).
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering.” -Oswald Chambers
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 13/11/2025
they say our brains are constantly writing stories to give coherence to our experiences. why can’t my brain start writing stories that i can publish for money
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
DID THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT FRIED CHICKEN BRING ENOUGH TO SHARE WIRH THE REST OF THE PLANE?
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
You spend so much time with things stuck in your ears to listen to music and to stand between the world and your thoughts. Then you listen to live music and feel it moving through your whole body, and it’s a revelation. (Rutter’s Requiem at Central United Methodist, Fayetteville)
A church with a choir and musicians
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
All that, and all we have to show for it is that the Dodgers won? That feels gross.
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Want to meet new coworkers? Bring your French press to work. So many people comment on it or say, “Is that a French press?” on my way to getting hot water. ☕️
A French press full of brewing coffee on the corner of a desk in an office
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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
if i'm arkansas i just say screw it and i open the cage and let tusk on the field
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Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Here’s an ad (“Trending now!”) for Cologuard on my “smart” TV. Thanks, I hate it.
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