Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’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. 000
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!” 100
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Went 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. 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As a native midwesterner, I’m always a little baffled when fellow Illinoisans pronounce it “AL-uh-noy”. 100
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Can Scorsese make a film about the measles vaccine? 001
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I 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”. 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Today’s hilarious acronym: skilled nursing facility change in ownership is referred to as SNF CHOW, pronounced “sniff chow”. 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It 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!” 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“Once in a while, cheat on your cell phone with a book.” 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I haven’t seen one Karoline Leaved-itt joke. I mean, it’s right there. 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Happy back to school day, Arkansas!espn.comHigh school football player in Arkansas finds viper in helmetA 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. 100
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Most of adult life is breaking down cardboard boxes, punctuated by deleting emails. 001
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This 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. 000
Reposted by LanceRetro Blast 👻 @retroblastpod.com · 13/07/2026Damn, 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. 🦖 1215622696
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Looking 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. 000
Reposted by LanceTyler K. Stroud @stroudarian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026What 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] 318106201259
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Cubs lost today, but you can still end your evening with some poetry. Look at this catch, slide, and shoulder roll! 000
Reposted by LanceThom @nmfr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Write 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. 58772120
Reposted by LanceMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/04/2026This 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’ 56265811811
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026But it’s creating such tremendous shareholder value! 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Please 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.orgAlexandre Vattemare - Wikipedia 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Sort of upset I didn’t get to this punchline first: 000
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...doi.org 000
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). 000
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 000
Reposted by LanceBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 13/11/2025they 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 2664540
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 11/11/2025DID THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT FRIED CHICKEN BRING ENOUGH TO SHARE WIRH THE REST OF THE PLANE? 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 07/11/2025You 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) 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 02/11/2025All that, and all we have to show for it is that the Dodgers won? That feels gross. 000
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Want 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. ☕️ 000
Reposted by LanceLucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 27/09/2025if i'm arkansas i just say screw it and i open the cage and let tusk on the field 422422
Lance @lancebretthall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Here’s an ad (“Trending now!”) for Cologuard on my “smart” TV. Thanks, I hate it. 000