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I walk quiet at night through the projects/Maybe one night look through your peephole - peek-a-boo!

They were selling postcards of lynchings like 70 years ago. “Medieval” seems like a nice lil historical European sleight of hand for “Modern American”.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Studying for the clinical exam & preparing a case presentation & trying to write a paper on Freud & trying to learn the guitar parts of a band I might join & planning for partner’s 40th &, like, laundry and shit; my brain doesn’t know wtf is happening anymore.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Listening to these tedious, endless explications of laws and ethics that exist to maintain and reinforce obvious professional boundaries that now I have to be tested on. I blame Jung.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Studying for the licensing exam is really revealing a lot about the TDC lady’s psychology.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Pope Leo XIV to replace Nicole Kidman in AMC ad.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Back on instant graham after a couple years’ hiatus; noticing the difference between accounts I now mute/unfollow & those I don’t because of the jouissance I get from seeing their stories come up and not looking at them & enjoying my hatred.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Went to the punk festival yesterday and mostly spent hours drinking iced coffee and reading Lacan under a tree. Also very possibly permanently damaged my hearing (even further) watching the Dirtbombs. Saw Ig too.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

[At Mosswood Meltdown] K: You can tell the people who are just here to see Pavement because they’re all wearing brown shoes. I’ve never seen this many brown shoes at a show before.

youtu.be

Brown Shoes Don't Make It

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Back in my day these were called “boyfriends,” nice to hear they’ve settled down and gotten serious.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Finished my &@$! hours. Took damn near five years, several odious work environments, and near-total financial ruin, but now only the bureaucracy and an exam stands between me and licensure!

youtu.be

Alex Chilton - Hook or Crook

YouTube video by remain22

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Saw Bob Dylan two weeks ago (4th time [around]) at age 85; lucky to have gotten to be alive to contemporaneously appreciate people like him and Mel.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’ll be sad when he goes one day. I always knew he’d make 100 at a minimum though. I have a few true heroes left in life to get all sentimental over (Watt, Crumb, and Brooks are the real ones). You don’t get to make new ones in middle age.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Made the “mistake” of seeing Spaceballs before I ever saw Star Wars, at a friend’s house when I was probably around 6. Those movies never held up for me; there’s no taking them seriously when your formative image of the villain has Rick Moranis under the helmet.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Not long after that I discovered the 2000 Year Old Man (or rather, it clicked for me from a Simpsons scene) & became truly insufferable to my peers

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Freshman year of high school, when I had no friends, I’d spend every weekend rewatching my VHSs of History of the World, Young Frankenstein, & Blazing Saddles, and recording clips on a handheld tape recorder of my favorite bits.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Happy 100 years, and here’s to another 1900 for one of my great heroes, Mel Brooks! Pictured here with his best pal Carl who gets a little halo from the glare in my office.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

5pm Friday, taking dog out, passed by attorney neighbor in oversized Guns & Roses tee & sweatshorts, then social worker neighbor in oversized college shirt & jammy pants & me in beat up hoodie & track pants - it’s a Professional Slumber Party around here.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Finally, the genius gets his soup

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

She gets a degree, I gets a tummy ache.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Gf graduated with her AA in Child Development yesterday; cum laude, Phi Theta Kappa honor society, valedictorian in her major. On to get her BA in social work. There is so much candy in this house.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Never did get that job at the record store, btw. Stopped in today for some LP sleeves; new person working behind the counter I’d never seen before. Must’ve been about 12. “I’d like a roll of LP sleeves, please,” says I. “Sure, what size?” If anyone needs me, I’ll be blasting myself into the sun.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Well, my turtle was Dracula, thus Lucy, and the obvious missing data here is that Lucy was our grandmother’s name. But that would have made it a much more boring anecdote.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Embezzler is adorable! Fuzzy wuzzy lil Embezzley!

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My brother had a calico named Lucy. This was after his turtle named Lucy. Now Lucy is his daughter’s name.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Met a dog today named Bandit and thought it was interesting how a type of criminal is an acceptable name, so all day I’ve been calling my dog “Burglar,” “Felon,” “Arsonist,” “Vandal,” “Kidnapper,” “Embezzler,” “Fraudster,” “Manslaughterer,” “Jaywalker,” “Unlicensed Vendor,” “Purse Thief” etc.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Rick aka “the People’s Poet” from the Young Ones!

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Broke my 115-day Wordle streak and I blame it on having rewatched Ghost World last night and was sure the word was used in a gag from that movie and it was not and it turns out there is no such thing as synchronicity, fuck Carl Jung and fuck the Police

youtu.be

The Police - Synchronicity II (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Just learned that GLP-1 is based on an enzyme synthesized from gila monster venom, and I’m all, “yeah man, I wandered around the desert until I got bit by a gila monster and I lost 100 lbs overnight! Thinking of going after a rattlesnake next!”

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

There’s definitely a sweet spot (or spots) to be found on “obscure for good reason” & “ubiquitous & popular for no good reason” continuum. Neither equals the music having any heart or meaning. I’ve had to learn that via own reactivity to both ends of the spectrum over my listening career.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I knew nothing about this station but these are easily some of the best program titles I’ve ever heard

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

So do these veterinary nutritionist dorks in Davis just, like, not do focus groups or what…?

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Because that’s already the name of a Billy Childish band.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Rather than create the conditions for sleep health, like a four-day work week, living wages, adequate sick leave, etc, no, let’s sell them a box so eventually they only have to sleep for 40 minutes and can get back to work.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Sleep tracking/hygiene have already been normalized & have a whole industry behind them. Next is normalizing less sleep, so you can get up early (& go to the gym, ofc; that’s just healthy) This hysterical, capitalistic humble-brag of how much more time you now have to “do” things, i.e. work/consume.

i.work

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yes, I am giving whateverthefuck this is free advertising, but as a PSA. Capitalism has this terrible dilemma: when you’re asleep you’re not productive but if you don’t sleep you get sick & die. The solution? Sell you a product to minimize time not producing/consuming.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I’m a big Lanthimos fan, but Bugonia was not his best, imo. Not terrible; some decent social commentary, good performances, but the twist was unnecessary and watered-down Shyamalan.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

There’s a loophole though if you want to attend Johns Hopkins University since there’s someplace called “John Hopkins University” on the list.

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Want I should send you the same email I sent my coworkers?

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Colleague told me our supervisor said to them that my notes are “something to aspire to” which is a nice compliment to hear and also he’s never said that to me or given me any indication that he thinks that and so Daddy Issues engaged

media.tenor.com

a black and white photo of sigmund freud

ALT: a black and white photo of sigmund freud

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Getting all these ads for these macho “minimalist” wallets made of guns or whatever that seem to be capitalizing on some kind of wallet-shame or insecurity for ppl’s mangled wallets? I bought my wallet at Hot Topic in 1998 and am still using it. Do they just not make ‘em like they used to or…?

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Ryan L @realarthurtea.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

A Roxy Music cover band called Lorenzo Music, is that anything?

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