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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

workshop alcove starting to get a little wild

a cluttered workbench with violins, tools, solvents and glues, and parts everywhere

jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

luthier school is going to bankrupt me, all these niche tools… dropped close to $500 on special handmade knife blades and they don’t even have handles

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

who is buying tickets to an ed sheeran tour in 2026 tho

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

spent all afternoon in the MRI machine, aka a very loud minimal chiptune show

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

coffee on the maine state line

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

well, *eye* voted for Karishma

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

neighbors are having a full blown dance party in their field with a dj and lighting rig and everything. my plates are rattling on my kitchen shelves. i give them one more hour before i start walking around with my compound bow and staring

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

man i already owe so much to the hospital what do you MEAN my prior auth for my routine followup with my oncologist was denied

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

sunset wander with the old man on his favorite trail (he insisted on it)

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

we have a trustee who has a career in what i can only term business astrology and she comes around every once in a while to ring bells in the hallways for energies or something and it gives me a headache

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

once years ago at work i ran around a corner too fast and exploded the smoothie i was carrying onto james carville

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

hyundai allatra is that anything

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

juggalo juggalas juggalat juggalamus juggalatis juggalant

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

nothing like a gallop through the driving rain to get the adrenaline flowing. forecast caught me and the old man pony by surprise

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

i know my spouse is The One but in case I needed one more way to know: visiting my mom, he brought me a painting from the wall and asked “who did this painting, it’s absolutely fantastic!” and dear reader, it was me, I was the one who did that painting

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

i miss friends and friendship

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026

If you're faculty who provide your students with powerpoints, be aware: co-pilot will summarize your work and spit it out for the students to consume, and it is horribly inaccurate if you use lots of images in your slide deck. Microsoft will have me using white boards and chalk boards come Fall.

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

at intermission of the first solo recital i’ve done in like… 4 years? since before i broke my wrist anyways. doing just fine but i somehow forgot that solo rep recitals bring back childhood trauma for me lolol flashbacks to nosebleeds and puking backstage in Alice Tully Hall at competitions at age 7

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

sometimes i get good reviews

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I took one weekend away from the theater and have returned to a Rashomon-style production and PR nightmare mess awesome great love this for me

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

6 year old violin-obsessed kids who love their lessons make my heart sing

a handwritten and hand-colored card from a young violin student that reads “thanks dr. julls you have helped me so much at first i was clueless but I good at it now so thank you. love, vivi” and has a drawing of two stick figures playing violin on a theater stage with a cheering audience

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

was arriving home after a long day of recitals and ended up being the first on the scene of a single-car accident 🥴 (poor girl is unhurt, thank goodness)

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

my mother has gotten extremely into ai-generated lego-style iranian propaganda videos i guess

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

my 6 year old student just declared me to be funny, this is the highest compliment i’ve received all year

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

today is my mother in law’s birthday, which sounds like the start of a joke but it isn’t

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/04/2026

Study: 97% Of All Sounds Infuriating theonion.com/study-97-of-all-sounds…

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

in yorkshire so naturally bought a bagful of local heritage breed hand dyed hand spun yarns which spouse has now left behind at a friend’s house because i let him be in charge of packing. divorce y/n

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

back in the uk for the first time since 2019. trying to see every single grad school pal in one week since i haven’t seen some of them since i finished my doctorate in 2017, many lifetimes ago

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

last week I had pneumonia so hard i sprained my ankle. quite literally

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Tonight, a new French ice dance team that exists only because of the investigation and subsequent suspension of an alleged sexual abuser could win the Olympic gold medal. Here is my @usatodaysports story (no paywall): www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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An abuse investigation. A new French ice dance team. And a gold medal up for grabs

An ex-partner's ban led to Laurence Fournier Beaudry, Guillaume Cizeron partnership. Now, they challenge USA's Madison Chock, Evan Bates at Olympics.

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

catching up on men’s sp and immediately consumed with indignation that Max didn’t go ahead of Gummenik

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

spouse and i are trying to visit the in-laws in the UK in early april but since he’s a green card holder we’re considering cancelling the trip for the third time

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

a thing i haven’t really processed in depth before is how weird it is how many of my friends were super invested in chemo as part of my cancer treatment and when they discovered that actually my type of cancer is not treated with chemo, their support and companionship vanished

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

finally got a fresh hair band on this bow and removed the old grip and winding after doing four days of the most challenging ebony repairs i’ve yet done on the frog. i like seeing these old workshop marks, i hope whichever Pfretzschner employee made this approves of my lengthy restorations

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

not sure i’ll watch ice dance tbh

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

catching up on team skate and i’m verklempt little stephen giggles grown up and skating SO well matteo killing it on home ice KAORI FUCKING SAKAMOTO the goddess the queen the legend gold medalist of my heart YUMA AND SHUN YUMA AND SHUN BEST amber lived! georgia choking was the cherry on top

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

have a billion events at work but in between i’ve been darning and mending and slowly reducing my repair pile for the household and neighbors. i should be reducing my repair pile of bows and tiny violins but i’m waiting for hide glue and clamps and leather and imitation opal to arrive in the mail

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jules @sk8rboi.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

it is Lyra’s 8th birthday today

a light gray schnoodle dog sitting on a boulder in the forest, wearing a pink and blue harness and red bandana

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

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