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Thomas Brendel 🔀

@thesolemnbard.bsky.social
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a man of letters

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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My daughter figured out how to spell "Peppa and George"
Letter and number magnets: sideways pink 6 on a red capital A, sideways pink 6 on a blue lowercase o
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My new thing instead of pilfering game cards and forgetting to ever put them back is custom one-off bookmarks (My ongoing thing is too many books)
An array of books with crudely Sharpied bookmarks: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) with Bob Belcher; The Fold with origami parrot; Noumenon with the Mahna Mahna muppet; The Stardust Grail with the Black Knight; The Mountain in the Sea with Zoidberg
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cap’n watsisname @capnwatsisname.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
RE starlight you sent 1500 years ago: sorry, just seeing this
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
One-time-only opportunity for Project Hail Barbie, which way do you do it
Shopping cart from a movie theater, with Project Hail Mary either immediately before or after a one-off screening of Barbie
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Fool me once in a lifetime, shame on David Byrne Fool me once, twice, three times? Shame on Lionel Richie
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Parenthood is watching your almost-2 delicately insert peas into the tube of her squeezy applesauce, and saying "Hey, that's pretty good fine-motor"
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Someone who is good at the occult please help me, what is my daughter summoning
A bunch of toys arranged in vaguely a circle, including an octopus and ponies bedecked with rings, and a bunny carrying a house and a double-decker bus. In the center is another bunny with a ring and a disc engraved with two entwined octopuses
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My daughter (3) going through the records: I want this one. "Boys and Hands"
David Bowie, Heroes
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Why love someone platonically when you can love them plate-tectonically (as two crustal masses, colliding with, sliding under, and moving past one another)
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
PIZZA GUY: Lemme read that back. I take the third right, second left, fifth left, second right, fourth left. Don't touch the seventh stone after the statue with the trident. Square door if there's a breeze from the east, round door otherwise MINOTAUR: No, no
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Pessimus Prime @pessimusprime.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Face down, Ass up, That my friends, Is a feeding duck
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KarateAndPopTarts @karateandpoptarts.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Little ditty Bout Mike and Jo-ann Two competing craft stores in America's heartland Mikey gonna sell art with a mason ja-ar Joann make a quilt for the back seat of the car Smock on
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
You can get "wealth" by taking liberties with "the law"
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hiring a Latin band to play loudly outside the office just as your rival begins his presentation is mariachiavellian
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Me: Give it to me straight, doc Doctor: ANEMIA. LEAKY VALVE. ENZYME FAIL. FATAL WITHIN A WEEK Me: Now give it to me curvy Doctor: BOGUS BUG, BRO. GROSS CRUD. DO DRUGS, SO GOOD POOP OCCURS. GO DO DOC PROUD, DOG
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
murderer: [looking murderly at me] me: [holds up steaming mug that says Do Not Even Think Of Murdering Me Before I’ve Had My Coffee] murderer: [holds up steaming mug that says I Can’t Read]
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn" Reasonably verbose? He frowns (this is an anagram)
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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
are there a lot of first person singular objective pronouns, or is it just me?
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Holy infant so tender and mild, so succulent and flavorsome, so juicy and melt-in-the-mouth
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
unnecessary syllabificational optimization (a haiku)
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Pessimus Prime @pessimusprime.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
You know it's authentic Russian porn when a lady takes off her clothes to reveal an identical, slightly smaller lady
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
ME: Is it true, if you die in the Matrix, you die in real life? USED CAR SALESMAN: Again, the Toyota Matrix is a very real car
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Bluey-heads will understand why I laughed to read the end of this chapter while watching Sticky Gecko
Close-up of a page of Don't Ask, by Donald Westlake. (Great book, love love love.) Most of the text doesn't matter, but the last paragraph is simply "Gotcha."
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Stevevsninjas @stevevsninjas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
in your moment of greatest peril, every animal you ever swerved to avoid appears to fight on your behalf
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 04/12/2024
I like the term “loanword” because it implies the word will need to be returned at some point. “Café” is due back to the French in three days. The fines on “raccoon” have really been piling up with the Algonquin so make sure to return that this week
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
[1969] MARCIA: We're married! GEORGE LUCAS: My beautiful fourth wife MARCIA: what GEORGE: Yes, later I will have three wives that come before you, nine total. I won't be involved with the last three. This is a normal way
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Cookie Monster is a great example of om nom nominative determinism
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Todd 'Papi' Carlos @thetoddwilliams.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
ME *enjoying a pizza*: Mmm, just what the doctor ordered {knock, knock} ME *opening door*: Hello? DOCTOR: Do you have my pizza?
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Everyone knows "eXamine Your Zipper" but in fact the whole alphabet is good for this: Undies Visible, Warning Quick! Reliably Shut Trousers A Beautiful Cock—Doesn't Exactly Feel Great How It Just Kinda Looms Majestically iN Our Peripheral
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Andrew Fowler @fowlerism.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
EXOTIC LADY: In my land, we add "-ry" to the end of every sentencery ME: Fascinating, how many people live in your country? EXOTIC LADY: *slaps me hard in the face*
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
There are two wolves inside of you There are two vowels inside of "you"
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
welcome to self-cloning club... first of all, make yourselves at home
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
jellyfish look so elegant compared to other types of goo
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
who's ready for this M*A*S*H Up
The hometown signpost from the 4077th. Carl Fredricksen's house is floating above the hills.
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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
date: I think we’ve actually met before Picasso: sorry I’m not good with faces
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Stevevsninjas @stevevsninjas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
[invention of doors] what if, wall, but only sometimes?
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
ME: Boy, the upstairs neighbors sure are noisy tonight WIFE: Y—wait, we live in a house ME: *remembering my promise to the brotherhood of dancing chimney sweeps* Boy, sure is windy tonight, is what I meant to say
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🎶 I wish I was a little koala I wish I was smaller I wish I had a tree with good food I would crawl there
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Uncle Jeff 🌈 @picklerudd.bsky.social · 26/06/2023
It's the Eye of the tiger It's the organ of sight Cuz this Cat has to see For survival
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 27/06/2023
ME *traps wasp under a cup* MAGICIAN GHOST WHO HAUNTS ME: *appears & sets down 2 more cups* ME: no MAGICIAN GHOST: *starts to shuffle them*
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
ⓘ This user is 🔀 hirsute, sis
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Toys and the Bluey characters my daughter claims they are, a thread
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Boo lettuce @lettuce.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
David Lynch called me again last night, desperate. "What's another weird thing??" I dunno man, a toilet that argues. Lose my number
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Hi-C is short for Hello-Clarice
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
MY SON, LINK: How did you name us, Dad? Did you name me after your favorite video game hero? MY DAUGHTER, PATTI: And me after your favorite art rock singer? MY OTHER SON, GROUND: And me after your favorite surface for standing on? ME: *swallowing sausage* Well see—
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
music is really loud math
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Anagram alignment chart
Photos of Scrabble tiles rearranged from the D&D alignments:

lawful good = aw, dull goof
lawful neutral = a new turf, a lull
lawful evil = ill flu wave

neutral good = o lord, u a gent
true neutral = alter ur tune
neutral evil = v leet urinal

(these use some letters to make faces)
chaotic good = chic goat
chaotic neutral = a true chant
chaotic evil = a-hole
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