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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 · 26/08/2026
In fact the sheep was named after her (because the donor cell came from a mammary gland)
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not a real clown unless your face is painted on an egg
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Worth noting that officially KFC has been just a name and not short for anything since 1991
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you want a not-joke answer, "rapum" is Latin for "turnip" and wholly unrelated to the other thing
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My wife took this in Florence
The shadow of the David. Some hardware on the wall is perfectly positioned to look like a dick and balls
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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 · 22/06/2026
If you have one of a blueberry it is my other daughter's nickname for no clear reason
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My daughter's name is Maya (Papaya) and as such I must love this
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
youtu.be
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science (Official Video - HD Remaster)
YouTube video by Thomas Dolby
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Here's my less-iconic rewrite (I vaguely remember there were a few days where we did this with a bunch of comics)
PURPLE HORSE: All members present, Mr. Chairman!

BLUE HORSE: Excellent! I hereby call to order this meeting of the Society of Horses Who Are Purple and Blue Which Are the Only Good Colors!

(MEANWHILE: ELSEWHERE!)

GREEN HORSE (to a red horse): Agent X7, I understand you have a plan for the elimination of our mortal enemies? By which I mean the Horses Who Are Not Red Or Green Because All Other Colors Are Evil?

(MEANWHILE: ELSEWHERE!)

BROWN HORSE (to a pink horse): Yes, sir! Basically the plan is to kill them. Every last Not-Brown-Or-Pink one of 'em!

(MEANWHILE: ELSEWHERE!)

YELLOW HORSE (to a grey horse): I like the way you think, son! Death to the chromatically-differentiated bastards!

(POSTSCRIPT: All of the horses involved were killed!)
(MORAL: Maybe we should all just get along?)
(This story brought to you by Hamfisted Allegories, Unlimited)
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Flip it for the L's
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Really taking on a sacred cow
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Today I learned this is a reference
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Something That Rhymes With Bones Space Ghost Surf & Turf Track 2
YouTube video by keyman 2013
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The book is set in Glenkill, where George Glenn was killed, and I'm off mixed feelings that the film changed both names
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
That is in fact the gag here and I think it's a genuinely great song youtu.be/SrzmDM3rRr8?...
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Kacey Musgraves - Space Cowboy (Official Audio)
YouTube video by KaceyMusgravesVEVO
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I just watched the dance from Life Less Ordinary and then read the plot summary, and I have absolutely no idea where it fits
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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 · 25/03/2026
This reminds me that I learned the word "tetartagonist" from a Richard Scarry wiki (I believe they claimed it was Sergeant Murphy)
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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 · 01/03/2026
It's actually flatfoot, clearly the most salient feature
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In Stay Tuned (1992) shitty suburban dad John Ritter is sucked into his TV and has to survive demonic parodies of famous shows and movies and then just straight-up literal Three's Company
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
For albums, it's Atmosphere's "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold"
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
For the record Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle has the same character count
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Missing this caption imo
The cover of Beautiful My Mane in the Wind by Catherine Petroski. A girl is running but also a horse is running because the girl is a horse even if no one understands
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Did she think he meant hedges
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The trailer just made me want to watch Defending Your Life, but I always want to do that
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The water is deep but he's wearing his bath jugs
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Correctly guessed that the specific reference was Calvinball, sad it wasn't the Noodle Incident
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
It was mildly useful because when it kept stopping midcycle the app was the only place I could see that it suddenly thought the door was open
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
media.tenor.com
a close up of a man 's face with trees in the background and a blurred background .
Alt: Ulysses Everett McGill is taken aback
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I mostly listen to three albums of ambient post-rock, and it's so ignorable I had one track stuck on repeat for a full week without noticing
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The best 7 minutes of film I know are about a man who has been bit, and his final preparations youtu.be/gryenlQKTbE?...
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I also have unfinished stories HBO can buy, if that's what it takes
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I want a movie theater where I can show old stuff for silly reasons. A month of full-sentence titles, from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore to You Can't Take It With You
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Oh, you
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We can pretend to be lots of things, but in fact this year will probably see a statistically significant uptick in frogs
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It wouldn't have won (that was the year of Let It Go) but not letting that song even be nominated was a crime
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Cinemetropolis - Blues Scholars youtu.be/XiLyBlo6EYY?...
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Cinemetropolis
YouTube video by Blue Scholars - Topic
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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 · 22/09/2025
I'm sure that came straight from Gov. Gregory Abbott himself, possibly under guidance from VP James Vance
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
No prison can hold him
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
To be fair, that term originated with actual engineers in the '50s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtai...
en.wikipedia.org
Unobtainium - Wikipedia
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
So nice I want to take a photograph
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Off Book: The Improvised Musical and nothing else
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Wild that you said this today, her Actual Birthday
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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 · 13/09/2025
O Monstar
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Please say it was "Holy chickens, that's all peanut butter"
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Thomas Brendel 🔀 @thesolemnbard.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
As I remember it, you could get most of that 30-40 minutes just by cutting the pasta
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