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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 1h

I still have my temp name tag on my guitar case

Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's the week of guitar repairs. While I await parts for my Assmaster and Mister Black, I fixed a faulty wiring connection and replaced a pot in my '72 Thinline reissue. I bought this guitar in 2008 when I finally got a job after a long spell of unemployment and it's mostly been my #1 since

A '72 Telecaster Thinline in sunburst finish with a sparkly white pickguard and maple neck, sitting on a guitar stand with a mess of other guitars behind it

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Kids, say hello to Mister Black. You can call him Uncle Blackie

A very black guitar (a Telecaster Deluxe with a black body, black pickguard, and black P90 pickups) sitting on a triple guitar stand with two other guitars facing the opposite direction and several more guitars on the floor around it on top of a Persian rug

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Brewers will never win a World Series until they let Bernie Brewer slide into a beer mug after homers again

Old photo of a little Bavarian cottage on top of a bunch of scaffolding with a wooden slide going down into a big foamy mug of beer in front of a giant wood keg that says "go Brewers"

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I did a routine check of their used inventory last night and this magically appeared. I'm pretty sure it was owned by a family of feral hogs but it's got character, it's a total steal and interrogating the sales clerk, it sounds like it should be playable with some TLC. At worst I'm out $25 shipping

A black Telecaster Deluxe with a black pickguard and black P90 pickups all scratched and bonked to hell

Closeup around the jack which has four huge chunks of black paint gouged out and the bare wood showing underneath

Looking at the face of the guitar, the pickguard has been scratched to a medium gray. Other paint chips and scratches are visible

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

RIP Ditka. Hope he's hooking up with my grandma again in the great beyond

Text between me and my mom:

Speaking of grandma, Mike Ditka just died. Did she really date him?

Yeah...she did for a brief time. Cowboys had their summer training camp at Cal Lutheran College in Thousand Oaks for a long time. (I know this because my friend, Mindy, went to CLC in the late 70's. He was the offensive coach. They only went out a couple times. I guess not technically "dating," but a few dates.
A summer fling

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Age yourself with your first crush

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The reviews are pouring in! "The worst soldering job of all time" -Guitar Player Magazine "I envy the dead" -Popular Mechanics "An affront to God and creation" -The Watchtower

Closeup on the body of a sunburst Fender Jazzmaster, its pickguard removed and its guts hanging loosely and askew, the cavity haphazardly covered in copper tape

Same Jazzmaster, now with its red tortoise shell pickguard back on

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have found the guitar I need and there are none for sale on the entire internet. I am now employing "The Secret" to mentally manifest one into existence

A Fender Telecaster Deluxe Black Dove, a black Telecaster body with a black on white Deluxe style pickguard and two black P90 pickups (that part is very important!) and the Strat-style maple Tele Deluxe neck. Why can't I find one of these anywhere??

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spent an hour at the cable company closing grandpa's account and I deserve a treat at one of my favorite breweries in the world

A tulip glass of a dark yellow beer (it's a fancy 9% saison) in a glass that says "third window brewing company st. Barbara carpinteria" with blurry flags and tables and the top of a brown mountain in the distance

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[family gets into long political discussion] My liberal centrist aunt: "so what exactly *is* socialism?" My liberal centrist dad: "it's paying higher taxes for social programs" Me:

Meme of a seagull with its head bent all the way back and its beak wide open as if taking a huge breath before going on a rant

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was supposed to be my next regular trip to see my grandmother and my first since grandpa died, but we missed her by a week. So instead we'll be cleaning out their apartment and sifting through their belongings. Married 72 years, apart for 4 months and now reunited somewhere in the great beyond

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tried to stretch my stiff neck and hurt my back instead

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I used to be a total alternate tuning pervert but now I mostly stick to standard and double drop D. My favorite tuning I invented was open G7, which I had as my license plate for a while

An Oregon license plate hanging on a green textured wall that says DGDFBF

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Damn, shrinkflation even got to the fiber content of lentils

Two identical bags of red lentils sitting on a cutting board: on the left, an empty one that says 7g per serving; on the right, a newer bag still containing some lentils that says 5g per serving

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a Deoxit appreciation post. In a world where nothing works anymore, here is a little can of miracle juice that you can spray at any problem and magically make it go away

A can of Deoxit D5 with a long yellow spray nozzle sitting on a desk in front of some audio equipment

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I took the 122 question dialect quiz and again it nailed the 3 cities I've lived in but this time it picked up a blob in Minnesota that the shorter ones didn't. My mom's mom's family is from MN but I never talked to them growing up. I think I got "are you coming with?" from my mom

Red and blue heatmap of the United states with a big red blob from Portland to Los Angeles extending out into Nevada gradually changing to dark blue in the southeast and new England, but there's another medium red hot spot at the top of Minnesota. My 3 most similar cities are SF (60%), LA (60%), and Portland (59%). My least similar are New Orleans (49%), Atlanta (50%) and Houston (51%)

Caption: would you say "are you coming with?" as a full sentence, to mean "are you coming with us?"
"Yes" is selected and there's a dark blue patch in the upper Midwest centered on Minnesota with the rest of the country light blue

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Going through the photos I took in Chicago last month and this one ain't bad

A cluster of Chicago skyscrapers - some gothic spires, some other random ones, a big blue glassy one right in the middle, and the very edge of the corncob-like Marina City just barely framing the left side. In the foreground is a weathered burgundy steel truss bridge with a metal L train running on top of it mostly in frame

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Damn, this blew up. Check out my sound cloud

A word cloud with a bunch of words in varying sizes and shades of black, grey, and purple with things like "clatter", "clank", and "pow". Get it? It's a sound cloud

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Where did they even come up with these?

Screenshot of an online quiz with the answers poorly photoshopped:

QUESTION 40 OF 60

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

Royale with cheese

The devil's fiddle solo

Swingin' on the flippity flop

Subprime boat loan

Microwaving fish in the break room

That chick with 3 boobs in Total Recall

Letting the drummer write a song

Breakup sex

Misquoting the Simpsons

Two-factor authentication

Our age of bronze is collapsing

I am from an uncontacted nonverbal society

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Area man talks like the three places he's lived

Most similar
San Francisco, CA (60%)
Los Angeles, CA (60%)
Portland, OR (59%)

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And the theme for my slides about analyzing geospatial data

Screenshot of a VAR offside check in a soccer game with the heading "analytical approaches"

A soccer referee holding his finger to his earpiece with the title "considerations"

An aggrieved soccer player with his mouth open and his hands in front of his face with a look of disbelief looking at a soccer referee who is pointing behind the player

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You know I was repping the home team for my talk today

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

MLBTV advertising to me a backhoe-themed amusement park on the complete other side of the country #targetedadvertising

A bunch of people riding in the bucket of a backhoe suspended in the air with their arms up the air like it's a roller coaster

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I like how the cross section shows you how tall Arizona and New Mexico are at a baseline level. My mom lived in the far eastern part of AZ and you don't even think about how high up you are. It seems mostly flat with some foothills around you, but you're higher up than Denver. This is 7000 feet!

Looking down over a flat green grassy valley with low flung houses and lots of empty space dotted with little bushy trees and surrounded by hills and some short peaks in the distance

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is normally where Mount Hood would be, so close you can reach out and touch it. Now the whole plane smells like a campfire. Welcome home, I guess

A plane wing out the window surrounded by a hazy brown void

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The top of the 1st was fun, anyway. And the view wasn't bad

The sun setting between the roof and the top of the 3rd base grandstand at Wrigley Field as seen from the end of the 1st base side

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It should be illegal for my team to lose when I go see them

Outside the main entrance of Wrigley Field in the late evening sun. The famous "Wrigley Field home of the Chicago Cubs" marquee says "Dodgers vs. Cubs 7:05 p.m.". There is a sea of people outside

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