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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I know, Button. It was a rough 2025 for all of us.

A brown and orange tortie cat lounges lazily in a cat bed on New Year’s Day.

My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

“Ok, we just need some extras for an audience scene in Stargate: SG1. Make sure they’re just normal, average people and that nobody stands out in particular.”

A frame from Stargate: SG1 season 10 episode 15, “Bounty.” An audience applauds what they think was a technology demo but was actually a thwarted assassination attempt. The dude in the front row has the most amazing GIANT RED MANE of Sideshow Bob hair that ever Carrottopped.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Tell me you've never actually seen The Terminator without telling me you've never actually seen The Terminator.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wordle 1,553 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My starting word was the word! First time ever!

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It’s a sign from the heavens that this article was published on my birthday.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I know this is serious and concerning, but all I see is (yet another) AI butthole graphic.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Would Mr. Spock ever use emojis? 🖖🤔

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

That maturity and realism was in the DNA of the original show too, evident in many episodes, just masked by campy f/x. Agreed TMP gets a bad rap. It’s too long, but a solid Trek film - one of the best in the franchise. 🖖

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I love how in Mission Impossible: TFR they are fighting against an AI that wants to control the information super highway. The script could have been written in 1993.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This rundown of local creemee spots by @sevendaysvt.bsky.social's Chelsea Edgar is excellent and a fun read. For non-Vermonters, "creemee" just means "soft-serve" but when done right, has a higher fat percentage. #vermont #creemee

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A Hater's Guide to the Burlington Creemee Scene

A guide to some popular Burlington creemee destinations that asks the tough questions, such as: Are these creemees actually good?

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just realized Dukes Mayonnaise is available in a store near where I live for the first time ever. Excited to see what all the fuss is about. #bigweekendplans

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Spent the last 10 minutes trying to play Andor and restarting the Disney app and my RokuTV and nothing. Just a black screen. Fucking frustrating.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Not enough people talk about how @tmbg.bsky.social has been quietly crushing it for 40 years without a drop in quality. Name another band with that record. They aren't mega stars, but holy shit are they consistently great. And their live show is fire. #tmbg #they #touchthepuppethead

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bageltechno (Mike Norvell-Watch) @bageltechno.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

happy mother’s day

cyril in andor lying on a bed totally exasperated while his mother visits

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Technically he’s the SECOND Pope from Chicago.

Pope Guido Sarducci behind the Weekend Update desk on SNL in the late 80s or early 90s. Some idiot is on the background (it’s Dennis Miller).

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I never hear anyone talk about this brewery like they talk about the Alchemist or Hill Farmstead, but every can I open of Mill River beer is fantastic. Fast becoming my favorite #Vermont brewery.

A can of Fulling Mill New England Style IPA beer from Mill River Brewing in St. Albans, Vermont.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

So I just got a new mechanical "clickety-clack" keyboard and in doing research for the purchase I was disturbed to learn that the term of art among the keyboard gearheads for this particular ASMR-friendly sound is "creamy." WTF is wrong with people?

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Man, Andor hits extra hard at this particular cultural moment.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I’m an AP style advocate, but I find the lack of consistency around the serial comma rule troubling. Just include the serial comma! Why make people parse when it’s okay to use it or not? It doesn’t detract clarity to include it in simple lists & we’re no longer worried about saving printing costs.

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Vermont Agency of Education @vteducation.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's Teacher Appreciation Day! VT Teacher of the Year, Caitlin MacLeod-Bluver, chatted with the AOE about the critical work teachers do in our communities every day and how important it is to acknowledge that work. Thank a teacher today!

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Teacher Appreciation Week is May 5-9!

YouTube video by Vermont Agency of Education

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Nature is encroaching. My space weather app told me there’s a decent chance of seeing an aurora in the hour or so, and then I was joined by this new officemate, which my species app tells me is a parametric paper wasp.

Close up shot of a parametric paper wasp parked on my PC case. Don’t sting me, bro.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Once again reminded that Snatch is a nearly perfect film.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Reason # 4,571 that UK sports announcers are better than US ones: describing Liverpool’s Alexis Mac Allister as “the picture of industry.” #ynwa

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Wrexham yesterday. Maybe Liverpool today? It’s a big weekend for the teams I care about. #ynwa

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The Super Bowl halftime show is gonna be 🔥

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I got irrationally excited when I saw this clue, only to be disappointed by the answer. :/

Detail of today’s NYTimes crossword featuring the clue, “They Might Be Giants,” and the answer, “BASEBALLPLAYERS.”

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

No! Bad, Will Shortz! “Pan” is specifically a side-to-side movement of a camera on a panning tripod head. You don’t “pan in,” you zoom in or you dolly in or you push in. You can pan to something, or pan across something, but you do not “pan in.” Ever. Harumph!

Screen grab of today’s NYTines crossword, featuring the clue and answer for 5 down. The clue is “get a closer shot” and the answer is “PANIN.”

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

@stonkers.bsky.social is playing Yakuza Kiwami One and still learning the fighting mechanics. I’m in the kitchen and she’s yelling at the TV in the living room, frustrated by all the ass whooping. She just said, “now I have a katana, you piece of shit!” lol.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Following @whitstillman.bsky.social because Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I got an email alert from the NYTimes this morning titled "Breaking the Ice" and assumed (optimistically) that it was a cheeky headline about stopping Trump admin goons from disappearing legal US residents w/o due process, but no, it's advice about how to avoid awkward social interactions. 🤦‍♂️

Close up detail of an email inbox, featuring a highlighted email from the NYTimes, the subject of which is, "The Morning: Breaking the ice."

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Getting a new lease car today. We’ve had a low tire pressure warning for a couple weeks and rather than fix it like adults, we just got a whole new car. #winning

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I often wake up w/ a song in my head - usually provoked by something I heard in some context in the last day or 2. This morning, for no reason at all, it’s the Mentos jingle. It’s just all “stayin’ fresh, stayin’ cool” in there. The freshmaker! 🤷‍♂️

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Bluesky just got a lot better because I found @negativlandland.bsky.social ‘s account! No other possibility.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Dunkin’ Donuts is dropping the donuts from both the name and the menu. Next you’ll tell me Radio Shack no longer sells radios!

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Well hello, sudden influx of new followers! I assume I got put in a starter pack or something?

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I spent 6 months on Medicaid while unemployed and it was by far the best health insurance I’ve ever been on. 5 stars, would recommend. w/o it, I couldn’t have stayed on my life saving prescription. So of course the GOP is gonna gut it to give more $ to the 1%.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

WTF is wrong with our culture? This is a thing that @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social is going be posting about in 5… 4… 3… 2….

A grocery store display stand featuring “Post Malone Oreos,” including a large sepia-tinted photo of Mr. Malone in a cowboy hat and the signature cookies in question.

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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