every day on Bluesky adding to and fastidiously labeling my pinned collection of Weird Guy Specimens “ah, look at the plumage on that new subspecies of reply guy!” I say to myself as I preserve his carapace in alcohol, in the fashion of Alfred Russel Wallace - ThreadSky

faineg.bsky.social • 15 days ago

every day on Bluesky adding to and fastidiously labeling my pinned collection of Weird Guy Specimens

“ah, look at the plumage on that new subspecies of reply guy!” I say to myself as I preserve his carapace in alcohol, in the fashion of Alfred Russel Wallace

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dildo-baggins.bsky.social•15 days ago

What I imagine your study wall looks like. I also imagine that you have a study.

weedlordbonerchamp.hellthread.vet•15 days ago

God i wish that was me

magneticsara.bsky.social•15 days ago

Don't forget the relaxing fluid.

faineg.bsky.social•15 days ago

yes I know I mixed plumage and carapace implying some sort of unnatural bird-beetle, it’s bothering me now, sorry it’s late

imagine0enigami.bsky.social•15 days ago

New horror concept, IMO.

slothropsmap.bsky.social•15 days ago

Well he is a reply guy

noghiri.bsky.social•15 days ago

idk seems right considering some of what I've seen crawl from your mentions

jcc333.bsky.social•15 days ago

Or bird-turtle, which would be fucking sick

hoodiecraw.bsky.social•15 days ago

You have a different concept of sick...
Birdturtle sounds slick!

kmagnacca.bsky.social•15 days ago

Lots of beetles do have hairs, which is a kind of plumage if you want to be generous. Pelage, to be pedantic.

whistberry.bsky.social•15 days ago

You just set an art challenge for every nature and creature artist that sees this

*scurries off to start drawing*

gettoknownature.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yeeeessss! I can't wait to see

darthhippy.bsky.social•15 days ago

I mean that's how we got owlbears so why not Robinbeatles?

barrybarnes.bsky.social•15 days ago

texaskrusty.bsky.social•15 days ago

So, how again does one see which lists they’ve been put on?

witwarrior.bsky.social•15 days ago

Lovely language! 😻

aelkus.bsky.social•14 days ago

the breadth and depth of weirdness pales in comparison to Twitter (old and current). Which I’m thankful for, because it would make site unbearable

blowdart.me•15 days ago

Your killing jar isn’t effective enough.

08mms.bsky.social•15 days ago

If you get downtime someday, a curated Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum of reply guys would be a wonderful installation to tour.

geologyjohnson.bsky.social•15 days ago

Interesting. I had not considered their anatomy including a carapace. But it makes sense when you think about it.

kadeperegrine.bsky.social•15 days ago

No way they have a carapace. They're far too thin-skinned

geologyjohnson.bsky.social•15 days ago

Good observation. I was thinking that the carapace helps keep them resistant to new ideas. It just needs to be thick enough to keep the ideas out, but can still be weak enough to be pierced by the sharp beak of valid criticism.

partickle.bsky.social•15 days ago

😶‍🌫️

scottjohnson.wtf•15 days ago

Is there a weird guy wiki/taxonomy

outeast.bsky.social•15 days ago

@soozuk.bsky.social did a fantastic thread of Reply Guy types. Originally posted in the other place, but I think reshared here.

queengwenevere.bsky.social•15 days ago

I remember someone did a whole thread on Twitter back in the day, breaking them down by type and subtype, with handy identification charts. I really hope that exists somewhere off Twitter!

annbehemothhh.bsky.social•15 days ago

@sbarolo.bsky.social and https://bsky.app/profile/shrewshrew.bsky.social
are the authorities on this (search for 9replyguys)

queengwenevere.bsky.social•15 days ago

Oh, yeah, that’s one of the threads I remember from Twitter!

Bookmarked for future reference!

gsjphd.bsky.social•14 days ago

we should make one, call it the Hall Of Reply Guys

HORG for short - no way is that taken!

conniemenefee.bsky.social•14 days ago

Failhalla

tangibullah.bsky.social•15 days ago

I think this guy is the LUCA

geologyjohnson.bsky.social•15 days ago

Stellar work, write it up and it's a top tier journal paper. "Hums et al 2025 The Last Reply Guy Common Ancestor and the early divergence of stem group reply guys and incels."

lucafilipozzi.bsky.social•15 days ago

wait, what?

tangibullah.bsky.social•15 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor

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