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quickdraw.bsky.social
Not actually ANYONE'S Platoon Sergeant (but I'll try to help anyway). Dadjokes, Venn diagrams, and shreds of other hobbies I rarely have time for. (he/him)
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[family dinner discussion, "what did we learn today"] Wife: The platypus is a mammal but lays eggs, is duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous, has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach and 10 sex chromosomes. It's fluorescent and glows under UV light. 1/2

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

All we need to do is fire every service provider and we'll have billions of dollars to provide services.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

"It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable."

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder inspired by ongoing actual events: You never know when you're a single interaction away from your entire life potentially changing, or even what relationship today may yield such an impact years into the future.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”

submitted 39 days ago • 143 comments

submitted 56 days ago • 173 comments

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

submitted 58 days ago • 346 comments

Locked up my Twitter account because I'm largely done over there. (I'm not deleting it; preserves my DM history and negates any risk of impersonation.) The community there was a lifeline in the wake of the G+ shutdown and then COVID lockdowns. This places feels much like that, now.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Behold: the clam before the storm.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments