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Charles Louis Richter

@richterscale.bsky.social

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Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more

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Well now, they often call me GreEEEEEEEdo 🇺🇦 🦉🦉🦅🦅 @natteringnaybob.bsky.social · 19h

Who decided to call it the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and not Texas Instruments?

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Pixels&AlchemyPhotography @pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social · 1d

sharing #Manui #Pallas’s #Cats
For #Caturday
And #SpookTober

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Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social · 19h

Me, every day of my life.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 22h

"Bless me, Blockchain, for I have sinned. It has been two weeks since my last transaction."

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI (1975)

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13d

got to write about Ugly Stepsister, a pretty fantastic entry in the growing genre of feminist body horror, and one of the best reworkings of cinderella. www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

The Ugly Stepsister Retells Cinderella as Feminist Body Horror

Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut is harrowing and lovely. || Noah Berlatsky

www.splicetoday.com

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched this and agree with you on all counts.

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RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI (1975)

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

airbrushed wizard mural on the mystery machine and a "cash, grass, or ass" bumper sticker

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this is what the rapture looks like. you may not like it, but this is peak rapture performance.

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 1d

i had a vinyl seat cushion with that trident logo on it to make the kingdome bleachers marginally more comfortable

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 2d

ah, from the days when it seemed the team had an albatross around its neck

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 2d

if this is true, that picture he has hidden away must be an absolute disaster

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 2d

I need somebody to hold down the fort for a bit while I hone in on the problem with what you said.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 2d

ah, you too?

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2d

The entire Washington staff and MMWR editors

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 2d

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

how long until someone is sent to gitmo for Wearing an Inflatable Costume for the Purposes of Concealing Identity While in the Course of Supporting a Proscribed Terrorist Organization

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

the auditors from Office Space with a speech bubble indicating that one of them is saying the text of bari's memo

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

The boat-bombings will continue until the boat-bomb–loving Nobel laureate gives the boat-bomber her Nobel.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

New from me in Wall Street Journal Food & Drink:

Maybe It's Time to Give French Fries a Chance

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

Here's an example of the pencil in use, from someone who did a full restoration. You could use it to make tables or boxes very precisely.

www.boatworks.tech/typewriters/...

a piece of paper in an old typewriter, with an attached pencil flipped down so that its point touches the paper on the roller. a box has been neatly drawn around a couple lines of text with this pencil attachment.

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