Credentials, Dan
@dancredentials.bsky.social
Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large.
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
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For my Birmingham folks:
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
For my Birmingham folks:
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This barber shop is so weird because it’s the overly masculine place where they do the straight razor shave and the guys all have tattoos but they has a sign on the wall that says “you are enough” made out of old license plates
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This barber shop is so weird because it’s the overly masculine place where they do the straight razor shave and the guys all have tattoos but they has a sign on the wall that says “you are enough” made out of old license plates
When I get to talking about the Morane-Saulnier 406 and the nationalization of French aircraft companies in 1936
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
When I get to talking about the Morane-Saulnier 406 and the nationalization of French aircraft companies in 1936
Thanks to @chalicotherex.bsky.social 's excellent newsletter, I learned that they made a The Cheese and The Worms movie!?
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thanks to @chalicotherex.bsky.social 's excellent newsletter, I learned that they made a The Cheese and The Worms movie!?
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One of the most fun bits of MST3K-adjacent trivia that doesn't get brought up enough is that the guy who played Sam the Keeper in Werewolf was also in Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun music video. Still wearing the trademark tiny red sunglasses, even!
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
One of the most fun bits of MST3K-adjacent trivia that doesn't get brought up enough is that the guy who played Sam the Keeper in Werewolf was also in Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun music video. Still wearing the trademark tiny red sunglasses, even!
"AI is here to stay" is true in the sense that 3D printing is here to stay: never lived up to the relentless hype and finally settled into its actual limited use case of prototyping.
Gen AI will likewise settle into a niche doing code that's not particularly important and lorem ipsum for realtors
Gen AI will likewise settle into a niche doing code that's not particularly important and lorem ipsum for realtors
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"AI is here to stay" is true in the sense that 3D printing is here to stay: never lived up to the relentless hype and finally settled into its actual limited use case of prototyping.
Gen AI will likewise settle into a niche doing code that's not particularly important and lorem ipsum for realtors
Gen AI will likewise settle into a niche doing code that's not particularly important and lorem ipsum for realtors
Its very funny when gamblers get mad about losing money. You're gambling! The entire thing about it is throwing money away!
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Its very funny when gamblers get mad about losing money. You're gambling! The entire thing about it is throwing money away!
Piccadilly Cafeteria is a restaurant I associated with the rampant ruraloid nostalgia design of the 1980s, but their original location in 1932 was a slick Art Deco beauty of a storefront.
Forgive me, Piccadilly, I was unfamiliar with your modernism game.
Forgive me, Piccadilly, I was unfamiliar with your modernism game.
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Piccadilly Cafeteria is a restaurant I associated with the rampant ruraloid nostalgia design of the 1980s, but their original location in 1932 was a slick Art Deco beauty of a storefront.
Forgive me, Piccadilly, I was unfamiliar with your modernism game.
Forgive me, Piccadilly, I was unfamiliar with your modernism game.
That may not sound like much, but that's TWICE as many copies as Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy's band The Brood sold of their debut album even after changing their name to The Boondock Saints. Let's have some perspective.
Yikes!
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book—With RFK Revelation—Sells Just Over 1,000 Copies
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That may not sound like much, but that's TWICE as many copies as Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy's band The Brood sold of their debut album even after changing their name to The Boondock Saints. Let's have some perspective.
Remember that time Anne Rice very noisily went publicly Christian for a couple years and published some gospels fan fic and then was like "hey wait a minute, these people are all insane gay-haters" and walked it back?
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Remember that time Anne Rice very noisily went publicly Christian for a couple years and published some gospels fan fic and then was like "hey wait a minute, these people are all insane gay-haters" and walked it back?
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I'm just going to point out here that "The Atlantic" put their best minds on the same question Tim just answered succinctly, and their answer, published today, was literally "Who knows?" And they pay their writers how much for that analysis? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I'm just going to point out here that "The Atlantic" put their best minds on the same question Tim just answered succinctly, and their answer, published today, was literally "Who knows?" And they pay their writers how much for that analysis? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
This looks cool and good, but no one agrees on who "the rich" are. People who live in California, young people with dyed hair, college professors, Jewish people, these can all be "the rich" while the family that owns 40% of all retail space in town goes unnoticed and unremarked upon.
"Do the rich have too much political power?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This looks cool and good, but no one agrees on who "the rich" are. People who live in California, young people with dyed hair, college professors, Jewish people, these can all be "the rich" while the family that owns 40% of all retail space in town goes unnoticed and unremarked upon.
This is the only one of these I've seen that gets it right (Birmingham exerts its natural right to rule as a capital and claims suzerainty over "West Florida")
December 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is the only one of these I've seen that gets it right (Birmingham exerts its natural right to rule as a capital and claims suzerainty over "West Florida")
In this Age of Slop, do yourself a favor a read something stuffed to the gills with thought, purpose, and intention!
Free Planet vol 1 is now available EVERYWHERE; dive into the critically acclaimed geopolitical space opera that ComicBook.com called "one of the best sci-fi comics of this year--and potentially all time."
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In this Age of Slop, do yourself a favor a read something stuffed to the gills with thought, purpose, and intention!
Ah damn RIP to the Great Kaiser. He signed my library’s copy of his memoir, The Masked Tenor. He’d wear outrageous wrestler clothes out and about doing his grocery shopping at the Piggly Wiggly and would always stop and bend your ear with a story when you said hello. You’ll be missed, Sam
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ah damn RIP to the Great Kaiser. He signed my library’s copy of his memoir, The Masked Tenor. He’d wear outrageous wrestler clothes out and about doing his grocery shopping at the Piggly Wiggly and would always stop and bend your ear with a story when you said hello. You’ll be missed, Sam
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oh my god Book of the New Sun had Amano covers in Japan and they're fucking crazy
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
oh my god Book of the New Sun had Amano covers in Japan and they're fucking crazy
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I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I love the expression "naked as a jaybird." Gotta wonder what the jaybird did to earn its reputation as the nudest of birds
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I love the expression "naked as a jaybird." Gotta wonder what the jaybird did to earn its reputation as the nudest of birds
And my wife couldn't breast feed, so our daughter came up entirely on formula and now she's a bright, happy, healthy eight year old. Another redundant flub by God!
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
And my wife couldn't breast feed, so our daughter came up entirely on formula and now she's a bright, happy, healthy eight year old. Another redundant flub by God!
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Who gives a shit?
Actors David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris are passionate about parties. They describe themselves as a “mixed sobriety couple” and have built a reputation for hosting parties that are lively and inclusive — whether their guests drink or don’t.
How David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris Include Everyone at the Party — No Booze Necessary
David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris want to include everyone at the party. Burtka shares the couple’s tips to make both drinkers and non-drinkers feel celebrated.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Who gives a shit?
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Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.
The missus got my ass in 4k, this is exactly the energy I bring when I read a cool paper about a new therapsid discovery
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The missus got my ass in 4k, this is exactly the energy I bring when I read a cool paper about a new therapsid discovery