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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧗 Back at the Obed. Steady rain and thunder rolled in as we broke camp. Decided to have a cozy day beneath the roofs at Lilly Bluff rather than commit to the south Clear approach and pray for dry rock. Brought the stove and had some very good freeze dried bibimbap

Rocking Chair 5.9

Leading a sport route on blocky, brown sandstone. It begins at a low angle and gently curves up into a vertical section below a roof. It’s a cool, rainy day and I’m barefoot in pants and a hoodie

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 14h

That would make it a secret, intense ordeal that boosts her confidence and independence without relying on Turner’s help or even validation

I dunno. Just seems like a huge missed opportunity to do something interesting with her “city slicker learns to ride horses and do wilderness stuff” arc

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 14h

Untamed is good so far

(spoiler)

Turner saving Vasquez from the mine with a pep talk was super lame. She should have escaped on her own

Maybe she even escapes on her own, brings in the evidence, and suddenly decides to not even mention being trapped

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 15h

The first 4 that come to mind *that haven’t already been said:

It Follows
The Thing
Blair Witch Project
The Witch

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 15h

While you read this, keep in mind that we’re spending up to $300 million on nashville’s tesla tunnel, a project that will do little more than further enrich a billionaire who doesn’t even live here

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 1d

I reject your premise that 14,000 dead civilians is in any way more defensible or less of a war crime than the commonly accepted number of 60,000

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 1d

Even if we take your word for that and assume that’s true, it doesn’t justify genocide

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 2d

Humans move, genocides happen, what can you do, oh well

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone is running this online and looking for another player, DM me!

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 3d

🧗 Bad camera angle, but watch till the end to see my buddy’s reaction when he realizes how stupid my beta was

These Feel Just Like Your Sister’s V3

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 5d

For what it’s worth, I’ve done this twice and it healed on its own both times. Took a couple months

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 6d

A kid asked me why my bike is so big while we were waiting at a crosswalk

Buddy, I have the thighs of a water buffalo and the tibias of a etiolated giraffe

During puberty I had shin splints for 2 years straight

I’m lucky a local bike shop even had a contraption such as this

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 7d

The only form of metagaming that’s always ok and funny to me in a TTRPG:

“Baldrick, I saw you take an arrow back there, how are you faring?”

“4”

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 9d

Saturated! A classic but it does require 10 pounds of draws

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 9d

I guessed V7. That first move looks stiff. Nice one!

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 9d

Who hurt you jeremy

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 10d

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Chance vs. Dragon Lady V4

YouTube video by Pawtuckaway Bouldering

youtube.com

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 10d

I tried the boulder from the greatest bouldering video of all time

Dragon Lady V4

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 12d

For a long time as a kid I assumed it was intentional and there was some deep philosophical distinction between “man” and “mankind” that I didn’t understand

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 14d

I fully agree. Immigration is a good thing and we should support immigrants, especially those facing political persecution

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figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 15d

A comic that’s just this panel 4 times, in increasing quality, and the last one is a baroque oil painting

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 15d

Listen, there’s still a chance Bill Burr nudges my dad to the left of the democratic party. We just gotta ride this one out. We’re so close

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 15d

Imagine if instead we spent a quarter billion on a high speed rail network between Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Knoxville. Or education. Or solar power. Or state parks. Or protecting the rivers. Or

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 16d

For example, it says “in 2024, X number of accidents happened for Y type of climbing” for alpine, trad, and sport

But aren’t expert alpine climbers far more likely to report accidents to the AAC than, say, a novice sport climber?

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 16d

These numbers seem low to me, so I looked it up and found that ANAC is a selection of the most “significant and teachable” accidents of the year, and only includes accidents that are submitted to the AAC

So maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like this article might be a little misleading

figure six @figuresix.bsky.social · 17d

🧗 Everyone loves this boulder but a few things about it are underrated. The drum sounds it makes. The armchair geology in its comment section on mountain project

Fire Crack Flake V1