Alan
@gammacounter.bsky.social
Radiologist. Broadly enthusiastic. Science, outdoors/nature, travel. Lakes, coasts. Home experiments. Local environments. Many photos of slightly oddball things.
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Nobody really needs to be questioned about why they may or may not have blocked, muted, ignored anyone on social media. It’s really nobody’s damned business.
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“If vaccines work, why would you need a booster?” he asks as he changes his oil for the third time that year.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“If vaccines work, why would you need a booster?” he asks as he changes his oil for the third time that year.
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Prepare your home for winter weather! Winter storms can knock out power & keep you from traveling. Keep enough non-perishable food, water & medications for at least 3 days. Ensure you have warm clothing & blankets. Update your first aid kit. Charge your phone in advance & check for WEAs.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Prepare your home for winter weather! Winter storms can knock out power & keep you from traveling. Keep enough non-perishable food, water & medications for at least 3 days. Ensure you have warm clothing & blankets. Update your first aid kit. Charge your phone in advance & check for WEAs.
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My BFF is telling me IN GREAT DETAIL about this hella authentic German cake he had and sending me pictures of it and telling me how it’s made and I do not have the heart to tell him that my family is from Austria and I don’t care about German cakes.
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My BFF is telling me IN GREAT DETAIL about this hella authentic German cake he had and sending me pictures of it and telling me how it’s made and I do not have the heart to tell him that my family is from Austria and I don’t care about German cakes.
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Watercolour painting of a cat called Peanut, along with the photo I did it from. #cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolour #painting
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Watercolour painting of a cat called Peanut, along with the photo I did it from. #cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolour #painting
Genuine question, what is the point of showing the location of other Waze users. Like am I gonna drive up to the Shell gas station and say Hey it’s me, can I borrow a dollar!? Seriously what is the point
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Genuine question, what is the point of showing the location of other Waze users. Like am I gonna drive up to the Shell gas station and say Hey it’s me, can I borrow a dollar!? Seriously what is the point
If your car in the 1940s-1950s didn’t have an inbuilt clock, you could get the Auto-Watch from Westclox of Canada, having a big magnet glued to the the caseback (back when dashboards were made of steel). Very inexpensive but reliable watch. The green “luminous” is fake/simulated. Dial is cheap paper
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If your car in the 1940s-1950s didn’t have an inbuilt clock, you could get the Auto-Watch from Westclox of Canada, having a big magnet glued to the the caseback (back when dashboards were made of steel). Very inexpensive but reliable watch. The green “luminous” is fake/simulated. Dial is cheap paper
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At its peak, 100-200k NYC horses, 30 lbs of poop/day each. People would use these boot scrapers, that you can still see everywhere today built into the brownstone wrought iron fences, to scrape, 70%? of the poop off the bottom of their shoes before they went into the house. Horse poop everywhere.
October 16, 2024 at 12:46 AM
At its peak, 100-200k NYC horses, 30 lbs of poop/day each. People would use these boot scrapers, that you can still see everywhere today built into the brownstone wrought iron fences, to scrape, 70%? of the poop off the bottom of their shoes before they went into the house. Horse poop everywhere.
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Remember. Don’t buy jack shit today.
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Remember. Don’t buy jack shit today.
Got a package today from Sesame Street
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Got a package today from Sesame Street
Emailed a company looking to buy a product. Reply: You got the wrong company but don’t worry I know the correct company, & since you don’t speak Japanese, I’ll contact them, tell them the product & your details. Then he apologizes that b/c his colleague is off Friday, I’ll have to wait to Monday
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Emailed a company looking to buy a product. Reply: You got the wrong company but don’t worry I know the correct company, & since you don’t speak Japanese, I’ll contact them, tell them the product & your details. Then he apologizes that b/c his colleague is off Friday, I’ll have to wait to Monday
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Spending Thanksgiving dinner alone in the spare room because I am sick and coughing obnoxiously, but the family came together like champs to take over dinner and I can hear them having a great time in the other room, and I am content, if physically miserable.
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Spending Thanksgiving dinner alone in the spare room because I am sick and coughing obnoxiously, but the family came together like champs to take over dinner and I can hear them having a great time in the other room, and I am content, if physically miserable.
B-52s
New Order
Pussy Riot
Disney On Ice
Tyler The Creator
Renee Rapp
New Order
Pussy Riot
Disney On Ice
Tyler The Creator
Renee Rapp
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Arcade Fire
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Soul Coughing
Wilco
Youssou N’dour
Arcade Fire
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Soul Coughing
Wilco
Youssou N’dour
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Depeche Mode
Le Tigre
Underworld
Scissor Sisters
LCD Soundsystem
Orbital
Depeche Mode
Le Tigre
Underworld
Scissor Sisters
LCD Soundsystem
Orbital
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
B-52s
New Order
Pussy Riot
Disney On Ice
Tyler The Creator
Renee Rapp
New Order
Pussy Riot
Disney On Ice
Tyler The Creator
Renee Rapp
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National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
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20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.
The first turkey pop-up device to tell you when the turkey reached 165F had a solder-like material at its core that eventually melted at the correct temperature, releasing the shaft, which was then popped up by the spring. invention.si.edu/invention-st...
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The first turkey pop-up device to tell you when the turkey reached 165F had a solder-like material at its core that eventually melted at the correct temperature, releasing the shaft, which was then popped up by the spring. invention.si.edu/invention-st...
Doug made these 8 pies last year, including vinegar, and he’s doing it again, but I’m working starting at 6, so I’ll have to just live with the memories.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Doug made these 8 pies last year, including vinegar, and he’s doing it again, but I’m working starting at 6, so I’ll have to just live with the memories.
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Are you prepared for the upcoming polar plunge? As temperatures drop, remember to protect the 4 P’s: People, pets, pipes, and plants. weather.gov/safety/cold
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Are you prepared for the upcoming polar plunge? As temperatures drop, remember to protect the 4 P’s: People, pets, pipes, and plants. weather.gov/safety/cold
Nobody wanted to cook any food today, so we went to this place. There was a lot of fancy food. I tended to gravitate toward the best.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Nobody wanted to cook any food today, so we went to this place. There was a lot of fancy food. I tended to gravitate toward the best.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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I don’t like being referred to as a Yankee but I’ve realized this is not at all because I’m Southern, but because I specifically resent being associated with traditional New England Protestant culture and its flavorless foods
All people from the U.S. are Yankees. I say this as a person born and raised in The South because pissing off That Specific Kind of Southerner is a moral good.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I don’t like being referred to as a Yankee but I’ve realized this is not at all because I’m Southern, but because I specifically resent being associated with traditional New England Protestant culture and its flavorless foods
What a good view of the comet if you were living on Mars.
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
What a good view of the comet if you were living on Mars.
@annelibby.bsky.social And for my next self-help book on rheumatological ailments, I think I’ve found a title for the chapter on crystalline arthropathies.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
@annelibby.bsky.social And for my next self-help book on rheumatological ailments, I think I’ve found a title for the chapter on crystalline arthropathies.
You’re either right or you’re wrong when you call any “asymmetric dense vessel sign,“ that bright-ish wormy thing to our right.
Elderly with stroke symptoms, and it fits the side, so I said get a CT angiogram. Can be a fakeout, though. We’ll see.
Elderly with stroke symptoms, and it fits the side, so I said get a CT angiogram. Can be a fakeout, though. We’ll see.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
You’re either right or you’re wrong when you call any “asymmetric dense vessel sign,“ that bright-ish wormy thing to our right.
Elderly with stroke symptoms, and it fits the side, so I said get a CT angiogram. Can be a fakeout, though. We’ll see.
Elderly with stroke symptoms, and it fits the side, so I said get a CT angiogram. Can be a fakeout, though. We’ll see.