Author | Lightnews

welcome 2 my skinner box

@heysawbones.bsky.social

310 followers 140 following 1.8K posts

“Well, how did I get here?” Artist, creator, co-writer of Modus Operandi ( http://moduscomic.com ). DIY, lift of weight, old car enthusiast.

moduscomic.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by welcome 2 my skinner box

Just some guy @rocinante.bsky.social · 16h

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

18 680 2.3K

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 16h

So many of us feel this way! Make use of us! We want our society to be collaborative. We’re here!

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

2 1 11

Reposted by welcome 2 my skinner box

Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 16h

Do I! I bust this out on every family road trip, for enrichment: livingnewdeal.org/map/

The New Deal Map

livingnewdeal.org

4 6 70

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

yeah that’s how I feel

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

Well, definitely do not contemplate Gorbachev too hard then

1 1

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

“Yes, please. Allow me to dig or fill holes for my fellow man. I will be glad for it.” It lets me tell them I love them without it getting awkward and personal

2 19 390

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

40 210 1.4K

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

You ever wonder what the GG would make of what’s going on now and get kind of sad. I do. I’m like “damn we really failed the WPA era”

1 1

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 17h

That makes sense.

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

is pong a boomer game

1 1

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

I would think so. Sharing a trauma can make it easier, but we do still, almost to a person, fear death. I personally do not find the bodies themselves particularly traumatic, unless in an advanced state of decay. It’s the narratives that get me.

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t mind dead bodies so much. I think it’s the storytelling that gets me. The why, the how. The very natural unfairness of circumstances. The piercing, unavoidable absurdity of it.

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

Never found out why and how she got domed mere hours after leaving our ER but I hope that kid her in-laws had to drive from out of state to pick up from our ER is ok now. I hope his in-laws didn’t also have massive heroin addictions or something equally unscrupulous

1 6

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

I just watch her delusionally demand attention from a toddler who hated her for my entire shift. weirdly I think that might’ve been more traumatic than the rooty tooty probably drug murder shooty part

1 5

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

I think maybe that addicted medic spouse who got found shot to death under a bridge on post between my shift’s might’ve been trauma, but then it’s like “well it’s not really MY trauma, I didn’t get shot and left under a bridge.”

2 5

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

thinking about that time we found a dude what baked himself to death in the BAMC parking lot by taking 3 days worth of Ambien and closing his eyes in the car. Is this trauma? Is this “that was interesting”? both? neither? is it trauma to speak of it? To refuse to?

2 3

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 18h

ripe age of 39 and still not sure what constitutes personal trauma t b q h

3 9

Reposted by welcome 2 my skinner box

wilp @youaretraffic.bsky.social · 2d

hobby lobby-ass regime

2 51

Reposted by welcome 2 my skinner box

just hangin around @dioerasabbath.bsky.social · 2d

"Uncle's Fantasy II"

2 13 68

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

What’s ARD?

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

And, finally: weekly review of amusement ride mishaps

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

unedited debates: now with cursing!

Series on the people who worked on the Buran/deep dive on the project

Ask A Crotchety Old Man About Trains (knowledge of trains not required)

narrative history of math

people building shit (no obnoxious backing tracks) with wildlife documentary style narration

1 4

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

Interviews with gig workers. Sometimes they have really great stories.

Ask memoir/autobio authors, “what’s the worst or strangest response you’ve gotten to mentioning someone you know in one of your books?” until one of them finally coughs up a good answer

1 3

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

Interviews with scientists doing real weird shit. We do not ask normal questions. Like, the guy who puts dogs in the FMRI. Has one ever taken a shit in the machine? Are any of the dogs just assholes?

1 4

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

Global news, so you kinda know what’s going on everywhere else. What dumb shit is Qatar up to? What’s the newest Nigerian Prince scam, from the perspective of Nigerians? What country has the most messed up localized McDonald’s fare?

1 4