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Zachary Presley

@thatcollectorguy.bsky.social

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Collector of all things cool & weird. From movie posters & culture ephemera to fossils, I live for the thrill of the hunt. My shelves are a time capsule of music and movies in every imaginable format. If it tells a story, chances are I’m obsessed with it.

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 8h

Just picked up this stunning 100-million-year-old pine leaf fossil preserved in Burmese amber — likely from an ancient Araucariaceae tree (early relatives of the monkey puzzle or Norfolk Island pine). 🧡💛🦖💛🧡
#Amber #Fossil #Cretaceous #NaturalHistory #Paleobotany

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 1d

Fun way to spend a Saturday night—under the stars watching Gremlins on the big screen in the front yard with my nephews. Pretty proud of these brave little dudes for making it through the whole movie! 🤎🤍🤎

#MovieNight #Gremlins #Horror #NowThatsWhatImTalkingAbout

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible pickup yesterday during @amberbugs’s live sale on TikTok—a Burmese amber ring with a swarm of ancient mosquitoes inside! Can’t wait to get it home and on my finger. 🦟💛🦟

#Fossil #Amber #Mosquito

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 7d

Newest addition to my fossil collection.

Cretaceous Reptile Limb — Burmese Amber
ca. 99 million years ago
Hukawng Valley, near Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 14d

Spotted my first blue dream shrimplet during today’s water change! Totally unexpected this early on, but such a fun surprise. Just hoping I didn’t accidentally siphon up any of its siblings in the process. It looks like I’ve got a berried female carrying the next batch too! 🦐

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 16d

20myo, in what’s now the Dominican Republic, this beetle made a fatal mistake. But instead of fading into dust, like many of his kind before and since, he found himself caught in tree sap and fossilized. Forever sealed in amber, his story became a legacy—a rare window into a world long before ours.

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 16d

You bet! 😉

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 16d

@jesswithacamera.bsky.social fun news buddy! ☺️

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 23d

Fun afternoon hunting fossils in the creek!

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 24d

It’s time to disgust some fascist. ✊🖖
#FirstAmendment #CancelDisney+ #CancelParamount #StephenColbert #JimmyKimmel #FuckFascism

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks! They really are, I’m hoping that once they settle in I might get shrimplets. ☺️

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 25d

I did!

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 25d

I can’t change everything, but I can sleep knowing I stood by my principles. #ABC pulls #JimmyKimmel after his comments about Charlie Kirk, so I canceled my #Disney+ last night. I won’t fund companies that cave to political pressure and fascist. #Freespeechmatters #ResistCensorship #FirstAmendment

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 27d

My Blue Dream Shrimp have arrived!!! 💙🩵💙

#Aquarium #Shrimp #Pets #Neocaridina #FishTank

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 27d

Why last night’s Secret Society screening at the @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social was so special…
#Friends #Friendship #AlamoDrafthouse #SecretScreening #MOVIES #Letterboxd #MoviesWatched #MovieReviews #FuckCancer

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · 28d

Here's my Last Four Watched! @letterboxd.social #LastFourWatched #Letterboxd #MovieReviews #MoviesWatched #Criterion #CriterionChannel #Nunsploitation

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 14

Nice!

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 14

lol! Yup.

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 14

First fish in the new tank! 🐟✨ A few Otos have officially joined the cleanup crew (snails already on duty). Excited to see this little world come to life.”

#Aquarium
#FishTankSetup
#Otocinclus
#PlantedTank
#AquariumHobby

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 13

Here's my Last Four Watched! @letterboxd.social #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Letterboxd #MovieReviews #MoviesWatched #Criterion #RobertAltman

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 11

The first critters I actually meant to add to my tank! (The first unintentional guest—bladder snails— hitched a ride on my plants).

I really hope these beautiful red racer nerite snails enjoy their new home. With any luck, they'll have some tankmates arriving Saturday. 🐌
#Aquarium #snails #fishtank

Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 6

10 days in and my planted tank seems to be thriving! 🌿 Even caught more bubbles from my Golden Anubias “pearling”—tiny O₂ bubbles from rapid photosynthesis. Can’t wait to add a Blue Dream shrimp colony soon! 🦐 #PlantedTank #Aquascaping #aquarium #AquariumLife #ShrimpTank #Plants

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Last night I watched A Perfect Couple (1979), and here are my thoughts:

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#APerfectCouple #RobertAltman #Criterion #CriterionCollection #CriterionChannel #Letterboxd #MovieReview

A ★★★½ review of A Perfect Couple (1979)

I’ve had a lot of fun this year exploring the work of Robert Altman—until recently, the only one I’d seen was O.C. and Stiggs back in 2022. Now, after watching ten of his films, I feel like A Perfect ...

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wanted to share some of my thoughts on some recent watches. On Wednesday I watched Countdown (1967), and here are my thoughts:

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#Countdown #RobertAltman #Criterion #CriterionCollection #CriterionChannel #Letterboxd #MovieReview

A ★★½ review of Countdown (1967)

On paper, this should’ve been a tense little Cold War space-race thriller—especially with Robert Altman at the helm. Instead, what we got is a neutered studio product that stripped away everything tha...

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Zachary Presley @thatcollectorguy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wanted to share some of my thoughts on some recent watches. On Tuesday I watched Brewster McCloud (1970), and here are my thoughts:

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#BrewsterMcCloud #RobertAltman #Criterion #CriterionCollection #CriterionChannel #Letterboxd #MovieReview

A ★★★★½ review of Brewster McCloud (1970)

Altman takes a big, weird swing with Brewster McCloud, and I’m still figuring out why I totally dug it. It’s absurdist, farcical, and full of cosmic irony that’s totally batsh—or should I say birdshit...

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