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Brad Proctor
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Historian at the Evergreen State College, occasional/lapsed banjo player, IndyCar fan.
Olympia, WA. 🏳️‍🌈
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I've been told I look like Linguine for over a decade. Tonight I reunited with Remy!
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Yeah okay but they seldom make history
A sign at an outside restaurant saying "Well behaved dogs on leashes welcome."
September 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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I wish I was the moon tonight
A clear photograph of the full moon A photograph of the moon with some clouds around it and a dark pine tree visible on the right of the image
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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This happened.
August 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Today in educational dystopia...

Check out the truly incredible rationalizations and unstated assumptions!
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August 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Earlier in August, I went to two very different race tracks with two very different races. Posting these pictures without context because it's better that way.
Two stripped down Model T Fords racing on a dirt track with drivers each holding a piglet A stripped down Model T Ford racing on a dirt track with a driver wearing a blue tshirt and backwards baseball cap holding a piglet Track marshals at the Portland International Raceway relaxing in the shade on a hot day The Number 12 red and white Verizon IndyCar driven by Will Power turning into the chicane at Portland International Raceway
August 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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A few more
July 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Random pictures for July
July 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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The world is filled with loss and grief but I made a sweet and sour tofu with bok choy and fava beans tonight
July 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Thank you for settling which Golden Girl I actually am, spam texter!!
A screenshot of a spam text reading "Enjoy every second, it's your day Sophia!!"
July 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Watching IndyCar at Road America
A meme of a frog in a union suit saying "I do not know what is even hampening."
June 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Andor meme that cracked me up, stolen from the internet
A picture of Anakin and Padme from SW: Ep 2, Attack of the Clones, with the caption "I don't like Kalkite. It's deep, substrated, and it's foliated everywhere."
June 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Chicken, potato salad (ancient family recipe), and okra, squash, and mushrooms.
June 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Update
June 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Hey hi
June 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Summertime on brand
June 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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It is inconceivable to me that any human would be surprised to not see those fake CGI rocks, let alone prefer the version with them. That is categorically insane!
Aldridge noted differences "like R2-D2 isn't hiding behind rocks when the Tusken Raiders come for them ... there are so many little things that I noticed the cantina... there's been cleaning up of James Earl Jones' voice [as Darth Vader ..
June 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Night 2 of the rock show
June 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Hey @whatahellofawaytodad.com appreciate the technical I saw in Lacey, WA today
A jeep with a nerf minigun mounted on its top A nerf minigun on the roof of a jeep (behind the car I was stopped next to)
June 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The movie itself seems to be a thoughtful prestige WW2 movie but it's just unrelentingly and excessively graphic and fetishizes violence in the the ways that should have worried us more about the Call of Duty generation
WIKIPEDIA Fury (2014 film) Fury is a 2014 American war film written, directed, and co-produced by David Ayer. It stars Brad Pitt with Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal as members of an American tank crew fighting in Nazi Germany during the final weeks of the European theater of World War II. Ayer was influenced by the service of military veterans in his family and by reading books such as Belton Y. Cooper's Death Traps, a 1998 memoir that underscores the high casualty rates suffered by American tank crews in combat against their better-equipped German counterparts.
June 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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From Wikipedia
of Judaism" (125) LaBeouf had described himself as Jewish, 1261 but declared in 2007 that religion had "never made sense" to him. 16) However, LaBeouf said in an interview in Interview magazine in October 2014 that "I found God doing [the film] Fury. I became a Christian man [...] Brad [Pitt] was really instrumental in guiding my head through this." [127]| In an August 2022 interview with Bishop Robert Barron, LaBeouf said that he had fallen in love with the Catholic faith while studying for the titular role of the film Padre Pio and staying in a Capuchin monastery in the process. He stated that the Traditional Latin Mass played a key role in his conversion. 1281|1291 In May 2023, LaBeouf confirmed that he was undergoing the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. 1301 On 31 December 2023, LaBeouf was confirmed into the Catholic Church by Bishop Barron and it was said that he had expressed a wish to enter into the diaconate. 131|11321
June 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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May 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Look at me, happy in my natural habitat
A selfie of me smiling in the stands of the short chute of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on race day, with the pagoda tower in the far distance
May 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Got my first tenderloin of this trip at the Lemon Drop in Anderson with my parents and my great-aunt Geneva after decorating family graves for Memorial Day.
My father standing outside the Lemon Drop, a historic diner in Anderson, Indiana made of concrete blocks painted lemon yellow My great aunt, smiling in sunglasses, next to my father, laughing. A plate of fries with ketchup next to a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich with iceberg lettuce and tomato The graves of my grandparents, John A. and Helen E. Knisley
May 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Good morning from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
A selfie in front of the timing and scoring pagoda at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway The other side of the IMS pagoda The first three pit boxes at IMS, beginning with the box of Robert Schwartzman of Prema Racing A selfie with my parents
May 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM