Credentials, Dan
@dancredentials.bsky.social
Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large.
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Hey man I'm just trying to read the paleontology news and yeah I'm high but
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Hey man I'm just trying to read the paleontology news and yeah I'm high but
Those engines with their top and bottom radiator intakes and big chunky propellor spinners look a LOT like the front end of the Brewster Buffalo fighter
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Those engines with their top and bottom radiator intakes and big chunky propellor spinners look a LOT like the front end of the Brewster Buffalo fighter
For another, the look of the airplane itself pretty closely resembles the Douglas DB-7 in shape and the glazing on the nose, down to wing arrangement and the underslung engine nacelles. And SPEAKING of which...
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
For another, the look of the airplane itself pretty closely resembles the Douglas DB-7 in shape and the glazing on the nose, down to wing arrangement and the underslung engine nacelles. And SPEAKING of which...
There are plenty of ads for airplanes that turned out to be vaporware in these old magazines but this is a first: an entire airplane COMPANY that's a ghost! I'd never heard of Freeman and seemingly neither has anyone else, but that is where Douglas was based. Furthermore...
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
There are plenty of ads for airplanes that turned out to be vaporware in these old magazines but this is a first: an entire airplane COMPANY that's a ghost! I'd never heard of Freeman and seemingly neither has anyone else, but that is where Douglas was based. Furthermore...
This is the Farman F.120 Jabiru airliner. Somehow, impossibly, the memory of this aircraft survives in the logo of a high end baggage company founded thirty years after the last of them were scrapped (albeit in the more conventional-looking two engine version)
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is the Farman F.120 Jabiru airliner. Somehow, impossibly, the memory of this aircraft survives in the logo of a high end baggage company founded thirty years after the last of them were scrapped (albeit in the more conventional-looking two engine version)
I love an airplane that just says fuck you. I love an airplane that is an affront to God and reason.
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I love an airplane that just says fuck you. I love an airplane that is an affront to God and reason.
Now more than ever, we need MONIAC, the water based analog economic model computer
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Now more than ever, we need MONIAC, the water based analog economic model computer
You know, mostly I talk about Birmingham as pretty much like any other city but then I looked up my favorite Lebanese restaurant on the local wiki and welp...
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
You know, mostly I talk about Birmingham as pretty much like any other city but then I looked up my favorite Lebanese restaurant on the local wiki and welp...
I think you need to see this, @thedazzlingone.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I think you need to see this, @thedazzlingone.bsky.social
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
"Amhrán na bhFiann" plays and a single tear rolls down my cheek
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
"Amhrán na bhFiann" plays and a single tear rolls down my cheek
If you see this post your getaway vehicle
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you see this post your getaway vehicle
This is Rugby, whose full name has become Rugby Rugbert Tugboat Tubbums over the years
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is Rugby, whose full name has become Rugby Rugbert Tugboat Tubbums over the years
Found your next 69 reply image too, if you're still beating that dead horse!
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Found your next 69 reply image too, if you're still beating that dead horse!
Honey, please, I'm not "disappointing you with premature ejaculation," I am --
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Honey, please, I'm not "disappointing you with premature ejaculation," I am --
Of course that's what the leading early 20th century French aviation magazine was called. Of course it was.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Of course that's what the leading early 20th century French aviation magazine was called. Of course it was.
a 1910 postcard. I used to get drunk in a bar in this building's basement around the north side, a buddy of mine rented one of the apartments and punched a hole in the wall dancing to Blondie too hard, the tiling in the lobby (1907) has swastikas as a repeating design element. Hell of a building
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
a 1910 postcard. I used to get drunk in a bar in this building's basement around the north side, a buddy of mine rented one of the apartments and punched a hole in the wall dancing to Blondie too hard, the tiling in the lobby (1907) has swastikas as a repeating design element. Hell of a building
Found just the thing to bring to the Cult of the Supreme Being potluck
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Found just the thing to bring to the Cult of the Supreme Being potluck
This stinker of an Eidos RTS from 1997. The nostalgia comes from it having been a brothers collaboration to wheedle our mom into buying it for us, so we tried very hard to enjoy it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This stinker of an Eidos RTS from 1997. The nostalgia comes from it having been a brothers collaboration to wheedle our mom into buying it for us, so we tried very hard to enjoy it.
How young is too young for The Elder Scrolls
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
How young is too young for The Elder Scrolls
Oh shit, they’re about to announce a new type of mana points
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Oh shit, they’re about to announce a new type of mana points
Documenting house gecko activity very late in the year for them. Current air temperature is 62 degrees with freeze watch active within 36 hours
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Documenting house gecko activity very late in the year for them. Current air temperature is 62 degrees with freeze watch active within 36 hours
This is at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, they included a cool cast of the holotype material
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, they included a cool cast of the holotype material
Catching up with my old friend Appalachiasaurus, a rare tyrannosaurid from east of the Mississippi recently found to be a close cousin of the previously controversial Nanotyrannus (photo concept and photography by Moira, age 8)
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Catching up with my old friend Appalachiasaurus, a rare tyrannosaurid from east of the Mississippi recently found to be a close cousin of the previously controversial Nanotyrannus (photo concept and photography by Moira, age 8)
I haven't posted any Honour Mode updates in weeks because I gave myself a heart attack doing the Iron Throne run and then couldn't bear the thought of the Steel Watcher boss fight. Having stepped away, the time came at last and Minthara eked out the win today. Now on to liberate the Orphic Hammer
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I haven't posted any Honour Mode updates in weeks because I gave myself a heart attack doing the Iron Throne run and then couldn't bear the thought of the Steel Watcher boss fight. Having stepped away, the time came at last and Minthara eked out the win today. Now on to liberate the Orphic Hammer