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John O’Briant
@johnobriant.bsky.social
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Husband, father, music teacher, engaged citizen, unabashed nerd. He/him.
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Bearded white man with glasses looks up from reading Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch and is startled to notice the time
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Day 1 Bus with shirts!
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Happy 12th birthday to the best of pups. We didn’t think you were going to make it this far, but you proved us wrong.
An elderly reddish-brown medium dog with a black snout and pointy ears, holding a blue ball while wearing a rainbow colored bandana outdoors Younger version of same dog, standing next to middle aged man with beard, cropped hair and glasses in a black hoodie and blue jeans. They are both looking off camera into the middle distance
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Definitely rooting for the Mariners here, but I wanna make a shout out to baby blue away uniforms. Those are always on point.
Pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays in profile on the mound pre-delivery, wearing sweet baby blue away uniform with navy base layer shirt and navy cap with baby blue bill
October 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Who’s your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
Ramza Beoulve from Final Fantasy Tactics
October 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Delver of Secrets
September 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
The cover of Blind Melon’s 1995 album “Soup.” A photograph of a man with a graying beard in a navy blue jacket eating a bowl of what is probably minestrone soup with alphabet noodles that spell out BLIND MELON floating in it. He is seated at a diner counter, and the photo is from the POV of the waiter or waitress.
September 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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On the bright side, we get to enjoy LARGE DUNKER
Two Iowa Hawkeye football players in the offensive huddle, facing away from the camera so we can see the names LARGE and DUNKER on the backs of their jerseys
September 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Rocket City?
Rocket Town, from Final Fantasy 7, with the rocket visible in the background, tilted about 15 degrees to the right. A Shinra foot soldier, Rufus Shinra, and Cid are scattered foreground, facing away from the viewer
September 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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These Euros, y’all.
View from along the end line, subtitled “Goal Line Technology,” from extra time in the France-Germany Euro quarterfinal. The German goalkeeper has backpedaled and dove, making her body fully horizontal, to save off the line from a backwards header that came off of her own defender.
July 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Started watching the video and…can we take a moment for this moustache?
Screenshot from OP’s video of a white guy with a festively colored button down shirt and a glorious handlebar moustache that is three sizes too large for his face
June 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Ordered some stickers from straberiwaffle.com and didn’t realize I’d be getting Bun Ulmer! @bengineering.bsky.social
Almost unbearably cute sticker featuring a bunny with a plaid shirt hanging on a tree
June 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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See you in League One! #AFCW
Several AFC Wimbledon players in blue kit with medals around their necks hoist the League Two Playoff Trophy
May 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Just watched the most recent Checkpoint, and Cameron is all of us.
A man with grey hair, black rimmed glasses and a black sweater sighs heavily while looking slightly off camera. Inset image of some obtuse legalese. Bottom third reads: Unemployment for some, cross-media strategy for others
May 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Town Election Day! Holding my breath for several local municipalities today. This kid got to cast a ballot on the question: “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” First time voting, and apparently whatever wins will become our town’s position.
Kid sits perched on a large rock with a probably-haunted house in the background. Kid wears a yellow shirt with blue text reading It’s cool to be kind in all caps and an oval-shaped I voted sticker
May 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Congrats to our Australian friends on “firing Peter Dutton into the sun.” 😂
ABC news headline from website: “Anthony Albanese and Labor claim landslide election win as Peter Dutton loses seat.”
May 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Checking in from Burlington, VT.
City street corner stop sign onto which someone has stenciled FASCISM, making the sign read STOP FASCISM
April 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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So many absurdities in that story, but this in particular caught my eye. How would you feel as a parent of a student at that school knowing this?
The suspect's husband, Leon Rivers, said his wife meant no harm and has a firearm for "security around all the time" and "forgot to leave it" behind when she was "rushing in" to school that day. "We see (other parents) bring guns into the school all the time, just to drop kids off," he told NBC News on Tuesday. "I mean, you know, just coming and dropping the kids off and walking back out, like, for three seconds. They park in the front, drop the kid off, walk them in, and walk right back out."
April 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Post the first video game you ever played.
Black background with grey text. The opening text of Zork, original copyright 1981 Infocom, Inc.
March 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Thanks for writing it! Mine is…green, I think? Unless this is the tiger eye teal.
John Green’s signature in green
March 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Solidarity and action.
The colors of the progress pride flag.
January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
The main cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks, in the cabin of a crashing shuttlecraft. From left to right: Mariner, excitingly pounding her fists on the controls, Rutherford pumping his fists with a giant grin, Tendi and Boims looking appropriately terrified. Sparks are flying out of the console.
January 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Forgot I ordered this before the holidays! Managed to escape first time through, but I didn’t meet Belopa!
A used copy of “Escape from Tenopia: Trapped in the Sea Kingdom,” with our teenaged protagonist, a variety of sea creatures, and human-faced dolphin monstrosity Belopa on the cover. A miniature Gavle goat sits unmolested in the background.
December 31, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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Visited my hometown comic book store with the family today and found this 1999 gem for the Christmas tree. Trying to decide where he should go in relation to Chewbacca.
1999 Hallmark tree ornament: Worf, from Star Trek Deep Space 9. Dark red box, inset photo has black background with artificial tree branches. Ya boy Worf is front and center, posing menacingly with his bat’leth and ready to spread some holiday cheer (by force if necessary).
December 27, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, his white gloved hands folded in front of his face, light reflecting from his glasses.
December 25, 2024 at 1:52 AM