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Ryan S.
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Wheel Of Time fan, High School Physics teacher. D&D and general nerdiness. Plus lots of other interests. Same handle on other platforms too.
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It's one of my favorite seasons: "Will the Goat Survive?" Season!

I can't wait to rave about it to students who think they're just showing up for a physics class.

Is it relevant? No. Does it bring me joy? Yes! Has it burned down? Not yet and hopefully not this year!
A screenshot of a webcast from Gävle, Sweden. A large amount of the screen is pixelated for privacy reasons. In the foreground stands a large (3-ish stories tall) goat made of straw and wrapped with red ribbons on the legs, chest and horns. There is a town square in the background.
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Picture of a bird. Meme text: "Biology to a physics student." Different parts of. A bird labeled. They're all labeled "bird."
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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#5 in the boro, now doing greeting for people coming to vote. Let's go democracy!
Photo of a torso with a blue shirt with flowers and peppers and fruit. There is an "I voted" sticker on the shirt
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Current mood as a I grade tests
Portrait of Hayao Miyazaki, an elderly Japanese man. His eyes are closed as he leans back in a chair, exhausted. His hands are on his head, one holding his glasses. A cigarette dangles from his mouth, unlit.
October 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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A still from an old GI Joe cartoon reused in a Fenster Films short. A man with dark hair and a mustache stares off to the side with a grimace. Text at the bottom reads "Help Computer"
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Miles O'Brien from DS9 winks at the camera. The subtitle reads "He was more than a hero. He.qas a union man."
September 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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And the pajamas are just....well, weird.
Jean Luc Picard in a pair of Space Pajamas. A bald man stands in a futuristic warehouse space. He is wearing a pair of loose short-shorts and a belted wrap shirt with a really deep V. Like under his pecs deep. Both pieces of clothing are a pale green and look like soft cotton.
July 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Here's a cat.
A dining room table with a chair behind it. A calico cat sits on the chair, only her head visible. The cat stares right into the camera with a vague air of threat
May 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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As a side note, I find it hilarious how little I had to change. Here's the original
A billboard on the side of a highway. There's a headshot of some lawyer guy. Text on sign: Small letters - Insurance Companies... Large Letters - Fear The Spear Small letters - Nobody Fights Like Avi Small logo of to the side - Demand Rand
April 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#WoTskies, what do you think of this insurance ad I saw on the side of the I-95 this week?
A billboard on the side of a highway. There's a picture of Ayoola Smart dressed as Aviendha on the side. Text on sign: Small letters - Insurance Companies... Large Letters - Fear The Spear Small letters - Nobody Fights Like Avi Small logo of to the side - Demand Rand
April 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#WotSkies this is a pretty great take on the Wheel of Time show changes. From arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

And, "nuance-deaf ding-dongs" is a great phrase that I will be using in real life
Text reads "I think you've hit upon the main overarching change from the books, bigger than all other changes: The show has made an effort to make these characters into people with relatable problems, rather than a pack of ill-tempered, nuance-deaf ding-dongs who make bad choices and then have to dig themselves out."
March 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The detail in the drilling of the Bore screams to me the Dark Matter threads between galaxies
A dark image. Light gray background with dark threads connecting nodes in a huge tangle. In the intersections of the threads bright light blooms showing the presence of galaxies. It looks menacing Original from NASA
March 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Posting my most recent photo of #PetsOfTime. Pass it on!
A small black/brindle puppy (9 months)looks right into the camera. He stands on a back stoop, yard in the background. His tail is up and his ears are lightly perked. They both fall to his left side
March 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Post a picture of when your pet was little.

River (cat) in 2014, Miles (black) in 2024, Pips in 2019
A small calico kitten fans on a floor in front of a set of guitars. She has a startled look on her face and a big bell on her collar A tiny brindle and black puppy sits on grass with his eyes closed and his tongue sticking out of his mouth slightly. A white Pitbull terrier lies curled up and asleep on a fluffy bed inside her crate
March 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Excitement followed quickly by disappointment.

Uncool
Amazon Prime menu screen showing three episodes of Wheel Of Time Season 3. There are thumb nails and episode descriptions. Menu screen for Amazon Prime's The Wheel of Time, but now showing "This episode is currently unavailable"
March 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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My pup has the same crazed expression and coloring! Down to the white spot on his chest. And getting a picture is nigh impossible unless he's on your lap.
A brindle colored dog with a white patch on his chest stares into the camera. His nose and paws are a little blurry from motion. The walls are white. The floor is checkered, black and white. There is a doorway behind him leading into a darker room. A brindle dog with a slightly craze expression on his face grips. A green stuffed animal pulling backwards. There is a hand holding the stuffed animal playing tug of war
February 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Duolingo making me do the Japanese equivalent of "Buffalo buffalo buffalo..."
A screenshot of Duolingo. The phrase "peak this sentence" is written. There's a cartoon woman on the left hand side with a word bubble in Japanese coming out of her. The text reads " 庭にはに羽鶏がいる". There is a large green check mark and then at the bottom it says "Nicely done, Meaning: there are two chickens in the garden."
February 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I know it'll never happen, but I can dream, right? #WoTskies
Bernie Sanders Meme Template. Bernie in a winter coat outside looking grumpy. Text at top: "I am once again asking." Text at bottom: "When will we get physical media of the Wheel of Time?"
February 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Bread is good. Dog will take if burned.
A white dog holds half a loaf of dirty burnt bread as she sits on a concrete patio. A person's hand holds the loaf, trying to pull it away. The dogs face seems to imply "No, that is not happening."
January 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Newton got nerd sniped.

(Alt text from explainxkcd.com)
An xkcd comic [Black Hat is sitting on a chair, Cueball is standing next to him. Across the street, another Cueball-like guy is coming from a building walking towards the pedestrian X-ing across from Black Hat.] Black Hat: There's a certain type of brain that's easily disabled. Black Hat: If you show it an interesting problem, it involuntarily drops everything else to work on it. [The Cueball-like man across the street is about to enter a crosswalk, which is seen from right behind Black Hat in his chair, holding onto the sign, which is still pointing down. Cueball is looking on.] Black Hat: This has led me to invent a new sport: Nerd Sniping. Black Hat: See that physicist crossing the road? [Black Hat lifts up the sign when the physicist is in the middle of the street, halfway across the pedestrian crossing.] Black Hat: Hey! [A close-up of Black Hat's sign is shown. There is text above and below an image of a four-by-five grid of nodes with resistors (wiggly lines) between every node and also continuing away from the 16 outer nodes. A total of 5 columns with 5 and 4 rows with 6 resistors for a total of 20 nodes and 49 resistors. Two nodes, a knight's move apart, are marked with red circles in the 3rd row 2nd column and the 2nd row 4th column.] Sign: On this infinite grid of ideal one-ohm resistors, Sign: what's the equivalent resistance between the two marked nodes? [The Cueball-like physicist has stopped pondering the questions, a hand to his chin.] Physicist: It's... Hmm. Interesting. Maybe if you start with... No, wait. Hmm... You could— [In another frameless panel, a ten-wheeled truck is zooming past from the right, apparently going through the spot where the physicist just stood.] Truck: Foooom [Cueball looks down on Black Hat, who looks back up from his chair at the curb, again holding the sign down. He lifts one hand up, replying.] Cueball: I will have no part in this. Black Hat: C'mon, make a sign. It's fun! Physicists are two points, mathematicians three.
January 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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@xkcd.com it looks like 5 years is just about right.
XKCD comic. [Ponytail sitting at a computer with Cueball standing behind her.] Cueball: When a user takes a photo, the app should check whether they're in a national park... Ponytail: Sure, easy GIS lookup. Gimme a few hours. Cueball: ...and check whether the photo is of a bird. Ponytail: I'll need a research team and five years. [Caption below the panel:] In CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible.
January 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Doctored image from video game Zero Wing, famous for bad translations Orange background. Headshot of man with spike hair, centered. Half his face is robotic. He has a long flowing purple cape. Scifi military uniform underneath. Caption: "All your sky are belong to us."
January 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I don't see enough cute dogs in here. Show me more cute animals connected to people I know.
An angled shot. A brick fireplace on the right, flames flickering. A small dog lays, head on paws, facing the fire, asleep (?). He is black and brindle. A slightly cluttered background.
January 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The new bookshelves I'm currently installing. Also adorable puppies.
A grey wall with a window and a sloping roof on the left. On the wall are four vertical rails to the left and below the window. Shelf brackets are on the rails. There are no shelves yet. A scraggly avocado tree is to the right. A large fluffy dog bed contains two dogs. One is white and looking right at the camera with a perpetual sad look. She's older. The other, a puppy, lays on his back, twisted around., somewhat looking at the camera. He's a dark brindle on his legs and face. His ears are flopped up and he's holding a toy in his mouth.
December 31, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Merit badges: first set.
Seven small circles of plastic sit on a wooden table. Each has a blue, raised border and a line drawing of an icon in the center. A bird with a worm. A campfire. A chef had. A beer bottle. A spilling coffee mug. A barbell. A stereotypical board game..
December 23, 2024 at 7:26 PM