Tyler Bell

Product Technologist, Former Archaeologist. Off Twitter; on Mastodon:

[Kay @ohKAYx33]

I bet I can find a teacher in Irvine right now with a classroom donation fund

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

From the table of contents for an amicus brief signed by Republican state legislators asking the Supreme Court to uphold bans on gender-affirming care

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Your periodic reminder that it’s impossible for a child to steal a firearm from a responsible gun owner.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

We practiced with caskets that were stored outside our barracks building. To simulate the weight of honored remains, we’d toss several full sandbags into the belly of the casket and then, for hours, we’d go through our exact movements.

Over and over and over.

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[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I love this comms team so much.

[frankie gabagool 🤌 @beantownthot]

Imagine being against gay marriage when it’s actually just this

[Pro-Democracy RTs @ProDemocracyRTs]

As Elizabeth Bibesco, a British writer in Hitler’s time, put it:
“The Nazi regime benefits from the fact that its atrocities overstep the limits of credibility.”
The same is true for MAGA. We either face the reality or the reality will bury us. 5/5

[I'm Going To Become A Monkey @type___e]

these two married Egyptology professors who appear like this on the dust jacket of their co-authored book are not whodunit characters but flesh and blood humans existing in the year 2024

[William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver]

academics: the market is horrible. do not go to grad school. I have 36 publications and the only job I got was a 4/4 in a county where the primary industry is racism. I am suicidial daily

22-26 year olds: wow, that is so bad. it's a real problem. luckily though, I am built diffe

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

so not to be a buzzkill but what survives of english folklore in those areas of the country amounts to 'don't go in the bog, don't talk to anyone you meet in the bog, take nothing you find in the bog' and in that one specific area of my life I am a firm traditionalist

[Dan @leathergregory]

I remember, when I was a kid, I kicked a football which landed in Cilla Black's back garden and smashed up all her flowers. She laughed, held the football up in the air, then unhinged her jaw like a python and swallowed the entire thing in one go.

[Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger]

Just got a text from a friend trying to hike out of #BurningMan with his kid.