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@syncingsinking.bsky.social

Married, three kids. White, cishet, he/him. Deaf in one ear. Math, disability, chess, LFC. In Illinois via Texas but born and raised in Cornwall 〓〓

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Alright, pick a card, *any* card

15.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pedantic Magician: I need a volunteer, and I'm sorry but it must be someone who believes the Axiom of Choice

15.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

amazing to think of the wildly successful careers people had after appearing on numberwang

15.02.2026 03:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

skankles?

14.02.2026 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reposting with alt text because a skeet this good should be accessible

14.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com

14.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
14.02.2026 07:12 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

No 4yo definitely said jerry like @jcsalterego.bsky.social

13.02.2026 23:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Saw (at different cinemas) MOON and THE THING

13.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sadly informing 4yo that "peanut butter and jerry" is not a lunch option

13.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

is there a reason it was called big dairy and not the global egg-lite

13.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

who's got two thumbs, for now at least

13.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not sure this should count but I am happy my brain was able to place this

13.02.2026 01:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alice Childress by Ben Folds Five has the line "try not to think about it anymore" which ends up as a repeated "no, not anymore"

13.02.2026 01:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
I Can't Touch You Anymore
YouTube video by The Magnetic Fields - Topic I Can't Touch You Anymore

youtu.be/odAeBhx7mOE?...

13.02.2026 01:15 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
12.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

how do you solve a problem like my ear

12.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Pro tip: each time you finish a referee report, erase all records and your memory of it. Then congratulate yourself any time you read an acknowledgement of an anonymous referee

12.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the morning of my thesis defense I had to fix an argument regarding the reduction map from PSL(2,Z) to PSL(2,Z/NZ) which in hindsight was a congruence kernel panic

12.02.2026 18:39 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Mother Tongue: A Memoir by Sara Novic This stirring account from novelist and translator Nović (True Biz) explores the fraught intersections of deaf identity, eugenic...

Baby's first star ⭐🥲
www.publishersweekly.com/9780593241530

12.02.2026 16:42 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0

The stonks are go up and you're *laughing*?

12.02.2026 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chess board from Black's perspective. Black piece locations: King g8; Queen h4; Rooks a8, e8; Bishops a6, e5; Knight d7; pawns a7, b6, c5, d6, f7, g6, h7. White piece locations: King g1; Queen f3; Rooks a1, f1; Bishops d3, h6; Knight c3; pawns a4, b2, c4, d5, e4, g2, h2. Colored squares indicate last move was White Queen e2 to f3.

Chess board from Black's perspective. Black piece locations: King g8; Queen h4; Rooks a8, e8; Bishops a6, e5; Knight d7; pawns a7, b6, c5, d6, f7, g6, h7. White piece locations: King g1; Queen f3; Rooks a1, f1; Bishops d3, h6; Knight c3; pawns a4, b2, c4, d5, e4, g2, h2. Colored squares indicate last move was White Queen e2 to f3.

Black to play and mate in 3.

#chess #puzzles

12.02.2026 03:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Grandad died doing what he loved, placing board games on scales - it was the go he would have wanted to weigh

12.02.2026 02:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That knock at the door is Malcolm Gladwell with a certificate and a handshake

12.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chess board from White's perspective. White piece locations: King h1; Queen d1; Rooks a1, g6; Knights b1, f5; Bishops d3, e3; pawns a2, b2, c3, e6, h2. Black piece locations: King g8; Queen d8; Rooks a8, f8; Knight b8; Bishops b7, g7; pawns a5, b6, d4, d5, f6, h7. Colored squares indicate last move was Black pawn cxd4.

Chess board from White's perspective. White piece locations: King h1; Queen d1; Rooks a1, g6; Knights b1, f5; Bishops d3, e3; pawns a2, b2, c3, e6, h2. Black piece locations: King g8; Queen d8; Rooks a8, f8; Knight b8; Bishops b7, g7; pawns a5, b6, d4, d5, f6, h7. Colored squares indicate last move was Black pawn cxd4.

White to play and mate in 3.

#chess #puzzles

12.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My contribution was putting Virgil on my fantasy team's bench

12.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great job all of us for crying that #LFC win in

11.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Loves a header inches wide of that post does Hugo #LFC

11.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nearly Chiesa time

11.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Virgil will get that goal I think #LFC

11.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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