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Michael Frederick

@michaelfwalworth.com

Audiobook Narrator, michaelfwalworth.com Audio Publishers Association, Professional Audiobook Narrators Association Medieval History book nerd, supporter of Arsenal FC Cat Dad to two boys, void/tuxedo Conrad and brown tuxedo Zeno

created December 12, 2023

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can’t be, because the rule is that the logo has to just be the company’s initials in lower case letters, and there’s already one of those

2/9/2025, 2:09:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only sometimes? 🤔

2/9/2025, 12:59:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I swear that’s the question they put on the survey to know that if you answer yes, they can safely throw out the rest of your answers

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The boyfriend is the milkshake. He doesn’t even necessarily like to watch, just to know that she’s having a good time and will tell him about it later

2/9/2025, 12:47:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unto* Fuckbeans 🙄

2/9/2025, 12:43:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When the assembly cried out into the Lord, “Please, Heavenly Father, might one of our contenders lay hands upon the malefactor and thus impede him,” the Lord of Hosts was deaf to the plaintive wailing of the faithless

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Keep Calm and Gary On

2/9/2025, 12:35:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Let us in to see him, Edith”

1/9/2025, 3:36:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Learn the TRUTH at SayNoToTheFilioque.org

1/9/2025, 12:56:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They’re bringing in Guehi but letting Joe Gomez leave. So any injury to VVD or Guehi and they’re toast.

31/8/2025, 11:57:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To the Kraft Mayo Clinic

31/8/2025, 11:28:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kamikaze football, try to win 6-4

31/8/2025, 11:24:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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xEdithWilson

30/8/2025, 2:06:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 1:02:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kluwe for State Assembly District 74 Kick the Bums Out of Bounds to Prevent Their Return

28/8/2025, 7:13:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's part of the fantasy that the rich today deserve it and they, as so self-evidently deserving of richness (cis/straight/white/male), would naturally be rich in whatever society/time they lived in, even if that society were far less meritocratic as ours purports to be. Fantasy all the way down.

28/8/2025, 6:47:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If we'd drawn them away, it would have 100% been on Wednesday before a Sunday game at Stamford Bridge lol

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Of course any of the RETVRN types who want to go back to "the good old days" imagines that they'd be Quintus Senatorius Labubus who owns 4 latifundia in the Appenines and vacations in Baiae. Or whatever the equivalent is for their fantasy of the Antebellum South, the 1950s, 1890s, etc.

28/8/2025, 2:20:13 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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the alt text fails to describe the game being played on the computer 😉

28/8/2025, 2:07:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought, "did it go higher than 12 feet?" lol

28/8/2025, 1:54:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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man got confused, thought he was playing qarabag not carabao

28/8/2025, 1:46:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Inter H, Dortmund A Juventus H, Frankfurt A Bodo H, Prague (Racism FC) A Almaty H, Qarabag A

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until bruno guimaraes elbows him in the eye

28/8/2025, 1:05:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mine are only 6 months old. But I'm starting to suspect that they just look at the words and don't actually know how to read 😿😿

25/8/2025, 3:19:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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good heavens, what did they do to those poor puppets?

25/8/2025, 1:11:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shadowgate creeped me out, as did Castlevania

23/8/2025, 7:52:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That was my friends and I with History of the World

21/8/2025, 11:04:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Plus, he knows exactly how to make it sound like he's just making it all up on the fly and it ends up being 100% true lol

21/8/2025, 8:36:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now I'm curious what game this is 😹

21/8/2025, 8:13:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"thoughts and prayers"

21/8/2025, 7:49:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bob Mortimer (and David Mitchell's reactions to him) on WILTY is some of the funniest stuff I've seen

21/8/2025, 6:04:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Now that man has it. I wonder if he'll kick it. He has indeed." 😂

21/8/2025, 6:03:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And ACL surgeries

21/8/2025, 5:51:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"My husband made a cricket bat out of the groom's cake and hit me with it. I woke up in the hospital three hours later and I'm really upset about it, but he said he saw it on TikTok and just thought it would be funny. AITA?"

21/8/2025, 3:46:06 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gyokeres is on the hot seat for it, so it'll be Merino up front against Liverpool

21/8/2025, 3:36:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I went to the orthopedist years ago with pain in my elbow. I told the nurse that I know I'm not supposed to, but I looked it up on WebMD. I saw her face fall and she was trying to be polite, so I told her to be straight with me and be honest if she thought I had elbow cancer.

21/8/2025, 3:34:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#newcongressionalmap #linusmandering

21/8/2025, 3:13:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reminded me of this one: theonion.com/seize-him-18...

21/8/2025, 2:59:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tomorrow Arteta will tell us that Kai went to a farm upstate where he can run free 😭

20/8/2025, 9:56:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The situations are largely the same. There were rumors that Sporting’s president had violated a gentleman’s agreement with VG and his agent, which might make him seem a more sympathetic figure than Isak. But we don’t know for sure.

20/8/2025, 9:35:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this sent me down a rabbit hole of r/ididnthaveeggs

18/8/2025, 7:54:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Must always expect the floof. Three very floofy cats

15/8/2025, 10:05:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Red Baron to X-Wing to TIE Fighter pipeline is real

14/8/2025, 8:16:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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students' interest," to which I'm sure I'd have replied that they're just being lazy hacks and walked off in a huff. So I opted for tactful withdrawal over pitched battle. In my mind, a properly medieval response lol

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I was so mad. I'd been waiting weeks since I saw the seminar come out. It was the thing I was looking most forward to. I love fantasy books, D&D, Sword and Sorcery, etc. But not in a history class. I almost stayed after to talk to them about it, but I was sure I'd get, "we're just trying to grab the

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25 years ago, at the Nat'l Middle School Conference, went to a seminar on teaching the Middle Ages to MS students. As a history major who concentrated in Medieval Europe, I was super excited. The materials had dragons and other fantasy stuff in them. Sat through the hour, shaking my head, fuming

14/8/2025, 1:53:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Pick Me!": University Edition

14/8/2025, 1:44:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#2 Google search of the day: How do I not upgrade to Windows 12

14/8/2025, 1:17:15 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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manflesh

13/8/2025, 2:53:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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came here to post a Krang gif! lol

13/8/2025, 2:45:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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sometimes, you can meet your heroes

13/8/2025, 1:37:16 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kilodeth

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Plastica

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I played in a Sunday soccer league in the town of Havana. Always had to be careful when venmoing the captain the referees' fees

12/8/2025, 7:21:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cover art of the book Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
12/8/2025, 1:08:36 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think this is the only reward for lots of obscure knowledge. Anytime I'm in a frozen food section, it still rankles that Red Baron pizza gave him a mustache

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There was an incomplete set in the local Goodwill book store and I straight up Gollum-grabbed that one. Foolish me didn't look to see what other ones they had. Red Baron was my gateway drug

11/8/2025, 7:13:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Been reading this bad boy for the last couple of days

A photo of the book Knights of the Air from the Time-Life series Epic of Flight
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This looks like if you asked someone in 1890 what heavier-than-air flying machines would look like in 1950

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would've sent the werhmacht shrieking back out of the rhineland

11/8/2025, 3:44:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I watched ESPN's Sunday pregame show once last season, and it seemed like the majority of it was spreads, odds, over/under, and nothing about the actual sport itself. Of course, "ESPN, brought to you by DraftKingsFanDueletcetcetc" means it's not that surprising, but definitely alienating

11/8/2025, 2:47:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I went to get a few things at HomeGoods a few weeks ago and Halloween stuff was on full display

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Washington Post inadvertently using the correct phrasing in the headline because both parties will take this proposal just as seriously as Clemenceau and Lloyd George took Wilson's "peace without victory" proposal

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Yay for brown tuxies! 🤎

10/8/2025, 10:15:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Roar like tiger!

9/8/2025, 10:34:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🚨 “the wife” klaxon 🚨

9/8/2025, 10:33:48 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apparently all taxes canceled now

8/8/2025, 9:44:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m literally LOLing because that’s the exact word that came to mind 😂😂😂

8/8/2025, 9:02:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d like to see the stats from Portugal in the last two seasons, “shots per 90 that put dents in defenders”

8/8/2025, 8:37:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’ve seen Raya sprint a few times; he’s deceptively fast 😂

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Who could ever forget the date Dany 29, 2917

8/8/2025, 8:33:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mitrak = Tuvix

8/8/2025, 8:30:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#nailedit

8/8/2025, 1:01:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, no, if the movie has an animal in it, Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" must be used.

7/8/2025, 7:35:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I got that far and realized, that taken with all the other nonsense, that the article essentially says nothing at all

7/8/2025, 7:11:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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tear him for his bad verses

7/8/2025, 6:37:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Martinelli did not look very good today. I would like to see more on Noni on the left. He seemed to be putting balls into where Gyokeres had been, so I think the two of them can combine to give us something

6/8/2025, 7:17:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I do, as well. My penalty pet peeve, as a goalkeeper, is, "he sent the keeper the wrong way." Drives me mad every time, and you hear it said probably 80% of the time the keeper guesses the wrong way.

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Howard Webb: "In that situation, Saliba has to be aware that Anthony Taylor might blow his whistle there. So, as you can see in the slow-motion, his heel does make contact with the ball, so he really can't have many complaints about the yellow being given."

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that's cool, never seen a cat charging mat before

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they even called it vitamin c, wake up sheeple

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That save game with RAF Capt Jenner with 54 kills is just waiting for you to pick it back up 😉

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cannot tell you how many hours I played the original Red Baron

5/8/2025, 8:07:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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there are cathedrals everywhere

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in the same way that when you move into a new place, the moment you put something somewhere, "just for now," that's just where it lives forever

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did you give them second breakfast before they go? 😸

5/8/2025, 3:37:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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someone is trying to catch up to Big G 😸

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Playing as the Fatimids in Egypt, having a lovely time minding my own business, and then this pops:

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Rob Holding

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he's a good cat bront

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When the 3rd Chancleta Division reaches Berlin, it’s all worth it

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I was going to go with Gonzo the a’@

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I had literally never heard the phrase “Manhattan sandwich” before and found it properly horrifying. I’ve also always known the phenomenon as, “curb stomp” sub-STAN-tive is a fine alternate pronunciation, but I understand Peter’s point of view, given that it sounds different in the original Farsi

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My cats would likely be ill if I fed them my purse chicken

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I would have loved YA WWI fiction when I was younger. All we had was Corporal Himmelstoß

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also "the deficit"

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Immediately reminded me of this:

Photo of medieval helmet with its front visor lifted. A small tabby kitten is tucked snugly inside, asleep. The caption reads,
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The Island of ARNP Moreau

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12 men behind the ball

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🚨 Richard Reeves alert 🚨

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