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Bork Bork Bork @borkcubed.bsky.social

I wasted way too many years of my life thinking that being a dork and being a jock were mutually exclusive identities.

sep 5, 2025, 4:19 pm • 4 0

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The Mountain Goats Reply Guy @lennonpatton.bsky.social

Same.

sep 5, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bork Bork Bork @borkcubed.bsky.social

Which is crazy because even casual research could've told me that going all the way back to Plato (supposedly his wrestling nickname) some of the most intellectually distinguished people in history were also accomplished athletes and/or warriors.

sep 5, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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The Mountain Goats Reply Guy @lennonpatton.bsky.social

I didn’t know that about Plato!

sep 5, 2025, 9:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bork Bork Bork @borkcubed.bsky.social

But I'm also thinking of people like the original Mercury and Apollo astronauts. Hell even Stephen Hawking was on the college rowing team before he started to develop symptoms of his disability.

sep 5, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bork Bork Bork @borkcubed.bsky.social

I said reportedly because it's based on one source who wrote a century after he died, but there's also no counter evidence. "Plato" means "broad" or "wide", like calling someone a unit.

sep 5, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view