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The Alan Alda Resembler

@reedonly.bsky.social

Boston. Dad. Ex-teacher. YIMBY and urban biking liker. Midlevel software engineer. Middle aged. Midwit.

created July 5, 2024

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Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

“Ohhhhh you’re soooo smart. Did you go to the College of Super Big Brain Know It Alls???” Don’t say that to an op ed writer they apparently hate that

2/9/2025, 3:25:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

I’m so bad at making this site a welcoming place for the huge dumbasses at the New York Times

2/9/2025, 3:21:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

“Is this a bad idea for me?” Well

2/9/2025, 3:16:10 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary The Longest Gary

2/9/2025, 3:14:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Letter Never Sent

1/9/2025, 11:36:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Nervously asking the other dog owners if their dog has started speaking yet

1/9/2025, 11:03:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

When the dog doesn’t like the sound of the vacuum

1/9/2025, 11:00:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Hell yeah Sept 1 you know what that means

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1/9/2025, 10:56:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

When Death beckons to me from yonder hill

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1/9/2025, 9:37:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Feeling fine

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1/9/2025, 9:23:30 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

By failing system I meant the New York Times but if you already knew that, nice judo move

1/9/2025, 9:21:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Having a one year old during COVID sucked but I’m glad that I got to spend as much time with my son as I did even if I remember 2020-2024 mostly as life kicking the shit out of me

1/9/2025, 8:13:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Velour Shirt (@object.works) reposted

Excited for the new cinematic story of Al Roker on the big screen

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1/9/2025, 7:52:21 PM | 30 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

David Cross, actually not bad singer www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBsE...

1/9/2025, 7:45:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Be Smart: Trump can never be fully destroyed but must be driven back into the prison of his Spirit Stone

1/9/2025, 7:38:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

We're so back (I assume)

1/9/2025, 7:29:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

I'm not going to stand for a lecture on being normal from Nate Silver. Sorry, that's not happening

1/9/2025, 7:28:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry that was said in anger and frustration with a failing system

1/9/2025, 6:59:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh blow it out your ass

1/9/2025, 6:54:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

The only thing i’ve heard parents complain about re COVID is that they can’t get vaccines now because of RFK and Trump

1/9/2025, 6:51:58 PM | 14 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m laughing too but I’ve got less than 2 years left on my knees so if someone could do something about that I’d appreciate it

1/9/2025, 6:34:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Hell yeah that’s how you keep lifting fresh

1/9/2025, 6:32:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

*it’d

1/9/2025, 6:17:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

if I was The Atlantic’s editor it’s be wind sprints for the rest of Centrism practice

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1/9/2025, 6:16:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

They got Mel Gibson on lock

1/9/2025, 6:10:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

So far all I’m seeing on the sidewalks for move in day in JP are lots of pasta strainers, christmas tree stands and Judith Butler readers

1/9/2025, 5:27:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

CPA for the FBI sounds like a fun job

1/9/2025, 5:26:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Best I can do is

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1/9/2025, 4:49:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

If you’re a Dem Senator there’s no excuse for shooting the shit with Sean Trende in your mentions. Ignore him or if you’re in a safe seat send him the nude Alf picture

1/9/2025, 4:20:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Where were you getting 1 dollar modelos?

1/9/2025, 4:11:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Labor Day plus Boston Move In Day means Dunks employees are earning their pay today

1/9/2025, 4:02:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurasaurus (@laurasaurus.bsky.social) reposted

COVID revisionists lie because they’re some of the softest people alive. If they accurately described what they experienced that has them this aggrieved 5 years later, they’d sound like weak babies, and they know it.

1/9/2025, 3:58:58 PM | 153 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

My son got to meet The Wimpy Kid

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1/9/2025, 3:42:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

No they’re not?

1/9/2025, 3:16:15 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

my wife and I went to free salsa lessons in Rozzie Sq and had a decent cocktail outside after. What more can you want??

1/9/2025, 3:14:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lance Parkin (@lanceparkin.bsky.social) reposted

Dick Grayson debuted as Robin in April 1940, became Nightwing July 1984, so June 2028 will mark the dickquinox, the exact point he was Robin and Nightwing for the same amount of time.

1/9/2025, 1:39:38 PM | 628 245 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

RT for despair-ness

1/9/2025, 3:05:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Oh Keir

1/9/2025, 2:59:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Sean T at Real Clear Proactive-Misremembering-To-Protect-Self-And-Avoid-Painful-Feelings-Of-Guilt-And-Complicity. Yes, that’s the full name and why they use the acronym

1/9/2025, 2:05:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Canada might break up?

1/9/2025, 2:01:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Found one 😏

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1/9/2025, 1:57:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Ketamine Man Bad

1/9/2025, 12:47:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a good point. It’s easier to learn how to cook now as well and celebrity chefs have made cooking sexier for lack of a better word

1/9/2025, 12:32:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Food has gotten better in America because we’ve had more immigration and we’ve been relentlessly teased by Europeans

1/9/2025, 12:15:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

My dad actually knew a Judas and no shit Judas got his name because his Mom thought it was biblical

1/9/2025, 12:03:16 AM | 28 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Mr From Over There

31/8/2025, 11:35:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I like my name fine but it’s not that romantic, my name is almost a hand gesture

31/8/2025, 11:19:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Not posting my government name here but it literally means “Guy from the West”

31/8/2025, 11:06:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Albini’s “Mario Batali Voice” was a really good cooking blog and it feels like I’m the only one who remembers it but it was better than his Twitter feed for sure

31/8/2025, 10:51:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The War on Cars (@thewaroncars.bsky.social) reposted

We are not welcoming Rudy Giuliani to The War on Cars.

31/8/2025, 10:48:38 PM | 590 47 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Also “this is just shit you hear on the subway” lady do you ride the subway? 99.99 percent of people on the subway are actively ignoring the rest of the train.

31/8/2025, 10:48:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

“these are just jokes” might have flown in like 2015 but it’s cowardly bullshit now

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31/8/2025, 10:41:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@samd.bsky.social) reposted

it’s kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia

Only people from 32.5K other countries Q should be allowed to 738 move to New York. No one from other states. 1 V 7,136 ... subwayakelanilla We're full.
31/8/2025, 8:24:54 PM | 1549 103 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture the beastly fido (@theophite.bsky.social) reposted

you hate ralph nader for throwing the 2000 election. i hate ralph nader for burning america's state capacity to the ground to establish a universal nonprofit veto over any affirmative program, however progressive. we're different.

11/12/2024, 2:15:00 AM | 1165 178 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Not too shabby

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31/8/2025, 9:39:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

i know the military isn’t perfect but importing the concept of dishonorable discharge and the penalty that has on getting hired might be part of the solution

31/8/2025, 9:32:25 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Babies love it when you dance like David Byrne

31/8/2025, 9:04:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Licorice Pizza was kinda baggy

31/8/2025, 7:47:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Could a judge in some other proceeding refuse to let Ensign represent the government? Does a judge even have that power?

31/8/2025, 7:32:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Who else is in the running? Mexico? The UK? Canada?

31/8/2025, 7:29:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

So stupid question, but is there a professional penalty for this?

31/8/2025, 7:28:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I think his voice works better for his material now

31/8/2025, 7:19:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I also don't think Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor had sex. I'm not sure how Quincy Jones came to that conclusion but I am skeptical

31/8/2025, 7:18:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it might just be TV and watching TV on the phone. I want it to be grander than that but 🤷

31/8/2025, 6:58:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Good biking and outdoors culture despite its climate

31/8/2025, 6:51:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Sectarian but that's kinda on autopilot at this point

31/8/2025, 6:50:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

This is why we fight

31/8/2025, 6:48:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

That doesn't sound so crazy given all the crimes

31/8/2025, 6:34:15 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

A lot like our understanding of antiquity over-indexes on what survived, future historians of the digital age will assume that there were a lot more hot 40+ singles trying to meet people in their area than actually existed

31/8/2025, 6:33:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted

This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

31/8/2025, 6:14:06 PM | 1295 652 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I agree that the Republican Party is terrorizing DC

31/8/2025, 6:21:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

"some sanitized theme park"

31/8/2025, 6:20:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

i gotta disagree with your characterization of dc

31/8/2025, 5:04:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) reposted

as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel

31/8/2025, 3:41:45 PM | 1410 222 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m just relaying what the electrician told me about replacing our gas range

31/8/2025, 4:40:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

“Gotham has to be destroyed for its many sins” Oh which ones? “You know the ones”

31/8/2025, 4:19:30 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

No. Charlie Brown did not have hoes

31/8/2025, 4:17:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

My son found a DVD of the Raimi Spiderman and was so hyped because "this is the real Spiderman because he's a teenager"

31/8/2025, 2:56:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd do it but our building would need extensive electrical work to make it possible even before any changes to our unit (thanks a lot Boston housing stock)

31/8/2025, 2:54:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Spidey and Friends is pretty pro-social. The bad guys help clean up after they're defeated

31/8/2025, 2:52:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

We would have a better press if after moments like this someone off camera or in the background does the Jadakiss laugh

31/8/2025, 2:30:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Converted Victorian with Dominican flag, Puerto Rican flag and American flag with a screaming eagle flying out of an explosion, you are our JP house of distinction today

31/8/2025, 2:09:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Looks like Karen Allen is a time traveller

31/8/2025, 11:44:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

A secret society needs to have sword fights which unleash energies that destroy small buildings. Where should they do this? New York City, naturally

31/8/2025, 3:58:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think you're a very good reporter if you can't poke a hole in "Mossad killed JFK because he didn't pray at the wailing wall"

31/8/2025, 3:50:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump... He's vigorously not dead!

31/8/2025, 3:34:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scotty Ray (@theterminizer.bsky.social) reposted

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Batman punching Cesar Romero Joker with the word Batman punching the Penguin with the word Robin punching some henchman in a red and grey striped shirt with the word Batman punching some henchman in a blue and grey striped shirt in front of a shelf of books about the Incas with the word
30/8/2025, 3:34:32 AM | 5649 1713 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

You know she should probably give up her phone

31/8/2025, 2:58:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Right, you can't wait for kids to learn about this at home

31/8/2025, 2:57:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

?

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Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

A lot of cooks/chefs are smokers though

31/8/2025, 2:11:21 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Not reading any of that unless someone pays me

31/8/2025, 2:09:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s a hell of a syndrome

31/8/2025, 1:43:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Could’ve fooled anyone tbh

31/8/2025, 1:38:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

Why?

30/8/2025, 11:14:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social) reply parent

🆒

30/8/2025, 11:12:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Arguing “there’s moral panic about social media” and then blaming the panic on a Jewish conspiracy…hmm, makes me think social media may be bad after all

30/8/2025, 11:01:11 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

The baby took her first step and did a little jump after, hand to god

30/8/2025, 10:13:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Alan Alda Resembler (@reedonly.bsky.social)

Well that’s just great

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