Daniel Leonard

Daniel Leonard

@danielleonard.bsky.social

English PhD: animals & self in 20/21C lit Tennis, jazz, jokes Ultrarunner, puppeteer, poet he/him

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When the tooth fairy dies, will all of our teeth reappear under our current pillows? Or will each tooth reappear under the pillow we originally placed it under? Or, if the magic dies with her, will her estate executor have to track us down individually to return them?

Simply having a wonderful Christmas slime

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Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

language sensitivity guide: don't say: "Hydrox" do say: "Oreo" don't say: "Hyrox" do say: "hybrid obstacle race" don't say: "Hyrax" do say: "shrew-mouse" don't say: "Horcrux" do say: "phylactery"

a few names of characters Frawley played in films for Paramount: Briney O'Brien Milton Shakespeare Mushy Harrington Scoop Trimble Chauncey Beheegan Waldo Pincus Hotfoot Jiggers Sandy Hill Honey Wiggen Sharkey Knobby Walsh Gloomy Willie Len Sickles Baldy Gunder

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imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

I remember being taught to use some kind of digital typewriter. Its screen showed one line of text at a time. We wrote stories and saved them to the device. Now we waste children's time and minds training for an AI future corporate sponsors insist is inevitable. Same scam, different culprits.