David Rheinstrom

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English Language Arts video-maker at @KhanAcademy.org. I played a magical talking cat once, and nothing shall keep me from doing it again He/him davidrheinstrom.com

An elderly, sickly Phryne snugged up against my leg.
Phryne, a dark blue merle dog with a brown muzzle, brown eyebrow marks, a white-blaze chest, and white socks, sits attentively
the fallout 4 "everyone disliked that" meme, but it says "No Man," as though cunning Odysseus has just committed another one of his wily japes!
"Text structure: how smaller sections of text WORK TOGETHER to support the whole text" and there's a picture of Voltron and the caption, representing my voiceover in this video, reads, "But first let us consider Voltron."
a still from a video about possessive pronouns, using a doodle of captain planet and his slogan, "the power is yours!" Yours, of course, being the second-person possessive pronoun
a handful of pretty, mottled purple-and-white Good Mother Stallard beans. Phryne the dog lounges in the background
A blue and orange bandana from stormcloud brewery: a godly hand emerges from a cloud; rain falls from the hand into a glowing beer goblet.
Kevin Brown playing a security professional in OCEAN'S EIGHT
A charcoal grill festooned with ears of corn and a variety of sausages
A lammergeier (a bearded vulture) looking skeptical
Chips and dip for sale at a Pilot truckstop in new jersey
a menu of burrito options at a DC taco joint; a fish burrito (blackened, not fried) is one of only four burrito options!
a map of DC by voting precinct on the Board of Elections site, revealing surprising strength for McDuffie not just in Northwest DC (upper caucasia) but in far northeast and southeast DC as well
cans of Woodstock brand organic banana water. No, I'm as puzzled as you are.
It's a blue fender stratocaster on a little stand in my office
Camel with a fender stratocaster and a bass guitar strapped to its hump, along with a bunch of other musical equipment on its saddlebags
Me with indy, a cockapoo Muppet of a dog. He's bleppin'. It's infuriatingly cute
Hat Caddie Their new Hat Caddie's are perfect for those longer golf trips where bringing multiple hats without damage is a must. Built from a strong outer shell and a soft velour lining, this hat carrier will comfortably keep 6 hats safe and protected from unwanted damage.
The outer packaging will put you in a trance! Featuring holographic red and silver foils, ultra-lux paper, and precise embossing details, you’ll feel like you’re about to take a trip to the Upside Down! This box set contains three decks with two original decks plus one limited Upside Down Edition.
Mini round cocottes from Le Creuset. They come in Cerise (a cherry red) and Marseille (a bright, cheerful blue)
a bidet attachment, available with a knob finish of matte silver, bamboo, or matte bronze
Gummy Bears 12 Pack These Vandal Gummy Bears are oversized, art-inspired candies that feature bold, unexpected flavor combinations where colors don’t match the taste, creating a playful and unique snacking experience. Packaged in a convenient resealable bag, they offer a fun twist on classic gummy bears with vibrant flavors like pineapple, raspberry, mango, and watermelon.
a quick-dry travel towel that is only available in the wu-tang clan flag colors
Dire sky, crossed electrical wired above
sad lil horsey popup that says "Group chatss are not yet available"
BOOKS by campbell mcgrath Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive, that ambrosial archive, each volume sealed in craft-made paper, nutritive cells, stamen-fragrant, snug as apothecary jars. Like fossilized trilobites, or skulls in a torch-lit catacomb beneath an ancient city, Byzantium or Ecbatana, or Paris at the end of April when venders set their folding tables filled with lily of the valley beside every Métro entrance, and the women, coming home from work or market, scented already with the fugitive perfume of muguets, carry hand-held bouquets like pale tapers through the radiant, rain-washed streets at sunset. And then it is night, half the world ruled by dreams from which arise narrative forms—riddles, fables, myths— as mist lifts from mountain valleys in autumn, as steam belches from fumaroles in benthic trenches to whose sulfuric cones strange life-forms cling, chrome-green crabs and eyeless shrimp, soft-legged starfish sung to sleep by that curious cousin of the hippopotamus, the whale, who, having first evolved from ocean to land in the ever-eventful Cretaceous, thought better of it, returning, after millions of years, to scholarly contemplation in the mesomorphic, metaphysical library of the sea. .
You would have been a Mohist — a follower of Mozi (c. 470–391 BCE), founder of one of the great schools of the Hundred Schools period. You believed in universal love (jian ai) — impartial concern for everyone, against the Confucian gradation of moral concern by relationship. You opposed offensive war (and Mohists were famous for sending fortification experts to help besieged states), supported meritocracy against hereditary privilege, advocated frugality against aristocratic display, opposed elaborate funerals and music, and believed in Heaven as a moral force that rewards and punishes. The Mohists were organized like a religious-military order under a grand master (juzi). After the Han dynasty the school disappeared as a coherent movement and was only rediscovered in the late Qing. You are the figure of the consequentialist-egalitarian — utilitarian in something like the modern sense, anti-elitist, pacifist except in defense, organized for action.
Monkey Island concept art by Bill Tiller: an abandoned stone-and-wood structure sits on a promontory overlooking the sea—the moon, oblong and huge, dangles over the horizon. The clouds are tightly coiled like cinnamon rolls.
a picture of Rudy the Jackalope in our old apartment: a taxidermied rabbit with antelope horns is mounted on a small badge-like wooden backing. the whole piece hangs on a red accent wall in a little alcove. Below, a spray of flowers in a vase.
A little jam jar full of dried linden blossoms. I'll probably make them into tea.
a year-old screenshot of David Frum's instagram page, congratulating his son, @NatFrum, on the release of a CBC podcast called CALLS FROM A KILLER
an excerpt from Roald Dahl's THE TWITS, as illustrated by Quentin Blake "Why would that happen? I'll tell you why. If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." Above, a set of four illustrations of a woman gradually becoming viler and nastier-looking as her ugly thoughts express themselves in her features. Below, a cheery fat woman with all the features of an "ugly" face, but wearing a beatific expression. she looks like someone you'd want to be friends with.
a 35-pound/4.58 gallon container of peanut oil from Costco
A can of slate brand mocha latte beverage with 20g of protein, alongside a wan, sad little breakfast pastry
A teensy printed pot with tons of drainage.
A ruddy puddle of purple grits with some buttery, seasoned shrimp atop. Some chunks of roasted sweet potato. A pile of sugar snap peas. Some asparagus!
A great big schnitzel covered with a snap pea salad. You can also see some asparagus, beans, and crispy potatoes poking out from underneath.
Phryne! Snuggled up in The Casita, which is what we call the little closet alcove where her dog bed is
the last page of the storybook. "SafetyBot," Gina said, "These are the best roasted chiles we've ever made." "And the safest," said SafetyBot. In the illustration, the sun sets over gorgeous purple hills as Gina, SafetyBot, and another unnamed but very cute robot with tractor treads carry several boxes of Suarez Farms roasted chiles to the back of a waiting truck. In the foreground, opuntia cacti flowers blossom.
So Gina got to work. She wrenched, and she wired. She looked at the manual, and she programmed. Finally, she brought the SafetyBot back to life. "Hello, SafetyBot," she said. "I'm Gina. Let's be friends." A little girl with a welding mask and a jumpsuit assembles a broken-down robot in an adobe garage. A photovoltaic cell tracks the sun and plugs into the wall—numerous workbenches and tool drawers line the space, alongside futuristic-looking computer displays.
thumbnails on a low-views youtube account that specializes in fake footage from fake factories. sample titles include "The journey that 1,000 pounds of turnips have to go through before..." with conveyor belts with impossibly large turnips on them, or "how people process 10,000 pounds of corn a complete schematic diagram . . ."" with corncobs the lengths of alligators being inspected by factory workers. fake fake fakeity fake.
obviously fake LLM-powered thumbnails for fake fake fakity fake videos
A google maps screenshot of the area west of plano from the original tweet. over half a dozen taquerias populate the map.