PhDsurfbum

@phdsurfbum.bsky.social

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My screen name covers some of it, except the part about being a progressive, middle-aged, white guy with young kids. Things that make me happy (don't read into the order... too much): 🌊🏄🏽🤙🏽🏖️🌅 🌈♀️⚧️☮️♂️ 🐯🐕😻🐬🐳 🎷🎸🎹 🌝⭐🌠☄️ 🗺️

Photo credit Dan Mullan of Getty Images. The Spain World Cup team in their red kit celebrating their win with a total idiot in the foreground being ushered away
Orange marbled clouds lit from beneath by the sunset with tree profiles in the foreground
A very poorly edited picture of several deplorables in the Oval Office with two of the heads switched
A screenshot with multiple critical questions about the Padres lineup for today's game against the Royals
The view of the big screen at Gallagher Square from the Tony Gwynn tunnel exhibit. Zootopia 2 is playing with myriad fans watching
An unfinished scorecard filled out in pencil showing the Padres scoring one run on three hits
Part of a baseball scorecard showing the Dodgers absolutely annihilating my Padres
A baseball scorecard filled out in pencil
An aerial view of the White House
A baseball scorecard heavily marked with pencil
A photo of a disheveled, miserable man surrounded by capable and important people ignoring him. Most everyone is in dark suits with a few light colored formal outfits. Everyone is on a blue stage with green trees and a blue sky in the background
Screenshot from Samad Taylor's MLB.com page showing him at 5 for 15 with 3 runs, 5 RBI's and 2 SB's
An entrance to Petco Park with hundreds of boxes lined up to give away Xander Bogaerts bobbleheads. Fans in a variety of colors filing in
Jupiter to the left and Venus to the right in conjunction over a fig tree
A pride flag on a leaf strewn garden with a cement block wall and a succulent behind
A baseball scorecard for a 2 hit shutout with a baseball sitting on top of it
Home team in white pitching to the visitors in green on a green field with an orange sunset lit thundercloud in the far distant background
A gorilla taking a nap in the shade. In the foreground a flycatcher sitting on a rope
A Sumatran tiger in profile
An iridescent blue bird with a bright yellow eye on sand
The Empire State Building in the bacground peaking around what I think is a Hudson Yards building in the middleground and the backside of the Javits Center in the foreground from the Hudson River
A western gull with white body and dark gray wings hovering in a blue sky with high white clouds
A "This is a community safe zone "Protecting families from I.C.E" sign
A female western gull on concrete
Screenshot from YouTube highlights. Adrian Morejon in the Padres Sunday Camo uni's pitching to Jose Fermin of the Cardinals in their road grays. Lots of pink in honor of Mothers' Day
A baseball scorecard filled out in pencil. This is the Cardinals offensive side of the card, with Padres pitchers
Gallagher Square at Petco Park full of fans, mostly I Padres gear. Brown, Gold, Marigold, I sidian. Two bronze statues, Tony Gwynn in the distance and Trevor Hoffman in the foreground
A screenshot from the Padres broadcast on mlb.tv. Xander Bogaerts hitting a 2 run HR in today's game. X is looking sharp in the tan pinstripe unis, while the Giants catcher, Patrick Bailey is in San Francisco's white uni with Golden Gate orange catcher's gear
A pro women's soccer game, view from behind the goal. Goalie in baby blue, defenders in white, attackers in blue, yellow refs on a green field
Screenshot from baseball-reference.com of Nick Kurtz
A partially filled out scorecard
An orange solar powered radio next to a Ballast Point Padres Super Lager with a La Catrina logo. Sitting on a wall, in front of some wild grass
Puffy clouds over a blue, windblown ocean. Rain is clearly falling out to sea. With the morning sun shining on it, there is a rainbow in the far distance
A patch of pink on the horizon with the ocean
Screenshot of The Onion's website selling Demon Guard, except it's sold out
A line of low riders parked near the beach
Screen shot of jenniedelicious going from hate of baseball to love
Image from https://www.mlb.com/padres/tickets/giveaways showing tonight's puffer vest giveaway
The view towards the infield from Section 124 at Petco Park
Woo throwing a football in Petco Park while warming up for his start
Screenshot from Bluesky of The Tennessee Holler asking "what's next" for Vance to screw up followed by Aaron Rupar reporting that Vance is advising the Pope on what he should and should not be doing
A screenshot from MLB.com's standings page. Dodgers are 11 and 4, and the Padres are 10 and 6
Screenshot of Gavin Sheets about to cross home and be mobbed by his teammates after hitting a walk off home run against the Rockies on 10 April 2026. From AJ Cassavell's story at https://www.mlb.com/padres/news/gavin-sheets-hits-two-home-runs-walks-off-rockies
A parrot sitting on a sunflower with lavender stasis in the background
A Padres baseball bat with bat wings added
A turtle floatie sitting on wet sand
A pink shirt with purple writing that says"Following an order you know is illegal is indefensible. "Every citizen has a moral and legal responsibility to not support ICE in their unconstitutional activities."
On the far left, a navigable waterway with a draw bridge. On the right a building and a green pasture with sheep in the middleground. In the foreground on the left, a classic Dutch bike path
An osprey flying over a beach with a fish in its tallons
A sunflower with several flowers
Some 2000 runners mostly dressed in green on a beautiful SoCal day
Some 2000 runners mostly dressed in green on a beautiful SoCal day
A pair bond of western gulls. Female on the left, male on the right. Standing at the edge of a cliff over the ocean
Pelicans, cormorants, and gulls in the surf zone on a gray day
A sunflower in the morning sun
A yellow sun in an orange sky setting over a wind textured ocean. A surfer. A flock of beachcombers
An orange sun setting over and reflecting off a wind textured ocean. A few surfers in the water
A magenta, orange, and gray sky over a textured slate ocean just after sunset
Screenshot showing headlines with Iran and war in close proximity
An orange sun reflecting in a glassy ocean. Several surfers, and some beach combers