We had an insane professor who urged us to learn skills that would earn us our keep in a post-collapse society Well, he won. I’m learning to use a whetstone and it’s pretty cool He looked and dressed like John Locke from Lost

Gettin in the tub on Bathtub Mary 11a. There was a huge puddle in there. Shorts and harness were soaked #rockclimbing

Stuck my nose in the first nasturtium flower of the year and was confronted with this Scavengers Reign-ass situation

Spent 3 rainy days at the Red this weekend. Sent a 10c and topped 2 11a’s on lead. This one is me celebrating near the top of the 10c #rockclimbing

My search history on days when I hate my job: Fixing wind turbines jobs Rope access jobs climbing experience relevant Rope access jobs is 30 too old to start Rope access jobs can you listen to music

“Get on the train from Snowpiercer” would have been more apt here. We’ll get em next time

Cutting feet after sticking a massive deadpoint is better than sex 5.10 #rockclimbing

Trying to be gender inclusive while writing a ttrpg scene set in a gangster’s palace “Gunmen are patrolling…” “Gunpeople are patrolling…” “People of gun…”

I love these shoes even though they try to abandon me every time I heel hook These were tall (my 70m rope was barely enough), brand new routes shown to me by one of the bolters. According to him I’m one of the first 5 people to get on them. Pretty neat #rockclimbing

The protagonist of every Safdie movie is a guy fighting equally hard to achieve/maintain every level of Maslow’s hierarchy all at the same time

The rest of the good pics from this weekend 1. Oyster 10a. Banger route. TRed it years ago. Gave it a go on lead during a 30 minute break between volunteer duties and it went first try 2. The Gate of Divinity, Leesburg, Alabama 3. My humble plot #rockclimbing #camping

Cops in the x-files be like “we love evicting old people and murdering prisoners in cruel and bizarre ways” And Mulder and Scully be like “that’s crazy. So where did you see the ghost”

Bacho, an NPC from our Offworlders game He’s a veteran member of Culebra FZA, a shadowy but benevolent group of revolutionaries and activists, and a priest of the Tenik faith, whose name roughly translates as “the strength of the bond of two hands grasping each other.” #ttrpg #worldbuilding

My buddy Fernando cruising Shrimp Dude 10a. I said I would clean this one and ended up doing so in the rain #rockclimbing

Playing chess on the internet and saying MR HOOVES BE CAREFUL in the chat every time a knight is threatened

A tough 10b with two of these leg jam/sitting rests. Goes up the short crack on the right, then the face and arete I don’t recall the name. If anyone is desperate to know I’ll look it up in the ol journal later #rockclimbing

A nice cave/waterfall/sunbeam situation from our hike yesterday This is a 2 mile creek walk/scramble with 1100’ of elevation gain. We have it so dialed now that we accidentally finished in less than 3 hours yesterday and were left wanting more Inclusive climbing event this weekend, very stoked

The other day, at the crag, a small animal screamed and something fell from the cliff. We checked it out and found a rat snake that had caught a chipmunk. It had some scrapes but finished eating, slithered right between us, and climbed a tree #wildlifephotography bc I’m proud of pics 1 and 2

Getting ready for wisdom tooth surgery. Last step, placing a crisp 20 under my tongue so they do me up right

🧗 Ran into some absolutely baffling grades this weekend. Forcing myself to not care about it Took a lot of good pictures, including a series of wildlife encounters that deserves its own post. Hope you like snakes Tokémon 10+

The first 1:11 of this would be great as the haunting, ambiguous final scene of a space horror film

Over winter I started flaking rope by pulling it over my shoulder. Faster, easier on the arms. Wore a tank top to the gym today, started flaking without thinking Rope burn + L + it looks like a hickey

While watching project hail mary I was thinking “huh, astrophage is a climate change metaphor. A black liquid fuel that contains solar energy and makes earth uninhabitable. Oil. Fossil fuel” Uh, no, it was in fact simply plot juice lol

🧗 Ahoy matey it be Mutiny V2

Sir please step outside… breathe with me… in, out… good… we need to administer a second explosion to your brother, from the opposite side, to reverse the damage #thepitt

🧗 Roof inspection

Guy across the street is visibly drunk and changing a flat tire in the dark. Dry heaving, stumbling, wearing a headlamp, operating a hydraulic jack We only noticed because the dry heaving was loud enough to be heard while watching X-Files

🧗 If all goes well I’ll be camping and doing volunteer work for 3 days at an inclusive climbing event next month. Fingers crossed Diamond Cutter 10c

I’ve become a bracelets guy in the last year or so but I’m not sure I can become a lots of bracelets guy. Some guys pull it off but it seems like a lot of responsibility

🧘 🧗affirmations🧗🧘 No one cares whether or not you flash this unnamed V1 with a weird topout You practice downclimbing and are good at it The best climber in the world is the one with the least broken ankles

🧗 An interesting case of a fall where it would have been way better to not have any pads down

First of all, these are not “glup shittos” they are some of our most treasured racist stereotype aliens

🧗 Minor wasp encounter on the warm up boulder

🧗 My buddy’s first day rope climbing outdoors. He has better endurance on rock than in the gym. Must be studied

Broke: pulley injury Woke: Scarpal tunnel syndrome

My longest and most successful ttrpg ever has been held over discord for a year now. At the end of the month I have to choose between ending it and giving my name and address to a company whose founder openly admits that his goal is to kill leftists. Just fucking sucks man

🧗 The first few bolts of this are super fun. Making it past the slopers on the lip is gonna take some work. 5.11

Politely reporting this error to the Smithsonian might be my last, worst chance at fulfilling my childhood dream of working at a museum

Every character in the flukeman episode of X-Files is bafflingly blasé about the creature. The level of interest is more “3 legged dog that bites” than “new mutant hell species.” Multiple regular ass people come into direct contact with this thing and barely blink. The sewage guys, the paramedics

🧗 A neat 11-. Sent on the second attempt. That big right hand bump wasn’t as bad as it looked, should have just gone for it the first time

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My girlfriend, an MD, gets more and more annoyed every time Chase, Cameron, and Foreman do a highly specialized task that would never be their job. MRIs etc We watched the ceo episode last night and she was like “wow I’m surprised they didn’t do the heart transplant themselves”

Very minor spoilers for The Expanse: I’m on the book that’s set on a planet with breathable air and it’s giving me retroactive claustrophobia for the previous books, which are 94% spaceflight and cramped space stations 🧗 Flash go on a cruxy 11

Hey everyone, i’m currently in the midst of training for my first para rock climbing competition. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/02d0d540c

Siobhan Thompson recommended reading The Lathe of Heaven as blindly as possible, not even reading the back first. I did so and now I also recommend that 🧗 Incredarete V1

Saw The Substance this weekend. I deal with my fair share of body shame and fear of aging, so I wish I could say the parable aspect of it cured me, but it only put me in a bad, kind of obsessive mood that still hasn’t worn off (cont)

Many such cases

🧗 Tip-toey slab, a shoulder-shredding crux bulge, then much harder tip-toey slab. Quite a sandwich The Up Game 10b

The situation this evening #thepitt

🧗 Thought this was going to be my first gym V6. Put 2 sessions into it. After this attempt I noticed it had been downgraded. Fuck my chungus life The 180 at the beginning is sick though