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@babblingfringe.bsky.social

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I mostly just reply to stuff with piss-takes —frequently a fool. He/Him, all opinions expressed are quite possibly poorly thought out.

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · Jul 9

There was a fabled time when the internet was so new that it screamed at you, begging you not to force it into life each time you summoned it.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 9

in the days of yore youths used to engage in a mysterious rite known as planking

dylan @wheels.bsky.social · Jul 8

Back in my day we used to chug gallons of milk

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 7h

Yes ma’ams! o7

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 7h

May I recommend a band in this extremely vulnerable time? Totally cool if not. It’s just that they were a family favorite Ceilidh band growing up and then I realized they were also punk and I thiiiink you like accordions?

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 8h

Mudhoney and Pearl Jam are both slam dunks for “Grunge was actually a bunch of heroin punks carcinizing into jazz as a form of convergent evolution” and are/were actually good” the same way that Guthri, Gogol Bordelo, and MacGowan prove that folk is punk, y’know? Nirvana was a distraction!

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 8h

Look.
I love the three songs they actually played (and I stg there’s a video of Bowie saying he liked their cover of The Man Who Sold the World better) but also: how have we, as a species, not moved past “Nirvana was peak grunge”? There was better grunge! There were better grunge bands!

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 10h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

They play real rough but it’s a game and the escape or option to decline is there when they’re playing. “Everyone is peacefully asleep and then?” snip time.

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

I’m fine with the hellion phase (with the understanding that it will pass and then I’ll miss it), it’s really just the mounting that we objected to.

Like “look if she DID go into heat before we got her spayed that’s a problem, and if she’s worse, fuck, she’s got scabs on the back of her neck again”

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

An intervention? Like adding him to all starter packs on the sly?
Now *that* would show him!

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

(Full disclosure, mine had also grown out to about that long and I’m also gonna book an appt for it soon, but how could I resist barn: neigh?)

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

Neigh!

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

They’re all fully up on vaccines and chipped now, so that part is good! They’re indoor only so that’s all contingency stuff but still, rabies and kitten-cases of FIV are hell.

And hey, the other 2 are both fixed so hopefully he stops trying to hump her in the meantime?

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

There wasn’t the “you’re a good cook so you can buff the party during short rests” thing when she last played tho, which will probably be A Thing for her the next time she plays.

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

Look, given my wife’s strong need to play I Trip Them fighters gender and D&D class are basically the same thing.

She pulls aggro by tripping and other brat shiz combat maneuvers. Tell me that’s not gender.

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

The smallest of the kittens just came back from getting fixed, except they could only find one testicle.

Well, shit. That wellness plan better cover fishing around for the second one once it drops.

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

Never mind that my sister has a kid and my dad is (slightly) younger than that.

Look, being old is supposed to coincide with retirement or some shit, don’t remind me that 35 is considered “old” in terms of having a kid.

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

Nice thing about being a DINK is I can use my own personal experience to tell myself that grandparents are people who are actually *old* (ie in their 80s)

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 9h

It’s certainly a skeet!

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 10h

Some intersection of “space and gay usually means luxury communism” and “money being a digital only thing is The Future” in sci fi, but also we’ve just not been getting that sort of sci fi in a while.

Or maybe I’m wrong, is there another name that would follow Douglas Adams>Robert Aspirin?

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 10h

Cake on one side and sausage on the other would be pretty great for coinage. Instead of heads or tails we could call top or bottom while the coin was in the air.

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve always wanted America to have better looking money and that bag/mask plus sensual scenes on opposite sides bills would be an improvement. Canada can have beavers on their money and we can have tonkers.

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 11h

He’s also utterly juiceless, so I don’t think his odds were ever that good at the seat.

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 14h

And I realize a lot of that was a combination of her being younger, lacking practice, and not being allowed to frontline because she wasn’t on the x-men’s insurance and liability waiver yet, yeah.

EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 14h

I honestly stopped keeping up with the power scope of various mutants a while ago and some of it… like fuck, did everyone need to become Omega class?

“Could fuck up a building but it’d take a lot out of her, mostly debuffs people” Jubilee is the one that lives in my head.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 17h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 16h

People mix it into a lot of stuff to up the protein content - think brownies, etc.

A lot of diet balance stuff gets grabbed so people are going for lifting macros because hey, that’s the macros advice they found, etc.

(And then there’s also the keto peeps, etc)