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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 49m

the closest comparison to MTG is probably Josh Hawley but as has been made clear time and time again he's more than willing to ditch those impulses in service of the party's goals

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 19h

nothing but respect for MY generalissimo

The head of IU football coach Curt Cignetti photoshopped into a mobile missile launcher truck, only the missiles are giant cigarettes. "INDIANA FOOTBALL" is on the side, a la a pack of Marlboro Reds

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 20h

as an energy drink connoisseur, gonna re-up my (thus far unbeaten) thesis that only the biggest freaks on Earth drink original blend Monster

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 20h

Commander Sullivan (not sure what he commands) powering up with a Monster energy drink.

BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 20h

Halligan is so totally out of her depth it's actually insane, idk how she can't tell she's being set up as the fall person when both her cases get thrown out before trial starts

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

this was probably a deleted scene in The Naked Gun (2025)

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

Bart Impson, imho

BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

this is probably the first Katie Porter story where my first instinct was to go "okay, but did he have it coming"

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

i would watch a Dexter spin-off where a blue-haired teen goes around killing and consuming the flesh of landlords and wall street people

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

as a lover of Ridley slop i hooted and hollered

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

my family has had a '99 4Runner as our spare car since i was in HS, it's got 270k miles and still runs like brand new

idk how they do it but Toyota and Honda are truly good at making cars that never break down

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

you guys should visit the Newport aquarium outside Cincinnati sometime. we take our 5-year old nephew there every so often and he always finds new animals to be fascinated by

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

looks like shit!

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

the dessicated corpse of Henry Kissinger was unavailable i take it

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

setting aside the logistics, Trump's people simply don't have the necessary sociopolitical capital to enact an authoritarian security state needed to cancel elections

i'd be more worried if the "Chicago/Portland are warzones" propaganda were actually successful but thus far it's largely not been

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 1d

Desert Storm Private Ryan will be coming up in the next couple decades. he'll be grappling with survivor's guilt on account of him being the only one in his platoon that didn't die from burn pit exposure

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 2d

he should be the US atty general in the next Dem admin imo

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 2d

i'm not usually big on ASMR-type videos but for some reason this was very relaxing to watch

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 2d

not content with giving the NPP to someone who will eventually reveal themselves to be evil (e.g. Aung San Suu Kyi), the Nobel committee are just straight up giving it to evil people

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 2d

i have an AI-obsessed coworker who's fond of saying that AI is never wrong, the users are just asking the wrong questions. like damn Derek, thanks, i never thought about it that way *jerk off motion*

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 2d

Abdulrahman is such a sick name, if it's a personal preference thing that's fine but if i were him i'd wear that name on my sleeve

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 2d

another positive data point for what i call the Whigham Rule. if Shea Whigham's in it, i watch it

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 3d

genuinely didn't expect Franklin Township to be as united as they were in opposition to their proposed data center. even the most cursed places hate them

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 3d

wife and i are rewatching Billions, and Paul Giamatti's character name-dropping Glenn as an example of an intrepid journalist (this was like 2015) was a big whiplash

BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 3d

Bed-Stuy about to give him Assad margins

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BOO-cky 👻 Workclothes @buckybandido.bsky.social · 3d

jake sherman has never encountered a set of jangling keys in front of his face that he wasn't immediately entranced by

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