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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 16h

A mug fit for a 1780s print advertisement, as purveyor of some miracle snake oil using exotic extracts from colonial plants

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 1d

To plagarize a post i saw the other day: milkshakes should be so thick I have to suck on the straw like its paying me. If I'm served a paper straw, that sucker should collapse under the suction.

Thin, watery excuses for milkshakes are an
embarrassment.

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 1d

No fuckin way

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 3d

(Not) looking forward to navigating this process with my Greek partner whom I absolutely want to spend the rest of my life with. Would help if I spoke more than English, dammit.

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 3d

Totally. My diver's training really pounded on the point: never dive alone, always with a buddy. And if you're not part of a larger dive group (like diving as a duo from the shore) then tell other people where, when, and how long.

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Both my partner and myself love perusing the stacks at bookstores, independent and used bookstores are even better.

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Bodes well for a military now run by idiots who think logistics is for nerds and should just be outsourced.

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

To quote the OP from later in the thread, "Louvre of Bluesky is on the wrong side of AI discourse"

Ayup.

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Impressive to have manifested Cringe into an actual physical object.

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Okay this sounds cool as hell

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Truuuuuuth

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

I'd read it

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Being a man with an ass sucks because it's nigh on impossible to find jeans that fit without having half again as much waist as I need

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

I need to know who these folks get their drugs from, cause they're on another world

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Calling out the home visit vet to service my Tamagotchi

IT WON'T WAKE UP DOC

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

Its their own farts, and they're happily huffing them

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

And, much like autocorrect, chatgpt misses all the ducking time!

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 4d

What a way to frame their argument. In fact I have nothing to fear from the protests, and everything to fear from the crackdowns/response to the protests.

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 5d

Hey bro, you stay put and we're chill. No sudden moves, alright?

A fair size house spider chilling and minding its own business in the bathroom sink, pictured from my vantage point as I do my own business.

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 5d

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 5d

With the way trumpflation is going I'm surprised he's not putting his ugly mug on a $5 or $10 coin.

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 6d

What in the fuck

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 6d

I have no idea what's going on anymore

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arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 6d

It can be both. If there ever was a humanist, optimistic, egalitarian ideal of connecting humanity through social media in the conception of the services, it was quickly corrupted by a flow of ad dollars and corporations squeezing profit out of user bases.
Which opened the door to the following ills

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