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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 45m

I was just curious how old Zohran is and googled and apparently his birthday is a month after mine to the day and The Husband goes 'you're gonna be older than the mayor of New York' and now I'm just....staring off into the distance. I've always been young! This hasn't happened to me yet! I'm shook!

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Brian, the Rude Mechanical @brian456.bsky.social · 25m

Time for them to stop accepting travelers from the US.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 19h

Flying off the shelves.....your ideal resist costume

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1h

This guy is so very much suffering a chronic fatal disorder.

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Brian, the Rude Mechanical @brian456.bsky.social · 2h

I'm having a really hard time feeling sympathy for the "have fun being poor" crowd.

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A Screaming Wyvern @screamingwyvern.com · 2h

I love being a #ttrpg #gamemaster because I can look my social anxiety in the eye and say, "They come back every session, I am doing a good job."

Also, I've had an anxiety attack for the past six hours that they were going to just ghost me, WHICH INCLUDES THE THREE HOURS OF THE GAME.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3h

Sure, I can’t talk or think and parts of me turn purple and sometimes half my face is 2” lower than the other half and I talk about heaven regularly at inappropriate times but don’t let that fool you I’m as healthy as a horse.

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Brian, the Rude Mechanical @brian456.bsky.social · 2h

It may come to that.

Brian, the Rude Mechanical @brian456.bsky.social · 2h

I have one too. I just can't connect with and enjoy it. I'm starting to think that if Bluesky collapses, I will abandon social media altogether.

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Brian, the Rude Mechanical @brian456.bsky.social · 3h

The #Browns would like a word...

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 4h

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

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TheRealFredGrnkl @therealfredg.bsky.social · 5h

Not only are these people exceptionally cruel, but exceptionally amateur.

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Tim Brooks @bladebunny.bsky.social · 4h

Keystone Kakistocracy

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Brian, the Rude Mechanical @brian456.bsky.social · 4h

When I was trying to get Linux to work, I would seek out answers and I'd be told to open up the terminal window and do X, Y or Z. If I ever have to use terminal commands, your OS has already failed for my purposes.

If I wanted to do terminal commands, I'd still be using DOS.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

not one of the linux people in this thread is doing a single, solitary thing to refute the joke

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

every linux person i know: you should try linux, it’s great and easy!

also every linux person i know:

Ed @ed3d.net · 6h

ed: I want to just install a Linux desktop and I prefer KDE

also ed: fedora doesn't have even nouveau out of the box and says "mess with rpmfusion"

also ed: "'nobara linux'? that has one developer"

also ed: "kubuntu's installer crashes making encrypted partitions"

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8h

Realistically I do expect that one of the major high profile walkbacks of the admin here in the next little while is going to be walking back this, because the damage to the treats coalition if you don't is uh.. well, I hope you like losing badly

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 5h

Me at 20 on a 300m range: Irons are life. If you can't shoot with irons, you can't shoot

Me at 40 on a 25m range:

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Brian, the Rude Mechanical @brian456.bsky.social · 5h

Update: the Cleveland #Browns are really, really bad. Pathetic, even. #NFL

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

Who cares? God you act like you’re proclaiming how we turn water into wine. So you’re rooting for Bari Weiss. How daring! How bold! Such raw bravery! I bet you wear a hat that says “the NASDAQ” on it

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 8h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 7h

Stock market! Do not crash! I was joking!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

“Don't worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8h

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Will I be able to follow the plot of World War 4 if I haven’t seen 3 yet?

Alex Jones
@RealAlexJones
X.com
WORLD WAR 4 HAS BEGUN!
cc
3:04

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

Producer trying to win a goddamn Emmy

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 7h

Am I crazy or have the cameras in CLE PIT cut back to Rodgers for a reaction on almost every incompletion

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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