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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 8h

Those first four albums… goddam.

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 8h

If frog costumes are outlawed, only outlaws will have frog costumes

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 8h

bsky.app/profile/davi...

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 2d

The Ranalution is here

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 12h

The right order is:
Cheddar
Red Bean
Custard
Black sesame
Nutella

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 13h

What order do you eat a taiyaki combo?

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 13h

What order do you eat a taiyaki combo?

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes the food is a loaf of decent bread and a jar of peanut butter

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 23h

There’s literally every style of food within four blocks of my lab, but I bring food 4+ days a week.

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 1d

For any who need to hear this:

Most people, throughout history, have not had to cook every day. It's not weird to not always have the energy to do that. And when you have some but not tons of energy, a lot of packaged or frozen foods have gotten good in the past 20 years.

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

*leans back, picks teeth*

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

“There are many like it, but this Swiss Army Classic, with a blade that opens from the wrong end for any practical use, is mine.”

Black Swiss army classic knife, which has the keychain attachment at the blade pivot end, ensuring the knife will never be used as a weapon, even in a pathetically ineffective defensive manner.

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a month-to-month plan?

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

I paid the first month installment and cancelled, just hoping I never get checked.

Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: Antifa membership cards are being mailed out next week, please be sure that you have paid your annual dues.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 1d

Went on a transit and bike adventure today with a friend who gets the occasional Friday off when they need to work weekends. 3 bikes on our train

2 ebikes with panniers and crates in the bike section of a Metro LA light rail car

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Melvins: more metal at half the speed for 40 years

OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 1d

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Mmm dip

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

The Planetary Diet should be renamed the Hamburger Hinderer

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh that’s so stupid”

Made you look

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and why do they care what their consumers know?

Certainty about ingredients is not driving that part of the snack food market.

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and why do they care what their consumers know?

Certainty about ingredients is not driving that part of the snack food market.

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

That fierce engineer problem-solving brain, after a career detached from societal concerns and ambiguity, without the humanities training... it's like a loose nuke of philosophy.

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

BigBirdorah.

Related to CerBigBirderus?

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Sherman for Senate

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

“Will petsmart deliver a package of a dozen crickets?”

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

I get that reference!

Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 1d

But each of those 1200 immediately formed their own band.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Just sesame bagels? I’ll be fine.

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Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like him unitary with the earth

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · 1d

Wyd when pressing the optiplex button does not get it done?