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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

Well THAT was grim AF

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

there you go: bsky.app/profile/gran...

Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

A badge for my American expat friends:

A badge with a Stars & Stripes flag boiling in a pot that reads "Please don't ask me about my country"

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

A badge for my American expat friends:

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

put it this way: I have a close friend who hiked the Raumati Escarpment trail with me who said she prepared for “four hours of Radio Grant” and also once baked me a birthday cake in the shape of Oscar the Grouch.

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

ahaha oh god please don’t talk to me about drawing 😂

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

I think people would be very sympathetic to a “Please don’t ask me about my country” badge.

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

oooh I wouldn’t, I don’t think I’m much fun in person

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

Some sort of badge might be in order?

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

“Have you screamed enough for a MallowPuff?”

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

and then maybe a biscuit

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

we need a pomodoro approach where we only have an existential crisis for 25 minutes at a stretch

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

gotta budget mental bandwidth to worry about the scheduled crises before worrying about the unscheduled ones

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

lol that’s something they don’t have to worry about until November… onwards…

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

my personal prediction is things get very ugly by the end of the week due to the Republican National Convention, and anyone who has the luxury of ignoring international events should absolutely do that.

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

I do think things eventually get better… just not in my lifetime.

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

definitely a good evening to do something cosy before waking up to whatever insane fuckery tomorrow brings

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

Not your fault, my bad flatmate experiences are one reason I live in Ōtaki.

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

I have to mute this thread, it’s triggering 😬

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Do yourself a favor and get familiar with the conceit of accelerationism.

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

also, do we have badness now or do we manage to postpone it for a few cycles before it muscles in and refuses to leave for the rest of the century

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

I think at this stage of US history the only choice is DEGREES of badness

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

the neighbours are a bit of a problem

Taunting Monty Python GIF

Alt: Taunting French knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

media.tenor.com

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Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

I have a lovely and comprehensive collection of the Uncle books by JP Martin with a page devoted almost apologetically to the few typos they had to correct in a 60 year-old series for kids 🐘

Grant❤️‍🔥Buist @grantbuist.com · Jul 14

the vibes are remarkably tasteful, all things considered

like somebody dropped a giant tray of glasses in a restaurant but we’re still eating

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