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H R Pickens

@hrpickens.bsky.social

500 followers 230 following 1.3K posts

I don't expect to be followed back. When I find your stuff interesting, I don't necessarily expect you to find my stuff interesting. That photo is fake. It's not me. But also, basically, it is.

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1h

@defector.com are you having login trouble again? I'm having to sign in an awful lot lately. More than once just today, on the same device

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2h

This Walmart commercial is the first thing I've ever seen Walton Gogglins in that sucked.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 4h

That poor kid. Can LA give him asylum? I'm not sure he can go back to Philly.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 10h

Right there with you, friend. When I saw that video, my first thought was to get all mad at Kamala Harris. As any reasonable person would.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 11h

DoJ claims that Gilmarton isn't involved in the prosecution so there's no problem.

But he's head of Public Affairs. Doesn't that make him, quite literally, the voice of the department? I don't see how you can claim that he wasn't speaking for people it's his job to speak for.

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James G @orth.ca · 1d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate it.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

That's some asshole behavior, for sure. I wouldn't want to work for a boss who talked to me that way.

At the same time...it's the way I'd expect a lot of people talk to their subordinates, and I wonder if this would seem at all remarkable if the cursing boss were a man.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think people should expect follow-backs. It seems impractical to have thousands of follows--wouldn't that be extremely noisy?

But also, I know that people often DO expect follow-backs, and at the scale at which you operate, you'd be disappointing an awful lot of people if you didn't

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

I note, for instance, that while Leo was born in Chicago, little or none of his church career took place in the US. He's not, so far as I know, a creature of the American Bishops.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Is this gonna work? I don't follow the day-to-day of the USCCB, but I'd gotten the idea they ran from MAGA to ultra-MAGA?

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Vonnegut

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

That country elected the tyrant, and did so with eyes wide open.

I hope everyone stands up to him as best they're able. But I have some sympathy for people who say "You know what? Screw you. You put me in this jam, and I don't owe you anything."

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

This is all true. I'm an older dad. Much more set in my ways.

But also? I'm way smarter than when I was young, and I've got lots more money and attention to give the kid.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

I need to sit down and just think about "crucified her like a dog" for a while. Maybe with a stiff drink.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

EU doesn't play around. They're a far more consumer-friendly jurisdiction than the US. We could learn a lot from them.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

A chili place up in the San Fernando used to do that, some years back. It was a revelation.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

Google informs me that it likely wasn't pig skin. Cheerfully conceded! I saw hairy SOMETHING and I still get a little shiver every time I see menudo on a menu.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

A young lady I was spending time with (and later married) grew up eating menudo and ordered it once at a restaurant. I'm still traumatized. I swear I saw HAIRY chunks of pig skin in it.

I liked her a lot, so I didn't react. But that has stayed with me.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 2d

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

The state doesn't pay my federal taxes. I do.

And if I don't, the state has no ability to stop the feds from seizing my bank accounts, seizing my pay, or otherwise pulling the walls down.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

09-05-1972?

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

If I saw a parent pulling that ice cream stunt, I'd call child services.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

3/3

and respect the limits of their offices. That's what's important.

I was well into adulthood before I had ANY idea what your oma and opa's politics were.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 2d

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to teach partisan politics to their kids. An adult that a kid trusts can fill their head with anything they choose.

Here's what matters: I want you to be honest, and to demand honesty. Demand leaders who are thoughtful and decent and who strive to serve all of their people ...