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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · 7h

Everybody has one, and in every case it's "Alec Guinness from Star Wars"

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 20h

out of touch european claims "millennial grey" is an out of touch liberal aesthetic instead of what it actually is: a sign of capitalism at work because homes must always be ready for resale value and having personality is a good way to destroy that

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

The American tackiness that you put up with for so long has been finally weaponised and you don't have a good counter, coast people with degrees.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · 20d

YES!!! All my close acquaintances are tired of hearing me rant about the literary uncanny valley. I first noticed it when I was assigned Updike in high school in the nineties.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · 24d

Mini is typically been normal and micro. I think it's reasonable to assume it's equivalent to milli. Which would make this a kilo.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · 24d

I make Bill Clinton's lemon chess pie every Thanksgiving. Please do not in any way construe this as an endorsement of Bill Clinton.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · 26d

It's just fondue on an industrial scale

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · 26d

I once had a housemate who worked at a local free-range chicken farm. I'll never forget her coming in exhausted and filthy one night, flopping down on the couch, and announcing "the more time I spend around chickens, the less guilty I feel about eating them."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 29

i'm like a bird, I wanna fly away
but i don't know where my phone is

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 26

Gotta admit I don't know Jaimes or any of the more recent stuff. I'm thinking of the Nancy I saw in my grandparents' newspapers in the 1980s-90s.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 26

I'm so mad about how bad all the follow-on versions of Nancy have been. The Bushmiller version rips!

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 24

Latter but only in the absence of context

misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 24

Glad I didn't skip the alt text!

PSA to others: READ THE ALT TEXT!

misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 24

Bring back webrings!

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 23

Not really the point but "unapologetic apologist" is a hell of a phrase

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 22

Split screen with "I smell sex and candy here" from the music video above and Tucker Carlson in bed with the green M&M below

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Sep 20

The thing about the Silent Majority is that there are only a few of them but they just won't shut up

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Use plenty of nitrogen-rich fertilizer." Okay, how much? "Water frequently." Okay, how often? "Keep soil moist but not wet." My dude, I will happily buy a moisture meter if you will just please tell me what number to target.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gardening books are still like this.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 25

In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne frequently refers to Ned Land (a Canadian) as "American." Which really and truly confused me when I first read it as a fifth-grader.

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 25

Having made this terrible joke, I nerd sniped myself into doing the math.

1 dietician's calorie per second is about 5.61 horsepower.

You're... welcome, I guess?

misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 25

I prefer to convert it to horsepower

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 15

I used to teach this stuff as an "outdoor skills" workshop through the hiking club at my college in the early oughts. As in, "we drive long distances on sketchy dirt roads to trailheads and there's no cell service out there. So you should know this!"

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 15

My friends who teach college complain about this a lot. Anecdotally they saw a big shift in the early-mid 2010s - basically, the first kids to grow up with smartphones. I'd also love to see data on prevalence of "computer skills" classes as a distinct subject at the K-12 level over time.

misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 14

Criminally underrated skeet

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misterjohntoyou.bsky.social @misterjohntoyou.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yes obviously but I feel manipulated by your post

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Aug 1

i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere