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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · 1d

In the middle of reading that I stopped and said “baby *in* the placenta?” out loud lol

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · 1d

Normal @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social episode

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Jun 27

When you’ve gotta hoop at 7, but an alkaline trio show at 9

𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · Jun 25

There's a 6'4" goth Australian professional women's basketball player if you were looking for good things going on in the world

A very tall, very goth basketball player

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Jun 27

First of all, she should feel the chest coat of my springer spaniel, luxurious softness, second, I don’t pet my dog because she’s soft lol

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Jun 26

Pretty gross! But apparently good for business, think of the water savings on evaporation(??)

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Jun 26

Well great wolf lodge used to be publicly traded, they did quite well as a company, individual parks ran about 15-40% operating profit margin per year, if you factor development cost and corporate overhead annual ROI of around 8-9%! One of the wilder take-private acquisitions in recent memory!

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 20

Why do this dudes always look so insane? Have you seen the palantir guy lately? He looks like he’s intentionally try to look more like a howling lunatic. Gen. LeMay would’ve loved the shit these guys do but never would’ve done business with guys that looked like this.

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · May 20

Palmer Luckey says the U.S. military has relied on overpriced, outdated technology for too long. He argues that a Tesla has better AI than any U.S. aircraft and a Roomba vacuum has better autonomy than most of the Pentagon's weapons systems. He is out to change that. https://cbsn.ws/4jY5qIx

“It's not a question between smart weapons and no weapons. It's a question between smart weapons and dumb weapons.”

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 20

LOL flipping through my mental Rolodex: “now who do I know in Fort Dodge, Iowa?”

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 20

Funny thing is most of the time spammers spoof a number from the same area code as my number, but I’ve barely lived in that area code since I was 18, so I usually do answer calls from the area code I live in now. It for sure catches people off guard who are braced for the answering machine lol

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 20

The spam I get leaves messages! It’s the same goddamn one over and over saying they need additional personal information for the loan I applied for! Frankly, I respect the angle, but I hate having to delete them so my VM box doesn’t fill up lol

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 20

I’m more likely to go Britney/head-shaving era than going literal Beast Mode lol

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 20

Which leads to an important point that the post Jane quoted is missing: the vast majority of porn isn’t a representation of healthy sexuality. A lot of it is framed to be exploitative/abusive.

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 19

I get enough spam calls to go insane, 6-8 a day that get past the iPhone spam filter, similarly I can’t imagine how many calls people who have a public number get, like real estate agents and the like

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 16

lol my first thought after reading that was “well…don’t have to worry about that guy because he’s going to run his ship aground sooner than later”

Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 16

These girls are running because they enjoy it! But these assholes can never miss a chance to make some people feel bad

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 16

tangential, but it’s funny how these anti-trans assholes act like trans girls are shattering records and stealing scholarships all the time; this was just a local meet! The winner’s time wasn’t even close to the kind that attracts scholarships, zero consequences in the grand scheme

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 16

Good for her! And good for you for raising a brave, thoughtful daughter!

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 11

Hearing reports that the local parks and recreation department is operating at a “loss”… troubling stuff…

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 9

“There’s been multiple popes before” as if people didn’t die in droves over that lol

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 7

Me too! I have a vague memory of my mother being upset and playing his vinyls a lot for a few weeks but I would’ve guessed I was like 5-6 at the time, not 10??

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · May 6

Jesus Wikipedia editor, you could’ve just said “airplane accident”

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Apr 23

I’m hanging out at the baseball hall of fame with Cum and Buster Posey

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Apr 23

You REALLY don’t get bios like this anymore….

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Apr 23

Almost relieved in a way, need the brass ring to reach for

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Dre @newhandledre.bsky.social · Apr 23

You don’t get bios like this anymore…

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