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Ol' Chef Dan

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Work-from-home situationist. Agnetha Fältskog photo is unrelated. Return guy for Pyrrhonism. Lyon, France

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · Nov 13

I was radicalized by the classic Subhuman's EP "Time Flies But Aeroplanes Crash".

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 7h

Today is Primidi the 21st of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate hemp.#JacobinDay

More information on hemp

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 9h

La di da, la di da

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Libération @liberation.fr · 9h

⚫ Mort de l’actrice américaine Diane Keaton

Célèbre pour ses rôles dans «Manhattan», «Annie Hall» ou «le Parrain», la comédienne est morte en Californie, ce samedi. Elle avait 79 ans.

Mort de l’actrice américaine Diane Keaton

www.liberation.fr

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 10h

One of the real problems of believing that dems and the gop are the exact same(tm) and following a bunch of posters who will cherrypick things to tell you just that for engagement is that you have a bad sense of when you're actually in a pretty serious existential choice

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 10h

I need Shazam, but for finding out what the French outside my window are protesting about.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 14h

I think it’s so funny when Americans are like “France is a communist hell hole/paradise” because no place I’ve ever lived has ever worked harder to make me a little 35 hour a week treatler baby. buying my tchotchkes on high street enjoying weekly brunches. Head empty taxes paid the market thrives

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 14h

But what about the importance of your personality?!

Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 14h

Wherein "having a genuine personality, and I alone get to judge your sincerity," is more important than being vocally anti-genocide.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

like no offense but tons of seemingly well intentioned people have used Gaza as a substitute for a personality the last few years and it should be glaringly obviously to everyone.

signed - a guy who has been advocating for a ceasefire and hostage deal since basically October 10 2023

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 19h

"Until I discovered the benefits of my privilege."

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アメリカ大失敗　(America’s#1Failure)🫡🖕 @shamr0cker.bsky.social · 19h

Obama ran on hope and change and that was a lie. So the only hope to change is donning the frog costume. The embodiment of changing oneself to meet the moment

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 19h

I saw a few people smoking, still in their running gear, after the Lyon marathon.

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 22h

Don't listen to the above-it-all types on here.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

Color commentator = Reply Guy

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

The slow unfolding of The Horrors makes baseball the best sport for posting.

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

I just can't imagine being such an embarrassment.

Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

Worse, King sort of updated the story from the 70s to the 90s so there are technically TWO versions of the dogshit song.

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's time we talked about how dogshit Larry's song was in The Stand

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's a weird line for sure! But Basel is near me, and my swedish family summers in southern Sweden. It could be a game changer.

Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

Basel-Malmö night train would be a huge win for me, personally.

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 2d

There’s news in Sweden that SJ doesn’t want to run Stockholm-Berlin night train beyond summer 2026

There’s something to this - it’s being considered. But HOW it plays out (given Snälltåget also runs this route) AND there’s meant to be a new Basel-Malmö in 2026 is anyone’s guess

#CrossChannelRail

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

Cather is consistently surprising. Her kinda fusty-sounding name and the prarie settings give off a dry impression, but she's lively and a little bizarre. Should be canonical for American students, imo.

Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · 2d

Next read: "My Antonia" by Willa Cather. I know absolutely nothing about Cather except that she wrote in the early 1900s about immigrant experience in the Midwest. Which sounds kinda interesting. So here we go.

Penguin Classics paperback cover. A young woman in turn of the century dress sits on a stone wall among endless prairie or fields

Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

She's terrific, though Song of the Lark is my personal pick.

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

Remind me not to invite that glum asshole to my party.

Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem, "There isn't any crime to look at because everyone dressed up like frogs to trick us."

Me, "So dressing up like frogs is more effective at fighting crime than ICE and cops?"

KN, "That's not what I said."