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BitterOldPunk

@bitteroldpunk.bsky.social

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I could tell you but I’d have to bore you. Fan of tuna noodle casserole and ugly music. Alabamian lucky enough to live on Vancouver Island. I talk too much about tabletop role-playing games.

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · Aug 16

I no longer trust my ability to distinguish real people from bots so going forward I’m not following anyone back.

Were it not for the friendships made and grown across multiple platforms over decades I’d close this account too.

The well is poisoned, at least for me it seems to be.

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 22m

YANKEES LOSE, SUCK IT YANKEES

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 33m

The heart wants what the heart wants

BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, I’d say so

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 23h

How does that manage to be simultaneously repellent and enticing

BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

I will pour ranch dressing on a baked potato, and then I will eat that ranch-dressing-covered baked potato, and I will look you in the eye while doing so in a way that makes you uncomfortable

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Lunch plan

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta admit, I resent all these LLMs stealing my em dashes

I WAS USING THOSE

MORE OR LESS CORRECTLY

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Let me rewrite that headline for you:

President’s Flimsy Pretext For Troop Deployment A Step Toward Using Insurrection Act To Cancel 2026 Midterm Elections

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

The best part is that sometimes you wake up and there are presents in your stocking and sometimes you wake up and Crazy Horse has completely wrecked your shit

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh it’s the harvest moon!

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Neil Young tonight

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

“Why didn’t they send those eagles to drop the ring in the volcano and save all that hassle?”

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 1d

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

To our compound out Tift Road

BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

It was good to be a Tift in Tifton, all the Tifts agreed

BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

“… health insurance and all insurance is a scam …”

Oh Margie, you’re *THIS* close

BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

*throws a bucket of chicken fingers into your pen*

BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

You’ll have spent 30% less than you thought you did! It’s a Canadian miracle!

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Why yes, that is me that you see clambering on to the Blue Jays bandwagon

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 2d

Help a podcast for and by working class folks in Alabama grow.
We start with some fun, socialist history, conspiracy theory, and ICE and the prison system in Alabama.
#CornbreadAndRoses
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Cornbread & Roses | S1E38 Show Me Your Papers

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

“Tulip mania didn’t significantly impact the Dutch economy of the 1630s”

“The South Sea Bubble got a lot of ships built”

“The legacy of the dot-com bubble was infrastructure build-out”

Preview of next month’s mainstream media talking points

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, I’m just naturally a go-getter

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Shame is such a powerful motivator

BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Waiter, this lobster is too buttery

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Pleased to report that I have completed the 10-minute chore that I have been putting off doing for, oh, about 5 years

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve ONLY run it online! (Though that may change soon, I hope.) I use Foundry. The initiative cards work well. The GM can pick cards for the table, or just auto-draw adversaries and let players pull their own every round. The whole system’s Foundry implementation is really great!