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Scare-ic Hirsch

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Future former idiot Father, basketball enjoyer, music lover, long walk taker Musician, photographer, post production sound guy Mostly just saying dumb stuff for mild chuckles If it seems like I’m trying to argue, I said it wrong

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · Aug 9

Male tiger + female lion = tigon
Male lion + female tiger = liger
Male zebra + female donkey = zonkey
Male donkey + female zebra = Debra

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 3h

And our brains are just constantly flooding with cortisol every time someone sort of rolls through a stop sign and you’re not sure if they‘re actually going to stop, or when someone suddenly turns without signaling, or just runs a light because they didn’t want to wait. It all accrues

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 3h

To expand on this, I’ve come to the belief that it’s impossible to spend any time driving without taking moderate-to-severe psychic damage from the accumulation of interactions with other drivers that make clear how selfish everyone has become. I *never* feel better after driving.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 3h

Apu holds up an issue of the magazine “Gigantic Asses”, which is presumably what OP is referring to

Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 3h

they should make a movie where the pope actually does try to give everything away and Must Be Stopped

joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 3h

this would be a powerful & historic message if the Pope volunteered to give away the enormous wealth of the Vatican to the poor in a single grand gesture--but he won't, & so it isn't.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · Nov 17

Dems in dishabille

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jam @socialistboat.dad · May 22

there was a tumblr account once that was just photos of mirrors from Craigslist for sale listings

Photo of a square mirror lying on a bed. In the reflection you can see an arm extended holding a hand taking a picture. It's an evocative image

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 13h

YES … HA HA HA … YES NETWORK

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 13h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 12h

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYY (42 is a good age, you’re gonna be great at it)

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 14h

Congratulations, you played yourself

Charlie Kirk memorial at the Yankees jumbotron

Trump shaking hands with the Yankee players in their locker room

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 12h

Only real New Yorkers know it’s pronounced “KAY-nal Street”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 12h

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Blonde Ambition

B-List bimbo Bondi flaunts her faith like she's the Madonna, but she's on the borderline of total fraud when she says there aren't pics of Trump and Epstein on La Isla Bonita with a girl who looks like a virgin. Release the Epstein material, girl!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately