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leaux

@evangaylion.bsky.social

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one of at least four or five working bartenders on Bluesky. lapsed wrestling professional. 🏳️‍⚧️ let me tell you why I love your drink. they/he, the gay she

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leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 1h

No I definitely want you in my apocalypse crew, you’ve got the juice

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 4h

Elvis Costello’s voice is gonna drive me to commit a crime

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m. @wshcaps.bsky.social · 11h

happy game day to all my fellow capitals fans!!! can’t wait for another season!!!

stonks meme edited to be ovi with the caption “gols”

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 5h

Ah yeah see I don’t do continuums in my brainspace just quadrants for this reason cause they’re definitely parallel marketing dynamics but I feel like they’re still so different. The invocation of childhood brands is its own evil thing IMO

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 5h

I am so fucking unimpressed when tech companies tell me how hard it is to moderate a website. Then don’t make the fucking website.

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 5h

HH bought FEW in 2022. Everyone else got raises, I got my job dissolved and my yearly bonus slashed

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 5h

the first time I met Bernie lubbers I shook his hand and said “I loved your presentation! I used to have your job until your company destroyed my livelihood” 😭

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 5h

I bet it is, they took all my powers after laying off nobody on staff except for me after we got bought out

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

Ok I’m gonna be honest, I gave the best distillery tour of all time until Heaven Hill fucked my life is beyond belief for like three years

The Rev. Col. Kirsten @ennuigo.bsky.social · 6h

Please tell me you were like “so there’s definitely rye in here and what I like to do is drink six of them on an empty stomach.”

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

I just spent the 90 minutes playfully insulting Louisville

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

Oh totally. I just think the motivator is more “this tastes good and is not pretentious” than a desperate cash grab capitalizing specifically on nostalgia and regression. It was fun to shoot BECAUSE it’s a little trashy. Its fun trash, not nostalgia trash.

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

My dumbass is still fat washing with peanut butter because I’m a Luddite

Seth, The Boozy Beggar @boozybeggarchi.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not going to pretend I love skrewball, but when I used it to make a pad Thai/se Asian weirdo daiquiri and it worked, I had to admit it felt like there was a niche for it. It's a dying brand in Chicago and the Chicago burbs though I hear.

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

My skrewball hot take is that they are not a result of the infantilizing of American drinkers, but their success is because they were the only fun people at like. any whiskey festival for five years

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

oh my god it’s the guy from my neighborhood Facebook groups who I agree with most of the time. Hi seth

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

And that energy coupled with palate fatigue? Whew buddy. What a fucking delight.

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously, my first impression of them at my first festival was like “wow everyone at that booth is having a lot of fun and nobody over there asked me who I worked for and was mean to me about it” and this vibe was infectious. The most seriously whiskey beards were ready to rip shots with them

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

God I wish you could have seen my FEW tour…

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t even say I’m an apologist I just thoroughly reject their inclusion in drinks for babies if only because they predated it and had a different motivator IMO

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

Their anti gatekeeping gamble paid off IMO!

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

IT DOESNT COUNT UNDER THIS IM SORRY

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

My skrewball hot take is that they are not a result of the infantilizing of American drinkers, but their success is because they were the only fun people at like. any whiskey festival for five years

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

Oh good

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 6h

Just read the latest Fingers and I hope @dinfontay.com keeps the name skrewball out of his DIRTY MOUTH

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 7h

They’re calling me the king of Devon ridge

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 7h

Baby-ass babies

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 8h

Commute sucks ass today. If any cyclists want to come fist fight me, I’ll be at Devon and ridge for the next five minutes waiting.

leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t even think about this anymore. My entire livelihood is in one way or another because of social media. That’s bartending, baby.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21h

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