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H R Pickens

@hrpickens.bsky.social

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I don't expect to be followed back. When I find your stuff interesting, I don't necessarily expect you to find my stuff interesting. That photo is fake. It's not me. But also, basically, it is.

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James G @orth.ca · 12h

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate it.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 16h

That's some asshole behavior, for sure. I wouldn't want to work for a boss who talked to me that way.

At the same time...it's the way I'd expect a lot of people talk to their subordinates, and I wonder if this would seem at all remarkable if the cursing boss were a man.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think people should expect follow-backs. It seems impractical to have thousands of follows--wouldn't that be extremely noisy?

But also, I know that people often DO expect follow-backs, and at the scale at which you operate, you'd be disappointing an awful lot of people if you didn't

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 20h

I note, for instance, that while Leo was born in Chicago, little or none of his church career took place in the US. He's not, so far as I know, a creature of the American Bishops.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 20h

Is this gonna work? I don't follow the day-to-day of the USCCB, but I'd gotten the idea they ran from MAGA to ultra-MAGA?

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 20h

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Vonnegut

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 23h

That country elected the tyrant, and did so with eyes wide open.

I hope everyone stands up to him as best they're able. But I have some sympathy for people who say "You know what? Screw you. You put me in this jam, and I don't owe you anything."

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 23h

This is all true. I'm an older dad. Much more set in my ways.

But also? I'm way smarter than when I was young, and I've got lots more money and attention to give the kid.

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

I need to sit down and just think about "crucified her like a dog" for a while. Maybe with a stiff drink.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

EU doesn't play around. They're a far more consumer-friendly jurisdiction than the US. We could learn a lot from them.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

A chili place up in the San Fernando used to do that, some years back. It was a revelation.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Google informs me that it likely wasn't pig skin. Cheerfully conceded! I saw hairy SOMETHING and I still get a little shiver every time I see menudo on a menu.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

A young lady I was spending time with (and later married) grew up eating menudo and ordered it once at a restaurant. I'm still traumatized. I swear I saw HAIRY chunks of pig skin in it.

I liked her a lot, so I didn't react. But that has stayed with me.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 2d

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

The state doesn't pay my federal taxes. I do.

And if I don't, the state has no ability to stop the feds from seizing my bank accounts, seizing my pay, or otherwise pulling the walls down.

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

09-05-1972?

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

If I saw a parent pulling that ice cream stunt, I'd call child services.

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

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and respect the limits of their offices. That's what's important.

I was well into adulthood before I had ANY idea what your oma and opa's politics were.

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

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to teach partisan politics to their kids. An adult that a kid trusts can fill their head with anything they choose.

Here's what matters: I want you to be honest, and to demand honesty. Demand leaders who are thoughtful and decent and who strive to serve all of their people ...

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

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7yo literally asked me yesterday "Dad, do you like Donald Trump?"

I said: I don't want to tell you what I think of him. That's grown-up stuff, and he'll be out of the picture, one way or another, long before you need to be thinking about it.

And I don't think it's fair for parents...

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the kids I knew in grade school who had poorly formed, but strongly held, political views. Even then, it seemed to me that I could only be hearing, at second hand, what their parents were telling them. What ten-year-old could worry about social security?

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

(My generation is/was very pro-Israel because, for many of us, history began on 06-05-1967 or 09-05-1972)

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't drink an absolute shit-ton of beer, it may be hard to understand how much beer some more-or-less-normal people drink.

I know healthy, well-functioning people who drink 20+ beers a week.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

I was smart enough to know that the shell game operator on the El was palming the pea.

But still, he was the expert, and I could never see when he did it.

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