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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 18m

~20 years ago, I went to lunch with a colleague. She got in on the passenger side. I looked over and asked, "Did you forget your purse?" She reached into her bra, pulled out a folded wad of cash and said, "valley bank". I hadn't heard that euphemism before and haven't since

Jay Arnold @jayarnold.bsky.social · 2h

If I say “the valley” what valley do you immediately think of

Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 42m

Kid sister, the terrible influence lol

Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 57m

"Do you have chicken tacos?"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1h

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

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 1h

These dudes shot JJ Evans on national television in 1974 Chicago and still ain't been caught smh

Screenshot from "The Gang" episode of "Good Times"

Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 2h

Every time lol

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 4h

Met this wonderful woman 18 months ago and went to a Royals game with her. She wasn't "masking" IRL either!

EriKCa @keepingsanewth4.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t fake anything online, real life is where you find me masking.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 4h

There's a Subway next to the Mexican spot I occasionally hit up for lunch. Their lunch time "rush" is two or three people handling all online orders. Always a line out the door because there's not enough staff to handle actual in-person orders

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 4h

I ain't about to take THAT kind of credit, but he's about to graduate college, is in a relationship and, most importantly, is still here with/for his mother and brother. Anyways, I'm not ashamed I needed help that morning. No one else should be, either

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 9 · Serenity · Two years ago this May, one of my co-workers died. She was about five years older than me. She left behind her husband – who worked at the same company and was my progra…

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 4h

About 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post about the time I needed to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Few years back, I heard from a follower in Texas whose son was really struggling. She shared my post with him and, according to her, it opened a dialogue she believes saved his life...

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 4h

When the box came with "Oakland A's" as the return address, I texted Ruth and asked, "What should I do?" She replied, "OPEN IT". Always keep your pragmatic friends close!

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 4h

THAT story again: Made a passing tweet about my son wearing signed cleats, that #athletics Tony Kemp was giving away, to prom. Twitter good folk @ruthkapelus.bsky.social @eugenefreedman.bsky.social & @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social joined entirety of A's Twitter on this. Word got back to Kemp and...

My son wearing a suit and personally signed Tony Kemp cleats

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 5h

Holy shit, kat, that's incredible

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 5h

Haha, she's a havanese, so definitely in the family

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Dr. Berto/Rally Lamb @bertoinpublic.bsky.social · 5h

Go to the highest point in your town. If you can’t see the bay, you’re not in the Bay Area.

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Philip Michaels @philipmichaels.bsky.social · 6h

Does your county touch the Bay?
Then, friend, you’re a-ok.
Landlocked or on the coast?
Sorry, chump, you’re toast.

Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 8h

This map needs to *meticulously* itemize and breakdown “Bay Area” lol. My favorite game to play with people who live up there is to ask if “[random city]” is considered “the Bay Area” and listen to their impassioned 20 minute soliloquy

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 6h

No shade - none! - to journalists chasing deadlines during the #Postseason, but the over-expansion of the playoffs means I probably read your piece on "playoff moment Aaron Judge" 5-10 times already over the course of his career

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 6h

Have reached the "thought I felt good enough to walk the dog" phase of this ick. May or may not have needed her to drag me the final 500 feet

Mostly decorative dog. Becca is a white havanese

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 6h

In 1994 or so, Jeter said in an interview with Baseball Weekly that his favorite rapper was Heavy D "because he doesn't cuss" and I been out on this unapologetic dork ever since lol

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 7h

Back on the other site, people got really mad at me for pointing out (accurately) that Derek Jeter is uncool.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 7h

Subject matter expert weighs in

BrownEyedGirl @browneyedgirlmc03.bsky.social · 7h

I consider Tracy to be Bay Area-adjacent lol.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 7h

Guys, if you're ALL mentioning the same thing - the same tired thing - about Derek Jeter, that doesn't make him interesting. And, I'm betting y'all might be even more boring!

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 8h

Need kid sister @browneyedgirlmc03.bsky.social to remind me which city she was talking about that time she called me, sitting in Saturday traffic and insisting that the city she just passed “thinks they’re Bay Area, but they’re really not” lol

Nova The Machine @novathemachine.bsky.social · 8h

Ah, the sacred Bay Area gatekeeping ritual.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 8h

I’ll still go with Derek Jeter. LeBron’s curated shtick is - at its heart - a “two Americas” divide. Jeter OTOH is an equal opportunity bore

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 9h

lebron might go down as the least interesting public figure of our lives. i can't tell if he's intentionally uninteresting or if it just comes naturally, but man that guy is boring.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 8h

This map needs to *meticulously* itemize and breakdown “Bay Area” lol. My favorite game to play with people who live up there is to ask if “[random city]” is considered “the Bay Area” and listen to their impassioned 20 minute soliloquy

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t hurt ‘em, AB

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 9h

Seconded. MLBPlayoffSky has been an absolute hoot. And, keep reposting your favorite people in your baseball TLs. Let me know who I’m missing out on ✌🏾

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 9h

Four games again today, great baseball talk so far throughout this post season. I don’t miss Twitter at all.

A job well done by us all.

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