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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️

@thomasthegrim.bsky.social

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Peanuts, cigar, watch, metal (music), history, planning, and strategy enthusiast. Ardently contrarian. Views my own. Follow/Repost/Comment ≠ endorsement.

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · Aug 9

Find me at the corner diner.

thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 5h

She’s got a good question.

thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 16h

Nice. Very nice. I have the same Landmark editions but haven’t read them yet. Some day….

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 23h

Congratulations. Be careful up there. Our embassy in Dar es Salaam used to keep coffins on hand for the Americans who dropped dead at the summit.

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the best time of the year.

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 1d

Just because I think the world needs this today:

snoopy and woodstock are dancing together in a blue background

ALT: snoopy and woodstock are dancing together in a blue background

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, now. FSU grad here. Don’t make me unfollow you.

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a good day.

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 7d

“We”?

thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 10d

Have that one on my TBR stack for one of these days….

thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 10d

First R rated movie I saw in the theater. I was eight, haha.

a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is smiling while sitting on a couch .

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is smiling while sitting on a couch .

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 12d

At least it wasn’t “overbite”.

thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 14d

Only Boomers take Fox seriously, and as the last generation who haven’t cut the cord it explains why the network is number one on cable (a dying medium). I’ll be so glad when the demographic shifts and this network (ideally) fades into oblivion.

metro.co.uk/2025/09/24/f...

Fox News broadcaster suggests UN should be 'bombed' over Trump escalator

'What we need to do is either leave the UN,' he said, before turning and looking directly into the camera. 'Or we need to bomb it.'

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 15d

So now the rapture can go ahead then?

thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 17d

Sorry about your knee but I’d rather have it done sooner than later. Those of us who get to stay behind will be a lot more fun to be with than is currently the situation.