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JimBonbright

@3rdandking.bsky.social

Pro-human, anti-authoritarian, SF Giants

created November 20, 2023

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Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, his body has to give out sometime. You ask, “Why now?” I ask, “Why NOT now?”

2/9/2025, 8:44:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vought is arrogant enough to think his Christian views should guide society as a whole. He thinks of himself as one of the few with “the moral clarity of a dissident.” Without people like him, he believes, the world’s fall into evil will continue unabated. americanreformer.org/2021/11/the-...

27/7/2025, 10:06:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apparently it’s what happens when someone has a lot of supporters who are easily offended even when that someone is mean, unhinged and amoral. I’m guessing.

7/7/2025, 9:23:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish, but the E.O. only requires *one* parent to be a U.S. citizen.

27/6/2025, 4:44:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m starting to think Hegseth has just a wee problem with women

26/6/2025, 4:40:46 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What, real people don’t say “I-C-E agents?”

22/6/2025, 3:35:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This has put me on a new trajectory

21/6/2025, 10:30:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s exactly how they should have covered Trump from the beginning. And relentlessly so.

21/6/2025, 10:02:51 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like San Francisco but for weather please send me to San Diego.

20/6/2025, 10:47:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m waiting to hear how he’s going to contort things to claim Israel never would have attacked Iran if he’d been president

13/6/2025, 3:10:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nozick must have been a baseball fan

8/6/2025, 10:43:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It must be so strange for each of them because they’re all sane. I thought Carney did the best at coming out with his dignity intact.

6/6/2025, 8:53:58 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, that explains it. He’s just high on life

31/5/2025, 11:24:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It took four people to write his obituary

30/5/2025, 2:09:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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IANAL, but when I first saw the story I thought, is this some kind of international court I’ve never heard of? Nope, it’s an American court I’d never heard of.

29/5/2025, 3:28:16 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s always been an opportunist. Now, by carrying out the MAGA agenda, he thinks he’s on the road to the presidency

28/5/2025, 11:32:59 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, did she say..."apprentenships"

28/5/2025, 1:41:47 AM | 47 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clipboards are a close second

28/5/2025, 12:18:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Golf Cart One

26/5/2025, 4:41:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mom, I know my grades are terrible but trust me: there’s a method to the madness

24/5/2025, 1:43:26 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait a second. I commented that people often get wrong the thing about yelling fire in a crowded theater. You asked me to explain. Several people have already asked *you* to explain *your* claim, yet you continue down the same path of wrongness. It's on you to figure it out.

23/5/2025, 7:00:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

They always get the yelling fire in a crowded theater thing wrong

23/5/2025, 5:01:59 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same reason he doesn’t help with the dishes

23/5/2025, 4:48:58 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They must. Everyone who’s on their air seems to be asking about the new book by “my colleague Jake Tapper.”

21/5/2025, 2:49:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The 84% of Rs who trust their Dr should maybe have a talk with them about RFK Jr, Dr Oz, and Trump

20/5/2025, 5:35:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

US Marshals are appointed by the president and report to the Attorney General.

20/5/2025, 6:58:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who would arrest her? This is why people are calling it a crisis.

20/5/2025, 5:28:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man the things people will do to avoid prison

20/5/2025, 1:00:47 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

I listened to the first 15 minutes and forgive me if I don’t hang on every word from Tapper and Thompson. We knew Biden appeared old and frail, but to me they’re implying he was suffering from advanced dementia because they’re trying really hard to sell their book. No thanks.

19/5/2025, 11:17:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did he say Stage 9?

19/5/2025, 9:32:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah she clearly did not pause to think before hitting the Send button

19/5/2025, 9:10:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m not aware that any significant number of people on the left believe 2024 was rigged. The number of people on the right who believe that about 2020, on the other hand…

19/5/2025, 5:12:04 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, does anyone around him bother to tell him how weird he sounds or have they all been down that road enough to know it wouldn’t register

16/5/2025, 3:20:24 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

That post was Tulsi’s line in the sand

16/5/2025, 3:05:22 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can always count on the NYT to report in a way that maximizes “engagement”

15/5/2025, 8:47:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Who was that reporter and why haven’t more of them asked these kinds of direct questions over the past, say, 9 years or so

14/5/2025, 3:03:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But didn’t Rubio suggest she and others might be “causing a ruckus?” Surely the judge isn’t overlooking the long history of case law on asthmatic grad students who cause ruckuses.

9/5/2025, 5:17:49 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now he’s gonna have to find a Fox News host who has been to a library

9/5/2025, 2:01:15 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

He does that, and after the review he stalks the official as he vents his piss-offed-ness. Is he so unable to control himself that they’ve decided to let the second part go?

9/5/2025, 1:58:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look at all those cops. Who was she, the Zodiac killer?

9/5/2025, 1:54:04 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh come on. He’s saying all kinds of things that highlight Trump’s malignancies. You picked ONE that wasn’t especially impressive

2/5/2025, 7:52:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When he refers to our allies, I think he means Russia. Don’t they call May 9th Victory Day?

2/5/2025, 2:48:08 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

So underrated

29/4/2025, 9:27:46 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really incredible

29/4/2025, 9:26:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

You did indeed say that. I need to read more carefully!

29/4/2025, 9:21:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish, but you may be underestimating the stupidity of the American voter.

29/4/2025, 8:57:34 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

I think she’s saying that since the judge is apparently assigned to a criminal court, her cases involve victims of criminals. It’s a weird way to say it but I don’t think she was calling the judge (or the bench) a criminal.

28/4/2025, 9:42:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

And now they got the casinos

27/4/2025, 11:33:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Time for another Wikimedia donation I guess

25/4/2025, 11:25:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Who among us hasn’t inadvertently placed into the public domain a privileged client advice memo

24/4/2025, 8:22:36 AM | 168 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s such a pathological liar. Hear the brief pause before he decides on $1.98 as the made-up floor for gas prices? It’s so blatant.

19/4/2025, 2:41:54 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know. The guy in the White House is kind of the expert on victimhood

19/4/2025, 1:46:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently she didn’t take well to the criticism. Her account no longer exists.

18/4/2025, 8:02:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

In today’s ruling the appellate court found it necessary to point out that affording due process to Abrego Garcia isn’t dependent on whether he’s a gang member. So I guess the court couldn’t communicate, either?

18/4/2025, 7:24:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

The two words have distinct meanings, and in a court ruling the differences are important. It’s not like sending a text message to a friend.

18/4/2025, 7:19:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s obvious he wants people in the U.S. to see Abrego Garcia in a “normal” setting. A photo of him in whatever conditions he’s actually in would damage the game he and Trump are playing

18/4/2025, 2:30:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

FFS, all she did was politely avoid playing Hannity’s pathetically insincere game. He didn’t expect that a woman could stand her ground and he ended up looking like the clown that he is.

17/4/2025, 5:18:32 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Masha Gessen wrote a thoughtful article about this in the New Yorker in 2019. She noted, essentially, that we tend to mythologize awful historical events such as the Holocaust to the point that comparisons of those events to our own daily lives can’t be right. But they can be.

17/4/2025, 4:52:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Years ago I took a short online course from Google on how to use their search engine. It was useful! Today, I rarely use Google at all.

15/4/2025, 11:58:26 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And from his DHS bio page: "Most recently he was Special Counsel to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton."

15/4/2025, 8:20:16 PM | 121 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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They seem confused. Abrego Garcia doesn’t have to be father of the year to be entitled to due process. That’s for everyone.

15/4/2025, 7:12:31 PM | 44 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

This is right up there with his donut shop appearance

15/4/2025, 1:08:00 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for presenting this chronological clarity.

14/4/2025, 11:13:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think we know what will happen, for Roberts has gift-wrapped it in the unnecessary phrasing about deference to the executive on foreign policy. The WH is hanging on that, and Roberts will say, “Yeah, that’s your call.” I hope I’m wrong.

14/4/2025, 10:02:39 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, he once argued that you’ll spend less money on gas if, rather than waiting until your tank is near empty before filling up, you only fill up when it’s at half full.

13/4/2025, 3:32:42 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know, but that email is the work of people who are getting a little too much pleasure out of disrupting other people’s lives

12/4/2025, 2:00:20 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What I heard him say is that the Great Depression never would have happened if he had been president then. Just like the war in Ukraine.

10/4/2025, 3:43:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I recall a tv interview with supermodel Carol Alt where the person asked her how she gets her skin to look so young. Her reply: Well, I am only 22.

6/4/2025, 9:34:45 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m afraid there aren’t many of us on this app who remember Pat Summerall

5/4/2025, 2:32:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He really repeated Trump’s line that we had the greatest economy in the history of the world before COVID. What a pathetic putz

2/4/2025, 3:35:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

Plus, the only reason we had a peaceful transfer of power after 2024 was that the guy who refused to concede after 2020 won. Who knows where we’d be right now if he’d lost again.

31/3/2025, 3:54:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish!

31/3/2025, 3:41:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re kind of stating the obvious, but yes

30/3/2025, 2:38:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure, but you are probably...what's the word I'm looking for...competent?

26/3/2025, 1:38:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s so discouraging. Like, Americans are that stupid? I guess so

25/3/2025, 11:57:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our tyrannical toddler

22/3/2025, 10:50:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But they’re having positive conversations, Anne

22/3/2025, 8:18:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let it get worse. And worse and worse and worse.

21/3/2025, 8:18:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As one does…

12/3/2025, 7:05:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Herbie!

11/3/2025, 9:30:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Acting as if he’s the first person to ever think seriously about government spending (or anything else) seems to be his primary scam, and people inexplicably believe him.

11/3/2025, 8:39:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When Musk said they would make mistakes I didn’t realize he meant they would be par for the course

8/3/2025, 10:54:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Before his confirmation someone said having RFK Jr as head of HHS would be like having a flat-earther head NASA. Well, here we are.

8/3/2025, 7:36:51 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s either deliberate or they really don’t know how to do journalism any other way. Either way they’re ineffective.

8/3/2025, 7:29:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

What would you have him do? They don’t have the votes.

7/3/2025, 3:39:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No objection

7/3/2025, 12:48:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let’s not forget that Willard Scott was the OG of congratulating centenarians on Today.

7/3/2025, 12:44:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s 77

5/3/2025, 3:17:52 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What should they do? They do not have the votes. Are they supposed to charge the dais?

5/3/2025, 2:51:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep. Both Trump and Musk are actively working with Putin and Orbán and against Zelensky. When they’re done with Ukraine, they’ll move on to their next victim.

2/3/2025, 3:37:38 AM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pete never betted against himself.

1/3/2025, 5:28:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump said during a rally that he might let RFK Jr “go wild on health.” I guess this is the start of that.

27/2/2025, 1:38:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A good example of their incompetence being used as a roadblock to slow them down.

26/2/2025, 5:40:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At least he’s not a micromanager

22/2/2025, 10:12:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah the whole spoiler thing doesn’t really apply to live sporting events lol

22/2/2025, 5:04:04 AM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone please explain to me again how we put that ignorant crook back in the White House

17/2/2025, 9:27:09 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JimBonbright (@3rdandking.bsky.social) reply parent

What kinds of things should he be saying instead?

16/2/2025, 6:44:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This has crossed my mind as well. It’s discouraging

16/2/2025, 1:11:03 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They’re determined to ruin absolutely everything:(

12/2/2025, 10:25:26 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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With this information he might be overqualified

12/2/2025, 3:54:06 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view