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@ancientcarelord.bsky.social

Public goods enthusiast.

created June 22, 2023

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Or it’s just the cudgel that they know you’ll accept being beaten with to adopt their view.

2/9/2025, 6:18:58 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Elections are vote counting exercises. The other side does a much better job with this. They will have different voting strategies for a primary and the general (even if their candidate loses in the primary).

2/9/2025, 6:15:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I appreciate that you went with the less-common 16 wheeler over the 18 wheeler. 16 wheeler has an interesting axle config

1/9/2025, 9:25:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Went for a hike and then pool time. made some onion rings and turkey burgs outside too hot to be in kitchen

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1/9/2025, 12:48:10 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They were right to keep me out of their house tbh

31/8/2025, 5:58:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every “I drank from the hose” can be read as “people did not want me in their house sullying their things” cope

31/8/2025, 5:57:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The signs are out there

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31/8/2025, 5:45:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ppl can both accept the apology and notice the clear trendline of “uncle” snoop’s choices. I can’t imagine telling early 90’s me that he’s out here publicly licking boots

31/8/2025, 4:49:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did you have a stroke or something?

31/8/2025, 4:40:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re licking the boot that choked you out, NPR. Weird as hell behavior.

31/8/2025, 4:25:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nevada is aiming to be an even crueler Texas but the economic realities there are grim right now.

31/8/2025, 4:24:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had a moment of remembrance for my 98 4Runner at the Mac Demarco show when he played the “proud, True, Toyota” song.

31/8/2025, 4:15:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Learning things from the youngs at the show — the brightness level I require on my phone due to oldness affects others negatively

30/8/2025, 10:45:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tired but (still) strong. Such a fun show oldest was so happy. Shooting star behind the stage was a cool bonus

30/8/2025, 7:59:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Phase 2 of immense dad powers is taking oldest to Mac Demarco at greek theater tonite

30/8/2025, 1:59:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You only say things you don’t do things. Get the hell out of the way

29/8/2025, 9:59:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Great pics my dude

29/8/2025, 9:18:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That x2 ride is da best

29/8/2025, 9:14:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am the wind beneath my own wings

29/8/2025, 9:04:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nooooooooo

29/8/2025, 8:58:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Powering through magic mountain on a hot as balls day my dad powers are immense

29/8/2025, 8:57:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congrats man

28/8/2025, 8:03:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saw run dmc and beastie boys in 87 Radiohead 2x at red rocks Was at the Denver “ghost” phish show in 97 Saw nirvana and had no idea who they were at the place that had penny pitcher night in 91

28/8/2025, 5:49:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How can I abuse context or refuse to grant it to relitigate the 2024 election, today?

28/8/2025, 5:36:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This would be terribly embarrassing to a prior version of me but tai chi helps a lot

28/8/2025, 5:22:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did you have a stroke or something?

27/8/2025, 9:36:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You, in order to help trump create this narrative so he can rule us like a king, created the perception that crime is a major problem that necessitates invasion. Catch a brick.

27/8/2025, 9:05:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We did some replacement with dwarf carpet of stars a few years back and really like it. Uses 1/10 of the water

27/8/2025, 8:15:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Infinite Jest causes all sorts of big feelings but I have been using “The Entertainment” as a way to talk to my kids about what we give attention to and why

27/8/2025, 6:36:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eyes wide shut final scene verdict: tom and Nicole gave up their daughter to the pedo cult

27/8/2025, 5:50:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh nooooooooooooooo

27/8/2025, 5:18:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Matt Y got mugged after spending an evening at mcsuderman manse, most likely playing video games and enjoying thermomixed sauces

27/8/2025, 5:12:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have a buddy who locked his kid in the car with the windows rolled up on a hot day in the Costco parking lot and it attracted a concerned crowd. Someone brought him a brick and he chucked it through a window. Absolute nightmare scenario

27/8/2025, 4:30:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why was his cat named Jeffrey Blepstein? Oh no I’ve said too much

26/8/2025, 10:27:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh yeah rough butt is in the pisgah, which sounds painful

26/8/2025, 9:40:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s a shame

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26/8/2025, 8:23:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My kids like the blue raspberry but I’m not a fan of

26/8/2025, 8:15:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh no! No peach these days either

26/8/2025, 7:54:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rank the reds

26/8/2025, 7:47:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Marked fer meth

26/8/2025, 2:54:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is bad news. Real bad minnesotareformer.com/2025/08/19/b...

25/8/2025, 10:49:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Paul Ryan homages

25/8/2025, 7:13:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love da beach (non-zonie season)

24/8/2025, 10:19:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oooooooooooof. Big time oooooooooof for you buddy

24/8/2025, 4:25:34 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trying to create a yes ladder to fellate trump. Smh

24/8/2025, 3:11:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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C for ceiling g for ground gang

22/8/2025, 10:45:54 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No you should come back to the nazi place so I can make sure that you know you are wrong when you think you’re better than me.

22/8/2025, 5:07:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

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21/8/2025, 11:35:30 PM | 4332 1216 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now I will not go up on cripple creek I have an idea about what goes on up there and I enjoy my legs thanks

22/8/2025, 1:33:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think that if you asked Juan he’d say that a lot of those bad results weren’t his fault because the ump got it wrong so it’s no big deal.

21/8/2025, 11:12:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They let ppl camp in parking lot which is p cool. This is how we get public goods today. From Cracker Barrel

21/8/2025, 9:32:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In carpool I said that I too enjoy the music of the deftones and, in a strange reversal of roles, a kid demanded to know what songs I liked. I’m a old so of course I picked some standards but I did impress them with some of my other picks. I’m feeling powerful. 💪

21/8/2025, 9:30:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reading an article that is calling the expansion of Europe-style leaseholds to US is “creative”. Ah yes, bringing back feudalism, amazing work sirs 🫡

21/8/2025, 8:22:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So what? someone said something and you’re holding on to it to call ideas “crazy” and use communist as a pejorative term. You’re lost, my man. People don’t need to suffer because you were momentarily experiencing discomfort.

21/8/2025, 5:14:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The guy with the Ancestral Bone Broth stand at the farmer’s market swears he is not digging up my ancestors and making a broth out of their skeletons but I don’t really believe him

21/8/2025, 5:15:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh wait you’re telling me that Target is just “Minnesota nice”?

20/8/2025, 10:49:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cruel summer 2025

20/8/2025, 9:40:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Spurssssssss

20/8/2025, 8:45:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*butthead voice* Settle down, ethan www.ncsasports.org/football-rec...

20/8/2025, 7:22:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20/8/2025, 6:05:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh wow they’re digging deep with the hippie punching rhetoric

20/8/2025, 5:53:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump gutting renewables is forecasted to increase wholesale electric prices by 74%. www.newsweek.com/trump-budget...

20/8/2025, 4:44:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oldest had a cyber truck driver coach last year in cbad he was the worst

20/8/2025, 3:40:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No more showers, y’all! We need the water for the inaccuracy machines!

20/8/2025, 2:24:18 AM | 276 128 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ex-Mormon women are putting out good content about how bad the value proposition is for existing as a Mormon woman.

19/8/2025, 8:24:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess there’s always money in the banana stand for these things

19/8/2025, 4:06:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why stop at the solar system, buddy? Build a dang Dyson sphere around the galaxy because apparently money is no object?

19/8/2025, 3:06:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chancla Khan, won’t you tell me what I wanna do

19/8/2025, 2:31:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a form of self care I would send him that pic and his other Rasta costume pic until he blocc me

18/8/2025, 5:51:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah he was always bad.

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18/8/2025, 5:13:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is their function to govern or are they harvesting negative emotions through governing?

18/8/2025, 5:05:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lyrics are from convos they heard walking around

18/8/2025, 3:01:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lasagna
18/8/2025, 12:08:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Back to school dinner request: Bobby flay’s lasagna.

17/8/2025, 11:05:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The group that complained about this is a Texas public safety organization. www.dps.texas.gov/section/inte...

17/8/2025, 7:15:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a younger person slowly unlearning programming I definitely undervalued my communities. My bad. Making up for it now and the communities are real artifacts of strength and trust.

16/8/2025, 5:02:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some people don’t want power and don’t want to criticize power, but instead want to criticize how others respond to power. Weird behavior.

16/8/2025, 3:44:00 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hi bootlicker

16/8/2025, 1:55:26 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bzzzzzzzzt Wrongo, bud

14/8/2025, 11:36:09 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Toots innocent

14/8/2025, 9:56:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weren’t you a juvenile back then?

14/8/2025, 9:45:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Texas lets landowners pump as much groundwater as they can capture. The data centers are bumping up against hedge fund-backed ag users, who are already pumping as much as they can and suing regulators that try to slow them down.

14/8/2025, 8:12:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The same dudes that are into their personal and group superiority are the ones that bleat “YOU THINK THAT YOURE BETTER THAN US!”, with a straight face.

14/8/2025, 5:51:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our brains are really good at recognizing patterns. So good that they’ll transmute “this person has a different opinion” into “IM UNDER ATTACK”.

14/8/2025, 5:44:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Baja blast translates to “the blast from below”. Ppl forget this

13/8/2025, 11:10:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Neighbor thinks the mourning dove sounds are owls and I just play along.

13/8/2025, 10:07:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ahhhh the first spursiness of a new season. They always deliver.

13/8/2025, 9:27:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oldest daughter changed my mind about Tyler and I’m glad she did

13/8/2025, 9:21:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Burbank is good. John Wayne is good. If you can ever take any of the quasi-private airlines that are popping up and operate out of the small airports and aren’t TsA regulated you’re in for a treat.

13/8/2025, 6:34:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s weird that LLMs don’t seem to follow the same versioning conventions that traditional development has (as far as I can tell and I’m not an expert)

13/8/2025, 3:52:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*after putting in notice* Take THAT, capitalism!

13/8/2025, 3:42:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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13/8/2025, 2:20:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Newbies 📈 NIMBYs 📉 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

13/8/2025, 12:35:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck too Liverpool but wataru endo is a good as hell name

12/8/2025, 10:34:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the time of year to keep my head on a swivel for hatch chiles.

12/8/2025, 8:00:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Life is like a box of chanclas

12/8/2025, 7:59:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was always promised stagflation by the conservatives but they swore that libturd policies would bring it. They’re always projecting

12/8/2025, 5:41:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/8/2025, 2:26:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I will throw burritos at fascists, o sandwich chucking captain, my captain

12/8/2025, 12:42:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah those are just the cudgels they know you’ll accept being beaten with.

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