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@bainard.bsky.social

jorts authority. head dude at bsky.app/profile/beermiscuous.bsky.social in Chicago. Free Palestine. he/him

created June 12, 2023

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2/9/2025, 3:48:11 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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in a rental!

1/9/2025, 1:12:19 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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people with platforms and money can’t artificially manufacture the je ne sais quoi that makes social media accounts popular, which usually begins with being funny and not saying stupid or pugnacious things. either you learn that or you get poster’s madness. you can’t do it on your own terms.

1/9/2025, 1:10:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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to put it differently, if you want to be friends with the punks, you listen to punk music and dress like a punk. if you want to be a goth, you listen to siouxsie and wear black lipstick. your mom telling the neighbor kids they have to be friends with you stops having salience after age 10.

1/9/2025, 1:05:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture austin (@bainard.bsky.social)

the answer to “why aren’t people nicer to me on [xyz social media platform]” is always “make better posts”, which is something that tech honchos and article-writers cannot handle because that would involve them having better ideas and ideologies.

1/9/2025, 12:58:29 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it’s merely an encouragement mechanism to drive people to make better posts.

1/9/2025, 12:51:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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also why is ABC7 posted up at a Notre Dame watch party at a bar called the “Commonwealth”

31/8/2025, 11:06:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As we've all learned more about the Catholic church since 1988, we have decided to rebrand tonight's Notre Dame/Miami game as "Convicts vs Convicts"

31/8/2025, 10:56:03 PM | 23 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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there's a scene missing where she mysteriously gets lodged in a dryer

31/8/2025, 8:56:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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one of these would heal me

31/8/2025, 8:20:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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they're calling it candace owens in reverse

31/8/2025, 7:38:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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depave dlsd

31/8/2025, 4:18:26 PM | 24 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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that said david braun had the worst time in new orleans anyone’s had since george w bush so i guess it all comes together

31/8/2025, 3:58:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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well it sure seems like nu accidentally hired fitz 2.0, now with a smaller buyout and fewer nudity rituals

31/8/2025, 3:51:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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why do all these look like intentional mistakes

31/8/2025, 7:41:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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good gravy

31/8/2025, 4:29:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kinell (@sinistercinemastudios.art) reposted

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

28/8/2025, 6:42:09 AM | 3958 1125 | View on Bluesky | view

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whew

31/8/2025, 4:07:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i guess you still can’t spell citrus without UT

30/8/2025, 7:31:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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far too much respect for wendy’s in columbus to torch one. they’re getting into fights in the parking lot of a udf.

30/8/2025, 7:28:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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throwing short of the sticks on fourth and ballgame is always so funny to me

30/8/2025, 7:26:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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tom waits in the fisher king

30/8/2025, 7:26:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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motörhead in the young ones

30/8/2025, 7:24:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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he's trying to make arch feel better

30/8/2025, 6:27:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) reposted

Celebrating Lee Corso's final show with the full length "ah, f*** it"

30/8/2025, 4:24:29 PM | 626 163 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/bain...

30/8/2025, 4:56:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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not if he knows what's good for him

30/8/2025, 4:24:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you can't make me believe that they actually exist. classes haven't started yet.

30/8/2025, 4:23:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it looks like it's being piloted by a toddler

30/8/2025, 4:22:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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did northwestern's offense not practice since january or

30/8/2025, 4:19:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They don't care about keeping up appearances until it's too late to develop taste.

30/8/2025, 3:12:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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why is that golf tee piercing an aquifer

30/8/2025, 1:35:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 1:31:04 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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nipples 48x
30/8/2025, 1:21:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

30/8/2025, 12:43:07 AM | 7036 2404 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture austin (@bainard.bsky.social)

donald trump is dying in order to distract from the northwestern/tulane game tomorrow morning

30/8/2025, 3:16:20 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Beermiscuous-Lakeview (@beermiscuous.bsky.social) reposted

New Newsletter! We'll have Northwestern-Tulane on at 11am tomorrow AND we're open with normal hours all weekend! Cheers! mailchi.mp/beermiscuous...

29/8/2025, 4:26:56 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of these days journalism schools are going to explain to students that doing both-sides stuff with human rights isn't the objectivity victory one might think it is.

29/8/2025, 3:31:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol who blocked you?

29/8/2025, 2:47:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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getting progress reports on my job from my toilet printer while i'm flushing

29/8/2025, 2:38:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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microwaves aren't any faster but hey at least we have hi-def tvs

29/8/2025, 2:32:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the idea that regular citizens could navigate flying cars and it wouldn't be like a meteor shower over every city in the country every day is wild to me

29/8/2025, 2:20:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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who honestly believes that framing these sorts of issues in this light is helpful to anyone?

29/8/2025, 2:16:43 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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tbf we fucked up big time by not developing the mr. fusion.

29/8/2025, 2:15:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Spiteful pencil-pusher has his manhood questioned" really was THE plot catalyst of 1980s American cinema.

29/8/2025, 2:11:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reposted

These nachos cost $2.1 billion.

29/8/2025, 1:54:10 PM | 256 28 | View on Bluesky | view

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throwing a "ballgame or die" ball flat-footed seems insane to me

29/8/2025, 6:56:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the amount of extant cigarette smoke that existed in the 70s had to have been insane

29/8/2025, 6:53:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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he's gonna try to get cum town back together the same way he tried to get lennon and mccartney to reconcile

29/8/2025, 6:35:40 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Smoking Musket (@smokingmusket.bsky.social) reposted

dana holgorsen engage mr.steal your girl protocol with taylor swift challenge

29/8/2025, 1:39:16 AM | 60 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture austin (@bainard.bsky.social) reply parent

i have taken communion with M&M's and coca-cola as body and blood (youth group trip) but there's no way i'm listening to a sermon from a half-created civ v leader.

29/8/2025, 4:39:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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no danger of turning into columbus due to the presence of public transit

29/8/2025, 4:26:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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hey if i'm any indication some of them might stay here for a couple decades and become semi-model citizens

29/8/2025, 1:32:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i mean hey it's bringing people to the city.

29/8/2025, 1:26:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ohio?!? The show's in Chicago!

29/8/2025, 1:24:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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saying this shit at the seasteading institute is very special. real "true free market capitalism has never been attempted" stuff here.

29/8/2025, 1:24:09 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Heisman House is being occupied by National Guard forces. Whizzer White is filing a 3rd Amendment argument from beyond the grave.

29/8/2025, 12:03:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fansville has been occupied by the National Guard. Martial law has been declared.

28/8/2025, 10:16:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks for clearing that up.

28/8/2025, 8:16:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i remember leaping through the ceiling at my buddy’s place watching the lateral live

28/8/2025, 4:40:47 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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almost but not quite, bbc

picture of taylor swift loudly captioned with
28/8/2025, 6:01:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i'm guessing jane coaston was too busy trying to spy on michigan's week two opponent.

28/8/2025, 5:58:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ngl i thought this was kim dotcom

28/8/2025, 5:56:13 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can tell this is a suburban vintage of this sort of argument because there's no mention of "parking spots"

27/8/2025, 10:38:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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turn your monitor on

27/8/2025, 10:37:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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hell, he does all the time

27/8/2025, 8:42:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RXKNephew did a John Fetterman diss track for $500 and it was good enough to be worth 10x that

27/8/2025, 8:40:14 PM | 24 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Death of an Author" don't give us ideas dude

27/8/2025, 8:37:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i think it's fine, personally

27/8/2025, 8:34:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i can’t believe that hat actually exists. i need to find it in the wild. also come to trivia tonight.

27/8/2025, 6:45:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tyler walk with me (@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social) reposted

is that what i think it is

a post from someone named Daniel Pewewardy captioned: Customer service interactions don't always have to be transactional
26/8/2025, 8:38:26 PM | 3722 777 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol

27/8/2025, 12:44:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture austin (@bainard.bsky.social)

If I ever become this blazé about doing war crimes my only hope is that a fraction of what I deserved would be visited upon me and that my carrion would be deemed unfit for maggots.

27/8/2025, 12:42:15 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

26/8/2025, 11:43:28 PM | 23942 7237 | View on Bluesky | view

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1. Beat Tulane

27/8/2025, 12:15:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In lieu of commensurate justice being done to these people I would settle for watching them saying this exact thing to a prosecutor in Den Haag.

26/8/2025, 11:50:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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all teachers do

26/8/2025, 8:49:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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he looks like a mr show character

26/8/2025, 8:48:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Roast Beef from Achewood thought bubble
26/8/2025, 8:45:59 PM | 78 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This survey is very clearly trying to astroturf approval for a military occupation of Chicago. I feel like most of the people in Chicago would rather the brownshirts, jackboots, and such stay home, but that's me.

26/8/2025, 8:34:00 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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the military occupation is the fifth star

26/8/2025, 8:29:33 PM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eric Allix Rogers (@ericallixrogers.com) reposted

Just received a text asking me to take a "Public Safety & Crime Survey", and it seems pretty clear that some local politician is trying to figure out whether to support or oppose deployment of armed forces to Chicago. Let them know what you think ilresearch.info/7RFF

Blue graphic map of Chicago with the wrong number of stars. It says
26/8/2025, 8:27:29 PM | 76 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture austin (@bainard.bsky.social)

Seems like Intel is either: 1. Complaining because they got what they wanted (file under: "What did you think was going to happen?") 2. Attempting to engineer a situation where US gov't contractors can only buy Intel chips 3. Doing a pump-and-dump 4. Some combination of the above three.

26/8/2025, 6:41:16 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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why does this thing look like a messed up version of the video for "all is full of love"?

26/8/2025, 3:16:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that's where the money is

26/8/2025, 3:15:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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trump could've turned covid and operation warp speed into rally around the flag moments but instead his base got furious that they couldn't spend three hours a day at the big box store and he started listening to them. the george floyd protests were the final straw for his chances in 2020.

26/8/2025, 3:13:38 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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But did you consider how much people who write articles hate spending time with their kids?

26/8/2025, 3:10:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i don't think even the most seasoned anarchocommunist could have envisioned military keynesianism being this stupid

26/8/2025, 3:06:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i like how you can’t really tell if mancow is endorsing or disagreeing with communism here

26/8/2025, 2:00:37 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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incredible post. no notes.

26/8/2025, 1:56:38 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Firkinho Gaucho (@pastaben.bsky.social) reposted

turkish deep state agent: go to the parking garage at 11:30 and Hakan will meet you with the briefcase eric adams: thanks. say…did you know the “hip” in “hip hop” stands for “homework is power?” turkish agent: you say this every time

26/8/2025, 12:42:52 PM | 436 60 | View on Bluesky | view

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no that was ann coulter

26/8/2025, 12:01:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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archive.org/details/loon...

26/8/2025, 3:40:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can tell my college professors that I'm using my theatre degree by naming my fantasy football team "The Laremy Tunsil Project".

26/8/2025, 2:01:42 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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h/t @agoodcat.bsky.social

25/8/2025, 6:46:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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good afternoon

25/8/2025, 6:46:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i'll admit that almost getting into a fight with a random tweaker at like five straight !!! shows was its own special kind of hoot but that didn't make the iraq war suck any less.

25/8/2025, 5:33:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The aesthetics of the 80s stunk too!

25/8/2025, 5:06:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i'm sure if my dad could have gotten away with charging me rent at age 4 he would have

25/8/2025, 4:22:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture austin (@bainard.bsky.social)

we need to stop pretending that the 80s didn't suck major shit. quirky semi-unique corporatist slop isn't better than the minimalist thing we have now, you just didn't have to pay rent back then.

25/8/2025, 4:19:55 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view