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Brian Curtin

@briancurtin.com

principal software engineer, tech lead, long time Python guy—trail maintainer—photographer curtinbrian on Instagram Denver, CO

created July 1, 2023

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Separate incidents?

2/9/2025, 3:43:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are they launching him?

2/9/2025, 2:23:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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surround & drown, literally

31/8/2025, 10:13:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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take the wildland firefighting tactic of surrounding the fire with more fire

31/8/2025, 9:41:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Benjamin Dreyer (@bcdreyer.social) reposted

I daydream about being woken in the dead of night by the sound of shouts, cheers, and car horns.

30/8/2025, 2:39:36 AM | 6994 707 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ready to park facing the wrong way on a one-way street and stare at their phones.

28/8/2025, 8:55:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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liberalism is second best example of a circle jerk

23/8/2025, 2:46:08 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

23/8/2025, 2:38:17 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That makes sense. His cell phone bill and his kid’s school make a little less sense, but hey, who’s got time for all these emails?

20/8/2025, 3:58:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hunter Biden laptop

19/8/2025, 11:01:07 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@pickle-bucket.bsky.social it’s time

19/8/2025, 7:30:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Albert Burneko (@albertburneko.bsky.social) reposted

now that this smug Nazi prick's face is out there, he should not be able to set foot outdoors in daylight without getting the s*** b*** o** o* h***

19/8/2025, 2:54:51 PM | 66 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oyster likes this

Paul Rudd as Oyster in a sketch where he also plays a person named Tayne on
19/8/2025, 3:01:20 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s time.

19/8/2025, 2:32:16 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of them has a sphere, so I think they’ve got this

19/8/2025, 2:05:22 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gavin Newsom in three years

Fred Willard as Mike LaFontaine delivering his catch phrase
18/8/2025, 7:31:58 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One league gets all of the instant replay stuff, and the other goes to back to wearing button up polyester shirts, the balloon protector behind the plate, and more yelling.

18/8/2025, 5:00:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The City of Denver trash app, which primarily is little more than a reminders app you put your address into, includes a game about sorting recyclables. I want Xcel Energy to get a game.

14/8/2025, 9:30:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture amy brown (@amybrown.xyz) reposted reply parent

wait it’s literally called Tactical Baby Gear sorry for the confusion that’s literally the brand name

an extremely tactical baby carrier holding a baby whose whereabouts on January 6 remain unknown
14/8/2025, 1:52:37 PM | 968 96 | View on Bluesky | view

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listen to Kublai Kahn TX

14/8/2025, 3:07:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t believe he could cross Bedford at any point throughout its entire length. Frankly it’s probably 2x too far out.

14/8/2025, 1:52:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

there's a real conversation to be had about what does and does constitute safety but if you're using the moment of a Trumpist crackdown on a city denied congressional representation to say you're scared of certain neighborhoods then you're a dupe and a mark at best and a quiet fascist at worst.

14/8/2025, 3:27:47 AM | 824 86 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder if he sits on a booster seat while driving.

14/8/2025, 2:39:35 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) reposted

Person who filmed video “How to Boil Water” worries Mamdani is not a serious person

Michelle Tandler You Tube • Apr 7, 2020 How to Boil Water: Screen & Audio Test X Visit Michelle Tandler & @michelletandler Follow Zohran Mamdani is not a serious person. He has essentially never had a job, despite his elite education from multiple private schools. How this man became the frontrunner for NYC Mayor is beyond comprehension.
13/8/2025, 6:36:05 PM | 798 80 | View on Bluesky | view

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The most tactical thing about this is how sharp his elbow is.

13/8/2025, 4:50:36 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He just got some pest control work done and had the invoices sent to me. The Ireland one just had his car repaired too. Glad they're taking care of maintenance tasks.

13/8/2025, 4:46:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

A different BC in western Massachusetts does the same, including having tried to open a business bank account under my email address. I noticed it was a small MA bank so figured it was that guy again, so I called the branch and they said he was in there in person doing it.

13/8/2025, 4:45:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"What on earth is going on in there???" they say, as I pull up the video of them performing at the Virgin Megastore to explain.

13/8/2025, 3:14:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The guy with my name who lives in Cork, Ireland—a lovely place—and gives out my email address all the time, just signed me up for the Irish Rail newsletter. He doesn't appear to have bought a ticket or anything and this is a side effect, he just wanted train news...which I now get. Great.

13/8/2025, 1:57:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You absolutely do not need to be fair to anyone involved at any level of implementing a fascist police state, especially including those in the test run (this).

13/8/2025, 12:48:08 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

No problem. You can read my posts or anyone else responding to you to learn more about that. Lots of options around here.

12/8/2025, 10:55:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

It’s exactly what you replied to, which was a reply to the same concept in a different area.

12/8/2025, 10:48:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder if this ever goes toward having no bathrooms at all. Enough BWW’s and similar places are going to get sued or lose business for becoming body inspectors, driving their whack job owners to lobby against the need to provide bathrooms at all and eliminate their risk.

12/8/2025, 10:43:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

And you think this is a legitimate question to ask the employee at a DSW Shoes or Foot Locker?

12/8/2025, 10:17:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I asked AI what it really costs to make these shoes and they said $15 in materials so why does the price tag say $85? Can you match their price?"

12/8/2025, 8:57:25 PM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is obviously going to happen _and_ he's going to say Big Balls during the ceremony.

12/8/2025, 5:20:17 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So delete it then.

12/8/2025, 5:19:22 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A FedEx office is currently being asked to print this on a 4'x8' poster board, delivered to the House chamber

12/8/2025, 3:53:34 PM | 47 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TrackerNeil (@trackerneil.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I brought my family to see Congress certify the vote for the 2020 presidential election. The first thing I saw was a bunch of MAGA thugs assaulting the Capitol, one of whom was wearing a stupid buffalo hat. So forgive me if I doubt that the guy who pardoned them is going to bring crime down.

12/8/2025, 10:57:27 AM | 832 66 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

I guess that’s also our fault.

12/8/2025, 12:53:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They also never know what to do with their hands. Always pulling on their vests or tucked inside some tactical pocket.

12/8/2025, 4:28:34 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mumbling "I had to get it on" while eating a strawberry shortcake ice cream bar. My wife bounces my head off the table 3x harder than Neil does.

10/8/2025, 2:29:54 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s going to call it Deep Town

9/8/2025, 8:00:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It happened

9/8/2025, 1:28:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait, you're telling me ChatGPT sucks shit and can't count and doesn't know about states and says asinine things when you ask it questions? Oh no!

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

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remove instant replay

5/8/2025, 5:12:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this the visitors center on I-70 on the east side? That path on the right looks very familiar.

31/7/2025, 6:50:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love when an answer starts off with "I don't want to say."

30/7/2025, 3:19:15 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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NYT: it has been hit with just about every misfortune that can befall a company Everyone else [chanting]: more, more, more

28/7/2025, 3:49:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ordered. First book I’ll own where I’ve seen the author’s boner.

25/7/2025, 3:42:38 AM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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$1500 of Hooters wings spread across a table at city hall like it’s a bunch of inoperable guns to demonstrate the claimed 8x increase in crime

25/7/2025, 3:32:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remembered as a legal giant? Doesn't look that big to me.

23/7/2025, 10:06:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now _your_ hands hurt? Nothing I can do about it, pal.

23/7/2025, 2:23:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would be quite a special talent to simultaneously communicate with all drug manufacturers around and negotiate different discounts all over 100% and also be a pedophile. Lot going on there.

23/7/2025, 2:59:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) reposted reply parent

You know how history is packed wall to wall with people who took orders from god and angels and how in the 20th century that became voices from the television and government radio signals? Get ready for A.I. to come up in a LOT of really grim court cases.

22/7/2025, 5:48:52 AM | 526 85 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

The Bobby Big Wheel Guarantee

21/7/2025, 7:05:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone ask in a press briefing if he built Truth Social from scratch. "I learned JavaScript. Beautiful language, really. Truly one of the best. Obama told people to learn how to code and he didn't do it. Couldn't. Really a bad guy."

9/7/2025, 6:24:36 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There are multiple lawyers in the country, you can generally pay attention to more than one thing at a time as an adult, etc.

2/7/2025, 9:53:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) reposted reply parent

1. this is so funny 2. silicon valley has never been more washed, this is embarrassing 3. you cannot pretend to be like a professional sports player if your job involves the computer

2/7/2025, 1:27:41 AM | 471 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

Do you use different names on different legal paperwork? As in are you sometimes Ryan Cox and sometime Ryan Middlename Cox? The judge at my last jury duty mentioned this as a reason people get called more often (and that frequency isn’t a reason to be excused from his court).

2/7/2025, 12:59:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

talk about Remembering A Guy

1/7/2025, 11:49:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I ordered some photo prints from Crown Heights that were printed in, I think, Greenpoint. They went through Philly.

1/7/2025, 9:27:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joe Flynn (@chinajoeflynn.bsky.social) reposted

Holy shit...I applied for a job with The Onion back in April and this was literally one of my 30 sports headline submissions. @davidjroth.bsky.social @robertsilverman.bsky.social

30/6/2025, 10:12:04 PM | 6027 821 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

The extra returns in the texts looks like they were written while driving said car off a cliff

30/6/2025, 9:22:13 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is just baby talk, which is pathetic.

30/6/2025, 6:37:19 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wearing my Dxyufazhe to the beach party

19/6/2025, 9:16:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Cardinals would let a masked ICE agent throw out the first pitch.

19/6/2025, 7:11:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where are we at with gas stoves?

16/6/2025, 4:31:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like that it not only blew the stop sign and hit the kid, but it continues on as a hit-and-run. There's another video from inside the car and it's not them driving after the hit.

13/6/2025, 4:27:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It'll be him lying flat on his back shirtless so fans can come up and open mouth kiss him.

12/6/2025, 4:54:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love to constantly refer to my uncle who died 62 years ago when I was 9. Excited to hear him talk about how people who lived in caves 300 years ago didn't have lung cancer.

9/6/2025, 2:33:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How's he going to fit Lincoln commercials and being University of Texas Super Fan in to all of this?

6/6/2025, 4:15:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Charles, Kenny, Shaq, and Ernie as some kind of quad presidency.

6/6/2025, 4:09:52 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kara Swisher pulling down her aviator sunglasses: see, I told you he’s a complicated guy

6/6/2025, 1:34:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Connor (@roxconn.bsky.social) reposted

Elon and Trump pulling into separate Home Depot parking lots and tweeting “I’m here you fuckaas bitch”

5/6/2025, 9:12:29 PM | 2712 431 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stan Chera memorial fund (@milesklee.bsky.social) reposted

here's how Jeb Bush could still become president

5/6/2025, 8:48:40 PM | 257 24 | View on Bluesky | view

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Typing “you’re supposed to use /s for sarcasm posts!!” 14 times per day every day

5/6/2025, 5:53:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's going to try playing both sides

4/6/2025, 6:06:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Posting from the front seat of my F-350 while wearing white Oakleys: Isn't it Game They?

4/6/2025, 3:15:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I studied maps of the area I lived in. What are major streets, where are highways, what city is what direction of the other, etc. I drove around the Chicago area umpiring baseball games and had to know where high schools or parks were, and the need to be on time turned navigation into a need.

4/6/2025, 1:57:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putting on four wrist braces and getting ready to Post

4/6/2025, 1:39:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Folk-Punk Demon Hunters (@gonebabygone.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

People who point out how much water LLMs use aren’t saying no water should ever be used, they’re saying it shouldn’t be used to ask Grok how many months there are

3/6/2025, 11:28:44 PM | 86 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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My favorite part of this is the umpire's tiny little ejection motion, just a gentle flick of the wrist. In response Walls couldn't be contained by multiple people.

3/6/2025, 3:11:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AYCE Hot Doubles without a time limit could fetch a pretty penny from me

2/6/2025, 6:34:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chuck Schumer will find a way to make it about the Tooth Fairy

2/6/2025, 6:07:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joe Kassabian (@jkass99.bsky.social) reposted

Meta spent billions on a VR game that like 20 people used and the avatars couldn't even have legs.

2/6/2025, 5:32:42 PM | 252 52 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kenny did it

1/6/2025, 4:01:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Counterpoint: Tax them double whatever the proposal is.

1/6/2025, 12:29:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. theMoon (@sheepthemoon.bsky.social) reposted

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

30/5/2025, 11:56:58 AM | 8507 2472 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Curtin (@briancurtin.com) reply parent

I’ve now been in multiple restaurants where a guy is wearing merch from what I look up and find is one of these retreats, and their wife and kids stare at one or more devices the entire time and no one says a single word. Excited to hear the Roth diagnosis.

31/5/2025, 4:37:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Slow driving doesn’t cause people to change lanes. Impatience is a self-inflicted problem.

29/5/2025, 4:22:53 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm more interested in the deception version.

29/5/2025, 2:30:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Interrupting the breakdown to announce home owners insurance is over, then playing the worst solo you've ever heard.

28/5/2025, 5:24:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Waited 8 minutes for an employee to unlock it and then took one dose for the night.

28/5/2025, 5:17:50 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yes

25/5/2025, 12:55:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ej Dickson (@ejdickson.bsky.social) reposted

A few years ago I worked for a men’s magazine and edited this writer who was a biohacker. He would take any gas station dick pill or inject anything into his dick or do anything to his balls for like $500. Anyway I just saw on IG that RFK Jr invited him to give a presentation at the White House

23/5/2025, 3:21:08 PM | 1573 297 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love the logo, making it clear that the main idea is Takes and in small text it describes that they happen to be done by Hers. This might as well be a City of the Day sponsor.

22/5/2025, 5:42:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gillette is scrambling to figure out what's next

22/5/2025, 2:35:10 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view