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Bryan Al'Meara

@bryanalmeara.bsky.social

Grace before fire while we watch the world burn. Rugby semi-noob in the Bay Area. 🏉 Often injured in some fashion! Gay AF, just on the other side of cis, for Trans Rights! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Book nerdy, often horny, introverted, ADHD, probably autistic, hate the mask.

created August 1, 2023

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

3/9/2025, 3:39:33 PM | 31241 8561 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says,
1/9/2025, 11:16:00 PM | 42900 5039 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

"If it's not about you, don't make it about you." Exactly this!

30/8/2025, 10:40:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you ok?

30/8/2025, 1:29:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh hi!

30/8/2025, 12:25:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

They are walkable

30/8/2025, 12:19:14 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I do not understand why they aren't getting it. We're screaming at them that He's the kind of candidate we want across the DNC and they're ignoring all of it!

30/8/2025, 12:12:38 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I had to look this up as I had no idea what you were talking about... The entire fick is he thinking with that crap? You can't make up a married couple in your head and use them to keep yourself grounded! That's just a whole crap load of unconscious bias and assumptions!

30/8/2025, 12:09:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

....I was not expecting that sentence...

29/8/2025, 11:41:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@lookitup.baby) reposted

my mom to my kid: have you ever actually dialed a phone? my kid: yeah! I did it in a museum 💀

29/8/2025, 8:47:58 PM | 837 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Added to my audiobook queue

29/8/2025, 10:55:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

These people don't deserve to wander the streets practically running on instinct at this point, picked up from time to time and taken to a shelter or a hospital only to end up back out on the streets a few hours later. Rinse and repeat until eventually they are found dead from exposure.

29/8/2025, 9:30:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

All of this! I also would like to see some kind of state funded conservatorship(with robust oversight of course) for the more extreme cases of individuals that can no longer take care of themselves or have fried their brain/body on drugs that they aren't really aware anymore.

29/8/2025, 9:30:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

WTF...

29/8/2025, 7:09:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course you can, but being overly skeptical of every single bit of data you come across is a little ridiculous. Especially data that has been held up as accurate from multiple sources for literal decades, like the fact that school/mass shootings in the US and way way higher than any other country.

29/8/2025, 5:41:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Regular anal stimulation is good for the prostate and the soul!

28/8/2025, 10:46:11 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Well that's refreshing, good on you for admitting your mistake. So many people don't even attempt to do that I assumed you had just run off.

28/8/2025, 10:41:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you have any idea how many women have had to deal with violent reactions from men for saying no/telling them they are wrong, etc? A lot! And it only takes one bad experience like that to make someone feel like they need to be nonconfrontational with all men because you can tell till it's too late

28/8/2025, 9:41:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Many of those guys think they are just being helpful, and get upset when their help is refused or gets a bad reaction, while completely unaware that he's actually the 10th guy that week that's "tried to help" and shes exhausted and just wants to be left alone.

28/8/2025, 9:22:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

You need to be aware that most women are "given" unsolicited advice regularly, often daily. Can you imagine how exhausting that would be, how annoying and frustrating? A lot of it is based in the (usually subconscious)misogynistic belief that women are incapable/need help.

28/8/2025, 9:22:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

You can be helpful but you have to do it in the proper context and environment and when someone has indicated they are looking for advice. Randomly, and directed towards someone who hasn't indicated they are looking for advice and whom you have no idea how experienced they are, is not cool.

28/8/2025, 6:52:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Literally at the bottom of the image.

Data table displays the number of school shootin (primary-university) in which at least one person was shot from January 1, 2009 to May 21, 2018, according to CNN research.
28/8/2025, 5:08:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Dude, seriously?!

Data table displays the number of school shootin (primary-university) in which at least one person was shot from January 1, 2009 to May 21, 2018, according to CNN research.
28/8/2025, 5:06:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, but that little detail doesn't suit his narrative.

28/8/2025, 5:03:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh of course. Pretty much anywhere there's affluent, or even just solidly middle class people on a power trip, there's gonna be a NIMBY sentiment. It is still heavily skewed towards the Boomer and older GenX crowd though. Those that grew up, went to school, and bought a house with relative ease.

28/8/2025, 5:00:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, and it sometimes has a sexual/attraction component to it.

28/8/2025, 4:56:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a cutesy way of saying "oomf" which stands for "one of my friends" or "one of my followers" depending on context. "Oomfies" being the plural, so referring to all followers etc. Gods I feel old 🤦

28/8/2025, 4:53:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh Lord, what did he do now?

28/8/2025, 4:46:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Its gonna vary on the town, city, county, state, region. But, GENERALLY, red states have far less restrictions on building new housing than blue states.

28/8/2025, 3:36:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

It was one of the first reddit reviews I happened across, it seemed uninterested in taking sides with either fans or critics because they felt both were completely missing the point. 🤷 Frankly I don't know why I dug into this, I'm not gonna read it 😅

28/8/2025, 12:18:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, he's like a 16 year old teenager, so he's also just a dumb horny dude with too much power fucks up his life and the world. Sounds interesting actually, but I won't be reading it because apparently the author hasn't worked on the series since 2011 and there's only two out of three books?!

27/8/2025, 10:27:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok, I had to look it up because it was driving me a little crazy(I was bored at work), and it seems that while everything you say is quite accurate, the entire story is better viewed as a Greek tragedy, superhuman dude undone by his own flaws and dogged by the consequences of his actions.

27/8/2025, 10:27:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean... I was hooked by this scene, I cackled so loudly I scared the cat!

In an anime style of animation, Remi, in a yellow jacket and with a long purple braid, leans back against the foot of a couch, head back as she pushes a cylinder of rolled food down her throat, whole! Her mouth is impossibly wide open, eyes slited in pleasure, as eyebrows slightly raise.
27/8/2025, 9:58:01 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

It really is!

27/8/2025, 9:48:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh... Wait, that's just bad writing, how did these books get such a high rating?

27/8/2025, 9:07:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

How so? I haven't read it yet, but it's been recommended several times.

27/8/2025, 7:14:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣

27/8/2025, 6:38:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably this exactly

27/8/2025, 5:49:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

And it's not a positive one. I doubt the people of destroyed HitchBOT did so out of a healthy fear of robots or AI, but rather an irrational fear of anything different, a general lack of intelligence, and because it was fun. I'm sure those same people are now very much into crypto, AI, and Musk.

27/8/2025, 4:54:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally, I don't think HitchBOT had any nefarious motivations. That doesn't mean other inspired projects by less reputable individuals or corporations are as innocent. I think HitchBOT's success in places like Canada and Europe does say a lot about the US though.

27/8/2025, 4:54:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a distinction without a difference. "Declaring war" has a lot of baggage around it, so Congress has found multiple ways of not calling various conflicts wars, at least not officially. It is known as The Korean War, and we were involved, regardless of what Congress called it.

27/8/2025, 4:28:03 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

They keep saying I have an account even though Ive closed it multiple times now!

27/8/2025, 4:06:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

😂

27/8/2025, 4:05:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I love that you specify dirty dicks! It's very inclusive of us who like dicks, but clean ones.

27/8/2025, 3:51:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

As someone else mentioned, if this was a decision by some CO, it makes the Guard look good while making Trump look stupid and wasteful. Genius move in a bad situation. If it was a decision by Trump or someone in his administration, it still makes him look stupid and wasteful.

27/8/2025, 3:05:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

It's called "picking your battles". Regardless of who made this decision it makes Trump look stupid for deploying them and wasting millions in tax payer money while making the national guard look good overall.

27/8/2025, 2:56:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

For Target that excuse meant they were actually losing money due to their own ineptitude and lies. They closed several stores "due to theft" even though those stores has some of the lowest theft rates. Probably the same with Kroger, they're bleeding money and trying to cut costs.

27/8/2025, 2:17:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally, I don't mind blaming celebrities for things. But in this case this has corporate corruption stink and greed all over it.

27/8/2025, 2:14:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social)

Omg, leave the poor man alone! He's been through enough! Absolutely disgusting!

23/8/2025, 3:44:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

The husband repurposed a foaming Hibiclens soap dispenser so now we have Dr. Bronners in regular and foaming!

A foaming dispenser bottle of Hibiclens anticeptic/antimicrobial skin clenser.
22/8/2025, 11:31:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

This and anything that makes it to SCOTUS goes in Trump's way for the most part.

22/8/2025, 9:12:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think Sanderson would want to anyway.

22/8/2025, 5:02:52 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah, the food companies are gouging the crap out of us. And no one is stopping them because anyone who would has been fired.

22/8/2025, 4:51:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Derek B , retired grumpy old git (@technologht.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

How much for nectarines ? Here in Scotland we get them for approx $1 for ten and we don't even grow the damn things , Americans you are getting ripped off bigly

21/8/2025, 9:57:03 PM | 58 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

There's similar issues with Right labels too. Republicans who don't agree with MAGA or government overreach, or treason. Libertarians who believe in same sex marriage and abortion because they actually care about personal freedom, etc.

22/8/2025, 4:13:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

In a similar vein, like @jackbwuzhere.bsky.social says many of these political labels are specific to who's using them. Liberal, Progressive, Leftist, Blue MAGA, etc. They've all been used as broad strokes or to mean different groups of people. It's not really consistent across the spectrum.

22/8/2025, 4:13:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Y'all really need to tack down the definition of "Blue MAGA", last I saw it was the label for the far Left that wouldn't fall in line with establishment Dems, not the establishment Dems that won't support rising leaders like Mamdani.

22/8/2025, 12:46:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Dipshit is definitely a sexuality one should avoid at all costs!

22/8/2025, 12:08:08 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I was referring to primaries, not general election...

20/8/2025, 8:24:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

And this includes many Millennials too.

20/8/2025, 3:24:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

And a lot of the dislike towards Biden came from him and the DNC trying to hold onto power when they should have been finding and platforming a replacement. These establishment Dems are wearing thin on the voters. Newsom is an establishment Dem. He's not going to get votes from the younger Dems

20/8/2025, 3:23:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool, thanks for clarifying

18/8/2025, 3:24:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

By trolling blind and vision impaired people who specifically need and use AltText in order to participate with and enjoy social media like everyone else.... Awesome...

18/8/2025, 3:03:05 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Same, about to have 11 months of rugby ahead of me!

18/8/2025, 1:03:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

This, he doesn't get my vote for simply doing what should be the bare ficking minimum right now.

15/8/2025, 9:06:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

They have bookshelves?

15/8/2025, 7:01:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lindsey Boylan (@lindseyboylan.bsky.social) reposted

Apparently helping crypto bros avoid accountability in a court of law for cash is a cause “near and dear” to Andrew Cuomo’s heart. It actually makes all the sense in the world. www.amny.com/news/cuomo-p...

15/8/2025, 11:18:52 AM | 492 140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I.... No... WAR!!

14/8/2025, 8:55:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, that reported seemed to have a little bit of trouble keeping a straight face with that question.

12/8/2025, 6:38:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

And the unseriousness of our country deepens...

12/8/2025, 6:36:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

11/8/2025, 8:21:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

This, he should have said "we need to educate parents on the science behind transgender healthcare."

9/8/2025, 4:18:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I completely agree, but getting Trump, Republicans, and a good number of Dems to do any of that is incredibly unlikely at this particular moment.

8/8/2025, 10:16:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, much like how us here in the US need to stop our leaders, the Israeli people should also be working to stop theirs. Netanyahu is not popular, he's holding power because he and his cronies have gamed the system, not because they are representative of the majority.

8/8/2025, 9:32:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd love to see the UN do more, but it lacks a lot of actionable power. They can call Netanyahu a war criminal all day, doesn't mean they can actually stop him, especially with Trump as an ally. Most countries aren't willing to make an enemy of the current administration by talking direct action.

8/8/2025, 9:22:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I wouldn't say people don't care as much as there's not a lot many of us can do. Palestine is not the only crisis going on right now, and with the US government the way it currently is, us in the US certainly have a lot of our own crap we need to fix before there's political leverage to stop Israel.

8/8/2025, 9:22:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

They really have become the monsters their ancestors endured.

8/8/2025, 7:45:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I am both horrified and intrigued...

8/8/2025, 7:43:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Mainly for the crime of wearing Lululemon, basic, boring, way way overpriced crap fashion.

8/8/2025, 3:09:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Avery (@averyofbirds.bsky.social) reposted

It happened again

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8/8/2025, 4:05:11 AM | 21179 3496 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

In this case, gender, but you're correct about sexual orientation too, no one should be wasting their limited time on this Earth being so concerned about how others express themselves.

8/8/2025, 1:53:30 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

And here's me, completely unaware that was a new Sex and the City...

8/8/2025, 2:37:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

You know what this is?!

7/8/2025, 7:13:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

This...

7/8/2025, 7:13:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa.bsky.social) reposted

what a sack of losers

6/8/2025, 6:24:28 AM | 476 83 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, the 4th book isn't even out yet, or has a drop date even though goodreads has a ton of "reviews" for it going back to 2019. And the in-between novellas are very very short.

7/8/2025, 6:15:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Looked these up, looks incredibly interesting! Unfortunately Audible only has the first three main books even though they all have several thousand reviews. A bit odd more haven't been converted to Audiobook...

7/8/2025, 6:08:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social)

@microsoft.com Making some awesome life decisions here... Also, if Grok shows up on my personal or work computers, I'll step up finding a way to replace Windows with a different operating system.

7/8/2025, 4:56:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently the organizers have some gender critical sentiments, so I doubt they care.

7/8/2025, 3:17:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Ness (@patricknessbooks.bsky.social) reposted

The Polari Prize issued a statement saying it believes its longlistees can hold “different positions on substantive issues.” This is like long listing a racist with authors of color then telling everyone it’s a mere “different position on a substantive issue”. Trans people are a fact. Not an “issue”

7/8/2025, 11:23:10 AM | 753 231 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Alfredo Carpineti (@drcarpineti.bsky.social) reposted

Just saw the polari prize statement on their long list. How in 2025 an LGBTQ+ organisation can be defending John Boyne, a transphobe who picked a fight with the Auschwitz Memorial, is beyond me. The bar to be better is near the center of the Earth

7/8/2025, 11:13:09 AM | 274 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Well there's a mental image I wasn't expecting...

7/8/2025, 1:11:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally it's dark mode for me, light mode is just too bright 😎

7/8/2025, 12:18:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Oopsidoodle! 😬

6/8/2025, 7:05:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't get a summer vacation, why should they? They aren't children, they don't get summer vacations, period!

6/8/2025, 7:05:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Why the absolute fuck was the school president given a $10 million dollar home to begin with?!

6/8/2025, 4:29:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

No one is requiring you to listen to her. You can literally block her and never see a post from her again ever. Unless, you want to see posts by her specifically so you can make your opinion known each and every time? Seems like a waste to let someone live rent free in your head like that.

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Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

What is even going on today?!

5/8/2025, 6:41:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

🙋🐶

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Profile picture Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, does that mean cereal is soup?

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