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@ccantu.bsky.social

failed musician / tech marketer in Austin, Texas

created November 6, 2024

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incredible illustration of the grief and reactions men go through when losing their hair

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2/9/2025, 7:23:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very commonly included in US History textbooks in chapters about manifest destiny and westward expansion

28/8/2025, 7:05:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uhhh....what the fuck

27/8/2025, 9:11:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is actually a pretty big hazard amd kills ~2 dozen people a year. Farming is dangerous as hell. extension.umn.edu/farm-safety/....

26/8/2025, 7:55:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Came here to say Jamaal Bowman benching 405 is the only time this sort of thing has ever been cool

26/8/2025, 4:07:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I do hope there's an enterprising leftwing politician taking note of the government forcing a takeover of a supposedly critical business that's failing to deliver for Americans. And maybe also taking a look at the balance sheets of United Healthcare, Aetna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

22/8/2025, 10:18:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the exact sort thing that a corporate board exists to prevent. One of the unexpected things that has continued to push me left as I've gotten older seeing just how much of a joke corporate governance is in the tech sector.

21/8/2025, 2:40:58 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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buddy, i've been imagining dragons since you were in grade school

20/8/2025, 9:30:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cccantú (@ccantu.bsky.social)

This message could work in Texas but Collin Allred ain't the guy to deliver it.

19/8/2025, 10:06:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Has anyone looked into how much we're paying these goons for this stupid bullshit? Special Education and medical research were government waste but paying these hypertensive morons time and a half to stand around with their thumbs up their asses is a good use of tax payer money I guess.

17/8/2025, 12:12:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/8/2025, 9:03:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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he's been posting racist garbage and bashing the left as a way of marketing his awful substack to "based" tech chuds and associated dumbasses for a few years now

16/8/2025, 1:01:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this guy truly does not get enough hate for being an even dumber and weirder version of yglesias

16/8/2025, 12:01:18 AM | 183 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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i know it smell crazy in there

15/8/2025, 9:03:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 3:52:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) reposted

This has received zero news coverage www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

14/8/2025, 12:06:24 AM | 229 129 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw war of the worlds on a friend's laptop in the back of a van on a school trip and was enraptured the entire time. It's great even if it doesn't stick the landing

13/8/2025, 9:30:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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new Quibi just dropped

13/8/2025, 5:44:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His ex-law partner actually did put up a bunch of signs around town that said "The lawyer who works" awhile back lol

13/8/2025, 4:48:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not James Bennet's biggest fan, but I did mostly enjoy reading The Atlantic when he was editor-in-chief. These days it seems like every other article is just the lowest ragebait imaginable

13/8/2025, 2:42:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Top Gun: Maverick

11/8/2025, 10:10:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

this is the way rich people think about health insurance

5/8/2025, 4:51:24 PM | 3949 783 | View on Bluesky | view

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diddler on the roof

5/8/2025, 3:25:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm losing representation in congress because trump is entitled to it. cool democracy we've got here.

5/8/2025, 1:38:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Burying the lede that there are people who think Tony Soprano would vote for Kamala

4/8/2025, 7:43:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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People really need to take half an hour to learn the gist of how LLMs work before deciding a dataset and some statistics allows them to commune with the dead. This is so awful.

4/8/2025, 7:34:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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we need a Sydney Sweeney of the left

4/8/2025, 2:47:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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speaking as a proud dumb oaf, this guy is really doing some damage to the dumb oaf community

2/8/2025, 9:20:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RIP to an absolutely legend share.google/iet3oVsiev5T...

1/8/2025, 7:25:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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signaling virtue is good, actually.

31/7/2025, 6:36:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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would be cool if Kamala torches the democratic establishment

31/7/2025, 4:24:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social) reposted

"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them." A five-year-old child.

29/7/2025, 4:21:47 PM | 1494 789 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dick's has a house brand of commuter pants that sadly aren't nearly as good as the old Levi's but do hold up pretty well and don't look like sweat pants

28/7/2025, 8:41:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll be saying "Winona" in a bad Pacino impression for the rest of the day, thanks for that gift

28/7/2025, 7:46:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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R.I.P. to the actual alamo legend

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22/7/2025, 11:59:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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shocked to learn that the nelk boys are in their 30s and are somehow stupider than ever imagined

22/7/2025, 6:32:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it's bad that psychos like this have a place were they can go and drive each other even crazier.

21/7/2025, 10:48:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Made eye contact with Elijah Wood outside an Alamo drafthouse for several awkward seconds thinking he was a guy I knew from my college dorm before realizing I recognized him because he was Frodo.

19/7/2025, 7:04:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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honestly respect to marvel for pitching this

18/7/2025, 6:14:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the billionaire-fail-son-to-media-mogul pipeline is real

18/7/2025, 5:47:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Based Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic.bsky.social) reposted

nathan fielder was right

18/7/2025, 3:59:26 PM | 1446 317 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/7/2025, 2:40:08 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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more and more people are saying

18/7/2025, 2:06:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/7/2025, 1:48:16 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BREAKING: Donald Trump's letter to Jeffrey Epstein has leaked

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18/7/2025, 1:46:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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not gonna lie, my first thought after reading this: "Qanon is real?!"

17/7/2025, 11:48:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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17/7/2025, 11:44:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean...if one is literally impossible without the other, clearly one is more important.

17/7/2025, 5:49:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I rewatched Silicon Valley recently and it was so funny to see her pop up again and again seemingly unaware that they were also making fun of her

17/7/2025, 5:17:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

Wow. @404media.co uncovered the names of additional dozens of people who were disappeared by the Trump administration on the March flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

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17/7/2025, 5:04:45 PM | 2686 1161 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/7/2025, 10:58:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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UT notoriously pays well below market rates for comms jobs in Austin. Something's very fishy about this

16/7/2025, 8:48:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this listing is presumably the thinnest ass covering possible for an egregious nepo hire

16/7/2025, 8:43:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/7/2025, 6:45:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Free Press' shtick just falls so flat when conservatives are openly embracing nazism and secret police are snatching people off the streets. It's just so absurd and out of touch with reality. There must be about 15 people earnestly reading this crap.

16/7/2025, 6:29:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nellie Bowles wrote some decent stories critical of silicon valley back around 2017 or 2018. Really sad to see her become such a ridiculous reactionary crank

16/7/2025, 6:19:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/7/2025, 4:51:52 PM | 48 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The first part of your post explains why he can't win, so it sounds like he doesn't have your vote either.

15/7/2025, 9:43:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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was the BREAKING really necessary here??

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13/7/2025, 10:23:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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just an absolutely diabolical push notification @consequence.bsky.social

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13/7/2025, 10:17:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture L.A. TACO (@lataco.bsky.social) reposted

Isaiah Hodgson, who arrested 2 U.S. citizens, including 20-year-old Adrian Martinez at Walmart and Job Garcia at Home Depot, is accused of entering the women’s restroom and approaching a female while intoxicated and armed with a handgun. lataco.com/border-patro... by @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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12/7/2025, 12:57:40 AM | 10198 4545 | View on Bluesky | view

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Caught them in Austin a few weeks ago and the new album absolutely rips live

13/7/2025, 1:51:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC (@mattnegrin.bsky.social) reposted

Trump: i'm in the epstein files Chuck Schumer: the only files the american people care about are the eggstein files

12/7/2025, 10:46:49 PM | 717 74 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cccantú (@ccantu.bsky.social)

Stephen Miller is so evil that it's actually making me question my agnosticism because anyone who can so gleefully lie about this shit must be a demon.

11/7/2025, 8:34:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I learned this at a young age when I read that baleen whales ate plankton and it seemed unfathomable to me that massive animals survived on microorganisms. Then I learned that krill are plankton.

11/7/2025, 8:24:46 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture United Farm Workers (@ufw.bsky.social) reposted

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants
11/7/2025, 6:41:23 PM | 11420 5756 | View on Bluesky | view

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what having a real job does to an mf

11/7/2025, 6:55:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oof madone! he looks terrible!

11/7/2025, 4:26:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The thing is, whoever the head of the coalition is is ultimately responsible for holding it together by brokering compromises among factions. Biden and Democratic leadership weren't interested in doing that. They were explicit about it. They made the strategic error.

10/7/2025, 11:33:52 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel D. Anderson (@joelanderson.bsky.social) reposted

I wrote a little bit about Kerrville and Texas, a couple of places that are special to me that I'm still rooting for.

10/7/2025, 8:41:44 PM | 244 79 | View on Bluesky | view

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goddamn lol

10/7/2025, 5:57:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I actually met him at sxsw in like 2017 and it was pretty clear he was in cognitive decline. Can't imagine he's doing too great these days

10/7/2025, 1:09:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cccantú (@ccantu.bsky.social)

Immediately thought of like 4 other albums I'd put above some I listed; this is an impossible task

10/7/2025, 1:05:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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good, kid M.A.A.D. city (2012) - Kendrick Lamar Sunbather(2013) - Deafheaven Viet Cong (2015) - Preoccupations To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar

10/7/2025, 1:03:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001) - Wilco Madvilliany (2004) - Madvillain Back to Black (2006) - Amy Winehouse In Rainbows (2007) - Radiohead No Time for Dreaming (2011) - Charles Bradley 2 (2012) - Mac DeMarco

10/7/2025, 1:03:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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people tend to forget, but twitter was doing some interesting product stuff during his tenure that seemed like it could've paid off, but we'll never know

9/7/2025, 5:03:08 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Presumably most of that compensation is xAI stock, which isn't going to be worth 20 million for long lol

9/7/2025, 4:17:43 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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9/7/2025, 2:07:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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nice to know elon is destroying the air quality in Memphis and hastening climate change to have one more nazi on twitter

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8/7/2025, 9:02:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Schwartz (@jswatz.bsky.social) reposted

"Texans should be disgusted with politicians who keep asking, 'How could we have known?' when scientists and activists have been warning them. For too long, our Republican leaders have been putting their hands over their ears and shouting, 'la-la-la, I can’t hear you!'”

8/7/2025, 7:13:43 PM | 33 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watched this for the first time last week and he's amazing in it

5/7/2025, 9:50:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, if you're trying to drum up some anti-affirmative action bullshit like this, it's probably worth mentioning that Zohran didn't get into Columbia (where his father is also a professor!)

4/7/2025, 12:09:38 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know you can go to other websites and read about some of this stuff before arguing with people who've taken the time to educate themselves about it. You'd avoid looking like a complete fool that way. That's an option. ChatGPT might even give you a halfway decent answer.

3/7/2025, 10:32:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it honestly might be the best tv monologue of all time

3/7/2025, 12:52:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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someone who's advised the president on things he's taken action on is openly talking about a violent genocide of the largest minority group in the country and will be treated as another internet oddity story not worth paying much attention to. Feels like yet another Rubicon being crossed.

2/7/2025, 8:21:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd buy the hell out of this if I lived in NYC. I love being a stupid tourist in manahattan and going to zabar's for a lox sandwich and black and white cookie

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26/6/2025, 4:21:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Bear soundtrack perfectly aligns with the former college radio dj millennial spotify discover weekly playlist

26/6/2025, 1:30:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Silence (2016) heads rise up!

26/6/2025, 2:22:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A guy like Charlie Kirk is openly hostile to the American Project and people should start calling him out directly on that. He hates this country way more than just about anyone I've ever met.

25/6/2025, 11:41:41 PM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope we can say "Runza don't walkza to your nearest Runza!"

25/6/2025, 8:46:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/vk6014HuxcE?...

25/6/2025, 5:24:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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every problem anyone has ever had with the DMV anywhere has always been solvable by this one weird trick: setting an appointment

24/6/2025, 6:02:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a guy who looks exactly like fat Zohran, I'm giving my full and complete endorsement to Zohran at any weight

24/6/2025, 1:40:54 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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more professional athletes should look like a cartoon hobo about to start floating towards a hot apple pie on a windowsill

23/6/2025, 11:49:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fieldy is a genuinely great bass player. Also, the guy from mudvayne rips

17/6/2025, 6:09:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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17/6/2025, 6:08:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You hate to see it. But also, you love to see it.

17/6/2025, 4:07:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view