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chim chim

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Hot dog, jumping frog. Albuquerque. Austin-ish

created November 22, 2023

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Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

I do my own research. That is why I wait until Podcasts tell me my opinion before I have one.

2/9/2025, 2:59:49 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

mostly in my own life, tech innovation tends to mean "moving the buttons to a different place so you have to re-learn how to use the app"

2/9/2025, 12:55:56 AM | 381 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

We'll get the important shit done first. That can be stage 2. Still pretty important tho.

1/9/2025, 7:15:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

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1/9/2025, 6:43:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

#turntexasblue #heb

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1/9/2025, 6:39:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Civilization is beautiful.

1/9/2025, 6:26:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Two things can be equally true. Doris Burke might not be the best talent available for the NBA finals, and ESPN management is overwhelmingly white male misogynist shitbags who understand fuck-all about what makes a good broadcast. #jvg

28/8/2025, 4:47:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amy Ash (@lolennui.bsky.social) reposted

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

27/8/2025, 9:09:58 PM | 11734 2476 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

American voters want non-fat fried food, and they want it now.

28/8/2025, 2:24:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

What has Faygo ever done to you?

28/8/2025, 12:47:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Does Tom Clancy's The Fountainhead actually make it less bad?

28/8/2025, 3:15:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

And employed three copy editors and a slot to argue about it. When they're not congratulating themselves for saving democracy.

27/8/2025, 4:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Fuck it. I'll say it. None of this everything in the whole world would have happened if she'd made it work with Matty.

27/8/2025, 4:25:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

The desk would have nothing to do if you waited until substantial intervals between school shootings to file. I mean nothing aside from more school shooting stories. Good call on the brisket. Where'd you get it from?

27/8/2025, 3:59:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

She is fucking dope.

27/8/2025, 3:26:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

"A perfect organism has many fathers." Some even have mothers, Alpha. From the perspective of an adolescent boy, for sure.

24/8/2025, 5:05:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

yes.

23/8/2025, 4:49:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lucia Romano, MBA (@luciaromano.bsky.social) reposted

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

22/8/2025, 5:10:47 PM | 3883 1476 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Engineers are going to be in trouble when they find out that AI has more empathy and willingness to consider user experience. That says more about Microsoft engineers than AI

23/8/2025, 12:33:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

This just in: Politico to make minor staffing reductions.

22/8/2025, 8:38:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

I want this t-shirt.

22/8/2025, 5:49:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like she remembered hers.

21/8/2025, 9:09:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Well, you know the streets of DC are truly dangerous if they're letting the president go out at night for a photo op.

21/8/2025, 6:12:16 PM | 9435 1863 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool. Now vote against him. Oh, he's down with the tax cuts and racism you really care about? Thought so.

21/8/2025, 2:48:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Next up: Smithsonian Week.

21/8/2025, 2:45:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't feel bad when people like James Dobson die. I feel anger at the people who tell me I should feel bad when anyone dies.

21/8/2025, 2:35:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

I don't feel bad when people like James Dobson die.

21/8/2025, 2:33:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

It's 2025. Poor taste is always in season.

20/8/2025, 4:51:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tee Vixen Sutton (@vixenbite.bsky.social) reposted

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19/8/2025, 2:20:04 AM | 1014 321 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Analog. Should be using an air fryer.

19/8/2025, 9:33:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Sweet. Can the Euros convince him to end the occupation in DC now?

19/8/2025, 1:06:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Whatever they are, they just got matched by bonus checks.

18/8/2025, 9:57:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Blaming the desk is the first defense.

18/8/2025, 9:05:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

#preach

18/8/2025, 9:05:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Z is inspiring in their refusal to accept accommodating others not exactly like them as a problem. Millennials are crap humans. We've served under these people before. Still do. X can ignore any industry plants selling lowered expectations as they expense lunch on the NYT's tab.

18/8/2025, 9:04:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

This is so profoundly insprirational. And how it sits with me along with gratitude for the reminder. That said, they didn't have performative allies who thought they'd post and be done with it as soon as they got more than one bar and someone loaned them a charger.

18/8/2025, 8:52:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Any rando can join ICE too. And does.

18/8/2025, 4:39:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

POLVO!

18/8/2025, 1:41:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

ATTENTION ON AISLE SIX: THERE IS A FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CORIANDER AND CILANTRO. AND MAKING A SMASHBURGER ONCE A SUMMER FOR THREE FRIENDS DOESN'T MEAN YOU KNOW HOW TO COOK. THANK YOU, SHOPPERS.

17/8/2025, 6:09:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't call it out because I am buying food. Your experience may differ.

17/8/2025, 5:13:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

To make the few in the group who can look like the fucking keepers we are.

17/8/2025, 4:48:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

AI, 'shop, don't care. Sentiment stands.

17/8/2025, 4:41:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

NYT, WashPo and newsies on LI: You owe us money because we save democracy. Me: You get story ideas from TikTok and ushered in this era by being tasteful. GFY.

17/8/2025, 3:54:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

"I am worried when you die you won't taste good, hooman."

17/8/2025, 2:54:44 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

In 15 years, so many kids are gonna fail history tests because when you didn't do the reading and you're guessing, "No fucking reason at all" seems like it's not the answer to "Why did the president deploy National Guard troops to American cities in 2025?"

17/8/2025, 2:44:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Too breathless then to wonder

16/8/2025, 12:38:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

He didn't have to throw a sandwich. But he did. We never have to. It's another verb.

14/8/2025, 7:39:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

Whether it’s Donald Trump allowing Gazans to starve or a nameless protester throwing a sandwich at an ICE agent, both sides have helped perpetrate food-related atrocities.

14/8/2025, 11:33:04 AM | 1000 130 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

"Yeah, but Trump" will replace "asterisk" for future generations.

13/8/2025, 2:41:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course not. But it's not weird. It's common.

12/8/2025, 7:06:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you ever met people?

12/8/2025, 5:02:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

She's lucky that there are so few people in Maine. If there were a reasonably sized city there and it was a real state, she'd be top three. Also, she's lucky Maine's entire population is Freedom Patriot knuckle-draggers. Or she'd be looking for work.

11/8/2025, 8:06:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

The fuck they do.

11/8/2025, 2:27:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

That and the erector set beams being bendy as fuck.

11/8/2025, 2:27:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

He is a shit human. But even he knows it won't work. He was told by his better "Do something, I don't care what." So he is. Epstein will be back tomorrow.

9/8/2025, 12:54:10 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Yet "No one told us ..." and "We didn't know he'd ..."

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

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Most reporters' priorities in this order: 1. How their story is played. 2. Getting invited to parties where they can tell people they are a "journalist." 3. Advancing in their job. 5. Accuracy. You get the news you don't pay for.

8/8/2025, 2:16:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

I dunno. Did it annoy you or did it hurt you?

8/8/2025, 1:46:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Best. Post. Ever.

5/8/2025, 5:40:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

It's not so much strange bedfellows as realizing — with a lot of ewww — that what you believe is your side now includes Charlamagne tha God.

5/8/2025, 3:20:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Time to get the lawyers and marketing in for the endorsement deal.

5/8/2025, 3:23:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Lords Of The New Church

4/8/2025, 8:14:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

"Let?" He would have had lawyers, markting and bizdev on it before his head hit the pillow that night.

4/8/2025, 8:07:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

The photo ed was told to bring in his best image.

3/8/2025, 5:50:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

So ... #LinkedIn every fucking day?

2/8/2025, 5:55:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

You're heart's in the right place. It's more like firing them for saying it was 99 yesterday and you think they should be saying it was 82, and more importantly it's gonna be permanently 72 from here on out as long as everyone does what they're told.

2/8/2025, 5:54:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

On the bright side, AI would wipe out Reddit.

2/8/2025, 3:24:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

I get it about the shark having no intention. I'm just tired of having to buy more and more shark repellent while simple motherfuckers tell me "That's funny, I've never even heard of a shark. What's that?"

2/8/2025, 3:07:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't know. It beats the alternative.

1/8/2025, 6:42:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

The new #GooGooDolls song has me thinking it's the soundtrack for some second-month-after-second-divorce Wine Mom scheming a Charlize-Theron-in-Young-Adult-type plot to get her 90s ex back.

1/8/2025, 6:03:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

That's too many options. It's just one: Hate has taken over their lives. Act accordingly.

31/7/2025, 11:00:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Harlow’s Musings (@harlowsmusings.bsky.social) reposted

I just wanna be proof that good people with no hidden agendas still exist.

31/7/2025, 2:42:57 AM | 34 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Facts matter. Unless you need to write question headlines that induce doubt about facts. Because you are too scared to tell the public to act like fucking adults and wait a goddamn second. And worried you won't get invited to the right parties. Most people in newsrooms deserve to be unemployed.

31/7/2025, 3:05:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Every iconic statement has to be epic now.

31/7/2025, 1:13:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

They better have opened for ELO.

31/7/2025, 1:11:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Tom Lehrer was a gateway drug to Monty Python. I'm grateful.

27/7/2025, 6:30:02 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/7/2025, 2:39:57 AM | 15055 5057 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

The problem with Mike Johnson isn't that he's Big Evil. He's unrelentingly American normal. He's the guy at work who always makes coffee when the pot is low. He's the guy who always buys a candy bar for your kid's fundraiser. He's the guy who keeps his head down and never questions the boss.

24/7/2025, 1:25:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

What's missed consistently is, more than anything, Matt and Trey ask "Do you mean it?" Which is why they can fire in all directions. They've built themselves a $1.5B fortress with the house's money. They mean it.

24/7/2025, 3:00:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Do not tease scenes from the holiday cooking show episode until late October. It pisses off the network. You wanna get Colbert'd?

24/7/2025, 1:58:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

He luvrve the courts now.

23/7/2025, 7:29:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Killing Ozzy proves that he will do anything to avoid releasing the files. The Clintons could learn a thing from this guy.

22/7/2025, 6:44:45 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Killing Ozzy proves that he will do anything to avoid releasing the files. The Clintons could learn a thing from this guy.

22/7/2025, 6:44:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

The subject line was "New Wrangler Bespoke Jeans are here!" But I read it as "Country music will suck for the next five to seven years."

21/7/2025, 4:23:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

I hate this age, and what it's done to everything. The stink seeps in every crack. Now "Putting People On The Moon," makes me reflexively wince and think, "Yeah, but YOU probably voted for Reagan." #drivebytruckers

20/7/2025, 4:00:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

If you're really shocked about Colbert, you probably still believe you can negotiate with any manifestation of MAGA, down to sole members. Grow up. You're needed.

19/7/2025, 10:21:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Same. The Jesus guy was right about so many things.

19/7/2025, 10:04:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

‪Y'all do know that fucking HR and getting caught doing it at a Coldplay show are like maybe the 17th- and 23rd-worst things about the average white Techbro boss, right?

19/7/2025, 9:04:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

mgk is like if Travis Barker, Morgan Wallen and the guy in the White House had a baby and homeschooled it.

19/7/2025, 2:00:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Try doing it after watching the latest mgk video.

19/7/2025, 1:57:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michelle Strowhiro (@strowhiro.bsky.social) reposted

Every workplace harassment training for years to come is doomed to start with a Coldplay lyric

17/7/2025, 11:48:11 PM | 64 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/7/2025, 7:44:59 PM | 8683 1788 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm so old I can remember Tweedy introducing "New Madrid" as "Back when Jay Farrar and I were inventing Country Rock."

18/7/2025, 10:53:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

The "Fuck you, I got mine" legacy of Bill Graham runs through every Baby Boomer plan.

18/7/2025, 2:26:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

Next time I have Eddie Vedder and Christopher Storer locked in a room, they will not walk out until they realize "I Confess" is superior to "Save It For Later" in every axiomatically logical way and would have made sense for #thebear instead of what they did. #cardsonthetabletime #englishbeat

17/7/2025, 6:37:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

I know enough to maybe last a few days. And def know enough that I never want to go back to people as property in any form. The Alphas would die soon as there was no Starbucks and Amazon to deliver their aftermarket truck parts.

15/7/2025, 1:41:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social)

I didn't, and I did. Paying attention will do that to you.

15/7/2025, 1:37:53 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

Truth usually does, if yer a shit person. And we seem to be overwhelmed with them.

14/7/2025, 1:56:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture chim chim (@chimsquared.bsky.social) reply parent

The best thing I will see online this month.

10/7/2025, 10:45:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The best way to support future flood victims is to elect a government that wouldn't require charities to do the heavy lifting.

10/7/2025, 8:47:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view