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Dale McDowell

@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social

Nobody should die from dehydration, starvation, exposure to the elements, or lack of medical care due to inaction on the part of the government. he/him

created October 28, 2023

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Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

"Dead men tell no tales."

3/9/2025, 11:56:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I see at least 4 at a quick glance.

3/9/2025, 11:54:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

follow Shawn Harris and take MTG out of Congress

3/9/2025, 6:33:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

it works. Hey, Jay. how FUCK TRUMP doing today?

3/9/2025, 5:24:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a real girl now, Pinocchia

2/9/2025, 6:24:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Connerton (@lordnad.bsky.social) reposted

Can I vote for this person?

2/9/2025, 5:59:08 PM | 6 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Exciting stuff! I'm at the start of the third trilogy now. Enjoying the ride again.

2/9/2025, 10:22:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

This is excellent, although I believe The Fool starts more alabaster white, like bleached white. This might be The Fool's coloring somewhere near the end of the second book. Fool's coloring and changes are explained later in the series.

2/9/2025, 8:55:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

me, checking the obits: THIS COULD BE THE BEST TACO TUESDAY EVER pleasepleaseplease

2/9/2025, 8:48:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

We should designate Sept 6, 2025 National Hungarian Heritage Day to honor the first anniversary of @stevenbrust.bsky.social 's first passing.

2/9/2025, 4:40:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

You are transcendent!

2/9/2025, 4:37:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

♪ Lord I was born a cellphone man Trying to post a photo and doin' the best I can When I'm photoediting, try to understand I was born a cellphone man

1/9/2025, 4:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 2028 Blue Wave 🌊🌊💙 🇺🇸 (@2028-bluewave.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 12:04:50 AM | 263 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd go fucking broke if some asshole installed that shit.

1/9/2025, 4:29:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

well, he does have a lot of hits

1/9/2025, 5:33:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

My worry is that Vance is both intelligent and vicious. He'll be worse.

1/9/2025, 5:21:00 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

sounds like a threat

31/8/2025, 4:46:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

You don't have to tell me twice!

31/8/2025, 5:04:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) reposted

i’ve been calling her Princess Polio but this absolutely wins

31/8/2025, 3:12:23 AM | 1630 210 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

That doesn't sound like the attitude of a Nobel Peace Prize winner to me.

30/8/2025, 10:20:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

This administration: bravely keeping us safe from people growing food, the tamale lady, the ice cream man, and now... firefighters. Releasing insurrectionists, bringing in cartel families, pardoning hardened criminals, inviting in known rapists. MAGA deserves all shame. They bought this with votes.

30/8/2025, 10:14:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

That's where you're wrong, kiddo. It's always pumpkin spice season.

29/8/2025, 11:15:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

Looks like #AgentKrasnov has learned that he can't order the Secret Service to serve the red rum to Kamala Harris, so he just canceled them.

29/8/2025, 3:30:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

Why don't we all just boycott Exxon/Mobile next month? Like, the whole month. Everybody. October, we find a new company to boycott. Like Shell, perhaps.

29/8/2025, 5:34:36 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

good to see you ... Alive and Kicking

29/8/2025, 5:13:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

what about President of Vices?

29/8/2025, 12:26:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Now I want a caramel sundae

27/8/2025, 6:58:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

What about that one horrible criminal pushing an ice cream cart for TWENTY YEARS? obviously, a threat to society.

27/8/2025, 6:49:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

*sniffle* They grow up so fast...

27/8/2025, 1:38:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

Look, it's Qatar doing more for missing Ukrainian children than the USA.

27/8/2025, 1:35:25 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Join the National Guard! Study Engineering*! sanitary engineering

27/8/2025, 12:03:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Musk participated in that very thing. He's got some nerve making accusations like he's an observer, not a participant.

26/8/2025, 6:25:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

"Comics like no otter?" You otter be ashamed of that pun.

25/8/2025, 6:18:38 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Strange women lying in rubbish distributing trash bins is no basis for a system of government.

25/8/2025, 1:39:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

OK. First of all, I don't pray often, being an atheist, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Second, I'm not sure they would.

24/8/2025, 6:23:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

What?! But we were promised they'd be lowered "day one".

24/8/2025, 6:22:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder which speechwriter composed that for him, because he certainly didn't speak that from the heart.

24/8/2025, 9:13:20 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

It's somewhat true, but it's also really true. I once made a line just to get other people to fall in line behind me and it worked. They had no idea what the line was for, they just wanted to join the queue.

23/8/2025, 10:46:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Quick! Walk away at a brisk place!

23/8/2025, 6:15:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Ukraine strikes military targets; Russia strikes residential buildings.

23/8/2025, 5:54:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

It was a child’s logic, too simplistic to be real. Make it all go back to the way it was before, he proposed. Could not he see that history was not a cup of tea, to be poured back into a pot? Hobb, Robin. Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders Trilogy Book 3) (p. 224). Random House Worlds Kindle Edition

21/8/2025, 8:39:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

I bet the (cracker) barrel is where all the Epstein files were dumped. MAGA's just pretending to be angry about it, when really, its removal and destruction is all part of the cover-up. WAKE UP SHEEPLE

21/8/2025, 6:19:23 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) reposted

i thought this was a joke but it's not and now i'm a ghost, RIP me

20/8/2025, 2:41:21 AM | 936 138 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

hmmph. I just walk into the store and say it costs $2 and walk out with it. Unfortunately, there's now a kid on a bike following me around demanding his $2.

21/8/2025, 4:55:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I have to say, the short story I "Facebook published' could be part of a series or stand-alone. I'm really not certain I want it to be a series, as I'd have to come up with a bunch more "ghost lore" to continue, and reasons why ghosts are hanging around.

20/8/2025, 11:53:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder how long till Nestle sues for ... I dunno... business plan theft?

20/8/2025, 11:37:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

♪ I see a south wall and I want to paint it black Just distraction from the Files which we must redact I wish to hide the truth from my rowdy base I can't give them the facts or I'll just lose face

20/8/2025, 11:34:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

But I have been glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife.

20/8/2025, 5:08:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

oops. I realized I said "all the USSR vassal nations and Russia." I meant "all the USSR vassal nations and Alaska." He's after Alaska.

19/8/2025, 7:10:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

He wants to retake all the territories that Russia has ceded over the years. That includes all the USSR vassal nations and Russia. Probably Japan as well; even though they didn't ever "own" the nation, the two fought a war that Japan won, and I don't think he can deal with that.

19/8/2025, 7:04:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

Image is of the
19/8/2025, 5:16:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

then later Zelensky can visit Trump and Putin in their side-by-side cells

18/8/2025, 3:41:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump and Zelensky should be able to visit Putin in his prison cell where he's doing time for war crimes.

18/8/2025, 3:41:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

Honestly, I don't care if they had a consensual adult relationship, or when it occurred. I care about the Epstein files and what they say about this cabal of child-rapists and traffickers. The truth must come out. #EpsteinFiles

18/8/2025, 4:44:51 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John F Leech🦋💙 (@jfleech3.bsky.social) reposted

Gym Jordan is Despicable.

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13/8/2025, 6:38:05 PM | 65 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

You know what makes peace impossible? Russia bombing Ukraine the same day their dictator met our dictator.

18/8/2025, 4:37:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

Going from meeting a war criminal in what that war criminal calls 'Russia' to demanding another nation give up its sovereignty to that same war criminal is absolutely the act of a Russian asset. #AgentKrasnov

18/8/2025, 3:06:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why YouTube removed the count on "thumbs down" reactions on videos. It's like saying, "Thank you for expressing your opinion. Have a day." Still, some people don't get it: we don't want you Negative Nellying what little enjoyment we can find in between protests.

17/8/2025, 1:09:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Andy Ogles? That last name definitely sounds like a Republican sleezebag.

17/8/2025, 4:32:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

So it's you.

17/8/2025, 3:38:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

East Coast, be prepared

16/8/2025, 11:00:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Keryn12🇦🇺 (@keryn12.bsky.social) reposted

tRUMP leaves Alaska with his tail between his legs. Putin still has tRUMP’s measure. Press conference not only a debacle but another failure for tRUMP the “negotiator & genius” when it comes to uniting the world in peace.

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16/8/2025, 12:54:58 AM | 33 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't even bother asking anybody. I did try to take a young lady on a date a couple of months before, thinking if it went well, I'd ask her to prom, but she declined.

16/8/2025, 3:54:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

This could be us right meow!

15/8/2025, 11:09:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Does he not understand the deficit? Or the border? Or the... eh... willful ignorance.

15/8/2025, 6:58:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Good thing they didn't get your genre and Kellogg's switched

15/8/2025, 6:55:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I just stopped going the moon daily. I mean, I never went to the moon daily, but now I still don't. According to the headline, it's the same thing. Do better, Reuters.

15/8/2025, 1:49:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

where's the 2A crew to protest how the rights of these gun bearers are being infringed?

15/8/2025, 4:06:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Obviously not a Metallica fan

14/8/2025, 2:17:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

You want the curly fries? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CURLY FRIES

14/8/2025, 4:05:28 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

E pluribus unum 4 life

14/8/2025, 12:29:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

‪Unlike you, I make sure to read serious literature from traditional publishers

14/8/2025, 12:27:13 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

you can't tell in the greyscale image, but that's the Red-Headed Stranger

14/8/2025, 12:24:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Came here to nominate him for this one, but I knew in my heart it had already been done.

13/8/2025, 1:41:38 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm never reading Watership Down again, that's for damn sure.

13/8/2025, 1:40:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

If there's anybody #AgentKrasnov cares about, it's the downtrodden and marginalized. ~s~

12/8/2025, 11:55:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

They literally made the best nacho plate in town - better than all the Tex-Mex restaurants.

12/8/2025, 11:51:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

ooh, unlawful detainment. you don't get that everyday in a BWW

12/8/2025, 10:13:28 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/8/2025, 5:36:51 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

12/8/2025, 9:03:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

What in the mountains of eastern Kentucky did I just read?

12/8/2025, 4:06:09 AM | 46 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

The hard water stain in my commode is shaped like a butt plug. I'm suing the city for sexual harassment.

12/8/2025, 1:40:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

First think I'd do is walk up to it and ask "Where's slavery? Why isn't that banned?"

11/8/2025, 5:03:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm watching now.

11/8/2025, 5:15:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

The left needs to see just how popular Bernie is, and how powerful his message remains.

10/8/2025, 11:11:33 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

this means we'd have to create a $500 billion surplus and maintain it for 74 years to eliminate the national debt IF WE CREATED THAT SURPLUS TODAY. Trump is already costing your children's, grandchildren's, and great-grandchildren's hard-earned incomes.

10/8/2025, 11:09:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

An important thought about Trump spending 1/3 of this time in office golfing is that he's also in probably1/3 of the Epstein files.

8/8/2025, 2:19:13 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture J. L. Westover (@mrlovenstein.bsky.social) reposted

the hard stuff

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8/8/2025, 1:33:01 PM | 2258 492 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, like they have some sort of plan? LOL

8/8/2025, 6:06:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

He's in Venezuela. I'll take my $50 mil now, please

8/8/2025, 6:05:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

uh... i mean... Let's just be glad of our friendship.

8/8/2025, 6:04:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm totally surprised it left off the Dakoters

8/8/2025, 1:46:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Right? he can be in like the giraffe section of the zoo, where many others can be in the snake room.

7/8/2025, 10:07:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Good thing for Mopac, where everybody's driving 3 mph due to gridlock.

7/8/2025, 8:22:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

Ivana Trump too, iirc., accused him of rape.

7/8/2025, 2:31:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

You see the FBI there? One of their purposes is to defend the rights of citizens. They're complicit in abuse of those rights.

7/8/2025, 2:28:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

In case you're wondering how "the left" would handle something like this, just think about where Gary Hart or Al Franken is right now

7/8/2025, 2:26:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

In the novel Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein, Poddy's brother figures out who the killer is because they cheat at solitaire. This is much the same.

7/8/2025, 1:39:26 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social) reply parent

They look totally devastated. I wish I were that devastated

7/8/2025, 11:56:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale McDowell (@dalelmcdowell.bsky.social)

Nosferatu is all wrong. That includes yourself as a vampire. Use vosferatu instead. "Y'all" are vampires.

7/8/2025, 11:53:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view