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@featheredthing.bsky.social

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So the brain worm is back at it, huh?

31/8/2025, 5:17:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Usually it means an aversion to hearing “GZOTTT” and hospital trips

23/8/2025, 4:30:58 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So, time to Pump Up The Volume!

28/7/2025, 1:22:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok, maybe they aren’t so awful after all. (And only because Brady is gone)

25/7/2025, 1:54:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just rewatched the 1st season, after not seeing g it for 3ish yrs. 1st episode, after he gets his hair & beard cut? Holy shit!

22/7/2025, 2:24:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is the shame and the absolute injustice of our time that bigotry and intolerance will prevent this man from ever being president

20/7/2025, 5:01:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Bit of an underbite, there

16/7/2025, 11:25:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Do the European leaders know this or is it just more sht that trump is making up?

14/7/2025, 4:03:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And only after 3 shots of Jamison and a pint of Guinness

10/7/2025, 4:39:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mine has opted to hold it until Labor Day

6/7/2025, 1:54:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And we have entered the FO part of the lesson

6/7/2025, 1:53:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Yup. My premium goes up 35% next year—to $1380/mnth. My employer doesn’t supply health coverage, so all on me. That’s nearly 40% of my net income. What do I do now??

3/7/2025, 3:18:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

What a travesty. And now rump will pardon him and those women and girls will never know justice.

2/7/2025, 7:39:35 PM | 42 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not saying much when it comes from a man who plans on going to Mars…

1/7/2025, 9:08:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why on earth would anyone think trump 1. Didn’t know or 2. Cares?

30/6/2025, 1:49:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And is anyone surprised by this?

30/6/2025, 1:48:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn’t mean it won’t be on the test. Sorry your kid failed that class, parents

27/6/2025, 6:27:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Then you don’t know either his cult nor the people who will never vote for a woman of color

22/6/2025, 3:42:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m running out of ideas (and money) for new costumes

22/6/2025, 3:40:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing; probably the only way I’d know of it since it’s too tropical for my zone

22/6/2025, 12:10:40 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

At least we won’t get bored protesting the same thing every week…

22/6/2025, 11:31:38 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Safe travels

22/6/2025, 11:25:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

No

22/6/2025, 1:04:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Not yet. But if we continue, and vote, and don’t stop, they will get better.

16/6/2025, 7:33:40 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Kind of the point. Isn’t it?

10/6/2025, 10:22:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Yup, and I’m still waiting for my doge refund check. $5kkk, right?

10/6/2025, 4:41:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus Christ. That woman has 0 taste in men.

8/6/2025, 8:15:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Can it be my turn now?

1/6/2025, 2:48:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like my dog in the mornings. Granted my usual wake up time is 3:30am,but getting him out of bed for his walk involves treats, a leash,determined pulling, and a lot of cursing

1/6/2025, 2:46:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Oof

31/5/2025, 2:00:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

28/5/2025, 10:41:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s making room!

20/5/2025, 11:13:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Means is not even a good pseudo pagan. The witches don’t want her…unless we can bring back human sacrifice 🤔

20/5/2025, 4:52:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And we’ll be there. Resist, protest, organize. Shut down the trump crime regime.

14/5/2025, 11:06:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s almost as if he picks the most unqualified people possible

12/5/2025, 4:11:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, you’re not wrong. Happy belated birthday! Isn’t it nice to be right now and then?

11/5/2025, 7:35:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

It is now your patriotic duty to to make a Scalzi Burrito of EPIC proportions.

9/5/2025, 9:14:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

If only

9/5/2025, 9:13:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And a cult following who thinks he’s god.

9/5/2025, 4:39:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Ordered!

9/5/2025, 3:36:00 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And that is the whole point of it. Let the old, injured, sick, and infirm die off to strengthen the herd. Survival of the fittest. Are you understanding now?

6/5/2025, 7:02:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So, tariff talks are the new Infrastructure Wee?

5/5/2025, 11:56:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Well that’s one way to look at it.

4/5/2025, 5:02:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Cuts funds to NEA and NEH to throw himself a 92 million dollar birthday party. How can Congress and WE THE PEOPLE allow this???

3/5/2025, 11:31:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congratulations! May she give you many years of Husky sass, backtalk, and joy

3/5/2025, 11:28:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, let him go to conclave. Worst that can happen is he gets locked up for a few days (or weeks!) with no communication to the outside world, and the rest of us get a break

3/5/2025, 11:20:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyone else see these jobs reports as suspect? Where are the numbers for all the government job cuts? Supposedly they’re in the 10s of 1000s but somehow they keep not affecting the unemployment numbers 🤔

3/5/2025, 12:50:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s absolutely disgraceful. She was so clearly breaking in, was warned off, and got exactly what she deserved

2/5/2025, 7:13:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Wasn’t he the one who literally got caught with his pants down with “friends” aboard his yacht?

1/5/2025, 6:32:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, I guess now we know who Pete’s scapegoat is

1/5/2025, 3:52:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Whaddya know. They may actually do 1 thing that’s decent

29/4/2025, 12:43:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Good luck from the US!

29/4/2025, 12:42:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Their 1st book will probably be the “Maga Carta”

28/4/2025, 8:30:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you need to be stupid to buy a cybertruck? I mean, I know people who do, are, but is it an actual requirement? Do you need to fail a test first?

25/4/2025, 6:20:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s beautiful. Congrats on your new family member! Huskies are amazing dogs—sweet, funny, playful, dramatic. Completely evil, mind you, but the best nightmare you’ll ever love.

24/4/2025, 8:07:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And trump will love every minute of it, as proof that he is the great and powerful oz.

22/4/2025, 6:42:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

This… no. This can’t be real. These cannot be real people in our government, actually elected by citizens. I’m in a coma somewhere, dreaming this. I would like to wake up now, please

22/4/2025, 2:41:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Who carries 3k in cash, plus their secure government id in their purse???

22/4/2025, 12:31:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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God he’s pathetic

20/4/2025, 8:34:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s obviously using musk as his standard for his assessment

18/4/2025, 5:01:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And in other news, water is wet

18/4/2025, 4:52:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

I think he’s using Elon musk as his yardstick

18/4/2025, 4:50:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s all about making healthy choices! Enjoy. (Licorice and cola are a favorite of mine too)

17/4/2025, 12:30:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

In a similar scenario, if I add hemlock to a bunch of Big Macs and leave it near the Oval Office, that wouldn’t be “harm” either.

16/4/2025, 8:33:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Or an ardent admirer. trump is and always has been a sycophant to those who possess power and influence, things he craves

15/4/2025, 11:20:46 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Bad headline. Focus instead should be on what Harvard kept: it’s integrity and independence from political manipulation

15/4/2025, 9:05:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

And the caving begins. This will be categorized as “winning” in 3,2,1…

12/4/2025, 2:38:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/4/2025, 1:07:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, looks pretty much the same out my window in WNY. Ah, Spring

12/4/2025, 1:00:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yes. There were whimpers (and a few tears). The new owners were fairly puzzled for a bit at the angry sniffs from their neighbors. Too be fair, they had small children and worried about having a poisonous bush in the backyard

12/4/2025, 9:31:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks beautiful! I miss my neighbor’s rhubarb bushes, lost when she moved & new owners ripped them out. I’d can them for weeks; summers filled with pies and jams for the neighborhood

12/4/2025, 9:16:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve voted for Gillibrand for years. But she lost my support after following Schumer in the shutdown vote. Now this. She’s done.

10/4/2025, 11:45:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If he was any more a genius I’d be completely broke

10/4/2025, 11:17:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So we lost by 3 democrats.

10/4/2025, 4:42:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Things fall apart, the center cannot hold

10/4/2025, 11:56:09 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Ye-haw! At close I’m only down 50k from a week ago! (This morning I was down 70k!) SO MUCH WINNING!!!!

9/4/2025, 9:03:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How is he only down 5 points?? Who the hell are they polling???

9/4/2025, 8:14:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes; bad as this it it could be much worse. A portion of my investments were an inheritance from my mother, who was in skilled nursing ( private pay). If this was last year, I would’ve needed to come up with 16k per month for her care. She passed before using all her investments for her own care.

9/4/2025, 4:30:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So very sorry to hear that

9/4/2025, 4:25:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So this didn’t age well

9/4/2025, 1:14:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Mine down nearly $80k as of yesterday. Closing on 20% from December. I don’t have enough yrs until retirement to make up that kind of loss in this market.

9/4/2025, 1:12:46 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, what? Protesters are being paid??? Damn, my friends and I showed up for free!!!

6/4/2025, 9:45:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks! That is the only book of his I haven’t yet read. I miss the Aubrey/Maturin books immensely

6/4/2025, 6:45:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not sure, but a couple thousand at least. A good turnout for the day, and surprisingly o counter-protests except for 1 idiot in a trump flag festooned truck who circled the area a couple times honking.

5/4/2025, 7:34:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hands off Buffalo NY!

5/4/2025, 6:11:59 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So, did they count the couple hundred thousand layoffs in the past month? I’m thinking they plum forgot

4/4/2025, 2:51:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Sigh…

3/4/2025, 7:51:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So, I’ve planned to take a distribution from my 401k to pay for a long-anticipated (&very expensive) luxury cruise for my 60th this year. This week I was going to put down my deposit. Huge hit to my portfolio this week.That’s now cancelled. Thanks trump

2/4/2025, 9:50:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn…

2/4/2025, 9:45:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s an open carry state, isn’t it? Good target practice

2/4/2025, 9:45:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what happens when a bunch of paranoid cultists believe other paranoid cultists. Hush now. Let Darwin do his work.

1/4/2025, 10:43:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course. However, if he feels that 14 yr olds should work overnight shifts, then his kids should be forced to work 1st to show how it’s done.

31/3/2025, 4:39:46 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

So. Illegal AND rigged

31/3/2025, 4:02:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How old are desantis’ kids again? They’re old enough, right?

31/3/2025, 4:01:25 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Worked with a trainer for a while. Most useful advise she ever gave me: “The best exercises for you are the ones that let you do them again the next day”.

30/3/2025, 9:18:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

Until American cars are as well-built as imports, I’m gonna keep buying Toyota. Even with the tariffs it’s cheaper than the repairs.

30/3/2025, 6:12:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture featheredthing.bsky.social (@featheredthing.bsky.social) reply parent

WTF is wrong with that man???

29/3/2025, 9:43:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had to learn a whole new vocabulary when I moved to New England. “Package shop” and “grinder” were 2 of the most confusing things. All I wanted was a sub and liquor store…

29/3/2025, 3:22:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love your cookbooks! They introduced me be vegetarian cooking when I was a newbie bookstore manager with a love of cooking. 30 yrs later I’m now a chef, still have your delightful books on my reference shelf, and would hate to see the originals disrespected in any way. Thanks for your passion

28/3/2025, 10:35:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let them take the money and vote for Crawford!

28/3/2025, 9:47:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view