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HuddledMass

@huddledmass.bsky.social

Old and fed up, ex-librarian.

created June 18, 2023

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Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish I could ❤️ this a thousand times. I’m so sick of these bloated machines that nobody wants - I can’t even buy the car I want in this country (a Honda Jazz)

5/9/2025, 5:20:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

By rights, these guys should vomit when they look in the mirror, whereas I don’t have to.

5/9/2025, 5:14:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Heartbreak Rd is right around the corner. No, really.

1/9/2025, 9:28:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social)

In honor of Labor Day, we drove a couple of towns over and took this picture of Labor-in-Vain Road; the Dead End sign is a nice touch.

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1/9/2025, 9:26:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat Loika (@patloika.bsky.social) reposted

Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.

1/9/2025, 3:16:09 PM | 4638 682 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re a terrible, miserable excuse for a human being. Everybody hates you, and rightly so.

30/8/2025, 9:19:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Huh — an extremely likely and sensible take. Are you new around here?

30/8/2025, 5:19:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice! Delicate, poetic allusion to the extremely gross, FTW.

30/8/2025, 12:16:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, I told my boss I wouldn’t give him another researcher’s proposal unless he requested it by email - I needed a paper trail. He mad, but he backed down.

26/8/2025, 8:54:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Uhoh. South Zkorea should not have brought attention to the fact that they have a functioning democracy, capable of resisting a wannabe dictator. Of course Trump is alarmed.

25/8/2025, 4:21:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Very true. And fair, will delete.

23/8/2025, 3:42:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

No point, just a mindless reflex from a former English major. I know words don’t really mean anything anymore.

23/8/2025, 3:25:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks, bulletproof vests claiming to be police, HPD says

23/8/2025, 1:30:25 PM | 2195 877 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

That black guy on pig patrol … shameful. The Panthers would have had something to say to him, back in the day.

21/8/2025, 11:23:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Perfect bot-speak, impressive

18/8/2025, 3:00:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

And citizens

18/8/2025, 12:39:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, and the fascism is a bit of a problem too, wouldn’t you say? Grow up.

18/8/2025, 12:38:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh great. Now I have to start collecting…

18/8/2025, 12:09:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture dollyz.bsky.social (@dollyz.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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16/8/2025, 10:24:39 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s that lead thing that weighs yr line down so the fish can see the worm.

16/8/2025, 10:21:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Risk is the single, only reason I know where Kamchatka is. Felt pretty sophisticated and knowledgeable when that 8.8 earthquake struck, i tell ya.

16/8/2025, 10:01:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social) reposted

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

15/8/2025, 8:49:57 PM | 7652 2463 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

I. Am. So. Jealous.

15/8/2025, 3:54:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh god, that would be so fun

14/8/2025, 10:45:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Mortifying

14/8/2025, 10:39:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought I could not be more profoundly embarrassed by this man…. But here we are.

14/8/2025, 10:17:42 PM | 51 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Does this “certain relationship with me running the country” involve Putin fixing the election for you? I believe it does….

14/8/2025, 5:14:21 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

My son is a PhD physicist who codes LLMs for a living, among other things. He can’t say enough bad things about AI — total contempt 24/7

14/8/2025, 3:10:52 PM | 40 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

They can’t like being the target of everybody’s outrage and contempt. I hope they just give up and leave )as opposed to lashing out, because, guns….)

14/8/2025, 2:50:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) reposted

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

13/8/2025, 2:09:38 PM | 33247 10625 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, I’m 75 and have heard this phrase throughout my life as “went over” - never “went down,” what can I say.

12/8/2025, 5:43:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

The phrase is “[something] went OVER like a lead balloon.”

12/8/2025, 5:29:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

This is true

10/8/2025, 2:26:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

I just donated $50 to a lady who chases ice agents around all day in her car www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/...

5/8/2025, 9:41:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh cool! I just had my antique grandfather clock repaired by Clockfolk, two brothers who are, like, the last people in New England who can do this work. No one to replace them, I mourned. But! a new hope rises…

2/8/2025, 10:15:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Jobs lady, I think: Erika something

2/8/2025, 1:52:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually….

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2/8/2025, 12:40:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...

2/8/2025, 12:34:22 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Winsome is not going to win. Anything.

1/8/2025, 5:33:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

All I wanted was a Honda Jazz (the new Fit) and I couldn’t get one, because they won’t sell them in the US. Now I’m stuck with some stupid, bloated “mini-SUV” I never wanted and didn’t ask for…

1/8/2025, 12:39:33 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. He writes like an eighth grader.

30/7/2025, 8:56:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

“Better they are reminded by white men…” Yeah, you can fuck right off with that shit, you numbnuts pig.

30/7/2025, 8:41:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s roll it all the way back to the Age of Chivalry— it didn’t work that well in daily life but it was a beautiful ideal.

30/7/2025, 8:37:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Dude. I was at Woodstock.

29/7/2025, 10:49:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Guiffre WOULD say that, only she’s dead, by her own hand. Can you blame her for not wanting to live in this world?

29/7/2025, 9:28:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jeff computers (@helldude.bsky.social) reposted

a big question i think that is increasingly relevant in almost every aspect of american life, from politics to the workplace to art to even just everyday social settings Are We Ever Going To Get Sick Of Being Bullshitted

28/7/2025, 11:06:36 PM | 2947 592 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

THIS^^^^^^^^ All day, every day

28/7/2025, 11:09:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Obvs you’re not watching the best TV ever — KDramas. I’m struggling to think of a series without a significant scene(s) in the ladies/men’s room: a murder, eavesdropping, the Big Reveal…. Also attacks of diarrhea (faked or genuine) as a plot point.

28/7/2025, 5:41:24 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

This lady gives me heart - tell it, sister!

26/7/2025, 2:04:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Many people are saying…

23/7/2025, 7:53:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history

22/7/2025, 1:01:08 AM | 25387 6797 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Great. I read this and now I’m seething at the way “Mark” treated “Fatima.” I’m going to be having imaginary confrontations with Mark all day, this is so bad for my blood pressure….

21/7/2025, 5:14:58 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social)

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

21/7/2025, 5:05:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

That was fun

20/7/2025, 7:55:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Gross.TESCREALs are just creepy kids with cooties… massmiss.blog/2024/02/03/t...

19/7/2025, 5:19:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

And also…

Humans can do what AI does, powered by sandwiches
19/7/2025, 5:15:27 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Does a fake number work?

18/7/2025, 2:37:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

“Populace” not “populous.”

18/7/2025, 2:06:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Those are verbs

17/7/2025, 1:53:48 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

He sounds like a crazy person.

13/7/2025, 11:30:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Le sigh….

13/7/2025, 11:08:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why I don’t read new authors. At all. They all write so OBVIOUSLY for a future script version.

13/7/2025, 6:27:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted

It will never be comprehensible or forgivable that the man who incited a deadly insurrection and attack on our Capitol was able to run again and retake the levers of power.

12/7/2025, 1:20:23 PM | 16635 4086 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

(🚨) The first-ever pop song about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is now on all major streaming platforms. Be warned: It is explicit, it goes extremely hard, and it is a banger. You can listen to it for free below. Let's make this go viral.

11/7/2025, 12:29:43 PM | 1353 783 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

As one of the bossed-around, lockdown felt paradoxically liberating.

12/7/2025, 6:41:02 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Bunch of posers

12/7/2025, 6:21:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, she’s not wrong

12/7/2025, 1:03:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Trust me, we are SO mortified.

11/7/2025, 11:05:57 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social)

So Melania didn’t wear her “I really don’t care” jacket to Texas? I wonder why.

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11/7/2025, 10:08:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats to all! And a big welcome-to-earth to Baby Boy Patel, and tell him everything will be all fixed by the time he achieves the age of reason and starts noticing stuff.

10/7/2025, 6:38:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social)

www.espn.com/mma/ufc/stor... He’s really going to do this, right?

7/7/2025, 10:39:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Not that I know of. There’s this for android fire-app.net But people need to communicate on one channel, not two.

6/7/2025, 12:26:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Then organize a response of some kind, even if only as witnesses

5/7/2025, 4:55:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Get this app apps.apple.com/us/app/icebl...

5/7/2025, 4:55:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, he’s THAT guy … Wow, the NYT really does suck at being a newspaper.

5/7/2025, 12:55:52 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. I’m just not in the mood…

4/7/2025, 12:36:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds fair. And mannerly.

3/7/2025, 3:17:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s what happened, but what Noem “thinks” about it is anybody’s guess

3/7/2025, 12:48:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social)

All the cool kids are downloading it

2/7/2025, 7:18:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Define “excessively” (said the former librarian)

2/7/2025, 6:58:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Perez (@andrewperez.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Rick Scott says we need to cut Medicaid to make sure it helps “those who truly need it.” The DOJ said Scott’s company billed Medicaid for services patients didn’t need, and for services that weren’t provided www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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30/6/2025, 5:22:05 PM | 126 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

This is correct. And only this understanding can help us now.

28/6/2025, 1:05:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

No place to install a bookshelf but that’s okay, they’d only get leaked on.

28/6/2025, 1:21:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

What a pig.

26/6/2025, 7:52:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate all these freaking apps with the burning intensity of a thousand suns. That is all.

25/6/2025, 5:44:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

No he thought he could believe/talk it into existence. He was raised in that church… www.bruce-mcgraw.com/trump-and-no...

24/6/2025, 5:10:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s a follower of “new thought” ideology www.bruce-mcgraw.com/trump-and-no...

24/6/2025, 5:08:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) reposted

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

23/6/2025, 2:41:27 PM | 20260 5069 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Cuomo is guaranteed failure — a known, worthless POS. The kid is a gamble, but at least there’s some hope.

24/6/2025, 10:57:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Well they’re all fucked-up sadists, but the fake rent-a-cops are so pitifully lame…

23/6/2025, 10:43:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

23/6/2025, 2:53:55 AM | 33483 11315 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

No, it was good. Third-tier bands from then would hit like music gods now.

22/6/2025, 9:07:44 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he kidding? He better be kidding.

22/6/2025, 4:55:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Still one of the world’s great cities …

22/6/2025, 4:46:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social)

This is heartening….

21/6/2025, 4:39:55 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Gor's attorney does not dispute the following assertions found in the same post: 1. Sergio Gor's last name is Gorokhovsky. 2. Gorokhovsky self-identified as Russian during his teenage years in Los Angeles - his email address translates to "Russian-Maltese."

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Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

We don’t know what the real name of the Director of White House Personnel is, we don’t know what country he came from, he refuses to turn in background check forms, and nobody will ask the president or press secretary about it.

20/6/2025, 3:30:11 PM | 19430 7060 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

So … on brand?

20/6/2025, 11:31:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s been done, no?

Cover art for Mother Goose fairy tales
20/6/2025, 11:14:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuddledMass (@huddledmass.bsky.social) reply parent

Well that’ll larn ya

19/6/2025, 9:42:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view