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Dan Thomas

@itsdanthomas.bsky.social

Writer (Welcome Strangers - BBC) Producer (Golden Cobra - BBC) Director (Dechrau Canu Dechrau Cwyno, Jam - S4C) Actor (The Trick, Keeping Faith) www.beastly.media Sorry for not having a podcast.

created July 1, 2023

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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

2/9/2025, 6:31:57 AM | 27 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

What’s the matter babe? You’ve barely your ornamental Santa Clause taking a dump on the sexy lady moon.

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31/8/2025, 10:47:06 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m half way through Season 8 and I am absolutely hating it. Every episode feels cobbled together from bits of episodes from its gokden age and the Scully and Doggett dynamic isn’t up to much. I won’t tap out but only because I’ve plunked so much time into it, but I’m rarely entertained anymore.

31/8/2025, 5:28:41 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jen Grünwald (@jengrunwald.bsky.social) reposted

This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:

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31/8/2025, 3:47:34 AM | 15830 4481 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 9:47:36 PM | 65 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 7:18:18 AM | 33 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why does every picture of this git look like a Reuters photo of an SNL cast member who’s just been sacked?

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28/8/2025, 10:40:47 PM | 35 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why does every picture of this git look like a Reuters photo of an SNL cast member who’s just been sacked?

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28/8/2025, 10:40:47 PM | 35 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, you gem!

28/8/2025, 11:49:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Sad isn’t it?

28/8/2025, 6:29:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dammit

27/8/2025, 8:51:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Ok. Fine. I’ll ask. Who is Taylor Swift?

27/8/2025, 8:49:57 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Well fuck. They paywalled it.

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27/8/2025, 5:34:00 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I stand by that

26/8/2025, 11:01:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Oooh. I should get a multi region blu ray player really

26/8/2025, 10:44:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shite. (We agree on that one surely)

26/8/2025, 10:36:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Woah woah woah, name 40 times I’ve been wrong.

26/8/2025, 10:14:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Good morning from here.

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25/8/2025, 6:27:16 AM | 30 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤐

24/8/2025, 11:11:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

24/8/2025, 8:56:37 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Targeted ads, again, missing the mark.

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24/8/2025, 7:46:38 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jaunty Art (@jaunty.art) reposted

I don’t get scared while watching Alien Earth because I have Dan O’Bannon’s original concept art seared into my brain

Original Facehugger concept art by Dan O’Bannon art is basically a funny little angry guy. Just a funny little guy being angry.
23/8/2025, 9:13:22 PM | 352 96 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Here’s my tiny beautiful oldest daughter 12 years ago. The most adorable, beautiful thing I’d ever seen. Smash cut to yesterday when she said “If I ever get a boyfriend he damn well better be into grunge.” I really like being her father.

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23/8/2025, 9:42:34 AM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you’re in Edinburgh, go and see this, it’s a joy.

20/8/2025, 4:17:33 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

When U2 threatens to do a new tour.

20/8/2025, 7:58:38 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you’re in Edinburgh, go and see this, it’s a joy.

20/8/2025, 4:17:33 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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What do these cunts think a “quip” is?

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20/8/2025, 4:16:13 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love that show

17/8/2025, 10:27:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Prediction One or both of then get in a mood and hour or two in and storm out calling the talks futile.

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15/8/2025, 5:59:12 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s the one

15/8/2025, 3:32:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

It’s happening.

15/8/2025, 2:44:14 PM | 17 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Sorry… Have your other ones been giving us blood poisoning or something?

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12/8/2025, 11:26:07 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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boxd.it/aI52PB

12/8/2025, 9:56:19 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Genuinely: briefly being near a horse and then running slightly, away from camera.

12/8/2025, 9:27:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thinking of doing a coffee table book on bad stunt doubles. Here’s “Burt Reynolds” in 1987’s perfectly adequate action thriller Malone.

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12/8/2025, 9:18:53 PM | 28 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s where I was yeah at the studio. Didn’t help.

12/8/2025, 2:29:54 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Fuck sake

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12/8/2025, 2:12:54 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

After Apollo 13 and retiring from the space program Jim Lovell became a corporate executive. Imagine having him as a boss and telling him some task might be difficult to achieve. “Difficult? Really? As difficult as say, oh I don’t know…”

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10/8/2025, 12:27:38 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Same! I was so hyped for this game, and didn’t care for it at all

9/8/2025, 7:56:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Can’t park in a convenient spot because these bathtime cunts won’t move.

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8/8/2025, 12:09:33 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Same

7/8/2025, 6:02:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve finished it. He’s an incredible director.

7/8/2025, 6:02:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Finished Barry. An incredible achievement in television and I’m bereft. There’s scarcely a decent human being in it (most are straight up monsters) but I miss them all.

7/8/2025, 6:02:01 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gabby HC has another book out (@scriblit.bsky.social) reposted

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

7/8/2025, 11:31:35 AM | 11761 2903 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Aye

6/8/2025, 11:12:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

No reason this baguette place needs to go this hard

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5/8/2025, 2:41:03 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Menacing table tennis placement

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5/8/2025, 2:18:27 PM | 27 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/8/2025, 10:27:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Straight up Conjuring shit in The Range at the moment

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3/8/2025, 10:10:05 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Won’t be as good as the original

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2/8/2025, 11:05:40 PM | 35 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/8/2025, 10:36:43 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks like Marty McFly finally pushed Principal Strickland too far.

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2/8/2025, 9:58:02 AM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to be a whinging old man, but it’s my feeling that there aren’t enough council run bins anymore.

2/8/2025, 8:19:02 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve really enjoyed these books

1/8/2025, 12:46:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Handheld” is apparently now a category of cuisine

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1/8/2025, 9:03:31 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m only on ep 4 so far.

1/8/2025, 9:01:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m late to this, but Bill Hader’s Barry is/was a fantastic show

1/8/2025, 8:22:17 AM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#TBT to when I was in a shop in Nice and there was €6.6k champagne just on sale in the same fridge as the 7ups

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31/7/2025, 9:37:46 AM | 25 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know that I ever seen even a frame of a Robert Patrick episode

30/7/2025, 9:40:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

Ok never mind. I got to the episode Hollywood A.D. and Garry Shandling as himself spent a whole minute of network television time asking Fox Mulder detailed questions about his dick. This show can still surprise me.

30/7/2025, 9:15:12 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
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Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social)

I’m now at the back end of X Files’ series 7, and to be honest the entertianment value has nosedived. Feels like it’s winding down now (despite there being 50 eps left of the original run)

29/7/2025, 10:00:42 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy. Fucking. Shit.

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Profile picture Ned Hartley (@nedhartley.com) reposted

The Avatar sequels will continue until morale improves.

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I'm sure that many of you here tonight still recall with pleasure his memorable diphtheria imitation. #RIPTomLehrer

27/7/2025, 6:32:37 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In time for Christmas when all the kids will be asking for it.

27/7/2025, 3:42:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is Mindseye a fiver yet?

27/7/2025, 10:58:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep. Same policy.

26/7/2025, 6:31:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hi! It’s on Amazon Prime with an MGM+ subscription

26/7/2025, 5:05:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Smersh Pod (@smershpod.com) reposted

shows.acast.com/smershpod/ep...

24/7/2025, 5:12:34 PM | 6 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy shit, well done boys.

22/7/2025, 10:55:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Classic James Bond that is

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22/7/2025, 12:53:36 PM | 28 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Blaze of Glory.

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22/7/2025, 7:58:08 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She figured it out before an ape even appeared.

20/7/2025, 11:24:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I watched the 1968 original with my kid a year or two back and she A) loved it and B) figured out the twist in the first 10 minutes reasoning “the mountains and the sky and the water look the same as Earth”.

20/7/2025, 9:28:31 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My 10 year old just invented a product called “Poof Pants” (“When you’re drowning they poof up”)

20/7/2025, 9:26:22 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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PLANET OF THE APES????

20/7/2025, 9:15:44 AM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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And he’s right.

20/7/2025, 8:10:14 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hope it was worth it, Jimmy

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As a father, this moment in Donald Sutherland’s Lifetime Achievement Oscar speech is incredibly relatable.

17/7/2025, 4:33:12 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a father, this moment in Donald Sutherland’s Lifetime Achievement Oscar speech is incredibly relatable.

17/7/2025, 4:33:12 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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In the welsh village I grew up in there was a shop called Pugh’s which sold rifles, and a shop called Pugh Pugh’s which sold laser guns.

15/7/2025, 10:03:04 PM | 36 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marcus (@marcusjmerritt.com) reposted

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

14/7/2025, 3:02:39 PM | 6743 1866 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Thomas (@itsdanthomas.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I just had a subtle hint

14/7/2025, 7:16:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m on episode three but I’m curious, is it ever really implied that the 4 of them were swingers? Or is that just a myth?

14/7/2025, 7:08:04 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good question, I was curious to see what games AI was capable of after reading this www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/07/...

14/7/2025, 6:57:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s bloody useless. (Which is good)

14/7/2025, 6:42:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/7/2025, 6:23:16 PM | 65 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you’re ever worried that ChatGPT is coming for your job, just try playing film trivia with the dull cunt.

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Now if only there’s enough rule of law left come November 2028 for a fair election…

14/7/2025, 3:54:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any chance that his grip on conservatives is loosening?

14/7/2025, 3:47:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In your part of the world, if you got solar, would you get called woke?

14/7/2025, 3:34:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to go off brand but this is the first article in years that made me feel optimism. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

14/7/2025, 10:54:59 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m watching The Good Life for the first time since I was a kid and I’ll tell you this: You either die a Tom and Barbara or live long enough to see yourself become Margo and Jerry.

13/7/2025, 6:32:04 PM | 32 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah, fucked it.

12/7/2025, 9:43:17 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don’t know what my perfect Saturday is.

12/7/2025, 9:28:17 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I play this right, I might be on the verge of having the perfect Saturday.

12/7/2025, 9:17:07 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I keep touching the radiator to check if it’s somehow come on by accident

11/7/2025, 10:16:28 PM | 31 2 | View on Bluesky | view