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Connor

@merchantofvice.bsky.social

Born in Colorado, lives in Williamsburg founded a booze company, does some SFF writing and has a cat.

created June 26, 2023

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The coast guard is famously good at taking these ships down and arresting people. Friend in the military once said coast guard had the best snipers because they could take out the engine of a speedboat from a helicopter. Don’t like what the bombing is easier people are doing to the military

2/9/2025, 11:52:58 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does that make damon wayans jr the chaotic spiritual avatar of millennials?

2/9/2025, 3:55:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congrats!!!

2/9/2025, 12:41:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He doesn’t have the soul for it. I refuse to believe

1/9/2025, 11:59:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Better than adhd cats that won’t shut up about the rabbit hole on “niche historic fact” And are 80’s accurate 20% based on a true story

1/9/2025, 10:47:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I always liked the head cannon on Spider-Man’s strength is, “he doesn’t want to really hurt people” So against weaker street level villains, he’s one way. “Against more cosmic/global threats he can throw down”

1/9/2025, 10:41:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bluesky episode IX Somehow criaglist returned.

1/9/2025, 10:27:35 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is someone playing with chat gpt

1/9/2025, 10:09:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Michelle Obama showing the nyt those arms aren’t aesthetic, they are for shoving nerds in lockers

1/9/2025, 5:36:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yall should check out this in browser rag blog.kuzudb.com/post/kuzu-wa...

1/9/2025, 3:28:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you publishing any of this on a blog or GitHub? Really curious what you are using and how organizing

1/9/2025, 3:15:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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True.

1/9/2025, 3:02:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would like to fight Rahm Emanuel tho

1/9/2025, 1:02:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s the one that re taught the world Henry Cavill has charisma during the sad-Superman days

1/9/2025, 1:04:34 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes the word whores d’ vores

31/8/2025, 7:18:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Norwegian should

30/8/2025, 2:07:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Something deeply funny getting these pop up ads in her article.

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30/8/2025, 2:06:26 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mel brooks lying about his age and become a demolitions expert at like 16. Jack Kirby fighting nazi’s before it was cool

30/8/2025, 12:51:57 PM | 56 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s always infrastructure weeks with autocrats

30/8/2025, 8:38:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the first time I have been remotely interested in fantasy football

29/8/2025, 8:58:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In bail funds maybe

29/8/2025, 2:16:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But I heard she did it for the nookie. The nookie, the nookie. So you can take that token

29/8/2025, 2:11:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For the computer science, politics, or the chaotic bisexual horniness and soundtrack?

29/8/2025, 9:37:18 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had such a simple enjoyable, almost innocent life before, early in our dating, my wife told me his ACTUAL reputation in Taiwan.

29/8/2025, 7:18:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Skill issue james

28/8/2025, 7:57:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love my home town city

28/8/2025, 7:51:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I find out this has all been purgatory I’m gonna be pissed

28/8/2025, 2:36:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t understand!! Why Yankees hats you slow walking freaks!?!? I guess it’s like Americans who have never heard of soccer wearing ManU hats because they like the vibes

28/8/2025, 1:52:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The desire to bully the presumably thousands of European men wearing, “New York Yankees” hats in Italy is Very high

28/8/2025, 1:02:19 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Says everything that NBC fears Lorne Michaels infinity more than Trump.

27/8/2025, 6:59:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m sorry. Provide RAISES

26/8/2025, 8:52:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Audio book is great for runs and gym. Don’t think about how the physics work, it just does.

26/8/2025, 6:00:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Almost done with bedlam bride

26/8/2025, 4:58:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that place hiring, because I have thoughts!

26/8/2025, 3:49:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My favorite way to troll my Gen z friends is telling them of the olden days when “social media was fun”

26/8/2025, 3:42:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It has become my new “tom holland umbrella” If someone posts a song from kpop d, I will listen to the whole thing

26/8/2025, 7:10:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The great khan speaks!

26/8/2025, 7:08:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gets on soap box. The thing that made the US military a terrifying force to recon with is not our big bombs that go boom. Almost any country can do that by throwing money away. What made us terrifying is plotting a god damn Burger King in the middle of a contentious hostile space.

26/8/2025, 6:59:18 AM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 5:23:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Idk why she is bragging. I would also loose to Serena Williams

26/8/2025, 5:03:35 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welp, you’ll let us know if and when we have to attack and dethrone the omnissiah

25/8/2025, 9:09:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Michael Hobbes could do the funniest thing

25/8/2025, 6:30:07 PM | 74 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Famous Gen Xer who got wealthy stop talking challenge.

25/8/2025, 3:21:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is funny that centrists keep asking for a big tent. And get very annoyed and confused by the left progressive / center right bulwark alliance that wants to punch the Nazis

25/8/2025, 5:31:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I do love the comment “fork found it kitchen”

25/8/2025, 4:40:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@lasa.numina.systems what is the most effective way to learn and then teach others how to “dougie”

24/8/2025, 9:07:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also incorrect because if you read my blog post, Netflix prematurely canceling shows it never thought to promote directly ties through correlation to the rise of trunk.

24/8/2025, 9:03:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Said with love Murakami

24/8/2025, 8:30:31 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Today in my wife asking why I’m laughing and me absolutely not explaining

24/8/2025, 3:20:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The children must be forced to see their friends post improve 101 solo play.

24/8/2025, 3:19:06 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the whole, it doesn’t matter how bipartisan you are, how much you support the military they are still going to call you a “damn Commie.”

24/8/2025, 4:08:00 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s almost rude all the piss Kissinger’s grave will steal

23/8/2025, 7:29:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As Nazi as his shit is, Trump supporters have “fun” at his rallies. I’m glad to see a skilled dem politician make their events and campaign fun. It’s hard to put the extra effort into a bummer activity

23/8/2025, 4:16:05 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The best Christmas film ever made.

23/8/2025, 3:31:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Today, we ask the question Is it gay to jerk yourself off? Even having a penis you must interact with May be sus.

23/8/2025, 3:26:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When are you launching the crow candle

23/8/2025, 1:04:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can be horrified at the abuse of state resources to bully a critic. And still find it deeply funny Bolton had to sit in the cuck chair at home while someone else got to bomb Iran

23/8/2025, 6:19:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Backless dress are truely the optimal outfit for Swol-ders.

23/8/2025, 6:14:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s funny how easily progressives have become allies with the bulwark crowd of ex republicans who deeply understand how bad that party got. Over Dems that are actually just republican lite and still think maga is friend

22/8/2025, 1:37:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait! We aren’t supposed to do that?

22/8/2025, 8:33:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Corporate manslaughter should be criminally prosecuted

21/8/2025, 10:45:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be fair the admin is so bad at infosec I’m pretty sure they all know anyway

21/8/2025, 10:22:28 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Owning your own distribution channel and customers is such a great asset. Would you ever consider also launching a hard news zine? Lots of good reporters need work, and it seems like you all solved the math to make things successful in print. Also it would take business away from substack which..

21/8/2025, 4:22:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same people who hate the idea of 5 city run groceries opening.

21/8/2025, 4:19:05 PM | 287 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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What the Onion and Dropout have done is prove there is still a financial desire for good indi entertainment

21/8/2025, 3:58:43 PM | 767 108 | View on Bluesky | view

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The admin doesn’t just want to white wash the horrors of slavery It is also an attempt to erase the heroic efforts of Union soldiers and anti slavery activists Experienced horrors of slavery, and decided that it was enough to commit violence on their “brothers” to abolish it from the earth.

21/8/2025, 2:43:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean maybe if she put the cash in a bright red flaming hot Cheetos bag

21/8/2025, 3:15:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That does sounds like a prompt to explore. Maybe some Carter Burwell score from a cohen brothers movie

20/8/2025, 8:47:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Walk in nature Dope soundtrack to a movie that inspires me.

20/8/2025, 8:40:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pollock was CIA sponsored! We used to, “let’s defeat the commies with our superior art”

20/8/2025, 7:20:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s an “in the tent pissing out” politician that is going to vaporized super pac money from the most annoying people in 3 years

20/8/2025, 6:35:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Harley's Holiday is one of the best characterizations of Harley and Batman

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20/8/2025, 5:48:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly there are so many examples where “doing the right thing” by workers helps a company continue to succeed with the community over the long term. (Wouldn’t read the other articles by the group, was sent by a libertarian friend so I can’t vouch) open.substack.com/pub/thefitzw...

20/8/2025, 11:42:48 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup. Gotta respect Costco’s governing “fuck you make me” approach to financial success.

20/8/2025, 11:30:11 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The estimated value of the gold at Fort Knox is 426 billion. So saying, we don’t want a customer base worth 4 fort Knox’s because we want fraction of the worst people to post nice things on facebooks is a choice. And a reason it’s not surprising Apple and Costco are ignoring them.

20/8/2025, 11:28:19 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I sometimes have to do a little bit of math against my will for my job. Which makes me wonder if the anti dei retail people some how don’t have to do math or read statistics. Because, and I know this from a project years ago. The total spending power of Black Americans is 2 trillion dollars.

20/8/2025, 11:22:39 AM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wut. I do healthy choices and am a little offline and I miss this news !!

20/8/2025, 2:40:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Torn. I will be on the floor at karaoke channeling Natalie

19/8/2025, 7:47:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wouldn’t hate if the US government licensed more of its development IP to the tech companies that

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19/8/2025, 7:45:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty much 80 percent of the time someone named “connor/conor” is in the news it’s because they did a racism so I get it

19/8/2025, 7:16:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weirdest way to get a very lame superpower

19/8/2025, 5:39:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have seen people get yeeted out of events by bouncers just because they made someone a little uncomfortable in line. Which is great. The universal rule, If you want to party with half naked people, everyone needs to feel very very safe

19/8/2025, 2:43:58 PM | 30 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is annoyingly close to me. Honestly would love to learn more about how you are self teaching.

19/8/2025, 2:42:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One thing I have to give the rare repeated props to the extended burning man community is enforcing “enthusiastic consent” It was an effort spearheaded by a lot of women and queer folk in the community. now at most events the saying is, “Yes isn’t good enough, you need a hell yeah”

19/8/2025, 2:41:05 PM | 38 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s erasure of his true passion. Being a lobbiest for the literal worst

19/8/2025, 12:21:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like a child who is about to read a wrinkle in time

19/8/2025, 10:35:53 AM | 40 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly Enjoy. Also, his slutty book game.

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19/8/2025, 1:12:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Instead ask Chris pine to wear slutty glasses more often

19/8/2025, 12:59:23 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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mark ruffalo and good Chris Evan’s isn’t gonna be backing his hurt feelings this time

18/8/2025, 8:55:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It looks like one of those conservative YouTube channels. Which I’m sure is deliberate

18/8/2025, 3:47:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love my red light mask

18/8/2025, 2:45:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Enjoy the summer bangers not leaving your Spotify

18/8/2025, 12:52:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Worst time to run into an ex

18/8/2025, 12:32:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He chose poorly

17/8/2025, 11:56:03 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Taking advantage of California’s abundant natural resource of comedy writers

17/8/2025, 6:27:26 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My chemex is in storage until the first chilly day when my calendar turns from Cold brew/negroni season to Pour over/manhattan season

17/8/2025, 11:45:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also remembering how late 90’s early 2000’s there was the begging of a soft power cultural break out

16/8/2025, 11:30:43 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Without spoiling Is it Creepy Spooky Jump scare Or violent body horror

16/8/2025, 11:28:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My mom grew up in Norman Oklahoma with family around Texas and could never watch it because it was too close to home

16/8/2025, 8:49:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Following the bulwark as someone on the socialism spectrum has made me realize I can enjoy debates or listen to people whose politics I don’t agree on as long as they have a fundamental A) belief in people deserving rights B) not reactionary centrists clowns

16/8/2025, 8:33:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view