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norcalbob

@norcalbob.bsky.social

X/Twitter refugee, Democrat, Anti-Fascist. Here for dog pics and moral support. Will try to keep it PG-13.

created December 28, 2023

415 followers 616 following 1,784 posts

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

"Empty haircut" is the perfect encapsulation of Newsom, and I say that as a 2-time Newsom voter.

2/9/2025, 5:25:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Trump can't give himself the Medal, can he? Who am I kidding, he's the President of the United states, and I have it on good authority he can do anything he wants!

2/9/2025, 12:42:57 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Poor guy has been struggling to stay relevant since 2012.

1/9/2025, 9:47:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

C'mon, Crackers, take the W and shut up.

1/9/2025, 2:42:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Remind me, what cabinet post or ambassadorship did Tim Scott get for debasing himself for Trump during the campaign? What, none? Ouch.

31/8/2025, 4:51:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Didn't even have a sandwich.

31/8/2025, 4:46:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Too much.

31/8/2025, 4:43:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

He needs that low impact exercise, I guess. I wonder if he signs the menus when he goes to a restaurant at this point.

31/8/2025, 4:42:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

They should have a network like that. Music videos on the TV. No idea what they might call it.

31/8/2025, 4:40:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

He's just... well, whatever the Stephen Miller equivalent of "glad" might be that he isn't the Most Hated MAGAt this week.

30/8/2025, 5:51:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

They'll have to use a different vector of delivery. At last count, there's like 37 cabinet members and rando MAGA grifters up his butt already.

30/8/2025, 4:10:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

That obstacle course must have been somethin' else!

30/8/2025, 3:58:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

¿Por que no los todos?

30/8/2025, 6:28:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I've since retired, but was proud that the college I worked at installed robust infrastructure to keep the air changing and moving, not just some half-ass roll-around air purifiers. Hope they've kept it up

29/8/2025, 7:06:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

"No one has ever rebelled against their parents' blinkered, out of step conservative beliefs!" -Charlie Kirk, probably.

29/8/2025, 7:01:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I believe the technical term is "shaking her money-maker," or in some circles, "what her mama gave her."

29/8/2025, 6:47:43 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Fortunately, the traitor bitch is still dead, whatever color lipstick they put on her pig corpse.

28/8/2025, 6:44:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Let's hope that holds. Much as I admire Barrack Obama, he got it based on vibes.

26/8/2025, 8:35:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

He'd have to, as far up as he is, otherwise he couldn't breathe.

26/8/2025, 8:32:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dailycast Newstalk Radio (@dailycast.news) reposted

What a disgusting scene. A bunch of old white minions sitting around the table complimenting the bloated tangerine buffoon. The winner was billionaire Witkoff who went so far up the orange anus by constantly complimenting and begging for the Nobel Award to be presented to Donny. #gross

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26/8/2025, 7:24:52 PM | 132 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Naotoshi Maeda (@naotoshimaeda.bsky.social) reposted

Trump's obsessive delusion of winning a Nobel Peace Prize qualifies him for a mental exam. He's worsened multiple international conflicts, fueled domestic chaos, and advanced fascism. Witkoff lavishing flattery on his Daddy Dearest is laughable. Gross.

26/8/2025, 7:20:18 PM | 457 96 | View on Bluesky | view

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

He's licking ~3' higher than the boots.

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

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

🤮🤮🤮

26/8/2025, 6:26:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Let's set up a GoFundMe to get these ass-kissers a crate of ChapStick.

26/8/2025, 6:23:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

That wasn't you? My mistake.

26/8/2025, 6:19:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Get out of my mind!

26/8/2025, 6:17:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Literally no one calls him that.

26/8/2025, 6:16:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

The Founders would have beat these cringing yes-men to death with the nearest blunt object, which would probably be another cringing yes-man.

26/8/2025, 6:15:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Well, he's half way there, and with his levels of french fry consumption, the "tator" part can't be far behind.

26/8/2025, 6:13:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

It's not really boycotting when you weren't shopping there anyway

26/8/2025, 7:37:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

So long as its nothing tivial.

26/8/2025, 7:33:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Not so damn slow, really. 7 months!

26/8/2025, 7:30:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Wait, when did Glenn Greenwald stop being "Dollar General Glenn Greenwald?"

26/8/2025, 7:28:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Your keyboard to god's ear.

26/8/2025, 7:25:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted

The Supreme Corpse

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25/8/2025, 11:24:42 PM | 4547 1781 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder

26/8/2025, 1:42:13 AM | 11994 2401 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd.bsky.social) reposted

SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.

26/8/2025, 12:49:59 AM | 10972 2158 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture norcalbob (@norcalbob.bsky.social)

73 is a lot of people, and maybe he can come up with 73. 250-some million, at least, would beg to disagree!

26/8/2025, 6:57:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Trump's trying to install a fascist regime inside the skeleton of our constitution, which is more like Orban in present-day Hungary, right down to the oligarchy and self-dealing graft.

25/8/2025, 6:58:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

You'd probably find most people couldn't describe what Nazism was, except possibly "bad," with small minorities who either do understand it, or who think Nazis were Socialists ("It's right in the name, man!).

25/8/2025, 6:58:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

That just adds a pejorative term, which doesn't make the picture any clearer to the majority who wouldn't know a fascist (or "Nazi") policy if it bit them on the ass.

25/8/2025, 6:58:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Ecstatic Truth.

25/8/2025, 3:11:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

He had his moment with the Olympics, but then he went Full MAGA, and found out he's not the kind of felon those people are into.

25/8/2025, 1:11:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Me, except with 12 pounds of baking soda.

24/8/2025, 7:24:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

^this^ Post was not meant as an endorsement of Newsom, who has always been too slimy for my taste, even when I've voted for him.

24/8/2025, 7:21:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Big "me boycotting Tesla" energy from these gentlemen.

24/8/2025, 5:56:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

What's your plan, apart from posting on your socials?

24/8/2025, 5:54:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) reposted

Today is #Ukrainian Independence Day.We celebrate this day in full. This is our holiday that we fight for every day I think that this is also the holiday of everyone who stands with Ukraine, supports&helps Ukraine all these yrs. Thankful to all friends of UkraineMay we have the long-awaited peace!

24/8/2025, 5:08:29 PM | 643 134 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Sure, there are often negotiations at the end of a war, but those don't usually start in earnest until the situation compels one side to get the best settlement it can.

24/8/2025, 5:29:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

MAGA is creating its own concentration camps?

24/8/2025, 1:56:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

The field is wide open, especially if we open the competition to all the little bitches AMAB.

24/8/2025, 1:54:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Whomever leads the fight against Trumpism 3 years out from the next general election has to be willing to give up the leadership mantel if that's what's best for small-d democracy in the run-up.

24/8/2025, 1:52:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Pritzker is a billionaire, so he comes to the plate with 3 strikes against him. Maybe he's a unicorn; I don't know much about his backstory, but billionaires are not reliable allies- they're not affected by reality like the rest of us, so don't have skin in the game when their interests diverge.

24/8/2025, 1:52:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

yada yada privilege yada yada equity yada yada oppression. Still true, tho.

24/8/2025, 1:41:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted

It's the weekend

Robot flipping a switch on his body from
23/8/2025, 5:03:52 PM | 2074 243 | View on Bluesky | view

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

If Biden showed up with this, I'd be concerned for his health and wish him a speedy recovery, rather than hoping it's less trivial than it appears.

23/8/2025, 1:37:01 AM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Wait, the Trump/Bondi DOJ has had an "ethics chief" up until this point?

22/8/2025, 8:15:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Crows look at this dipshit and shake their heads over how desperate he is for shiny objects.

22/8/2025, 8:11:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

John Bolton is an awful human being, and the likelihood that he's involved in criminal activity of some sort is probably pretty high. Trump and his squad likely engage in more serious offenses before breakfast daily, so this is all pretty rich.

22/8/2025, 6:34:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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22/8/2025, 6:26:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

The way Trump's tongue-lashing his dick on the daily, I also believe Putin will be coming.

22/8/2025, 6:22:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

What a dipshit. Also, I appreciate that Bluesky doesn't spell-check "dipshit."

22/8/2025, 6:13:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Great idea. Hopefully CA will get onboard. Speaking of, how's the plan for retaliatory redistricting coming along? Time's a'wastin'

22/8/2025, 3:52:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

They're just using their Privilege to create a system of Political Violence to move the Overton Window. This is fun!

22/8/2025, 3:48:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I, for one, welcome our Sapphic Kitty Overlords.

22/8/2025, 1:34:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I've only been once, for breakfast, when there was a CB across from our motel. I survived until lunch, but if a "down home" diner can't pull off coffee and biscuits and gravy, I can't recommend it to the motoring public.

22/8/2025, 1:31:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Right there with you, Mehdi. Right there with you.

22/8/2025, 1:23:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Why is the overall systemic murder, torture and dislocation of Palestinian civilians not labelled a genocide? You don't need "authorities" to "make that call." Use your eyes and report accordingly.

22/8/2025, 1:20:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Like he takes phonecalls from randos.

22/8/2025, 1:14:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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21/8/2025, 6:48:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Is there a GoFundMe for stale sandwiches?

21/8/2025, 6:45:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

What a fucking dipshit.

21/8/2025, 6:35:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

"Less self-awareness than a dog licking its ass in the middle of a public sidewalk." -Stonekettle

21/8/2025, 6:32:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stonekettle (@stonekettle.bsky.social) reposted

Every single museum in America needs to print out "Actually, slavery WAS that bad" and post it on their front door today.

20/8/2025, 1:20:25 PM | 8820 2316 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) reposted

🎨🤔👇🏾

21/8/2025, 3:38:50 PM | 48 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Only because the dog wouldn't come get it.

20/8/2025, 11:43:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

You further tarnish the already besmirched reputation of Benedict Arnold by comparing him to those 2. At least he was instrumental in winning the Battle of Saratoga (for the Americans), unlike these MAGA grifters. Sure, there was some unpleasantness later...

20/8/2025, 11:18:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted

Gavin Newsom holding a mirror up DJT

20/8/2025, 7:09:24 PM | 6675 2295 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I guess they figure that since 1977, the illiterate masses have learned to associate the jumble of lines and curves with the cracker and his barrel. Stopped there for breakfast once as it was across from the motel. Their coffee was mid, and they screwed up biscuits and gravy. Now THAT's a problem.

20/8/2025, 11:08:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

"Firing at random" seems perfect for these fascist thugs.

20/8/2025, 8:06:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Most of the vagrants in DC are MAGA carpetbaggers.

20/8/2025, 8:04:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture norcalbob (@norcalbob.bsky.social)

Room temp burgers for the troops! Make Ptomaine Great Again

20/8/2025, 8:02:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

👇👇

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20/8/2025, 6:38:30 PM | 1793 469 | View on Bluesky | view

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

What, no Kennedy super powers for the shrimp? The radioactive one, that is.

20/8/2025, 3:54:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

We all know what it is. ⚰️🍊

20/8/2025, 3:20:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Pretty sure if you had a rifle over one shoulder, and a "Trump Must Go!" sign on the other, they would make an exception in your case.

20/8/2025, 3:16:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I guess they thought they had to keep the "MS" for continuity, since they couldn't use the NBC trademarks, but those letters haven't meant anything since 2012.

20/8/2025, 1:58:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

"The Far Left" now starts with whomever is the the least MAGA congressperson in the GOP.

20/8/2025, 1:55:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

They couldn't issue her Gravy Seal an electric trike or a rascal? Pretty rough when a member of Texas' Finest can't keep up with an elderly woman who's stopping to chat with her constituents.

20/8/2025, 1:52:13 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

*Non-Snark Content* Thank you for letting us know. There is more awful shit going on in more places at the same time than at any time I can remember.

20/8/2025, 1:48:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I can't get past not only taking "election advice" from Putin, but publicly admitting, if not bragging, that he took election advice from the guy who's never been in an election he didn't rig, and who TRIED TO RIG THE ELECTION THAT BROUGHT TRUMP TO OFFICE (and of course every election since).

20/8/2025, 1:44:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Different world.

20/8/2025, 1:39:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Better late than never. Your hair should have been on fire in 2015.

20/8/2025, 1:37:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I hate Sinema just as much as Manchin. I'm pretty woke when it comes to despising narcissistic, self-dealing assholes.

19/8/2025, 7:02:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

If Big Balls can't cruise the early morning DC streets for hookers and blow, are any of us really safe?

19/8/2025, 6:58:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I don't know, but it reminds me of a song. youtu.be/ywglDI4IaCo?...

19/8/2025, 6:55:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I never knew Newsom was 6' 7" tall. Huh.

19/8/2025, 5:59:52 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

We are not! Just assumed that's something within the Felon's limited capacity to oversee on his own. MF gilds everything.

19/8/2025, 5:53:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Book Avasarala>Prime Avasarala>SyFy Avasarala. It's the F-bombs. The boys knew what they were doing.

19/8/2025, 1:29:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I was going to say something about the antecedents of "his," but any way you read it makes sense.

19/8/2025, 1:25:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view