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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social

a kid like this can either bloom into an empathetic beautiful soul or can curdle into a bully bent on revenge

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aug 31, 2025, 10:51 pm • 657 78

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Bonez Glass @bonezglass.bsky.social

Put the lil gloomcookie back under whatever rock he was sprouting roots under

aug 31, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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ATS/NLG @atsnlg.bsky.social

He sure looked like he was bullied, a LOT, at that age.

aug 31, 2025, 11:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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Tyrion Fonzarelli @bodybypotatoes.bsky.social

sep 1, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tracy L Cooper @tracyc.bsky.social

We know which.

aug 31, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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BettinaTheGoodOne @bettinathegoodone.bsky.social

Why aren’t we hearing from anybody from his past? Best friend in grade school, girlfriend, prom date? Fear of retaliation? Didn’t have any friends?

sep 1, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nancy Dagle @nancydagle.bsky.social

Was he James Donald Bowman then or James David Hamel? Hamel was his mother's 3rd husband, then to Vance when he lived with Papaw and Mamaw. What a screwed up childhood, which explains some of his lack of social skills that most people have that he can't seem to figure out.

sep 1, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
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Covid cave dweller @mariablack.bsky.social

His odds we're always 5 to 95 on the latter

sep 1, 2025, 3:49 am • 3 0 • view
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Dave @spaceblatt.bsky.social

What was his name when this picture was taken?

sep 1, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
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Exhausted American @exhaustedamerican.bsky.social

What was his name then?

sep 1, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
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Chris Wright @righty007.bsky.social

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sep 1, 2025, 12:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Schrodinger’s Democracy @cascadia.bsky.social

Political sadist

aug 31, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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faw47.bsky.social @faw47.bsky.social

😡🤬🖕💩🤮

sep 1, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Juju Bee @notbeforenoon.bsky.social

He wasn’t JD then. Born James Donald Bowman, adopted by his stepfather, Robert Hamel, his mother renamed him James David Hamel. Then he changed his last name to Vance — the last name of his beloved Mamaw, the grandmother who raised him.

sep 1, 2025, 6:59 am • 2 0 • view
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That Baked Guy @thatbakedguy.bsky.social

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aug 31, 2025, 11:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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The Pop @familinomics.bsky.social

Or, and hear me out, he can fuck couches.

sep 1, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
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OGDanielG @ogdg.bsky.social

Seems he turned out to be the latter

aug 31, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Big Chingón @thebigchingon.bsky.social

And marry Starla.

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sep 1, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Sj.Weston🦋🇺🇸 @sjweston.bsky.social

U had me at, JD... 😁👍🇺🇸 ( it already starts at doucebag level).. But,Yet.. I'm S.J? ( and I'm okay with it 😁)

sep 1, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
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iccorruptpeople.bsky.social @iccorruptpeople.bsky.social

Or be a couch fucker

sep 1, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Just another Trish @itsmetrish.bsky.social

And, here we are.

sep 1, 2025, 12:05 am • 1 0 • view
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Existenceisfutile @nogodsamongus.bsky.social

Or cross dress and dry hump a loveseat……

sep 1, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
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ComeOnPeople (Smile On Your Brother) @comeonpeopl.bsky.social

He curdled. and also... 👇

sep 1, 2025, 4:47 am • 2 0 • view
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Liberalettie @liberalettie.bsky.social

My money is on bully.

aug 31, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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I’m Petty So Watch Your Mouth @fighttrump.bsky.social

Yep, either you become the vice president of the United States or a school shooter. At this point, it’s the same.

aug 31, 2025, 11:52 pm • 3 1 • view
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DJ Wet Money @djwetmoney.bsky.social

Those eyes were only ever going to belong to a cruel, malignant sociopath. I've seen boys with eyes like those many times over the course of my life. Never found an iota of decency behind them.

aug 31, 2025, 11:12 pm • 8 0 • view
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Ms. Lynne Jeff 🏳️‍⚧️ (Trannÿ of Tÿranny) @alissa914.bsky.social

sep 1, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Sonny @carnivorcupcake.bsky.social

I think his name was actually James David Hamel at the time of this photo.

sep 1, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
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N. A. Courtney @nacourtney.bsky.social

Pugsly Addams!

aug 31, 2025, 11:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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powersofreasoning.bsky.social @powersofreasoning.bsky.social

Why would you continue to go to a barber who clearly hates you?

sep 1, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
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KJG @00kjg.bsky.social

Total incel vibes

aug 31, 2025, 10:53 pm • 8 0 • view
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David Leigh Roth @notonebit.com

Just Davenports Vance

aug 31, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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fraziberry.bsky.social @fraziberry.bsky.social

Just Dance Vance aka Lil’ smoky.

sep 1, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dr Tarr @professorfether.bsky.social

I like how you couched that in terms that are both down to earth and divan. That's the way you ottoman.

aug 31, 2025, 10:53 pm • 12 0 • view
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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social

You love to seat.

sep 1, 2025, 12:41 am • 2 0 • view
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midterm payback @anti-fascist3.bsky.social

😂

sep 1, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Paul A. @paul.ofthenorth.ca

This is all due to a bowl cut!?!?

aug 31, 2025, 10:56 pm • 5 0 • view
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Dr Tarr @professorfether.bsky.social

Just think how much worse he could be if he had had a rat tail.

sep 1, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Adjunct Angel @adjunctangel.bsky.social

looks like that kid who always smelled like piss and would brag that he would eat anything for five dollars

sep 1, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
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WomanoftheYear @womanoftheyear.bsky.social

That wasn't his name then. Why does he keep changing it?

sep 1, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Crazy Ol' Hippie 🇺🇲❤️🇺🇦 @hippiequaker.bsky.social

Put this one in the CURDLE column.

sep 1, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
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Robert Cornwell @rtcornwell.bsky.social

I child doesn’t go through a trauma like he did and not come away broken.

aug 31, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Enter Sadman @isocket.bsky.social

the lead plaintiff in a class-action suit against the Flowbee

aug 31, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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greatfausto.bsky.social @greatfausto.bsky.social

He definitely had his underwear yanked up his ass in school 😂🤣🤣

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sep 1, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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SusanC @susancamille.bsky.social

Wonder what his real name was back then.

sep 1, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Eric Ⓥ🌱 @bipedal-issues.bsky.social

Wasn't his name something else then? Bob Waldorf, or something?

sep 1, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
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Hans Beckert ◉ @falschspieler.com

I doubt anything in “Hillbilly Elegy” was true. Just a sob story to further his career.

aug 31, 2025, 10:59 pm • 6 0 • view
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Baltussen 🇳🇱🇪🇺 @baltussen.bsky.social

I watched him during the campaign and the fact he was incapable of interacting with normal people, did not know how to order donuts, or to buy something in a grocery shop, he couldn’t address a small rural crowd, seemed to lack any shared experience. It convinced me that book must have been total bs

sep 1, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Hans Beckert ◉ @falschspieler.com

Yeah, they took some unknown who is part of the ruling class and rewrote his background to make him more appealing to working class voters. Based on how many times he’s changed names, he’s done shit like this before on a smaller scale.

sep 1, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Paul Blumenstein @paulblum.bsky.social

Especially the part about how he fought the school bully.

aug 31, 2025, 11:05 pm • 3 0 • view
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Hans Beckert ◉ @falschspieler.com

They don’t seem real, any of them. Vance, Creatine Cosmonaut, etc. they all have weird inconsistencies where their background have been constructed or enhanced by some intelligence agency bureaucrat.

aug 31, 2025, 11:15 pm • 3 0 • view
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Paul Blumenstein @paulblum.bsky.social

Or in JD’s case, by Peter Thiel.

aug 31, 2025, 11:25 pm • 5 0 • view
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Hans Beckert ◉ @falschspieler.com

They’re all military-industrial complex weirdos.

aug 31, 2025, 11:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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MeeseFeathers 🇺🇦 💙 🇺🇸 @meesefeathers.bsky.social

The part about his family being on “the welfare” was true. I guess he got his, so fuck everybody else.

sep 1, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
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mysticalrose85.bsky.social @mysticalrose85.bsky.social

Or turn into a cop

aug 31, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matt Gaetz Forehead @mattgaetz4head.bsky.social

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sep 1, 2025, 4:32 am • 9 0 • view
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Steve Fuck’n Bailey @tankboy87.bsky.social

Jd chose the third choice ; coach fucker!!!

aug 31, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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😈 Laney The Monster 🧛‍♀️ @apopularmonster.bsky.social

He looks like a young John Wayne Gacy.

aug 31, 2025, 11:50 pm • 7 0 • view
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A. J. Bruner 🦋 @ajbruner.com

John Dwayne Vance-y? 🤔

aug 31, 2025, 11:52 pm • 6 0 • view
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Khr5@bsky.com @khr5.bsky.social

He really does

sep 1, 2025, 2:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Demeralda @demeralda.bsky.social

We may have been calling the wrong guy "turd blossom"

aug 31, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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Colin Matthews @colinmatthews.bsky.social

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Keith Anderson @kmaatl.bsky.social

He gives off strong creeper vibes. 🤮

sep 1, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
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PMac10000 @pmac10000.bsky.social

Or as he was known at the time, Joe Dirt Couchfucker...

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Kevin (MogarPrime) @mogarprime17.bsky.social

aug 31, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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clynnn.bsky.social @clynnn.bsky.social

Well, his path has been chosen

sep 1, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social

Was he wearing smoky eyeliner even back then?

sep 1, 2025, 12:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Steed & Peel 23 @steedpeel23.bsky.social

I know how this ends…🙋

aug 31, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org

He grew up

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aug 31, 2025, 11:07 pm • 10 0 • view
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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social

And some just turn into evil magic horsebugs with unresolved gender issues. Except, er, I was worse. I had a MULLET. 😱😱😱 (It was protective camouflage in 1990s NE Ohio...)

aug 31, 2025, 11:22 pm • 4 0 • view
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Barb Jordan @barbjordanaz.bsky.social

We got the bully.

aug 31, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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A_M_F @funkinmybooty.bsky.social

Either way, your couch is gonna get f*cked

aug 31, 2025, 10:53 pm • 18 0 • view
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Damien @aussiedamo.bsky.social

He’s the human personification of what happens when several people use the same toilet and refuse to flush. What?

aug 31, 2025, 10:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jadi Nord @justdelishioso.bsky.social

Thiel got to him a decade ago, he's been festering in technofascist sewers ever since. Based on his 2019 interviews bashing 47, I do have a sliver of hope that maybe he's not pure evil but I'm not holding my breath.

aug 31, 2025, 11:25 pm • 3 0 • view
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kladdagh.bsky.social @kladdagh.bsky.social

It can be amazing the differences made by one's choices. Guys like him think that as long as the facade holds for enough people, it doesn't matter what's underneath.

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Rev. Lee @81rpm.bsky.social

Reminder: The "J.D." in J.D. Vance stands for Giant Douchebag

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Cream of Roper @retainingwater.bsky.social

This wasn’t it’s name at the time of the photo

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Richard Servello @eastoflavfx.com

Just wait till he’s in charge this fall.

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burndiggity.bsky.social @burndiggity.bsky.social

I’ll take “bullies bent on revenge“ for $200, Alex.

sep 1, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 0 • view
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fandommisfit.bsky.social @fandommisfit.bsky.social

Somehow I knew he'd have a haircut like that

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blacksnakemo.bsky.social @blacksnakemo.bsky.social

That dude needs to pull a few shifts with Lawrence to learn some humility.

aug 31, 2025, 11:25 pm • 3 0 • view
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THEE Mame @mame6432.bsky.social

He curdled like milk left out in 100 degree sun in the desert

aug 31, 2025, 10:55 pm • 3 0 • view
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Rich Ferguson @wearyandangry.bsky.social

A picture is worth a 1,000 words.

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aug 31, 2025, 11:22 pm • 3 0 • view
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Skip @skippyskipskip.bsky.social

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Sean Angelina @memphisbelle1114.bsky.social

He looks a lot like the kid who lived around the corner from me growing up. That kid was suspended from school for hiding a video camera in the girls' locker room. THAT is the kind of person couch-fucker is.

aug 31, 2025, 11:29 pm • 3 0 • view
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Covid cave dweller @mariablack.bsky.social

No question. I liked it better when the shittiest people in high school were the biggest losers at the reunion. Having them all pop up running the country is something I did not see happening 🤦🏻‍♀️

sep 1, 2025, 4:26 am • 3 0 • view
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Woody☘️Expat in🇲🇽Slava🇺🇦⚡️ @woodyphi.bsky.social

If it weren’t for politics, he’d be a serial killer.

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Covid cave dweller @mariablack.bsky.social

Technically he's both and at this rate it's going to get a lot worse 🤬

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🦋Serviceman @serviceman.bsky.social

And some will change their names and pound coaches

aug 31, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ron Leuty @ronleuty.bsky.social

Or wait for a sugar daddy to show up.

aug 31, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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knowledgebender.bsky.social @knowledgebender.bsky.social

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Irishwhisky24 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @irishwhisky24.bsky.social

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SpoonFellas#NAFO NC 🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛 @spoont51.bsky.social

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SpoonFellas#NAFO NC 🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛 @spoont51.bsky.social

He’s better meme

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aug 31, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Astrotuna @astrotuna.bsky.social

This is the weird kid who didn't get bullied because he was just too weird.

aug 31, 2025, 10:53 pm • 4 0 • view
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George S. @baldy515.bsky.social

He obviously has mitochondrial challenges.

aug 31, 2025, 10:58 pm • 10 1 • view
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Tommy Edwin @tommyedwin.bsky.social

Keep him away from upholstery.

aug 31, 2025, 10:53 pm • 4 0 • view
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b1newtrail.bsky.social @b1newtrail.bsky.social

Pending school shooter ??

aug 31, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Uppan Dawai @upanaway.bsky.social

My favorite pic

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smarmuel.bsky.social @smarmuel.bsky.social

I know he's got kids but you can't convince me he's ever seen a boob

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Crystalcrafts @crystalcrafts.bsky.social

Bitter bitter bully

aug 31, 2025, 10:52 pm • 2 0 • view