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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com

Male anguish about hair loss has never been more evident. Social media, dating apps, “Zoom dysphoria” and a sometimes-predatory marketplace are stoking the anxiety.

aug 5, 2025, 1:35 am • 74 7

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HelloSky @hellosky.bsky.social

The idea was to make life easier and less judgmental for women, not to push anxieties on men. I want to get back on the path of DEI and woke. Two steps forward and one step back. We will get there!

aug 5, 2025, 3:01 am • 2 0 • view
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Akiro318 @akiro318.bsky.social

Oh give me a fucking break. I could not care any less about a man's anguish over his hair.

aug 5, 2025, 2:00 am • 4 0 • view
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BeedleMama👊🏻🇺🇸🔥🙄 @beedlemama.bsky.social

Here for the comments

aug 5, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social

It's time to boycott the oligarchs. Money is the only thing they understand. Full boycott guide pinned to my feed.

aug 5, 2025, 1:35 am • 4 1 • view
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R. Mel @cadystat.bsky.social

So this is why Bezos voted for a pedophile?

aug 5, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social

I think it depends a lot on the age and other demographic factors in your dating pool. Bald Black men are their own category of handsome! And by the time anyone is looking for a man over a certain age, baldness is pretty common and not a dealbreaker.

aug 5, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
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martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social

oh for fucks sake

aug 5, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Nobody’s Business @bluedotredwithrage.bsky.social

Of all the bullshit the average person in the US has to worry about currently, *this* is “news?” FFS.

aug 5, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
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tommykbs.bsky.social @tommykbs.bsky.social

Whatever happened to the quietly ignored combover? It's in evidence at the White House, and like Trump's horrible actions, his hair is mocked but MAGA still loves him. Let's go, men! Grow it long, comb it over, spray the hell out of it, and you, too, could be the President of the United States.

aug 5, 2025, 11:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Markus Nielbock (마커스) 💉🚀💚🌻 @astro-markus.bsky.social

Insecure much? Wear a hat!

aug 5, 2025, 5:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Sue'skids @sophlunamom.bsky.social

Give me a fuckin break. Whining men. It's women who should be concerned about losing hair and going bald.

aug 5, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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JimfromNY @dissentinator.bsky.social

Freedom from the judgment of others is a fucking superpower!

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aug 5, 2025, 12:44 pm • 3 0 • view
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social

How else do we tell men that there’s a whole group of people who like them bald? Your very existence proves this.

aug 5, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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vincentbishop444.bsky.social @vincentbishop444.bsky.social

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aug 5, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
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Nyx Fluffpaw @nyxfluffpaw.bsky.social

I mean, the "bald and bearded" look can be quite sexy

aug 5, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view
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wassamattayou.bsky.social @wassamattayou.bsky.social

What are you going to do? – a rhetorical question.

aug 5, 2025, 6:47 am • 0 0 • view
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scorpioun.bsky.social @scorpioun.bsky.social

I learned to embrace the bald by shaving my head. It makes you look more badass.

aug 5, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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SPinnerlight @spclarke13.bsky.social

Epstein/Maxwell/Trump. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

aug 5, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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John Bluesky 𓅄 @jhaedin.bsky.social

I always read public as pubic the first time, not sure why. Still not interested in the Washington Post.

aug 5, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Brian Doherty @bwd1970.bsky.social

We have to be the softest people on the planet

aug 5, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bill Virginia Beach @billvabeach.bsky.social

What the fuck have you become Washington Post?

aug 5, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Summer 🏳️‍⚧️ @artgirlsummer.bsky.social

It's not about what's on your head, it's what's in your heart. Also penis size matters somewhat, depending on preference.

aug 5, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Driver9 @driver9.bsky.social

What a total crock. Only pathetic weakling beta males are "anguished" about losing their hair. Real men, when confronted with male pattern baldness, start buzz cutting their remaining hair or, better yet, just start shaving their entire head.

aug 5, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
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amomundo.bsky.social @amomundo.bsky.social

It’s okay, guys. Baldies are hotties. Sometimes hair goes away, and people still look great. 👍

aug 5, 2025, 4:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Jim Silver @jimlsilver.bsky.social

Fuck you Bezos for buying a first class newspaper to publish shit like this. Buy a fucking toupee instead, baldy.

aug 5, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
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stillunited.bsky.social @stillunited.bsky.social

Just be happy with yourself no matter who you are or what you look like. It's what's inside that matters.

aug 5, 2025, 4:27 am • 1 0 • view
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curiousbets.bsky.social @curiousbets.bsky.social

Tell them to stop hating on women for being fat and we will stop hating on their hair loss.

aug 5, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view
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kevinadian.bsky.social @kevinadian.bsky.social

Bald headed guys have more skin in the game

aug 5, 2025, 1:53 am • 9 0 • view
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Brian Spiva @brianspiva.bsky.social

aug 5, 2025, 2:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Anvil Tree Games 🌿 @frost914.itch.io

I am bald and I don't give a shit about anything

aug 5, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Luanja @luanja00.bsky.social

Ever been on a flight from Istanbul?? Filled with men having had hair procedures!

aug 5, 2025, 5:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Wulfhelm @onerizla.bsky.social

American men are spoiled, irrational crybabies, by and large. #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein #Epstein

aug 5, 2025, 8:54 am • 1 0 • view
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Janet Zimmet @alreadydidthis.bsky.social

Male anguish has never been more evident over every little fuckin thing!

aug 5, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bread @bread314.bsky.social

Ron Popeil sold over 3 million cans of spray on hair in the 1980s. Romans put a mixture of ashes from donkey testicles and urine on their head. We've used trepanning as a treatment. There are centuries of guys wearing powdered wigs to hide it. Those and many other examples were more evident.

aug 5, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
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SoCal @itis1968.bsky.social

Give me a break !

aug 5, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com

Same with women. Many women are on hormones or minoxidil for hairloss. A lot of women are wearing toppers, extensions, wigs as well.

aug 5, 2025, 2:16 am • 41 1 • view
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phil🐢 @philstill.bsky.social

Yes but these men are lonely you see. And our very special little boys deserve happiness no matter the cost

aug 5, 2025, 2:23 am • 5 0 • view
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Not Jesus @dontbothermeatall.bsky.social

These men are lonely because of their political and misogynistic views, not because of hair loss or being massively overweight.

aug 5, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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phil🐢 @philstill.bsky.social

Yes I know. I was being facetious.

aug 5, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bone Daddy @legoonerier.bsky.social

Minoxidil was maybe still is mad cheap at Sam’s Club. I bought like a six month supply there to get ahead of the loss. I know it’s coming. 42 with a full head of hair and a bunch of bald uncles and father. Like the time it near. Although I’ve outpaced most of them.

aug 6, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Not the cops @notthecops.bsky.social

😔

A comic showing Kirby applying some kind of hair growth ointment to their head and dreaming of it growing them what looks to me like Sailor Moon’s haircut, and then looking sad when they wake up the next morning still bald
aug 5, 2025, 2:22 am • 6 0 • view
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Not the cops @notthecops.bsky.social

(no, like jokes aside, my Aunt had that and she was really sensitive about it- it doesn't get talked about very much I don't think)

aug 5, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social

perhaps yes- think of the guys though. #men

aug 5, 2025, 2:18 am • 13 0 • view
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Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social

They can wear wigs too. Nothing wrong about it.

aug 5, 2025, 5:22 am • 5 0 • view
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schrodingersgyatt.bsky.social @schrodingersgyatt.bsky.social

Will they wear wigs?

aug 5, 2025, 11:22 am • 7 0 • view
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theoryknot.bsky.social @theoryknot.bsky.social

Maybe!

aug 5, 2025, 12:21 pm • 5 0 • view
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schrodingersgyatt.bsky.social @schrodingersgyatt.bsky.social

When will they wear wigs?

aug 5, 2025, 12:22 pm • 9 0 • view
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social

aug 5, 2025, 3:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social

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Do you like pizza? @doyoulikepizza.bsky.social

Fuck off

aug 5, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
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legendaryRev @legendaryrev.bsky.social

Bro just run a #2 over your head yourself, shower daily, and have a decent personality. That’s literally all it takes. I’ve been doing this for like 20 years at this point. Just learn how to speak to a human and engage with their interests and you’ll figure it out. Also wash your butt every day.

aug 5, 2025, 2:33 am • 10 0 • view
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Samantha Danieley @samson0223.bsky.social

Thank you for mentioning washing your ass daily, because that is a whole different can of worms. Trust me, more women are worried about if you'll leave skid marks on the sheets vs the hair on your head.

aug 6, 2025, 3:03 am • 3 0 • view
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Bone Daddy @legoonerier.bsky.social

That’s like insanely sad. Peeps wash yo ass.

aug 6, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social

Get a grip.

aug 5, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
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TeenagePhlebotomy @teenagephlebotomy.bsky.social

Uh-oh, your owner isn't going to like this.

aug 5, 2025, 1:57 am • 9 0 • view
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The Karate Adult @thekarateadult.bsky.social

Here’s what you do when you’re in line at the store buying your pornography and whiskey and folks is lookin’ at you and such: Just say, “Hey, are you lookin’ at my bald head goddammit?!” They almost always say they aren’t! It’s a good confidence builder.

aug 5, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
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PraiseTheSun🌅 @praisethe-sun.bsky.social

This article was written by big toupee.

aug 5, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dr. Fröhlich (prefers not to) @edgarallandoh.bsky.social

Just fucking do something interesting and try to be a good person. Even this guy managed one of the two.

Cheers hair Frasier.
aug 5, 2025, 2:39 am • 10 0 • view
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Tiny Tic Tac @tiny-tic-tac.bsky.social

If money is no object, you can have several made and simply switch between them for different occasions. oc-hairsystems.com/en/ hairsystems-heydecke.de

aug 5, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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thezooly.bsky.social @thezooly.bsky.social

I've been bald most of my adult life and I've never had anxiety about it.

aug 5, 2025, 6:52 am • 0 0 • view
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Derek Robinson @twofatfeet.bsky.social

To be honest the only thing wrong with male baldness is the lengths men go to to pretend it’s not happening. Many choose to be bald, possibly because of how their hairline has changed. Thirty or forty years ago baldness would be a real notable feature but it’s just not a thing anymore.

aug 5, 2025, 6:18 am • 3 0 • view
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A Simpsons shitposter @radical-humanism.bsky.social

wtf I’ve never cared. I shave my head and embrace it though I forget and get sunburns.

aug 5, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
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y tho @coaldoubt.bsky.social

Isn't capitalism great?

aug 5, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
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paulahikes.bsky.social @paulahikes.bsky.social

Snail oil Men are fine without hair!

aug 5, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
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rmnhd22.bsky.social @rmnhd22.bsky.social

Get over it guys! If the woman doesn’t want you it’s more about personality than hair. I get my head buzzed every summer. If it wasn’t so scared I would shave it.

aug 5, 2025, 10:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Yes, this is Real Life @yesthisisreallife.bsky.social

Male anguish? Zoom Dysphoria? STFU! Pick a solution and go with it!

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Mr. Crowley 🤘🤘💚🇺🇦 @hooch62.bsky.social

I don’t give a fuck and just shave what little is left

aug 5, 2025, 3:15 am • 0 0 • view
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Gary McGath @gmcgath.bsky.social

Katherine Ellison does "research" by studying posts on social media and reaching a conclusion about the general state of anguish about hair loss. That's not journalism, it's pulling an invented story out of a hat.

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Red Lori Bright Eyes Pissed Off American @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social

and every moment and cent you spend worried about your appearance is time and money you are not using to fight fascism so men need to get on board with constantly being afraid of not being attractive enough now so they won't notice fascism

aug 5, 2025, 1:39 am • 2 0 • view
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Karl Reimer Godt @carlquarksoen01.bsky.social

{1:20} Then Job arose, rent his mantle, and *shaved his head*, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, {1:21} said, Naked came out of mother’s womb, naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. {2:7} So went Satan forth ...

aug 5, 2025, 5:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Gordon Hardy 🌈 @ghardy.bsky.social

And yet snake tattoos are cool.

aug 5, 2025, 1:37 am • 18 0 • view
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percent200pl.bsky.social @percent200pl.bsky.social

Maybe tattooing isn’t as sanitary and safe as claimed, and the resulting toxins in the bloodstream kill healthy follicles, among other health issues.

aug 5, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
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your father, i mean your dad @kitn.bsky.social

Toxins lol

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Not Jesus @dontbothermeatall.bsky.social

Tattoo inks don't get into the bloodstream. Otherwise, you would see the tattoo disappear over time.

aug 5, 2025, 2:22 pm • 6 0 • view
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byoup @byuopp.bsky.social

Eat shit fuck brain

aug 5, 2025, 4:09 am • 2 0 • view
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com

Why didn’t you use a pic of your owner

aug 5, 2025, 2:17 am • 52 1 • view
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Kryten 5000 @sharpstick65.bsky.social

I remember the before time when this was a respected news outlet.

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Brian DeViteri @bsbeamer.bsky.social

Can we stop making bald dudes feel even worse about their hair loss?

aug 5, 2025, 1:36 am • 10 0 • view
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Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social

Counterpoint: I’ll take one for the team if it makes a certain bald guy who owns the Post upset enough

aug 5, 2025, 2:31 am • 7 0 • view
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Bernadette Foley @fivefingers.bsky.social

The Washington Post has lost so many journalists in the last six months that they have nothing relevant to report about.

aug 5, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Ω 👑 🥷🏻 🔨 @rabbitpellets.bsky.social

WTF, can't we all just rock tattooed cornrows & be done with it? Okay, okay, it's a Dahlia. You get the point.

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Not Jesus @dontbothermeatall.bsky.social

LOL, this "anguish" about hair loss was probably generated by the same AI that is offering "fixed" images on LinkedIn for your profile, ie, AI is creating a problem that only AI can solve for.

aug 5, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mike Beach🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸 @mbeach969.bsky.social

I don’t know one balding person who is freaking out about it. Again more fake news from WaPo..

aug 5, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Mr Gibson @jgibson84.bsky.social

Why? Hair loss in men is linked to excess testosterone. There's nothing more manly (appeals to American men because they are weird) than losing your hair.

aug 5, 2025, 6:30 am • 1 0 • view
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catos999.bsky.social @catos999.bsky.social

Hairloss? Try HRT.

aug 7, 2025, 10:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Kieran Hannon @kieranhannon.bsky.social

Clickbait

aug 5, 2025, 1:44 am • 2 0 • view
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River Blackearth @riverblackearth.bsky.social

Women are bleeding out in parking lots.

aug 5, 2025, 2:20 am • 1 0 • view
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Flint @mousenoises.art

Dropping this in here because wew bsky.app/profile/mous...

aug 5, 2025, 8:52 am • 0 0 • view
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President Beeblebrox @prezbeeblebrox.bsky.social

The interesting thing about hair loss is that Trump is a pedophile.

aug 5, 2025, 11:22 am • 4 0 • view
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horrid beast charles @humidbeing.bsky.social

hey, as they say: hair today, gone tomorrow

aug 5, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social

What these guys need is therapy. STOP CARING WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOUR HAIR. Lost my hair. Grieved it. Tried medication, nothing worked. My head is shaved, I look great for 61 and I just don't care. Confidence is sexy. Confidence in your body. Figure that out, stop worrying about your hair.

aug 7, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social

Oh and if you've lost your hair? Get in the habit of sunscreen on your head EVERY DAY. And hats. My dermatologist lectured me about this a few years ago. No one wants skin cancer.

aug 7, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social

There is no passion-killer more instantly effective than a toupee.

aug 7, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social

IKR? For some reason women can pull off wigs (and many have a collection of them) in a way that men cannot. I'm not sure what's going on there psychologically, but it's real.

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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social

The creepiness of hair dye or toupees or shoe lifts or fake tan is the horribly unmanly suggestion of vanity and artifice. I can’t understand how women admire Trump.

aug 7, 2025, 7:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social

I can't understand why anyone past Ivana dated/had sex with him. I've dated/had sex with people for some unusual reasons but never money. He's never been hot but he was handsome enough in his 30s-40s in a bland white guy sort of way. But now he just looks creepy and weird.

aug 7, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social

The aphrodisiac of money and power works upon women in a world where the gross old men have annexed all the good things of life. Elon Musk offered a flight attendant a horse in exchange for a sex act, and that always gives me pause!

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social

Yikes. I missed that one. That is next level creepy. But it's Musk so that tracks.

aug 7, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Penguin Islands De Minimis Shipper @justanotherdummy.bsky.social

Okay Jeff.

aug 5, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Arty-san @arty-san.bsky.social

Advertising is specifically aimed at making people feel inadequate so that they're willing to pay for "solutions". In bygone countries with no TV people didn't obsess over many of the things we obsess over now. As soon as they started getting TV, they started worrying about the same things as us.

aug 5, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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👍 @ranmull.bsky.social

God designed mens hats for a reason! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

aug 6, 2025, 5:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Hotassnuts @hottassnuts.bsky.social

Go bald and lean into the anxiety. Turn your weakness into a strength.

aug 5, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
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Jeff @jefflee65.bsky.social

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The Grumpy Old Fart @thestampcollector.bsky.social

Not me. The more hair I lose the more I head I get.

aug 5, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
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BW_Karolinian @bw-karolina.bsky.social

Epstein, Epstein Epstein

aug 5, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social

Democracy Drowns in Drivel

aug 5, 2025, 1:58 am • 5 1 • view
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Skanno @scanpipedreams.bsky.social

I thought we were past this. Is this about balding YOUNG men like Stephen Miller?

aug 5, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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mrdingleberry.bsky.social @mrdingleberry.bsky.social

Some advice. Shave that shit. When them follicles give up you, you uno reverse them bitches. Buzz buzz m’fers.

aug 5, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
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pissedoffoldytdude.bsky.social @pissedoffoldytdude.bsky.social

Men need to grow the fuck up. It’s only hair. Seriously anxiety over hair. Signed, Baldmfer

aug 5, 2025, 11:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Simon not-quite the magician ✨ @thetrueslap.bsky.social

I’ll be losing my hair anyway, just play the cards you’re dealt and have fun sometimes. Working from home, since my job allows it, reduced stress & anxiety by a magnitude of 99%. It’s great.

aug 5, 2025, 11:29 am • 1 0 • view
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time limited @nearlydeadguy.bsky.social

also a good place to practice this

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social

Balding Trump Had Scalp Reduction Surgery www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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Skanno @scanpipedreams.bsky.social

More like BRAIN reduction surgery.

aug 5, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view