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@ratshag.bsky.social

Orc. Disney adult. Julie's minion. Princex in disguise. He/him

created July 28, 2023

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This is the way.

31/8/2025, 9:25:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty!

31/8/2025, 8:47:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think I've actually read this story since like 8th grade, but I remember it in razor sharpness. Clearly a core memory.

31/8/2025, 8:44:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think she looks lovely :)

31/8/2025, 8:42:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then it made perfect sense.

31/8/2025, 8:41:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shared an office for several years with a very intelligent, talented woman who'd emigrated from Serbia. Every now and then she'd say something that caused a record scratch in my brain, and I've have to picture what she'd said would look like written down, and then pronounce it in English in my head.

31/8/2025, 8:41:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every time I see one of those ads, I pour one out for Mr. Whipple

31/8/2025, 8:12:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🦚 116

31/8/2025, 5:26:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Crush 204

31/8/2025, 3:16:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cool never closes

31/8/2025, 1:09:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is why I'm doing my best to push back against my bosses pushing me to go with AI. Yes, it can replicate what other motherfuckers have done. Like the moon seen from earth. But you pay me to go where no motherfucker has gone before.

31/8/2025, 12:19:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not a scientist, just a lowly mechanical engineer with a mere MS degree, but Imma flockin'.

31/8/2025, 12:07:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ann Wilson singing "Stairway to Heaven" as Robert Plant holds back tears while Yo Yo Ma, Jack Black, Bonnie Raitt and Michelle Obama all go "HOLY FUCK YEAH!!!" is as good as it gets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxO...

31/8/2025, 12:04:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My gods man, put him on a tall structure, then, for all that is holy.

30/8/2025, 11:56:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 11:51:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Very Hungry Talented Cosplayer

30/8/2025, 11:42:09 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's a good stretch.

30/8/2025, 11:40:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Loki, Pug of Mischief, says he’s down cannot bring the ball back to me if the grass is wet. Little shit.

30/8/2025, 11:30:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Having gone to a school where, when one of the opposing players was injured and someone yelled "I hope he's fucking dead!" and we all cheered, I feel I shouldn't point fingers. Even if the injured dude was from USC.

30/8/2025, 11:21:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In my world, we spell yum "s-t-a-r-b-u-s-t j-e-l-l-y-b-e-a-n-s" ymmv

30/8/2025, 11:15:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a heat transfer engineer who grew up in south Texas, yeah, you're fuhgged.

30/8/2025, 11:13:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is really good, I love it.

30/8/2025, 11:11:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We talked about global warming in my undergraduate heat transfer class back in the 1980s. It was unequivocal, this is going to happen, we just don't yet know when, it needs to be stopped. And the world, especially the US, ain't done shit.

30/8/2025, 11:10:50 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've said this before, but it still stands. When you're selfies pop up in my feed, it makes me happy. And that is a damn cool shirt.

30/8/2025, 9:48:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup. Because I am an old fuck, I can remember going through this in less than 3 years with those assholes Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.

30/8/2025, 9:44:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, with all respect,

From the movie
30/8/2025, 9:41:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As an American, that sounds like a cigarette. But I'm guessing it isn't. Either way, rock on.

30/8/2025, 9:14:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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100%.

30/8/2025, 9:06:03 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good thing is, in this situation, I'm in a position to make sure the dog never feels unloved. So I think he'll be fine. But I'm really upset with the human.

30/8/2025, 9:05:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weekend at Sam Altman's

30/8/2025, 8:55:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Plus, this way I get to wear a tiara when no one is looking.

30/8/2025, 8:54:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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:(

30/8/2025, 8:41:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup. It really is. I'm so much happier seeing myself as a "princex in disguise" (a term I stole from @annleckie.com 's books) than as a cis man because, well, goddam.

30/8/2025, 8:39:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! (@zanwrites.bsky.social) reposted

I love this book for itself, but I also think it’s a great read for any writers world-building (especially with fictional species). Riley does such a wonderful job of narratively illustrating the interconnection between the almost fantastical animals and environments of eons past #BookSky #WriteSky

30/8/2025, 7:40:12 PM | 14 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Could not agree more. Riley is a wonderful writer.

30/8/2025, 8:35:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Totally. It only happens when I move to a new state and I'm terrified by the process of finding a new doctor. Once I suck it up and pick a doc and get things refilled, I'm on the ball.

30/8/2025, 8:34:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You should see what my blood pressure does when I go off my meds

30/8/2025, 8:29:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I totally get your dumb joke <3

30/8/2025, 8:27:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You do what you gotta do.

30/8/2025, 8:18:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I know this other human won't leave you hanging, so off you go" is shitty. You are a shitty human being. If you do something like that, nothing will change my mind.

30/8/2025, 8:17:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm really upset to be making this post, but I gotta. When you take a dog to be your pet, then you are making a lifetime commitment to them. Sometimes reality goes real, and then you do what you have to. But to simply say "This other dog is younger and cuter, so they're my dog now."

30/8/2025, 8:17:43 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*throws Lucky Charms marshmallows at your upturned, baby bird-like mouth*

30/8/2025, 6:55:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Loki, Pug of Mischief, says he’s down to cuddle

Loki, a brindle pug, looking at the camera with him big dark eyes
30/8/2025, 5:26:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope he enjoys it!

30/8/2025, 4:39:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will happily donate some of my hair's built in curliness.

30/8/2025, 4:38:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Facts.

30/8/2025, 4:34:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in September.

30/8/2025, 4:34:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nailed it.

30/8/2025, 3:53:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 3:25:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even his voice wants to strangle him.

29/8/2025, 10:52:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My sister and I are continuing our Friday night watching of “Only Murders in the Building”. Therefore, our texts continue to make us sound like a pair of serial killers

A picture of Alan Cumming dressed in full Scottish regalia saying “Murder.” Me: We on tonight? Sister: We on tonight. Gif of a woman saying “Hello? I’d like to report a murder”
29/8/2025, 7:46:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hell to the yeah

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

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29/8/2025, 6:57:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lori (@loribedell.bsky.social) reposted

Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?

28/8/2025, 12:10:58 PM | 9583 2066 | View on Bluesky | view

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My mom's birthday is Sept 19, which is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. That would be a cool day to see Mara Lago get looted and burned by seafaring scallywags.

29/8/2025, 5:15:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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100% agreement.

28/8/2025, 11:53:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd argue 1000% is low, given that there is zero honor in being an ICE agent. But "NaN" doesn't mean anything to most people.

28/8/2025, 8:58:57 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 8:52:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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After she got her DNP, I started calling my wife "Dr Baby"

28/8/2025, 8:51:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martha Wells (@marthawells.com) reposted

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

28/8/2025, 2:55:28 PM | 762 557 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cool. I was lucky to see Fantasia in the theater when they re-released in '77. The dinosaur sequence made a big impression on young me. And the Firebird Suite is really awesome.

28/8/2025, 3:07:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*quietly chooses not to suggest my brilliant strategy of tying helium balloons to the weights in order to lift more of them*

28/8/2025, 11:44:51 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My all-time favorite comic was early Excalibur, which was about a five-person polycule (and their girlfriend) who hung out in a lighthouse. And occasionally punched Nazis.

Betsy and Rachel are dancing at the First Hellfire Gala. Betsy leans in and says
27/8/2025, 11:09:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wish the marketing people who are responsible for finding me work were.

27/8/2025, 11:00:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Eric VanNewkirk (@sotsogm.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I mean, I still think this is funny because it's true:

Humorous fake article from Australian equivalent of The Onion, The Betootan Advocate: a picture of a presumably poly family next to a picture of polygonal dice with the headline: Polyamory Just The Easiest Way To Find A Reliable Dungeons And Dragons Group Credited to Effie Bateman and the Lifestyle section.
27/8/2025, 6:12:35 PM | 64 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 (@birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social) reposted

It's Wednesday, my dudes

An African rain frog. Imagine a depressed avocado.
27/8/2025, 11:00:06 AM | 138 23 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe you’ve got vampires?

27/8/2025, 12:31:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wicked cool. Carcharodontosaurus has always been my favorite name for a dinosaur.

26/8/2025, 10:23:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whaa!

26/8/2025, 9:23:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like to pull out this pic of my wife’s bones when I’m in the mood to hear people go “Whaaa!”

An X-ray of a person’s shoulder, with enough screws and plates holding the collarbone together to build Noah’s Arc
26/8/2025, 9:19:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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53 centimeters, or two inches plus a hair.

26/8/2025, 7:54:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My dog gets a premium brand recommended by the vet specifically formulated for his breed. It's got some chicken and fish oils, but mostly it's rice, corn, oats and wheat. Because dogs are omnivores, not carnivores.

26/8/2025, 7:51:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your boss knows where her towel is.

26/8/2025, 6:49:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MurderBotBot (@murderbotbot.bsky.social) reposted

The Preservation Alliance has a weird thing about food and medical care and other things humans need to survive being free and available anywhere.

26/8/2025, 5:55:01 PM | 110 23 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a lot of fun reading it.

26/8/2025, 5:34:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gambit Wolverine Rogue Nightcrawler Jubilee

26/8/2025, 4:51:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3 Today, tomorrow, forever.

26/8/2025, 2:25:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

26/8/2025, 1:28:41 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture William Shakespeare (@shakespeare.lol) reposted

Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.

26/8/2025, 12:33:13 AM | 220 31 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 10:00:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Goddam yeah that was scary.

25/8/2025, 12:46:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suspect that now though, 35 years later, it's just blended into basic "American". Like a stew left on the stovetop too long.

25/8/2025, 12:45:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I was in college, a linguistics professor tried to figure out what part of the country I was from based on accent / figures of speech, and his conclusion was "Da fuq?" My migrant childhood cocktail of Texas / New England / California / Midwest / Appalachia was a little too much.

25/8/2025, 12:45:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The trailer for Jaws.

25/8/2025, 12:33:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MurderBotBot (@murderbotbot.bsky.social) reposted

I needed help, I didn’t want anyone to touch me. These were two mutually exclusive states.

24/8/2025, 11:55:17 PM | 102 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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And that is how it's done! done! done!

24/8/2025, 10:12:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunter.net) reposted

Hang on a minute...

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24/8/2025, 10:05:37 PM | 156 21 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 10:08:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just pre-ordered the fuck outta "Platform Decay", the next book in the MurderBot Diaries by @marthawells.com

24/8/2025, 10:00:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I find it easier to add 29 to my kid's age than to remember my own age.

24/8/2025, 5:47:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For comparison, Disney requires you to keep up with a 16-minute mile for their fairly casual half-marathon (13.1 mile) and full marathon (26.2 mile) races. If you can't do that, they throw your ass on the bus of shame and drive you to the finish line.

24/8/2025, 5:43:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I enjoyed reading it :)

24/8/2025, 5:38:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can remember telling people they couldn't smoke in my first apartment because "I was allergic" (which was socially acceptable) and not because "I think it's vile and gross and I don't want you to" (which was considered rude).

24/8/2025, 5:36:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 4:48:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wicked cool.

24/8/2025, 1:15:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You have excellent taste.

24/8/2025, 12:34:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*fistbump*

24/8/2025, 12:34:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My wife topped off the coolant in her car last month and I was so proud of her.

24/8/2025, 12:33:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.

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