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Squirmin Melville

@rhetorusrex.bsky.social

southern degenerate

created July 3, 2023

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surely he can just web a little splooge container on the end of it there

4/9/2025, 3:29:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a human being, I am inclined to believe that her reaction is sincere, and the bar is low, but I appreciate seeing it. Depends on which way she runs with the ball, I reckon.

4/9/2025, 3:27:36 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm on a corner lot with a concrete rear wall. It's going to be pretty active around here.

4/9/2025, 3:23:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social)

either this gets the names read in public or gets three legitimately psychotic republican house reps assassinated I don't like feeling as torn as I am about which is most likely and which I'd prefer, but I didn't ask to be here.

4/9/2025, 3:17:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A wall of libraries and coffee shops.

4/9/2025, 3:13:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Definitely

4/9/2025, 2:27:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm a huge heavy music guy but haven't listened to much old fashioned metal in a while, and this stuff is good. Amazing drumming. Duplantier is one of the few guys rn routinely releasing drum solos.

4/9/2025, 2:20:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I still don't let them cite it -they must find the primary, but turns out letting a specific type of nerd lord over a very specific sliver of information, like Smaug over a pile of treasure but on a global scale, is actually a pretty good way of insuring its accuracy. Who would have guessed....

4/9/2025, 1:59:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wild to me that in 20 years Wikipedia has gone from being the butt of Stephen Colbert pranks to me, a college English and media literacy instructor, saying "this is actually one of the best portals to good information on a topic that you can find."

4/9/2025, 1:33:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My eye doctor went to Harvard and still pulls this shit.

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4/9/2025, 1:04:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll give Rand credit for never being a fan of the cops.

4/9/2025, 12:44:47 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smokin on a g of that Zero G

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4/9/2025, 12:43:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had the fortune today of accidentally giving a limp grip handshake but being able to make it up later with good firm grip handshake. Reputation saved.

4/9/2025, 12:01:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jonas looks like a different guy from the tdf.

3/9/2025, 10:03:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think it's a bad idea, but I would imagine that a city big enough to have an indoor mall probably already has a community college?

3/9/2025, 5:34:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

I find myself defaulting to videos with actual hosts as a method of sorting.

3/9/2025, 5:06:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture It's ME(Jaime) (@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social) reposted

Holy hell, more like this:

3/9/2025, 1:21:04 AM | 1212 441 | View on Bluesky | view

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perfectly fine with giving all these people free land in Oklahoma

3/9/2025, 2:22:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"never agreed to welcome" - buddy wait'll you learn about taxes

3/9/2025, 1:35:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

the Persian Army: "ok"

3/9/2025, 1:27:39 PM | 42 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 3:03:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 2:33:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Needs to get into the Chris Christie playbook. But for good reasons.

2/9/2025, 9:00:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social)

Slept in a Cannibal Corpse shirt, woke up cumming blood.

2/9/2025, 7:08:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

I grew up around there. Always felt like one big suburb.

2/9/2025, 7:03:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

Huntsville has the highest concentration of phds in the Southeast. I saw my first concert there at Werner Von Braun arena. It leans conservative but it's definitely not a place full of backwards hillbillies. You have to go at least 10-15 miles out of town for that.

2/9/2025, 6:06:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social)

Getting a new eyeglass prescription the same week you start daily allergy meds is a surefire way to make yourself feel genuinely and unpleasantly disoriented.

2/9/2025, 5:52:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

Being concerned over declining birth rate seems kind of dumb in the first place like people are going to have sex and have babies. They've never not done that.

2/9/2025, 4:36:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

I think this is Tommy Tuberville's big project, trying to get it moved to Huntsville, Alabama.

2/9/2025, 2:06:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

That raisin headed motherfucker wants to judge MY appearance?

2/9/2025, 1:55:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted

A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF WHEEL bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a wheel, turning round and round, an endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms--it all keeps turning, and it all keeps coming back around 5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF BOOKS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a book, God is The Author of Being and he writes our names in the Book of Life. In the beginning was THE WORD, bro. You see bro?? 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPLEX GEARS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is mechanical, God is The Divine Watchmaker, and the planets spin along predetermined paths according to the turning of cosmic gears! It's all just predictable mechanical paths from creation to here! 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPUTERS bro, i think i just figured something out-
29/5/2024, 10:55:30 PM | 2410 735 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social)

singing from the old hymnals

2/9/2025, 12:38:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

Will these guys charge you with everything they can? Yes. Will the charges be legit? Idk, but recent history shows them overcharging. Will you get a sympathetic judge and jury? Maybe. Will your shit be severely disrupted in either case? Absolutely.

1/9/2025, 10:38:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist (@nameshiv.bsky.social) reposted

universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam

1/9/2025, 12:25:09 AM | 5107 723 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social)

Goth Dog

A black hotdog in a black bun
1/9/2025, 10:14:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Y'all look at this.

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1/9/2025, 9:11:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

When Mobile boasts about being the Family Friendly Mardi Gras, this is basically what they're admitting to. They're all Baptist now. It's Lent year round.

1/9/2025, 9:02:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like a cortado for that

1/9/2025, 6:59:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think McCain could have seen the consequences of selecting Palin and legitimizing the "I dunno nuthin bout nuthin but I have common sense" brand of Republicanism, but I'll always blame him for it.

1/9/2025, 6:15:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ok thank you for that Planned Parenthood.

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1/9/2025, 4:22:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're welcome. Highly recommend listening to her first two back to back.

1/9/2025, 12:24:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 12:18:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn (@502eire.lol) reposted

15 years ago today I took an incredibly on-the-nose photo

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31/8/2025, 9:31:35 PM | 1591 220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

Foucault had a point about punishment being relocated behind closed doors. Should this guy go to jail? No. But a couple of hours of being spit on in the stocks might turn him around.

31/8/2025, 8:34:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 8:04:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 8:02:03 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture redheadguy84.bsky.social (@redheadguy84.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

As US Grant said about Robert E Lee, "Stop thinking about what he's going to do to you, and start thinking about what you're going to do to him."

31/8/2025, 2:53:47 PM | 90 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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still slaps

31/8/2025, 5:04:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cosmos Lionheart (@cosmoslionheart.bsky.social) reposted

i think you'll find most problems can be solved by time traveling back a few hundred years and killing some white men

31/8/2025, 4:41:10 PM | 36 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry girls, he's into underage boys

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31/8/2025, 4:43:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

I know bongos not a lawyer but show a grace for the joke.

31/8/2025, 4:42:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 4:41:25 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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...I repeat to myself as I pass into a fitful sleep.

31/8/2025, 4:12:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah crime doesn't happen when people stay home and neither does business.

31/8/2025, 4:09:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I turned 50 this summer. I've been an avid cyclist since my 20s, but more than a couple days off my routine and the mental and physical stiffness begins setting in. It's insidious. Having a loud, fun peer group helps w motivation.

31/8/2025, 2:48:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Blocked

30/8/2025, 11:53:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The right doesn't go for Ignatius Reilly types.

30/8/2025, 10:40:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh yeah, I just tend to think of him as an Auburn problem.

30/8/2025, 9:36:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Auburn is to coaching what Oprah is to mainstream medicine.

30/8/2025, 9:10:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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friggin Gus, man

30/8/2025, 8:39:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Inflammation

30/8/2025, 5:36:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture krat (@kwholesaler.bsky.social) reposted

God if you are REALLY real he'll die on top of loomer and suffocate her

30/8/2025, 5:03:47 PM | 240 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump has an angry edge that his base taps into, one born of endless narcissism. Vance, for all his psychopathy, is still that nerdy fat poor kid trying to mask a deep lack of self esteem. It's all over his face and he'll never shake being the weird couch fucker guy because at heart, he's prey.

30/8/2025, 4:42:09 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Extra points if they're archived in a sciascia inducing stack of business cards in an aging leather wallet.

30/8/2025, 4:04:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social)

As middle aged fella, this feels like my first real generational culture clash, something I see as a diminishing of quality and standards tailored specifically for people younger than me. Portnoy and McAfee remind me of the worst kind of guys I went to college with.

30/8/2025, 3:54:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

That's good context. I'll withhold my "the domestication of Metallica is complete" bit out of respect.

30/8/2025, 3:14:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's sad

30/8/2025, 2:52:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to trivialize, but Mr. T gave this exact reasoning for his moniker choice.

30/8/2025, 1:38:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gene Simmons opposite Tom Selleck in Runaway

30/8/2025, 3:17:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cannibal Corpse in Ace Ventura get an honorable mention for non acting performance

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Get Down on It is a jam

30/8/2025, 3:02:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 2:11:22 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This high school marching band is playing Metallica's Enter Sandman.

30/8/2025, 1:29:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know I kind of respect this but this is also like a millionaire going I'm not shopping at Walmart anymore. Okay fine. Go do something else with all your money.

29/8/2025, 11:24:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

As a formerly poor, precocious, rural kid with insufficient parents, I feel he's done a disservice to the brand. I saw a lot of good people destroyed by terrible dysfunction exacerbated by the lack of sufficient safety nets. Chalking it up to disposition is cruel. My own success is a fluke.

29/8/2025, 11:17:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

Technically I cut off my aunt because she still uses the n-word, not bc she's maga, but that feels like splitting hairs.

29/8/2025, 11:00:32 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oh so they died semi automatically instead much better

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29/8/2025, 2:22:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Number one indicator that this country is failing is that this woman isn't covered in spit every time she steps outside.

29/8/2025, 12:24:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

In Gadsden, packed hotels and roads clogged w LA tags all the way up the interstate from Bham. Went down for the first Mardi Gras in Houma after and from about Laurel, MS on, blue tarp after blue tarp ad infinitum. Wrote a column for the Gadsden Times about it.

29/8/2025, 12:20:48 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's a comma there. She beat her in Toronto, too.

28/8/2025, 5:34:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I teach rhetoric. We're in week 2, talking about deductive and inductive argument interplay, so I went ahead and broke out the Declaration of Independence. Might do that once a week until retirement.

28/8/2025, 5:31:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can't imagine caring any less about any of that.

28/8/2025, 5:15:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice. She's thrown in everything from Deftones and Slipknot to Billy Joel and Janet Jackson. She came home from the thrift store with a Cannibal Corpse shirt. She keeps me guessing.

28/8/2025, 4:40:54 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My 17yo and I share a playlist, and I'm genuinely impressed with her selections most of the time - new and old. It's a fab bonding tool.

28/8/2025, 4:33:24 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cum (@hellyeahdude.bsky.social) reposted

She did the meme! She literally did the actual meme.

28/8/2025, 11:32:11 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Pepper Keenan stuff is good. The eyehategod and crowbar guys seem cool enough. Phil is gonna be Phil tho

28/8/2025, 12:02:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Get ready for a lot of eye roll worthy Phil Anselmo.

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👀

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Bomb squad chopping the most hectic funk jams

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you pick the one right tool

28/8/2025, 2:09:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ain't that something

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

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Hot rod guys used to joke, maybe they still do, that stickers on the windshield were an inventory for thieves. Same is true for guns. Vanity is like that.

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Profile picture Squirmin Melville (@rhetorusrex.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah my dad hunted and still hunts and he has one gun for each of the three types of game he hunts. And a bow and arrow because he likes making hunting more challenging. Has no interest in going out and spraying a deer with a semi auto.

28/8/2025, 1:44:17 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Huge part of it is just they're stupid and lack imagination and don't have real hobbies. It's an outgrowth of hunting culture, but mutated into something stupider and less constructive.

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Fuck you I live here.

28/8/2025, 1:13:08 AM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Got to admit the fainting goat impersonations were integral to spreading awareness.

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Almost farted in class today. For clarity, I am the teacher.

27/8/2025, 9:35:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you may...i do love some rice

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