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Keith Avery

@slabgorb.com

I do things with my mind such as art, writing software, and crushing my own vertebrae I live in DC for no good reason (ok it's the museums) If you like my art please feel free to print it out. It is almost all digital.

created February 6, 2024

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Profile picture They Might Be Giants (@tmbg.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 5:31:14 AM | 476 72 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seriously never thought I would get almost accustomed to armed military patrolling metro stations It’s scary how fast you get used to seeing things even when you are trying not to

31/8/2025, 6:29:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Highly processed and extruded by machines

31/8/2025, 1:23:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture New-Cleckit Dominie (@ncdominie.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Babbage *crashes through door waving a fistful of punch cards* LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS

31/8/2025, 7:00:28 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coincidentally I been ballin’

30/8/2025, 8:59:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*apollo kickball meme*

30/8/2025, 8:58:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’re still punk though, right?

30/8/2025, 8:10:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wikipedia still doing fine for example

30/8/2025, 12:49:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MisterJayEm (@misterjayem.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social broke it down

THIS MODERN WORLD comic by TOM TOMORROW 1) TRUMP'S MILITARIZATION OF D.C. IS A DISTRACTION FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES! ⤵️ 2) THE EPSTEIN FILES ARE A DISTRACTION FROM THE ARBITRARY CRUELTY OF HIS DEPORTATION PROGRAM!⤵️ 3) THE ARBITRARY CRUELTY OF HIS DEPORTATION PRO- GRAM IS A DISTRACTION FROM HIS INEXPLICABLE SUBSERVIENCE TO PUTIN!⤵️ 4) HIS INEXPLICABLE SUBSERVIENCE TO PUTIN IS A DISTRACTION FROM HIS DISASTROUS TARIFF POLICIES!⤵️ 5) HIS DISASTROUS TARIFF POLICIES ARE A DISTRACTION FROM HIS BLATANT FINAN- CIAL CORRUPTION!⤵️ 6) HIS BLATANT FINANCIAL CORRUPTION IS A DISTRACTION FROM HIS AUTOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION OF POWER!⤵️ 7) HIS AUTOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION OF POWER IS DISTRACTION FROM THE INCOMPETENCE OF HIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION⤵️ 8) THE MALEVOLENT INCOMPETENCE OF HIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION IS A DISTRACTION FROM THE FASCIST MILITARIZATION OF D.C! YES, WELL-- 🔝
29/8/2025, 9:29:08 PM | 30 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is what programming in Lisp is like

29/8/2025, 9:23:30 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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well, more worried about people being misidentified as ICE agents

29/8/2025, 6:51:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If it would have worked China would have done it already

29/8/2025, 6:44:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think it is actually going to work and people are going to be misidentified

29/8/2025, 6:44:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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see, every time you sit down and put your feet on it that counts as 'I recycled this AGAIN'

29/8/2025, 5:08:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My partner giving the dogs pumpkin lollipops (frozen canned pumpkin) and it is Pumpkin Spice Shit Season

29/8/2025, 11:05:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is not true for programmers— it is precisely as portrayed in the movie Swordfish

28/8/2025, 11:41:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor (@andrewpaul.bsky.social) reposted

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (2025) BACTERIOLOGIST: My God. Look at this. The pathogen instantaneously induces blood clotting in its hosts. PATHOLOGIST: Fascinating. And troubling. I recommend we isolate the exposed and-- RFK: HaVE yOU guYs TRiEd SoAKinG iT in URiNE TEAM: ... RFK: *snorts tapeworm*

28/8/2025, 7:19:50 PM | 26 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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I used to work with Aaron, I texted him and told him he rocks

28/8/2025, 8:36:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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calling my Hoodie a Bonnie

28/8/2025, 2:51:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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asinine

28/8/2025, 1:15:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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man, @thebandcake.bsky.social is gonna be mad

28/8/2025, 12:50:59 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meredith Shiner (@meredithshiner.com) reposted

My latest in @newrepublic.com: an urgent plea to recognize the humanity of DC residents, their longtime second-class citizenship and need —should democracy not already be lost forever—for statehood. “Washington, D.C., residents are the most powerless canary in the most authoritarian coal mine.”

28/8/2025, 11:37:26 AM | 460 142 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kids today and their mitochondria

28/8/2025, 12:00:22 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you would think a sauna would be a bad idea for the ice cubes

27/8/2025, 7:52:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This person was nice enough to link it unlike my lazy butt

27/8/2025, 7:42:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can’t we get like new fresh grifters

27/8/2025, 7:40:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I KNOW THAT GUY

27/8/2025, 7:29:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wayback machine

27/8/2025, 7:27:24 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hi DC resident here and no it isn't about crime but don't overlook the fact that the executive branch has occupied the capital city with armed troops See, that's a PROBLEM in and of itself.

27/8/2025, 7:25:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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rule of cool is above all law

27/8/2025, 5:46:35 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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luckily most of america is depressed

27/8/2025, 5:42:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Radosh (@radosh.bsky.social) reposted

Update: it got funny again

Jeanine Pirro @JudgeJeanine X.com Assault a law enforcement officer, and you'll be prosecuted. This guy thought it was funny—well, he doesn't think it's funny today, because we charged him with a felony.
27/8/2025, 1:37:25 PM | 13736 1866 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Łink. (@spacelawshitpost.me) reposted

I’m sure he just wants the trains to run on time.

27/8/2025, 2:28:06 PM | 143 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture whet moser (@whetmoser.com) reposted

used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

27/8/2025, 1:03:40 PM | 5330 1041 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ratfucking Greenland

27/8/2025, 11:50:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain (@iainnd.bsky.social) reposted

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.
27/8/2025, 1:41:59 AM | 17205 4503 | View on Bluesky | view

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honestly personal level shunning as a punishment sounds really good No pierogies for you, Dershowitz

27/8/2025, 11:27:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) (@merovingians.bsky.social) reposted

historians were far too skeptical about Suetonius's stories of the emperors is what I'm getting from this era

26/8/2025, 10:31:35 PM | 538 107 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putting the cracker back in Cracker Barrel

26/8/2025, 11:00:45 PM | 31 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Called it in February

26/8/2025, 5:49:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gary Legum (@glegum.bsky.social) reposted

Oh look, one of the catastrophes that people watching what DOGE was up to worried about and warned would happen has happened.

26/8/2025, 3:38:56 PM | 238 101 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.

26/8/2025, 1:46:37 AM | 6360 2181 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

even as the world is completely falling to pieces im still able to worry everyone’s mad at me which really shows the resilience of the neurotic human spirit

26/8/2025, 3:11:20 AM | 3494 365 | View on Bluesky | view

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It isn’t even a proper p-zombie

26/8/2025, 7:25:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yeah there are a few around all big

25/8/2025, 6:00:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like you get a solid 10% people with oppositional disorder who are just going to troll the poll

25/8/2025, 5:43:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

25/8/2025, 5:35:05 PM | 1133 22 | View on Bluesky | view

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car radio secondhand market is lit

25/8/2025, 5:26:43 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) reposted

DC is beautiful. #FreeDC

24/8/2025, 3:10:09 AM | 3006 953 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

They believe they can seize control of our city. Washington, D.C., is currently experiencing a beautiful vibe and energy tonight. Free DC ✊

24/8/2025, 10:58:56 AM | 6487 2285 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you like dive bars www.mecca-cafe.com still exists and was already awesome in 1998 so I can only imagine how it is now We used to have the saying ‘Mecca me drunk, Mecca me write bad checks’

24/8/2025, 7:37:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welcome to college, GW freshmen

24/8/2025, 7:32:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Try to get to the Fremont neighborhood for more street art- at least there was great stuff there in the 90’s *turns to dust*

24/8/2025, 7:28:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s my favorite Pokémon

24/8/2025, 7:26:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Better be like a dog or something

24/8/2025, 1:07:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I use a kickball

24/8/2025, 12:57:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wowwwww

24/8/2025, 12:57:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CJ NOW+ (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) reposted

Leading Democrats are weirdly silent about Donald Trump taking over Washington DC with the military and the National Guard. They should be filling the airwaves with outraged statements, but they just… aren’t.

23/8/2025, 5:06:03 PM | 174 45 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are who they are taking about

23/8/2025, 6:00:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The fuck is your problem

23/8/2025, 5:59:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stocks + spoiled produce stands charging $1 to throw a tomato and $3 for a head of lettuce to support local farmers

23/8/2025, 11:09:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s got that mezzotint-like range that is common to your work as well

23/8/2025, 10:49:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I used to think Jarre was so amazing when I was like 11

23/8/2025, 10:43:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smart rock is sad to have to do the things smart rock is made to do

23/8/2025, 7:32:51 AM | 53 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) reposted

There are still good, kind, decent people in the world You just need to know where to look www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...

23/8/2025, 3:24:15 AM | 5308 1361 | View on Bluesky | view

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@tiagocharters.nexp.pt thought this was your work on first glance

23/8/2025, 10:20:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I seriously never thought i would be ashamed of my profession (software developer)

23/8/2025, 7:37:30 AM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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All I wanted to do was make the computer go beep boop

23/8/2025, 7:33:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smart rock is sad to have to do the things smart rock is made to do

23/8/2025, 7:32:51 AM | 53 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love when authors keep me guessing on gender looking at you @annleckie.com

22/8/2025, 8:29:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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(like I did, she's awesome and I am certainly hitting above my weight class)

22/8/2025, 8:28:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what's the point of performative masculinity after you already hit the jackpot

22/8/2025, 8:27:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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best wishes

22/8/2025, 7:39:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture J. L. Westover (@mrlovenstein.bsky.social) reposted

the big picture

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22/8/2025, 1:32:52 PM | 1877 355 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rax ‘levon honkers’ king (@raxkingisdead.bsky.social) reposted

i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not

22/8/2025, 3:05:00 PM | 7014 1712 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture amy brown (@amybrown.xyz) reposted

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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This was Flea’s third phd of course

22/8/2025, 12:29:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BLM plaza ripped out earlier this year in dc

22/8/2025, 12:27:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason D. Salvagni (@salvagni.org) reposted

Whose streets?? OUR STREETS!! ✊🏻

22/8/2025, 1:23:04 AM | 27 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love it when you do multiple colors. Mad props for the registration care

22/8/2025, 11:39:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Ugly Machine (@theuglymachine.bsky.social) reposted

a cycle depicting i buy cool art -> I need to frame it ->I cant afford to frame it -> I make more money ->
21/8/2025, 6:19:23 PM | 123 16 | View on Bluesky | view

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First time EOTR probably

21/8/2025, 9:51:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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too many felonies

21/8/2025, 9:07:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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love love love

21/8/2025, 8:57:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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screenshot showing a regex simulator Text: (fuck|shit) fucking shit shitfuck you are a shitty fuck
21/8/2025, 8:31:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are gerunds allowed? i.e. fucking shit

21/8/2025, 8:24:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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and it kind of self powers a bit, it seems like? So it isn't dragging on you neat idea

21/8/2025, 8:20:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's because Reagan put them there!

21/8/2025, 8:11:24 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even the first reason is a terrible one!

21/8/2025, 7:41:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Grace (@gracekind.net) reposted reply parent

Hey don’t dox his location www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

21/8/2025, 7:33:27 PM | 20 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gonna tell my qa engineers to use this name when testing

21/8/2025, 7:36:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Hon (@danhon.com) reposted

Regular reminder that Skynet Sentience day is next Friday, on August 29th.

21/8/2025, 7:08:09 PM | 81 28 | View on Bluesky | view

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the sci-fi in general has been top-quality

21/8/2025, 6:27:13 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The sci fi is tremendous, Murderbot is a standout

21/8/2025, 6:26:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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my weakness is sausage egg mcmuffins

21/8/2025, 5:43:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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eating at the McDonalds was the riskiest part for me

21/8/2025, 5:39:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like we can do a Trading Places type short squeeze here

21/8/2025, 5:38:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jerry 'Amelia Guo' Mallory

screenshot of bad bot
21/8/2025, 4:29:28 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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sheesh bot makers, at least try to get the handle and the username aligned more

21/8/2025, 4:28:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am constantly amazed that women post, like, ever, because of that

21/8/2025, 1:32:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view