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Slam

@slamastack.bsky.social

Engineer, Aggie, Father, Husband in varying order throughout the day. H-Town adjacent, hater of humidity. Skeets are not financial advice.

created July 25, 2023

277 followers 196 following 3,032 posts

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Profile picture Colin Carlson (@colincarlson.bsky.social) reposted

yeah. yes. keep making him do this

2/9/2025, 7:57:38 PM | 343 62 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

Top contender for worst major healthcare company My personal favorite was discovering Aetna didn't even have a pediatric anesthesiologist in-network on the entire northern half of the Houston metroplex (roughly 3.5M people, no doctors in-network)

2/9/2025, 5:25:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian (@sirfahrenheit.bsky.social) reposted

IT COULD HAPPEN ON LIVE TELEVISION

2/9/2025, 2:19:13 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

I'm gonna catch hell for this but credit where it's due - these are shockingly good mass market sauces

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1/9/2025, 10:41:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

tbh this might be the best sign that the Twitter spirit survives - people are really out there just skeeting whatever the hell they want into the void

1/9/2025, 1:48:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

This is so damn good

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1/9/2025, 12:20:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Good evening

31/8/2025, 11:10:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

I just saw a ghost and it made me so happy 🥰

31/8/2025, 11:09:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chuck (@defnotchuck.bsky.social) reposted

it would be a real shame if these people died

31/8/2025, 10:58:24 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It could be today?!

31/8/2025, 8:18:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further

31/8/2025, 7:48:54 PM | 2811 326 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

Look those are both more aquatic than an alligator and those are allowed

31/8/2025, 8:03:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Good morning

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31/8/2025, 2:09:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jen Grünwald (@jengrunwald.bsky.social) reposted

This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:

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31/8/2025, 3:47:34 AM | 15788 4473 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

I will give credit where it is due, this flavor is a certified banger

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31/8/2025, 2:54:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hope springs eternal and the day technically isn't over!

31/8/2025, 2:45:55 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jfc that was what, like 4 missed tackles behind the LOS?

31/8/2025, 2:31:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Misread that as NewsMax and my first thought was "holy shit Gundy is gonna be so jealous he might punch somebody"

31/8/2025, 2:07:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 2:05:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

I've actively watched maybe 10% of this game and the rest has just been me absently screwing around on my phone and occasionally looking up My levels of "I just don't care anymore" have never been higher and I love it

31/8/2025, 1:44:59 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fritz the Cat and Zapp Brannigan are too easy, right?

31/8/2025, 12:43:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Time for the good stuff

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31/8/2025, 12:12:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know it's 1Q of Game 1, but we look shockingly bad Pretty glad I have no clue who any of these players are

30/8/2025, 11:29:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

"They bring back the entire offensive line" Cool, cool, lots of experience going 8-5 then

30/8/2025, 11:16:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

Matches the camera angle

30/8/2025, 11:15:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

PLZ LET TODAY BE THE DAY

30/8/2025, 7:58:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

I know his entire football career has been managed to death by his family, but I've been saying this for years now - maybe lighting up private schools and 2-3A equivalent competition in high school isn't a good indicator of success against future NFL defensive players

30/8/2025, 7:56:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 3:47:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh for sure

30/8/2025, 3:39:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

I did at least change out the riving knife. I'm not 100% insane

30/8/2025, 3:29:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

It's time for everyone's favorite game! Cutting full sheet plywood on the table saw with no infeed support and a half-assed outfeed

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30/8/2025, 3:22:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

It's either a huge OneRepublic fan or my speaker is trying to kill itself 😂

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

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90% chance he's going to live in a shithole apartment just absolutely buried in adorable stuffies

30/8/2025, 4:24:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This makes me crazy sad cuz my 11 year old still gets super excited to pick out a stuffy on every single trip we take.

30/8/2025, 4:23:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

Yea that sucks, my uncle heard I bought the suitcase and turned around and bought one himself 😅

30/8/2025, 4:19:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thankfully they were too absorbed in hauling ass through the rain to try talking to me

30/8/2025, 4:18:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's no shame in destination-purchased luggage Signed, Guy who literally bought a whole-ass suitcase to bring back bottles of wine

30/8/2025, 4:17:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I spent the whole day at A&M surrounded by students who weren't even born yet when I was a student there

30/8/2025, 4:14:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seriously, that's actually awesome

30/8/2025, 2:03:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Radio football is such a tease though

30/8/2025, 1:13:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Borowitz Report (@borowitzreport.bsky.social) reposted

Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”

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30/8/2025, 12:58:05 AM | 1169 226 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Everyone else is watching football and I'm in the attic measuring shit smh

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30/8/2025, 1:01:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Lord have mercy $34 per lb?!

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29/8/2025, 6:50:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Ags, we need to have a serious conversation about Northgate. I'm glad a few of the OGs (Dixie Chicken, Freebirds, DD) are still there and I love the history, but half the damn strip is closed down/boarded up and it looks *awful*

29/8/2025, 6:46:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted

People be like “RFK jr is out of step with the medical mainstream” HE IS NOT A MEDICAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

29/8/2025, 6:07:15 PM | 1633 327 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) reposted

Wild how “Harris voters,” who are the substantial majority in the most economically viable states and an extremely weighty minority even in the most reactionary, are framed here as a weird fringe group based on an incredibly narrow election almost like we’re being pressured to submit

29/8/2025, 5:24:48 PM | 112 22 | View on Bluesky | view

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A lot has changed on Northgate but at least the OG is still here

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29/8/2025, 5:16:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 (@rochaa.bsky.social) reposted

In any other era, Congress would have opened an investigation into this. The corruption that we are witnessing is staggering. This is Ben Ali’s level of corruption and abuse of power.

29/8/2025, 3:02:23 AM | 485 190 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

My son just told me I have abnormally muscular calves

29/8/2025, 1:16:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

Prisoner by definition obviously works, but in this country it typically carries a connotation that they broke a law and were sentenced and that's how they're going to attempt to frame it That the people deserved to be there, just like they've already started the talk of about homeless people

29/8/2025, 12:28:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

They're crazy, those are the best stories

28/8/2025, 11:32:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Accurate and yes I have stories 😂

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28/8/2025, 11:18:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really think "prisoners" needs to be in some kind of quotes here cuz it's not gonna be actual prisoners, it's going to be people ICE whisked off to gulags without charges

28/8/2025, 6:47:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted

demanding a do-over military parade because your birthday military parade was a huge flop is the kind of thing that the undead corpse of george washington would smash through his coffin and murder you with his bare hands for, if he could

28/8/2025, 6:41:15 PM | 895 206 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's hilarious is I took this in Malmö, Sweden to ask my friend if he needed any cuz he'd been complaining about not being able to find it here

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28/8/2025, 6:45:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Just got asked to smoke a brisket for Labor Day.

28/8/2025, 6:29:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

Carrying it all sucks hella ass (especially uphill) but shots like this are what keep me lugging around a backpack that weighs as much as a kindergartner I need to get an insane zoom lens though. So much of my stuff is landscape, I really need to branch out into wildlife.

28/8/2025, 6:15:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brett Nicholson (@aggiebrett.bsky.social) reposted

I’ve said this many many times before, but the collapse (intentional sabotage) of the American education system over that last 40 years has left us with a populace where a dangerously large portion is dumb, lazy, bigoted, entitled, and convinced they are beyond any criticism. Yikes.

28/8/2025, 4:49:44 PM | 30 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought you meant tombs and it still worked

28/8/2025, 4:45:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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miss Verb, hope he's living his best life

28/8/2025, 4:45:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm like all or nothing on watching lol. I spend all day listening to people talk in meetings so I actually can't stand podcasts/shows/etc

28/8/2025, 3:11:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

I really almost didn't even add a live-streaming package this year cuz I'm not confident I'm going to use it. We'll see how it goes the first few weeks. It's a little different for me cuz I'm an A&M alumnus, my wife works there, etc... It's a key integral part of the rest of my life still

28/8/2025, 3:02:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

I really think Democrats outside deep red states/areas do not understand what they're up against here. I know people who *hate* everything DT stands for. Think he's a terrible person, a liar, a thief, etc. They *voted for him anyway* because he was the R on the ticket. You can't reason with this

28/8/2025, 3:00:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't typically have that issue because even when I'm out coaching baseball, it's 110 degrees on the diamond and everyone is miserable 😂 I don't really miss CFB much, but I do miss having at least occasional quiet weekends

28/8/2025, 2:56:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not saying vote for Newsom, but this is what you're up against. A monolithic block that absolutely does not give a fuck about how bad things are going to get as long as the letter next to the name matches the team they root for

28/8/2025, 2:53:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

No, and you have one party's voters that literally do not care because it's not about policy anymore. It's a part of how they identify themselves. Texas governor results. 30 years of things getting shittier and shittier under unified party control and they'll continue to double down

28/8/2025, 2:52:53 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

This. I went from "all day CFB on Saturdays" to "I'll DVR everything and catch up after 5-6pm" to "Maybe I'll watch a game this weekend if I have time" Nobody tells you how insanely busy the pre-teen/teen years are, just my god

28/8/2025, 2:45:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Total cataclysmic rain events" is a bi-weekly thing these days

28/8/2025, 2:32:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 2:28:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Legit forgot he was our QB. Finally looked up the roster again a few weeks ago and this was me -

28/8/2025, 2:15:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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gahdamn unloaded both barrels center mass

28/8/2025, 12:28:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

"I don't understand why the people there started being mean to me after I spent 10 years calling the city a 3rd world crime-ridden hellhole." ~ every single fucking one of these frauds

28/8/2025, 12:01:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social) reply parent

tbf, just because something exists doesn't mean it wasn't a *terrible* idea in the first place

28/8/2025, 11:55:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title Tom Clancy’s Where the Red Fern Grows

28/8/2025, 11:54:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A nice little morning thread of John Cena being eloquent af about coffee and food

28/8/2025, 11:20:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In reality I'd do the most insane insider trading type shit imaginable, but it sounds nicer to say I'd just pick a different career 😂

28/8/2025, 3:09:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I want to build a time machine and force my younger self to just be an electrician. I'd make more money and AI won't be ruining that anytime soon

28/8/2025, 3:08:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We're being force-fed a Meta LLM at work

28/8/2025, 2:57:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As always with Martin House, they're good

28/8/2025, 2:53:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep need these

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28/8/2025, 12:53:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I finally sold my weights 2 weeks ago so this skeet is not about me 🥳

27/8/2025, 8:02:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Basically same. As someone who used to read political thriller novels, I am now almost exclusively fantasy

27/8/2025, 5:12:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brett Nicholson (@aggiebrett.bsky.social) reposted

If the coyotes use ACME branded anvils and rockets and dynamite, maybe I’d be interested. Otherwise…. Doubtful.

27/8/2025, 5:03:27 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Stromenger (@1in9.bsky.social) reposted

This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.

27/8/2025, 3:28:48 PM | 6009 1233 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ran ⚡(champion edition) (@randall.gobirds.online) reposted

lmao

27/8/2025, 3:09:03 PM | 218 38 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ (@etxgov.bsky.social) reposted

Dang Dallas got murdered here.

27/8/2025, 3:11:33 PM | 36 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

This is why Greg Abbott was pissing his pants and ramming through redistricting in a special session that included holding anyone who didn't vote for it hostage

27/8/2025, 2:47:54 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lord Businessman II (@lordbusinessman.bsky.social) reposted

They better settle for eleventy bajillion dollars because if this thing gets in front of a jury that's game over lol lmao lol Please dear Lord may it get in front of a jury

26/8/2025, 4:54:24 PM | 2295 315 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the group of people that think *books* are too dangerous for children are instituting an AI Challenge to have kids use AI I fucking hate it here

26/8/2025, 8:02:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm primarily full goatee, but haven't been clean shaven since I think 2009

26/8/2025, 6:58:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Proud member of Team #NotAllowedToShave 🤝

26/8/2025, 6:57:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They've had a lot of really fucking stupid ideas yet they somehow keep coming up with new contenders for which one is the dumbest

26/8/2025, 6:56:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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back on soups for lunch, I'm gonna manifest fall feelings if it kills me. Verdict: Slaps

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26/8/2025, 4:42:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

To further drive this home - Alito, Thomas, and others on the court are so far out into illegal gifts/bribes/tax fraud that there's a 100% chance Trump's team has told them that if they don't roll over, they're all going to jail. Lower court judges by and large don't have that

26/8/2025, 2:42:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slam (@slamastack.bsky.social)

People are so impossibly stupid it hurts. A machine that can't spell the word blueberry is not suffering, you dolts. It's not alive. It's several million lines of poorly written code running on a server in a warehouse in a field outside some random mid-size city that got suckered into allowing it

26/8/2025, 11:25:17 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brett Nicholson (@aggiebrett.bsky.social) reposted

No. They cannot. Next stupid question?

26/8/2025, 11:18:26 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's true. Nothing pisses off a miserable piece of shit more than seeing someone somewhere having a good time.

25/8/2025, 8:23:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marlo, Support me Bitch! (@ceereespeaks.bsky.social) reposted

Overpriced and overrated

25/8/2025, 7:56:19 PM | 5 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 7:22:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I legit thought this was Steven Tyler at first glance

25/8/2025, 5:36:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view