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Lauren

@spectaculauren.bsky.social

Painter, cat mom, plant nerd, 1/2 of a book wife/gamer husband duo

created October 19, 2023

156 followers 78 following 276 posts

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Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

This quite literally could not be more unconstitutional

3/9/2025, 12:04:08 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay buddy πŸ˜‚ you're the one delusional enough to think that when people say Elon musk and Jeff bezos shouldn't have that much money, they're actually talking about you. "The rest of us" lol you're either an idiot or being deliberately ignorant

2/9/2025, 7:05:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

"We should actively let like 4 people in America own 99% of wealth in the country bc if we change anything, some people might benefit that I don't personally believe deserve it" is something demons say btw

2/9/2025, 6:18:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Hot take: if a population has to use oppression and genocide in order to avoid dying out, then that population absolutely should die out

2/9/2025, 1:43:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool, then so do blue states πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

28/8/2025, 10:11:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stereogum (@stereogum.bsky.social) reposted

Neil Young shared a new song called "Big Crime” protesting Donald Trump's takeover of Washington, DC

28/8/2025, 2:54:39 PM | 636 192 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

It won't stop him from being a dick but he'll hopefully have significantly less power to do bad things with the evil in his heart

28/8/2025, 3:04:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

My hope is that once he's gone, so will a lot of the cult following. He's not the only bad actor of course and the system needs some serious work to avoid this in the future, but people don't seem to worship Vance and Miller like they do him.

28/8/2025, 1:30:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

This perhaps isn't the best time to make fun of the dead kids and their religion??

27/8/2025, 7:20:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

As predicted I don't see a single major news source reporting on this actual declaration of civil war

27/8/2025, 1:32:43 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes hi hello this is eugenics speak

27/8/2025, 1:05:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

SameπŸ˜‚ literally searched Phillies on bluesky to make sure I wasn't having a stroke or something

26/8/2025, 11:16:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does he look like wish Keira Knightley

24/8/2025, 2:59:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone save this now so we can do a comparison later

21/8/2025, 9:32:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

And third, the second line of a haiku is supposed to have 7 syllables

21/8/2025, 8:32:21 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Almost there champ

21/8/2025, 7:27:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not even sure what argument you're trying to have with meπŸ˜‚ rfk nut

21/8/2025, 4:38:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't say a word about zero processing. Did you mean to comment that to someone else?

21/8/2025, 3:36:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm gonna say this as gently as possible. If the food inside the microwave reached anywhere close to 2000 degrees, it would melt through the bottom of the microwave. I would double check your facts if I were you.

21/8/2025, 3:21:01 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I need you to tell me you're doing a bit RN and you don't actually believe that microwaves can heat food to the temp of literal lava, and that people who use them eat the food at that temp without letting it cool

21/8/2025, 1:17:01 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gamera obscura (@ohrobin.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

We don't gatekeep giving a shit.

18/8/2025, 4:56:32 PM | 56 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

... To be fair, Trump did that, and a large percentage of us have been very vocally against it and supportive of Canada.

19/8/2025, 1:58:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I like how he said "This feels dystopian" as if he didn't decide to buy himself an AI controlled bed. Like buddy, no one is forcing you to hand control over every aspect of your life to dysfunctional robots

17/8/2025, 5:26:04 PM | 47 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

That was also my first interpretation

17/8/2025, 1:58:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Listen Jill if you want people to stop thinking "white people bad" could you maybe stop making us look so bad

16/8/2025, 1:01:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

What exactly is "atypical" about Trump getting steamrolled by Putin? I would be floored by any other outcome

16/8/2025, 12:49:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social)

Listen. I get that it's usually important to hear both sides of an argument and consider the perspective of both parties. But when one party's whole thing is "fascism is bad" and the other's is "but I wannnnaaaa" then only one side deserves any consideration

15/8/2025, 6:28:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Hi you have no idea what the word discrimination means

14/8/2025, 11:47:22 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Says the exact same people who argue that refusing to give gay couples a marriage license is protected free speech

14/8/2025, 11:44:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely despicable, and also did anyone else clock that one guy copping a feel on the female cop?

14/8/2025, 11:33:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

14/8/2025, 6:18:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

"Local union leaders have even taken to calling the dip in Canadian tourists the 'Trump slump.'" Oh he's gonna love that 🎻🎻🎻

14/8/2025, 5:14:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social)

Message to supporters of Trump's pardon of J6ers that assaulted police officers to get into the Capitol and try to assassinate Congress people, who also think the guy that threw a hoagie at an officer in DC should be charged with a felony: My condolences that you're the stupidest person on earth

14/8/2025, 3:37:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I haven't heard discussions about how to offset that unfortunately. It's a huge issue that's going to affect a massive amount of workers. I'm praying they find the funding

14/8/2025, 11:36:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

We've brainstormed all the different routes and transfers our apprentices that don't drive can take, and we're anticipating frequent lateness/ubering after the cuts happen

14/8/2025, 11:20:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

For a bit it was telling people that eating rocks was a good source of minerals

14/8/2025, 10:57:49 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

πŸ‘€

13/8/2025, 1:20:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice try buddy but i can still see the word black that you deleted before hitting post so the tweet wouldn't just look overtly racist

12/8/2025, 3:39:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

According to polls, Trump wasn't popular either. We can't trust anything. There is quite literally not one single level I would trust the right not to sink to at this point.

11/8/2025, 11:04:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, just straight up textbook genocide

11/8/2025, 3:26:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh this is absolutely what Trump's going to do with Mexican kids left behind when he deports their parents

10/8/2025, 9:52:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything this guy does so is dystopian that if I saw it in a dystopian novel I'd go "nah this is too unrealistic and exaggerated"

10/8/2025, 11:55:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't wait to not hear the president of United States condemn such a blatant act of genocide and literal human trafficking of children

10/8/2025, 11:47:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

He's so incredibly out of touch that he seems to genuinely believe that $2.2k a month is the step right above homelessness.

9/8/2025, 1:24:39 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't even have words for how disturbing this is. Have these people tried... Speaking to human beings? About literally anything?

*a reddit post on r/ChatGPT OpenAI just pulled the biggest bait-and-switch in AI history and I'm done. I woke up this morning to find that OpenAI deleted 8 models overnight. No warning. No choice. No **Without asking.** **Without warning.** **Without caring.** This isn't about being resistant to change. This is about a company taking away something people relied on and saying
9/8/2025, 1:19:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Petition to rename Pennsylvania "Phemdpohamp"

9/8/2025, 1:02:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

LinkedIn - Forbes 40+ reactions - 1 month ago Forbes estimates Andrew Cuomo is worth about $10 million, a roughly five-fold gain in less than a decade. Not bad for a politician who resigned in scandal.
9/8/2025, 12:27:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

What if I give you ten minutes of journaling a week as a homework assignment

6/8/2025, 6:25:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

That damn Gen z is pushing the trend of lunch at noon. Despicable

6/8/2025, 6:17:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

At noon??

6/8/2025, 6:16:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

June you can't do this to me, my heart just did so many things

5/8/2025, 7:16:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

... I'm sorry to let you down but WHAT

3/8/2025, 2:16:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Or ...

31/7/2025, 9:43:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Easy, when the patient is a Republican politician or their family member/partner/mistress

30/7/2025, 1:18:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social)

Have you ever seen a more beautiful blep

Rayla the black cat with green eyes loafing on a strawberry rug. Her tongue is sticking out just a little tiny bit
26/7/2025, 4:30:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

They're calling it a VHS player?? The kids are not alright

26/7/2025, 3:39:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Basically it says that if they decide you can't take care of yourself or are a danger due to your substance use or mental illness, they have the right to throw you in an institution indefinitely against your will. He's bringing back insane asylums. He's doing more Nazi shit.

26/7/2025, 10:06:20 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

This makes me feel physically ill. In addition to kidnapping people and scrapping those pesky consent laws, he also wants "law enforcement" to have access to those people's health info. The focus on sex offenders makes me worry he's talking about trans people, who Republicans claim are all rapists.

26/7/2025, 10:04:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

But it hasn't even been 72 hours yet!

25/7/2025, 11:40:46 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social)

I just have to accept that I will never be as comfy cozy as this

Josie the white cat with gray eyebrows asleep on a navy blue blanket with potted plants on it, with her arms sticking out. Her tail is snuggled between her arms. In the background, house plants in the window.
25/7/2025, 11:39:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I can't even tell at this point if his goal is to profit off of natural gas and the resulting mass death will just be a side effect, or if it's really just to actively kill off the planet like a supervillain

25/7/2025, 6:28:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

It wasn't just not mandatory at mine, it wasn't offered at all.

25/7/2025, 3:22:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

On what planet are term limits an ageist policy?

25/7/2025, 12:16:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't see why not, the Republicans have more than demonstrated that rules and precedents don't matter. The Dems will never do it tho, they're too spineless

22/7/2025, 6:28:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Your wife wouldn't like this, Mitch

21/7/2025, 3:28:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Just tried it again and it worked!! Wonder if they temporarily tested not allowing us to opt out or something?

20/7/2025, 12:36:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that working again? It worked for me for a while until suddenly it didn't do anything anymore

20/7/2025, 12:35:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

My brother in Christ, this post is not even about trans folks

16/7/2025, 6:20:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

He'll respond, "What an evil question, only an evil person would ask a question like that," his go to response when he doesn't know the answer or the answer makes him look bad

16/7/2025, 1:25:38 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I get that. I'm 27, my first presidential election was 2016. I registered R specifically to vote against Trump in the primary, then switched to D. It's been devastating watching my country (and family) vote for this man that so blatantly defies what we supposedly stand for. Hope is hard to hold onto

10/7/2025, 6:57:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Please don't! I know you're probably joking, but people deciding not to vote is a large part of how we got here!

10/7/2025, 6:28:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Genuinely not sure if Elon is now tweeting from the Grok account or if he just trained it really effectively to speak Exactly Like Him

10/7/2025, 1:42:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

If that's true, my advice is to change it to that so it doesn't look like you're heiling Hitler. But if that is indeed what you're actually doing, ignore me and carry on deservedly getting roasted ✌️

10/7/2025, 1:34:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

What does the "H/H" in your bio mean?

10/7/2025, 1:31:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't know that part! I gotta read about this now

10/7/2025, 12:55:46 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm pretty sure those are the NY times reporters. But yes, it sounds like that's exactly what the Republicans did

3/7/2025, 12:25:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm happy to be represented this way

29/6/2025, 7:50:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't dream of golden appliances and yachts and a multimillion dollar home. I just want a 3 bedroom house and a garden and maybe to have a baby someday without bankrupting myself. This didn't used to be an unrealistic goal in this country (πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ)

23/6/2025, 12:54:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

We live in the stupidest imaginable timeline

16/6/2025, 6:13:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Just watched something like this happen. Was at dinner in Philly with friends, and protesters marched around the corner outside the restaurant. Cops on bikes infiltrated the fully peaceful crowd and started throwing punches. Dragged a woman away in zip ties. #acab

14/6/2025, 11:44:35 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking shameful. Now is not the time to be asleep at the wheel

14/6/2025, 2:11:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Genuinely, what exactly do you think is happening in this video if not a representative of an opposition party showing concern

13/6/2025, 12:14:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey have you ever read a history book before

13/6/2025, 9:37:53 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

If this country is at capacity then why are Republicans on Facebook still calling me an evil sociopath for not having children

10/6/2025, 3:28:45 PM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

He knows that this historically was done to the king's men, right? Not the people leading the resistance to tyranny?

10/6/2025, 3:26:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

#winning

9/6/2025, 11:20:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy to see the entire rest of the world isn't following our lead over the "feed the rich, eat the poor" fascism cliff

9/6/2025, 11:18:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

People who hid Jews during the Holocaust were going against the law too. I would love to know how you feel about those people

8/6/2025, 12:44:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

They should just tell them "you just lost the game"

6/6/2025, 10:40:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

This man really said "I haven't had sex with children, it was just underage girls." WHAT

6/6/2025, 10:38:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Every time I see a stupid white man smirk smugly at the idea of actively withholding rights from vulnerable people, my anti violence instincts slowly deteriorate

6/6/2025, 6:35:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Make them fight each other too

6/6/2025, 6:29:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Musk can bankroll opposing campaigns like he did Trump's. I'm interested to see how this will play out

6/6/2025, 1:07:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social)

We knew it was gonna happen. It was always just a matter of time. And that doesn't make this shit any less satisfying to watch 🍿🍿🍿

5/6/2025, 9:30:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Or at the very least, know that we have one of those

4/6/2025, 1:12:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Openly admitting that you didn't even bother to read the bill you just voted for should absolutely be an impeachable offense.

3/6/2025, 9:29:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Morales (@johnmoralestv.bsky.social) reposted

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV πŸ“Ί

3/6/2025, 12:45:03 AM | 23661 9545 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

Despite? Links to antisemitic extremists were probably a prerequisite to the position

2/6/2025, 3:36:14 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social) reply parent

"You can do whatever research you want, as long as the conclusions you draw align exactly with the science we've rewritten to suit our own agenda" is straight up, blatant Nazi stuff

28/5/2025, 4:56:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lauren (@spectaculauren.bsky.social)

Bottom of the first fastball to Harper's surgery elbow? Strider's gonna get destroyed by Philly fans tonight jfc #Phillies

27/5/2025, 11:09:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view