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Brent

@thethirdman3.bsky.social

Legendary voice of the June Taylor Dancers. “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” -Stanley Kubrick Auckland, New Zealand

created July 1, 2023

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Like American Democracy, it’s gone and not coming back

31/8/2025, 7:37:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Arch is staying in school

30/8/2025, 6:33:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Arch suuuuuuuuuucks

30/8/2025, 6:31:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Arch Manning is not very good.

30/8/2025, 5:31:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The bigger difference is owning media institutions and using them to push agendas.

30/8/2025, 4:54:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Adderall will kick in soon, don't worry.

30/8/2025, 6:32:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm in. Also, I will be a, uh, foot soldier in Operation Yellow Torrent, as well.

30/8/2025, 6:31:23 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is very much a don’t threaten me with a good time situation

30/8/2025, 1:49:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social) reposted

trump finally appearing on a balcony on sunday like first of all my doctor said i may have set the world record for health

chancellor palpatine from
30/8/2025, 1:16:49 AM | 2009 273 | View on Bluesky | view

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People are never too old to be shamed when act like fools. Good on you.

29/8/2025, 4:37:12 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Luxon is such a dork

27/8/2025, 4:57:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Barrett (@helenbarrett.bsky.social) reposted

Eleanor Bron looking immaculate reading the Beatles Two script (later Help!).

Eleanor Bron reading the script for Beatles Two, later Help!
22/8/2025, 6:09:33 AM | 50 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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This cannot continue.

17/8/2025, 8:26:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I respect the Peter Gallagher performance deep cut and I agree with you. Still, in this really, really shitty time we need people with actual power to be fighters even if their motives are not completely pure.

15/8/2025, 2:13:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I fall into the "baseball is really hard to play" contingent.

15/8/2025, 2:09:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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David Caruso? Caruso the singer?

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14/8/2025, 10:52:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck both of these people

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

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They didn't run on this. National/Act are stripping New Zealand for parts for their donors.

3/8/2025, 10:14:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yordan will hit a three run homer off him in October. Bet.

31/7/2025, 1:36:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love that our female cat was named Spike by our son- sort of reminsicent of the Elvis Costello album and face pain design of the same name. Spike is my constant pal and I love her so.

30/7/2025, 6:03:59 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🎶🎶I've seen then needle and the dam-age done...🎶

29/7/2025, 6:18:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love it even if the complex is going through some post Industrial, Last of Us phase.

29/7/2025, 6:17:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I randomly watched the pilot episode for "Silicon Valley" the other day and the seeds of all the bullshit we have to deal with now were there, but seemingly benign and mere comic exaggerations. Just like "Idiocracy." Mike Judge knows shit, man. I wish it weren't...*this.*

9/7/2025, 8:07:53 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It scans

8/7/2025, 6:33:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coping 101

2/7/2025, 10:39:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just got around to learning about the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, jr.

30/6/2025, 4:49:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Motherfucker has been working off the taxpayer dime his whole life.

27/6/2025, 10:17:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man, we need to have a protest march over this movie list.

27/6/2025, 10:16:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whew.

26/6/2025, 2:09:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Amen fucking Thompson and Tari Eason aren't energetic?

22/6/2025, 10:21:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Great decision?" I think the Suns bungled their franchise continually and paid premium prices for scrubs and a 12 seed without club control over their own drafts for the foreseeable future.

22/6/2025, 10:19:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They could use another 2 guard and they have a lot of pieces- Grimes?

22/6/2025, 8:39:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am so disheartened by what is happening in much of the world right now. I would like my pessimism to not take over my entire consciousness, if that makes any sense. Here is a rad song I just came across again tonight that is worth sharing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2A...

22/6/2025, 6:35:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brent (@thethirdman3.bsky.social) reply parent

Right. Like, I bet most of us have an inner misanthrope who operates like a safety valve so you don't go crazy.

21/6/2025, 10:26:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am storing years of urine to deposit on his grave

17/6/2025, 2:57:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just read “Nine Stories” by JD Salinger. Whew. I think this has a bigger impact than the Holden Caulfield novel to me.

17/6/2025, 10:41:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The level of fucking treachery in charge of the government right now is off the charts.

15/6/2025, 1:29:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good fucking God.

15/6/2025, 1:28:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's so fucking despicable.

15/6/2025, 1:25:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nonsense.

8/6/2025, 9:35:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know what else happened again? The Mariners choked a 4 run lead and lost to the Angels.

8/6/2025, 4:54:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's right. Shit hurts.

8/6/2025, 3:03:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Second Place Coping, Mariners style.

8/6/2025, 2:58:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looking up at Astros. Again. #rockofsisyphus

6/6/2025, 8:28:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why should we care about ratings? Do you own Disney stock?

28/5/2025, 10:40:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can describe this particular, uh, art in a lot of other ways, too.

28/5/2025, 10:36:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lost track on "Lodger?"

26/5/2025, 9:35:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We have to acknowledge that the New York Times, as an institution, is at the very least neutral to preserving the democratic republic.

25/5/2025, 9:24:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a philosophically underused sentiment.

24/5/2025, 7:45:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kelly Turnbull (@coelasquid.bsky.social) reposted

Post reading “I went an entire semester without realizing my friend had tourette's He'd randomly say
24/5/2025, 9:03:52 AM | 5493 1044 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tapper is, at his core, a deeply stupid person.

24/5/2025, 6:21:04 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bespoke

21/5/2025, 5:10:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's shitty. The league is in bed with some of the worst people on Earth, the gambling industry, yet they take to the fainting couch for words on a shirt.

20/5/2025, 6:27:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brent (@thethirdman3.bsky.social) reply parent

The Houston Rockets got after Curry. That he was as impactful as he was speaks to his greatness.

20/5/2025, 6:24:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The NBA having a history of ref betting scandals and now doing business with gambling syndicates contribute to conspiracy beliefs by the public.

16/5/2025, 6:21:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are defining corruption so narrowly that it makes me question you, generally.

12/5/2025, 4:40:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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woo wee

1/5/2025, 7:05:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#outofcontexthottakes

20/4/2025, 8:58:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Insane that anybody thought Trump was a better alternative

16/4/2025, 10:46:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MLB, like much of America right now, are cowards.

15/4/2025, 8:44:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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George Costanza vibes

15/4/2025, 8:42:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Snazzy!

13/4/2025, 7:47:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dillon was done dirty by the ref, in this case.

31/3/2025, 2:17:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck the Dodgers and fuck Trump

27/3/2025, 9:59:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am glad you are on here, mate. I look forward to reading your thoughts on the team.

27/3/2025, 9:58:38 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What are we doing here?

26/3/2025, 6:31:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is utter horseshit

21/3/2025, 5:44:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meat grinder for maximum profits for the wealthiest people on the planet, full steam ahead

20/3/2025, 7:18:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The .500 core!

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

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These are the words of a coward. You either fight these motherfuckers, or resign and let somebody else do your fucking job.

15/3/2025, 6:07:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brent (@thethirdman3.bsky.social) reply parent

This is Neville Chamberlin shit. It's not left vs. moderate. It's fight, or flight. We need to fight.

15/3/2025, 6:05:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Taibbi is one of the great morons of our time, which is saying something.

14/3/2025, 3:16:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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DeGrom is "healthy again" is such a big caveat, though.

11/3/2025, 10:16:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah. I have to write that guy off now.

8/3/2025, 7:17:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think Stone doing at the deadline is also a factor in their decline. The best teams added to their roster.

5/3/2025, 6:02:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) reposted

Supreme Court legalized bribery, took bribes themselves, and declared this was all just how democracy is supposed to work

4/3/2025, 5:07:35 PM | 1410 412 | View on Bluesky | view

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You will do as you are told. You and I both know that you care about working people only to the extent that these bullshit talking points advance your political career. Get fucked.

4/3/2025, 6:23:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Running the FBI from Las Vegas? This is too on the nose.

3/3/2025, 6:13:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man, that headline is disgusting.

3/3/2025, 6:11:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile in Cowardice.

3/3/2025, 6:09:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Innovative, Rock Star Economy at work.

3/3/2025, 6:06:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s not it, man

3/3/2025, 8:36:20 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a fucking dork. Patrick, by the way, is a carpetbagger.

3/3/2025, 4:21:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brent (@thethirdman3.bsky.social) reply parent

You are complaining about people not following their self interest. You think *moral suasion* is the deciding factor in politics? In the Revolution? Hell no. Change usually comes from pain, not political parties.

3/3/2025, 3:14:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brent (@thethirdman3.bsky.social) reply parent

This is part of living in a capitalist society that had astonishing success for vast swathes of people who are part of the electorate. You expect change from them?

3/3/2025, 1:58:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or, hear me out, people and organisations go with money and status because that indicates previous success in obtaining shared objectives. I don’t see this as The Great Betrayal of life.

2/3/2025, 6:28:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can't continue with this.

18/2/2025, 11:39:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In short, these are piss ants pretending to be men.

13/2/2025, 6:11:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fucking magnets. This is end of the Roman Empire kind of shit.

12/2/2025, 11:41:40 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stoller is all kinds of messed up, IMO.

12/2/2025, 11:38:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dowd suuuuuuuuuuuucks

6/2/2025, 11:03:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One form of therapy I use is yelling at music documentaries when members of the band are lame. The Blur one is not quite as dorky as that long one about The Eagles, but most of them whinge about being up late and hurt knees and shit. Like, dudes, that is what *my* film would be about.

6/2/2025, 10:00:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy shit, Rangi!

4/2/2025, 11:01:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is so much worse than anything Donald Sterling got bounced from the league for.

4/2/2025, 10:18:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fucking assholes

3/2/2025, 8:38:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/1/2025, 12:51:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They can demand whatever. Houston has zero incentive to move Amen Thompson

30/1/2025, 4:11:36 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the correct reading. 75% of my life is me bitching about something that I should deal with better.

15/1/2025, 10:28:23 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brent (@thethirdman3.bsky.social)

Alright, we are watching the Richard Linkletter- Julie Delpy- Ethan Hawk movies and they are getting to my wife and I. Completely lovely and romantic. These are also robot love stories because Delpy cannot be an actual human, IMO. Like, girl, you can't be all that in one person. She's an alien, man

15/1/2025, 10:26:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was just kidding with you. I look forward to a good game coming up, Julie.

14/1/2025, 4:09:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view