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Tom Bigwood

@tombigwood.bsky.social

My superpower is that everybody likes me.

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Also Firefly, but I figured everybody says that and the Joss Whedon awfulness means it’s probably better that it died before he could fuck it up.

13/9/2025, 2:20:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

Terriers was so good, but also so poorly named and marketed that it never stood a chance.

13/9/2025, 2:16:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, this aged poorly. 😬

12/9/2025, 9:21:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m increasingly feeling that this investigation will end with 5-10 federal agents fired or charged with various crimes and zero murderers arrested.

12/9/2025, 12:20:17 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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11/9/2025, 7:32:03 PM | 5100 481 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Famous people usually practice two or three signatures. Travis Kelce is not signing his checks the same way he signs a jersey for a charity auction.

9/9/2025, 1:53:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Jokes aside, heating pad and 12-15 Advil a day are the only things that work for me.

6/9/2025, 5:24:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I find that if I say, “oh I just gotta take it easy for a couple days and then get moving again” it makes no difference in my pain level, but people think I’m brave.

6/9/2025, 4:57:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Marge Gunderson

6/9/2025, 1:15:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s got to be that he’s mixing various legal and illegal drugs, right? Like sometimes he can barely sit still, sometimes he’s shaky, sometimes he’s super chatty…

31/8/2025, 1:12:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Why do they apparently have so many dildos that they can leave a spare one behind?

16/8/2025, 6:59:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, which direction do you imagine facing?

16/8/2025, 11:16:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

A secret service agent accidentally shot JFK and everyone agreed to blame Oswald.

15/8/2025, 2:07:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

We had one Scottish student at my college. His accent was very popular with the girls until everyone figured out he had come to the U.S., in part, to say the n-word and call girls bitches.

14/8/2025, 11:39:26 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just a hard-working little corgi practicing herding while his big brother gets in the way. #corgi #corgicrew

14/8/2025, 12:42:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

“…most children I encounter in public should be taken away from their parents…” Are you ok? Do you have a friend or therapist you can talk to about this?

11/8/2025, 2:33:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

The first thing the hospital told us in birth class was, “Don’t speed to the hospital. There are kids in this neighborhood and the police are less forgiving than you’d think.”

10/8/2025, 11:04:41 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

The only third place for us as suburban American kids was the mall. If you had money, the mall was great, but we spent 98% of our time in each other’s basements or just riding around on bikes or in cars The funny thing is that mall still exists and is doing pretty well.

6/8/2025, 5:27:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted

Heard we’re discussing re-drawing districts so I wanted to drop an idea

Bumper sticker depicting a enlarged Minnesota with the text “Make Minnesota Bigger”
31/7/2025, 11:19:37 PM | 1529 249 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, Brown’s students are adults, right? Parents don’t really have any control over their 20-year-old kid’s medical decisions.

31/7/2025, 10:55:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

90% corgi, 10% cat. #corgi #cat

Black, white, and brown corgi standing on a windowsill looking out at a green lawn
26/7/2025, 3:20:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Where have I seen that cool professor before?

Mustache and hat guy from Mehdi Hassan’s jubilee video
25/7/2025, 12:30:32 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it’s red because chorizo is red?

22/7/2025, 2:27:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Somebody has to use up the waygu hearts, livers, etc.

22/7/2025, 2:01:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, I’m not usually an “I can make this cheaper at home!” guy—employees and rent cost money—but this looks like $2.00 in ingredients for a $15 entree.

22/7/2025, 1:44:09 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

The “Biscuits and gravy” seems to be a single biscuit, gravy, and a single egg for $15. Wow.

22/7/2025, 1:24:10 AM | 77 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

(The office was in a building attached to a hotel and the Bucs were having morning walkthrough meetings before playing the Vikings that night.)

19/7/2025, 7:04:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

One Monday, I was riding the escalator up to my office and I see a bunch of big scruffy guys on our floor. It was Mike Alstott and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense. I say “excuse me guys” and they part to let me pass. I glanced back and saw Warren Sapp leading the defense down the hall.

19/7/2025, 7:00:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

with visible tattoos on his hands. The big guy in the booth cooked the food. The medium-sized guy ate it, sharing a few bites with the big guy. The other huge guys didn’t eat or drink anything. A few folks stopped to pay respects to the medium-sized guy. We just tried not to make eye contact.

17/7/2025, 2:18:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

In Osaka, we went to one of those restaurants where you grill your own meat. There was a sumo-size Japanese dude in a shiny suit hanging out by the door. We went in and there were two more huge dudes in suits standing next to a corner booth. The booth had a fourth huge dude and a medium-sized dude…

17/7/2025, 2:18:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I would absolutely play this in my prerelease deck and then forget to activate it.

14/7/2025, 6:55:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

For a while, the farm implement manufacturers were the ladder for a few—work at John Deer or Bobcat in your 20’s to save up and buy a small farm in your 30’s. But rising prices and falling wages killed it.

14/7/2025, 2:45:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Look at that slim boy!

12/7/2025, 2:18:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”

11/7/2025, 10:36:13 PM | 1655 420 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

A midwestern woman with nothing to lose is a powerful force.

10/7/2025, 6:37:34 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Our man Tom discovered clauses.

9/7/2025, 12:31:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in a red suburb in a red state and there has been maybe 25% as much activity as in the past. Our neighborhood is usually littered with spent fireworks by now, but there’s basically nothing this year.

4/7/2025, 11:06:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

25/6/2025, 10:36:19 PM | 3517 1576 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

Son, a rookie cook: “what kind of spices did you use for this?” Me, a veteran: “Umm… taco?”

McCormick “Original Taco” seasoning mix
25/6/2025, 11:11:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) reposted

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

21/6/2025, 12:55:10 AM | 5304 1207 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, I have two buddies—one who ripped up his knee in 1991 and one who did it in 1996. The 1996 guy’s knee has a couple little scars. The 1991 guy’s knee looks like somebody was practicing the makeup for The Hills Have Eyes.

18/6/2025, 1:22:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Asher Elbein (@asherelbein.bsky.social) reposted

This is a good thread on a group of obvious scammers that are — somehow — insanely popular among people who (correctly!) regarded QAnon with contempt

17/6/2025, 10:36:45 PM | 1775 685 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I was really hoping that RDJ would play every single white character as a commentary on how Hollywood casts minorities.

9/6/2025, 1:40:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

The pants look like a tribute to Dave Matthews’ Spin magazine cover.

Cover of the November 2003 issue of Spin magazine showing Dave Matthews wearing jeans that are at least three inches too long for him.
7/6/2025, 3:20:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Brockwell (@hollyqueenofspayeds.com) reposted

The coveted double yeet! Smol Paul's got his moon boots on again 😅 www.instagram.com/reel/DKk1dQr...

6/6/2025, 10:15:36 PM | 95 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chokedee_Corgi (@omchunhanon.bsky.social) reposted

Corgi news around the world on this lovely Monday. #corgi #corgisky #corgiofbluesmy #dogsofbluesky.

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2/6/2025, 11:05:58 PM | 56 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ohio Capital Journal (@ohiocapitaljournal.com) reposted

Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH

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Profile picture "Friendship and grub" "I can't do it without you" (@bankuei.bsky.social) reposted

This is the most true comic about tech ever written.

21/5/2025, 9:25:11 PM | 25 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s frustrating that they all know Rubio better than any other appointee and they all were, like, “surely he’s not a spineless toady!” even though the evidence of his spineless toady behavior is endless. They all fell for it!! Bernie, too!

16/5/2025, 3:26:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Mitch Kapor already tried building an everything app from the ground up and we got a pretty good book and zero working software.

16/5/2025, 2:47:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

In a podcast a couple years ago, Courtney said she wouldn’t have been surprised if Kurt headed in the MAGA direction had he lived.

11/5/2025, 1:50:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

The thing that worked with my “COVID isn’t real” coworker was not empathy. It was saying, “My buddy the funeral director is working 16 hours days, seven days a week. Let’s call him right now and you can tell him COVID is not as bad as the common cold.”

3/5/2025, 6:13:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Out here like Maude Charron www.instagram.com/offside/p/C-...

29/4/2025, 2:40:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Holy shit, you’re right.

28/4/2025, 1:30:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

“Defund the police” sounds like “We’re going to take away an institution that 75% of Americans view favorably.” No one would read “Defund Social Security” and expect “Re-appraise and reallocate a portion of the country’s public pension spending” because that’s not what “defund” evokes.

28/4/2025, 12:08:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Legacy is a blue format; standard is a red format. Makes sense to me.

27/4/2025, 10:00:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Going all-in on the half circles for dinner tonight.

24/4/2025, 2:43:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was a kid, there was a road where you could drive for miles and see “Bigwood” on every mailbox. That’s still true, but now there are two mailboxes, not twelve. The two remaining farms are each over 1,000 acres and each worth over $4 million.

17/4/2025, 6:54:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s because no one has a million dollars to buy a farm in the first place, not because no one wants to work hard.

17/4/2025, 6:35:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Look at that boy and his newfound wisdom!

15/4/2025, 2:21:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

There is a big factory here that is constantly hiring. You can get $16-18/hour with no experience. (McDonald’s pays $19/hour, for reference.)

13/4/2025, 10:39:45 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

Walking out of Costco at 10:15 on Saturday morning and there’s this teeny girl riding in a cart (like not even three-year-old size). She’s making her case calmly while pointing at the food court, “Dad, what about hot dog? It’s quick. We get one for mom, too.” That kid’s going places.

5/4/2025, 3:26:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Good Luck High Five (@glhfmagic.bsky.social) reposted

Get ready to get 🐉⚡DRAGONSTORMED! 🐉⚡ Which Commander precon deck will come out on top?! 🐲 Ureni vs. 🍑 Felothar vs. ⚔️ Zurgo vs. 💙 Siko and Narset 👀 Watch & WIN 🎉 one of THREE Tarkir Dragonstorm prize packages 😮‼️ Thanks to @magic.wizards.com for sponsoring this video! #MTGTarkir #MTGPartner

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Profile picture Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) reposted

RIP King

Val Kilmer tweeting I once tickled Lou Reed. I regretted it for the longest while as he spoke to me few times after that dinner. But I'm glad now. He needed it.
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Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Now I’m imagining you arriving at the front of the government cheese queue. The official asks for ID and you just hand him a white 3x5 card with “le Pen” written on it.

31/3/2025, 6:51:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My parents live 1/3 of the year in Arizona and most of their neighbors are Canadian part-time residents. Nearly all of them are not planning on coming back to the U.S. next year. That could be catastrophic for Arizona’s economy.

28/3/2025, 3:22:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I sense a reservoir of wine mom energy in Pete just waiting to be freed.

26/3/2025, 12:31:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

(He was joking.)

23/3/2025, 12:25:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Doug Ford suggested buying Minnesota and Alaska. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Profile picture Andy Kaczynski (@kfile.bsky.social) reposted

small update on the guy who introduced this bill bsky.app/profile/kfil...

18/3/2025, 6:34:39 PM | 925 252 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Feels more and more like Yugioh—deliberate power creep with every set and 4-5 ban list changes each year.

19/3/2025, 9:54:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

In 1999, I was working for a farm info website. At the time, farmers had the highest percentage of home computer ownership of any profession and the highest educational achievement of any group of small businesses owners.

14/3/2025, 2:00:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And he just immediately folded. You know he practiced that “Mister” intro in his head all morning and then melted like the wicked witch at the simplest resistance.

13/3/2025, 1:19:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Eamon” is a name that writers use to let you know this guy is not that bright and might be the murderer.

10/3/2025, 11:28:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, it took nine tries, but the Moorhead High Spuds have finally won the boys’ state hockey championship in a nail-biter. www.startribune.com/boys-hockey-...

9/3/2025, 3:52:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

I want a president who used to respond to “State your name” with “Momcomepickmeup”

7/3/2025, 12:40:58 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or “we didn’t have autism, we had Doreen who couldn’t look anyone in the eye, only ate cereal, chicken wild rice soup and grapes, and washed dishes in the cafe for 40 years.”

3/3/2025, 8:24:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

As someone whose parents are small-town-raised, everyone has a story like “we didn’t have autism in my day, we just had Jimmy who didn’t talk until he was five years old, could fix any tractor made before 1980, and died with 50,000 comic books in his apartment.”

3/3/2025, 8:24:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s especially surprising considering they have dozens of staff. This isn’t just one guy doing the best he can to keep up, it’s a whole party with communications staff, social media managers, etc.

2/3/2025, 1:07:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

It is bananas that we have spiraled into a constitutional crisis and two influential writers are not reflecting on the last few years and how they might have contributed, but instead are yelling the equivalent of “I know you are, but what am I?”

17/2/2025, 2:27:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, at least the battery is in good shape.

14/2/2025, 3:48:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly! If each unit of increase takes 2x (or God-forbid 10x) as much data as the last unit, you run out of training data real quick once you try to scale.

10/2/2025, 10:28:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

They can’t force you to do anything. They’re hoping you don’t want any hassle and don’t know you can just walk out. They can call the police if they want to stop you. (But then there’s a 0.1% chance you have to deal with the cops and that’s probably not worth it.)

10/2/2025, 3:21:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social) reposted

Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

9/2/2025, 5:56:04 PM | 5994 1682 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

Step one of sending all eight Polish Foods of Christmas to space.

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Profile picture Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. (@drharmony.net) reposted

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So, in the three years before these kids become adults, I’m dreaming of helping them act on their awareness out in the community.

20/1/2025, 9:13:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

It seems clear that our current culture and media do a great job of making them aware of problems and also of engendering helplessness when it comes to acting on those problems.

20/1/2025, 9:13:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then we asked them to think of a service project and they suggested repainting their gathering space because it’s an ugly color or building a bench to donate to someone(?). 😕

20/1/2025, 9:13:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

We were leading some great 15-year-olds through picking a service project. Asked them about their community’s problems and they said hunger, homelessness, lack of public bathrooms—good answers!

20/1/2025, 9:13:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just for context, the U.S. only has about 250 million adults—she was proposing that 80% of all US adults would subscribe to the Washington Post!

16/1/2025, 5:11:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They always go right for the deep stuff whenever it snows. #corgi #corgicrew

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This is messed up and I love it.

10/1/2025, 1:46:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know it’s not good, but I will draft Ulamog in every cube. (Also, I don’t play on MTGO, just wanted to share. 😀)

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger card from Magic the Gathering
10/1/2025, 1:43:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 (@blackamazon.bsky.social) reposted

Costco did better than every tech company, university and most of your favorite podcasts Stop accepting crumbs and stop thinking the only point is the fight Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is say “I will be keeping people in humane and safe environs “ fight the wall

26/12/2024, 11:40:57 PM | 3600 1007 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was a little warmer today, so the boys and I went for an extra long walk. Can you tell? #corgi #corgicrew

Two black, white, and brown corgis sleep on their sides back-to-back on a tan rug. The base of a Christmas tree is seen in the upper left.
16/12/2024, 8:27:21 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I cannot imagine that this pays off for anyone involved. It’s all downside for him, for his cronies, and for the rest of us… Ugh.

15/12/2024, 8:58:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bernie Sanders worship makes so much fucking sense in light of this.

14/12/2024, 3:06:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social) reply parent

Solidarity.

9/12/2024, 12:50:32 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Bigwood (@tombigwood.bsky.social)

Guess who (still) has two thumbs and just replaced the carburetor on his snowblower? 👍 This guy!! 👍

Left to right: Pliers, small socket wrench, hose and hose clamps, carburetor for a Toro snowblower.
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