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Tristan Buckner

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He/him. Protect trans kids!

created July 5, 2023

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The episode where Mitch attempts it is so funny

10/9/2025, 5:48:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ok but sometimes their chocolate covered ice cream bars are the only viable liquor store option and must it be done

10/9/2025, 5:47:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Press f to say I do

10/9/2025, 4:26:39 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh jeez… we’re living in Fromsoft item description text

10/9/2025, 4:22:51 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also funny since he looks like Tucker

10/9/2025, 12:36:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everyone that didn’t take the buyout is quickly answering why they didn’t take the buyout.

10/9/2025, 12:35:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just waiting for 665 more likes before I screenshot

9/9/2025, 8:48:59 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the thing that Instagram click baits you into opening by cropping the text

9/9/2025, 8:44:04 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is the goal to destroy podcast search?

9/9/2025, 8:32:36 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Endemic in AI boosterism

9/9/2025, 7:47:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The logo ended up kind of ominous for me after I saw this at a Berkeley film festival. www.themoviedb.org/movie/122463... The largest native burial site in the Bay Area first had a dance pavilion built on it, and then a Sherwin Williams factory (and later superfund site), and finally a mall.

9/9/2025, 7:46:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meanwhile our dem governor is doing her best to ruin universal preschool in Portland

9/9/2025, 7:25:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Huh. I don’t remember him but I definitely remember her

9/9/2025, 4:29:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is movie is so much better than you expect

9/9/2025, 2:08:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congrats on coming out of that coma from 10 months ago

8/9/2025, 3:19:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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CVS randomly moved my Covid appointment 3 weeks into the future with no explanation

7/9/2025, 6:33:18 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It kind of makes sense like how every windows app would do this in the early 90s even when it was not what you wanted en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_...

7/9/2025, 4:12:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m suddenly flashing back to accidentally printing hundreds of pages of log output early in my software engineering career

7/9/2025, 4:11:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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IT crowd and Father Ted

6/9/2025, 8:46:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kind of incidentally Piccolo coded

6/9/2025, 5:01:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just taking off from Portland OR. Did Jobs make this available in PDX carpet pattern as a hat tip to his Reed College roots?

5/9/2025, 9:58:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The fact that he won after the favorite concert question was so crazy.

5/9/2025, 9:42:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know what, I’m starting to find him fun!

5/9/2025, 9:30:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not the worst evocation of Groundhog Day by a New York mayor…

5/9/2025, 9:28:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know Bryan essentially lives in LA, so this would be fairly convenient

5/9/2025, 8:05:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Angus King is technically IND(EAD) and just caucuses with our ghouls

5/9/2025, 5:04:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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See the thing about candidates from Maine is you can always bury them in the Pet Sematary [sic], if something bad happens.

5/9/2025, 4:57:27 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ex-lax horlicks

5/9/2025, 1:17:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh now he really is the the dem Trump

5/9/2025, 12:59:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Mam, do you know the way to the vet? Because these pythons are sick. Please! I must help them!”

5/9/2025, 12:52:00 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like I’ve played a jrpg that’s more 1-1. Like everyone has an animal spirit for their magic attacks.

5/9/2025, 12:31:22 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Daemons are kind of like Pokémon

5/9/2025, 12:21:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder if he ever played a jrpg?

5/9/2025, 12:19:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I worked for a toxic startup in the mid-2010s where the HR lady would openly call Reese the c word in interviews based on some previous work she’d done with her. You’d think maybe she was on to something, but now she’s working to mine the earth’s moon so it’s more of a “let them fight” scenario

5/9/2025, 12:17:30 AM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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But her user name was BoxingHelena88?

4/9/2025, 11:48:02 PM | 21 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh you wanted the pitch calling robot? What if we made an ump that was MORE likely to just make shit up instead?

4/9/2025, 8:48:34 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey, that’s dirty pool! *oof*

4/9/2025, 8:44:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is why they named it Rock Cod

4/9/2025, 8:37:14 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s the alien version from the world’s end. Not to worry.

4/9/2025, 6:30:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I read the Wikipedia page once and could never in a million years see myself watching that.

4/9/2025, 4:51:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah it was a crazy evolutionary dead end in controllers

4/9/2025, 2:36:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doesn’t the ps3 have analog face buttons? (No real feedback from the button though)

4/9/2025, 2:18:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh yeah they sell things on the internet now

4/9/2025, 2:14:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Providore? Coquine Market?

4/9/2025, 2:12:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was so bad at that game. My strategy of drive a truck into it wasn’t very advanced.

3/9/2025, 6:01:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh do things fall when you take out the supports? That was where Teardown’s immersion broke a little for me.

3/9/2025, 5:59:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s grown accustomed to the particular flavors of spit.

3/9/2025, 4:28:35 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah I think I only made it to two as a kid. My mental calculus was do I want to explain the Cold War and nuclear weapons to a 7 year old right before bed? Maybe in a couple of years

3/9/2025, 4:18:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We finished Prydain a while back (👍) and went right into A Wrinkle in Time (which I’ve found to be more overtly Christian than Lewis but less annoying about it) and my son loved it, but I kind of had to call an audible when the 3rd book starts with a rogue nuclear state (switched to Mrs basil e…)

3/9/2025, 4:11:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And if anyone is appalled to learn what you paid, you have the perfect reaction noise.

3/9/2025, 6:12:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time to transition to gamer renewables

3/9/2025, 12:13:42 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“You have the right to yes and”

2/9/2025, 10:46:44 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You do literally look like someone that just kind of writes down dreams.

2/9/2025, 10:35:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In a tight spot, they can… [puts on sunglasses] improvise

2/9/2025, 10:33:45 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Assemble of a crack team of Second City reservists.

2/9/2025, 9:53:25 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But how to disabusse them?

2/9/2025, 9:46:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The umbilical apparatus can only extend so far

2/9/2025, 7:11:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It says unmodified and you can fork, etc. but does it actually handle threads with web workers seamlessly? Very cursed and fun

2/9/2025, 4:05:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t think I was the only one that went robocop to total recall to “we’re seeing T2 in the theater and you might as well watch the first one before we go”.

2/9/2025, 1:26:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did the writer of the theme to 90210 get the assignment and go “I should crib owner of a lonely heart off 90125”?

2/9/2025, 1:05:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My wife did a really enjoyable cioppino inspired tomato cod stew a while back. Lot of cod, tomato, lemon, and onion.

1/9/2025, 7:19:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is the first thing a wizards hat?

1/9/2025, 7:08:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This sounds like a doughboys chat

1/9/2025, 4:12:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Needs more mung bean sprouts

1/9/2025, 5:03:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh you can’t feed him after midnight

1/9/2025, 5:00:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A phrase I can only ever hear Nic Cage deliver in Bringing Out the Dead

31/8/2025, 11:43:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m taking the first line as an allusion to Bringing out the Dead

31/8/2025, 10:53:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They even had to do this before once

That time he appeared on the White House lawn with COVID and we all had to decide if the background was looping or just had compression artifacts
31/8/2025, 10:46:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The ultimate evolution in working things out with your dad

Anbo-jyutsu between the two stuntmen Kyle and Will chose as champions.
31/8/2025, 10:09:05 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This sent me down a wiki hole where I learned Cotton Warburton won both an Oscar and a college football national championship. Suddenly my mind is open to insane alternate egot style formulations.

31/8/2025, 8:10:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wasn’t super happy that evil happy valley lady in the cabinet invited him to invade Portland

31/8/2025, 7:05:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My unto the breach body

31/8/2025, 5:59:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Microfiche machine

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31/8/2025, 5:15:22 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah my super Christian friend in college said he was at the Bush inauguration, but now Drew is like the best union man.

31/8/2025, 1:07:54 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I loved this show. I loved the famous Teddy Z. Rip off Ferris Bueller again and again and I’ll love them all.

31/8/2025, 1:05:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I chuckle every time I read my bottle of Nordic Naturals fish oil capsules.

30/8/2025, 6:52:46 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everyone demanding what can only be the the end result of a groundswell movement by calling every step of the groundswell not worth doing.

30/8/2025, 6:43:35 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Major Dad?

30/8/2025, 6:04:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stopping the trolley in the trolley problem to disappear half the passengers

30/8/2025, 5:43:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks!

30/8/2025, 5:17:25 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But it’s my birthday!

30/8/2025, 4:47:35 AM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This game deserved a Saturn 4 meg port

30/8/2025, 4:39:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw the name and my mind immediately filled in “boldly going forward because we can’t find reverse” but nothing else is familiar. Wonder if this is from falling to sleep sunday nights listening to dr demento?

30/8/2025, 4:36:29 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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32kb of ram in 1984 is a little rough

30/8/2025, 4:19:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I missed this movie so completely. I had moved to a hippie co-op for college that had a no tv in common space rule and the only evidence of it I ever encountered was a souvenir cup for the film on a dish washing shift.

30/8/2025, 4:11:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks like Luka from ER

30/8/2025, 2:21:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bolsonaro knew a guy

30/8/2025, 1:55:38 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Slow Zoom on Jake Tapper as Curb theme plays

30/8/2025, 1:22:00 AM | 25 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also dont the kids know him for clone wars?

30/8/2025, 1:20:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh and about the Wire, I did see Aiden Gillen on the streets of Dublin on vacation in 2017.

30/8/2025, 1:18:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this just a being Irish thing?

30/8/2025, 1:14:53 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The implied hog is huge and under the floor

30/8/2025, 1:09:08 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’ll redouble his commitment to funding ice in his memory

30/8/2025, 1:08:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Big rock candy mountains

30/8/2025, 12:40:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s mine and John McCain’s birthday today so it’d be a great pick!

29/8/2025, 11:52:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hail our dark lord

29/8/2025, 8:33:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Okay so when you see someone has 665 followers you simply have to click

29/8/2025, 8:31:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A serious raw milk borne bacterial infection would solve so much

29/8/2025, 7:05:04 PM | 57 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also he would shoplift joss whedon show dvd boxed sets, to throw 2 or 3 other kinds of guy in there.

29/8/2025, 6:08:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I knew a straight edge guy that carried around in his wallet the scabs from the scarified X’s he’d done on the backs of his hands.

29/8/2025, 6:03:59 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view