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@wirthling.bsky.social

crafter of small-batch artisanal bullshit online-american navelnaut

created August 28, 2023

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what will it take for the "republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility" myth to die

29/8/2025, 1:37:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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today was a good day for idiots but so is every day

28/8/2025, 7:38:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i think he sanded his head down too far

27/8/2025, 5:18:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

famous revolutionary president abraham lincoln

26/8/2025, 6:00:00 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

he was just trying to make scooters cool, and it worked

26/8/2025, 4:31:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

apparently she cannot (does not meet defamation requirements), so instead i suggest i will hold lutnick down while cook kicks his nutsack into next week

26/8/2025, 1:42:49 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i am absolutely furious that i had to wear medical orthotics when i was a child and never thought of this joke

25/8/2025, 10:51:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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at this point i don't know that i trust a journalist who is unwilling to shoot this guy in the face, you are all such a disappointment

25/8/2025, 5:47:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

i will compost the heads of my enemies, sure

13/8/2025, 1:16:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

relatable

12/8/2025, 2:22:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

how do i get it to not zoom in x10000000000000

1/8/2025, 4:14:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

this emoji is titled "cancer" and not the more obvious, y'know

screenshot of emoji that appears to an arguably immature observer as very obviously a sideways 69
1/8/2025, 4:13:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i can't do anything halfway except for all the things i can only do halfway

1/8/2025, 11:59:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

jambi the genie from pee wee's playhouse

31/7/2025, 8:06:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Lazarus Project = Slow Horses + Loki

30/7/2025, 11:54:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

next time he bursts into flame, do NOT put it out

28/7/2025, 12:16:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i hope pam bondi learns what justice is some day

23/7/2025, 11:59:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

their constituents are too busy talking about how much they love the tariffs, no doubt

23/7/2025, 11:31:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

the universe is conspiring against me

23/7/2025, 11:17:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

mr. president, respectfully, why are you such a horrible lying cunt i will take my answer off the air

22/7/2025, 6:13:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

banana $10

22/7/2025, 12:08:02 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

i think if one looks closely enough between "we" and "shall" in the constitution you will see a president can now fire supreme court justices I am an originalist

22/7/2025, 11:25:26 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

thought about it, i believe the larger boomer generation is going to warp median ages relative to other generations until they die, so that stat will always skew a bit older than the average age for a while, as in even a show that younger people like might have fewer viewers sum than a matlock rerun

18/7/2025, 11:52:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

Elsbeth gets me, what can i say

18/7/2025, 11:39:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

biden sold his soul and backed netanyahu and this is his just reward for it

9/7/2025, 2:04:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

he typed this with one hand

9/7/2025, 11:39:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

thrunt

8/7/2025, 5:04:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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would i rather die than go to a thing? absolutely be careful what you invite me to

3/7/2025, 5:30:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

#evergreen

3/7/2025, 2:20:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

just want to thank you for the proper usage of "begging the question," a rare sighting in the wild

30/6/2025, 2:38:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

people who think profit is the only reason people endeavor to accomplish things are telling on themselves

30/6/2025, 11:28:43 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tits McGee (@scientits.bsky.social) reposted

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak
21/6/2025, 10:03:16 AM | 24599 4201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

occurred to me just now: i did get to personally try out various pianos while i awaited in vain for sales support, which is something i cannot do online, i guess i need this store to stick around for next time i need to try out pianos/guitars

21/6/2025, 3:49:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

^A/C

21/6/2025, 3:18:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

no worries, bsky, whomever i will be sharing that anecdote with in person won't care either

21/6/2025, 3:17:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

when people are discussing the death of brick-and-mortar i will share the anecdote of how i twice recently went to a locally-famous music store to buy a piano and both times left drenched in sweat from the poor AC in the piano section without a word or even eye contact from staff...buying it online

21/6/2025, 3:16:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

that thing sounds like the devil's intestinal cramps

17/6/2025, 12:05:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

stepped outside once to get amazon packages accidentally in winnie the pooh mode and now worry how many times i did that and didn't notice

16/6/2025, 6:31:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

how dare you demean the majestic hog

12/6/2025, 6:43:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

you say that plane crash survivor was lucky; i say that plane crash survivor has been cursed with having to do interviews

12/6/2025, 4:42:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i am not a doctor but i do have a keyboard and random opinions

10/6/2025, 2:28:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

admiring that throw

8/6/2025, 2:22:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

an assault baby, hello

23/5/2025, 11:31:30 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

they had a lot of lineups, man

20/5/2025, 11:55:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

"As Mark Twain said, “A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” Actually he probably didn’t say that—but everyone keeps saying he did, illustrating the point perfectly." nice

19/5/2025, 11:43:59 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

is there an underwear solution for men who are neither growers nor showers um, asking for a friend

17/5/2025, 3:31:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

almost broke my mouse clicking the like button too hard

17/5/2025, 3:27:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

"A Bas Le Roicky Road" i am sorry

15/5/2025, 12:41:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

my favorite flavor

15/5/2025, 12:01:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

anyone describing immigration as an "invasion" has forfeited intellectual credibility, such a person has no respect for what words mean or for you, it is a manipulative lie meant to mislead you

10/5/2025, 2:06:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

dhipshit

8/5/2025, 11:51:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

has trump taken credit yet

8/5/2025, 6:19:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

they also said we stink of elderberries

8/5/2025, 12:58:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

does this suggest a need for maybe more of an emphasis on exams and less on papers? much harder to chatgpt your way to an A in a one-hour monitored exam, makes people prove what they have learned live

7/5/2025, 1:36:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

maybe the US should be canada's 14th province obvious punchline, had to get it out of my system, gotta make room for more dumb jokes

6/5/2025, 11:34:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

when he swore an oath to that whatsahoosit he meant it

5/5/2025, 6:31:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

i am starting to eat like an old man, apparently it just happens to you, one day you wake up and you think, mmmm oatmeal

2/5/2025, 12:42:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

there always has to be that one showboat screwing up an S

30/4/2025, 3:14:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

Obama!

30/4/2025, 1:17:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this is the future liberals want

30/4/2025, 12:10:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

she is a lethal hazard to her own family, so she checks all the boxes

26/4/2025, 8:37:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

a thing trump has changed forever: i can never give a republican the benefit of the doubt by default any more about their perspective, they cannot be trusted to care about anyone but themselves or to recognize right from wrong, i was patient and respectful about their humanity, but no more

22/4/2025, 12:21:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

i just assumed Child's Pallet was a british dish

17/4/2025, 7:13:16 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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object permanence is woke

3/4/2025, 6:20:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

i stared at some pit beef in the fridge, i cannot decide if it looks weak or strong, of course one thinks at first that the cow is dead so obviously weak relative to a strong man, but we don't know, maybe this cow fought valiantly to the end, alas, my pit beef cannot tell its tale

3/4/2025, 1:17:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

causing the rift in space-time he is trying to repair

3/4/2025, 12:51:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

replace OK with This is Fine

1/4/2025, 5:19:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

it is disappointing but not surprising people think this; at the time I was reading article after article saying "we don't have enough evidence yet, please let's investigate it rather than declare conclusions now" and these folks interpreted it as "they are just denying the lab leak theory" somehow

30/3/2025, 3:59:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

"the fertilization president" is a hell of a euphemism for "rapist"

27/3/2025, 12:28:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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navalny unavailable for comment

23/3/2025, 7:17:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"dependent" is the key word here, the person who depends on AI for coding is going to make way more mistakes than a coder who is smarter than the AI (it might get smart enough but it ain't now)

19/3/2025, 4:37:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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up is down, day is night

19/3/2025, 4:26:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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fuckin salesforce

14/3/2025, 2:37:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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how long until elon starts buying his own teslas in bulk to juice sales numbers

11/3/2025, 12:38:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"who killed elon?" is going to be a global murder on the orient express

7/3/2025, 4:11:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the weather report says mostly sunny with a high chance of an expensive, dangerous rain of rocketship shrapnel, i hate march here

7/3/2025, 3:46:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social)

i am fairly sure the turning point will be when they come for our porn i will give you my c:\dontlookhere folder when you pry it from my cold dead hand

1/3/2025, 3:54:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

i thought it was interesting that musk admitted doge made a mistake...admitting error is not in trump's playbook, trump is probably mad at him for breaking the protocol

28/2/2025, 3:50:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i do say, i think it is unhelpful to accuse somebody on the front lines fighting this shit (via uncovering truth moreso than lobbing molotovs) of moral cowardice

28/2/2025, 3:45:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

the person you are talking to is on the left in cuffs

28/2/2025, 3:26:32 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

28/2/2025, 3:25:33 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

we all want to do SOMETHING and i am participating in this boycott for myself but i do it fully knowing it won't actually have an impact on what is happening let's not assassinate the messenger making the obvious and accurate observation that a half-assed boycott like this won't effect change

28/2/2025, 3:08:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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my will awards a prize to the person who pulls my plug first

27/2/2025, 1:42:13 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Daily I lose the will to sustain my principles On violence, I have held it is never a solution I have never argued for violence Today, I reconsider

27/2/2025, 12:58:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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my unpopular opinion: both NBA teams should have 20 players each and there are 15 live basketballs and 10 hoops and they are all on rollerblades

25/2/2025, 11:03:32 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

punters do matter after all

20/2/2025, 1:36:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

it is 𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚏̶𝚛̶𝚊̶𝚜̶𝚝̶𝚛̶𝚞̶𝚌̶𝚝̶𝚞̶𝚛̶𝚎̶ plane crash week

19/2/2025, 6:32:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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are there roman coders?

16/2/2025, 2:42:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Science is dead.

Portrait of RFK Jr
14/2/2025, 12:31:06 PM | 430 98 | View on Bluesky | view

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the dismount there was so terrible that i have no recollection of what he said before it

12/2/2025, 4:17:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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tesla is promising that US presidents will be self-driving within 2 years

12/2/2025, 1:31:07 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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we promised to shit in your mouth and we mean it

11/2/2025, 5:48:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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* terms do not apply to all ethnicities and political persuasions

11/2/2025, 1:05:23 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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big of you to admit that

10/2/2025, 4:25:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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time travel is impossible or else somebody would have already traveled back and popped this asshole

10/2/2025, 4:23:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the terrorists are going to start hiding their conversations in pro-DEI blogs where the spooks can't see them

10/2/2025, 4:03:39 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wirthling (@wirthling.bsky.social) reply parent

i am a comp sci guy and see a ton of these types among my peers in what i suspect is a higher proportion than the general public...if they took any liberal arts classes they didn't understand them but they get machines and simple logical constructs like a champ

10/2/2025, 3:12:34 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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organic chemistry is fraud!

10/2/2025, 3:05:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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please, journalists and pundits, never use "party of law and order" in reference to the GOP ever again or allow them to say it unchallenged, it is an obvious lie now same for "originalist"

10/2/2025, 3:03:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it's just common sense to trust a ketamine-addled nazi man-child unapologetic liar over an established american institution, duh

10/2/2025, 2:57:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view