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Zach Heltzel

@zachheltzel.bsky.social

Academy Award winning writer and director of SWIMFAN.

created April 30, 2023

1,339 followers 299 following 1,640 posts

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Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson are gateway drugs to the harder shit. Tim Heidecker. Gregg Turkington. Arthur Fleck.

3/9/2025, 7:59:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

There’s no reason the Reeves/Pattinson Batman can’t fit into the James Gunn DCU. Peacemaker shows they can have projects that are wildly different from one another while not worrying about franchise continuity.

3/9/2025, 7:53:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only reason we are not so back is because we never fuckin’ left.

3/9/2025, 7:25:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

Fred that’s very funny but no

3/9/2025, 5:19:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

The girl at the Halloween party dressed like Laura Palmer? That’s wifey.

3/9/2025, 2:52:19 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonathan Fine (@jonathanbfine.bsky.social) reposted

they’re so close

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2/9/2025, 11:30:22 AM | 3807 847 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

2/9/2025, 3:20:00 PM | 8321 1995 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

lol. lmao, even.

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2/9/2025, 4:16:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Sheridan (@rob-sheridan.com) reposted

. @bsky.app just start running this ad on X asap

Bluesky: The place to be when *It Happens*
2/9/2025, 5:56:57 AM | 2819 414 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I already had therapy this week but I caught myself developing a crush on someone who is objectively bad for me and need to be talked out of it ASAP

2/9/2025, 5:56:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

And that they are in direct conversation with each other!!!

2/9/2025, 5:54:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I have finally figured out what my “type” is and it’s women who would emasculate Don Draper.

2/9/2025, 5:49:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Nate Bronze, Thomas Chaturbate Williams, etc. believe the opposite of whoever is being mean to them online. That is their sole ideological commitment.

1/9/2025, 7:54:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted

What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.

1/9/2025, 4:21:13 PM | 2729 587 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

The Studio is unrealistic. Kool-Aid Man is a Marvel Comics character. He will be introduced in the credits of Avengers: Secret Wars.

1/9/2025, 7:21:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Am I ever going to finish S4 of The Bear? Do I even care?

1/9/2025, 5:21:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

Some people process everything through the filter of being made into content

1/9/2025, 2:44:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Threads is the best app ever.

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1/9/2025, 2:42:03 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As many local and web publications as I could get my hands on and turn into left-wing media.

1/9/2025, 2:28:31 AM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

I need this as a bumper sticker.

1/9/2025, 2:13:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stan Kelly (@kartoonistkelly.bsky.social) reposted

Fixed it.

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1/9/2025, 12:25:12 AM | 2042 336 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

If Disney and Paramount start acting like WB (Universal has been doing its part) we might actually have a thriving theatrical movie business again.

1/9/2025, 1:44:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted

The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.

31/8/2025, 3:57:43 PM | 1788 484 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

31/8/2025, 12:02:54 PM | 12373 1946 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andi Zeisler (@andizeisler.bsky.social) reposted

Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀

30/8/2025, 10:23:01 PM | 11876 2184 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Sydney Sweeney is the Kyrsten Sinema of A-list Hollywood.

31/8/2025, 3:30:27 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

It would be so funny if Taylor Lorenz ends up being the one who breaks the news when you know what happens.

31/8/2025, 2:14:54 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Just got the news. I will not be on Saturday Night Live next season. Thank you, Lorne. For everything. 💔🗽

31/8/2025, 1:27:57 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

The reply guys on Bluesky got nothin’ on how fucking weird and unpleasant it is on Threads.

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31/8/2025, 1:12:34 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

please stop dming me your “tips” that donald trump is recovering from “rib removal surgery”

30/8/2025, 12:44:18 PM | 307 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

To be fair, I can’t quote even one sentence from essays I’ve actually written.

30/8/2025, 9:13:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

This is my theory as well.

30/8/2025, 8:13:01 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Crazy how fitness for office was only a Biden problem when it has been clear for a fucking while that Donald Trump’s body is rotting.

30/8/2025, 7:25:24 PM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

uhh yeah i think that is quite likely given who i am fundamentally

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30/8/2025, 7:10:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

It is so obvious that Reels artificially inflates view counts to make you feel like you have a bigger reach than you do on TikTok.

30/8/2025, 6:56:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Somebody wished for a Bernie administration on a monkey’s paw.

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30/8/2025, 6:48:45 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

Jeff Bridges in Lebowski Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire (Bridget Jones too, for that matter)

30/8/2025, 6:39:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

It’s wild watching movies from when you were younger and realizing how much hotter some actors were than you remembered them being.

30/8/2025, 6:36:36 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I don’t pick up on when people are being rude to me on purpose because I do a lot of rude things on accident and give everyone the grace I wish I could receive in return.

30/8/2025, 6:30:49 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

You either die that bass, or you live long enough to see yourself become the treble.

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30/8/2025, 5:35:08 PM | 244 17 | View on Bluesky | view

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“You either die that bass, or you live long enough to see yourself become the treble.”

30/8/2025, 5:34:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture God’s Little Ravioli 🏳️‍⚧️ (@zoealicempls.bsky.social) reposted

clearly it’s a body double, the real president got shot in the ear and those ears look perfectly fine

30/8/2025, 5:24:56 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Blue sky nice guy (@rajandelman.bsky.social) reposted

I'm so glad my fandom is fictional gay scientists, man

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29/8/2025, 4:32:11 PM | 55 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

midwit who doesn’t watch enough international cinema

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30/8/2025, 4:59:11 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Freddie Stroma should be the next Bond.

30/8/2025, 4:29:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Heidi Gardner and Mikey Day need to star in a movie together that is directed by a woman and written by a gay person.

30/8/2025, 4:06:56 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

His performance in Barry might be in my Sweet 16 of best performances ever.

30/8/2025, 3:56:16 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

You all sound like that time in college where I did mushrooms and got it trending on Twitter that Josh Duhamel had died.

30/8/2025, 3:54:48 AM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I just know I would be getting paid $8,000/mo to be a Democratic shill if I had c*m gutters.

30/8/2025, 3:52:53 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Joseph Kahn the world cries out for you

30/8/2025, 3:49:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

Had to pause and rewind because EXCUSE ME?!?!?

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30/8/2025, 1:36:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cute shirt on a handsome boy!

30/8/2025, 1:28:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

So where the fuck are they going to go? People who support this never want to answer that question because they either don’t care or they know it would make them sound like dumb assholes.

29/8/2025, 7:25:44 PM | 21 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I try not to use this word lightly, even when describing individual members of the Trump regime, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a profoundly evil human being.

29/8/2025, 7:13:10 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I miss away messages because where else am I going to passive-aggressively share out-of-context song lyrics with the 15 people I talk to on a regular basis?

29/8/2025, 6:16:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Get him to play Booster Gold as his Blue Mountain State character and prepare to make a billion dollars.

29/8/2025, 4:45:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sean T. Collins (@seantcollins.com) reposted reply parent

I have very nice people on my timeline today saying "Ashli Babbit's grave should be dug up and her corpse should be tossed into a ditch by the next administration," a sentiment with which I agree, and I am pretty far from alone. Lotsa room in that ditch too

29/8/2025, 2:04:10 PM | 124 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sean T. Collins (@seantcollins.com) reposted

If you went to the No Kings protests, every blue-haired lib grandma there wanted revenge. Not bending the moral arc blah blah blah—vengeance. As I keep saying, everyone knew what calling your enemies Nazis implies about their future. Yet the only politician I've heard speak about payback is Pritzker

29/8/2025, 2:02:20 PM | 390 72 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

So you’re saying the 80s were way cooler than people think.

29/8/2025, 4:39:50 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I think she wins a directing Oscar one day.

29/8/2025, 3:41:17 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Maybe the most important talk show in the world right now, and not just because it was where Matty Healy said Harry Styles “has the N-word pass for being gay.”

29/8/2025, 3:19:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CHOAM Nomsky (@samthielman.com) reposted

That’s because conservatives tell each other it’s not cutting you off to say you can’t bring your same-sex partner to Christmas

28/8/2025, 6:05:34 PM | 1308 221 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I don’t care if you feel disrespected because of your birdshit baby brain. ❤️

28/8/2025, 6:04:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I think about this at least three times a day.

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28/8/2025, 4:48:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I simply just cannot comprehend how that would even work - literally seeing things you aren’t actually looking at. Other people don’t make sense.

28/8/2025, 3:30:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Do I have aphantasia or am I just taking the word “see” literally?

28/8/2025, 5:54:03 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah, this movie is why I kept saying “in the parlance of our times” in my high school English classes.

28/8/2025, 5:34:43 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Constantine (@ajaxsinger.bsky.social) reposted

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

28/8/2025, 2:32:42 AM | 6666 2887 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

28/8/2025, 2:53:27 AM | 10759 3616 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

Bridges and Goodman giving two of the best performances of all time.

28/8/2025, 5:03:53 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Just realized the only way I’ve watched The Big Lebowski from beginning to end is on a PSP UMD.

28/8/2025, 4:52:39 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

FROM THE CREATOR OF THE INTUITIONIST VO: “Detective Amy-Colette Vibes doesn’t need evidence.” REINTRODUCING KATHARINE MCPHEE VO: “She can just kind of tell.” VIBES THIS FALL ON NBC NEXT DAY ON PEACOCK

28/8/2025, 4:39:51 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like how did The Other Two basically storyboard that couple

28/8/2025, 3:30:23 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Travis and Taylor’s engagement photos are gorgeous!

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28/8/2025, 3:05:29 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I have (at least one of) my Halloween costume ready, and it’s so dumb / only funny to me.

28/8/2025, 2:55:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

So happy for them!

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28/8/2025, 2:48:16 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think about this probably ten times a day now. youtu.be/_r_pOtUVTgo?...

28/8/2025, 2:03:27 AM | 12 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like there are so many ways you could go about doing something like this and absolutely none of them involve Matt Yglesias.

28/8/2025, 1:05:55 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 1:02:15 AM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Found out that Coworker 1 told Coworker 2 “Zach has his shit together” and Coworker 2 couldn’t stop laughing

27/8/2025, 11:57:39 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

This country is diseased and I don’t think it can ever be fixed.

27/8/2025, 7:34:39 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

I will never escape him.

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27/8/2025, 6:38:53 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The plan? Pretend to change the logo to something people will hate then change it back when everyone is talking about the restaurant.

27/8/2025, 6:25:20 AM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

The Democratic Party: “We did a focus group that said we shouldn’t call Trump a dictator.” The media: “Democrats are going too far in calling Trump a dictator.” Trump: “I can do whatever I want. I’m a dictator.”

27/8/2025, 3:33:01 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Zohar (@tomzohar.bsky.social) reposted

Crumbl has unveiled their new logo

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26/8/2025, 9:29:44 PM | 61 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

This movie is a lot different than how I remember it.

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26/8/2025, 8:10:14 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Practicing the law of detachment by spending the last ten years not doing fucking anything.

26/8/2025, 8:05:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Linkins (@dceiver.bsky.social) reposted

nothing's aged better than the thing so many people said would age poorly newrepublic.com/series/37/tr...

25/8/2025, 9:00:03 PM | 486 122 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

It is funny to me after all *that* she is going to marry…him.

26/8/2025, 7:01:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted

The weirdos were right. The West really is committing suicide. But it's using the weirdos to do it. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

26/8/2025, 5:27:39 PM | 606 135 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Shego is brat.

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26/8/2025, 3:19:04 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Adderall shortage is just never going to end, huh. Amazing. USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸

26/8/2025, 2:03:37 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

We’ve all spent the last decade not doing things because it will “help Trump” and look at how successful that strategy has been!

26/8/2025, 1:10:51 AM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

Time to warm up the heart attack gun.

26/8/2025, 1:09:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social)

McGruff the Crime Dog is posting TikToks about Trump cutting his funding. Like for real.

26/8/2025, 1:08:14 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

"skews to the right"

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25/8/2025, 11:32:12 PM | 481 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel.bsky.social) reply parent

There’s always going to be some things in the past that actually were better, but to focus on those parts while ignoring everything else is silly. Like it’s actually amazing I can watch 99% of the movies that have ever been made whenever and wherever I want. Living in the future rules.

25/8/2025, 9:10:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They should get Club Chalamet to be on The Traitors.

25/8/2025, 5:23:24 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

25/8/2025, 4:24:33 PM | 48350 12119 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kim (@kimmymonte.bsky.social) reposted

me when one of my friends wears a red shirt

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