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Justin Dearing

@zippy1981.bsky.social

Dad. Husband. Landlord. Programmer. Karataka. Today is a good day to die.

created September 29, 2023

799 followers 737 following 3,126 posts

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Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

WHAT? KNIVES OUT THREE?

2/9/2025, 9:27:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gianluca Sartori (@spaghettidba.bsky.social) reposted

Beware .NET devs: SqlConnectionStringBuilder in Microsoft.Data will understand all connection string keys in System.Data, but will create connection strings using the keys understood only by Microsoft.Data. 🤦‍♂️

2/9/2025, 3:30:36 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't tell Trump George Washington is currently a 6 star general or he will make himself have 7 stars

2/9/2025, 3:29:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) reposted

Unsurprising, but still total clown shit

2/9/2025, 2:23:51 PM | 548 147 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a momentous achievement

2/9/2025, 3:09:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

We already have a verazanno bridge

2/9/2025, 1:16:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn't that good for your bottom line?

1/9/2025, 3:34:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc-André Moreau (@awakecoding.com) reposted

🖥️ RdpOps: The practice of running IT operations by using RDP for Windows administration, instead of PowerShell, scripts, or infrastructure-as-code ⚡

1/9/2025, 3:26:44 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Simon HB (@norock.bsky.social) reposted

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
31/8/2025, 12:07:55 PM | 24585 4641 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Commendable if true, but not a typical of a type A personality with limited freedom. She would likely latch onto something

1/9/2025, 1:09:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SwiftOnSecurity (@swiftonsecurity.com) reposted

Someone recently pointed out that a huge portion of those who die from measles without vaccination are in fact those with other conditions. That is actually the goal of RFK Jr. It's a cull.

1/9/2025, 1:03:34 AM | 748 154 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll probably use it myself

31/8/2025, 10:56:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Well there is that.

31/8/2025, 10:42:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

This too will pass

31/8/2025, 10:36:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah she seems happy. Let the fire department inspect it, and maybe charge her $200 a year for that. Let people be weird in peace.

31/8/2025, 10:17:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Fellas is it gay to stuff a bird?

31/8/2025, 6:32:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Who amongst us would not name a building after ourselves

31/8/2025, 2:20:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

How many people have traveled here for LASIK? The radio commercial famous Dr Joseph Della Russo

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31/8/2025, 2:09:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

hello to everyone else who had no idea how you were supposed to pronounce “foyer” or “hors d'oeuvres” to the point that you heard both of them in real life and didn’t connect them to the words you read in books for years

31/8/2025, 1:41:05 AM | 1666 118 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lux ”Queen of the Bisexuals” Alptraum (@luxalptraum.com) reposted

Gonna crowdsource something: Can you send me links to your favorite “fellas, is it gay to [insert basic human activity]” Reddit etc posts? Earnest ones only. Please, I need evidence of men truly thinking wiping their asses or whatever is gay.

30/8/2025, 8:02:43 PM | 148 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ů‹ (@zan.bsky.social) reposted

they made an SVU episode about bluesky

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15/2/2024, 11:44:16 PM | 1275 261 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

New levels of derp scientists only previously theorized were achieved that day

30/8/2025, 10:12:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) reposted

No notes

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29/8/2025, 2:14:40 PM | 14602 4141 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

You might as well upgrade it with crazy bright LCDs and a window breaking head

29/8/2025, 11:21:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NE Ohio Regional Sewer District (@neorsd.org) reposted

if i had a nickel for every call for merch i get, our Legal department would ask me hey where did you get all these nickels and it would be a whole thing.

29/8/2025, 8:55:37 PM | 180 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

We need a shot for shot remake of TOS except all the Vulcans are black and half the Klingons have the augment virus. Also they randomly talk about "new humans"

29/8/2025, 9:18:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

We need Martin Scorscsee to do Goodfellas 2

29/8/2025, 6:20:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture OK BaOmer (@jsx.bsky.social) reposted

Jack Kirby was right about everything

29/8/2025, 6:13:08 PM | 30 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I want to point out I unironically think "Spock's brain" is awesome

28/8/2025, 11:39:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Punk on Bus Lives!🇨🇦🇬🇱 (@punkonbuslives.bsky.social) reposted

If you're a trans person in America and you've ever thought about purchasing a firearm before for self-protection, I suggest you do it right fucking now.

28/8/2025, 11:03:11 PM | 13 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Hunt animals with spears?

28/8/2025, 11:07:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I showed my kid the Oswalt filibuster after this.

28/8/2025, 9:34:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

So, they provide adequate explanation for why they have the learned asshole behavior of Vulcans. They all learn an individual lesson leading to growth. We see a different kind of Vulcan. So I ask again, what real life group of people is made "other" or less than because of this episode.

28/8/2025, 9:34:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

RETVRN to chasing really large mammals long distances then stabbing them with sticks!

28/8/2025, 9:24:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Walk and bike DAMMIT

28/8/2025, 5:27:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

This is why you should walk and drive places

28/8/2025, 5:26:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I lived through frozen on replay and it's honestly similar levels of rewatching from the 9 year old

28/8/2025, 5:19:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean. . . . We got shit going on in America

28/8/2025, 5:00:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

You know we can totally facade these buildings with pretty bricks.

28/8/2025, 4:24:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Epstein probably

28/8/2025, 3:46:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

America is both the nation trying to live up to Thomas Jefferson's words and repeating Thomas Jefferson's deeds. Vulcans are isolationist assholes who also try to believe in infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

28/8/2025, 3:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

That could be bad

28/8/2025, 3:07:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyway, I'll watch the episode and see if I regret saying all this.

28/8/2025, 2:56:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

In other words, if I could make a person biologically Vulcan, and didn't have time to train them emotionally, I'd make them act like an asshole. Vulcan because asshole Vulcans tend to not go ape shit like when you insult Spock's mom.

28/8/2025, 2:56:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm going to offer a "trek nerd" apologia as a possible defense. If I had to make someone fully Vulcan for a short term high stress situation, I'd want to ensure they act EXTRA Vulcan out of fear of what a human experiencing Vulcan emotions without Vulcan learned regulation would do under stress

28/8/2025, 2:56:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

I'm going to watch the racist SNW episode. I'm going in with this thought process: * Black people are real. Vulcans are not * Code of Honor contained real & harmful generalizations. Vulcans are pseudo autistic? * To whom is this an aggression against? Who am I standing up for being against this?

28/8/2025, 2:56:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kenneth Fisqher (the q is silent) (@sqlstudent144.bsky.social) reposted

And I will now be watching Toxic Avenger at least once.

28/8/2025, 2:23:49 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Literally even me a consultants software developer should every 8 months or so be told to report to the office I never go to and mop the floors or some shit

28/8/2025, 1:16:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

My weird take is everyone should be aperiodically made to grab a broom and sweep as part of their job

28/8/2025, 1:14:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Not a lot of kids in airports

27/8/2025, 11:41:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Man, talk about P1 sev1 incident

27/8/2025, 7:42:12 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nashville Cycling City (@cycling.city) reposted

Tonight! Come join! 🫡

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27/8/2025, 12:38:59 PM | 9 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kristi Yamaguccimane (@wapplehouse.bsky.social) reposted

In an ironic, and some would say cruel twist of fate, Michael B. Jordan’s middle name is actually “Basketball”

28/5/2025, 12:54:50 PM | 718 62 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

That actually seems smart. The guys who need the roads the most (the soldiers who march on them on foot) and over long enough stretches to understand how wear and tear happen from different types of imperfections will probably be naturally included towards making really good roads

27/8/2025, 12:35:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Not going to stop calling cleaning up trash "policing the area" it's picking up literal trash

27/8/2025, 12:07:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

They would form a proper litter line. Get some boy scouts to teach them to police the area

27/8/2025, 12:00:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Like dude, this ain't being into chakras.

26/8/2025, 10:36:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

So I had a job where we got a new CTO who was apparently a big-ish scientologist. It basically gave me an opportunity to tell the xenu story at lunch to coworkers. I got so mad when I tried to explain scientology to someone and they dismissed me as "yeah he's into spiritual shit"

26/8/2025, 10:36:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I lost a lot of weight biking because I couldn't eat while I biked. There was calorie counting and all but the biking mainly helped me not eat while I pedaled

26/8/2025, 10:32:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cross-laminated Tinder (@nickhasthoughts.com) reposted reply parent

all I'm saying is the first company with a sans serif logo to go serif is going to get so much pussy

26/8/2025, 8:24:45 PM | 17 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I've been to cracker barrel. Three is one not terribly far away. It's ok. I like the peg games

26/8/2025, 10:29:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

I do kinda want to drive west and go to cracker barrel

26/8/2025, 9:19:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Look if the mayor of California was a scientologist, blue sky would have known this already

26/8/2025, 7:39:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cross-laminated Tinder (@nickhasthoughts.com) reposted

that doesn’t mean there aren’t better looking ways to do this but the extent that building technology and global supply chains influence what gets built and how is vastly underrated. you might want to sit down for this but it’s not wokeness nor is it architects shitting on beauty lol

26/8/2025, 7:25:39 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Legit would watch this if it was real

26/8/2025, 7:34:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

You ever Google arrowverse watch list and then realize the COMMITMENT you're making if you start watching Supergirl

26/8/2025, 7:32:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

I'd watch this

26/8/2025, 7:32:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

True.

26/8/2025, 7:20:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

They are very boring and we make them uncomfortable with our chaos

26/8/2025, 6:03:36 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Did he ever call Martha Stewart a bitch?

26/8/2025, 5:59:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

This is the America I want

26/8/2025, 5:58:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Embrace the panic

26/8/2025, 5:09:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Torx drive screws!!

26/8/2025, 5:08:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Cracker barrel isn't woke with the new design, it's literally just looking like a relator staged a cracker barrel. Gay people can have clutter

26/8/2025, 4:48:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

But regardless, I hope we can have an episode where we can see Spock reliving his trauma of not being Vulcan enough, have a good laugh, and not be racist. Maybe a bunch of humans that act like season 1 Michael burman.

26/8/2025, 4:44:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

I get that it comes off as racist to have all the humans turned into Vulcans that then act more Vulcan than Spock, but I also want to enjoy an episode where Spock gets made fun of for not being logical enough. No way this will age as badly as TNGs "the African tribe stole our white women" episode.

26/8/2025, 4:44:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) reposted

He's literally become Don Quixote.

26/8/2025, 4:32:16 PM | 1751 341 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

He who controls the selenium controls the universe

26/8/2025, 4:28:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

My kids pack themselves onigiri. They never take their water bottles. I have quite the collection of water bottles. One day the government will put my kids in foster homes because I don't give them water.

26/8/2025, 4:25:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that rust on your fence? I thought all miter fences were made of aluminum

26/8/2025, 4:23:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Fun fact the prime minister of Canada can't see egg prices but he does have the power to put milk in bags

26/8/2025, 4:19:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Just mix it with non-spicy cheeses. I am a cheap man who buys blocks of cheeses and grates them myself. I also use Jarlsberg for quesadillas, so I'm not the best of role models

26/8/2025, 4:18:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I am a very adventurous but habitual eater and cooker so I get Peter.

26/8/2025, 3:39:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

Starting to use chat gpt to suggest recipes based on what I have. I'm just that kind of guy that will eat the same 14 dinners in succession and my family needs variety

26/8/2025, 3:25:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean sidewalks. I don't think it was climate, just industrialization. New Orleans has lots of sidewalks and it's a swamp, but it's an urban swamp

26/8/2025, 3:22:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I just think the North East was built denser even before Street cars. So you had more of the types of neighborhoods that would get street cars

26/8/2025, 3:21:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm against the lawsuit on principle as a fellow YIMBY, but isn't the whole ethos of cliff side park "yeah look out you front door and see Manhattan"? Like I kinda get why they're mad. I could see the town becoming a weird tourist trap where you can tour single family houses and look at Manhattan

26/8/2025, 2:56:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anne M. Carpenter (@catholickungfu.bsky.social) reposted

I think this is definitely one reason for the alliance, but cracks exist. F*rst Th*ngs actually hates Elon Musk’s eugenics. It’ll be interesting to see what power does to the cracks in the alliance, because my guess is it doesn’t smooth them over. It makes them more severe because of “what now?”

26/8/2025, 2:24:09 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

I'd like a study of black vs white neighborhoods and walking infrastructure to test a hypothesis I have. I think black neighborhoods have better sidewalks just because no one fights against them. I could be wrong of course. That's why I want the study.

26/8/2025, 2:52:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anne M. Carpenter (@catholickungfu.bsky.social) reposted

Catholic alliances with hardcore right wing Protestant America just never work out in our favor. Which we deserve, because come on, did we think the weirdo American white supremacists with a long history of hating Catholics was gonna be okay THIS time?

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26/8/2025, 2:10:30 PM | 186 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social)

A big appeal of AI for writing in corporate America is there is so much redundant writing to do. PowerPoints need to become contracts which need to become estimates. Meeting transcripts need to be summarized so no one will read them.

26/8/2025, 2:24:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Weinersmith (@zachweinersmith.bsky.social) reposted

Now that robotics is advancing quickly, someone should build a Chuck E Cheese so that partway through an animatronics show it suddenly moves fluidly, screams "ENOUGH!" and begins overturning chairs.

26/8/2025, 2:02:00 PM | 134 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait ok I googled the wrong person. Yes as expected

25/8/2025, 8:00:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

No Ms da Fonseca-Wollheim surprisingly age appropriate. I stand corrected

25/8/2025, 7:59:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm assuming there was an age delta

25/8/2025, 7:57:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

This man is what the kids refer to as de-lu-lu.

25/8/2025, 1:49:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Moist Owlet (Antibacterial) (@g-sharp-major.bsky.social) reposted

“Little Seizures”

25/8/2025, 11:16:43 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

Peak German honestly

25/8/2025, 11:27:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Dearing (@zippy1981.bsky.social) reply parent

I might have to get one on these instead of a ninja if my shitty blender ever dies and forces my hand

25/8/2025, 11:22:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view