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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 25m

As an American house haver don't listen to this poster. I'm posting this from our very normal and not at all concerning 3 bedroom/9 bathroom very normal house.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 29m

On HGTV's Sex Cult Compound Flippers this week...

Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 45m

Getting into the Halloween spirit by accidentally backing into an enormous Joro spider web.

Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 2h

And their Shabtis

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 4h

Dude rocking is so back

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 4h

I've just seen this photo of them, and my god does it spark joy.

Three sumo wrestlers on bicycles in London

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 4h

As long as the background is dark.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 4h

Whatever the default in whatever editor I'm using is. I'm too damn old to care.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 6h

SPOILER ALERT
The reunion for a gen x cruise side quest makes a lot more sense in a world where he ended up on Rock of Love, is all I'm saying.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 6h

Cyberpunk 2020 came out in 1990, which means that Johnny Silverhand canonically played music closer to Ratt, Dokken, or Mötley Crüe.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 6h

"Bluesky is pve mode, twitter is pvp" rang pretty true even back then.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 8h

The corollary - "you spent HOW MUCH to make this turd?" - I find extremely interesting.

Don Dohler, Maryland's alien invasion horror king, spent $3500 on The Alien Factor and it beats the pants off of any number of productions that spent 10,000 times that.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 8h

She's not really being denied friendship because she has an underlying condition called being an irredeemable asshole.

Good to know social shunning works on some of these fucks though.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 8h

This is information that you couldn't waterboard out of me, what is up with this lady?

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 8h

"How am I going to pay for this pizza?" doesn't cut it anymore?

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 8h

The "poster's discord" for workshopping skeets was the least of the awfulness. I just don't think the userbase over here can be trusted with group communities.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 8h

The channers openly talked about disguising what they were all about, "hide your power level" and such.

But it was easier to wake up every day a new born baby with no concept of yesterday.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 9h

mfer can't spell users

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 9h

Group chats? Considering the horrors perpetrated by uses of this website via discord that sounds like a terrible idea.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 9h

Every fad makes this problem worse because writing specs isn't considered cool.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 23h

And good luck

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, my bad

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 23h

Or a PI for the rich and famous

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 23h

It does seem to chill them out for sure. Allegedly, our kittens are fixed hellions.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 23h

Even a cheap and cheerful $10 Walmart one should have a continuity setting, which allows you to check if a circuit is complete or not, but it would require taking the face plate off to get the probes in there.

That said, all live wires can be dangerous so it might not be worth the trouble.

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 23h

Oh no!

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 23h

Funny replies are fun, and good.

But I've worked on houses after enthusiastic DIYers enough to be a bit cautious around unusually placed electrical switches.

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