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Nick (derogatory) ✨

@slothropsmap.bsky.social

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Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Tallest Italian with chronic intractable migraine • What you fail to see, Mr Pope Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah that's a fun idea. I will.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2h

Some of the California practice test questions I've seen want to know how many hundred feet away from X you need to be before doing Y, which stunned me.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2h

I need to know why three of these construction signs were copy and pasted from 1997.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2h

I'm a simple man with few natural enemies. It's been a pleasant life.

Having said this, I will die cursing the name of roundabouts.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2h

In order to replace my expiring DC drivers license with a CA license, I actually have to test a written test at the DMV. I'm studying again, like I'm a kid.

This situation is insane. Never put me in a situation like this.

Turn at a “T” intersection from
a one-way street onto a two-way
street. Tra!c going straight through
the intersection has the right-of-way.
You may turn eithe

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3h

Well…

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10h

It feels like a fever dream that just a few months ago, Elon Musk would routinely address the media in the Oval Office in a t-shirt and jacket while the president just sat there and looked at him.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 4h

I would jump at the chance to show off my white whale.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 4h

This Chiefs offense is dedicated to the chicanery. Goofy ass motions, triple reverses, it’s every damn play.

I couldn’t imagine trying to defend it.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 4h

Far from it!

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 4h

A timely reminder that Moby Dick is the gayest of the great books.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 4h

Mahomes is 13-of-15 for 158 yards and a touchdown between the numbers and the hashmarks tonight.

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 4h

Chiefs got the Lions backers in hell tonight

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

I have blocked or been blocked by so many of the participants in the discourse that I only obliquely understand that today gumbo has crossed paths with antisemitism, which is a hell of a trick. I feel like I’m better off not knowing specifics.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

Helium and helium accessories.

IDtheMIKE aka Spooky Varian Skye @idthemike.xyz · 6h

Does Mahommes kinda sound like if Hank Hill breathed helium and got really excited?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 7h

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 8h

Hell yes

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 9h

If you’ve paid any attention to Trump, you can plainly see he’s terrified of dying. His death marks the obliteration of the only thing he’s ever thought about.

This sudden obsession with the afterlife sure is, uh, notable. Doubly so now that he thinks he’s bound for hell.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10h

It feels like a fever dream that just a few months ago, Elon Musk would routinely address the media in the Oval Office in a t-shirt and jacket while the president just sat there and looked at him.

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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 10h

Browns/Steelers should not have been televised

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11h

I always thought this was one of the best posts on this website.

Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · May 4

a lot of people want there to be Knowledge That Makes You Good and unfortunately that is not a thing that exists

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · May 4

a lot of people want there to be Knowledge That Makes You Good and unfortunately that is not a thing that exists

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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