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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup,

@tvsadam.bsky.social

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Video games, covid, and neurosis, not necessarily in that order. Providing 100 words when 10 would suffice since the mid-1980s. He/him would like to talk about dragon quest pfal.us (podcast i used to make) youtube.com/@tvsmusic6398 (music i used to play)

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · Oct 17

i just want a moderate number of people to pay modestly positive attention to things i say and/or do and then immediately forget i exist and leave me alone is that really too much to ask

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

I’m old enough to remember when he was advocating for people who were being Big Meanies about Charlie Kirk to lose their jobs, because I am more than 30 days old

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 2h

attributable to “Some Internet Guy, idk”

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 2h

Julia Doubleday is always a satisfying read for me because it’s basically “what if the things I’m thinking about all the time, but expressed by someone who does words good”

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 2h

a marvelous rebuttal to yesterday’s frankly insulting discourse about how pleading with healthy people to do a fraction of what sick and vulnerable people already have to do every day because of the fraction that healthy people won’t do is uNreAsoNabLE

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 2h

“According to the masses: It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it *is* … to pile everything the majority won’t do on the thin slice of disabled people who are carrying their own weight and attempting to carry everyone else’s as they drown.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 23h

why would we need more on-demand dumb shit that sucks than we already have

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

girl you know full well I did not eat the porch waffles

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

yep I’m on there, and switch as well though that’s become more Jon’s console than mine these days

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

I think I own coral island but haven’t played it yet because my main pastime is acquiring games and sitting Smaug-like atop the vast accumulated pile without actually playing them

also if you’re on Steam you should dm me your name there

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not photographing the waffles you’ll just have to take my word for it

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

like a lot of canned soup it is spectacularly salty, but other than that (because of that?) it is!

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

why are you evaporating into thin air this weekend

are you in danger or is it, like, a business decision

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

soup cam

photo of my cup of soup with the baby in a little bouncy seat thing in the background

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

no 💖

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

oooo garlic knots

to the great shame of my ancestors I’m not a fan of tomatoes, so mine is chicken soup

specifically this one, which my sister and I ate so frequently as kids we had a little song about it

photo of a can of progresso chickarina soup

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

having canned soup and frozen waffles for lunch, aka the Calvin’s Dad Special

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

who in their right mind wouldn't

(she didn't vote though, the fuckin freeloader)

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

advocating for public masking isn't an "unreasonable demand" because it's not a demand; it's an earnest plea for compassion to the "good guys" that's condescendingly dismissed at best and overtly mocked at worst

(evidenced by the guy who reposted it for dunks and the thread of people who joined in)

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

speaking of adorable chubby little fingers

photo of my daughter asleep in the crib

she’s in a green and white striped sleep suit and lying on her tummy with her head in the foreground and her lil butt poking up

she’s got a pink pacifier in her mouth and her left hand is curled up in front of her face

she’s perfect shut up

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

also they're fine they've got little life preservers and water wings on and it's the cutest fucking thing

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

you're welcome💖

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

no reason the blue wave can't have a bunch of babies floating about in it

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

do you think i laid it on thick enough that people won't think i'm serious

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

if those babies didn't want to suffer they shouldn't have stayed home on election day

they should've crawled to the polls, wrapped their adorable chubby little fingers around a pen, and cast their vote for kamala harris

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

what drives me especially crazy is i have never seen a clearer example of the wealthy and powerful fucking over the rest of us for their own benefit than the covid response, and instead of it being a unifying issue for the left we've just become crueler, less empathetic, *and* sicker as a people

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