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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 15h

[bleeding from various wounds on my face while holding my cat at arms’ length]: he’s the light of my life

Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 12h

This is SO gross. I used to work in local news (not there) and almost never want to make a nasty comment to them... But WOW. What the actual fuck is this. I am actually stunned.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Wow — local CHATTANOOGA @CBS affiliate @wdefnews12 stanning for Trump in their *totally not biased* tweet about the protests today 🤔

Is this that @CBSNews Bari Weiss-approved framing?

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 14h

Ugh that is a very long time! 😔 Teachers absolutely deserve the break.

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 15h

Um...

Weezer
Bob Dylan/Alison Krauss & Robert Plant/Willie Nelson
Mumford and Sons
Joan Baez
... Indigo Girls?

That was harder than I'd like. I haven't gone to concerts frequently in the last 10 years and time has lost all meaning so I've sort of lost track of what was when

🖤🩶🤍💜HandyGinger🩷💛🩵 @handyginger.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw:

Suzy Eddie Izzard
Barenaked Ladies
The Who/Joan Jett
Wallflowers/Counting Crows
Def Leppard

🎃Bushybritches🎃 @bushybritches.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw:

Metallica
Def Leppard
Metallica
Poison
Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie

Damn. It’s been a while since I went to a concert.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸 #NoKingsInAmerica

(From @billbramhall.bsky.social )

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 20h

Had a fabulous time at my local No Kings protest. I was standing with some friends right by a speaker with a really fun playlist. At one point it started blaring "We Are the Champions" and I am not going to tell you I didn't get a little teary.

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 21h

Oooh that sounds amazing too. I have tried to grow them but have never been very successful

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 1d

Last summer I was in England & bought some raspberries at a random truck stop & they were the best raspberries I have ever had. US raspberries are totally inferior, I don't know if you know.

The problem is that now every time I watch Bake Off, everyone uses raspberries and I whine about this

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 1d

"You mean like a sudden rain forces them together beneath a canopy? They look into each other's eyes and realize they were made for each other"

(Yes I did reply with that, obviously)

Why do they keep trolling us. I'm taking it personally. Come on. 🤣

(From Instagram)

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 1d

I am honestly confused about what book these people read.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

Every night you have to pick one dinner out of every possible dinner and that’s why existence is pain

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Both of them in this scene! 🥵 I need more of this

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 2d

Our school district has an unreasonably long fall break and we're all antsy. Today I took my kids to an indoor bounce house place where they ran around for 3 hours and I sat on a comfy couch with a crispy diet coke, and I have to say that's the best $29 I have spent in quite some time.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Sep 5

It will take decades to unfuckup this country.

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🎃Bushybritches🎃 @bushybritches.bsky.social · 3d

💙💙💙

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 3d

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "holy shit i hate all of this"

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 3d

This, and also literally I don't know where my kitchen scissors are because my kid always steals them to make crafts (and a mess) and those two things are very related.

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3d

Emotionally I don’t know where my kitchen scissors are

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 3d

Refilling my mental health meds this morning and I went ahead and got the 90 day supply, not for convenience but because who the hell knows what this hell hole will be like in 90 days. That's my plan for the foreseeable future refills, I think. What a fun time. 🙄

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 4d

Literally this costume is the only reason I've ever heard of Dan and Phil. I love this news and how happy it's making people (and them, I assume)

SpooKey 👻🐈‍⬛ @keyasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

In case you haven't seen, yesterday, Dan and Phil came out as being in a relationship.

If only there had been some sort of clue. 🤔

Dan and Phill, a couple, dressed as Crowley and Aziraphale, also a couple, for Halloween 2024

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 5d

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If your government says there's too many autistic kids, then eliminates the entire special education department, they don't care about autism, or kids, or education.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 5d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 5d

My 55 year old neighbor bought Lightning McQueen shoes for himself. He saw my toddler wearing them and googled them as a joke to prove they don't make them for adults. Turns out they do and he bought them immediately 🤣

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 5d

This post is like 5 seconds away from telling me I should smile more

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