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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 4h

I got a TV in my room when I turned 14. I spent the whole summer watching music docs and pop up video on VH1 and I swear it changed my entire personality forever

✨Pretty, Witty, Girly, Worldly✨ @asdoseofreality.blacksky.app · 6h

I really miss when music channels had a lane and stuck with it. Those VH1 music docs and pop up video were how I discovered so much music that I wouldn’t have sought out.

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 5h

Same.

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 5h

This pov is annoying me so much. The problem isn't that he's the president (I mean, that IS a problem but you know). It's that he thinks the rules don't apply to him. Are they actually this dumb or just looking to fight?

Also he's over here posting AI videos of himself as a king, so...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 5h

Wine, Radio Omens, and painting a box for the 10 year old's Minecraft Halloween costume. Ok evening over here.

(I have only heard prob the first half of the radio show before. Everyone just got to the air strip so I'm getting more. This is fun and weird.)

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17h

The weirdest stage of adulthood is when you start to understand your parents’ mental health issues on a grown-up level and you’re just like oooohhh oh wow okay

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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 · 2d

I am honestly confused about what book these people read.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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

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 · 3d

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

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

💙💙💙

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 4d

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

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

Emotionally I don’t know where my kitchen scissors are

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Altofan @altofan.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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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