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A Goddam Virginian

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swamp-adjacent man. mentally ill but ill like how rappers used to say it

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · Nov 18

love when people like my dumb ideas. that is why i am here. gimme dat validation pllllleeeeaaassseeee

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 1h

i dont think Its happening soon necessarily but i do really think he's going to do It at some point

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

Making friends, as usual, ahead of Q3 earnings. 🤡

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Steven Godfrey @stevengodfrey.bsky.social · 2h

FWIW, shame doesn’t seed empathy, exposure does

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 2h

sure, and i wouldnt bat an eye if they said Babe polished off breakfast with even two double whiskey gingers, but like a whole pound of whiskey?

A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 3h

he played mostly during prohibition so maybe it was watered down mafia stuff. going about your day with a porterhouse and 16 shots in your tummy is just such nasty work, though i assume 1920s ginger ale was actual medicine

A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 3h

for my own sanity i have to assume whiskey was more watered down back then and this wasnt done at today's standard 80 proof

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 4h

that outhouse was steaming, brother

It's no secret that the great Bambino had a voracious appetite, but he didn't just like to tuck into a sizable hunk of beef at dinner; the first meal of the day usually consisted of a porterhouse, and breakfast didn't end there. Ruth's steak was typically paired with four to a dozen eggs (though sources vary on the exact number), fried potatoes, a pot of coffee, and a pint of ginger ale mixed with a pint of whiskey, which is interesting considering his drink of choice was usually scotch.

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 3h

defer to your boss's jewish son-in-law on a question about israel and referring to him as the investor

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4h

JD Vance defers to Jared Kushner on a question about Israel/Gaza ceasefire:

"Well, Jared's the investor here"

A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 5h

good reminder that i shouldnt make my main form of entertainment the live thoughts of a few hundred people who could at any point get wholly fixated on some dumb bullshit i dont care about

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georgia-lux, beautiful non-haunted doll @georgialux.bsky.social · Aug 4

rendering a Minion low and slow in my Instant Pot

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 6h

someone had to fly the plane

A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 6h

stop trying to get me to care about maine politics. oh is It from It running for office? i dont care, man

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 20h

thats pretty nice for an Italian

A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 23h

obviously the people signing up to be gestapo are the lowest evil but there are hundreds or thousands of people who never thought theyd be asked to do this stuff but are just doing it anyway, maybe hoping in some cases someone else will undo the damage and they havent permanently broken something

A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 23h

same with the guys who launched the missiles at random fishing boats and sent out the termination letters to thousands of federal employees and pulled millions of grant funds. someone has to actually execute the orders and i guess with the job market this fucked nobody can afford to say no

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 23h

all the paperwork that led to this aside, who actually agreed to man the excavator and tear down the side of the white house? would love an interview with that guy

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration, in one image.

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 1d

its like he has a direct conduit to trump's id

dril 10/10/25
mr president has been taken to walter Reed Medical Center to get all the poop put back into his diaper after it fell out during a
fist fight

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Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 1d

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 1d

very important update on the new hat front:

A cream colored hat with GODZILLA stiched in white above red Katakana reading Go-Ji-Ra

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 1d

guess you can just buy bottled george jones songs over the counter these days huh

Doctor Hurdy Gurdy @notarealdoctor.bsky.social · 2d

Hey. They're selling PainQuil now.

Vicks Painquil on a store shelf. It's a liquid acetaminophen pain reliever.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

like yeah sure the ACA was far from perfect (although “expansion of the welfare state was hard fought but woefully incomplete” is basically the history of american social policy), but it is difficult to overstate how important the Medicaid expansion has been to expanding health care access

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

I think the synthesis take was that friction was an undesirable thing which produced desirable side effects: it was annoying to have to search through the limited selection of the blockbuster or whatever, but you also were forced to broaden your horizons and got introduced to new things

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think it is an impoverished take to see frictionless streaming from your couch as just an improved version of what was happening with video stores. There is that aspect, but there is true loss in the physical-digital switch and we needn’t pretend there’s not.

Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna counterpoint this one: browsing was part of the fun. And browsing in the physical world is different from browsing in the virtual world.

The things that sucked about Blockbuster were primarily late fees and it being hard to find a new release on a Friday night.

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EEK! Semper Tyrannis @nicksempertyrannis.bsky.social · 1d

When I swore at you over Mario Kart, I did it with the utmost love and respect.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

“civil rights for everyone” is the cost of admission to the tent, or it’s not actually a coalition against fascism.

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 2d

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 1d

a rotted homunculus containing at least one damned soul for only $150. a steal if i've ever seen one

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 1d

facebook marketplace is getting up for spooky season

I cannot fully describe how decrepit and haunted the puppet or doll in this picture is. It is the form of a human made out of decaying burlap and leather. You would scream if you saw this thing in your house. It's sitting in a sort of thinker pose on a cluttered work table with a bunch of tubes and empty tubs of Cool Whip behind it.

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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 1d

trump: well i was shot. shot by an arrow – they hit me this time, got me good – but i'm alright. better than ever. now i have this guy, a Stand, or a Stando, some would call it. you cant see him. some people can see him, but i can tell if they can. i can sense it.

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