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Watching The Hunger Games with the boy. I had forgotten how unbelievably slow paced this film is. Really does not feel like a teen action blockbuster. It's methodic almost.

King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

If "I Do It For You" hadn't been such a banger, would anyone have ever seen Prince of Thieves?

King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

I did some art.

Photo: a sketch of the Smashing Pumpkins. Billy's head is exceptionally large and detailed. The words "the world is a vampire" are written next to him. Iha and Chamberlain are mostly just stick figures, but Iha can clearly be seen wearing a suit. The words "I'm in the band" are coming from Chamberlain.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

My copy of Boris Pink on vinyl has just left Ohio.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

Antisemite was approaching other patrons and asking if they thought they had freedom of speech in their home countries (so obviously everyone involved was farang) and when they said they did, he'd snap back about who "really controlled the media" and "what you were allowed to say".

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

I can't remember if I posted this but about a month and a half ago I got thrown out of a bar because I told an antisemite to fuck off since I was "escalating" the situation.

He was also tossed (for the aggressive antisemitism), but what a grenade to jump on.

One of my proudest moments honestly.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

That was my thought. One of the videos was clearly taken on a school bus.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

He also looks 40 in all of those high school clips which really reinforces that point Roald Dahl made about evil being visibly obvious.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

It's so weird to me the Stephen Miller is my age but he also somehow has a bunch of video evidence of him being awful in high school. It's kind of amazing that he doesn't make that cutoff.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

Kid is constantly singing, "The world is a vampire," to himself, occasionally broken up by, "The world is a sausage," thanks to an incredibly timely Ordinary Sausage episode.

I can't believe this is the cultural reference he finally gets.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at a restaurant and a live saxophonist is playing accompanying music to a digital recording of APT.

This is hell.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 2d

This is not something liberals should try rallying around because the facts here are clear. Israel never held the cards: the United States government did. Trying to pretend this is anything like the Iranian hostage situation is insane.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 2d

Pretending Biden did anything other than enthusiastically support genocide is bonkers. All he had to do was stop supplying the weapons. He chose not to. Trump too! There was always a shortcut to ending the genocide and no one since Reagan(!!!) has tried it.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 2d

This means that any ceasefire that Hamas and Israel ultimately agreed to would look largely similar to whatever had been proposed previously because that was the only framework that would move forward.

But that's not my real beef.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing some pushback that this is a "Biden peace deal that Trump delayed" which might be true but probably isn't.

First, Hamas had red lines that they were never going to cross, such as where Israel withdrew to and if they would disarm.

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