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MrBullBull
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dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity since 2009
@thedrevlow.bsky.social EIC
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What you do is you average out the number of likes you get on every post & subtract 20% for pity likes. That's how many people care about you in this world. Then do the same with everybody else who gets more likes, except add 20% for all the people who love them offline = how much less you matter.
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“'Ever give a massage to a big fat dude?' he asks, which is the most Midwestern thing you can say, even in the most Midwestern bar in San Diego." - James Keith Smith
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December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What's more singularly human than to adorn our lives with objects. Objects that accompany us to a time bastardized by memory, that remind us in our isolation of people we can no longer hold. That split us open at the hinges & leave us bare to the world." Blake HC Mihm mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"He was frightened that his wife'd gone over the edge, that neighbours would gossip about the crazy lady taken away in the night. I imagined his daughter’s classmates telling her that her mother'd screamed so loudly that all the birds'd flown away." - Rebecca Klassen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"No oasis. No needles. Only mirages. Like the imaginary tar pit that turned Bird's bebop jaunt into a slog. The swarm of bees that punctured him with empty stingers. Even the music came to life as a blood-red buzzard that circled overhead." @kiptain.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"No oasis. No needles. Only mirages. Like the imaginary tar pit that turned Bird's bebop jaunt into a slog. The swarm of bees that punctured him with empty stingers. Even the music came to life as a blood-red buzzard that circled overhead." @kiptain.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"The garage still smelled like her. Motor oil and lavender detergent. She used to change the oil in both trucks. Said she liked the quiet under the chassis. Said it made her feel like a mechanic and not just someone’s wife." - Bethany Bruno mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Thank you so much @thedrevlow.bsky.social
for publishing my latest weirdness in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

'Obituary / Bryant Farmer (1975-2025)'
"As her non-existent father figure, Gwyneth shall mourn him for what could have been rather than what was." @delgeo14.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"As her non-existent father figure, Gwyneth shall mourn him for what could have been rather than what was." @delgeo14.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Next were a pair of flash stories in May in @mrbullbull.bsky.social, another fave of mine
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Two Stories | MrBullBull
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December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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"My wife says I need to give a shit. I say I never understood that expression. Who would want to be given shit? She agrees that it’s a peculiar expression, but that’s beside the point." @kimmagowan.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"My wife says I need to give a shit. I say I never understood that expression. Who would want to be given shit? She agrees that it’s a peculiar expression, but that’s beside the point." @kimmagowan.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Sometimes it’s too much, just too much. Really, God, if you’re up there, I just don’t know what’s wrong with you, sometimes. Can’t you give a Jew a break?" - Jeffrey M. Feingold mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Instead of sitting in my mother’s living room, 31, drunk, & jobless, I would be twenty-one, sober, & doing something responsible and worthwhile & American, like fighting in a war somewhere, & everything would look like a 1940s comic book." @mikemchone.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Hey y'all, my weird little story "Still Life with Brass Section and Sea Creatures as Mixed Metaphors" is live @mrbullbull.bsky.social !! Please check it out. Huge thanks to the editors! 🎺 ❤️
"Your body is a dead and rusty brass section. French-horn shoulders and cornet forearms, tuba torso, your head a trumpet that cannot sing of how you’ve come to be this funky metal. When you speak, it’s all screeching off-pitch." @jennystalter.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Your body is a dead and rusty brass section. French-horn shoulders and cornet forearms, tuba torso, your head a trumpet that cannot sing of how you’ve come to be this funky metal. When you speak, it’s all screeching off-pitch." @jennystalter.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Honestly, I thought I meant more to Neil. For every orgasm, from his shady teenage fumblings in sullied sheets to the creation of both his sons, I was there. Always reliable. Plugging away. Doing my prostate thing." - Neil Connelly mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"We die, he says. Utters the last syllable bombastically—spits it out with firework freshness. I swear I can see the concept of death colliding with his premature psyche, making a meteoric crater in the smooth terrain of his innocent mind." @abbiedollwrites.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"What 43-year-old husband with a teen who just passed her written driver’s test & has only liberal arts colleges on her list should be thinking about changing careers? And who is he to think any of this rumination will get him anywhere?"- Tom Williams mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"After her daughter was accepted into the top-ranked university in the country, my sister-in-law—ex-sister-in-law—took up the habit of disagreeing with me about things I wasn’t even trying to agree on." - Patricia Gila mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Please read and then share and then check out his music, especially this one, this one is your new anthem: twocowgarage1.bandcamp.com/track/let-th...
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"It would not be a stretch to say that Sabir Khalilov was the sole architect of his own downfall. Known as much for his brazen antics as for his paintings, Khalilov had finally and spectacularly lost the plot." - Ramiz Garalov mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Nice work in Flash Boulevard today from @thedrevlow.bsky.social. If people aren't subscribing to it (or checking out @mrbullbull.bsky.social for that matter) they're missing out.
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"What I’ve learned and am still learning is to be more lean. To always be trimming the fat and to only give the bare necessities. When I’m using a microscope instead of telescope is when I think I’m working at my best." @micahschnabel.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/bull...
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“'Don’t you touch that!' Dad warned. But I licked my finger and stuck it to the electric-blue bug zapper anyway. Nothing happened. He said the same about the Teflon pan on the stove, the copperhead with a bulging belly." - Patrick G. Roland mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM