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Hugh Kearney

@myfisttoe.bsky.social

340 followers 460 following 980 posts

Engineer, Husband, Dad, and ex-Miata owner (electric cars are awesome). No smokers or Republicans, always punch a fascist.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 10h

I remember when George W. Bush's cocaine use was a youthful mistake he committed at the tender age of forty.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 16h

Why are they confessing?

They're not confessing, they're bragging.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 1d

I would hope that a Rome to Venice cruise would be good enough on its own. Who thinks a visit to the Coliseum would be improved by the presence of Scott Walker?

Maybe they will feed him to the lions...

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

I had a high school friend who was in the front row of that video. When it premiered, I was like, "Holy shit, it's Grant!"

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 5d

Well, it's essentially a conspiracy theory, and if you trace any given conspiracy theory it will inevitably end up in an antisemitic root.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 5d

Doesn't that act involve four dimensional geometry?

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 5d

My sister said you should never let a male tattoo artist ink a blade on you because he will inevitably draw his penis.

I never would have worried about a paw...until now.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 8d

I love that the Russo-Japanese War was essentially a preview of WWI, but nobody in Western Europe paid attention due to racial prejudice against the Japanese and utter contempt for the Russians.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 8d

Jay Gould famously said, "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

I don't think even he thought the hired half would do it for an IOU.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 8d

If there were only a half million cars in the world, they could all get eight miles a gallon and it wouldn't affect the climate in any noticeable way.

This report is gaslighting the innumerate.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 8d

This phase isn't fully exited until they can buckle themselves in.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 8d

That's the literary version of getting made in the Mafia.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 9d

You should have read The Secret Garden instead. Yeah, it's 114 years old and children's literature, but Frances Burnett still manages to pull off suspense and wonder a million times better than Dan Brown.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 10d

Twenty years after the fall of Saigon, we were building Nike factories in Hanoi. That kind of deal was probably available in 1955, with just a little diplomacy and understanding.

What a waste.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 10d

Every fascist movement eventually becomes terrible at logistics. Most are bad from the start.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 10d

The show was magnificent. I lost it when at the end you mentioned Sooch flying back, and Joe did the Leo pointing meme for real.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 10d

Sounds like you're having my experience with Mass Effect 3.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12d

Modern detergents don't hurt car iron. The seasoning stripping power of classic soap came from the lye it was made from. Dawn doesn't have any of that.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12d

You have well adjusted dogs.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 13d

I'd never buy select cuts of steak. If I couldn't afford choice or better, I'd just make chicken or pork instead.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 18d

I think the only truly "smart" week social media ever had occurred on Irish Twitter when the Queen of England died, and even that was mostly just jubilation.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 19d

Insanity squared is measuring dry ingredients with anything other than a scale.

Don't give me that "three cups of flour shit".

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 19d

I remember seeing that in the theater when I was in DC for work.

That was such a good assignment. Teach a class for three hours, then be a tourist for the rest of the day.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 19d

I keep thinking about how both Robinson and Luigi would have gotten away with it if they had even engaged with a little discipline and planning.

I think that has to be running through the back of a lot of the elites' minds.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 19d

Hilary Clinton is far from perfect, but then that's true of everyone. What's frustrating is how many people who broadly share her values and goals hate her because they too have absorbed forty years of right wing propaganda.