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Seamus O'Flaugherty

@seamussaid.bsky.social

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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · Oct 6

one my favorite things to do this time of year is attach 12 foot yard skeletons to the giant roadside crosses you find down here in the south

Imagine of a 12 foot yard skeleton attached to a giant Ibeam roadside cross like a often see in the American south (photoshopped by the author himself)

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Bogey @oneyebogey.bsky.social · 15h

Alas, the hamburger needed more help than the box could provide.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 2d

If I really like you I’ll let you feel the dent in my head

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 11h

[from the shower] I’m all outta Dove
I’m soapless without you
I'll never get clean
Now that you are all gone
*grabs shampoo mic*
IM ALL OUTTA DOVE

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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 12h

I see that now

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Melicious @honeybadgermel.bsky.social · 2d

People who try to act cute when they're not irritate the fuck out of me. Cuteness comes from within.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 18h

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 23h

Grandpa: I sent your grandma 57 handwritten love letters from the western front and she finally agreed to marry me when I returned from the war

Me: the computer told me to say "I had a good time last night" to this girl but it didn't work for some reason

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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ceej @ceej.online · 21h

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

ceej @ceej.online · 23h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 25d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Boo B 👻🐝 @vtbee80.bsky.social · 4d

in an alternate universe a nine volt battery is licking me

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Julie Lavender Menace @2tickytacky.bsky.social · 2d

I made so much fun of my talking car telling me a door is a jar that it stopped talking to me for weeks.

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 2d

We've profiled you based on your actual profile and it reads disconnectedly as an erotic thriller of the highest intelligence, I might add hilarious. If you ever commit a crime I'll be the first to put red herring in bio, let's alt away together

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 1d

bsky is the end of sm line for me. starting over again on another site is about appealing as harvesting my own organs with a shrimp fork.

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The Amytyville Horror @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 22h

i had to give up microwave burritos the sexual tension was overwhelming

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 21h

This is the guy who admitted he tells false stories to get people to pay attention to what he thinks they should pay attention to

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I dangled a modifier, but I did it for you.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 1d

you are so wrong eating cold lasagna in a dark closet means i’m winning life

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

book covers featuring the muppets: thread

Elmo on the cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 1d

Friend: are you almost ready for our hike?
Me: *waiting for my French onion soup to cool so I can fill my Camelback* 10 mins

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 1d

People say mucking foron like it's not how you harvest some extremely rare element from a swamp

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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 1d

It's kinda cool that I've settled into my Alfie Solomons role in my local pub because the little wannabe Tommy Shelby's only come to me when they want honest feedback and welcome my long rambling advice even if it's not comfortable for them

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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