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the garbage store boy

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I did something stupid a couple of days ago and now a bunch of normie libs keep blowing up my mentions

Bart Simpson in his pajamas, looking removed, and saying into a phone, "I don't care about that anymore"

January 27, 2026 at 6:32 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

I had to go checkout the replies to this and they are fucking bonkers

A bunch of idiot rightwing replies to the original post of X

January 26, 2026 at 5:24 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

patiently waiting for the invisible hand of the market

January 23, 2026 at 8:37 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

a post from @tiny.baby:

when trump had the election fraud hotline thing after the election i called probably 100 times but 4 or 5 times i called and put on this old country boy accent and did this long preamble about how i went to the polling place that ended with me telling them i saw a dog standing up like a man voting

January 20, 2026 at 10:08 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

what are the odds that Miller just AI generated a folder full of these things for him to reinforce his decisions on all of this?

One of the sheets Trump holds up in the linked press conference. It shows a mug-shot style photo of a man of color. At the top it says Minnesota Worst of Worst..below the photo it says "sex assault and obstructing justice"

January 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

I think this solar storm is gonna be a big fat zero for seeing the northern lights tonight (unless you saw the storm's arrival).

The Bz on this thing is hugely positive meaning that the solar particles are gonna repel off of our magnetic field like two magnets repelling off of each other.

Bz graph of the earth magnetic field the past 24 hours. Line goes up! That's bad for auroras

January 20, 2026 at 1:44 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

this guy is now an endangered species

January 16, 2026 at 4:49 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

wow! this story is a wild

screenshot from the story that reads:

"I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize," Machado told reporters after leaving the White House and heading to Capitol Hill. She said she had done so "as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom."

Trump promptly bit into the medal, apparently thinking it was gold foil-covered chocolate.

January 16, 2026 at 7:17 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

I would gnaw someone's leg off for something like this in most modern sword combat games

January 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

kind of an aside, but I dug up the text for this bill, and its summary is unbelievably vague and paltry considering the bill clocks in at about 100k words of hard policy (about the length of "Ender's Game").

I mean, it really says fucking nothing, but there's a lot going on in this thing

Shown Here:
Introduced in House (01/12/2026)
Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026

This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to several federal departments and agencies for activities and programs related to financial services, general government, national security, the administration of foreign affairs, and foreign assistance.

Specifically, the bill includes 2 of the 12 regular FY2026 appropriations bills: (1) the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2026; and (2) the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026.

The departments, agencies, and activities funded in the bill include

the Department of the Treasury,
the Executive Office of the President,
the judiciary,
the District of Columbia,
the Department of State and related programs,
the administration and oversight of foreign assistance programs,
bilateral economic assistance,
international security assistance,
multilateral assistance,
export and investment assistance, and
several related and independent agencies.
The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.

January 15, 2026 at 1:40 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

it's the tall guy getting out of a small car in The Simpsons

January 13, 2026 at 2:56 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

thinking about the final scene in Civil War (2024) today. no reason

January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

dudes with massive euroracks listening to the worst beats you've ever heard

Patrick Bateman in a transparent raincoat pointing excitedly at his stereo

January 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

me watching this press conference

A meme of a masked soldier dude in a jeep saying, "hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now." Close up, "it's gonna get way worse"

January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

it's legitimately incredible that a headline could shock the air from my lungs after 10 years of this shit, but god damn, dude

Two headlines from the Wall Street Journal:

Live Updates
The U.S. captured Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and extracted them from the country, Trump said 4h

Live Updates
Explosions hit Venezuela's capital as planes and helicopters flew over the city, with residents reporting power outages

January 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

*me reading the click bait headline*

Aw, she's probably experiencing the bittersweet sensation of the Overview Effect, the intense feeling of awe and fragility experienced by astronauts upon seeing Earth from space for the first time.

*me reading the actual headline*

Oh.

Headline from BBC: Astronaut Nguyen post-flight depression

BBC headline from article itself, "Blue Origin astronaut reveals depression after tsunami of harassment"

There's a pic of Nguyen, an Asian woman, throwing her arms up in victory as she steps off the Blue Origin spacecraft

January 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

we're helping my parents clean out my grandparents' house, and my wife found these awesome glasses made with uranium oxide that fluoresce under a black light

green-tinged stemware glasses sitting on a table

same stemware glass lit up under a black light. It fluoresces bright green

December 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

oh man... RIP to one of the hottest to ever do it

Bridgette Bardot sitting in a chair with her legs up against a support beam or something. She's wearing a tight black outfit

Bardot in a low cut black dress, hair spilling down her shoulder

Bardot wearing an oversized t-shirt and posed in a sort of classic swimsuit way

December 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

my wife got me this amazing synth for Christmas. Listen to how monstrous this thing sound

December 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

I'm not pro-car or anything, but this is the dumbest thing I've read on here in a while

Bluesky screenshot of a quote post.

Original post from The War on Cars: "Car traffic is a DDoS attack in cities.

Some rando with the handle redacted: "I don't know how I missed this, but every tech person should get this instinctively.

What do we do when network traffic is overwhelming our systems? We block the source.

Shouldn't cities do the same?"

December 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM

the garbage store boy

@screaming.party

Fox was truly on some depraved shit in 2002.

This is a clip from Glutton Bowl, where one challenge was to eat a 15-foot-long sushi roll that contained two one-foot-long sections of pure wasabi. They call it "the wasabi zone"