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Empty out the locker room, let me find my space

location: more like GREATEST Boston

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(I mean, I understand that this is why, but I just think the first film was a perfectly self-contained story!)
IMDB's table of box office figures for READY OR NOT (2019), showing that it returned an $8m opening weekend, $28.7m US/Can and $57.6m world lifetime gross, on a budget of just $6m.
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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the dril "candles" post but it's about bad posts @dril: "Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Bad posts $3600 Utility $150 someone who is good at social media please help me budget this. my mentions is dying" @craigus12: "@dril make less bad posts" @dril: "@craigus12 no"
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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George Bush interrupted by an aide in the middle of reading "My Pet Goat" to schoolchildren, because a third potato has been named after Prince.
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Haven't been here in about a million years. Really do like this room.
The interior of the Sinclair concert venue in Harvard Square, Cambridge, from the mezzanine at the back of the room. The lighting is dim and blue, and the floor is not quite half full yet. The stage is empty, and the sound board and bar are visible in the lower right.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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He was a good boy.
A large long-haired mackerel tabby cat lying on a gray leather easy chair, slightly dappled by sunlight.
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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y'all ever see a post so overconfidently full of glaring, basic factual errors in service to a morally abhorrent conclusion that you're forced to immediately go to sleep
"Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful"
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🤔
Joey's bio: "really just here to explore different worldviews and refine my own | budding social entrepreneur as I *finally* finish my MBA/MPH | over-thinking neurodivergent complex trauma survivor" "explore different worldviews" is highlighted.
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I see the consent-manufacturing machine is already dialed up to "we'll be welcomed as liberators"
Thumbnail for Boston Globe op-ed by Antonio Matheus: "Venezuelans might not mind an American invasion The repression of the Maduro regime makes President Trump seem downright cuddly."
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I would like to make it clear to the bluesky mods that I did not write, nor am I, in this post, specifically endorsing this graffiti in the Lamplighter taproom restroom, I am merely documenting it
Written in light blue marker on black and white wallpaper, the words "Curb Stomp Stephen Miller"
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Bread's done.
A fresh baked rustic boule dusted with flour on a cooling rack
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The state of the Discourse is dire, y'all. Time to bring this back.
A door to Curtis Hall of Tufts University at the corner of Boston and College Avenues in Medford, MA, bearing a placard—once red, now faded by the sun—which declares, "NO POSTING ALLOWED".
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Made some bread
A homemade rustic boule topped with oats
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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OK!
Part of my upper right arm. Visible tattoos include a Moray eel based on a Neko Case drawing, colored with splotchy aquatic watercolors; above it the "This Machine Kills Fascists" lettering from Woody Guthrie's guitar; above that a skeletal cat paw; beside them both a hopscotch board with year numbers starting at "'12" in the boxes until the bottom, which is crossed out and another box added below with "'21"; then up on my shoulder the Doomtree "No Kings" logo of a spraypainted crown inside a crossed-circle "no" symbol, but the crossbar is a skeleton key; and in an arc over that, a small banner reading "never die never die".
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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ah, I see the Jeffington Bezost is busy manufacturing consent for the destruction of federally funded veterans' services
Post Reports podcast latest episode: "How some veterans exploit the VA disability system An investigation by The Post found that some veterans are taking advantage of the Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation program. Today, how the system is being gamed and the attention The Post’s reporting has already received from Congress."
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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classic tweet by @crookedroads770 replying to @vol_long and @Liz_Wheeler: "I could easily win a debate against 600,000 babies" but "600,000 babies" has been crossed out in red and replaced with "a toaster".
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I don't think a person should have a trillion dollars
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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top comment:
youtube comment by @JacktheFreaklol: "why is this middle aged catholic who looks like a middle aged catholic so good at making me sob uncontrollably with the same 4 chords"
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The sharp-toothed damaged mutant killer clone cop from classic webcomic The Parking Lot Is Full, asking a motorist he's just pulled over, "Are you stealing my thoughts, ma'am?"
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Wow this is a bad headline!
BBC headline: "Trump does not rule out seeking third term - but says he will not use VP loophole".
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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HELLO HUMAN TEENS I HEARD THE COOLEST PLACE FOR US TEENS TO HANG OUT IS T h e U n c a n n y V a l l e y O f M e a t LETS GO DO NOT BRING WEAPONS
Marketplace podcast "How We Survive" Season 8 Episode 2 "The Uncanny Valley of Meat" "Can meat alternatives satisfy our hunger for the real thing?" with thumbnail of sketched diagram indicating that people like meat substitutes more as they get closer to the real experience of meat, up until a certain point when they're _very_ close but not _exactly_ right, and they produce a strong negative reaction.
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Nick Lutsko singing "They got ghouls!" in his classic theme song for Spirit Halloween.
October 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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😭😭😭
David Ortiz with adorable tiny baby Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in 2010 at the Home Run Derby
October 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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please clap
the below quoted photo of the mock trial at UNC School of Law with three monitors displaying output from "AI" chatbots as "jurors", but the monitors have been replaced with three of the SEELE monoliths from Neon Genesis Evangelion, solid black with glowing red text on each reading: "SEELE 01/02/03 SOUND ONLY". I spent way too much time editing this photo for this dumb niche joke.
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Nice weather for going to the Fells today
A view of the Boston skyline under a blue sky and fluffy clouds, from Wright's Tower in the Middlesex Fells to the north
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM