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Michael Paul πŸ“

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37/he/colorado. computer science phd, mostly retired unless my body gets better. raising two cats and two dogs, and chickens once we rebuild from wildfire. working on an album


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"Some folks need killing! It's a matter of necessity!" - the dragons dogma players who discovered that killing NPCs improves the game’s frame rate

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Rob Pilkington's avatar Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com
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you can't eavesdrop in this country anymore without taking like 40 pts of psychic damage

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digital music: yeah. that makes sense. you turned it into zeros and ones. i can Understand that vinyl records: youre telling me that you have imprisoned the soul of sound in this piece of plastic and can summon it on demand by striking it with a diamond. sure buddy

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josh (oldfriend99) 's avatar josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social
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If you think Jaws is scary for not really showing the shark, you should check out spielberg's other films. they don't show the shark at all

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an under appreciated comedic aspect of the president age concerns is that it’s the job that most famously ages people extra fast

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fine I’ll keep following you there aren’t many alternatives

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there are so few journalists on bluesky it’s a bummer every time another posts something that makes me lose all respect for them

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a doug j balloon classic

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breast milk is a redundant phrase but I guess calling it human milk would be weird

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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They're really proud of the quote, too.

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I think I know who you’re talking about. seeing their photo and going β€œwait isn’t that the 95 Theses On Why You Shouldn’t Gift Chili person”

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It's ME(Jaime)'s avatar It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
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For those who do not improve in the first six mo. or so, some of the toughest psychological work you may have to do is acknowledging your disability.

You can accommodate disability. You can improve your quality of life through treatments.

But you cannot Ctrl-Z a disability. #LongCOVID #MECFS

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SKEET is a statistically decent wordle starting word

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"Some folks need killing! It's a matter of necessity!" - the dragons dogma players who discovered that killing NPCs improves the game’s frame rate

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world

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sorry I can’t play the bsky ttrpg thing, my game backlog is too long 🫀

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Kate Bush, eternal πŸ‘‘

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tiff :)'s avatar tiff :) @integrandma.bsky.social
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beautiful welcome 2 denver sunset :) got to watch the fireworks against the mountains while driving in too

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cat isn’t sure about this

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the bats have come out to take care of the mosquitoes 🫑

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I don’t think this is quite patriotism but

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decent view of fireworks going off around town. we have blankets and hot chocolate

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works have been fired

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reminds me of jaden smith’s tweets

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there’s nothing quite like the disassociation my brain does when someone is explaining to me the rules of a board game

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Jessica, Kait's Wife πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ's avatar Jessica, Kait's Wife πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @pairofclaws.bsky.social
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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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Young people don’t understand, in the early 2000’s every third guy was Chet Hanks

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juno. stump ($190/$250)'s avatar juno. stump ($190/$250) @juno.bsky.social
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we used to be a country

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pee wee herman-palladino's avatar pee wee herman-palladino @markpopham.bsky.social
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oh my god it's literally this

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even if I ever stopped needing one, I don’t think I’d be able to give up sleeping with temperature- and humidity-controlled filtered air!

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fire works? oh like from lord of the rings?

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happy birthday, grimace!

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I don’t have a dog so I celebrate July 4th with those cucumbers that freak out my cat.

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come to bluesky we have volunteer moderators though the biggest one turned out to be an abuser and we have a few celebrities though the biggest one turned out to be abuser and we have trash tuesday

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The NYT op-ed guy looks like Phillip Seymour Hoffman starring in two separate films about a man on a registry

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holy shit did people know this????

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americans who think they’re gonna emigrate if things get bad, to some country where fries are called chippy sticks and air conditioning is illegal, are going to be in a state of cope the rest of their lives

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I’ve been to every country that people say are better than america and none of them are actually better sorry

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tbh i am patriotic in the sense that i am a stan for many aspects of american culture. there really is no place on earth as diverse, dynamic, and exciting. and we do NOT fuck around about air conditioning

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happy fourth of july

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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It is interesting that one of the things fascism destroys, deliberately, is the idea of a consensual reality. It purposely isolates its opponents into their own separate reality tunnels, bubbles, each fighting with each other while the boot crushes them.

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come to bluesky we have volunteer moderators though the biggest one turned out to be an abuser and we have a few celebrities though the biggest one turned out to be abuser and we have trash tuesday

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look sometimes I fantasize about political things, like the β€œofficial acts” I’d like biden to do. and then there’s the things I Actually Believe. and my posts are going to be vague about which one I’m talking about

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that day everyone made fun of elon musk for his bad elden ring build. well elon didn’t seen your mean tweets, but those of us with bad elden ring builds did :(

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