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Eric Eccleston

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Metallurgist, musician, old car/motorcycle nut, Montana kid (still a kid) serving almost 25 years exile in Los Angeles.

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Well, sulfur is setting price records right now, with a lots of supply on the wrong side of the strait of Hormuz. Need sulfur to make phosphate fertilizers. This war fucks food prices too!

07.03.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s just now getting around to binging Breaking Bad. Turns out watching Netflix is way easier than representing his constituents.

06.03.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, one of the rare instances where the show was better than the book(s).

28.02.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not entirely convinced the state of the union speech will feature the β€œactual president.”

22.02.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TSA-Pre line was up and running this morning at Burbank but that makes little to no difference early on a Sunday morning.

22.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today, this American dipshit, who vaguely remembers picking up that the Ulster plantations of James 6&1 were kind of a bad thing, learned with horror that some real groups of dipshits exist who view that period of history as some kind of model for civilization. Wow.

15.02.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spent a week in DRC, a beautiful country full of great people.

14.02.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They products with (in some cases undeserved bad reputations) and they made the choice to surrender the market to Japanese, Korean, and European brands. They won’t bring back β€œAmerican” sedans. At best, it will only be badge-engineered mid-tier Euro or Asian cars.

14.02.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aaand… no luggage. It’s β€œprobably” on the next plane.

10.02.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Literally every person for themselves to get on the flight. There were two delayed flights, and they didn’t care which one you got on. Just one line and the unlucky ones who had found seats in the back of the waiting room lost out to those of us who stood close to the door for an hour and a half.

10.02.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And sprinkle in a weather delay on the last flight just for good measure.

10.02.2026 11:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not a big fan of having my passport out of my hands for so long, making its way through the airport to the connecting flight independently of me.

10.02.2026 10:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lubumbashi (DRC) airport review: Loosely organized chaos.

10.02.2026 09:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pierogi is already plural ;)

09.02.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why can’t he talk like a human being? Iterate? More like β€œill-iterate” if you ask me.

Also, pretty sure a vanity project on the moon (funded by our taxes) is not the key to saving civilization.

09.02.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Quote of the day (unattributed):
β€œThe people who need their own special halftime show are the same people who needed their own special drinking fountains.”

09.02.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Idiot and an embarrassment. I’m going to be in the Congo this week. Too bad we can’t have a respectful and decent president to represent us.

09.02.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool. I’ll be near the headwaters of the Congo river this week!

08.02.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why put it in such stupid terms. No need to strike back! At who? Everyone should be striking back at the Stephen Miller regime, and if you’re a center of left Dem doing that, then good on ya!

08.02.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bezos doesn’t see the difference between the WP and Amazon Fresh. Thinks he’s some kind of all-knowing business super hero, when in fact he knows very little about running either a grocery chain or a newspaper.

04.02.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The problem with the Theoden analogy is that there’s no underlying honorable man waiting to emerge once the treacherous Wormtongue Miller is driven off.

01.02.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think there’s always been a few flocks on the west side, but yeah we got more than our fair share here in Pasadena/Arcadia/Sierra Madre!

29.01.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Likely some techno-oligarch gave Trump a lot of campaign money (or gold baubles) because they want to put up their own satellites and charge for the data, but having a free government service undercuts that.

28.01.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The king is anointed by God, therefore it can’t be him. It’s those evil counselors.

27.01.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enough food, chairs, electronic devices, and spare clothing to sustain a small army against any possible contingency, but 100 miles down the road you hear from the back seat: β€œyou packed my cleats, right?”

26.01.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Best. Episode. Ever.

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25.01.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can someone just get it over with and dump a large, hot crock of cheese fondue over his head already?

21.01.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No anger, just lots of eye rolling, puzzlement, and dismay where I’ve been. Unfortunately, next month I’m off to a country specifically called out by the clown as having sent their β€œvicious criminals” to the US. I really hate having to apologize for that jackass.

21.01.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All the signs were there and not only did nobody stop him, they indulged him and congratulated him. That is what created this monster.

20.01.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watching these guys saying calm down, he doesn’t mean it, everything’s OK, reminds me of the Warren Zevon’s β€œExcitable Boy.” Chill out, he has a strategy you common folk just don’t understand. Meanwhile, he’s exhuming the body of the girl he raped and killed to play with the bones.

20.01.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0