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@artificialmcb

Middle aged childless recluse.

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Young people do white collar jobs & integrate into the toxic culture there seamlessly, news & sports at 11.

07.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Predictions market founder battle to the death is the only thing I’d bet on rn

06.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

brb doing another round of preemptively buying durable goods

06.03.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My entire ideological trajectory flows from this being my normative baseline my entire childhood.

06.03.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t worry about lawyers, babe, it’s my treat.

06.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Posting that on blue sky dot app makes me think that’s just somebody with a humiliation fetish.

06.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We gotta try to sell a bridge in Brooklyn to all the morons who thought Trump was a sincerely antiwar president.

06.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody looked at that damn clock lmao

06.03.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so sorry. I wish I could offer more. Heart ache is hell.

06.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Far Side comic:

A cruise ship is sailing, with a party on the deck.

In tbe water in front of it are a swift boat, & a larger warship. Three sea mines are in the path of the cruise ship.

Caption: Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

Far Side comic: A cruise ship is sailing, with a party on the deck. In tbe water in front of it are a swift boat, & a larger warship. Three sea mines are in the path of the cruise ship. Caption: Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

Just as Gary Larson predicted

06.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s wild to me that a lot of people I like & respect very much in this website are like β€œWe’re going to be in a world of pain if the US doesn’t stop this war rn.”

Homie I don’t think the US is the one calling the shots here anymore.

06.03.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're about to pull out the official Whitehouse Ouija board to get Cheney's input.

06.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a more or less coherent ideological perspective & understand the myriad influence that have informed this perspective.
It took me several decades to realize this makes me something of a freak.

06.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gotta laugh to keep from crying.

06.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It took me a second to figure out how to reply to this because I have SO MANY examples of me pulling this exact kind of bullshit that I couldn’t pick which one to use.

I’m glad neither of us are living like that anymore.

06.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m in this picture & I don’t like it.

06.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was a lot of blame to go around in that situation but almost 20 years removed from it I’m really glad that I was so horrified by my own capacity for viciousness that I decided that I simply did not want to be that person anymore.

06.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It took an absolute quagmire of a love triangle that involved 2 men who were older than me, 1 of which was fresh back from Iraq, for me to really confront how lying to feel in control & to try to work things to my advantage ultimately hurt a lot of people, including myself.

06.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Everybody nodded.

These were FRIENDS. My friends thought I was too mean for anybody in their right mind to date me.

I was trying to sort a lot of stuff about myself out around that time & I think that’s when I really committed to being kind.

06.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was at happy hour with some high school friends sometimes in my early 20s & said it’s so funny how little I dated in high school compared to now. I must have been really ugly. Without skipping a beat a friend said β€œno we all thought you were pretty…you were just REALLY mean.”

06.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

She’s got financial crimes in every state & the Virgin Islands I am sure of it, somebody just gotta start lookin around.

06.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gross.

06.03.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This just ripped my heart out.

06.03.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What would be worse: the NYTs fighting people in the comment section or a fake NYT stan account that white knights for them in the comment section?

Both are extremely cursed options.

06.03.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I swear to god every man I know who becomes a father decides then & there he’s in his black liquorish era. Opens up the pack & leaves β€˜em out for a fortnight to get them stale.

Low key part of the reason I refused to have children. I don’t need that in my house.

06.03.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am sorry to say that at least 10 people have died in ICE custody since January, not nine. They are:

Geraldo Lunas Campos
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
Parady La
Heber Sanchaz DomΓ­nguez
Victor Manuel Diaz
Lorth Sim
Jairo Garcia-Hernandez
Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes
Emmanuel Damas

06.03.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
alexis simpson @amutepiggy.b... β€’ 1h just watched a guy get rocked in the nuts by his toddler son in line for a ride at knott's berry farm
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin β€’ @mb... β€’ 24m A similar incident is what inspired Neil Young to write "Rockin' in the Free World". Not many people know this.
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OlΓΊfΓ©mi O. TÑíwΓ²o @olufemiot... β€’ 4h
Judith Butler Apology Form

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.b... β€’ 1h just watched a guy get rocked in the nuts by his toddler son in line for a ride at knott's berry farm ⑦ 14 106 S100ζ—₯》… Mike Boylan-Kolchin β€’ @mb... β€’ 24m A similar incident is what inspired Neil Young to write "Rockin' in the Free World". Not many people know this. 0 3 β‰₯ Reposted by Tal Lavin OlΓΊfΓ©mi O. TÑíwΓ²o @olufemiot... β€’ 4h Judith Butler Apology Form

Juxtaposition on the timeline gives me a chuckle sometimes.

06.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RETVRN

06.03.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t worry guys Kash Patel is on it.

06.03.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Get their asses.

06.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0