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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ali reaching for the phone so he can recreate the big bopper picture.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On this date in Raymond Carver history, he died. So it goes. Here's a poem he wrote before that.

For Tess

Out on the Strait the water is whitecapping
as they say here. It's rough, and I'm glad
I'm not out there. Glad I fished all day
on Morse Creek, casting a red Daredevil back
and forth. I didn't catch anything. No bites
even, not one. But it was okay. It was fine!
I carried your dad's pocketknife and was followed
for a while by a dog its owner called "Dixie."
At times I felt so happy I had to quit
fishing. Once I lay on the bank with my eyes closed,
listening to the sound the water made,
and to the wind in the tops of the trees. The same wind
that blows out on the Strait, but a different wind, too.
For a while I even let myself imagine I had died -
and that was all right, at least for a couple
of minutes, until it really sank in: Dead.
As I was lying there with my eyes closed,
just after I'd imagined what it might be like
if in fact I never got up again, I thought of you.
I opened my eyes then and got right up
and went back to being happy again.
I'm grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Dundon wore a Whalers cap to his first Blazers game as owner. The Whalers, the team moved from Hartford and relocated to Raleigh to become the Carolina Hurricanes, the other team owned by Dundon. Gross stuff. It's like if Clay Bennett bought the Buffalo Sabres and wore a Sonics hat to his 1st game.

Screenshot of text from an Oregonian Article: "Tom Dundon is seated across from me at halftime of a Trail Blazers game against the Clippers in Inglewood, California. It is March 31, his first day as Portland’s owner. He wears a Hartford Whalers cap and gnaws at a strawberry. I ask him directly about the proposed $600 million public funding package to renovate Moda Center."

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

share someone who looks stylish wearing a hat

John Candy sporting a trapper hat in Uncle Buck.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I don't share every insight I have online, just the important ones.

It's the arm wrestling meme. One arm is the Dallas Cowboys Offense and the other arm is Taylor Farms. They are coming together over the idea of Generating Explosives.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Each time I see this image in my feed, I think it’s Live Dead.

Live Dead album cover. Orange background with psychedelic lettering spelling live. There’s an open wooden coffin with a woman floating above it. She’s draped in a green and blue outfit. There lots of fabric, but somehow not enough to cover her breasts. She looks nothing like Karl Anthony Towns.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The NBA media hates tanking, but you put 'em on the court and that's what you get.

NBA roster assembled on 82-0 website. Roster is Kenny Smith, Austin Rivers, Cedrick Maxwell, Draymond Green, and John Amaechi. The team's projected to go 33-49. The folks at 82-0 assigned a grade of "F" and called them tankers.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In conclusion, the newspaper is a land of contradictions.

NYT headline:

Why Scientists Retired the Dire Climate Scenario After a Decade. (sub-headline) While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether some risks have been overstated.

Headline just below:

It's Still Spring in Europe, but the Heat Is Already Breaking Records

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If you see this, post an old photo you still love.

a dog named Charlie Brown surrounded by his two people. Everyone is toothy and happy.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I know everyone thinks their dog is the most beautiful, but c'mon, look at her!

Picture of a beautiful border collie presenting dog, black and white, bathed in golden hour light, with ears up and a very serious expression conveyed by her brown eyes locked onto the camera.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Louise Glück, the poet laureate of my melancholy, born today, 1943. May she never need to come back again.

Thrush

Snow began falling, over the surface of the whole earth.
That can’t be true. And yet it felt true,
falling more and more thickly over everything I could see.
The pines turned brittle with ice.

This is the place I told you about,
where I used to come at night to see the red-winged blackbirds,
what we call thrush here-
red flicker of the life that disappears-

But for me – I think the guilt I feel must mean
I haven’t lived very well.

Someone like me doesn’t escape. I think you sleep awhile,
then you descend into the terror of the next life
except

the soul is in some different form,
more or less conscious than it was before,
more or less covetous.

After many lives, maybe something changes.
I think in the end what you want
you’ll be able to see-

Then you don’t need anymore
to die and come back again.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The good thing here is that this fucker never gets around to infrastructure week.

Screenshot of a Trump post from Truth Social: "“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If the camera pulls back, how many Pam Bondis wearing maroon outfits will we see?

Pam Bondi at a cabinet meeting with a younger Pam Bondi behind her wearing the same color outfit.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A flurry of excitement in the furry community as Trump signals interest with a costumed left hand.

trump speaking to the press. A microphone in the foreground. A second microphone is fuzzy and its positioning in the foreground makes it look like trump could be wearing a rabbits paw over his left hand.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Every sign a story, every story a sign.

A toilet at the Portland Airport with a sign reading "Non-potable water. Do not drink. Besides the text there's a visual reinforcement: a glass, circled with a line slashing through it.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Covid brought us back together after far too many years apart. I'll never turn away again.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Happy Birthday, and thanks for the push to join. I've thought about joining for so long but hadn't followed through.

Screenshot reading: Your Dual membership is confirmed.Thank you for becoming a member at Leach Botanical Garden!

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Painting of a man and a dog howling at something unseen.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

When people say, "we have made it through worse before" all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it, ... Sometimes the moral arc of the universe does not bend in a direction that will comfort us.

A poem by Clint Smith
When people say,
"we have made it through worse before"

all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it, those who did not survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who
did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.
I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant to
convey that everything ends up fine in the end. There is no solace in rearranging language to make a different word tell the same lie. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe
does not bend in a direction that will comfort us.
Sometimes it bends in ways we don't expect & there are people who fall off in the process. Please, dear reader,
do not say I am hopeless, I believe there is a better future to fight for, I simply accept the possibility that I may not live to see it. I have grown weary of telling myself lies
that I might one day begin to believe. We are not all left standing after the war has ended. Some of us have become ghosts by the time the dust has settled.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

My gal and I are very clever but we do not know how to use photoshop.

A table full of meat. Text on the top and bottom in an anglicized Arabic script says “halal, is it meat you’re looking for?” A stamp sized photo of Lionel Richie is pasted on the head of one of the men in the picture.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Looks like some of the Raptors are still wearing their xmas jammies.

Picture of Toronto Raptors players in a huddle. Some of the fellas red warmup outfits look a whole lot like red christmas pjs.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Give me crack and anal sex, take the only tree that's left And stuff it up the hole in your culture Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul I've seen the future, brother, it is murder

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Share a tv series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once.

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True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

SUNday! eh, eh, see what we did there?

A sweet, beautiful dog basking in sunlight with her head on the armrest of a chair.

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