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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the staggering failure of user interface design of the modern credit card machine. Is there any other device that is so ubiquitous, yet so opaque in its functionality that EVERY ONE of them requires a handwritten sign with supplemental instructions?

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whenever people make predictions about the NFL, I like to point out that basically no one has ever spent more than 2 hours per year actively playing professional football, which is an insufficient sample size for anyone to know anything about anything.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm watching Michael Clayton for the first time, and I'm very stressed out about the possibility of Tom Wilkinson dropping these baguettes.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've noticed a weird correlation between entertainment products where being moral and kind is part of the brand identity, and fanbases where a significant contingent are absolutely insufferable.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why does being sick make my scalp hurt?

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's weird how reliably a strong disbelief in the impact of random chance is a conservative value.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you bought one of those vaccum packed tubes of ground beef and cooked it in the oven, in that shape and without seasoning , that would be the food equivalent of the Amazon Original series Reacher. And I at least partly mean that as a compliment.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you had asked me, I would've told you not to build a web directly in front of the AC vent.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know it's problematic for me to be the one suggesting it, but I feel like if the nation's high school kids started showing their dicks to Flock cameras, we could have the founders in prison by year's end.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If I had a pet possum, I would name him Alan Twodick.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

More foods and beverages should be served 'diner milkshake'-style, where some/most of it comes nicely presented and garnished, but there's also more just in a bucket that comes along with it.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As a progressive, straight, cis male in my 40s, I've really found that the best way to avoid misgendering people is to never meet anyone new, because I already have like six friends, and most interactions beyond that circle can be accomplished through short, impersonal phrases and physical gestures.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Rewatching @jonbois.bsky.social's excellent History of the Minnesota Vikings, as I do in the week before the pre-season, and Googling random players, I learned that Teddy Bridgewater retired today. Goodbye and good luck to a real one. Bless the knees and keep them healthy.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's weird that the media player embedded in Patreon works better than the sites I use to play free podcasts.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tiramisu, but it's biscuits and gravy.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My big Discourse takeaway from The Odyssey is that the movie is thematically and philosophically woke as hell in ways that seem to have totally escaped the notice of the weird bigots on the internet.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The silver lining of "go woke, go broke" as a slogan is that no conservative can admit they're wrong about anything, so they have to keep moving the goalpost for wokeness more and more wokeward every time a business venture signals progressive values and still succeeds.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You know the feeling when you're holding a drink or whatever, and aside from the physical awareness, there's like a persistent mental warning light that's like, "Remember, you have something in your hand." Does anyone else have that when they CTRL+C, but haven't CTRL+V'ed yet? Jobs are weird.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Is it a good sign if the department-wide meeting about AI optimization includes a slide listing the stages of grief?

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's weird that we never questioned the decision that public school kids would specifically need to learn the names of three types of columns used in classical architecture.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Proposed constitutional amendment: To be eligible for any federal office, you can't have ever earned more in a year than the current salary of that office.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Maybe the most optimistic political development in recent months is the Right's shift to ranting about the evils of "communism" because "socialism" polls too well. Despite MAGA's rehabilitation effort, white suburban centrist normies still seem to feel no particular fondness for McCarthyism, so...

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just saw a video about the popular myth that medieval people didn't bathe, though there were LATER trends of believing that bathing was bad for you. Seems like the "Everyone is 12 now" crowd who hates getting flu shots and only wants to eat beef is primed to turn against bathtime any day now.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Of all ways Trump radiates weakness and insecurity, the crowd-size obsession is my favorite one, because of how it's led to news media just gleefully posting b-roll of these haunted, empty venues. Every shot is just begging for a Sounds of Silence needle-drop and a deadpan Ron Howard voiceover.

A bunch of sad weirdos plodding between mostly vacant vendor stalls under a gray sky on the National Mall.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When did, "Make an assertion, then take a drink from a big cup" become a conservative signifier? It's a thing all over vertical video. They're so weird, you guys.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A belated happy Fathers Day from me and my meat son.

A tomahawk steak with compound butter on a serving board with asparagus and fingerling potatoes.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Question: Is it neurotypical to do all the neurotypical stuff, but ON PURPOSE? Answer: Who cares?

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The worst tendencies of the left and the right are both insistence that we're doomed if things aren't exactly a certain way. For the right, that way is however things were when they were 12. For the left, the way is just different enough from other leftists that they can't cooperate effectively.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Has anyone written a fantasy/sf story set in a post-apocalypse where there are also vampires or other fantasy creatures, not caused by the apocalypse, but just like, "Well, we don't need food and bullets dont kill us, so there are just proportionately a lot more of us now, so we can't hide anymore."

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If I told my friend that I was throwing them a birthday party, and then had the party three weeks early, at my house, on my birthday, they might suspect that the party wasn't really about them.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Hey, America. If we all rush him at once, we can beat him up and take it. We each get $2,600.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Movie pitch: Starts off as a '90s magical realism comedy where like, the real Cupid (Josh Gadd, I assume) helps people with their love lives, and then follows as the world learns of the tangible existence of immortal, supernatural beings with mind-conrol powers, and society as we know it collapses.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

If Back to the Future was remade today, the song Marty plays at the dance so his parents will fall in love would be Kiss From a Rose.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Someone should start an Etsy shop with a bunch of cute label stickers and 3D printed shaker tops and special racks to turn prescription bottles into spice and seasoning storage.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Has Congress ever impeached the holder of a sub-cabinet position on the grounds of "being a fucking dork"?

An excerpt from the Wikipedia article "2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting", reading "White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino[39][40] unsuccessfully attempted to start a "U-S-A!" chant as Trump was escorted out"

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Congratulations to Virginia, on behalf of my fellow Minnesotans. We're still keeping the flag.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I looked it up, and according to the best sources I can find, AI technologies account for 30-40% of the total current value of publicly traded stocks. I also looked up what the word "clarion" means.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I just ate some grapes and small pieces of cheese out of a stoneware bowl while listening to relaxing music, and like, this is a normal, chill evening, but I get why the ancient Greeks (or whoever) considered this to be degenerate hedonist behavior.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The first batch of spring bugs has led to the return of spider season at my house. I generally let the sizeable population of spiders do what they want, but three times this week, I have walked into a web built across a doorway, which implies that they do not recognize the truce.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Say what you want about Karoline Leavitt as a person, but hardly anyone is talking about Trump pooping his pants a few days ago, so she's definitely doing something right.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Anyway, here's dinner.

A meatloaf standing upright on a bed of mashed potatoes and green beans, sculpted into the shape of a groundhog, with slice potato ears, green olive eyes and a black olive nose and carrot teeth. The green beans are upright in the potatoes to resemble grass.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Armband tattoo, but it's the green 'crazy daisy' Corelle pattern.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A question for your conservative relatives: If undocumented immigrants are bad, and getting rid of them helps the cities where ICE is operating, why aren't conservatives mad about all the money ICE is spending to help Minneapolis when they could be deployed to other places that need them?

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A lot of conservatives online going, "Ackshually, they weren't ICE, they were Border Patrol."

A screenshot from The Great Escape showing two British RAF officers speaking across a desk. Caption reads, "Look, sir, you talk about the High Command and the Luftwaffe, and then you talk about the Gestapo and the SS. To me, they're the same!"

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Sometimes my wife has very silly ideas for things for me to photoshop for her.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Steak and eggs with chimichuri and leftover sides from Brasa Rotisserie.

Fried yucca, sunny side up eggs on a bed of yellow rice and strips of ribeye steak with chimichuri in a shallow blue glazed stoneware bowl.

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Meatghost @danjohnson.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Everyone dust off your Friendster accounts. It's 2003 again. In addition to an illegal Republican war for oil and a plague of low-rise jeans, I'm told that the Perkin's breadbowl salad has returned.

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