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Doug Messel

@dougmessel.com
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Current: husband, dad, writer, and content marketer Past: carhartt coverall and goose call enthusiast. Indiana high school spell bowl state finalist

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h
We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 6h
Insurance company caught me in a moment of weakness and sold me a new homeowners and auto policy and went I went to cancel, my current agent tried to talk me out of switching. This is gonna turn into a big old headache, I'm sure. I dunno why I didn't just call my current agent in the first place.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 9h
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 9h
I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what?
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10h
they can never supply examples of the things they claim have so massively improved from what people are imagining. "they're so much better and they can think and write music" okay where is it
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026
a whole lot of republicans pretending to be democrats showing themselves today with their support of a bill that takes money away from young black workers and gives it to rich white men!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All of you know this, but any time some centrist loser starts talking about how a social policy will only benefit the wealthy what they really mean is they don't want anything to benefit anyone.
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 29/09/2026
deeply upset that I enjoyed (and still enjoy) like 65% of the songs on this list
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
in reality Democrats are the only US party interested in child benefits. conservatives and centrists hate the welfare state, they think the working class must be forced to work by the threat of destitution. so every policy must have a work requirement, which is impossible for stay at home parents
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
i cant stop laughing at everything about this sorry
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Kiley @kileywrestling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I better hear no criticisms of AEW and its build to Wrestle Dream. They have less than 3 weeks to put a show together while grieving and mourning. You can sit down and shut up for this one.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.
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Rebecca Lowboy @beckstraordinary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Folks complaining about stuffy VMA carpet fashions, barely acknowledging it’s being hosted by CBS. We used to have Mtv.You can’t bring your nip nops to CBS. You can’t have excess without access to rock’n’roll. Fun has left the building. What you’re watching is fascism come to court millennials.
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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gen Z moviegoers are trying to claim Robert Pattinson, a 40-year-old millennial, as their own. This is shameless swagger-jacking, just like how Gen Z fans try to claim Charli XCX. But when I was dancing to "I Love It" in sweaty clubs in the early 2010s, I certainly didn't see any middle schoolers.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Tom. @notthattomgreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Someone was talking about PAC being stoic at meet & greets on Twitter, so it reminded me of this anecdote.
Small child in red flannel and blue jeans standing next to PAC with long hair, wearing black AEW hoodie and shorts. Both are wearing facemasks.Nolie met PAC at a Dynamite, when AEW was still doing preshow meet and greets.

They both looked each other up and down. Then PAC stoically says “How is your day, little child?”.

When it was picture time, he plainly said “Stand with me in battle” to Nolie. 

It was perfect.
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 28/09/2026
God, this fucking sucks
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Scott Hanson of RedZone talking about a man who sexually assaulted 28 women and might lead his team to a meaningless week 3 win: "Even with all the things swirling around in Deshaun Watsons back story, he can be a hero in this game"
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 26/09/2026
Like I knew it existed but didn’t think I’d encounter it in the wild on a Friday night
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 26/09/2026
Because I’m watching the Indiana game on Fox, I was subjected to the government-funded Trump ad and now I want to punch someone
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the dream our forefathers fought for.
A person sitting at a desk in an office, smiling at the camera. A computer monitor displays characters Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps from Disney's Zootopia. Text on the image humorously references Claude doing their job, allowing time to look at art involving Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're 52% of the way to our goal of 100 subscribers! If you love progressive, diverse romance novels, please join our community on Bindery and help us launch a romance publishing imprint with them: rebeleverafter.binderybooks.com
Help me publish romance authors who reach for joy and justice, escapism and resistance.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 25/09/2026
get his ass
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 25/09/2026
30 Rock was oddly prescient, as always
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Liz In Cleveland | 30 Rock
YouTube video by 30 Rock Official
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
nothing could have prepared me for the end of dan osborn's attack ad against nebraska gov pete ricketts.
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 23/09/2026
I just started a popular oral medication and I gotta say it is kicking my ass.
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Eli Deep @elideep.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Glad to hear Beshear still standing up for trans kids. If the governor of fucking Kentucky can say we should let middle school kids make friends, any dem pol can. Period.
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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Letterboxd thumbnail poster for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, which features similar red curtains and a similar font to Taylor’s countdown
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The worst men alive all absolutely love AI and hate trans people. Huh. Probably no lessons for me to learn there.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 22/09/2026
Banjo lost morning TV privileges yesterday because he didn't brush his teeth or make his bed, and I did not micromanage him, so now he's whining and I told him to read the issue of Highlights he just got even though it's "so boring."
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 22/09/2026
It’s time for everyone to gather round as a family and read the @mcsweeneys.net holiday classic
A mug on a coffee table. The mug says “It’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers.”
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Trevor Dame @trevordame.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm looking forward to what exciting booking ideas Bari Weiss has for AEW. A depressed looking Brody King trying to start a chant of "SLIGHTLY RESTRUCTURE ICE" .
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 21/09/2026
🎵if you’re looking for me, you better check under the sea 🎵
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 21/09/2026
everyone's joking about fifth third bank having a shitty name but let me also assure you that it's a shitty bank
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 21/09/2026
got a burr up my ass to plug the NAS back in this week and switch to Jellyfin, so I've been gobbling up out-of-print anime and/or shit I want to watch that otherwise requires giving money to crunchyroll
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 21/09/2026
This sucks. Butker still useless. God should punish him
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cardinals are 0-8 at home since this btw
charlie kirk memorial
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 21/09/2026
The Marshall ad accusing Adam Hamilton of pocketing PPP loans is disgusting. The church very clearly said where those funds went and what they supported. www.umnews.org/en/news/mill...
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Millions in federal dollars boost ministries | UMNews.org
The U.S. Paycheck Protection Program threw a lifeline to hundreds of United Methodist ministries, but finances remain a concern.
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 20/09/2026
Decided to watch a Genocyber clip this afternoon because it’s been on my mind this week and, welp, glad to know it’s still too screwed up for me to handle.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In today's installment of the most tin-eared awards campaign of the year so far, Tom Cruise basically DOGE-brags about how he made the make-up people on Digger work faster because he's an efficiency expert. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Tom Cruise Reveals How He Cut ‘Digger’ Transformation Time From Six Hours to Under One
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s dark comedy with an unrecognizable Cruise as the lead opens in theaters Oct. 2.
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 19/09/2026
Me sending my clients their blogs every month
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 19/09/2026
I need to look at the college football schedule before I say “yeah, sure” to playing D&D on a Saturday night.
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