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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 · 8h
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 · 10h
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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 12h
I worked for Express and polos were one of those items we were pushing. 🤷‍♂️
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 12h
As someone who subscribed to that style for about five minutes (often for work), it's not my finest sartorial choice.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13h
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 · 13h
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 · 14h
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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 29/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_6-...
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Medium Build - King of Having Fun (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by MediumBuildVEVO
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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 29/09/2026
You checked out Medium Build yet?
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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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 29/09/2026
Scream-singing along to “When I Needed You” would probably fix me tbh
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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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 28/09/2026
Suddenly thinking about the issue of Animerica I picked up in June 2000 that featured a huge feature on the X/1999 film adaptation and interview with Rintaro. Probably the first time I ever heard of Trigun, too.
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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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 28/09/2026
I wanted to try it with light strength training and walks since I've got an ICD and hard exercise is...not great. A week in and I'm stopping effective tomorrow. Sure, I've dropped a few pounds, but I haven't been able to eat anything substantial since Tuesday and have been miserable all week.
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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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 28/09/2026
I mean if you can get your hands on it, RE2 on N64 is wild from a technical standpoint.
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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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 27/09/2026
Cheers (I don’t have a drink).
View from my seats at the Royals game. Literally the only one I’ve gone to this year.
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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
Not feeling great about this one tbh
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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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 25/09/2026
The kids were supposed to celebrate at school today and as far as I can tell the most enthusiastic participant was the principal
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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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
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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 · 24/09/2026
Did you give him your wallet, too?
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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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 22/09/2026
The NP at CVS, looking at Benji: "He's got seasonal allergies, right?" "Oh, 100%. Very severe."
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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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