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Striving for Zen

@ebcollis.bsky.social
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Old fat white dude. Trying to come to terms with living in a country that is 50% willfully ignorant and hateful. Proud atheist becoming more and more anti religion (faith/belief is a slightly different conversation). Nullius in verba

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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 3h
Brazil, India whatever. It was one of those shot hole countries full of brown people.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 15h
I wonder what part of the Bible he finally violated that was a step to far for her. Did he wear mixed fibers? Eat Carolina BBQ (pork, they do beef in TX), work on the sabbath? The mind boggles. Because the lying, cheating, stealing, false witness and adultery parts never bothered her before.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 18h
It’s run by….. Americans?
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 19h
It’s dead on. Which is frightening and gross
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 23h
Odd choice for music.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I go with pot lucks.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you are not ACTIVELY part of the solution then YOU ARE the problem. Being a man is standing up for what’s right and stopping misogyny in all its forms even when it seems small and/or uncomfortable to stand up. #iamthebear
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think it’s a wonderful Christmas card picture. It captures the essence of the holidays so well. Hate is the reason for the season!
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t for a minute think anybody attached to the Fuckeyes knows or cares who Portnoy is. They probably think he is a place kicker for some ACC school.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is startling how many men are completely oblivious and self deluded. Any man who was on that chat, was part of the police or university investigations and includes themselves when they say “not all men” is dead wrong. If you don’t call out bad behavior you are part of the problem #iamthebear
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My new favorite company name ever, Throne Labs. Then I looked them up, and love them even more! They pay a living wage scaled to the location. $20-24 to clean toilets. Full benefits. More of this!
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Has he managed the next step in logic? That the reason all of the candidates his Orange Savior has endorsed are corrupt as fuck, because that’s what he wants. People he can count on to do what he says if they are incentivized properly.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not if Hakeem, Chuck and their ilk are still in leadership positions. Send them all packing and put people who know how to, and have the will to fight! Scorched earth for MAGA,anything less is abject failure. We are here because Garland didn’t want to look “partisan” and waited to assign Jack Smith
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jared, the NYT called you a war profiteer. Got any facts or info to counter? I didn’t think so. Also, I wonder how the Saudis feel about you using their $4 billion to invest in Israeli arms manufacturers, weapons being used to kill Palestinians.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aiding and abetting. Accessory after the fact.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lost in the bullshit is that the reason those would be “bad” for Republicans in November is because the US population is against both by 85%. So they are going to listen to what people want until we can’t stop them anymore.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look at that face!
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If only it were true.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What the fuck are you talking about? Emmett Till was a 14 yo boy who “flirted” with a 21 yo white woman so 2 white men tortured, mutilated and killed him. Fuck you for equating these 2 things.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hero’s all! Now it is our job to make sure the Cornell 7 have no peace.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since the 14th amendment was ratified in 1868. Dumb ass
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just as classy as it gets!
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every mention of this POS should start out with “well known rapist Deshaun Watson”.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More than 2 frat boys alone with a girl anywhere anytime. #iamthebear
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She is not his “owner”.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mina, any discussion about Watson which does not start out with “well known rapist Deshaun Watson” does a disservice to all of his victims. Shame on you for enabling this disgusting miscarriage of justice. I am done with you.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The moment the first rapist told the next guy, it was trafficking. These scum bags belong in that hellhole in El Salvador’s for as long as their assholes can survive it. Add to that the 50 odd people that got the group chat and did nothing, the cops and the university officials who did nothing.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely not. He is a great leader and a tough SOB but the Nobel PEACE prize is for people who have advanced the cause of PEACE. By definition the president of a country at WAR should not even be considered. Whether his country started it or not.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If? AI is already used in weapons and targeting. That is how a girls school got blown up by a tomahawk cruise missile. That’s already been published.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You don’t think billionaire Brit’s would black mail in the same way? Don’t be a cunt.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What about the other 50 guys on the message thread who did nothing? Or the cops who completely blew her off, or the University that slapped the worst of 2 and let the others off? I hope she burns them all down. #iamthebear
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Of coarse he is speaking in front of a sign that shows Victory Capital as their main sponsor. Victory Capital is a very expensive “wealth management” company that gambles on the markets. Just sayin’
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You triggered everyone of a certain age who went to catholic school
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The name of every person on that group chat needs to be published.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They know there is an election in a month, right? They know that repeatedly humiliating yourself by doing the dumbest shit you can. Think of does not play well in elections, right? I mean, it’s like they are trying to get Dems elected.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The tragedy is that he had to go to court at all. He was prosecuted to ease the fragile ego and feed the demented fantasy that has s POTUS. It is fucking insane.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Schmitt for brains Same Schmitt, different day Dumb Schmitt Schmitt head 10 lbs of Schmitt in a 5 lb bag Up Schmitt’s creek without a paddle He doesn’t know Schmitt from Shinola
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh I am enjoying the shade. Well done patriots, well done.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Famously 2 men who have never served in the military. Gingrich had a medical deferment for being “severely nearsighted”. Newt Gingrich has never been photographed wearing glasses since the Viet Nam era. And Elon Musks 100’s of Billions of $ in military contracts won’t sway him at all, I’m sure.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah, but fuck Messi.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Technically we are animals. But in reality the rest of the animal kingdom is morally superior to us. We are the only species that does evil just for shits and giggles. Us eradicating ourselves in terms of net moral good is a win for the planet.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And Sec Def, and Sec HHS, and running for senate in OH and on and on. Saying the rapist has a promising future is completely discounting the promising future of his victim that he ended or severely curtailed. Every one of the rapists and the assholes on the group chat need to be labeled for life.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As is your liquor cabinet and your farm animals. Frat boys are the worst of the worst when it comes to white male privilege and entitlement. I speak, of coarse, I’m gross generalities. Frat boys are generally gross too.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey molesting Matt, still feel the same about that dipshit now?
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No one alive today in America need ever ask again how Germans allowed the Nazis to do what they did. We are living it. And I am ashamed of my country, our government (both parties for the most part), and my neighbors. in future history books MAGA will be viewed the same as the Swastika.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For roughly 1/3 of us it seems to always have been there. They just needed permission to act on it. This is why Orange Shitler’s poll #’s will never drop below 35%. For those people gas prices, inflation, insane wars etc don’t matter as long as they get to torture brown people. 1/2
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It does if you have to have a profit margin of 50% and pay sr execs multimillion $ contracts and bonuses. Plus all the idiotic advertising. Etc etc
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When the story first came out years ago that women would rather meet a bear in the woods when they are alone than a strange man, a lot of men I know were really outraged, at the women. I was devastated that women are so commonly victimized by men that my mere presence was discomforting to women.
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The implicit message here is that the life of the rapist is more important and has more value than the life of the victim which has been irrevocably changed forever. This is the misogyny at the heart of it. And the horror men seem to have at the idea that there would be consequences for these acts
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Striving for Zen @ebcollis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m still trying to figure out why even if he did got to Atl for a Hawks (not Hawkeyes) game that would somehow be a problem.
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