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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

TIL that "The Substance" and "The Stuff" are two completely different things.

Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

That final sentence of his should constitute failure of a cognitive test: "If people get sick in the audience, they leave them alone. They call them collateral damage." I THINK he's saying, "My doctors are only for me! If you all keeled over, they wouldn't do shit for you!" But...collateral damage?

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

I just read the blurb, and you absolutely have to. These things are apparently immune to flats (with the right sealant), grip the road tightly while eliminating rolling friction, absorb road chatter and reduce fatigue. AND they're eligible for payment with pre-tax FSA/HSA dollars. Doooo iiiiiit!

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

HELL YEAH! Anyone who commits to work for this will get my vote.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Can confirm: was a 10-year-old in the 80s; said things like this.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

"You know what? I take that back! I love you like I love my Crate & Barrel Lounge II!"

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

To be fair, that is in fact Trump's definition of a "great relationship," whether you're a country, a contractor, a spouse, or what have you.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

My first thought as well. "I wonder what qualifications made him pick the woman who is functionally illiterate and looks like Ivanka?"

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

The next day I had to google, "Do Jews hold weddings on Shabbat?" The dream-rabbi was correct: this is frowned on and generally not done.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

I dreamed I was planning to marry my partner again, but I wanted a Jewish wedding this time. The rabbi was very kind, and she agreed to officiate even though neither of us is Jewish. It was going so well until I said our date was a Saturday, and she got a little frosty.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

It’s a good choice: the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

Of course the whole point is to assert white supremacy by demonstrating that white people can fuck with her any time they want to, without even the bother of coming up with a pretext, even if you're a congressional representative.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

Which obviously means a search of her home now will turn up...more paperwork? A to-do list that says "fraudulently obtain citizenship" with that item crossed off and marked, "daddy did it while I was in kindergarten"? There's literally nothing imaginable that a search might turn on here.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

On the other hand, I bet they're sad that it's to be firing squad rather than crucifixion.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

Not gonna lie--I'm sorely tempted to do whatever it takes to be CEO of some company for, like 1 year. Ideally with a golden parachute that specifically guarantees payout even if my resume turns out to be completely false.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

* During the debates before the primary, Harris called him out in his opposition to busing, and he doubled down on his “I’m against FORCED busing,” which is exactly what all the segregationists said. This was in 2019, not 1979.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

I was just thinking the same, but honestly I think the majority are just projecting. They see the stable genius of their wishes and fantasies instead of reality. To be fair, many did the same with Biden. They saw a virtuous man instead of an unrepentant segregationist.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

* I checked an inflation calculator, and that $45 in 1979 is worth about $200 today. An F250 with an extended bed and crew cab costs about $240 to fill at $5/gallon, but a regular F250 could only cost about $145 to fill up.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

I vividly remember watching a talk show during the Carter years: they had a guest comedian who said, "I stopped at the gas station, but I didn't have enough money to fill it, so I told the guy, 'Just put in $45 worth.'"

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026

So no-native English speakers and anyone who exceeds melanin limits, basically.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

It violates his religious freedom to see people doing things he doesn't approve of. Religious freedom means allowing him to have people arrested for doing things his religion doesn't allow.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

What he left out: 3-day work weeks at minimum wage. Pretty awesome, if you can live on about $300/week minus taxes and deductions. No health insurance, because you're just part-time.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

You just managed to inflict fatal ambivalence upon me. On the one hand...

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Another point worth sharing from the "it's easy for you to give survivors advice" department. Advice can get people killed for following it.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

It's even worse when his second set of jaws is extended.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

I know that everything she's ever done is a classic by virtue of her having done it, but I think Galaxy Quest belongs on any short list of her accomplishments.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Going to Yale doesn't guarantee that you're not an idiot, but the odds are very good that he absolutely knows he's talking purest nonsense, and this is just a sample of how dumb he thinks the rest of us are.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder how long the manga-banners can go without using the J-slur and sounding like a radio broadcast from 1943.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

The myth that "if he's rich, he must be smart" needs to die in obscurity. It's the modern equivalent of, "If he's rich, then Marduk must be especially pleased with him."

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

The deep irony of these remarks given that Elon Musk is a complete fucking idiot. He literally failed his way to the top. If it weren't for the government tit, he would have starved to death long ago.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

So in my original skeet I think the accent is heavily on "used by mid-century artists." This was never a common usage in Dublin or anywhere else.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

A. D. Hope wrote in a tribute to Yeats, And in between there was Willie - indeed I loved the man; Best thing out of Ireland since Tuath De Danaan. Back of me hand to the warty boys, but I'll write a piece if I can.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

George Barker wrote in "For Patrick Swift": ... thank Ireland for her gift to us of the painter Patrick Swift: for Kavanagh's honesty, Yeats for the great images he creates, for Synge. For MacNeice, for Joyce, for Sam Beckett and all the warty boys yes, let some decent praise be sung.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Yeats wrote in a letter to Dorothy Wellesley in 1936, "Warts are considered by the Irish peasantry a sign of sexual power," and he uses the phrase "warty lads" in his poem, "The Wild Old Wicked Man": ... Hid from all those warty lads That by their bodies lay.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

It's claimed that Yeats was captivated by Gogarty's use in his preface to "The Old Woman of Beare" which said in part: ... For she never took advantage Of the favours of her frontage; Therefore she was held in honour By the warty boys who won her;

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

As far as I can tell, the Irish folks calling BS are right enough: this usage was apparently an in-joke among a small fraternity of writers 100 years ago.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

I found this: "Because of Yeats's famous usage, the phrase [warty boys] evolved into an affectionate, slightly tongue-in-cheek colloquialism used by later mid-century artists to describe Irish writers, rebels, and Bohemians."

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

"Hello, flight attendant? Can I have some piping hot coffee? You can bring the whole pot."

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

I think he just said that he let AI write some (or all?) of his book, and now he's mad that it wasn't accurate. And IIUC, the central theme of his book is, "What is truth?"

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

The iron law remains true: no matter how dumb you think Trump is, he's way dumber than that. The surprising corollary is that this holds even if you take the foregoing into account.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Culminating in the Raper Bowl in February.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Watching the dumbest people in the universe become millionaires makes me want to believe in Hell.

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Grits 'n Gravy @gritsmcbarkin.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Men talkin' rape--what could possibly go wrong?

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