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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 01/03/2024

You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.

Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Honestly if you went into the subforums (well, most of them) everyone was normal! I ended up spending a lot of time in The Book Barn and No Music Discussion back in the forum's heyday and got so many great recommendations from people.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

This is such a relief to my ears, especially after her last one which I did not like at all 😬

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Andrew Scott is swell but Hot Priest was NOT hot. I also don't know what being a Catholic priest in England entails but he was written more like a vicar? I don't know of any priests from my own churchgoing life that were ever so available to just hang out with parishioners like Hot Priest was.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

I first became aware of Taylor Lorenz during one of the (many!) times she was twitter's main character; this particular time she was arguing employers not keeping workplaces at 90 degrees in the summer was ableist, and the entirety of disability twitter was dragging her for goofy virtue signaling

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

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A ANGREY SKELATON THINKEN ABOUT HOW IT WAS FUN AS HELL TO CLICK ON WEB SIGHT'S AND GOTO BOOKMARK'S AND FIRST THEY MADE US GO TO APP'S THAT ARE FULL OF ADD'S ,NOW THERE SHUTTIN DOWN DA WEB SIGHTS ONE BY ONE SO ALL WE GOT LEFT IS ADD'S ,AT LEAST WE GOT BLUE SKY AND WE AINT STUCK ON MUSK AND ZUCK SHYT ,AND DA TEXT SAYS "GOING TOO WEBSITE'S WAS MORE FUN THEN ALL OF THIS SHIT, CLICKING, BOOKMARK'S 3 NEW TOPIC'S BLOG'S FORUM'S 4 USER'S ON LINE EMALE " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN AND FLASH GAMES I MISS FLASH GAMES!!!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Ha, and yet another spiritual truth is there is nothing (except perhaps being named Ashley) that could out me more as a middle class person born in the Midwest in the mid-80s than my specific combination of Amanda + middle name. (I am in practice, however, the chaotic Amanda that goes by Mandy)

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

While some of the dumbest motherfuckers on this website are out there claiming that voting doesn't matter, Wisconsin voters turned their state back into a democracy through a couple of important supreme court elections.

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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 19/02/2024

The truest proof of the monarchy's waning power is that Prince William couldn't prevent the publication of this photo

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

And the glue!! I had glue from those things stuck on me for WEEKS the last time I had some on me.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Yes! I have become an almost exclusive audiobook listener after having to transition to using eye gaze technology, and I DESPERATELY wish narrators of adult books would stop doing voices. Unnecessary, and more often than not it negatively impacts their vocal clarity!

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Independents are real too because they are just Republicans with the awareness to know admitting that out loud is embarrassing.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Love the "losing interest" framing like the Ukraine war is the latest season of Stranger Things

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Exactly. What's funny is even the political pundit's favorite meme of how something "plays in Peoria" as code for country bumpkins is derisively ignorant of active reality: Peoria is a city of 113k and its county has voted for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections for the last 30 years.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

What Eldritch god to I need to swear fealty to to get streaming services to stop insisting that I need to watch Rick and Morty?

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Years and years ago I read on a message board (!!) the clearest distillation I have ever seen about our presidential politics, and it plays out the same every fucking election: the Democrats have to fall in love with their candidate while the Republicans are busy falling in line.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

This is what I keep coming back to: who is this national-level Democrat that 1) is not Biden 2) meets all the requirements of disaffected voters 3) could beat Trump? With a press that is wholly in the tank for Trump. Does such a person even exist? This is also a genuine question.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

I consider myself a polymath because I’m skilled at both hootin’ and hollerin’

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

I've had this exact issue for several local elections now. Sometimes if I'm lucky I can find stuff on Facebook but it's incredibly time consuming.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

this is like your mom saying “no McDonald’s, we have food at home” except back home she drowns you in the bathtub

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Combs not changing the gender in the lyrics feels like a centimeter of progress for Nashville, too.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Are they allowed to say that?

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/01/2024

I think this was ultimately when i gave up on the united states

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Right?! It's been a little concerning that so many women my age are being awoken to the basic tenets of feminism by it.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

A large part of me wonders if people went so wild for it because it was just a fun couple hours? It feels like years since we've gotten something that bubbly and funny. Taika tried his best but even the most low stakes Marvel movie is like homework now.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

Ahh, that sucks! Fortunately/unfortunately there are always more dogs incoming. My mom was looking for a terrier type and they would hit petfinder and the rescue sites at regular intervals when yet another puppy mill in Arkansas or Kentucky was busted.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

My sympathies! I'm in the Chicago area and tried for the better part of a year to help my mom adopt a small dog and it was impossible - not for lack of dogs but because none of the rescues were interested in adopting out to a retired boomer couple? It was frustrating and bizarre.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

I remember one of the selling points at Apple Music's launch was their genre/mood playlists were human curated. They claim that to still be true but I don't really believe it!

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Whenever I log a movie on Letterboxd, a book on Goodreads, or peruse the various media lists here and see people writing long, thoughtful reviews - or even actually blogging - I am amazed. Where are y'all finding the energy to BLOG in 2024?

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Every picture she's got the Gob Bluth "I've made a huge mistake" face, which is making me laaaaugh.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

This is an extremely generous way to frame coddling people who have a poisoned worldview - Jamelle Bouie said it best on Twitter a couple years ago: so long as the Democratic party is perceived as the party that helps Black people there's a % of Americans who will never vote for them. They're lost.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/01/2024

the latest rash of “the things I learned at the Trump rally” genre of punditry is annoying, low-effort, devoid of stakes, yes—but in 2024 it has a more vile and cowardly pitch, like a media rehearsing for a Trump regime, testing out collaborating in advance

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Isn't that second paragraph like 60% of the Democrats' platform for the better part of this century? Different implementation than Trump envisions of course but truly it's amazing Democrats ever win when they can't even get reporters to pay attention to their message!

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

People have a lot of opinions about Bo Burnham but the Disney villain cackle he lets loose in that song is perfect.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Inasmuch as you can trust a poll anymore, I do wonder sincerely how much of Trump/the GOP's elderly base has died of COVID over the last few years. Is it enough people to affect an election? I suppose we'll find out.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Our family dog growing up loved ripping up and eating paper. She got ahold of my brother's homework once and his teacher STILL didn't believe that our dog ate it when he turned in what was left of it in pieces and full of dog slobber in a ziploc bag.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Just finished watching The Heroic Trio and they sure don't make 'em like this anymore, do they? I can honestly say that I have never been so entertained by a movie so casually indifferent to the welfare of children abducted by a sewer-dwelling god emperor 📽️ boxd.it/TYu

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The Heroic Trio (1993)

While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.

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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

well he’s a sexual abuser so he’s off to a great start

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

A beautiful example of the way deeply online people use the word ableism not about anything to do with the well-being of disabled people, but as a magic amulet to wield against enemies

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

I'm homebound due to disability and just had to cancel my scheduled booster visit with the county health department (that THEY took six weeks to schedule, sigh) because I tested positive over Christmas. They told me to reschedule in three months.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Don't half ass it! Be a Depression era grandma and just tie a grocery store bag on your head like mine did! (My aunt seriously bought her several of these nice kinds of bonnets to protect her wigs over the years and she never used them once.)

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

After almost four years I've finally caught Covid. Extremely not happy about it but doing okayish so far? Oddly enough I'm glad to already have a trach and be on a vent so I don't have to worry as much about my breathing. Meanwhile, all my friends who I've told:

James Franco "First time?" meme from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

SO WHAT - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELATONG THINKIN ABOUT THERE BRAIN AND WHY IT DOSENT DO WHAT THEY WHANT ,THEY FEEL LIKE THERE SUPOSED TO BE A GENIOUS BUT CANT PAY ATENTION TO ANY THING, USED TO BE ABLE TO READ ALL DA TIME BUT CANT READ NOW ,CANT STAY AWAKE AT WORK ,CANT MOVE BODY RIGHT ETC ETC FAILURE FAILURE FAIURE AND DA TEXT SAYS "YES I AM A GENIOUS , BUT SOME PARTS OF MINE MINED ARE DUMB AS SHIT !!! SCARED OF HORSE'S, DONT LIKE VIDEO GAME'S GO BACK TO CASINO BUT WIN THIS TIME, WACKED MY KNEE ON DA BAD SOMEHOW,MAKING FREINDS,NEED TO STOP DROPPING THING'S ,WHAT IS SUSSHI - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Feeling trapped in clothes is the worst! Second only to trapped in your sheets. I do not understand people who want to be tightly tucked into their bed.

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

I have only worn tank tops for several years because sleeved tops are too hard to get my arms through without injury now. It's the most comfortable I've been in clothes in probably a decade? And it's fine in winter! That's what blankets (and for you, hoodies) are for!!

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Mandy @heymandy.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I have this conversation with my brother all the time. There used to be value in the expense and rigamarole of it all but is it even worthwhile when they're just playing a file off a hard drive, exactly what I'm doing at home?

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