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Alan

@idontwan2know.bsky.social
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Highly self-aware dilettante. A lover of food, cooking, football, and relapsed drum corps nerd hitchhiking my way down the eight fold path.

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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
When the Ralph Lauren Purple Label wool/cashmere blend suit ($3500-$4500 new) you got on eBay for $215 fits like a dream with only a couple tiny alterations needed.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It just feels like the voters wanted a film that spoke to the political moment and saw a lot in it that wasn’t actually there. In ten years, we’ll still be talking about Sinners. I do not think the same can be said for One Battle After Another.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Y’all have got to stop with the black dress shirts. You look like restaurant managers.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It’s the “the Beatles are overrated” of food takes.
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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Haven’t had a really good find thrifting in a while. Found an Eton button down that fits great in great condition yesterday for $14.99. That’ll do.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Nervous about this quali. Lewis was really fast in FP3…when he could keep it on the track. Very feast or famine.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Miso glazed cod, spicy stir fried broccolini, home made chili crisp. Did the fish in the toaster oven since I was only doing one portion and it didn’t get hot enough to really brown the glaze. Still tasty, though.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Trump’s crash out over not winning the Nobel Prize is going to be legendary.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Sound on
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
When one of the dog breeders you were considering but had already eliminated for other reasons posts about “over vaccination” in dogs with a lot of “what vets won’t tell you” stuff.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The unraveling of this dude is going to be one of those “slowly then suddenly” situations. We’re in the “nothing happened for a few months so people moved back to Mount St Helens” phase of things.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
FWIW, while it’s obviously completely unacceptable to have the FCC chair pressuring affiliates to take Kimmel off the air, his comments were inaccurate and inflammatory. Whatever Tyler Robinson ends up being, he’s not mainline MAGA and it’s not helpful or responsible to make that accusation.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Last day at the old job was yesterday, first day at the new job Monday, big gay bachelor party tonight…definitely time for a hair cut.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Does anyone actually prefer a table over a booth?
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Super intelligence is the new cold fusion.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I always find it funny when the discourse gets into “men dress for women” and “women dress for men” and if we were really honest with ourselves about what compliments actually resonate with us, we’d admit that we are all dressing hoping to get approval from the gay men in our lives.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The TikTok algorithm gets so incredibly specific and repetitive that it can give you a wildly distorted perception of what is in the national zeitgeist. My algo would have you believe that theee is major controversy over Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad and Ralph Lauren’s Oak Bluffs collection.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Thought experiment: Would all the money being poured into AI clusters be more or less of an economic/environmental disaster if the companies instead built factories to light equivalent amounts of cash on fire?
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Ribs aren’t just for smoking. Oven roasted with tomatoes, onions and peppers that cook down into a jam here. Sautéed corn with Calabrian chili and lemon juice. Arugula salad with vinaigrette and fried almonds and garlic chips.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Look, I’m not saying it wasn’t tasty, but that antipasto salad didn’t look THAT good.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Well, I think Lewis can get George on pace, and the chance of fuckery between Max, Lando, and Oscar seems high so podium is still a good possibility.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Man, Vasseur might not have made it out of the track alive if they had cocked up the strategy so badly to get Lewis knocked out in Q1.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Raiding the fridge for breakfast. Leftover corn risotto, Italian sausage, blistered cherry tomatoes. Garnished with parm, basil and a drizzle of olive oil.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
A billionaire tech bro doesn’t feel he has a home in the Democratic Party?
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a man in a suit is making a funny face and saying oh no !
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Good lord, that McLaren Silverstone livery is hideous.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Ferrari should have pretended to consider Lewis’s request not to stop, but they were 100% right There was no benefit to the team to be had.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Leftists are really gonna go wild about a progressive winning a primary in the deepest blue place in America against a weak field, aren’t they?
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
AI as the new alchemy is a tremendous metaphor.
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Tim Popelier, Tankhead Text Typer @tim-popelier.com · 25/06/2025
The big marketing push on AI is starting to feel like alchemy. We throw in stuff and other things come out! We can't make gold yet but if we keep throwing in more stuff its going to happen, we promise! No we can't explain how, but if you believer we are all going to be rich and live forever.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Because the point is not meaningful policy change. It’s shaming and humiliating people to teach them a lesson about doing anything the Trump admin disagrees with.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“Low confidence” intelligence assessments are basically educated guesses and a “well if you insist we give you something, here’s our best guess” exercise. Some of the same people pointing this out now were real excited about a low confidence intelligence assessment that Covid was a lab leak,though
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Cheeto seems to have realized that maaaayybe Bibi played him and that the nuclear program was a convenient excuse to wag the dog because he’s running out of things to bomb in Gaza. He’s big mad.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Mantecare
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Do I think Trump wants to go to war with Iran? Absolutely not. Do I think Trump is stupid/narcissistic enough to get himself cornered into one via social media brinksmanship and a false perception of US impunity? Possibly.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The fifth wave of feminism is putting pockets in dresses so women don’t need bags and convincing men that despite having pockets they do need bags.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Trends I am patiently waiting out so I can be smug about them: - men carrying tote bags - white new balances and other dad sneakers, particularly with pulled up crew socks - dress sneakers - “tech” pants
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Men, allow me to put you on some game. If the clothes fit you, they don’t need to be able to stretch. If the “comfort” version of a size fits you and the non-stretch does not, it’s because that’s not your size. And finally… 👏🏼Golf clothes👏🏼 are for the 👏🏼golf course👏🏼
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Why do people who complain about dress codes because they desire “comfort” always want to wear jeans? There’s literally nothing comfortable about jeans when the temperature is above 78 degrees. They’re stiff, abrasive to the touch, not remotely breathable and rarely fit well.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Now that we’re going back to the HBO Max branding, can we also go back to the app that actually fucking worked?
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It was pretty surprising to me when I realized I had never tried my hand at shrimp and grits. Gruyère cheese grits, shrimp, shitake mushrooms and Spanish chorizo.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Did the damn thing
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I would say my sense of style is pretty retro/classic prep, but I swear to god if you ever see with a sweater draped around my neck I have been kidnapped.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The AI bubble is going to ruin so many tech bros when it bursts, just hope it doesn’t take the whole economy with it.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I’m busting my ass trying to look good and still look like a charity case next to this woman.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
People who go to Chipotle and don’t get the vinaigrette cannot be trusted.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Signature cocktail for the wedding. Bulleit old fashioned, 3 dashes orange bitters, teaspoon demarara syrup, amarena cherry, orange twist, maple smoke.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It already irks me how many people think black suits look good when the vast majority of men look like restaurant staff in them, now I found a TikTok thread where people are arguing that a black suit meets the definition of “black tie”.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Wedding rental company just quoted us $1018 for gold colored flatware rental, including a $258 cleaning fee. Where they find the audacity is beyond me. We could literally buy the flatware on Amazon and throw it away at the end of the night for less than half of that.
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Alan @idontwan2know.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Still think this look is old fashioned @beingbecks.bsky.social ?
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