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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

FYI - True “I read constantly to disassociate from the horrors of the world” folk own waterproof earbuds so they can listen to audiobooks without intrusive shower thoughts creeping in. Audiobooks for driving, showering, washing dishes, etc. Ebooks for the train. Paper at home. Never a quiet mind.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is why I don’t understand people who listen to audiobooks at 1.x or 2.x speed instead of standard 1.0 speed. You need time to appreciate the words. To appreciate the writing. Time to reach up and pause the playback so you can just sit and think about the amazing sentence you just heard.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Covid aware peeps — any advice on masking during puberty? Daughter is just hitting the pimple stage, and as much as she loves her Zimi mask, wearing her N95 is starting to leave a line of pimples where it touches her face. I don’t want a circle of scars any more than I want her sick 😢 #covid

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

9yr old made it to FINA world ninja warrior finals. This place is a madhouse! So many amazing athletes. These kids are so impressive. And yes, of course we’re masking here. Airborne diseases are everywhere, and we want our athlete to stay strong 💪 #FINA #ninjawarrior #covidaware

9 year old girl wearing an N95 and posing in front of the speed course at FINA ninja warrior finals

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This feels like a goodbye, not a celebration. One last birthday for the USA before it passes away. Party hats are on, but we all secretly know that Uncle Sam is terminal. If climate change allows humanity to live long enough, it will be interesting to see what comes next for this land.

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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 02/05/2026

Loving reminder from the Muppets that your compassion for others and desire for a better world is never a bad thing even if it feels most people disagree

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Shingles (vaccine #2), RSV, and Novavax today Never had an issue with vaccines before, but fuuuuuuuuuuck, this combo has knocked me down. Mild fever, nausea, extreme skin/nerve sensitivity. Hot and cold all at once. My immune system is DEFINITELY going to remember these 3. But hey, it still works!

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Trump is NOT an existential threat to democracy. He is proof America’s great experiment has failed, completely and utterly. He’s not a threat to the US. He’s not the cause of our problems. He’s the living embodiment of 250 years of bad decisions. You can’t fix this. It’s time to start over.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

On the newly announced dime the olive branch is gone, but the eagle’s head is still facing left, stuck staring in confusion at the empty space where peace used to be. I’ll give this administration one thing: they’re not subtle fortune.com/2026/03/12/u...

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The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country? | Fortune

The eagle turned to the olive branch to show the nation's preference for peace over war.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I don’t want to log onto Twitter. It’s a spam and bot riddled shell of what it once was, profiting a horrible human being. But BlueSky censored videos and real info from Gaza, and is clearly now doing so re: Iran I love the fun of BlueSky, I just wish it had covid and war news like Twitter does

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Elon messed with Twitter’s algorithm again, suppressing almost all videos of Iran conflict. BlueSky could step in here. It could prove itself to truly be a place people can leave Twitter for, a place with uncensored, timely news. Except somehow BlueSky still remains more censored than Twitter 🙁

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“We seriously damaged their fishing industry also. Nobody wants to go fishing anymore.” Ummmm… so he’s admitting they weren’t actually drug boats?

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

If they admitted it was the right choice, then every criminal in jail who’d had no lawyer would have to be released. It would be a logistical retroactive nightmare. SCOTUS did it anyway, because it was the right thing to do. (This is a post about tariff reimbursement.)

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

In the ‘90s they used to show us Gideon’s Trumpet in civics class. A movie about the SCOTUS decision to require everyone to be offered legal representation. The big scene is in the back room, as they discuss “it’s the right thing to do, but it would fuck over the government”. They did it anyway.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

How have I never seen this music video before? Wow. Thank you for this! In ‘85 there was only one cool girl on the street who had MTV, most of us still used TV antennas, so I guess it was off the rotations by the time our family got cable a few years later.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🎶 Man, what a hell of a year it's been Keep on bluffin', but I just can't win Drowned my sorrows, but they learned to swim Man, what a hell of a year it's been 🎵 Did any song speak to us so clearly last year? So happy to see Shaboozey winning a Grammy AND showing that he’s a decent human bring.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ICE agents wearing a keffiyeh as their mask is an extra level of offensive. I guess the rule is: “We’ll lock you up for wearing a keffiyah, because it means you support Palestine… unless we see you actively beating up an innocent, since then we’ll know you’re clearly an IDF supporter.” 🤦‍♂️

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A sonic weapon that makes people vomit blood. Tell me they won’t point it at angry groups of protesters. Tell me our gestapo, ICE, won’t have this technology within three months time. Tell me there’s still time to save this country from annihilating itself and everyone around it. Seriously, tell me

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is VERY VERY VERY bad. Just wait until they use this on protesters here in the United States. You know it will happen. We ALL know it will happen. Not surprisingly, things are about to get a whole lot worse. Chances are, we’ll see this used here before sumner arrives.

News clipping that states:

The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

On the plus side, these idiots don’t actually know HOW to “take Greenland”. They kidnapped Maduro then fled like common thugs, nothing like the colonizers they imagine themselves to be. Taking land would require governing it, and it’s pretty obvious they don’t know how to govern, here OR abroad.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Books full of recent New Yorker cartoons: yawn, trade it in The World of Charles Addams, a book full of much older New Yorker cartoons: an heirloom that will be loved and treasured for decades to come Parents, choose wisely

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I think I still know every song by heart, and “Holy War” remains ridiculously pertinent. I never let this album leave the rotation for long

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Because residential traffic is 25mph. If we can’t keep up with residential traffic, we get forced onto the sidewalk, which is dangerous for pedestrians. The standard 25mph residential speed limit is required for safety. I was riding my 10-speed faster than that at age 12, that’s not actually fast

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

OpenAI preparing their excuse for the inevitable bubble burst — “we needed a second electron.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-ele...

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One-electron universe - Wikipedia

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

When I was 17, 17-yr old girls were the most beautiful things in the world, and I was 100% certain I would be attracted to them forever. Then I grew up. Teenagers look like children to me now. (Because, you know, THEY ARE.) Healthy grown men are NOT attracted to children. Hard stop.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Quick quiz: Tr*mp or NIN quotes? Hey pig Nothing's turning out the way I planned Nothing can stop me now I just don’t care

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The Steele Dossier will come out! Comey will prosecute! Mueller will show evidence! The courts will stop him! The Epstein Files will destroy him! People rely on these magic bullets. But none of them ever do the job. No one is coming to save us Stopping this is up to us, we can’t wait for a miracle

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This is how he’ll lock in the rest of his power. By shutting down all criticism by pointing to his (highly modified, if not completely fabricated) Epstein Files as proof that D’s are making up stories about him. This is like every other silver bullet ya’ll thought would slay the beast but never did

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I hope we all knew that “The Epstein Files” was always an op. Trump wanted us this rabid for them. He wanted months of turmoil. Now the plan reaches end-stage. He’s going to provide modified versions that ‘prove’ his innocence, then use those to ‘prove’ D’s are using a witch hunt against him.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This one hurts. I quote a LOT of Todd Snider lyrics in day-to-day life, but the ones I probably quote the most come from Statistician’s Blues. Rest in Power, may your songs be a lasting legacy. youtu.be/IUK6zjtUj00?...

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Todd Snider - Statistician's Blues

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

@bsky.app If you’re going to drive away the very people who use this app, who exactly do you think you’ll have left? Is your goal to kick off everyone who isn’t MAGA? It won’t work, conservatives aren’t going to come here. You’re actively killing your base. Kicking off Sarah Kendzior? Really???!?

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

THIS IS SO GOOD

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

At the Día de los Muertos festival in Redwood City today there are a whole bunch of evil orange man piñatas. People REALLY seem to want to hit him in the face with a bat. And they clearly hope to teach their children to hit his face with bats. I love seeing such good parenting. 🥰

An 24” tall piñata of Donald Trump with devil horns, holding a red devil pitchfork that has “make america great again” written on it. It appears to be begging to be hit in the face repeatedly by a long bat.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I gave up on mechanical KVMs. Current Primary PC handles the large monitor. Older Primary PC handles the right monitor. Even Older Primary PC handles the left monitor Symless’ Synergy software KVM handles the keyboard and mouse connections A press of large monitor’s input button switches it to PS5

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Friendly reminder that Slow Horses on AppleTV is ridiculously good fun You know your show is going to be good when you call Mick Jagger in the hopes he might be willing to write a theme song and he immediately says “hell yeah, I’ve read all the books, I love them, I’ve got you.” An absolute banger

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The problems aren’t from pedal-assist e-bikes (which should be allowed to go to 28mph!!!), e-bike complaints are all caused by e-motos that go 40+mph and are already 100% illegal, but they get sold anyway. Attacking the good guys because bad guys are using completely different products feels insane

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

If you want to limit bikes to only 20mph (I used to ride faster than that on my Huffy at age 12!), then you have to FIRST drop all residential speed limits to 20mph. Until that happens, speed limiting these bikes is DANGEROUS for everyone on the streets and only hurts pro-biking initiatives

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Our current 20mph limits on ebikes is an absolute life-threatening nightmare as long as residential speed limits are 25mph. If bikes can’t keep up with traffic on the slowest possible neighborhood roads, then they get hit by those cars or get forced onto the sidewalk where they hit pedestrians.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Trump posting a video of himself dropping a huge shit on America is probably the most accurate public statement he has ever made.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Stopped at Yerba Buena Gardens on our way to No Kings San Francisco, and read our daughter some applicable quotes from MLK Jr there behind the fountain. Let’s go! #NoKings #MaskingIsIconic

Man wearing a black N95 Zimi mask, on his knees wearing a black t-shirt that says “Long covid is chronic. Masking is iconic.” His arm is around a young girl who is also wearing a black N95 Zimi mask, along with a red-white-and-blue dress with a patch on it that says “I will vote”

A quote written on a wall:

No. No, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
- Martin Luthor King, Jr

A quote printed on the wall:

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

other98 If your government says there's too many autistic kids, then eliminates the entire special education department, they don't care about autism, or kids, or education.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Bullies are mocking the founder of antifa’s girlfriend, all because they think she’s made up. She’s real, I swear, she just goes to a different school!

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022) is a mislabeled The Crow reboot and not a Batman movie at all. While it’s a poor Batman film, it’s easily the best The Crow film since Brandon Lee died. There. I said it.

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Pre-COVID Social Distancer @maskedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

8 year old did her very first ninja competition this morning and got a perfect score. (You get one point for each obstacle completed). Best of all, this competition was mostly girls. Finally, a community she can feel a part of. Bad things are happening globally, but good things still happen locally

An 8 year old girl, facing away from the camera, on a ninja warrior obstacle course, swinging from one obstacle to another

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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