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NateB

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Here to have a pint and wait for the dystopia to blow over. He / Him

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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Olympic sized swimming pool" as a volume reference drives me nuts. Everyone assumes everyone else knows how much that is, but nobody does. The engineers that design huge pools know, but they'd rather you use gallons like an adult who doesn't make absurd comparisons.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The irony is that fox news boomer brain rot has messed up the "natural order of things" more than their worst nightmares about wokism ever could. Kids should at least have the illusion that their elders are wise. Grandpa ranting like a lunatic in his red hat destroys that necessary illusion.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Maybe there's a non crazy reason a normal and chill person would go to the trouble to force streetview to blur their house.... But it's far more likely this neighbor would be a nightmare. And there's no fence between the yards. Nope, not it, someone else can live there.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Noticed a house for sale in a perfect location in my town. Did a Google Street view drive-by. Half of it is blurred out. It seems that all of the neighbor's house is completely blurred, from all directions. I had no idea that can be done. This tells me a lot about that neighbor.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
As long as it's not the McMaster catalog. We'll need those to rebuild civilization.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yep. Georde La Forge is more intelligent than Captain Picard, but he wouldn't be able to lead the crew.
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Fankoosh @fankoosh.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
“It’s honestly embarrassing how people didn’t know the thing I actively refused to tell them about despite my knowing it.”
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And because radio isn't a thing anymore, I can die with this notion. Believing every mention of them is a marketing illusion. I could go my entire life not hearing a single note. I've made it this far, I can take it all the way.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One of my dumbest things is refusing to believe The Strokes is a real band. I vaguely remember their name casually dropped in Simpsons and commercials when the script called for "the hip music that cool people like". So I'll forever believe they are just a marketing placeholder.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
If you have a new niece baby Jennifer, you have 1 week to convince neighbor Jennifer to change her name before the accident.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Redecabecca
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Accurately spelling out a sound effect is a nice talent.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Which means they surely have looked into name...and STILL show it off as a status symbol?! This be like calling your German Shepherd a "Reichshund".
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
But thinking more about it kind of pisses me off. I was ignorant of "Rhodesia" because it had never really came up in my life. But Ridgeback owners earnestly boast about their "lion hunting dog", they clearly have researched the breed.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
To learn that is was an explicitly white supremacist British colony in Africa. Therefore, nostalgia for Rhodesia is, of course, a thing in Elon-world. The funny part is that I had already pegged Rhodesian Ridgeback owners as snooty elitists via dog park interactions.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Before I abandoned twitter, I had started seeing references to Rhodesia. Before that, I had only associated that with the dog breed. But the references were intriguing. Implying a "paradise lost" situation where a good society was tragically destroyed. Then I did the 8 minutes of research...
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is fascinating. Especially given your region. Now I'm wondering if it's a new cultural signaling. Like maybe more progressive people have been trying to blend in with a drawl and now they are trying to distance themselves from being mistaken for maga?
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Is this a real life experience or an online one? Wondering if "AI voiceover" is playing a parr. I've also been noticing enunciation more lately. Specifically that I find my own enunciation slipping more and I have to be much more conscious about it.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just make them all wear sneakers to own the libs.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
And by "we", I mean the moronic children running the show.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It seems obvious that the only way to really open the strait would be to send it troops. Which would result in monstrous US casualties because of drone warfare. Ukraine has shown that warfare has fundamentally changed and we are ignoring those lessons.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ukraine has proven that a small country can easily close a much larger body of water, using only drones. Even after being bombed for four years. Ukraine did it on the fly, Iran has been prepping for this exact scenario for years.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Outsourcing screwing is a one way deal.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Also I'll bet we'll see a drop in registered Republicans going into the the midterms. The approval numbers of his base won't matter if the base is shrinking.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I remember when these same people were calling Bloomberg a communist for proposing limited the size of sugar drinks.
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
AI is the fix. Just take a truckload of coal to power an array of video cards to summarize that video down to the bullet points you seek. It's worth it to avoid having to skim a few text based search results. Reading is for boomers.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The next president needs to wear a tan suit every single day.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Problem is that "racism and yelling" is apparently a popular position. A few years ago we thought that was fringe and cringe until it won elections.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Yeah, they abandoned policy and are playing team sports. We still debate each other on policy. It's impossible to win at this game without becoming way worse.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What a wonderful time to be alive.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
These are fantastic. Thank you for creating them.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I stopped thinking like that after forming healthy relationships as an adult.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Zero. Unsure if I've tried snails. I'm sure I'd like them if they are well-prepared.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"He said 'room', Island brunch was outside. Nice try!" -Meghan Kelly soon. It's surreal to hear, "it was a quick stop for lunch on my private yacht with my family and our nannies" And know that working poor rural white people believe him about migrants causing their hardships.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The middle class now has a critical mass of paranoid neurotics that used to be just a rich people thing. The neurotic class has established the new safeyism standard. They won't hesitate to call the cops on the chill parents if they dare leave a 9yr old unattended for a half hour.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Letting the kids roam free means you think of the neighbors as peers. When shared parenting values is assumed, families can treat the whole neighborhood/town as "supervised territory". I think stratification of income changed that and made all neighborhoods to "low trust" for different reasons.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I first read this as "jerking them off" and was wondering if that meant one at a time or simultaneously. ,🤔
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Proposing a private equity version of Habitat for Humanity. Because of course.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
They mean "EVEN MORE unprecedented grave damage to national security" We are already beyond what the Red Scare crowd imagined was happening.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I'm betting it's nuclear weapons secrets related. She might actually be a "true believer" Russian asset who has convinced herself than only she can stop ww3 by eliminating our advantage.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
So the useful idiots fixated on Clinton's at the pizza place in DC instead of digging into the Trump-Epstein trafficking operation.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Which has turned out to be true....except for the specific location and perpetrators.... The only way I understand this bizarre parallrt is they deliberately flood the zone with disinformation after some real leaks happened 2016-ish.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
To recap what we've found out so far... Epstein helped create 4chan /pol with Bannon as a psyop to mobilize maladjusted young men... Cue pizza gate, where leaked Hillary emails were conspiracy-farmed to insinuate a cabal of rich psychopaths trafficking girls, referring to them as "pizza".
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
All Kamala had to do was to promise to go nuclear on the spam calls. It's the only thing left that we all hate equally.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Can't give up my phone number because it's used for 2 factor authentication for all the accounts. But the spam calls are driving me insane, because all those accounts are selling my into. Is the only way out a burner phone whose sole purpose is 2FA and tanking spam?
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I don't know if my theory-of-mind can handle even more shocking reveals of how people really think. Facebook's a constant reminder that I was pathetically wrong about so many people I thought I knew.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I have no theory-of-mind for the 2024 Trump voter. I'm completely perplexed by people I thought I understood. Even factoring in news bubbles.
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NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
He's so deeply selfish and transactiontional that he can't imagine humans being any other way.
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