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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's tough to gauge the safety of a new neighborhood when you move in the week before the 4th of July...

Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

On the one hand, I feel like I dress well and try to speak and present myself in a civilized and respectable way. On the other hand, this snapple has been there for about 2 days, and I'm like, "the top looks like it's still sealed..."

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's important to distinguish when "adulting" is taking care of responsibilities and when it's giving in to capitalist strong-arming.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's really frustrating to have been part of an organization that is going through controversy because you support change and accountability, but you end up feeling defensive because the general public doesn't know what they're talking about and just slings mud everywhere.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If your response to someone's creative expression is, "haha, you sound ridiculous," stfu. Not valuable input.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Great day in the @mlb.com yesterday. In 10 games, 8 players had a multi-homer performance, Josh Naylor Ketel Marte Nolan Arenado Kyle Schwarber Aaron Judge Trent Grisham Mike Trout Jeremiah Jackson Hitting 16 of the day's 37 total.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Tales from "the richest country in the world."

Facebook Post from local community group:

Hi,
Does anyone know of any programs or really low cost dentists? I need a few root canals. I have a filling that is falling out. I got it done about 2 years a go and they told me it wouldn't last. But I didn't have the $ for a root canal from them. I don't have any health or dental insurance. My husband makes just too much for us to qualify for free healthcare but we can't afford to pay for me monthly. Thank you!

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Please stop advertising things to me before I can buy them. No matter how much I want it, I will forget by the time it comes out.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I think the main driver of the Trump era is that now we point out the way things were quietly broken and, instead of fixing them, we just stop being quiet about it. Economy is basically a casino? Let's endorse rampant gambling and crypto! History of white supremacy? Let's be white supremacist!

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Sending a mushy text for your SO to the family group chat: As a teenager: 💀 As a parent: 🤣

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

American psychiatry: do you feel you suffer from one or more mental health conditions? Go to a psychiatrist, pay so much that it financially destabilizes your entire life, and maybe you'll find something that helps! Maybe. Also, if you don't do this, YOU are being irresponsible.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's making me depressed that I'm too depressed to write...

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Adulting, verb: paying for things you don't want with money you don't have because the people who you're paying paid the people who are supposed to protect you to get them to require it.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Capitalism has always left out a percentage of the population, it's just that, before DEI initiatives, policies ensured that this percentage was almost entirely minorities and women. Now, the "right" has correctly identified that this poverty percentage is becoming more(*) ethnically balanced./

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

America: Where we will circle a parking lot for 10 minutes to save 1 minute of walking.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I've never been a very expressive person, and in the early 00s, I was told a few times that I'm really hard to read. Today, I don't get told that, but I am frequently informed of different emotions that I am apparently feeling. I feel like we're all getting worse at saying "I don't know."

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The Mariners putting in Bazardo in that spot was the right call to anyone without the luxury of hindsight. He has repeatedly succeeded in that situation this postseason, and there's a big difference between asking Muñoz to get 6 outs and 8 outs. He made one bad pitch, and the M's luck ran out.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Normalize immediately ending transactions and walking away when offered an intrusive upsell.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Everybody talks and listens wrong, and no one knows what anyone means anymore.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The flaws of Boomers always come down to the same thing. They are a generation that blames young people for living in the world they created. They want all the credit and no accountability.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I've discovered a new pet peeve that I swear wasn't happening before. Someone says something like, "I forgot my keys, so can you [unintelligible]?" So I ask, "sorry, I didn't catch that." They then reply, "My keys," and look at me expectantly.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I think it is an essential family experience for 2 parents who can't spell to give an impromptu spelling test to their kid who can.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I love the sentiment that political violence has no place in a country founded by violent revolution.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

"People only like socialism because they want free stuff," say the people doing everything they can to reduce the cost of labor.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Saying "the woke mob is obsessed with race. They're the real racists!" Is like saying, "doctors are always talking about disease. They're the real..." ah fuck...

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I didn't realize this was necessary, but PSA: 30 minutes is notba long walk.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Why is this question SO frustrating?

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We have a poverty line. I propose the creation of a wealth line, a personal networth which creates little measurable improvement to someone's life and significant damage to the national wellbeing by increasing it. Make it pointless to reach a certain level of rich to disincentivize endless growth.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

That feeling when you tell your partner about the video where Verizon kept misquoting $.002 as .002 cents and then end up doing a home math lesson...

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Hey, just a little controversial throwback here. This is the exact kind of voluntary incompetence that "bean dad" was trying to keep his daughter from falling into, and everyone got mad at him because "she will be able just use Google for help in real life."

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Life is showing up equipped to cross the Sahara and being told that the only thing that counts as success is reaching the north pole.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Could we please stop reinventing the wheel for every app? I would love it if we could just agree on how copy/paste works across all platforms.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It's actually kind of rude that Tom Sturridge looks like Goth Zoolander in The Sandman. It's not *supposed* to be silly...

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I feel un-American in that I lack the ability to be functional and miserable at the same time.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

PSA: if you're ever opening a can and the aluminum frays a little bit, don't try to pull off the little "thread" with your fingers.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I love how we invented a solution to people with ADHD leaving water boiling over 100 years ago, but now we're making a bunch of new kettles that don't whistle...

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Whether you believe you can do it or you can't do it, you're right." What if I have full intellectual confidence that I can do it, but I also 100% believe that I will fail? Both of these things feel true at once. "What's wrong with you?" I don't know...

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The paradox of intolerance is fake and anyone who takes it seriously is a bigot or an idiot.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I keep seeing posts about a war, but it's not apparent what people are talking about because it's not wven trending. Fuck this world I was born into. It's a stupid place and I wish I could just fucking quit.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I think the most frustrating thing about not being outwardly social is that people fill your silence with their own insecurities and then blame you for making them feel bad.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Half a shower thought: If one of the East India companies decided that the next step toward power was to found their own nation, one built to cater to the interests of capital, would said nation look different from the US today?

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The most frustrating thing about #bowls is that, as you improve, so does your competition. At the moment, I know I'm playing better than I have before (overall), but I'm winning less. I feel like "losing well" is a particular feature of the sport.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

When does a statement become "true" enough that it requires no citation? We don't cite Newton every time we reference gravity, so where's the line?

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

A problem with not being very expressive is that people tend to take your lack of speaking and project their own reasons onto it. This wouldn't be so bad if the reasons weren't almost always negative.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If you convince someone with ADHD that they would remember something if it was important, eventually, they will believe that nothing they care about is important.

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Nathan Van Ness @nathanvn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I feel like there were a series of well received shows about anti-heroes, and that has morphed into a series of new shows about people who objectively suck that still present like we're supposed to like them.

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