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An execution is going to look like Saddam Hussein's hanging but even less dignified, and the administration is not going to understand why it looks so pathetic as it plasters sizzle reels and highlight footage all over X Dot Com The Everything App

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 9h

submitting a FOIA request for Dort's OnlyFans activity on official government devices

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 10h

She then blames Israel for her stress, so to complete your analogy, the person then blames Black people for putting them into the mental state that made them use the N-word

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 10h

so people had to say "look you can't be insta-DQing kids because they had what looked like an asthma attack in 2nd grade. Those rules are now excluding enough perfectly suitable recruits that they're affecting our ability to make mission." that took a while. it's probably still very dumb

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 10h

when I joined in 2009, the draconian insistence from every recruiter was "you have never had any medical care, ever. You were born on the dinner table. You do not know what a 'hospital' or 'pediatrician' are." GENESIS ruined this strategy but kept all of the stringent rules for medical conditions

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 11h

I have one other straightforward objection. We already have a gigantic project to prepare the nation's youth for success and to make them into civic-minded, productive, and moral adults. It's called the public school system. Why would 13th and 14th grade do any better of a job than K-12?

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 12h

Drafting a whole bunch of malcontents (which many will be, even if they would be content elsewhere) is a recipe for disaster. Conscript military branches put up with this disaster because they see it as a necessary cost. Self-inflicting it for no real reason would poll about as well as herpes

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 12h

As somebody who was not ready for college at 18 but was very ready at 23 after doing a term in the Marine Corps: this would be a good idea for some but would be immediately hated by the vast majority of people

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One week and counting since my iron infusion, and my running has slightly improved. Come on bones, you can do it! Keep making blood!

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The dubious doggy DNA kit has been submitted for Oliver. Ah, the things that we spend our hard-earned money on

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

sadistically giving a disgraced celestial spirit the choice between "APPLEBEES" or "TGI FRIDAYS" when the spirit has no idea what "apples," "bees," or "Fridays" are, let alone the concept of a bad nationwide sit-down chain bar and grill, or the idea of a "line cook"

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I imagine that this guy is not online in the slightest, and all of his pondering of Truth, Beauty, and Gender has been performed within the constant but unpredictable 3-second pauses that occur between moving a skillet on/off the heat and putting salt on something he just pulled out of the fryer

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"women should stick to the jobs that suit their womanly maternal instincts, like plumbing and electrician work" is causing me physical pain to think about

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

HARRY PLINKETT: What's wrong with her faaaaace

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

in many ways this is heartening (the American people are not actually committed to atrocities) and in many ways it is profoundly depressing (the American people have no moral virtue and can only be made to care or not care based on how it plays out as spectacle).

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The analogy that I've started using is "losing sports team," and more specifically a losing sports team that is losing in boring, futile ways. Fans have myriad breaking points, but it's simply not fun to cheer them on anymore, and eventually people stop taking time out of their day to watch

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah my take is that he rarely works out except for these photo ops. He simply is not putting in the work because it would interfere with his drinking regimen

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

getting sports coaches to say "I absolutely will bench you for talking that way about women" is left as an exercise for the reader and is, unfortunately, a case where the chuds currently have a clear advantage in numbers

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An exception that is worth thinking about is sports. It's one of the few cases where a positive male role model is in a position to punish somebody for character reasons and the kid is likely to say "oh I should work on my character" rather than quitting the team and continuing to be a turd

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My attitude is less of compassion for Pike and more of "you people are the manifestation of the State, performing a task of the utmost gravity. You do not get a single oopsie or fucko-boingo. If you cannot do the job with the professionalism that this requires then you don't get to do it at all."

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So in practice it's a 401(k) that you withdraw a big chunk out of, tax free, as a lump sum when you retire

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The original intent was similar to a Flexible Savings Account, just not awful (since you don't forfeit the remainder). I don't think that the creators intended its actual use (always pay for medical expenses out of pocket, save your receipts for 30 years, and file for reimbursement).

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a payday lending company's survey says that the above family is experiencing financial precarity because they paid for a new water heater install with their REI credit card

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

after maxing out our 401(k)s, our employee stock purchase plans, the HSA that we're using as another tax-sheltered retirement account, chipping into the 529 for the kiddos, and putting money into our house and car maintenance funds, it's pretty hard to make ends meet

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the interest rates have probably increased since I last posted this

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Middle Class Shrinking, Great Pyrenees / Golden Retriever Mixes Still Happy, Says Study

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Remy from Ratatouille: I'm glad that everybody else is helping out but I'm gonna need you to go back into the sewer

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also sometimes your picks still win and you get to laugh uproariously about Team Oopsie-Poopsie beating Team Extremely Serious

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They lasted two days before my uncle was enlisted to fly in and keep us occupied for the remainder of the week, which he did with Standard Uncle Parenting (feeding us gargantuan quantities of ice cream and fast food and letting us do whatever at the park as he sat on a bench and read a book).

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My parents fondly recall the time that my grandparents (in their early 60s) insisted that they could look after three boys for a week so that my parents could go to Hawaii. Reader, they could not. We were actually really good kids! we were still a Handful

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

> second book, Jesus, etc pretty sure that libs are also getting the Bible as well, considering how much the current vibe of the Right is "if Jesus were reborn, we would crucify Him again"

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

per Max's point, I should pay the true cost for my sprawl instead of having working-class taxpayers pay for it

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(raising hand) I like sprawl honestly the issue is that I cut off a Wiccan gal in Boston traffic when I was 16 and was cursed to have slightly trashy neighbors for the rest of my life. With my detached suburban house, my trashy neighbors are 20 meters away rather than sharing a wall and/or ceiling

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have posted about my buddy who grew up in Pine Apple, Alabama, relatively close to a Nissan factory.

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

alexa, play Ashokan Farewell (Kazoo arrangement)

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

speaking earnestly: the process of this guy emerging from his information silo and spewing nonsense only to be met with "what" and "oh boy more kooky nonsense from Nonsense Dave" from his coworkers is a crucial part of the deradicalization process. keep at it, you're doing great

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

so grateful that somebody has finally given Italians a break

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The joke when I was in the Marine Corps was that the Suzuki Hayabusa killed and maimed more Marines than the Taliban. I don't think it was true, but the casualty rate was considerable

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My wife's workplace refers to "trauma entries" - patients whose injuries are extensive enough that they need to be transferred to a better-equipped hospital. Whenever she sees an electric skateboard or scooter she refers to them as "future trauma entries"

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oregon is weird but in different ways. More people recreationally shoot, so the average guy on the skeet range is more likely to be Normal. but the mainstream Oregon GOP is way, way worse. A little less race war stuff being bandied about in the Oregon skeet clubhouse than in Massachusetts though

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is because in Texas basically everybody shoots recreationally, and in Massachusetts it's a tiny subculture. That subculture is nuts.

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The only time I've actually done the "ugh HR" thing was when our group was hiring and HR was trying to get a handle on our technical requirements for candidates. The requirements were a mess and HR being non-technical was not actually the problem!

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

RUMORS OF THE PATRIOTS' DEMISE HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the fact that more money mollifies me, of course, reveals my economic preference for higher compensation rather than better working conditions. and a union of Mes would continue to push for "indispensable and gets paid a lot while also complaining a lot"

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My much bigger gripe is that it is impossible for me to take vacation. My work is relatively easy, but there is nobody to cover for me, and taking vacation just means I have to fit the same work into fewer hours. My boss has responded to this with "you're doing a great job. have more money"

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The latter could "lock in," as the kids say, and knock out their work in 40 hours, but they like Posting, taking 2-hour lunches, etc. Our salaried work culture is indifferent to such people, as opposed to an hourly compensation structure that would quickly start to micromanage them

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