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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 2h
i saw michael jackson and michael jackson looked at me
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 15h
wife brought the kids hiking while i canvassed, and they apparently did five miles up and down Uncanoonuc, so i said I'd make anything the kids wanted for dinner. Sushi night at the young hikers' request
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 18h
favorite canvassee of the day was the guy who came at me with a "fuck ICE, free Palestine, and trans rights are human rights" to which i was like "hell YEAHHH" i was tired and it was like revealing a roast chicken behind a brick in castlevania
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 22h
life is a process of determining when and where you should make something bad out of shitty scrap wood
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i found King Of Tokyo new in a thrift store for 2 bucks a couple months back, so i bought it, and we tried it for the first time tonight. and wouldn't you know, this consistently-well-reviewed 15-year-old board game is actually quite fun. someone should have told me, specifically, to my face
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
wife was listening to something that sounded like Arcade Fire. i asked "who is this?" she said "it's Arcade Fire." I shouted "I KNEW IT!" in smug triumph
He's hip, he's cool, he's 45
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
wife's birthday request was German Chocolate Cake.. if you've never had it, just picture if a Samoa Girl Scout Cookie went Akira Tetsuo Mode and got all massive 'n' sloppy
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Ian rudderbutt @reasonablemustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rico Charges @NoChorus

Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up.


Rico Charges @NoChorus • Sep 29, 2021

My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
look, i would never say that Richard Nixon is "good." I would never say he should be "redeemed." all I'm saying is that a little 10 pm Cottage Cheese, straight from the fridge? alls I'm saying is that that's a Chilled-Out Treat That Can't Be Beat
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my kid was walking through the house, arms full of bell peppers, quietly chirping to herself "gonna sell these peppers.. gonna sell all these peppers..."
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point.
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i didn't like the solid two-feet-planted pose of the new 40k ork Dakkarig, so i reposed it to a more rickety-looking grot rig with a loopier Killa Kan vibe. The banner isnt perfect, but then it's my first time trying to paint an album cover on a space the size of a penny
goblin dakka rigfee fi fo fum🎵 his name is Gobbo, and he's friends with Arkhan Land 🎵
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
one time i was gonna see a movie after work, but didn't have time to eat dinner. so i stopped into a grocery and bought a bag of lettuce to eat on the walk to the theatre. these yuppie guys were walking behind me, and i heard one of them say "bro, lookit that guy, eating lettuce out of a bag"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
me: "DID YOU SEE THAT STUDY? DIET SODA PERFECTLY GOOD FOR YOU. VINDICATED! VINDICATED!" wife: "we'll see about the cancer risk twenty years from now" me: "I GUESS I'LL SEE IN TWENTY YEARS" wife: "MAYBE YOU WON'T" me: "THAT'S RIGHT, PROBABLY WON'T, ON ACCOUNT OF ALL THE DIET MOXIE"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
made some baguettes this evening, and i'd fried some pork schnitzel for the kids, so i combined em (with quick pickled veg, cilantro, jalapeno, maggi, etc) to make my wife and i banh mi for dinner
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(to Justin Timberlake's falsetto "Cry Me A River") 🎵 3 PM coffee 🎵
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i am informed by the kindergarten teacher that the jacket is the Talk Of The School Faculty
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i met with some retirees at a local community center, and one of them was telling me the barber on kelley street used to keep a pet gerbil in a ball: "it would just roll all around her floor while she was cutting hair. one day the door was open and it rolled right out onto kelley street"
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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if I stuck with what I already liked I wouldn't now like about 90% of what I like
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PAUL ATREIDES: i want a cigarette. damn i could use a cigarette. a cigarette would fix me. I just need to smoke one cigarette. i could smoke one cigarette and throw the rest of the pack away. i'll bet i could buy one cigarette off of someone and smoke it.
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
me and the fellas on the way to an acapella song-battle with a rival gang
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
all the recent Bubble Discourse about Ella Texas reminded me of this avril lavigne reveal from two years ago. anyway, i was twenty years late to "Sk8r Boi," and when i finally heard it, i was like "well this sucks shit, i didn't miss anything"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
re: thick wife
Salaam Br. hanif
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Choose Thy Bottle, Young Warrior
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thrift store book from 2017. it's weird that no one has reprinted this children's book, for kids, aimed at children, for young kids, to read,
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the 5-year-old picked up a jigsaw puzzle piece and walked over to my wife and asked "where does this one go?" i was like "that's not how jigsaw puzzles work dude"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
a tree fell on the running trail in the storm, so i moved it to the side while i was running in the rain. what a rush. stopping in driving rain to pick up a tree? makes a fella feel like Martian Manhunter or something. why dont billionaires hire a guy to put trees in their way instead of buying skin
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Willem Dafriend @depanneur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i went to an arborglyph workshop today and expressed myself
"there must be a harder way" in big block letters carved into a stump of wood
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
banned day one for death threats to every visible organism
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have never been a trading card guy. Never tempted. But today I learned about RAD DUDES, a 1990 110-card release from Pacific Cards, and lord restrain me
BOOM BOX BRIAN trading card. A weird looking teen rides a bike with a boom box on the front. The drawing is spectacular in its ineptitude PIGGIN OUT OWEN is a dude eating a hoagie with his jaw grotesquely distended. The artist has never seen a man or a sandwich beforeSLAMIN’ JAMIN’ JAMES might be a racial stereotype or it might just be that the guy can’t draw, but his basketball shorts over bike shorts situation is wildGirls can be Rad Dudes too but RAH RAH RACHEL needs to have a sit-down talk with her titties.
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Permit data artistry with your stunning info? 😃 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 ✨ Surrender my personals ✨ 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 🤮ᵃˢˢᵉʳᵗ ᵐʸ ᶜʳᵘᵈᵉ ᵖʳᵉᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᶜᵉ🤮
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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wish art was more diverse instead of having people from one of two cities fantasize about what it would be like elsewhere
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
about 3 episodes into Widows Bay and it's Whole Deal compelled me to look up the showrunner and: NJ, NYC, LA. now. nothing wrong with all that. but.
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Winkin' In The Boudoir: A Burlesque Tribute To George Saunders's "Lincoln In The Bardo" Oct 3, 2009 7:15 PM
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
been a while since i heard any new Nikki Minaj songs, but I'm still very excited for the eventual release of "It's Rap-tacular! To Pay Five Bucks For Gas" (ft Dean Cain)
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
not the worst thing about A.I. but it's annoying how confusing it is when you're using a sans-serif font to text about a guy named Al
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EEK! Semper Tyrannis! 🕸️🦇🍬🍫 @nicksempertyrannis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The masculine equivalent of the phrase "Thanks, it has pockets!"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
apparently one of my kid's classmates saw my political flyer, and at the school open house, she asked me "are you running.. for. .. America?" i said "that's right. I'm running.. for America"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my favorite guy i canvassed today launched into a big rant about how he's planning to vote democrat but is disgusted by their complicity in genocide. i was like "hell yeah man, i'll tell ya, if YOU ever decide to run for something, ya got my vote"
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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
God-tier joke
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this Swan Boy from a couple years ago is maybe my favorite cartoon gag about a visual signifier of time passing: swanboy.com/comic/injure... Maybe tied with Patty and Selma's phone book "Aaronson and Zakowski" joke on the Simpsons
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
roughed up my throat pretty bad on my deadlift 1rm this morning while bellowing EEEAAGGHH. this is why Good Form is so important; you gotta remember to accompany each lift with a quiet murmur of "liminal" or "marmalade"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
interesting highlights, from Van Hollen's recent speech to NH Dems: 1. AIPAC and Netanyahu are negative influences on our politics 2. the country needs Medicare For All 3. specifically called out the stupid centristy pundits who urged him not to help Kilmar Abrego-Garcia
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
weather coolin down... it's paprikash season, baby
chicken paprikash
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
recently at a party i met a guy who brought some homemade moonshine, and i was like "that's so cool! what kind of still? i'd love to learn more about it!" and he smugly was like "it's a secret!" and i immediately shifted from "what a neat guy!" to "what a prick! hope he gets hit by a fuckin volvo"
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
using the Chairface Chippendale laser, to carve "ME IRL" with a big arrow pointing to this article, onto the surface of the moon,
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raisin bird @bryanthomasdaly.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
younger trader joes cashier: have you tried these scallion pancakes yet me: (with the terrified sternness of a third grader with one line in the play) It’s Giving Dinner
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worm restraint @ctsmike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Chase
4:12 PM
Time's running out, Michael: Get a rat...
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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"why, my dear, you are looking as beautiful as a great big glass onion.. and so i am hella knives out right now, to eat that big wonderful glass onion which is you" - james bond, probably, in that knives out sequel i never saw
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