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A Real Tough Kid

@romesick.bsky.social
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Art lover. Expatriate Texan. Current “Ope Lemme Just Squeeze Past Ya”. Perpetually Romesick. THE. TTPD. Views are my own. She/her.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.
Threads post from "real_mstar_author"

hot take: we should be writing books with accessibility in mind.

shorter chucked paragraphs and more approachable prose should be industry standard
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wildflowers and prickly pear cactus at sunrise on the Jackson Ranch near Lampasas, Texas. One of my own photos, taken in 2011.
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Every now and then on a Saturday morning, I am flipping channels and I catch part of The Pioneer Woman on Food Network. She's always saying something like "Can you IMAGINE a COWBOY eating a VEGETABLE?"
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
He is correct in the sense that two times zero is still zero.
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ted Turner: a reminder that our billionaires used to do cool things like yacht racing and trying to manage the baseball team they owned and starting various cable channels devoted to things like endless old movies and 24-hour news. The man was too busy to go fascist.
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Olivia Rodrigo single sounds like if Chappell Roan tried to write a Taylor Swift song, if that makes any sense. It's fine.
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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Oh okay you're all into Popes now? Name three Pope albums.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/03/2026
Entire Spring Break Spent In Airport Security Line
Entire Spring Break Spent In Airport Security Line
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jellineck.bsky.social @jellineck.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Every time I have to spend $15 for ground turkey I feel like Nelly getting bottle service at Caesars Palace in 2003. Baller.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I live a trad life, living off the land simply, because living natural is the best way. If you want to know how to live off the land simply and without technology, please watch my TikTok videos and join the discord, I also stream on Twitch every Thursday where I scream at women who wear pants
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
wut
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If y'all don't quit putting that video in my feed. 😠
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 10/02/2026
Elderly Americans depend heavily on care work, and our entire care work sector depends heavily on the skills and labor of immigrants. When elderly Americans cannot get proper care, they are at risk of harm and even death. Regardless of their preferences about politicians or immigration policy.
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Frosty morning in Columbus, OH.
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I'm convinced that someone could be completely covered in snow, up above their head, and they'd find a way to pop one hand out to post "This is nothing. You should have seen...."
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🔺️overmocha1068🔺️ @overmocha1068.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Every once in awhile I see a headline that is so unintelligible to me it makes me wonder if it's time to just push myself out onto the ice floe now and just be done with it
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I feel sick in my soul. 😔
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Mark Reel @markreel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The first two hours this morning
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
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haydensears.bsky.social @haydensears.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Just a sec I’m downloading the Nextdoor app just so I can post “gunshots???????” six different times tonight
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/12/2025
This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)
a vertical shot of a placid, cloudy day. on the left, a barren tree reaches up to the overcast sky. on the right, a boxy white food truck has parked with its little window propped open for business. you can just make out the word “pizza” in black curly lettering on the front of the truck. in the center of the photo, sitting squarely in the middle of a green bike lane, a rather large dog that resembles a golden retriever or great pyrenees is sitting patiently in profile, staring expectantly at the food truck’s window while basking in the glow of its lights.
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I fear my entire identity this week is Bo Jackson’s stutter step that froze a ❌Ichigan defender like a Butterball turkey. #BoKnowsFootball #GoBucks
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A Real Tough Kid @romesick.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🤣🤣🙌🏻❤️
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Goose Island Bourbon County on Black Friday. I am officially ready for The Game.
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
My advice to King is that he never say anything ever again.
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Not all gyros wear capes.
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I am serving you, the public, as a poll worker today, and being incessantly bothered by the world's most active autumn fly.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23/10/2025
It takes 30 days to grow a radish. Also 2/3 of the country is already in or entering winter.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
That’s incomplete, he only got 2 of his 3 feet down inbounds
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.
 
The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken.  How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10/10/2025
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I once saw a noxious campus preacher at Ohio State completely lose his composure when a guy wearing a tuxedo and a Yoda mask walked up and started staring at him. Same principle.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/10/2025
My recent 18,000 word newsletter took me maybe 7 hours total between note taking, research and writing, and maybe 15 diet cokes, the human brain is truly remarkable
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better. I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.
Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
If Jurassic Park had feathered its dromaeosaurids in 1993, I'm telling you that this would be the GOOD timeline. And yet here we are.
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Matt LaMar @mattlamar.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Looks like Taylor Swift is announcing her new album called “503 Bad Gateway”
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Salt Bae of Fundy 🦭 @asaltyredhead.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
AM work meeting: "does anyone have anything to add?" Me: "SO TAYLOR SWIFT..."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Trump deploys Federal agents across D.C. streets amid vow to crack down on crime. The facts contradict the pretext: Washington, D.C. has seen declining crime rates in recent years, violent crime hitting a *30-year low* in 2024, according to the U.S. Justice Department. www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
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Federal agents spread out across D.C. streets amid Trump's vow to crack down on crime
President Trump promised a weekend crackdown on Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 29/07/2025
This is Stevie. He is annoyed by pretty much everything that happens outside. As you can tell from his boofs, today is no exception. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)
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Observer of Interesting Times @ctoft.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I know it's not being treated as a Nationsl Crisis like it was in 2022, but grocery prices are very visibly going up right now across a range of products (eggs being an ironic exception).
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Jenny Holzer, Redacted (Top Secret), 2012
A page with large black bars across it, ostensibly covering redacted text. Above and below are the words "TOP SECRET," each instance crossed out with a diagonal line
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Trump admin said the Everglades detention camp would be for the “worst of the worst.” Four men sent there so far have nothing on their record other than recent arrests for diving without a license, and were likely only arrested due to racial profiling, as Adam’s excerpt shows.
Due Process Concerns Mount For Immigration Attorneys Amid Widespread Profiling
Immigration attorney Amanda Velazquez has four clients in Alligator Alcatraz. Her clients, three from Nicaragua and one from Mexico, have no arrests other than those arrested for
driving without a license. They live in the Florida Keys and have asylum claims and work permits. Two of the clients managed to call her from the Alligator Alcatraz facility.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the
American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
my body is not built for this weather. it is built for surviving winter in eastern europe and hauling sacks of potatoes
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