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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve never been brilliant in the kitchen but I have proved to myself this week that if you’re halfway decent and you know how to harness the immediate energy around you then there *is* a level where you can will something very good into existence.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know how much I can really talk considering I am a Mass Effect 3 ending and BSG reboot defender, but my nominal interest in Game of Thrones was still blown away by the sumptuous awfulness its final stretch. A seismic collapse that reconfigured everyone's trust of "prestige" TV.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I’m getting older, I’m showing it, I’m not taking care of myself as much, public interactions are more brusque, I’m being avoided. You’re not that cute anymore and this is how it goes, have some grace about it. … Wait what if I just trimmed my beard” And just like that, I’m back in the world.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

American president invites world leaders to attack America for political gain.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of cereal is monochromatically flavored in one end or another, shreds make a lot more sense than that Lucky Charms.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

huh. would ya look at that.

Michael Tracey & @mtracey
DEAR TROLLS: Please stop calling up my dad and leaving graphic voicemails threatening to castrate him, enough already
4:41 PM • 10/3/26

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Papageno but with IBS @papagenobutwithibs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the shitlib version of finding out that Rage Against the Machine mix politics and music

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh my god, you mean to tell me Paris Baby buckles again under pressure and uses the thinnest pretense to make it someone else’s problem? Not floundering and desperate at all!

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"This very expensive 3/5 movie released 10-15 years ago is, in fact, a masterclass in craft, and we're going to lie about how this is a genuine classic under the articles of content manufacturing."

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apple Music recap remains perpetually confused and useless. if it's your file instead of what's in their catalog you have a 50% chance that it'll see it. No chance if they don't host it themselves. just log the "Album Artist" whenever they get played! You have at least those in your database.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not sure if this is helping or exacerbating the deepening depression cycles youtu.be/nn0R9rw0DAM?...

youtu.be

DJ Healer – Nothing 2 Loose [APW-2] FULL

YouTube video by BT-Dreamer999

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lets do this with movies to a lot more loose and lesser extent:

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've done variations on this enough that I decided to make an asinine sudoku out of it. Row 1: 90s, Row 2: 00s, etc Only the big shifts. if AFX is on there then no more Warp/IDM. If Grime is there then Dubstep/Bass(UK) is a given. Avoid great albums, only those that rearranged the brain chemistry.

Album covers for:
Beck - Odelay
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Justice - Xmas Mix
The National - High Violet
Health - Death Magic
Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I cannot stress enough as a CA resident: he cannot be allowed to be the Dem nominee

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Tomlin Minecrafting is so fascinating to me. If you don't know, he's one of the great Pittsburgh Steelers Coaches who took them to two Super Bowls, with one win, and notched up 19 years of winning seasons overall. Football people are too racist to recognize that, and they're big mad about this:

youtu.be

EP 1: ROOFTOPS, PENTHOUSES, AND URBAN LIVING

YouTube video by Mike Tomlin

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think Joyce Carol Oates and Azaelia Banks should just exist in the same room for 6 hours. Just… see what happens.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Salute to the Locktober guys. I will never in my life understand it, but I can respect that you are all… embarking.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rahm is about on par with Gavin in being able to look like a real runner in a wide field only to have his craven, dipshit spirit seep through as the field narrows and he becomes The Albatross Candidate.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you had these conditions and it wasn’t run by sociopaths I’d be curious as hell. I’d want to know what AI pulls from the aggregate of human thought and slaps together from our combined themes and ideas. I think we might learn a lot about ourselves. And then (and this is important) we’d move on.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Please, you gotta listen to ol’ Gil’s takes. I’ll have any take that’ll make it weird. Gil’s nothing without those hot, weird takes. Green screen me and off I go! Yatt-ta-taaa, ephebiphiliaaaa”

Simpson character of a middle aged, highly anxious man with gray hair and a loose, haggard tie.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"They say your VP contention has all the momentum of a runaway freight train"

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Bryan Grantham @bryanmgrantham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Taps the sign

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What’s an album that could be a central object for someone decades deep into the post-apocalypse?

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Jaime" is harvesting figs at min. wage in Madera CA. "There isn't enough good fruit. Usually we harvest through November but many locations have already stopped. We expected to be working longer. Now we need to look for another job as we need this income to pay rent." #WeFeedYou

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Skimming through the Geese album: dunno if I really want to get into dudeyelp-rock . Women seem to be into Geese: okay well maybe it’s alright. A woman you know is into Geese: come on am I really about to re-evaluate this.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a rare and precious thing facing off against the torrent of flattened, anodyne characters that mean nothing and saturate everything. You will dearly miss this when even the proper mascot, already a sheer disappointment next to this marvel, is also deemed too idiosyncratic to live.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s some kind of music discourse going on but my timeline isn’t quite spelling it out. Usually there’s a fun 2-3 minutes of scrolling to tease out the details before some QT has a gavel-banging take, but it remains a mystery so far.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Film pitch: a documentary about sidekicks in various types of shows, what they perceive their job to be, and how they navigate through a business fueled by ego. I feel like this already exists, but I dreamt it and almost forgot it, so:

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Aw man the blue one would look better upside down as a very pale fire if I realized it earlier and used the white accordingly.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dunno where I am on these but I felt good making them

Probably the most explicit landscape yet. A little disappointed by that, but we have erupting cracks of white ice on a blue surface, the foreground continuing with these blue washes stretching upward, meeting a background sky of blues and pinks and purples. Above, ill-defined and hazy smears of darker blues and purples cascade into pinks and yellows

A WALL of reds and blacks stretches diagonally over half of the canvas. Above it, a pink, white, and yellow tumult of weather churns. A red smear just above the wall breaches the barrier between them.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If only one person is giving me a hell yeah, that person is me

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The iced coffee at interviews debate is full of HOA-adjacent fingerwagging Gen X'ers who still think they're seeing retirement, but I do have to admit that it makes a first impression, and the two roads I see in front of me are more polarizing than I thought.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love how the Chinese state is often presented as this super savvy long-term operator foil to the US bureaucracy, but its thought leaders also seem captured by airport books

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just processed 120+ applications with a co-worker and let me just say: If rejection makes you feel like dirt, in all likelihood it wasn't because your application was Bad. Those we picked have the unusual set of circumstances that made them ideal for *this* position at *this* place at *this* time.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I started an alt to document the boilerplate adventures of someone who *just* got their drivers license, but at 40 years old. Chiitan found my first post and liked it, so that voyage is officially blessed.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not good enough at any games to say I game, but: The games I started on, The games that were formative (still not good), the games that shifted things around and got me pretty good (still not good!) #my9games

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Elizabeth Holmes reminds me of virulently anti-social people I've known who create a whole inner world to rise above every despised object in their periphery, and maintaining the shield separating Them from their Personsuit is constant and corrosive. Once it fails it's a torrent of rage and disgust.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The problem with keeping a toe into French politics is that "yeah he seems cool" turns into "my god, he's an idiot" if you dip more toes in. Blaming Ukraine for trying to finish what Russia started?? Waterhead nonsense.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best, funniest episode in the new Creep Tapes season has Rekha Shankar in it!

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll never understand people who don’t want to know more about niche kink drama. “I have no idea what this is about and I am glad” don’t WILT in front of me when reality turns on the halogens. Life is beautiful and unfair.

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last week I said out loud that I don’t mind being dehumanized because I do not want to be a person to these people, and I had to spend a week to see if I meant that.

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Miya @pleasantchime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You ever go somewhere and find out that the Nastiest Child Cough Championship 2026 is being held there

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Newsom and his Third Way wonks believe that what lurks beneath the median president-voter is a cowardly impulse to acquiesce to the 90s republican in our xennial brains to mitigate Trump, when the most motivating factor among us will be "I will strip and prosecute these rich shitheads"

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Tomato Like A Bus , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think they're both right to an extent, and wherever they're wrong is answered by the other. COVID is still here, moreso than recently even. The flat math of "these rules *should* exist and it's more normal to believe that than not, but it simply doesn't thrive" is being ignored in bad faith.

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More Pepper 🌈 @peppercornparty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Grand juries always indict. If they don't, the prosecution didn't want them to.

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