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Reminded of being shown a low-budget Christian futurist movie during an evening mid-week youth group and being completely horrified of The End Days and the coming apocalypse. I remember being anxious for days after watching it.

Interesting! It’s usually the other way around - people experiencing seasonal depression in the winter months! Hope you’re having a better week, Friend!

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever bowled a 140+! Great job!

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Justin @virtualjustin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Both of my grandmothers would be surprised by this! 😂

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I just started reading David Graeber and David Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” and I literally busted out laughing when I read this line about why Oscar Wilde was an advocate of socialism. (Thanks to @onlydans.bsky.social and @aussie-himbo.bsky.social for the book!)

Page 20 of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.”

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Justin @virtualjustin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Steps outside. Immediately begins to sweat profusely. Nothing but regrets.

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Justin @virtualjustin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I like you, and that's ALL that matters!

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And today I learned that it’s suggested that Dr. George Washington Carver was bisexual

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No, I’m not green with envy at all 🥹😩

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But they’re “pretty chill,” though 🙄

Congratulations! Great work!

This is who you’re referring to when you say that.

A newborn baby being cradled in their mother’s arms shortly after being born.

Is it pronounced the way that my brain wants me to say it when I read it? Or the way that, say, a French person would say it?

In my ongoing effort to digitize old media and eliminate redundancy, I bought a little cable off Amazon that transmits audio content from a microcasette player to my laptop. It seems that back in 1983, my father would record conversations with my older brother as they would stare at me in my crib.

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Don’t be GBT without the L - fund the project!

So it turns out that everyone who completed the challenge received a perfect Mewtwo… still! A very cool reward nonetheless!

Whaaat? This is the first perfect pokémon that I’ve ever captured in Pokémon GO that’s actually decent! 😦🥹

Screen capture from the Pokémon GO mobile app. A captured Mewtwo assessed with perfect stats.

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Update: the first of the three Zip disks contained .wav audio files of Adam Sandler comedy circa 1993~1996. 🤦‍♂️

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Sort of? This was my older brother’s ticket stub, tossed inside of a brown paper grocery bag filled with his stuff that I found in my parents’ old house before it was sold.

It would have cost you $8.00 to see Jurassic Park 3 in a movie theater when it was released in July 2001.

A movie theater ticket stub from 20 July 2001 for Jurassic Park 3.

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You mean you aren’t supposed to push shredded lettuce into the USB-C port??

I continue to be amazed that this is a real thing. 😳

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Hopefully a better experience than watching “Jurassic World Rebirth!”

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Quit the bocce league and join the darts league?

Just had a very weird thing happen. I opened my MacBook only to discover that the password I’ve used since getting it in 2020 wasn’t authenticating. I needed to use an Apple Recovery Code from my iPhone in order to reset the laptop’s password! Why did it do this? 😳😰

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Surely not because of me! 😧

Good grief - when she said cut she said CUT!

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It could just be a stye? If it is, warm compresses definitely help with those.

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Time to break out that oven mitt thingie again

Newfoundland really going above and beyond with their extreme kinks.

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"Overcome by events," as the managerial consultants like to say!

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You have my sympathies! Having lived in either Annapolis or DC for the last 20+ years, their annual arrival always portends traffic snarls, loud noises, and freaked-out pets.

Lol so it sounds like your re-upping for next season is dubious at best 😂

Oh. So you're insufferable. Got it. 😂

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Don't act like I didn't make the best scrambled eggs you've ever tasted in your life.

All for a measly three random Iomega Zip disks I found in my parents' house when we were moving them out a few years back. I seriously just want to secure all of these disparate data storage media and then remove them from my life forever. Like, why are there still 3.5" floppies lying around??

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It's either a terrible, elaborate scam or I just paid $30 for an external Iomega Zip drive. Lesson of the day: make sure you don't archive data on formats that could very easily become obsolete in 10~15 years! Quite annoyed by the number of 3.5" floppy disks, Zip disks, & CDs that I've encountered.

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Not only that, but I even had to collect the coffee pot lid because you were being lazy!

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I ground you coffee beans and made you eggs! 😤

Justin @virtualjustin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mother! had to be the worst for me.