Ian
@redgoinggrey.bsky.social
(Early) Middle-aged guy just liking things. Stuff can be cool, ya' know?
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PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
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We really do need to re-normalize the idea of calling out shitty people to their faces and then refusing to engage with their idiocy.
We’re not products for you to milk, Chad! We’re not content cows!! Try acting like a normal fucking person!!!
We’re not products for you to milk, Chad! We’re not content cows!! Try acting like a normal fucking person!!!
tonight while recording a guest spot on a podcast i experienced an unacceptable level of disrespect from one of the hosts. so i decided to do what felt right for me and i left. i didn’t need to stick around to show i’m “tough” or “thick skinned.” i reminded myself that no one is owed my time.
December 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
We really do need to re-normalize the idea of calling out shitty people to their faces and then refusing to engage with their idiocy.
We’re not products for you to milk, Chad! We’re not content cows!! Try acting like a normal fucking person!!!
We’re not products for you to milk, Chad! We’re not content cows!! Try acting like a normal fucking person!!!
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please keep calling your representatives and demanding they oppose censorship/surveillance/Age-verification legislation.
please continue to call Paypros and demand they stop discriminating against adult content, its creators, and sex workers
please
please continue to call Paypros and demand they stop discriminating against adult content, its creators, and sex workers
please
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
please keep calling your representatives and demanding they oppose censorship/surveillance/Age-verification legislation.
please continue to call Paypros and demand they stop discriminating against adult content, its creators, and sex workers
please
please continue to call Paypros and demand they stop discriminating against adult content, its creators, and sex workers
please
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
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The final language of the NDAA is officially out. As @wired.com reported a couple weeks ago, lawmakers removed the bipartisan and widely popular right to repair provisions that would have helped military members fix their own equipment
www.wired.com/story/the-mi...
www.wired.com/story/the-mi...
The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure servicemembers’ ability to fix their own equipment.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The final language of the NDAA is officially out. As @wired.com reported a couple weeks ago, lawmakers removed the bipartisan and widely popular right to repair provisions that would have helped military members fix their own equipment
www.wired.com/story/the-mi...
www.wired.com/story/the-mi...
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The fight isn't quite over. There will be one final vote, and then the bill goes to President Trump's desk to be signed into law. Even if that all goes through (as it is expected to) repair advocates are likely to fight this same battle a year from now when the funding is up for review.
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The fight isn't quite over. There will be one final vote, and then the bill goes to President Trump's desk to be signed into law. Even if that all goes through (as it is expected to) repair advocates are likely to fight this same battle a year from now when the funding is up for review.
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We should keep "Humans dying due to State based actions" to games of Magic: The Gathering amiright gamers??
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We should keep "Humans dying due to State based actions" to games of Magic: The Gathering amiright gamers??
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ME IN THE CRITERION CLOSET: I guess I was just hoping you guys would have more copies of Godzilla vs. Biollante
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ME IN THE CRITERION CLOSET: I guess I was just hoping you guys would have more copies of Godzilla vs. Biollante
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If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
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Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Spending 41 minutes deliberating and then deciding to kill two men clinging to the debris of their boat is nothing more or less than premeditated murder.
There is no rationale that justifies this. There is no magic sequence of words or arguments that excuses it.
It was cold-blooded murder.
There is no rationale that justifies this. There is no magic sequence of words or arguments that excuses it.
It was cold-blooded murder.
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Spending 41 minutes deliberating and then deciding to kill two men clinging to the debris of their boat is nothing more or less than premeditated murder.
There is no rationale that justifies this. There is no magic sequence of words or arguments that excuses it.
It was cold-blooded murder.
There is no rationale that justifies this. There is no magic sequence of words or arguments that excuses it.
It was cold-blooded murder.
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A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence. n.pr/44K1Tb9
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence. n.pr/44K1Tb9
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a new congressional map that could help Republicans win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional for discriminating based on race
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
25A608 Order
www.documentcloud.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a new congressional map that could help Republicans win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional for discriminating based on race
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional. n.pr/48vTzgl
Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered map that could give GOP 5 more House seats
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional. n.pr/48vTzgl
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WE ARE NOT AT WAR
DRUG SMUGGLING IS NOT "NARCOTERRORISM"
can you all PLEASE stop rebutting excuses that depend on accepting GOP lies
the victims were not "in the fight," they were illegally attacked
the legal action would have been interdiction
DRUG SMUGGLING IS NOT "NARCOTERRORISM"
can you all PLEASE stop rebutting excuses that depend on accepting GOP lies
the victims were not "in the fight," they were illegally attacked
the legal action would have been interdiction
Hegseth's "fog of war" claim is nonsense, if this account of what video shows is correct: The two men obviously were visible.
Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
WE ARE NOT AT WAR
DRUG SMUGGLING IS NOT "NARCOTERRORISM"
can you all PLEASE stop rebutting excuses that depend on accepting GOP lies
the victims were not "in the fight," they were illegally attacked
the legal action would have been interdiction
DRUG SMUGGLING IS NOT "NARCOTERRORISM"
can you all PLEASE stop rebutting excuses that depend on accepting GOP lies
the victims were not "in the fight," they were illegally attacked
the legal action would have been interdiction
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
Sometimes I post a picture of my cat.
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sometimes I post a picture of my cat.
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
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This thread…
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This thread…