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Charles Van den Budenmayer
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Journalist (though you won't find that here) | SF East Bay | 🏳️‍🌈 |
Made out last night with a former co-worker who’s in a closed relationship and now he blocked me everywhere 🤷🏼‍♂️
a cartoon character sitting on a bus with the words i 'm in danger above him
ALT: a cartoon character sitting on a bus with the words i 'm in danger above him
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I love being in Boomer Facebook groups for posts like this:
1) This is in a completely different city on a completely different street
2) That's not a maple; that's the red lighting from the Wells Fargo
3) It's a Starbucks patio
4) The photo is crooked
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I had the most yikes vibes “job interview” at this couple’s Beverly Hills house years ago — the guy ranted at me for an hour about how “your millennial generation” doesn’t want to work hard
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
When will catfishes learn about reverse image search lolol
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Messy
July 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
All that’s in my camera roll of Ptown so far 🏳️‍🌈
June 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Had an 80 year old reporter call me at 11:15 to tell me I'm unprofessional and a bad journalist because all I care about is "murder and mayhem" and because I bumped his story about cute raccoons

I love my job I love my job
June 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Anyway
May 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Absolutely in love with having to tell dozens of my co-workers about this giant new project we're all going to have to do with no new staffing, and it's all up to me to tell them because the higher managers don't want to 😇
May 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Was amused to find out that 1) my mom has watched every single episode of every season of White Lotus, and 2) she is disgusted by the show’s slanderous caricature of the upper middle class
February 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I came home just in time
February 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In all the doom and gloom in the world today, it's important to remember what we have to look forward to (seeing Patrick Schwarzenegger's cock in White Lotus)
February 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Me: I’m stressed and I’m not paid enough for the work I’m doing
My employer: have you considered talking to a Suze Orman AI chatbot?
February 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I guess you could say Oakland is getting a…

Bas Relief 🥁
December 19, 2024 at 6:00 AM
The calm before the storm (January joiners)
December 9, 2024 at 4:47 AM
NYPD puts the 'mid' in Midtown Homicide
December 7, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Sunni insurgents hate to see Chicago gays coming with “Chiraq” tagged on their Instagram photo dumps
December 4, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Me getting drinks with a pretty co-worker I have a schoolboy crush on (but who has a very very serious boyfriend)
November 30, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Having to work Thanksgiving and being reassured by my employer that they would provide a "catered" Thanksgiving meal only for it to be Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the funniest things to happen to me recently 😆
November 29, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Am I in a good mood or is it just the decongestants kicking in
November 26, 2024 at 7:09 PM
A mutual work contact emailed me asking about whether I'd consider moving to LA and I'm not *not* considering it...
November 26, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Omw to a friendsgiving
November 23, 2024 at 11:47 PM
I don’t quite get what’s going on here…
November 23, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Reposted by Charles Van den Budenmayer
Reskeet if you're gay and tired
July 6, 2023 at 7:04 PM