EmpireOfFolly
@empireoffolly.bsky.social
A Life of Improbable Events. Kidnapping Survivor. J.D., former opera singer and broker. Old since I started collecting walking sticks as a kid yet never grew up.
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EmpireOfFolly
@empireoffolly.bsky.social
· Oct 30
Donate to Reunite Max and Jonathon!, organized by Allison Schumacher
Meet Max!
Max's dad, Jonathon, is working hard so that the two of them can be reunite… Allison Schumacher needs your support for Reunite Max and Jonathon!
gofund.me
Last year I was kidnapped at gunpoint and held restrained in a basement while they used Face ID on my phone to rob me of $8,700. Never recovered the money. Recently I lost my job and my storage with all my possessions. Please consider contributing/sharing this GoFundMe to help! gofund.me/1728cca64
My deadline to raise &2,000 is Friday. I’m SO close with a good job starting December 1st, just need to bridge that gap and fix the car I bought to get to work. Contribute! Link in replies.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My deadline to raise &2,000 is Friday. I’m SO close with a good job starting December 1st, just need to bridge that gap and fix the car I bought to get to work. Contribute! Link in replies.
God, I’m scared.
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
God, I’m scared.
Good interview yesterday and four more by Wednesday—but zero money for food, zero way to pay for Ubers to distant interviews, $700 behind in rent and more accumulating weekly. Please help so I can get to a first paycheck. Thanks. Your generosity will get me there.
gofund.me/c9d3dbe8e
gofund.me/c9d3dbe8e
Donate to Reunite Max and Jonathon!, organized by Allison Schumacher
Meet Max!
Max's dad, Jonathon, is working hard so that the two of them can be reunite… Allison Schumacher needs your support for Reunite Max and Jonathon!
gofund.me
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Good interview yesterday and four more by Wednesday—but zero money for food, zero way to pay for Ubers to distant interviews, $700 behind in rent and more accumulating weekly. Please help so I can get to a first paycheck. Thanks. Your generosity will get me there.
gofund.me/c9d3dbe8e
gofund.me/c9d3dbe8e
I’m definitely not perfect. For every two times I say, “Let go and let God,” there’s one when I say, “Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills first.”
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I’m definitely not perfect. For every two times I say, “Let go and let God,” there’s one when I say, “Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills first.”
Happy Halloween and congratulations to all the parents of young ones on having trick-or-treating on NOT a work night!
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Happy Halloween and congratulations to all the parents of young ones on having trick-or-treating on NOT a work night!
My father once hosted Prince Andrew to tea, and kept a photo of the occasion in his home. If my father still spoke to me I’d ask him whether it’s still on display or not. Alas, I can only wonder.
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
My father once hosted Prince Andrew to tea, and kept a photo of the occasion in his home. If my father still spoke to me I’d ask him whether it’s still on display or not. Alas, I can only wonder.
Last year I was kidnapped at gunpoint and held restrained in a basement while they used Face ID on my phone to rob me of $8,700. Never recovered the money. Recently I lost my job and my storage with all my possessions. Contribute to help out, things are desperate.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Last year I was kidnapped at gunpoint and held restrained in a basement while they used Face ID on my phone to rob me of $8,700. Never recovered the money. Recently I lost my job and my storage with all my possessions. Contribute to help out, things are desperate.
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Howling.
Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Howling.
You know those big grocery store bags of knock-off cereal made by Malt-o-Meal? Well, some absolutely stoned genius combined Cocoa Pebbles with the marshmallows from Lucky Charms into “Dino Bites” and Oh. My. God. I don’t even SMOKE and I can’t stop eating this stuff.
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You know those big grocery store bags of knock-off cereal made by Malt-o-Meal? Well, some absolutely stoned genius combined Cocoa Pebbles with the marshmallows from Lucky Charms into “Dino Bites” and Oh. My. God. I don’t even SMOKE and I can’t stop eating this stuff.
If you have the ability to appear genuinely excited about the most banal things in existence, local news may have a career for you!
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you have the ability to appear genuinely excited about the most banal things in existence, local news may have a career for you!
I’ve been plumb out of witty quips for a long time now. Quips, come back to me! I miss you…
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I’ve been plumb out of witty quips for a long time now. Quips, come back to me! I miss you…
Interview offers—they still exist, right? RIGHT??
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Interview offers—they still exist, right? RIGHT??
Last year I was kidnapped at gunpoint and held restrained in a basement while they used Face ID on my phone to rob me of $8,700. Never recovered the money. Recently I lost my job and my storage with all my possessions. Please consider contributing/sharing this GoFundMe to help! gofund.me/1728cca64
Donate to Reunite Max and Jonathon!, organized by Allison Schumacher
Meet Max!
Max's dad, Jonathon, is working hard so that the two of them can be reunite… Allison Schumacher needs your support for Reunite Max and Jonathon!
gofund.me
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Last year I was kidnapped at gunpoint and held restrained in a basement while they used Face ID on my phone to rob me of $8,700. Never recovered the money. Recently I lost my job and my storage with all my possessions. Please consider contributing/sharing this GoFundMe to help! gofund.me/1728cca64
At some point sending out electronic applications just becomes an exercise in keeping track of mental state. Bored? Tired? Depressed? Excited (no)?
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
At some point sending out electronic applications just becomes an exercise in keeping track of mental state. Bored? Tired? Depressed? Excited (no)?
Waking up at 2:30am and being unable to go back to sleep? One out of five stars—would not recommend.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Waking up at 2:30am and being unable to go back to sleep? One out of five stars—would not recommend.
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
I’m not just applying for white collar job. Arby’s, Goodwill, Walmart and many more—none have offered an interview. Even when they advertise that they’re hiring. Frustrating but I just keep trying.
#jobsearch
#jobsearch
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I’m not just applying for white collar job. Arby’s, Goodwill, Walmart and many more—none have offered an interview. Even when they advertise that they’re hiring. Frustrating but I just keep trying.
#jobsearch
#jobsearch
Man, life with good credit must be an entirely different world. Getting 0.9% financing on a new car? I get like 12% if I even qualify for the loan.
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Man, life with good credit must be an entirely different world. Getting 0.9% financing on a new car? I get like 12% if I even qualify for the loan.
I just had a previously scheduled online interview cancel via telling me when I clicked on “Join Meeting” that they’d moved on to other candidates. Who does that??
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I just had a previously scheduled online interview cancel via telling me when I clicked on “Join Meeting” that they’d moved on to other candidates. Who does that??
Related topic: Use “troglodytic moron” in conversation. It has a REALLY good feel to it.
Dumb people VASTLY outnumber smart people, because that’s just how Gaussian distributions work.
Once organized into a voting bloc, a nation’s own morons will destroy it faster than its enemies ever could.
MAGA is a highly successful Russian psyop to weaponize idiots against competent leadership.
Once organized into a voting bloc, a nation’s own morons will destroy it faster than its enemies ever could.
MAGA is a highly successful Russian psyop to weaponize idiots against competent leadership.
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Related topic: Use “troglodytic moron” in conversation. It has a REALLY good feel to it.
Be safe out there and do something good for someone today!
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Be safe out there and do something good for someone today!
Dude.
This game is so old DiCaprio has lost interest in it
October 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Dude.
I don’t even watch baseball and I’m laughing constantly at all the posts about how long this game is.
Wait—oh, that’s schadenfreude.
Wait—oh, that’s schadenfreude.
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I don’t even watch baseball and I’m laughing constantly at all the posts about how long this game is.
Wait—oh, that’s schadenfreude.
Wait—oh, that’s schadenfreude.
Suggesting jobs that I’ve already applied to and been rejected from ON YOUR APP is not helpful—were these job apps good at one point or have they always been fairly useless?
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Suggesting jobs that I’ve already applied to and been rejected from ON YOUR APP is not helpful—were these job apps good at one point or have they always been fairly useless?
Boo!
Did I scare you?
Did I scare you?
October 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Boo!
Did I scare you?
Did I scare you?