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Squirrelly Sam
@thurstonsam.bsky.social
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Your favorite reply guy's favorite reply guy.

I do computer stuff for farmers and sometimes for fun. I like to make useful things out of wood.
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craigipedia.bsky.social
JD Vance isn't a 1950s racist ... he is an 1850s racist.

And to be clear, that's much worse.
JD Vance via Twitter: https://x.com/JDVance/status/1912561620804595987 I hate this smug, self-assured bullshit. "I know I'm right, and people must be dumb or immoral to disagree with me." It's an easy way to go through life, because then you never have to think seriously about why your worldview is a justification for the mass invasion of the country my ancestors built with their bare hands.
April 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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craigipedia.bsky.social
Not enough people realize the incumbent vice president of the United States uses a pseudonym.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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stonedeva.bsky.social
How the Grinch stole your catalytic converter then hawked it for meth in order to start an assisted living facility not covered by Medicare
December 9, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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ygrene.bsky.social
an advent calendar with each day providing a small piece of the mystical sword needed to fight Santa when he finally breaks in
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
thurstonsam.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Primus w/ Rush
Bjork w/tricky
Red Hot chili peppers w/foo fighters
George Clinton and the parliament funkadelic
Black eyed peas
cosmicclau.bsky.social Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 6d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Eminem
Rodriguez
Brian Wilson
Spiritualized
Arthur Lee & Love
klaybourne.bsky.social Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 6d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Bon Jovi
Billy Joel & Elton John
Dire Straits
Anthrax
Def Leppard
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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los-los.bsky.social
woah, what number trip is this for food
squirrel indicating with hand how many times he went back for more food
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
thurstonsam.bsky.social
Photogenic tree buddy
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving from these well-fed gents staring into my kitchen
A very chunky gray squirrel sitting on a fence. Seriously, it's like twice as wide as you expect a squirrel to be. It is very fluffy and cute. It has its little hands together like it's saying "Hello, I see you are cooking, any chance of sharing?" A very chunky brown squirrel sitting on a fence staring directly into the camera. It has its little hands and feet pulled together. The expression on its face is a mix of "I see what you're doing in there" and "if you don't give me some of that food I will cut you."
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
“Great, now I have to pee.”
A squirrel in armor.
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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anildash.com
Now we’re talking. Make a new AI IDE that can vibe code updates to the graveyard site
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
thurstonsam.bsky.social
When is a worm not a worm
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 17d
bro there's a whole paragraph about his brain worm lmfao
I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. “Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.” A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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daddyjew.bsky.social
be the catastrophic meteor you hope to see in the sky
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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amutepiggy.bsky.social
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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aturls.bsky.social
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
can we just get some journalism that says the obvious, this guy is off his fuckin rocker
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
thurstonsam.bsky.social
In 1970, median rent was about $108, about 75x minimum wage of $1.45. in 2025 median rent is $1700, 235x the minimum of 7.25
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Oct 31
Are you people fucking kidding me with this shit @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
At the same time, there are legitimate debates about the best ways to feed the needy, how many should qualify and how much they should get. In the 1970s, 1 in 50 Americans received food stamps. Now, 1 in 8 do. On average, these households get $322 a month. Are 42 million Americans really in such danger of suffering malnutrition that the federal government should spend about $100 billion every year Certainly, many need the help. The American Enterprise Institute's Kevin Corinth estimates that 2.9 million individuals willbe pushed into poverty if SNAP benefits are not paid in November, including 1.1 million children, 1.3 million working-age adults and about 500,000 seniors. But no one should aspire for large segments of the population to depend on government handouts. The program could certainly be designed better to not discourage work. Ultimately, the best way to help over the long run is to grow the economy, which leads to job creation and rising wages.
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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samthielman.com
If you’re determined not to understand things you’re going to spend a lot of your life surprised
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
thurstonsam.bsky.social
Just had 4 college age mfs all dressed as Mario trick or treat me. Thing is we live in a neighborhood with almost no kids so I don't have anything to give them but banana peels
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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funeralpig.bsky.social
i think i might be going insane but in a good way that will benefit humanity
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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thelastmileusaid.bsky.social
Nearly 200 US citizens were arrested and held by ICE. Citizens. If that does not alarm you, you have already accepted government power that treats Americans like enemies.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
thurstonsam.bsky.social
Now that societally we allow celebrity pedophiles to hold public office, do you suppose Subway's Jared is looking forward to his political career?
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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luvamistoole.bsky.social
With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
thurstonsam.bsky.social
Change one letter, ruin a candy

Sugar Rabies
electricchimp.bsky.social Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · Oct 30
change one letter to ruin a candy

demonhead
marigoldrowell.com marigold 💙🇺🇸💙 @marigoldrowell.com · Oct 30
Change one letter, ruin a candy

Rot Tamales
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM