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Don W

@whitesided

Coder turned FT parent, crank, GenX cliché

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But then I saw that article about a different part of Arlington having issues and I wonder if it’s just round-robin sucking. 🤷🏻‍♂️

11.03.2026 19:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our service was trash for years. Thankfully it doesn’t impact us negatively beyond annoyance, but we found packages were always given priority and attention, first class mail came… when it came. Might be a week between deliveries.

It suddenly started coming regularly within the last year.

11.03.2026 19:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say “hey maybe you should not do things in more regressive states and/or implicitly support an event that keeps getting skeevier" in response to promoting said event. But the level of outright nasty I’ve seen in responses to this are unhinged.

11.03.2026 14:26 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shame the guy is leaving, he seems like he belongs there. He’s got the debasing himself in the court down pat.

10.03.2026 23:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No doubt, I was trying at humor. Should have asked the AI to punch it up I guess :)

10.03.2026 22:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I had thought people also understood the same about tough guys; real tough guys don’t need to TELL you they’re tough. But… *waves at current world*

10.03.2026 22:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do they have that many eyes after all the ideological purges?

10.03.2026 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.03.2026 21:02 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

One of the lines that has never left my mind since reading @scalzi.com ‘s BEING POOR essay decades ago is “being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.”

I was never poor in the lacking a last-resort bit of family to retreat to, but I was close enough that I felt that line in my bones.

10.03.2026 21:02 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1

Oh yeah I forgot about that earlier bit. Not sure who he’s auditioning for then; I’m sure any firm thinking of hiring him is gonna be super thrilled to know he’ll blame them when he fucks up in court next time.

10.03.2026 20:51 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was only a big problem when the plebes used it against the rich (usually dudes). Making sure you laid off the lineman who didn’t laugh at your ethnic joke is just the way things are!

10.03.2026 20:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean that’s sort of been their thing in decrying “cancel culture” too, right? It was fine that the shop clerk could get fired because their boss saw them at a protest they disagreed with, or whisper networks about what actresses not to hire because they wouldn’t take to the casting couch.

10.03.2026 20:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh that’s gonna do wonders for his standing at work I’m sure.

Guess it helps to work for an agency that’s bleeding people so quick it’d be hard for them to fire someone with a pulse. And now they have proof he’ll debase himself in court - surely he’ll do it for them too!

10.03.2026 20:46 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Good in the “makes me laugh as I mourn for our nation” sense, yeah

10.03.2026 20:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well yeah, your honor, but that’s because I delete “hallucinations” that don’t help my case

10.03.2026 20:28 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m having a lot of Iraq war/gitmo detainee habeus rights flashbacks with this.

10.03.2026 20:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kennedy really thinks he comes across better here

10.03.2026 17:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s a butt double! Saw a funny interview with her where they asked her to pick her own double and she talked about what an odd experience that is.

10.03.2026 01:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Elvis Is Everywhere
Elvis Is Everywhere YouTube video by Mojo Nixon - Topic

Funny, I thought how disappointed Mojo Nixon would be. youtu.be/37aYWI4dPZA?...

10.03.2026 00:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Takes some real Something to make this sort of statement while there’s a literal bombing campaign being waged against a country that took no overt aggressive action, never mind Venezuela and Cuba rumblings. Dismantling hegemony indeed.

09.03.2026 21:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow and he thought the ADL was too liberal IN 2022?

09.03.2026 20:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in her hand . ALT: a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in her hand .
08.03.2026 22:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Personally I think you only need the first two and last four words but that’s my personal grudge #perl4eva

08.03.2026 21:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’re just teasing all of the being together at Awesomecon in DC.

08.03.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It can be hard to tell the difference between losing one’s own and the experience of engaging with people who lack one

08.03.2026 19:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My eight year old asked “what’s transgender” in the car yesterday and it took two sentences for him to be satisfied. Three if you include my tacked on moralizing of “if something makes a person happier and isn’t hurting anyone else, who cares?”

08.03.2026 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I Have Mixed Feelings is my family crest

08.03.2026 18:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My biggest problem with the felony murder rule is that it doesn’t apply to cops who create situations where someone gets fatally shot

08.03.2026 18:37 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ahem. GRIFTING death cult. bsky.app/profile/unra...

08.03.2026 03:30 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, think I’ve changed my mind about taking the kids to see CHOMPERS tomorrow

08.03.2026 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0