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grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social
He/him, mid-30s, Iowan, nerd, leftist, cat lover
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A fun historical exercise is looking at a moment in history when the ruling class made some truly stupid decisions and then digging around until you find the tossed off sentence or paragraph about how they were all getting hammered at 10 am or it was during the era when you could get cocaine OTC.

submitted 30 minutes ago • 1 comment

All any modern conservative actually wants is to be a talking head on TV or podcasts, but they're so narcissistic that they can't ever settle for that and instead insist on being put in charge of things and only succeed in breaking those things and making themselves miserable.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

RIP to the little sparrow that made the terrible mistake of getting into the three season room yesterday and got viciously torn apart by my sweet, adorable murder machines (cats).

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump 2.0 continuing to validate my theory that the American political media just desperately want to have a court full of messy aristocrats that they can gossip about instead of having to do boring things like journalism and policy discussion.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Rewatched back to the future 2 tonight and that movie is an incredible cypher for the mind of the Hollywood Boomer on the Cusp of Middle Age.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I have once again failed the Remember to Check Whether the Cook Book You Want to Buy from the Used Bookstore Has All it's Measurements in Metric challenge.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Rewatching the Final Destination movies last week reminded me that if someone had bothered to profile millennial males' politics based on some of the media popular when we were in our teens, they would also have assumed we were all irredeemable fascists and misogynists.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

One of my favorite media phenomena of the moment is the endless hand wringing about the loneliness epidemic not also being accompanied by endless denouncements of the tech lords prescribing chatbots as its solution. Really makes clear how few of these people actually believe in anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Moving away from the "these guys are weird" attack strategy was one of the greatest political failures in all of history.

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