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oldpine.bsky.social
Long ago USMC infantry, more recently survived cancer, lost a dog and gained a cat.
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A warning to my fellow vets: “The Return” might break you for a bit.

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Tech companies love to be like "404 error: oops, the monkeys got out of their habitat again! 🙊 Oh noes!" when the actual reason is that they fired all their engineers and replaced them with chatbots and ketamine

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Me: Historians do vital work, enlarging our understanding of the past and deepening our knowledge of ourselves. Historians:

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I wonder if millennials have any idea that you used to tell people you’d call them after 7 to save your minutes.

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"Communities live or die based on their ability to create compositive narratives that bring them together; this togetherness, however, is often built on degrading, undermining, or dehumanizing others." open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

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Damn, this man can write. Had me remembering growing up on the Chesapeake, thinking about cold beers and hot weather, and then how sad I am about where this country is. Belongs in the Atlantic, instead of whatever nonsense they’re publishing.

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This inclusion would have improved the rise of skywalker immeasurably

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Skills.

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Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...

submitted 37 days ago • 107 comments

My smart watch told me good job on doing activity. It doesn’t know the activity is getting tiramisu out of the refrigerator.

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Elon Musk is stealing food from working dogs to pay for his f**king tax cuts. What a despicable excuse for a human being.

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I was just thinking about a nice phone call I had with a high school friend catching up after 20 years. And it occurred to me THAT memory is 20 years old. How did I get so old

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chicks rule

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I got out of the Marines over 30 years ago, and still have dreams about it constantly. I guess that’s why they say you’re always a Marine, there’s no escape.

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So incredibly dumb.

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People need to remember the Kinks put out “Where Have All the Good Times Gone” in 1965, which was then covered by Van Halen in 1982. The past always seems better, forever.

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Tonight’s view of the Chicago River from the Purple Line

submitted 80 days ago • 11 comments

I still really love Gritty, I love that when he was unveiled, Philadelphia was like, "What the fuck", the world replied, "Yeah, what the fuck" and then Philadelphia said, "Hey, don't you talk that way about our Gritty"

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Motivation

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Fuck yeah look at this thing

submitted 91 days ago • 51 comments

I am used my paper route money to get a subscription to Soldier of Fortune magazine years old.

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😂

submitted 104 days ago • 10 comments

It’s pretty cold here in Chicago, and as a person with an unheated bidet, I KNOW when the cold has reached the water supply.

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Bird.

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