Angela

Queer, #AuDHD, vaguely artsy, apprentice hairdresser, well-meaning but often clueless parent to an #autistic #PDA kid. 🌈♾️💇

American Pākehā in Aotearoa NZ. :tinoflag: :laserkiwi:

Clean Air Crank™. #COVIDIsAirborne 🪟🌬️

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2024-09-24 09:01:52

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Baba Is Cute 🥰 #BabaIsYou

2024-09-24 05:52:55

Flip accidentally snipped a hole his #BabaIsYou t-shirt while trimming his nails! Right on Baba's flank! 😢
I didn't think needle and thread #mending would work on the thick patch of screenprint, so I patched the back with medical tape and daubed fresh white paint over the front with Jacquard Neopaque.
Let's see how it goes...
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2024-09-23 23:18:11

... OK, that's three seasons so far, let's see if we can hit number 4, Ōtautahi

2024-09-23 10:09:19

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well... it's definitely not "empowering". But it IS horror. And I think it makes good use of horror film principles to amplify the experiences of women, especially female celebrities, who either consent to commodifying their beauty and youth, or who find themselves discarded once they age or otherwise become unappealing to society's gaze.
And I studied film at a women's university, so I find it kinda funny thinking, "OMG, this is my lane, finally!" 😂

2024-09-23 09:50:00

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oof. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

2024-09-23 08:17:49

Loved #TheSubstance, as I predicted.
If you've ever thought:
"What if #TheBeautyMyth, but by #DavidCronenberg?"
...Well, that'd be very random, but this film is for you.

2024-09-22 23:43:43

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Seems fitting, tbh

2024-09-22 23:42:39

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Beautiful!

2024-09-22 23:42:19

Maybe I should cut back on the number of languages I'm studying. Getting my wires crossed.
Practicing aloud, instead of "Kia ora. Kei te pēhea koe?" I just said, "Kia ora. Cad é mar atá tú?" 😂
Irish Māori do exist, but IDK what if any creolization has happened in that vein.
#Gaeilge #TeReoMāori

2024-09-22 00:51:38

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I don't see the Fitting Room in Chch yet, @npub1sz8…ltvu want to add?

2024-09-22 00:45:26

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2024-09-22 00:30:30

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oh nooooo!

2024-09-22 00:28:22

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amazing

2024-09-22 00:25:05

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also, happy birthday, hope it's better from here out!

2024-09-22 00:24:48

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woooow, I think I was asked to pull down my mask ONCE buying wine, but that was back in late 2021 when we still mostly had shit under control. Wouldn't bother now

2024-09-21 04:34:54

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This is why Natalie and I are friends 😂
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2024-09-21 03:58:16

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Yes, my ADHD meds wore off at Oriental Warehouse.
When I started humming
🎶 Sweeet tam-a-rind BA-BA-BAAAH... 🎶
I checked out ASAP and left to take my midday dose 😂

2024-09-21 03:25:36

🎶 Come on shake your body baby do that conga 🎶
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2024-09-20 23:10:55

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a gem

2024-09-20 22:53:56

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Telling myself this on a regular basis.
Also, reminding myself that in those days, my queer AuDHD self would be Valium-ed to the gills and my autistic PDA kid would be institutionalised, so having us home together and engaging in child-directed learning is infinitely preferable even if our household is constantly a bombsite 😂

2024-09-20 20:25:08

Mōrena, Hugo. Eat any tasty toriura lately?
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2024-09-20 01:14:29

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yeah, I despaired quietly being the only masked person at my mammogram, but at least they didn't arbitrarily try to tell me to remove it.

2024-09-20 01:07:08

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fuuuuuck no

2024-09-20 01:04:06

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I only tried them once before, with like, an omelet? I forget how to defrost them first

2024-09-19 06:33:49

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oh yeah, I just got some natto in the freezer

2024-09-19 02:40:18

Lazyweb, help:
I haven't done a course of #antibiotics for ages, so I forgot to ask the doctor about taking #probiotics after finishing (which I did today). Anyone got recommendations? It's #Metronidazole, FWIW.
And please don't just say "Google it", because y'know, enshittification, grifter shit, etc

2024-09-19 01:07:47

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yeah, I asked the tech for more info, she said it's still checked by humans, it's just going to be entered as data for added screening

2024-09-18 23:59:40

Mammogram done. Results seem fine. But because my brain is what it is, I started crying on my way back to the car as my relief gave way to every other little thing I stress about 😔

2024-09-18 23:14:39

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Hmmm, ok. Maybe

2024-09-18 23:13:20

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huh, I didn't see it, will look again

2024-09-18 23:12:06

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Shit, I took a picture of the iPad sign-in screen to share, but my stupid phone ate it.
Anyway, Pacific Radiology, something about "world-leading AI" for #breastcancer detection, will be anonymised, please tell your mammographer if you don't wish to be included.
Call me a Luddite, I just don't trust being on either end of #AI as it currently exists (and probably always will)

2024-09-18 23:08:49

Going in for my first #mammogram today. Yay, ageing.
Second to last page of the sign-in form... Talks about using #AI for #cancer detection.
Uhhh. Er. I think I'll pass.

2024-09-18 21:59:49

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question, do you have a ko-fi or anything? Cuz I keep thinking of gardening questions that web-searches can't adequately answer, so I want to ask you, but feel you deserve tips for, at least 😂

2024-09-18 21:17:25

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this is why the jerks in Nassau County want the police to do it. So they don't have to play "Cellphone Karen" every time
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/113/160/633/425/656/336/original/2c01636cb7c178fa.mp4

2024-09-18 21:08:14

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Mmmmm-hm.
And as someone whose neutral face position looks too stern for society's liking, masks have given me a four year reprieve from random dudes in public exhorting me to "smile!" 🙄
So even if we somehow end the pandemic, masks remain firmly alongside my keys, wallet and phone for going out.

2024-09-18 02:13:18

Hey #CleanAir folks, anyone have to hand the advice on how often to clean the pre-filter for your #HEPA air purifier? I feel like the filter proper needs replaced soon too, but my Midea model is supposed to flash a little symbol that it hasn't yet

2024-09-17 23:30:08

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We already had a rough start with our support carer out again today. She's still minding her nephew while her sister is in hospital and her newborn nibling is in NICU. 😢
Also Flip did not inform his dad that they were in competition at Duolingo, so when he surpassed Flip's current level in Japanese, Flip blew up at him and hit him and cried over breakfast.
Yes, I have #TheExplosiveChild and am trying to find time to read it. In between... *gestures resignedly*

2024-09-17 22:59:14

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This may now follow the same trajectory as last year's rejecting Christmas meltdown, leading to Flip insisting on "cancelling" Lunar New Year, Easter, Holi, Passover...
Basically whatever holiday was next on the calendar was a suspected threat to his autonomy and got crossed out and told off.

2024-09-17 22:58:48

Sigh, another declarative language fail at our house.
Flip knows some te reo Māori, it was all over daycare, no biggie, but Aaron just described Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori as "when people are supposed to celebrate--"
"Supposed" = too demanding! *buzzer*
Flip said, "NO NO NO! I WILL CANCEL IT!" 🤦🏼‍♀️
#PDA

2024-09-17 22:23:45

#NZSL knowers:
I couldn't find it on the app.
How would one say "time machine"?
If I had to guess, I'd use "time" "travel" "car", (as in video), but would "time car" or "time plane" make enough sense?
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/113/155/232/410/658/157/original/ccf88e5218a0a337.mp4

2024-09-17 14:19:56

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same, want to hunt around town for them like a goblin

2024-09-17 14:17:30

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noms

2024-09-17 07:35:51

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Yeah, took me a second, because the way things have been going... 😂 😭

2024-09-17 06:32:23

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good Intel, now to try colour matching safely in a store, lolsob. Unless you can tell me what yours is, we look almost the same hue

2024-09-17 05:19:43

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Once is charming. Two or three times each, getting old, and also wasting our ingredients and turning me into my dad about wasting food and money. 🫠

2024-09-17 05:17:54

Today's demand-avoidant challenges:
Playing Scrabble
Baking a cake
Both have come up before on previous occasions. Flip comes off ideologically opposed to learning the rules of the former, or any kind of recipe for the latter.
The former is "Scrabble Wordfind", his rules, off the cuff, increasingly complex and with him controlling every other player's choices.
The latter is completely improv, though though he claims "it's Alejandro Pato's recipe", and makes an inedible slop.

2024-09-17 04:53:15

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ah, new makeup. I still need fresh concealer and a good SPF

2024-09-17 04:21:58

Heheheheheh.
#Māori #TeWikiOTeReoMāori #Aotearoa #NZ
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2024-09-17 03:16:27

Carer out today because her sister is in labour with some complications.
I hope everything goes OK. But also, oof, I'm tired.

2024-09-16 21:05:01

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I think my liver is OK, I've looked at it once in photos taking during a laparascopic procedure and it looked smooth and even, rather a nice colour. And I've drunk less and less as the years have gone on, more into edibles now

2024-09-16 21:02:54

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still occasionally tender, and no goddamned noticeable punctus. I think our insurance covers GP minor surgery so I'm gonna book its excision, dammit

2024-09-16 20:39:02

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dystopian af

2024-09-16 20:36:09

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*deep bone-weary sigh*

2024-09-16 20:32:20

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right, hence the warning against alcohol until 48 hours after last pill. I could murder a cider right now, but still got four days left 😩

2024-09-15 06:32:09

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noted, keeping the elder for the firebowl, using the camellia and willow for fence

2024-09-15 06:30:30

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aw no!

2024-09-15 03:07:10

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Everyone except the last two people, I think, but still, that still left like 80-90% masked

2024-09-15 03:03:19

RLB
I'm also glad to have provided extra #KN95 masks, my trusty #CO2 monitor and my air purifier for the event, so everyone in attendance was a bit safer from catching airborne crud, esp as more people showed up. Reinforces the spirit of community we're going for. 🌈

2024-09-15 02:50:17

Got an urge to use a lot of the pruned and fallen branches to make some low "wattle fence" bits around the back garden, pile some compost in there, raise some beds.

2024-09-14 10:26:42

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also, not one, but two, people brought spinning wheels, it was off the hook 🎉
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2024-09-14 00:30:16

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Ahh, the fae must be done with it 😂

2024-09-13 20:57:10

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we do love to punch up our numbers in the "per capita" column, lolsob.
Our housing stock is on average very poor quality as well, drafty and damp, and even before the pandemic we had high rates of pulmonary diseases like asthma, bronchiectasis and rheumatic fever, esp in children, so I imagine Covid is providing an extra shove towards mortality for those 😔

2024-09-13 15:58:16

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New Zealand has slid comfortably from 2.5 years of "Team of 5 Million" into full ableist denial, with an average (official) COVID death rate of 20-30/week. So gonna have to watch the even smaller nations to see when they notice how many have died or contracted LC

2024-09-13 10:28:46

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nooooo 😭

2024-09-12 22:35:01

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if memory serves, I should make sure I'm taking probiotics while on a week of antis, but when? Antibiotics in the morning, pros at night?

2024-09-12 22:33:20

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or nattokinase, or natto-serra. I was following a doctor on Twitter compiling some data on the effects. Some people felt nausea from natto alone, but natto-serra less so.
Anecdata at this point, but that's obviously all we have. 🤷‍♂️

2024-09-12 02:44:26

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I had a literal nightmare last night where I was at an office for a temp job interview, and I realised I was unmasked. Lucky I haven't been in office work for ages so I think I recognised it was just a dream pretty quick, but damn, the start it gave me

2024-09-12 02:41:37

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uulgh

2024-09-11 20:56:12

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Oh! Oh! Jail for Father!

2024-09-11 20:54:43

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Now THIS remake of #TheBear would be off the f'in hook...

2024-09-11 08:42:28

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I rate Korean brands. Check out Hikoco

2024-09-11 06:56:41

Dinner running late again, because I've had to spend most of the evening supporting Flip through meltdown. Oof.

2024-09-10 23:25:42

Lordy, we really screwed up the whole getting Flip a new bed thing. Hasn't gone a whole day without erupting at the slightest change for the past nine days now.
Really wish I'd studied child development before becoming a parent.

2024-09-10 20:18:06

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😔 💜

2024-09-09 21:04:06

#RIP James Earl Jones. What a legendary career.

2024-09-09 20:33:02

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wow

2024-09-09 00:47:51

#THESUBSTANCE looks lit af. One reviewer favourably compared Demi Moore's performance to Isabel Adjani in #POSSESSION. So this I gotta see.
#Filmstodon #moviedon
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2758919705/?listId=ls053181649&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

2024-09-09 00:36:22

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yeah, I'm gonna, just had to check our insurance first

2024-09-08 22:08:26

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And not long after Nicole McKee showing up with hair uncovered at that mosque, and pulling her shit 😡

2024-09-08 22:07:35

It's a bit funny realising after watching a bunch of Sandra Lee/"Dr Pimple Popper" videos that the low pliable bump on my scalp that occasionally gets sore and irritated if I comb too close to it is probably a pilar cyst.
Like, "OMG, a celebrity! Can I get your autograph? Also, ow, GTFO, you're messing up my part and making my hair grow weird."😂
https://dermnetnz.org/topics/trichilemmal-cyst

2024-09-08 21:52:50

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oh wow, what's the logo? Wonder if the Duck-Pato family is involved. They are a true duck dynasty

2024-09-08 21:51:55

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According to the Wikipedia entry on pronunciation, the tl in #Nahuatl is kind of subtle on the tap. Like the ll in #Cymraeg.
I actually took a course one semester on development of the English language.
"Voiceless alveolar fricative" etc, ah yes, it's all coming back... I sense today's topic of hyperfocus... 😂

2024-09-08 21:51:08

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Aaron: "Would Aztec ducks speak Na-waddle?"
Booooooooo 😂

2024-09-08 10:36:31

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man, we need to go there

2024-09-08 05:13:20

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aww, which beach?

2024-09-08 01:59:05

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ooh, what are its specs? I've considered getting one

2024-09-07 22:16:37

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oh wow, TIL. Yeah, they look ideal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinampa

2024-09-07 22:15:18

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😬

2024-09-07 21:28:11

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It occurred to me that Flip added the detail that Alejandro Pato is a thousand years old AFTER we had established he was born---sorry, hatched---in #Mexico City.
Which actually makes him older than the founding of #Tenochtitlan. So, being a duck, his hatchplace must be Lake Texcoco.
And also, his hatchname is in duck language, but possibly he has another in #Nahuatl, depending on when he began interacting with humans.

2024-09-07 21:19:37

Oof, I need a shower. Been two days longer than I meant--
....Ah, but first I need to fix the little clay model of Alejandro Pato that I made for Flip, but he just dropped and broke. 🫠
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2024-09-07 07:00:39

Weather's turned to cold and rain, but I'm still a complete shambles.
Completely out of cope, holed up in bed, weeping and trying to find some form of media to aid dissociation.
😔

2024-09-07 04:16:00

Is the norwester easing up? I am as medicated as I safely can be, but the last 4-5 hours have still wreaked havoc on my brain and body.

2024-09-07 03:48:07

#NZTwits, I seem to recall that there are places to donate old carseats once kids outgrow them?

2024-09-07 00:44:34

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same, lol

2024-09-07 00:15:03

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wow!

2024-09-07 00:12:25

Flip lost interest in #Francais on #Duolingo, and is now really into #Nihongo. I am scaffolding this by learning and preparing (relatively) simple Japanese snacks that he's enjoyed in the past. 🍣
My 3rd attempt at #tamagoyaki. I keep losing the plot at the rolling stage. 🍳
ごめんなさい to anyone whose eyes this doth offend 😂
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2024-09-06 09:47:59

Today wasn't all bad, though. Warm and sunny most of it, one of the neighbours was doing landscaping, and asked if we had a wheelbarrow to lend.
Flip was delighted to report we did, and was even more delighted when he repaid us with some ice cream and a lemonade. 😄

2024-09-06 07:45:39

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ah, but we did say that "Sue" (one of his duck coterie) could have his old bed out in the garage. We'd agreed on it a while ago.

2024-09-06 07:43:31

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yeah, that played into it. @npub1g5c…g6yx and Co were lovely and brought offcuts of mattress materials for him to test. Still... He was "still thinking".
Aaron ended up sleeping in the old broke bed cuz Flip was kicking him while cosleeping with us, I feared for his back, so I told Flip we were going to buy one Sept 1,end of. We did, it arrived today, meltdown, miserable time 😔

2024-09-06 07:32:02

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understandable, but the frame of the old single bed cracked from his jumping on it a year ago, and it's been held together with duct tape and prayer since. And he's also refused to sleep in it for the past six months because he was afraid it would break completely (instead wedging himself between his dad and I in our king bed, which somehow can't hold all of us comfortably, so husband sleeps in the borked single bed, with a bad back... )

2024-09-03 14:05:45

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tough call for me, came down to bravery or wisdom because I feel like those always abandon me most readily in the stress of the moment. I think greater wisdom would allow me to underpin the rest 🧘‍♂️

2024-09-01 09:46:39

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yeah, my most popular tweets, too. It's giving Howard Beale from the 1976 movie NETWORK 😂
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/113/061/657/747/624/638/original/425a92d72789148a.mp4