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Tom. Just Tom.

@crankybear.net

Too much being, not enough nothingness. Astros fan since 1975. Recovering college professor. Digital sausage maker. Recovering beer blogger. Curmudgeon. Animal lover currently owned by cats. Full time cautionary tale.

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And here it is: the perpetual “we’re six months from victory.” We’ll always be six months away from victory. Because we lost the minute we attacked.

05.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I tried not to participate.

05.03.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And I also knocked New Zealand off the internet in 1990 or so.

04.03.2026 19:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don King had to be restrained from coming over a counter to hit me.

04.03.2026 19:03 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Perfect!

04.03.2026 16:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I trust you’re leaving work in no more than 20 minutes?

04.03.2026 15:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Y’all is for all.

Even asshats like you.

03.03.2026 14:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Y’all is for all.

03.03.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s so good! Not a “meh” in the bunch.

03.03.2026 03:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Come for the special military operation. Stay for the war crimes trials.

03.03.2026 03:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was a civilian IT support person and I endorse this message.

02.03.2026 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

May light perpetual shine upon her.

02.03.2026 14:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They should be happy all I have is contempt for them. They deserve worse, but I stop at contempt.

02.03.2026 13:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My dad manned an anti-aircraft position on a subchaser during WWII. Late in the war with the high risk of kamikaze attacks the attitude shifted to “shoot first, ID later.” He thought he might have qualified as a Japanese ace at Truk Lagoon.

02.03.2026 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That happens when you limit your replies. Look up “Frank Lloyd Wright Usian Movement” and learn a little goddamned history.

02.03.2026 13:41 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

And it’s not recent. There’s a whole category of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture called “Usian.” If I understand correctly, he was an advocate for adopting the term. It was in relation to him I first came across it.

02.03.2026 13:39 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know hating Conor Daly is a passion project for some folks, but he’s killing it in the broadcast booth so far. #IndyNxt

01.03.2026 15:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

BARKER FROM DOWNTOWN!!!!!!!!!!! #AskWxm_w

28.02.2026 16:34 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cardiff equalizes. #AskWxm_w

28.02.2026 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think so.

28.02.2026 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK, I'll say it. We have Cardiff on their heels. #AskWxm_w #WxmAfcWomen

28.02.2026 16:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FAYE KNOX!!!!!!! Up one on Cardiff!!!!!!!! #askwxm #wxmafcwomen

28.02.2026 16:12 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's a really exciting match. So evenly matched, but I'd say we're playing a bit better. We've created chances.

28.02.2026 16:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can now accurately say I can do this in my sleep.

28.02.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your family has a very strong argument.

28.02.2026 02:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The number of companies Warner Bros. has destroyed is epic. An exorcism would have been a safer move.

28.02.2026 01:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s the only way middle class people can experience conspicuous consumption nowadays.

26.02.2026 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That shit saved my life. Be prepared for “the dip.” You’ll feel improvement for a few days, but then it’ll seem like it quits working. Perfectly normal. Power through (you’ll find you have the reserves). Your brain is relearning how to cash checks your body is writing.

26.02.2026 19:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It snowed here this morning.

There’s got to be a happy medium.

Hell, I’d settle for a slightly dyspeptic psychic.

26.02.2026 17:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes. They run companies that do things people who don’t worship tech actually care about. I don’t wonder what Kroger is good for. Couldn’t tell you what Blackrock does and doubt anyone’s life would be much different if it disappeared this afternoon.

25.02.2026 15:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0