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Mike Friedman

@mfriedmannola.bsky.social

Cranky old queer bear in New Orleans. Previous lives in San Francisco, Boston. Grew up in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Proud Uni High and UIUC graduate. No fascists. No Trump.

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It's a Republican thing, but they refuse to admit that. If you asked 20 of them I'd wager none of them would admit it.

They hate Mitt Romney almost as much as Barack Obama.

14.10.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe, now hear me out, we should stop FUCKING TYING MEDICAL INSURANCE TO EMPLOYMENT.

HMMMMM????? MAYBE THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA!

We're the only industrialized country that does this. Why?

BECAUSE IT'S A REALLY STUPID IDEA.

14.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. Those still exist, you never know what they're gonna have. Watermelons are common but I don't like them.

Mr. Okra died a couple years after I moved here ('14) and his family stopped doing selling. I don't think it was a very lucrative business. He was nice. Bought from him a few times.

13.10.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Americans are so stupid they think the ACA and Obamacare are different things.

And the Rs don't want to do the homework because there IS no better "market" alternative. If there was someone at some think tank would've proposed it in the past 20 years.

It's a dumb argument and they know it.

13.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is Chop, the other you may recognise as Cricket. Both murdered in cold blood by Noem and her agents. Who or what is next at the hands of these unqualified bums?

13.10.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Not like that, no. The SF farmer's markets were always amazing. People would drive in from Fresno and Modesto and the stuff was just fabulous. One year I went back and bought a 2nd flat just because they were so good and so inexpensive. I cooked with them all winter.

13.10.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The alternative name is The Washed Up Sausage Fest.

13.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My pleasure. I miss living in California where in Sept/Oct I could buy an entire flat of tomatoes at the farmer's market for $10 and can them. The late season ones were maybe a little gnarly looking but the taste was always amazing.

I haven't found that here in NOLA yet.

13.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The alternative name is The Washed Up Sausage Fest.

13.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Were screeching cats in heat not available?

13.10.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5241    πŸ” 839    πŸ’¬ 944    πŸ“Œ 163

#ReleaseTheGrindrProfile

13.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still haven't done your homework, huh Mister Speaker?

You've had 20 years to come up with a plans, and NONE OF YOU HAVE DONE THE HOMEWORK.

Because you're too fucking lazy. All you want to do is whine about it. But none of you can be bothered to actually do the hard research. LAZY MOTHERFUCKERS.

13.10.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They still haven't done the homework. They've LITERALLY HAD TWENTY YEARS to do this.

The ACA was based on Republican ideas that Romney implemented when he was Governor of Massachusetts.

13.10.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder how this compares to France in 1788.

The state finances were in a mess (partly because France helped US with the war of independence from Britain) and people were starving. The Queen never said "Let them eat cake" but it didn't matter. She lost her head in 1792 anyway.

13.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JESUS WANTED ME TO MURDER YOU FUCKING HEATHENS.

And take all your stuff.

13.10.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you know how to make the best canned tomato soup?

Take a can of the best tomatoes you can afford (or ones you canned yourself last summer!) Puree them. Put them in a pot. Season them the way you like (I'm a fan of cumin and coriander, salt/pepper).

Heat. Cook for a few minutes. Tomato soup.

13.10.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, the sauce is....um......a touch sweet. :-) And the pasta is overcooked since it's canned. Yeah, it's not good. I can see why children would like it though.

Once in a blue moon. Like having a hankering for Campbell's tomato soup and a grilled cheese with the fakest American cheese.

13.10.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you think he's done lines with Uncle Junior yet?

13.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Food conglomerate Con-Agra owns the brand now.

I loved mini-ravioli in a can when I was a kid. I also liked Beef-a-roni. I still occasionally buy them. Are they good? No. But they remind me of being 10 in the 1970s.

13.10.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CLOSET CASES ARE SO FUCKING BORING.

Dude. Just go suck some dick and stop bothering us. Please? It's so fucking tedious and such a cliche.

13.10.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If they're paying millions of us to protest, then where is my check?

I want back pay too! Union scale motherfuckers!

13.10.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When he woke up in bed with the cute DJ in Burlesque, all the gay bears I was watching with swooned.

It's a bit of a silly movie, but also super fun. Cher (chewing a bit of scenery here and there), Stanley and Christine Aguilera.

It created a catch phrase in our house: "DON'T TOUCH MY STUFF!"

13.10.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chef Boyardee. Seriously. He was a real person. (Who knew?)

Ettore Boiardi. He died in Cleveland in 1985 after a long successful career.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...

13.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

It's not "fiction." The word you are looking for is LIE.

Stop using euphemisms, media.

THIS IS A LIE.

13.10.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's because the crime you don't see in Egypt is carried out by the state, particularly the military that runs half of the economy including enterprises that make seemingly benign things like washing machines.

13.10.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And poking fun not just at the subject but gently at himself too. His writers (one of which is probably him) are VERY VERY good.

13.10.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad I saw this. It's WELL worth the time. I knew she was awful but I didn't realize just HOW awful.

She gives lesbians a bad name. She's to lesbians what Peter Thiel is to gay men.

13.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be less subtle, Bari Weiss is a lying sack of shit. And her "Free Press" is a $150M pile of garbage.

She single handedly gives lesbians a bad name.

13.10.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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