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\nA painting of a bird beside the text \"once a dumbass motherfucker, always a dumbass motherfucker\"ALT\n
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\nA painting of a bird beside the text \"once a dumbass motherfucker, always a dumbass motherfucker\"ALT\n
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\n\"AALT\n
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\n\"AALT\n
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\n\"AALT\n
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\n\"AALT\n
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\nA painting of a bird beside the text \"that shit can all fuck off until tomorrow\"ALT\n
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\nA painting of a bird beside the text \"that shit can all fuck off until tomorrow\"ALT\n
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\nA painting of a bird beside the text \"my faith in your competence was a huge fucking mistake\"ALT\n
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\nA woodcut of a bird beside the text \"SO MANY FUCKIN WAYS THIS COULD HAVE GONE\"ALT\n
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@jean Ha! Swear Trek is basically discontinued at this point. It’s expensive to run and generates no income, and is less popular than other things of mine that pay their own bills. If Twitter goes, so goes Swear Trek.

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