dick around
(transitive, slang, vulgar) To mistreat (someone); to take advantage of; to swindle; to blow off.
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and hey, if we managed them wisely, if we like. if we made the trade-off in some specific places. places that passed certain thresholds on rubrics. but we didn't. we practically made whole regions of madness. and then…
btw i dont dick around with commissions. If you order a YCH from vgen or kofi I can promise it within 5 to 7 days!!
Conversation with @warmghost.bsky.social led to this sketch of the yote riding it's dick around~
We are just going to dick around until the world economy goes over a cliff.
Skinwalker Ranch, Oak Island, etc. Fuck, I'd be happy to dick around like that and get paid for it. Looks fun.
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(transitive, slang, vulgar) To mistreat (someone); to take advantage of; to swindle; to blow off.
It remains to be seen if the Wheel will catch on in the business world, where people use computers for actual work and not just dicking around.
“btw i dont dick around with commissions. If you order a YCH from vgen or kofi I can promise it within 5 to 7 days!!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Conversation with @warmghost.bsky.social led to this sketch of the yote riding it's dick around~”
— Bluesky· May 2026“We are just going to dick around until the world economy goes over a cliff.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Skinwalker Ranch, Oak Island, etc. Fuck, I'd be happy to dick around like that and get paid for it. Looks fun.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“(dead rising is a quasi-exception because you can run out of time for major objectives and that stops the main plot but you can still dick around if you want, and it's a game much more built around mastery over the schedule than other games)”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(intransitive, slang, vulgar) To waste time on an unproductive activity.
Will you guys quit dicking around and get to work?
“and hey, if we managed them wisely, if we like. if we made the trade-off in some specific places. places that passed certain thresholds on rubrics. but we didn't. we practically made whole regions of madness. and then still dick around and waste it argle”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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