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Chris Lewis

@chrisl2.bsky.social

US citizen. Retired botanist. Logical, compassionate and empathetic, yet I don’t tolerate fools, liars, hypocrites or trolls. “That which you do for the least of these you do for me.” 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Today’s science tidbit. Turkey vultures (right) eat carrion. Black vultures (left) are impatient. They don’t always wait for something to die.

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31/8/2025, 10:49:02 AM | 1655 525 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Oooh, get a load of those go go boots!

31/8/2025, 9:11:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Killers of the Flower Moon

31/8/2025, 8:23:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

What does his stopping to help someone have to do with the facts of the accident? Those two events are not related.

31/8/2025, 8:05:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 7:39:14 PM | 1 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Would you just look at those mature Virginia palm trees. As a retired botanist living in Virginia, I’ll admit I’m a little confused. Sloppy work MAGAs.

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31/8/2025, 5:55:25 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s important because ICE appears to be scooping up all the MS13 landscapers.

31/8/2025, 5:09:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

And a photo of the body with a wooden stake through it heart.

31/8/2025, 12:12:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 12:16:56 PM | 6403 2395 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Every vote is important. If you’re eligible to vote in this special election, PLEASE vote!

30/8/2025, 11:54:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope they publish their recommendations publicly so we can access them!

30/8/2025, 12:57:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

We are obligated to fight regardless of our emotional challenges. Take heart and inspiration from the Ukrainians. Get back up and get mad.

30/8/2025, 12:35:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Tee shirt at a Dropkick Murphy’s concert. You go guys!

30/8/2025, 12:32:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

They’ll probably accept nude photos too.

30/8/2025, 12:09:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

It sure as hell didn’t work while these children were praying in church!

29/8/2025, 1:00:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

RFK jr, a man with a laundry list of behavioral problems is running the HHS (including the CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS). If he wants to personally have cult-beliefs, that's on him – but we must not allow him to project his own pathological beliefs onto 345 million people of this country. This is not science.

29/8/2025, 12:51:25 AM | 2790 870 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) reposted

🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.

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28/8/2025, 4:46:33 PM | 4148 2578 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

If guns don’t kill people. People kill people. WHY IN HELL ARE WE GIVING PEOPLE GUNS?

28/8/2025, 5:44:47 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

This is an important thread.

28/8/2025, 11:58:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

You have no idea! The lies, the hypocrisy and the cowardice of the Republican lawmakers at all levels is so discouraging. Yet we persist. They represent a small minority of Americans.

28/8/2025, 11:52:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:59:06 PM | 4775 2220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) reposted

As Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.

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27/8/2025, 6:33:11 PM | 2396 854 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

🚨🚨🚨

27/8/2025, 4:20:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Your tax dollars at work.

27/8/2025, 12:20:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s go Anything!

27/8/2025, 12:17:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

😂😂😂 Stable geniuses all of them!

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27/8/2025, 12:14:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Just a reminder

27/8/2025, 12:11:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

😂

27/8/2025, 11:47:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance has the charisma of a potato. The infighting will glorious.

26/8/2025, 8:28:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Wouldn’t those be administered by suppository?

26/8/2025, 8:17:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

No, no, no this would be very wrong. We need to make sure everybody sees this.😈

26/8/2025, 8:09:16 PM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) reposted

ITS ELECTION DAY!!! There are at least four flip opportunities and elections across the country. If you vote in: AL, CA, GA, IA, MA, SC and TN You may have an election. So stop whining about they’re never being elections again and go vote! Let’s flip some seats!!!!

26/8/2025, 4:32:36 PM | 444 209 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Excellent

26/8/2025, 3:13:23 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

A small price to pay for protecting your health though. Good on you.

26/8/2025, 3:06:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Don’t just like or repost. Watch a video of Gov. Pritzker giving this speech!

26/8/2025, 12:00:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t even imagine how you must feel having experienced the unjust detention of you and your family!

26/8/2025, 11:54:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

JD has all the charisma of a bag of hair. The infighting of the MAGA movers and shakers to take control will be something to see.

26/8/2025, 11:41:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

I made the mistake of searching it on Google images. I’m not gonna sleep tonight! THAT would be karma.

25/8/2025, 9:58:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Me too

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25/8/2025, 6:56:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

We might want to strongly emphasize our opinion point to Lamar Advertising on this subject. Thanks Caroleeena for the contact info.

23/8/2025, 9:20:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Before the end of the weekend!

23/8/2025, 8:32:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dom Ervolina (@dominicervolina.com) reposted

I guarantee you that none of the men who paid for sex with the girls Maxwell and Epstein trafficked were roofers looking for work at a Home Depot

23/8/2025, 7:08:52 AM | 5857 1527 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

RELEASE THE ENTIRE EPSTEIN FILES WITH ONLY THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS REDACTED!

23/8/2025, 12:53:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

💕I’ve worked with these gentle animals.

22/8/2025, 12:12:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Definitely happening here in the U S!

22/8/2025, 12:33:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

I want to see the protesters in DC and Los Angeles who confront National Guard carry signs that say “You don’t have to carry out illegal orders!”

21/8/2025, 1:00:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Somebody, put this to music.

20/8/2025, 9:18:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Chef’s kiss!😂

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20/8/2025, 9:17:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

I wish

20/8/2025, 8:16:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted

Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor? All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!* *victim's names redacted, of course

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19/8/2025, 4:28:05 PM | 17281 5611 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MissyBBBobtail (@missybbbobtail.bsky.social) reposted

She's STILL missing.

20/8/2025, 4:32:00 PM | 355 209 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Over 1000 FBI agents read the Epstein files. Somebody must be a patriot. Do it. Leak the files!

20/8/2025, 1:52:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Oh yeah. Bring it dude!

20/8/2025, 12:35:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

We have an important election coming up in Nov. Reject all Republican candidates!

19/8/2025, 9:38:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 10:45:38 PM | 10 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Appreciation of irony and satire is an indicator of intelligence. That explains a lot.

19/8/2025, 12:49:45 AM | 39 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

I really love beautiful photography, archaeology, cats, monastic simplicity, gardening, needlework and much more. I find that I post mostly political commentary because in this moment, fighting this political administrative atrocity is my most important task. I long to get back to the shire!

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19/8/2025, 12:34:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Inquiring minds want to know.

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19/8/2025, 12:05:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Demand the release of the Epstein files with only the names of the victims redacted. You can call the office of anyone at the Capitol, not just your Rep. or Sen.

18/8/2025, 9:45:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Excellent

18/8/2025, 12:04:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Nobody’s forgetting the Epstein files!

18/8/2025, 1:08:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Blue Virginia (@bluevirginia.bsky.social) reposted

Video: Winsome Earle-Sears “has taken not one but two undisclosed flights on private planes paid for by a top donor” ("WINSOME, LOSE SOME: It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … No, It’s an Ethics Violation.") bluevirginia.us/2025/08/vide...

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Profile picture Get Out The Mid Term Vote (@gotmtv.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

The REAL STORY is STILL THIS: AND WE MUST KEEP IT THAT WAY.

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Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Virginia’s really nice too. Can we come please, PLEASE?

12/8/2025, 5:27:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

Trump Deploys Troops To D.C. To Distract From The Epstein Files - the only headline you need today

11/8/2025, 5:18:29 PM | 3334 989 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Please encourage others to do this.

11/8/2025, 7:10:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

If the shit’s now in your backyard it’s in your best interest to ignore your bubble, and figure out who’s not helping you and why before the midterm elections!

9/8/2025, 3:44:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

There is some justice in the world.

9/8/2025, 3:32:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

At least it’s going to be an easy fix. Pull off the stuck on crap and paint over the gold painted original trim.

8/8/2025, 10:20:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Animals R Us… 🐾 (@animalsrus.bsky.social) reposted

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7/8/2025, 5:23:44 PM | 17043 3415 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

ICE should be the easiest government agency to infiltrate. Boy could that screw them up!

7/8/2025, 10:29:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

That didn’t end well as I recall.

7/8/2025, 9:30:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah, they’re gold sprayed plastic from the TEMU markdown bin.

7/8/2025, 9:22:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Where are these musicians based?

7/8/2025, 12:45:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

The Republican representatives, however, did flee the House to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files. We the taxpayers are funding their early vacation.

7/8/2025, 12:38:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

The Republicans who left Congress early to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files are still being paid with our tax dollars. Democrats vacated the Texas legislature to try to preserve voting rights. These reasons are not the same.

7/8/2025, 12:25:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

The website states the omissions are due to an error and the missing sections of article one will be replaced. It also states you can request email notification when the issue is resolved BUT I didn’t find any way to request an email. Smells rotten to me!

6/8/2025, 5:13:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

To the Trump administration a golden ballroom is more important than cancer research.

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6/8/2025, 12:29:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Betty Bowers beat me to it.😂

5/8/2025, 6:15:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

Folk music steps up to the challenge every time.

5/8/2025, 12:47:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

We’re dating ourselves. Reminds me of Woodie Guthrie too.This is what the folk movement has always been about!

5/8/2025, 12:43:40 AM | 28 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Morley ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) reposted

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share this far & wide. MISINFORMATION at CDC is spreading throughout our country & most people have no clue. Please stay updated & bookmark this page for your health & well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

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Profile picture Karen (Harris/Walz Alaskan Democrat) (@danceswithseagulls.bsky.social) reposted

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1/8/2025, 9:13:57 AM | 488 156 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

What a little gem!

2/8/2025, 1:41:19 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

We also don’t need a white elephant jet that’s going to cost us 1 billion to renovate and that will never benefit us the American people. We didn’t need an ugly concrete parking lot in place of a lovely rose garden either.

2/8/2025, 12:53:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

As an American who supports Canada, and fortunately, as someone who is fairly economically secure, I make a point of buying Canadian products when I can. Example, I always buy Canadian maple syrup even though I can get excellent maple syrup made here. Hold the line. We’re working together!

2/8/2025, 12:40:44 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

A $200 million dollar ballroom! Let’s redirect that money to Medicaid, Medicare and public media.

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Profile picture Fair Fight Action (@fairfightaction.bsky.social) reposted

Don’t get purged. Deadline to act: August 20, 2025! Respond to any mail from the Secretary of State and call your county elections office now.

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Profile picture Ursula (@ladyofsardines.bsky.social) reposted

Free plums and propaganda.

Cardboard box on a rock in a garden that says free plums & propaganda. Inside the box are French plums and postcards by Marc Fischer that say Losers Attack Our Libraries, Fight for Librarians
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Profile picture Harold Wesley (@harweswea.bsky.social) reposted

That doesn't even sound legal! When I was in high school, I couldn't get working papers to work for the Youth Corp till I was 16! Down in Florida at 15, a young girl can work in a golf club like Mar-A-Lago, putting her hands all over an old man's body, and everybody thinks that's okay???? 🤔 SICK!

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30/7/2025, 11:16:23 PM | 2155 875 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Add an amateur accordion player and a beginner tuba enthusiast. Wowza!

31/7/2025, 12:17:49 AM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison

30/7/2025, 11:23:22 PM | 37479 8884 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

ATTN: If you’re a DoJ employee and have knowledge of the missing minute (or 2:53) of Epstein jail video, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

29/7/2025, 11:34:05 PM | 16887 7613 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Bagpipes played by beginners please.

29/7/2025, 9:54:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture IN SOLIDARITY (@urnevertooold.bsky.social) reposted

Please start referring to the Epstein Files as the Epstein/Maxwell files! Because if we don’t rightly start looping her in, they will try and make her a victim!!

29/7/2025, 11:29:29 AM | 827 218 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social)

I love Andrea Love’s stop motion felt videos!

29/7/2025, 12:11:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Lewis (@chrisl2.bsky.social) reply parent

Can we put a trio together for his next public appearance? I suggest a bagpipe, an accordion and a tuba.

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