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Colin King

@colinhking.bsky.social

Gardener, baker, citizen.

created January 19, 2025

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Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

"They were born to be criminals..." Must have been REALLY raving during The Absence

2/9/2025, 7:17:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Verdict. He's stable from the neck down

2/9/2025, 7:10:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Keep Canada out of your mouth AND your wishful thinking about your harebrained "golden dome." Thank you for your...

2/9/2025, 6:56:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Erasing history... clearing the way to repeat it... #Prasad #FDA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

31/8/2025, 8:52:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

He was. And released on bail.

31/8/2025, 5:04:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Prairiesunshine (@scottishox2.bsky.social) reposted

#NowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent I made Pico de Gallo for my daughter, bc "Why Not" 😉 I needed #cilantro, so went to the store. I was shocked that I was able to get every item for MY recipe from Canadian farmers 🍁 There is a booming domestic market for greenhouse & field-grown 🇨🇦 produce now 🍁💪

30/8/2025, 3:32:55 PM | 466 49 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Guardian commenter

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29/8/2025, 6:07:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

That old lesson... You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks...

29/8/2025, 2:59:10 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

The irony of Walsh choosing to be the person making this point.

29/8/2025, 2:20:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

JustIce

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29/8/2025, 12:46:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

You're reverting to Tea Party mode. Your Obama is showing...

28/8/2025, 10:30:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Veteran burns flag on street, arrested. Other veteran... Air Force to provide funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt share.google/F72LTFKR4lfT...

28/8/2025, 1:18:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Get some sleep... You're mistaken, maybe confused.

26/8/2025, 2:34:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Draft dodger, donning cloak of patriotism, makes order leading to arrest of veteran for burning American flag.

25/8/2025, 11:19:28 PM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Where does that leave a message that in conveyed, absent the act of burning a flag?

25/8/2025, 4:11:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

This is HUGE, coming from Roger Stone.

24/8/2025, 12:49:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance is a JD... clearly with deficient brain.

23/8/2025, 12:22:56 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture V (@vflowers84.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Next up, Pense will be Prosecuted for January 6th riots.

22/8/2025, 11:52:20 AM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Troll Blowhard FBI Director...

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22/8/2025, 12:28:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Release Trump from the United States' misery. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

21/8/2025, 4:37:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Your "new party" is the problem...? And you complain the leaders (who you maligned before 'joining' the party) don't take you seriously.

20/8/2025, 6:47:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

..."my attorneys." The seal of illegitimacy.

19/8/2025, 8:06:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

But I hear his Golden Dome coverage is the best on the market...

19/8/2025, 3:07:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

Zelensky wore a suit this time.

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18/8/2025, 6:15:20 PM | 17938 3839 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

#Epstein Canada has mail-in ballots. Epstein.

18/8/2025, 12:04:42 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

24... 50... 10... #TACO

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18/8/2025, 10:47:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing like the National Guard patrolling the financial capital...

17/8/2025, 11:21:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

What about that 50 days "deadline"... and the revised 10 days... No ceasefire, no peace plan. Nothing.

17/8/2025, 11:18:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Public safety information should never be paywalled. This might not be considered purely "public safety" but is close enough to raise the question if WP is profiting off potential public disaster. And, yes, I too dropped them for the craven direction taken by Bezos around the 2024 election.

17/8/2025, 1:20:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

This has been the longest 24 hrs... #Trump #Ukraine #Nobel

15/8/2025, 11:40:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

North Korea, but chaotic.

15/8/2025, 9:43:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Even Epstein was dying to know?

13/8/2025, 7:22:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

CORRECTION: He is a "raving" lunatic. Who knows when it will take a straitjacket to keep anyone around him safe? #Alaska

12/8/2025, 7:33:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted

Doesn’t deploy federal troops to stop a Capitol invasion or save children from a Texas flood or clean up debris from a StL tornado. Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags. Got it.

11/8/2025, 6:46:09 PM | 10632 3723 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

F*ck this lunatic. Trump says EU could face 35% tariffs if it fails to make $600bn investment ‘gift’ – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

5/8/2025, 1:55:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

All complicated by innate, and persistent, malevolence

5/8/2025, 1:31:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

“Russia is very attentive to the topic of nuclear non-proliferation. And we believe that everyone should be very, very cautious with nuclear rhetoric,” (spokesperson Dimitri) Peskov said, quoted by AFP. Guardian

4/8/2025, 11:03:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Again that "1600%" reduction in drug prices...

4/8/2025, 1:10:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

More than a few well-respected people took that foolish position. About pardons for Biden family members, no less. We all gave our mistakes.

2/8/2025, 8:20:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

"It’s quite clear that there is a genocide in Palestine – it can’t be disputed. “I have seen reports of terrible atrocities which have the character of being genocide." John Swinney, First Minister, Scotland #Palestine #genocide

2/8/2025, 3:16:19 PM | 27 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

First, (personally) evacuated from Mar-a-Lago.

1/8/2025, 7:22:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Now "nuclear submarine" and "Thank you for your attention to this matter" in the same social media post. Doubt this is the bottom for trumpian stupidity.

1/8/2025, 5:58:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Trump will not stop stirring (everything) up until he's gone... Let him be gone. #trade #security #democracy #humanrights

31/7/2025, 1:51:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Freed British-Israeli hostage on recognizing Palestinian state... Zero irony. “Prime Minister Starmer is not standing on the right side of history. Had he been in power during World War II, would he have advocated recognition for Nazi control of occupied countries like Holland, France or Poland?"

30/7/2025, 4:43:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Bates (@discript.com) reposted

Is empathy the biggest problem of our times? Petra Volpe says: “The least an artist can do is to push back against that. Sooner or later we’re all going to be dependent on that person standing by the bed.”

29/7/2025, 9:52:07 PM | 1 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Oh so relatable, and I've only been on the patient side... The shocking hit film about overworked nurses that’s causing alarm across Europe www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

29/7/2025, 3:24:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Not at all "unfathomable"... The days immediately after October 7, there were enough clear statements indicating where elements in the Israeli government intended to go. Much of the talk/action on "antisemitism" has been nothing more than coercion to silence/complicity.

29/7/2025, 11:20:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Not at all "unfathomable"... The days immediately after October 7, there were enough clear statements indicating where elements in the Israeli government intended to go. Much of the talk/action on "antisemitism" has been nothing more than coercion to silence/complicity.

29/7/2025, 11:19:36 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

More interested in how the US tariffs inflate prices in Europe... The gentleman being former "Business Affairs" minister is as convincing as Trump being a business veteran and Wharton graduate.

28/7/2025, 7:57:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

This is just the OUTSIDE...

27/7/2025, 7:55:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Don Q and the "windmills" again... @25thAmendment

27/7/2025, 4:18:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Aren't we all for his getting on the currency bills, soonest?

27/7/2025, 12:18:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

As Trump, Powell and Scott stepped away from the media to continue the tour, Trump said that there is something that Powell could do to assauge his concerns about the cost of the (Fed) renovations. “I’d love him to lower interest rates”, he said. Guardian

24/7/2025, 9:00:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

In Las Vegas for my 50th birthday. He walked into the buffet.

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23/7/2025, 11:23:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

...and accuses "Barack Hussein Obama" of "treason."

22/7/2025, 10:53:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Fair summary.

22/7/2025, 4:46:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

"It was Barack Hussein Obama! And the Autopen! Leading the coup. That's what it was!" or a word salad to that effect(?). 25th Amendment overdue.

22/7/2025, 4:10:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

“President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from Unesco – which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out of step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November.” Anna Kelly, WH dep. spokesperson Commonsense as "redskins", "indians"

22/7/2025, 1:27:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Divorce, like marriage, is between one partner and another, in western culture.

19/7/2025, 9:25:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gacyclist.bsky.social (@gacyclist.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

He's not even on America's side.

15/7/2025, 5:43:47 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Letting your animosity towards PM Carney into this is weak. Be better.

15/7/2025, 12:25:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomEBoy66 🇨🇦 (@tommyboy66.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Who cares if he drops the Tariff rate?!? Are we going to let this idiot play with our lives? Enough of 🇺🇲. They are unreliable, ungrateful idiots who elected a hateful, pedophile, rapist..twice. Before Im jumped on from 🇺🇲s crying how he's hurting them too... 🇨🇦 is simply fed up. Deal with your idiot!

15/7/2025, 11:50:36 AM | 12 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Not heads of state.

15/7/2025, 12:19:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

chng.it/8Z76VHkV5L

14/7/2025, 9:56:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social) reposted

They got people killed. Stop tip toeing around it because people are still being recovered. The next storm could literally be tomorrow. They say on their hands and only did a Facebook post even after the river gauge showed a massive spike. The job of public officials is to serve the public. Period.

13/7/2025, 12:38:56 PM | 1561 474 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

The gloating attachment of the name "Alligator Alcatraz" by the people who set it up is indictment enough, for any sane person and, certainly, for history.

12/7/2025, 7:24:43 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not as simple as "walking away" when the madman resides next door. I think the Canadian government is handling this well in the circumstances.

12/7/2025, 1:39:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Serious people don't cite Inquirer.com material when making serious points about serious matters.

11/7/2025, 5:49:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

"I know the honest ones and I know the crooked ones." Chopper talk, July 11, 2025

11/7/2025, 2:13:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Republicans' efforts to make an issue of mental decline in office linked to Joe Biden's term has one simple goal; it's to create conditions to minimize Trump's accelerating mental and moral decline. #trump #notBiden

11/7/2025, 12:24:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

When you skipped history class and the briefing.

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10/7/2025, 12:41:29 PM | 7224 1530 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dubai Xaria - Mão Morta (@zelafneto.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

We all know that "Taco" is a mishap, and we stand in solidarity with the american people who are suffering at the hands of this psychopath, just as we suffered at the hands of his friend for four years. Good luck, friends!

10/7/2025, 4:11:55 AM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Fuck trump. #Brasil

9/7/2025, 10:39:11 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the nature of primary challenges to political leaders.

9/7/2025, 4:14:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Reality be damned! Unicorns for everyone?

9/7/2025, 4:12:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

There must be a crypto 'solution' out there somewhere...

8/7/2025, 7:00:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

I know it seems trifling, but the perception, and attendant policy/actions of 'minority creation', stick in my craw when I observe Gaza, and West Bank for that matter.

8/7/2025, 6:28:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Palestinians? A "minority" group... in Gaza?

8/7/2025, 5:38:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Notx01 (@notx01.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I disagree. They all know. The fascists just don't care. Exponential hate with a side order of gaslighting.

8/7/2025, 3:35:27 PM | 222 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

So, between climate change and the deliberate degrading of institutional capacities, disasters will grow more frequent and more deadly. Sweet Jesus in an Alligator Alcatraz hat... Deadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

8/7/2025, 11:59:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

The unpredictable events, the incomprehensible resulting tragedy, except they were not... www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

8/7/2025, 8:53:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

Accused war criminal does what...?

8/7/2025, 12:33:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

"Nobody could have predicted" is at best ignorant, at worst a callous lie. #texas

7/7/2025, 1:26:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

A deeply disturbed person strives to impose his own turmoil on the world around him. Guardian: Donald Trump threatens extra 10% tariff for ‘anti-American’ Brics policies, as trade war deadline approaches

7/7/2025, 10:01:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

That was probably a personal opinion, likely tongue in cheek, not a personal challenge to you. STFU.

6/7/2025, 2:43:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture craab27.bsky.social (@craab27.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I am a claims adjuster for homeowners and I’ve been screaming about climate change for 10 years now. These 100 yr storms hitting every month in different states is global warming in action. The next 5-10 years will be worse this is just the start….

6/7/2025, 1:21:04 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

They are learning nothing.

6/7/2025, 10:47:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

*you're

6/7/2025, 10:29:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like your defending personal choices which gave us... Trump.

6/7/2025, 10:28:49 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted

Regarding the flooding: GOP doesn’t want to fund the programs that predict these things, but they still want to blame the federal government for not predicting this. DOGE has consequences

5/7/2025, 6:57:28 PM | 9750 2276 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry for your loss.

5/7/2025, 6:02:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Your comment is a slap in the face of everyone who WILL die as a result of policy actions as we've seen before this Texas tragedy. "Tone"? Get real.

5/7/2025, 5:39:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social)

In this year 2025, no climate-related losses are an "incomprehensible tragedy." VP Vance and so many others are in denial as the toll continues to rise. #Texas #Guadalupe

5/7/2025, 3:43:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

4/7/2025, 4:14:13 PM | 59375 10077 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Lucky... except that since the first term Maga started talking about "liberating" Canada. Truly, left alone, this kind of madness only grows, and no one is safe.

3/7/2025, 7:18:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Naive? Stop with Latinos? All I'm suggesting is they're been after black people for 'a while' and everyone's next with this bunch. I'm in Canada.

3/7/2025, 6:39:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

"When"? Did you miss the whole context of "Black Lives Matter"?

3/7/2025, 6:14:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems even critics' defaukt is to normalize Trump. He was "amok" in his first term. Summoning a mob to Washington was the climax then. Now? He's bonkers.... "completely and totally obliterated" any semblance of a grip on reality. "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

3/7/2025, 2:38:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin King (@colinhking.bsky.social) reply parent

Not ALL the papers I dashed off in the dead of night before high school assignment day were gems. Quite a few sounded, painfully, like Parnell.

3/7/2025, 1:02:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view