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Dave Marshall

@dkmarsh.bsky.social

Incorrigible reader. Historian by degree, carpenter by trade. Vegetable gardener in my spare time. Big Bach fan.

created October 9, 2024

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Executive Order mandating immortality for Donald Trump

2/9/2025, 2:37:59 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"grimly nuts"

2/9/2025, 2:30:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Roger Moore was the Adam West of James Bonds.

2/9/2025, 2:19:40 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mike Schmidt with long-haired wig and sunglasses below his Phillies cap.
2/9/2025, 1:40:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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omg

2/9/2025, 1:36:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Haha. "Appointment in Bedminster."

2/9/2025, 1:34:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the Ten Commandments, plus 11) none of the above.

2/9/2025, 1:02:47 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Democracy IS under threat, but only abstractly.

2/9/2025, 1:01:14 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt..."

2/9/2025, 12:56:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness

2/9/2025, 12:52:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey! I already claimed it!

2/9/2025, 12:38:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if I made a crack like that I'd have to pack it in šŸ™‚

2/9/2025, 12:30:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you folks STILL litigating this? You realize that this is like an infinite tic-tac-toe tournament, right? The Xs are gonna X and the Os are gonna O and never the twain shall meet...

1/9/2025, 11:34:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My garlic stays pretty good from harvest in late June till early in the new year, but then serious sprouting starts, so I mince and freeze several dozen cloves' worth, flat in a ziploc bag. The food processor works great to make a more or less consistent mince. Still have to peel the cloves, though.

1/9/2025, 11:06:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well. I use garlic granules, not powder, and I’d have to say it has an entirely different set of applications from fresh garlic. And yes, I use fresh garlic. I even grow it!

1/9/2025, 8:44:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In lieu of legal fees…

1/9/2025, 8:40:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This would be better if it had, say, a 2007 timestamp, but still pretty great!

1/9/2025, 8:40:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where does "loose" for "lose" rank? That one really irritates me.

1/9/2025, 3:26:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We should call this getting Schwarbered.

1/9/2025, 3:23:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yeah he's a major loom all right

1/9/2025, 3:21:07 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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tfw the future is created by the history-illiterate šŸ™€

1/9/2025, 3:11:58 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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[looks at watch] anxiously awaiting further developments!

1/9/2025, 12:49:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damn. That's exactly how I spell it.

1/9/2025, 1:19:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hattie is it already time for Halloween handles?!

1/9/2025, 12:52:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next up : The President’s Brain is Missing

31/8/2025, 11:21:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Don't live your life in such a way that folks never run out of comedy gold on social media no matter what you do."

31/8/2025, 9:04:32 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also curious about your sharpening setup. Three waterstones and a strop? What grits are the stones?

31/8/2025, 8:13:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those strecher ends are dovetailed into the dadoes in the sides? Did you make the dadoes with a router plane?

31/8/2025, 7:34:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dave Thomas as Walter Cronkite

31/8/2025, 12:31:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that's what they use in the Core.

30/8/2025, 7:04:10 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man, I hope it has a BIG scoop.

30/8/2025, 3:06:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice thread. Inspiring!

30/8/2025, 1:52:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really all you have to do is read a little about Gettysburg. Three days of questionable decisions.

30/8/2025, 1:45:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the best timeline and we’re only practicing!

30/8/2025, 11:34:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Torquemaga

30/8/2025, 12:32:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"The Roberts Court, popularly known as the MAGA Court..."

29/8/2025, 10:38:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if there's maxiocre, mediocre, and miniocre, I'd say jared is definitely miniocre

29/8/2025, 3:19:29 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kevin, James Carnival says Dems need a billion dollars to get their target-the-grassroots fundraising machine in gear!

26/8/2025, 8:30:57 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is right up there with "I don't see how Clinton survives this" on the list of Takes That Totally Misread the Moment.

26/8/2025, 5:27:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any cell phone, apparently.

26/8/2025, 5:19:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We prefer whale populations to be wiped out by whale hunters! You'd think noted oceanographer and marine biologist RFK Jr would know that.

26/8/2025, 5:17:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah, yes, the famous Normandy Negotiations!

26/8/2025, 12:24:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In the words of Paul Simon, ā€œLie la lie, lie la la la lie la lie, lie la lie Lie la la la lie la lie, la la la la lieā€

26/8/2025, 11:15:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meanwhile Chicken Branch is off at recess.

26/8/2025, 2:47:37 AM | 132 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Legally dubious" is the new "racially-tinged." Or is it the new "falsely stated"?

26/8/2025, 1:28:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We never thought the Leopard Branch would eat OUR faces," says Kangaroo Branch after ruling Leopard Branch can eat anyone's face without recrimination.

26/8/2025, 1:00:27 AM | 459 32 | View on Bluesky | view

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So they'll conjure up some gobbledygook wherein they say that Trump can't do this but they'll allow his having done it to stand while awaiting further clarification of some totally obscure tangential issue by the lower court to which they remanded the case.

26/8/2025, 12:37:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Get your Dean to write a letter of recommendation.

25/8/2025, 8:43:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They are wearing their watches because they are COUNTING THE MINUTES UNTIL STEPHEN MILLER IS IN PRISON.

25/8/2025, 5:38:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"He said, 'Sir'"— "Cut! Cut! Wes Moore did not address you as "Sir," and we don't want to waste footage on anything he didn't say after that."

25/8/2025, 5:34:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Frovo (@frovo.bsky.social) reposted

[cat training class] INSTRUCTOR: open your textbooks to chapter 3 and then slowly push the book off the desk

25/8/2025, 12:00:43 AM | 244 57 | View on Bluesky | view

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narrator: it came across

25/8/2025, 2:38:33 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They haven't mastered the style. Should be "Chris Voss, a Highly Respected negotiator (many say only your Favorite President can make a better "deal") tells it like it is—unlike the failing Washington Toast (they call us the New York Slimes, haha, so funny I forgot to laugh) or MSEmptySea. TYFYATTM!

25/8/2025, 2:31:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Heh. Stuff from my childhood has been called mid-century modern. Well, almost.

25/8/2025, 2:19:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10/10, no notes.

24/8/2025, 3:45:26 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"In 2026, a mortal wound to democracy was narrowly averted when the opposition party changed protocols used by its language police, rehabilitating phrases that older social media influencers felt more comfortable with to attract the votes of folks who despised Trump but wanted better terminology."

24/8/2025, 3:37:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Evergreen skeet.

24/8/2025, 3:25:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€œFood insecurityā€ is offputting to the median voter? Really?

24/8/2025, 12:40:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meant to show Joe Sixpack that he’s ICE material. Because they need lots more people than they can get if the job requires athleticism.

24/8/2025, 12:28:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Instead of "job security," Dems should say "not having to worry about keeping your job." And of course "national security" should really be "keeping the country safe."

23/8/2025, 11:54:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the effect of the observer on the observed

23/8/2025, 7:15:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I never saw that leopard eating people's faces" says leopard imprisoned for eating people's faces.

23/8/2025, 10:30:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Waiting for "mongrelization" to make its reappearance any day now.

23/8/2025, 10:26:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then they haul out the "Stalin killed more people than Hitler" argument, which is just a variant of "the slavers were Democrats."

23/8/2025, 10:11:02 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can't rule out the Total Dipshit Exception here.

23/8/2025, 3:16:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And *they* are the insane ones.

23/8/2025, 3:13:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, he hasn't aged a day since 2004.

23/8/2025, 2:29:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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JD Vance is the most evil, soulless snake in the entire cabal. Not a shred of decency in the man.

21/8/2025, 9:08:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was laughing *with* you.

21/8/2025, 9:01:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"The Joy of Painting" but with Ross Perot instead of Bob Ross. "Now we're gonna stick a bunch of trees in here and we're gonna make 'em orange because I got a great deal on orange paint."

21/8/2025, 5:23:57 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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any with Nero fiddling?

20/8/2025, 6:54:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yeah but you're not a highly masculinated conservative

20/8/2025, 6:51:45 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that's a Bayesian grace

20/8/2025, 6:50:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.etsy.com/listing/4355...

20/8/2025, 6:48:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What kind of God allows Miller, Hegseth, and Vance to stand side by side smote-free?

20/8/2025, 6:12:05 PM | 58 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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And "regulating stress" might mean adding a little when levels get too low.

20/8/2025, 2:11:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good old Witslost.

20/8/2025, 1:35:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nate Silver might be god’s own special idiot but he'd probably be better if he had the ability to shut up every now and then.

20/8/2025, 12:42:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Misogynists Unite! šŸ™„

19/8/2025, 5:30:35 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Washington Post headline modified to more accurately reflect reality: Ordinary Citizens Rejecting Washington Post Unquestioned Reporting of Chronic Liar's Dubious Talking Points
19/8/2025, 5:23:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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love the no makeup philosophy!

19/8/2025, 5:13:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I can't tell someone's a Ukrainian just by looking at them"

19/8/2025, 10:28:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's already in charge of BS, so why not give him some L?

19/8/2025, 2:07:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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love this new 54" display on my bedroom ceiling!

18/8/2025, 8:07:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You misspelled ineffable

18/8/2025, 3:43:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A compound fractal of the finger

18/8/2025, 1:50:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks!

17/8/2025, 5:39:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damn. Gonna have to find that interview!

17/8/2025, 5:34:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Um, um, um, George Sand! šŸ† <—self-awarded

17/8/2025, 12:45:29 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ferlinghetti ...listening for His Master’s Voice and looking like a living questionmark into the great gramaphone of puzzling existence with its wondrous hollow horn which always seems just about to spout forth the Epstein files

17/8/2025, 2:47:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He had the Epstein files.

17/8/2025, 2:41:44 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even a small upright freezer (ours is 5 cu ft) holds a remarkable amount of preserved produce. We do corn, green beans, tomato sauce, and bell peppers. Plus we get an ~18 lb turkey at Thanksgiving (for 2) and freeze several pounds of meat and several quarts of stock.

16/8/2025, 11:22:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy Caturday… 🐱 #caturday #bluesky

16/8/2025, 11:17:15 AM | 15788 1901 | View on Bluesky | view

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"President Trump -- possibly the greatest president of all time, definitely of our lifetime." [Markwayne Mullin confirming he was, in fact, born yesterday]

16/8/2025, 2:32:16 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I learned chess very quickly. Very very quickly. Bobby Fischer came up to me—you know Bobby Fischer, a very fine gentleman and the greatest chess player ever, an American, by the way—Bobby Fischer told me, 'Sir, I've never seen anyone pick up the game this fast.'"

16/8/2025, 2:30:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fortunately, we still live in a world in which Peggy Noonan really can't have *any* Oscars.

16/8/2025, 1:51:49 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've never skeeted this before, but wut

16/8/2025, 1:40:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mail Delivery Subsystem Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

16/8/2025, 1:02:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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why, you're expressing a modicum of perplexity!

16/8/2025, 12:56:55 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I also ride horses," said Ichabod Trump

16/8/2025, 12:44:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view