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O'B. J. Dart

@objdart.bsky.social

Artist, dog and cat lover, avid reader. Also rapscallion, ne'erdowell, and questionable morals. No idea how all of this works.

created February 21, 2024

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Profile picture Ephlam (@josephlm.bsky.social) reposted

A rainy day #photography #streetphotography #Karlsbad #classicmono

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31/8/2025, 3:05:37 PM | 390 34 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gorgeous

1/9/2025, 9:23:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I asked chat gpc whether or not being judgy is a good thing. ;)

1/9/2025, 9:21:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you looking for something else? Anyway, hello :)

1/9/2025, 9:19:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We live in a beautiful region.

1/9/2025, 7:37:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This makes no sense.

1/9/2025, 4:51:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That is so ouch

1/9/2025, 4:50:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

It is. They range in color quite a bit. All the way to what looks white encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...

31/8/2025, 8:29:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 4:19:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hell yes

29/8/2025, 11:39:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Skip the amen then :) I'll try to say hi.

29/8/2025, 9:10:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Really? I will be there. Put fire in your voice and ask for an amen

29/8/2025, 5:45:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Newsom? "This shit" is the most important political issue in the US since 1865. He is "taking care of his state".

29/8/2025, 5:45:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social)

Wow

28/8/2025, 5:46:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Good god yes. From here to eternity, the jungle, on the road, catch-22, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, he grapes of wrath, jitterbug perfume - just a tiny sample from America. So solidly 20th century that your question makes no sense. Of course? I guess I should read the article.

28/8/2025, 5:37:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The tiny purple hand is the icing on the cake

27/8/2025, 9:35:40 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will you please be president again starting asap?

27/8/2025, 8:02:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

You're on a roll today. Did they pick this one up yet?

27/8/2025, 4:54:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope you have read or seen good omens

27/8/2025, 4:53:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Soapy (@soapy2019.bsky.social) reposted

Chinese artist Leng Jun,I have never seen anything like it. Extraordinary!!!

26/8/2025, 10:30:34 PM | 10265 1650 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that a Greenland shark?

27/8/2025, 4:40:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vegetarians, right? RIGHT!?

27/8/2025, 4:38:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Peaches come from can They were put there by a man In a factory

27/8/2025, 4:33:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

Will Trump family crypto holdings provide an economic umbrella for the entire nation after Treasury bonds collapse and the stock market crashes? We asked three recently-pardoned financial criminals.

26/8/2025, 3:29:21 PM | 707 100 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

But yes, fuck religion. It needs to die a quick death and its evil be cast into anachronism filled fiction where future generations can try to imagine the barbarism of times long past.

27/8/2025, 4:14:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

That is pretty dumb. You could just look at my posts to see if it seemed likely I would be tossing around code words for jews. I was being accused of doing that rather than the perfectly sensible notion that the ultra rich own the fucking media now and that is why we can't have nice things.

27/8/2025, 4:12:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone peed in your oatmeal? Tell me what I spewed that was misogynistic or anti Semitic? Are you sure?

27/8/2025, 3:21:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That is hilarious. Read in a Steven Wright voice

27/8/2025, 1:45:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gjabberbox.bsky.social (@gjabberbox.bsky.social) reposted

28/7/2025, 5:41:24 PM | 101 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Mark, while I appreciate that we have different opinions on some things, your recent take on health care is confusing to me. Individuals don't fight for federal law. They organize and contribute to organizations that do. Are you advocating for single payer?

26/8/2025, 10:33:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol. I just looked at your profile. I do not know whether these people are Jewish but I find all religious pomposity distasteful. Jews can fuck themselves equally with the other abrahamic religions. Just say no to religion. It's poison. People are not born with religion they are born into it.

26/8/2025, 10:29:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Um. Say what? WaPo is owned by Bezos? The Ochs-Sulzberger family owns the NYT? Musk owns Twitter? Alden Global Capital own Chicago Tribune? Murdoch owns WSJ? I have no idea what your agenda here is but my point was that media is largely controlled by the ultra rich so no surprise.

26/8/2025, 10:26:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The initial comment was global so my reply would be different for each group

26/8/2025, 9:52:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a headline

26/8/2025, 9:19:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eat the rich. But for real. Eat them

26/8/2025, 8:29:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess they all kind of look alike. Drain the water raise the ground, build, repeat

26/8/2025, 8:10:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

And that was just the first three days

26/8/2025, 6:57:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a profoundly unexplored question. I'm going to go with Hitler for 400 alex

26/8/2025, 6:55:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that the canal going south out of university of galway?

26/8/2025, 6:52:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look at who owns it. Just sayin

26/8/2025, 6:50:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every single academic year.

26/8/2025, 6:50:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man sees puppy by dangerous road eating a hot dog. Complexity ensues

26/8/2025, 6:48:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a list that is pretty long of obituaries I am anticipating the opportunity to speak ill of the dead after.

26/8/2025, 6:42:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Right to the care they can afford? I think you need to work on that soundbite because that's pee on your shoes level fucked up how that reads.

26/8/2025, 6:40:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

This kind of treads the fine lines between makes no sense, makes funny sense, nothing new under the sun, and gotta put in your time making things work better.

26/8/2025, 6:37:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Neither can I

23/8/2025, 7:59:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Insta Science (@instascience.bsky.social) reposted

The white cat is blind and has a best friend, a black cat, who is always by its side to guide it.

22/8/2025, 8:17:48 PM | 16255 2375 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anne Grete (GoogeliArt) πŸ¦‹πŸ’™PD (@googeliart.bsky.social) reposted

πŸ“’

22/8/2025, 9:27:08 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

So you really think there will be a real election in the midterm? Also, I don't care the outcome, I won't vote for anyone who isn't running on a revenge ticket.

22/8/2025, 4:06:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed but I will say this about the small pond I swim in, getting budget cuts up to 50% has changed the dynamic quite a bit.

22/8/2025, 5:01:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll help. The christofascists can die in a fire or i don't care how.

22/8/2025, 4:59:00 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess insurance is one of the things that will change as the resource wars heat up.

22/8/2025, 4:56:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Hmm. I smell a trap. Quick, Scooby, to the mystery machine!

19/8/2025, 4:57:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Yabbut this isn't a real court and the rule of law is over

13/8/2025, 7:44:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, while I don't doubt the premise, that isn't support for it. Your commander could easy be an idiot. Most of them are.

13/8/2025, 5:50:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Having met lots of people, 6 in 10 can't manage the drying of their own socks.

13/8/2025, 5:46:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Positive thinking spotted

11/8/2025, 5:56:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

I went two weeks ago when it was nice here. Timing. This week I took some vacation to finish a major project in my yard. I think I've already lost 3 pounds of water weight today and it's not even hot yet

11/8/2025, 5:54:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social)

Shhh.

10/8/2025, 5:07:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

The hubris that it takes to consider oneself the arbiter of shoe beauty is astonishing to me

9/8/2025, 4:38:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. The entire education system was ruined by bill gates. The gates foundation is not benevolent.

8/8/2025, 4:48:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Ouch. #NotAllPhDs

7/8/2025, 11:28:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. Why is this a category error?

7/8/2025, 8:55:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe. Chat was still brand new last time I read a student paper. I only had one student abuse it blatantly.

4/8/2025, 9:50:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

It's been a few years but that was not my experience at all. Do you teach a required course?

4/8/2025, 3:27:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

You take pictures of Portland that show an interesting point of view. Also it turns out you are a pretty darn good writer with an excellent sense of voice which I was pleased to discover. Loved Absolution- I got at powells Hawthorne on your suggestion it. Read the first 3 pages there and bought it.

4/8/2025, 1:00:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Goddamn quit your job life sucking bezos off is what you need to do to keep it. Any ruling would either leave intact or remove those protections you sacks of dung masquerading as reporters.

3/8/2025, 12:09:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social)

Maybe one day we can see the fpv footage of Putin's failed attempt to evade it.

3/8/2025, 12:00:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Highly recommend @nytpitchbot.bsky.social for all the headlines before they are published

2/8/2025, 7:59:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Now kidnap them in unmarked vans and don't care what you do with them as long as they never set foot on American soil again

2/8/2025, 7:28:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a mute point though

2/8/2025, 5:33:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Pique

1/8/2025, 7:40:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Adhd is a bitch but it can also be a super power.

1/8/2025, 3:12:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If its gotten this bad with a therapist, try something else?

1/8/2025, 4:38:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Critical Nostalgia (@highway62.bsky.social) reposted

WS Burroughs is frustrating and maddening and amusing at turns and then you forget he can just flick off a bomb like this one.

Line from The Place of Dead Roads, describing:
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Profile picture Honor Laois πŸ¦˜πŸ“Ž (@honorlaoiss.bsky.social) reposted

Fb has some redeeming features!

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29/7/2025, 9:11:16 AM | 790 132 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

I have to admit, I can't think of a book I've encountered with enough typos to be distracting. So, on further consideration, I am basically doing the preacher thing there and just pretending I have an insight.

29/7/2025, 3:06:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture PHL SportsNut (@ispw8842.bsky.social) reposted

Ds are expendable, but not elites.

28/7/2025, 8:28:37 PM | 2774 823 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this a self published book? Anyway, my uninvited advice is to let typos go and just read them as the words were intended. Spelling rules are a quite recent invention and violating them is occasionally a sacred duty. Those looking for clews can search for alternate spellings in dictionaries.

29/7/2025, 2:52:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social)

Irony can occasionally be high art.

28/7/2025, 6:46:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What i love about ozzy is that he made his entire life about having fun. It's a goal worth pursuing.

28/7/2025, 6:45:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For the simple reason that they are evil to the core

28/7/2025, 5:36:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because, I've never heard it before and it doesn't sound true.

28/7/2025, 3:25:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Which points is it that aren't true again? That to be a reminder I'd have needed to have heard it before? Or the part where it also vaguely suggest i believed it when I heard it before?

28/7/2025, 3:24:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That didn't really work out for her.

28/7/2025, 6:12:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Who wouldn't? I might go so far as to say it's objectively funny

28/7/2025, 6:09:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities. Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

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Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

They do it with insider trading. They have to and at some level it isn't even wrong. There's a lot wrong with the system. A lot. But really, I guess we all are just pretending we still have a system like we used to.

28/7/2025, 5:57:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

For that to be a reminder, I would have needed to have heard it before. Also, it generally suggests I believed it when I heard it before. Just sayin.

28/7/2025, 5:06:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Woe, a Doe (@doefulwoeful.bsky.social) reposted

I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to

25/7/2025, 2:36:51 PM | 3646 1385 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

I take it it was a hot night?

28/7/2025, 4:45:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/7/2025, 2:28:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol reposting a reposted post advising people to follow @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social is peak 2025.

28/7/2025, 2:14:26 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

You need to follow @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social It's good for your everlasting soul or double your money back.

28/7/2025, 1:25:55 AM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

2nd amendment solutions? No. There is no "solution" like you are proposing. Government programs, aside from military contracting, do not get better with the ephemeral notion of efficiency. To think they do highlights a profound failing of our economics departments

27/7/2025, 6:39:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

I can write many horror stories from the perspective of the last one.

26/7/2025, 3:33:22 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is why there are no more Chuck E Cheeses

26/7/2025, 3:26:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

And, if they are so hated, well, they can be doxxed and buried in an unmarked grave with a sign reading piss here

26/7/2025, 6:28:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you think too few stands out the same way?

23/7/2025, 4:54:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture O'B. J. Dart (@objdart.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard disagree. Being in power gives them insider trading knowledge. Restricting their right to invest is a way bigger deal than paying them way less than a standard corporate vp salary

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