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Pat O'Leary

@patoleary.bsky.social

Engineer. Curmudgeon. Lover of lousy puns. Fighting a weakness for redheads. Fair weather sailor and proud of it

created November 9, 2024

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You've not fooling anyone...

1/9/2025, 12:55:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Untreated diabetes?

31/8/2025, 12:01:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He can't put a foot wrong. O mean right.

31/8/2025, 11:54:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A leg end in his own lunchtime. Or two.

31/8/2025, 11:50:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a Seiko for 20+ years. I just loved their no nonsense designs. But recent experience buying over the 'net from a UK supplier was not good - maybe I was sold a fake (twice!) - it happens.

31/8/2025, 11:42:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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'Sall Good, man

31/8/2025, 1:40:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the day after He does the inhuming:

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31/8/2025, 1:31:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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C'mon, that's not a real recipe? No backstory, no cute tale about how your great-Granny delivered and fed a family of 12 on the Oregon Trail on something almost, but not entirely unlike this? And lots of Amazon affiliate links on each of the many pages before the mark gets to the actual recipe? Sad!

31/8/2025, 1:23:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 8:56:22 PM | 141 50 | View on Bluesky | view

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You need these bookshelves

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30/8/2025, 8:35:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think that's why the tent refused to move from the Beeb

30/8/2025, 8:32:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who's got no cards??😁

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30/8/2025, 8:14:31 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 5:58:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 5:56:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hmmmm.... Ties it with cheese twine so that it develops that shape? Cunning...

30/8/2025, 5:55:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 5:49:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Listen, Bulli, don't start up with your red zone shit again. We both know what this is about...

30/8/2025, 11:05:27 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social)

The Nobel Peace Prizes can't be awarded posthumously, right? Right? Sad. Many people are saying this. Oh well. #rumor #weekendatBernies #ketchupisnowsafe 🤞🤞🤞🤞

30/8/2025, 8:37:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

This one is even worse. Kid in my class in primary school used to disappear for weeks. Found out later it was to live in one of these. He didn't make it past his teenage years

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30/8/2025, 8:20:57 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As Saki (H. H. Munro) put it: "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death" (though I'll take Murdoch at a pinch)

30/8/2025, 8:07:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be honest the One I am waiting for is Murdoch. "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death" (Saki - H. H. Munro)

30/8/2025, 8:02:19 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

(my apologies if you've seen me repost this cartoon before, but it is appropriate!)

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30/8/2025, 7:33:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🎶"In German oder English I know how to count down, Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun🎶

30/8/2025, 6:50:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me too. I cayenne not be serious.

29/8/2025, 10:32:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

A very sage observation.

29/8/2025, 8:53:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you regard dementia as "a chronic childhood disease"? How strange! There is some correlation between aluminium traces in the brain and dementia, but it's not clear that it's the cause.

29/8/2025, 8:22:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To me the word "manuscript" implies vellum or parchment, and a quill or fountain pen. And joinedy-up writing...

29/8/2025, 8:03:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ICE are torn between calling it "Operation Operation" and "Surgical Strike"

29/8/2025, 7:26:18 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think he pushes anything. In his case, self-loathing is justified.

29/8/2025, 7:08:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they just went over for a gander. Or to say "You can't leave now - we've got bills"

29/8/2025, 6:55:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I favour the tech of Hotblack Desiato's stunt ship. “Every time", said Zaphod, "you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?

28/8/2025, 8:12:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will there be lines of Proud Buoys bobbing in the water?

28/8/2025, 8:03:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Democrat Cats (@democratcats.bsky.social) reposted

I can’t… Let’s dance!

27/8/2025, 11:59:49 PM | 3117 442 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I really like flashmobs and flash performances. Check out Ode to Joy. youtu.be/kbJcQYVtZMo?...

28/8/2025, 5:04:05 AM | 70 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

*running his brain, not rubbing it!

28/8/2025, 1:48:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder if he believes that? Someone made the point that a 1500% reduction would mean the pharma companies "would be paying consumers" haha, but now Trump is babbling those exact words! He often seems to riff on whatever he heard last when the hamster rubbing his brain takes a break.

28/8/2025, 1:46:18 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

But it took so long to bake it!

27/8/2025, 8:56:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social)

Imagine if this were your country's leader. How fast would they be hustled off to Golden Acres - "We Care, So You Don't Have To" - before their sundowning got violent? But this guy will be there for years, blathering about rolly-eyes, 24ct Oval Offices, and Nobel Prizes🙄 rollcall.com/factbase/tru...

27/8/2025, 8:35:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"What's that noise?" "That's Morris dancing" "Ah yes, I think it's time we had a little chat about Morris" (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, 1970s, probably)

27/8/2025, 4:55:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My oncologist approves (Wish he'd change his prostate technique, though)

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27/8/2025, 8:28:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But it won't be a nuclear war! So why no mention of the largest (I think) armed forces in a country that has most to lose by Russian encroachment? Poland.

27/8/2025, 8:24:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please, please....😂

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27/8/2025, 7:33:39 AM | 85 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) reposted

Who did this?

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26/8/2025, 10:38:10 PM | 14760 3560 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 4:16:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His next attempt was what he called The Full Monty, which ended when it also failed to reach its objective amid her pointing and laughter

26/8/2025, 7:47:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Per LinkedIn: CEO St John's Hospital, Ireland. Accredited mediator. Strategic development, Leadership and Innovation advocate. Registered Nurse

26/8/2025, 12:32:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think they lost their soul. I think this was discussed and everybody in this group knew what they were dealing with and how best to handle a spoilt brat.

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25/8/2025, 6:12:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

Came across somebody recently who was a school Principal and during COVID lockdown things got a little tense in his house. When his wife asked him something he absent mindedly responded "Could you try that again, this time without the attitude?". Ooops...

25/8/2025, 1:30:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"... Without even the courtesy of a reacharound.."

25/8/2025, 1:22:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh .. What did you say?

24/8/2025, 10:49:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Captain Flagg: "It's a lousy war, kid...but it's the only one we've got" (James Cagney - "What Price Glory")

24/8/2025, 8:48:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@louchebop.bsky.social

24/8/2025, 8:16:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 7:49:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In fairness, Stone is indeed an asshole aficionado.

24/8/2025, 7:08:12 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bernie Saunders "Rumpled Vermont" style is good. (per #derekguy @dieworkwear.bsky.social )

24/8/2025, 6:58:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I nonchalantly put an American business colleague up at a Dower House in Kilkenny that belonged to Anne Boleyn's grannie. When I collected him for our customer visit next morning he couldn't stop babbling😂

24/8/2025, 6:49:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He should call for stakeholders.

22/8/2025, 12:07:07 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

I've never seen any such views on vaccines expressed by Rowling.

21/8/2025, 7:47:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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First time Ive seen a photo of Truss without her submissive ring necklace.

20/8/2025, 12:06:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

But if they painted them white it would be much easier to see the brown people this is against. Decisions, decisions.....

20/8/2025, 12:05:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I must be going blind - I thought that said "kamikaze pilots"...

20/8/2025, 12:00:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ooops - I thought the headline said CAT fight! There's still time, mind you....

20/8/2025, 11:57:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

Correction: He KNOWS Democrats will just roll over and play dead. They have been doing this all year.

20/8/2025, 11:26:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this another attempt at The Wicker Man?

20/8/2025, 8:24:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If they speak, are they still considered "extras" Thought she'd have been "woman with basket"?

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

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His tail wags so hard when he sees Putin

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20/8/2025, 8:09:40 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh Dear! Looks like you poked the Dinosaur! Stand by for some snarling and shusshing...

20/8/2025, 7:21:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't you mean "Indentured Servitude"?

20/8/2025, 7:17:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know him from anything apart from Parks & Rec, in which I thought he was the most unfunny and vapid part of an otherwise excellently written and acted series. Guy left me absolutely cold.

20/8/2025, 7:01:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

And Caligula had a horse as Senator, not horses' asses. But he did shag his sister, and then abort her child (and her), so there's that. Robert Graves didn't set down if Nero or Caligula had a habit of walking in on teenage girls' changing rooms though.

20/8/2025, 6:30:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Abbott needs to roll back these edicts.

20/8/2025, 6:22:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Trump's focus on the process of diplomacy is reasonable"? What weasel-words nonsense is this? Are you morphing into the NYT? Is Rolling Stone and Teen Vogue to be the only reporters of fact left in the USA? Shame on you, The Atlantic!

20/8/2025, 6:14:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/8/2025, 5:42:47 PM | 294 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait, wait! Is this real? Did this exchange happen without the entire room bursting into raucous laughter? Is there something different about the air in America that numbs the giggling reflex? Maybe The End of the World really is Nigh.

20/8/2025, 6:02:07 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will this be the event we look back on and say "that's when I knew it was time to get out of the 2025 Market! But didn't.... "

19/8/2025, 11:00:03 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Larry Niven's Ringworld makes more sense than Dyson Sphere. The heat generated by the data centres would be able to radiate out into space.

19/8/2025, 5:49:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/8/2025, 4:47:59 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Go back to Twitter and Truth Social and preach to the choir. This forum is for people who think.

19/8/2025, 4:46:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope you used lube when you extracted that crap from your asshole.

19/8/2025, 4:42:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump kiddyfiddles while America burns?

19/8/2025, 12:21:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guy skydiving. After all the fancy stuff, pulls the ripcord. Nothing happens. No worries, he pulls the safety. Nothing happens. Reaching terminal velocity he spies a guy, arms out heading UP, holding a spanner. "Hey, do ya know anything about parachutes?" "No! You know anything about gas cookers?"

19/8/2025, 12:15:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn't think those things could fly?

19/8/2025, 12:09:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I prefer Emo Philips version, when he tried to open the rear doors during the flight in an effort to "equalize the suckage"

19/8/2025, 11:58:30 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The very best kind of Government cuts...

19/8/2025, 11:46:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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While we are on the subject of people Newson has fucked, whatever happened to the US Ambassador to Greece? Haven't heard a dickybird about her since she and a pallet-load of Botox were shipped there out of Junior's way.

19/8/2025, 7:04:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat O'Leary (@patoleary.bsky.social) reply parent

You probably mean Noel Casler who was a staffer on The Apprentice and talks about Trump's incontinence, diapers, plastic girdle, shoe lifts, and grooming of young girls etc yet Trump never takes legal action against him.

19/8/2025, 6:34:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bet he didn't "even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around"

18/8/2025, 10:10:59 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup.

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18/8/2025, 9:43:52 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And abandoned Snowflake..

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18/8/2025, 9:42:02 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any hope @southparkwiki.bsky.social could do a Russian dolls scene, with Trumpy on Putin's lap, and Vance on Trumpy's ...?

18/8/2025, 9:40:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 9:12:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish! Young people who text me send even more texts complaining about my not answering even while am composing some bon mot reply. Have some respect for the guys who invented this shit, ya sniveling little toads!

17/8/2025, 6:06:06 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A little-known Kraftwerk werk: share.google/B0tL41nUld7G...

17/8/2025, 5:49:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Franklin, my Dear, I don't give a damn!

17/8/2025, 5:41:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Use their own rhetoric - "Time to dump the freeloaders!"

17/8/2025, 5:38:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember this one? If he had a tail, imagine how hard it would have been thumping!

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17/8/2025, 5:33:50 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The phrase being shoehorned into threads on ticktock, Threads, YouTube comments etc by MAGAt bots is "Our Peace Through Strength President"! Seriously! They should get that in ironwork over the front gates to the white house like...

16/8/2025, 11:18:57 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey, we blackmailers have rights too! We may be a small minority but we are coming out of the shadows, bringing our zoom lenses with us. "Making your happy endings ours"

16/8/2025, 11:13:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any LE injured should be taken to hospital in a hambulance.

16/8/2025, 10:24:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view