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Pete

@peteolski.bsky.social

Retirement looming. Dem, pro worker, MMT convert, Packer fan.

created November 15, 2024

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Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

1st, 4th and 14th Amendments.

1/9/2025, 7:53:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Two for a liberal majority. Thomas would salivate at the $$$ opportunity. Kavenaugh likely has run up fresh gambling debts.

1/9/2025, 6:39:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 (@bc60.bsky.social) reposted

So many examples like this

1/9/2025, 8:03:30 AM | 21 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Eric will bring the Jeb Bush energy and excitement.

1/9/2025, 6:19:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

ME: 5. ABORT 6. ABOUT CANUCKLE: ** BZZ! You failed. Answer is ABOOT. ME: WTF! Speak English!

1/9/2025, 5:08:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Packer contracts are set up surprisingly well. Clark would've been cut next year. Belton and Morgan allows Wallace and Jenkins to walk. Doubs can go with Golden on roster. Packers can avoid big 2nd contracts with talented 1st contract guys.

1/9/2025, 4:09:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

The "trillions" are vaporware, options for hundreds of Boeing jets, vague promises to invest $500 billion in the US. All nonsense.

1/9/2025, 4:01:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn't run dry. Benefits lessen. What 1980s forecasts missed was so much income above cutoff point and so little income below the cutoff. Donut hole the cap. Reinstate a tax at $500k and above.

1/9/2025, 3:06:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

No point in making Trump's birthday a national holiday when his final day will be organically celebrated around the world for years.

1/9/2025, 2:53:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

In every Trump trade deal the other country buys two tons of soybeans and "options" to buy 100 Boeing jets. Voila! A two trillion investment in America!

1/9/2025, 11:17:46 AM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Whew. Tough way to make a living.

1/9/2025, 11:14:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

The 113M tourist figure includes 112M people stopping at Illinois toll road rest areas on their way to Wisconsin.

1/9/2025, 8:22:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Deploying the DC National Gardeners.

31/8/2025, 11:45:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

C'mon. That's from his military academy days. People are saying Trump was the best drum major ever!

31/8/2025, 10:01:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like Trump visited a train museum and got a choo-choo hat!

31/8/2025, 9:55:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

So Trump sent in the DC National Gardeners?

31/8/2025, 9:47:46 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social)

I took two minutes off my personal best for my Green Bay bicycle loop. It's true: Micah Parsons elevates the performance of everyone around him.

31/8/2025, 9:37:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I love tamales. When I get a pork butt on sale, I'll do a batch of tamales with my green sauce.

31/8/2025, 3:55:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I have yet to see video of an actual gang member nabbed by the ICE goons. It's kids and working people, all because of their brown skin.

31/8/2025, 1:43:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Boo effing hoo.

31/8/2025, 9:44:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 2:44:59 AM | 1581 302 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember, my fellow Badgers, the only way we got rid of the Republican gerrymander after 12 years was the election of a 4th liberal justice. The Congressional districts remain gerrymandered pending a court case.

31/8/2025, 9:37:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm hoping that ominous shadow on the wall following Trump is the Grim Reaper.

31/8/2025, 9:23:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

1 and 0. It's the digital age. Jacobs switching to 1000, Reed to 1011.

31/8/2025, 1:13:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Fits your wide smile. Looks good!

30/8/2025, 10:41:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Beats the alternative of waking, peeking out the cave for carnevores, gnawing on a dead rat, scratching lice, then sitting hungry in the dark cave without streaming.

30/8/2025, 10:35:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Had all The Doors albums back in the day. Interesting lyrics, good music. Not sure what Morrison might have produced had he lived past 27 or whether he was already tapped out at the time of his passing.

30/8/2025, 10:29:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

RFK Jr has 14 years experience finding veins between his toes. That was good enough for the Republican Senate to confirm him.

30/8/2025, 10:23:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate chitchat about season-long player awards before week 13. By end of September the MVP chatter will start. I'll make one exception. When Packers secure the Lombardi, GM Gutekunst locks up Executive of the Year.

30/8/2025, 10:20:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

My excitement for this season just increased by $10 million so it's a wash.

30/8/2025, 9:28:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Ron Johnson was a CPA who married into a manufacturing family. I'm appalled he's serving a third term as my Senator.

30/8/2025, 9:24:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 12:27:18 PM | 33 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Was this photo taken by the Hubble or by the James Webb telescope?

30/8/2025, 9:17:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Retiring soon in Wisconsin. My first trip will be a couple weeks exploring New Mexico, especially the cuisine. Bring some Hatch chiles back.

30/8/2025, 9:15:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Now the Scouts burn the resumes of highly qualified women and people of color for the Death to DEI merit badge.

30/8/2025, 9:10:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Arch couldn't win the starting position as a Texas sophomore and had only thrown 95 passes prior to today. He'll have about 15 starts by NFL draft. Will Arch be drafted for his surname or for his talent? Didn't look good against OSU today.

30/8/2025, 9:08:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm a Guy nearing retirement. All my Guys have already retired or died.

30/8/2025, 7:01:46 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Easing towards retirement. Bought a bicycle last summer and remembered how fun cycling is. Good exercise and adjustable gears makes each ride pleasant regardless how my aging body feels.

30/8/2025, 8:41:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Dropping dead at the start of a three day holiday weekend would be the first considerate thing Trump ever did.

30/8/2025, 8:27:45 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Learn to decipher the codespeak.

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29/8/2025, 7:07:34 PM | 19154 4291 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social)

Jerry Jones will be crowing when the Cowboys Kenny Clark-led defensive line holds the Eagles' Sequon Barkley to 13 yards on 10 carries during Thursday's NFL opener.

29/8/2025, 11:41:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Jerry Jones is to modern defensive line play as RFK Jr is to vaccine science.

29/8/2025, 11:34:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Just fair catch the ball. Half the returns are 10 yard holding penalties.

29/8/2025, 11:32:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Certainly agents for undrafted FAs inform their clients that the Packers offer a realistic possibility to make a roster.

29/8/2025, 11:31:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amy J. Rutenberg (@amyjay401.bsky.social) reposted

As everyone knows, “True warfighters instilled with the warfighting ethos, however, know that a warfighting ethos is only at its warfighting ethos-iest when warfighters are fighting a war on boredom. And here among the embattled mulch beds of D.C., cousin, boredom is ah-boomin.”

29/8/2025, 1:07:43 AM | 317 88 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Micah Parsons teamed with Edgerrin Cooper. Two rockets in the front seven.

29/8/2025, 1:22:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Lots of chatter how Parsons benefits Gary and LVN. No talk about the pairing of Parsons and Edgerrin Cooper, who will break out this year. Those two in the front seven with All Pro Xavier McKinney at the 3rd level. Woo boy!

29/8/2025, 1:05:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Packers will expect 4 full years from 26 year old Parsons while Steelers and Browns will be looking for contract outs after 2 years with aging TJ Watt and Miles Garrett.

29/8/2025, 12:10:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

The Packers expectations are 4 years from 26 year old Parsons while Steelers and Browns will be looking for outs after 2 years with aging TJ Watt and Miles Garrett. Go Pack Go!

29/8/2025, 12:01:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Calvinlaw.

28/8/2025, 12:30:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sorry, but these aren't unimaginable times. There's 400 million guns and more coming.

28/8/2025, 10:43:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Growth is defined by # of store locations. Every gas station has a fast food joint. We've got 2 Home Depots, 3 Walmarts, 2 Menards, 2 Fleet Farms. All need workers for low wage jobs. Businesses outpace local population increase. Frankly, we don't need all the national franchises in town.

28/8/2025, 8:41:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

The grand jury determined no slaw was violated.

28/8/2025, 2:27:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Slogan: Marginally Better Than Your Mom's Cooking!

27/8/2025, 3:13:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Are we discussing age or the current president? Either way, I'm in agreement.

27/8/2025, 3:12:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

The Green Bay area had a great FM station, live DJs, album rock, great music. Welcome To The Machine was the last song before station management flipped to canned rock and ruined it all.

27/8/2025, 10:32:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I used to be a huge baseball fan. Batting average, RBIs, homers. Now I can't even decipher the stats lingo. OPS+? The pitch clock got me watching a few games again, although I don't read about it anymore.

27/8/2025, 10:18:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Wind turbines cover a few acres in the Atlantic. The Atlantic Ocean covers a quarter of the planet. Like saying my backyard night light is keeping the entire city awake.

27/8/2025, 10:08:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Explain to me Israel bombing a hospital, waiting for the rescue team and journalists to arrive, and bombing again to kill these folks. How do you explain that away?

26/8/2025, 11:47:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

English futbol fascinates me. Every little burg has a hometown team in one of a dozen leagues. Promotion and demotion between leagues. Continuous singing of team songs in the stands. The entirety looks like a blast!

26/8/2025, 10:09:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Haven't heard a peep from DC Dems like Schumer. I did listen to a Jeffries interview and I'll tell you, Jeffries couldn't order breakfast without sounding like a canned politician.

26/8/2025, 10:24:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Texas also has onerous rules for working to register voters.

26/8/2025, 10:16:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard to recruit a Mars mission crew to launch on Starship 11 after watching Starships 1 through 10 explode before reaching Earth orbit. Right now, odds are much higher the crew will have elementary schools named in their remembrance than ever walking on Mars.

25/8/2025, 10:33:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump promises thousands of homes, hotel rooms and jobs, none of which have appeared. He's a complete bullshitter.

25/8/2025, 10:26:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Cremation for me.

25/8/2025, 10:08:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Heard Jeffries on the David Pakman podcast. Jeffries can't speak without sounding like a politician.

25/8/2025, 12:56:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

My pledge is not to donate a dime to any Dem not on my local ballot until Schumer steps down.

25/8/2025, 12:31:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

The big contract for guard Aaron Banks may be a bust with Banks missing time with a back injury.

25/8/2025, 12:27:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Walk away. Much more enjoyable here.

24/8/2025, 11:25:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social)

With food prices so high, it makes no sense for the Trump administration to go hard at the homeless when Soylent Green is the only nutrition anyone can afford.

24/8/2025, 7:54:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Pau Newman in The Verdict.

24/8/2025, 7:48:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.

24/8/2025, 2:00:25 PM | 23922 10343 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted

(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal
24/8/2025, 1:16:41 AM | 3410 886 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

All these fuckers need to be confronted continuously.

24/8/2025, 9:46:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

This is stupid. Social Security is officially categorized as an entitlement program. That's it's name. You are legally entitled to the money.

24/8/2025, 1:09:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Disobeyed orders to push her down the steps. Good for him. No mask, either.

23/8/2025, 11:53:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Ha! GUVMENT!

23/8/2025, 11:51:14 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Packers 17-0 just before half. Run game clicking w Jacobs and Emanuel Wilson. Elgersma looking good to replace Sean Clifford as 3rd string QB.

23/8/2025, 9:16:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

"Christian" and "Patriot." Beware anyone self identifying as such.

23/8/2025, 8:53:57 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I want paper ballots with optical scanners. Much less expensive and troublesome than electric voting machines. Fewer conspiracy theories, too.

23/8/2025, 8:33:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Bolton is spot-on here.

23/8/2025, 7:51:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd druther we keep workin' down the list til everyone is kilt once.

23/8/2025, 7:46:24 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

When the smoke clears following these two or three decades, Roberts may be the man responsible for the most damage to American values.

23/8/2025, 7:45:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

I might, for the 100 meter dash. Me, the fastest man on Earth!

23/8/2025, 7:40:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Without the masks, wives would say my husband is a piece of shit; sons and daughters would say my daddy is a piece of shit.

22/8/2025, 11:19:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

So, any day now?

22/8/2025, 10:11:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Maxwell speaks kindly of Trump because the President always followed the dictum of tipping your sex trafficker 35 percent.

22/8/2025, 8:32:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Judge was a good guy but you know what I never saw on that show? A crash. Dozens of working people fined daily because they didn't stop .3 seconds long enough before a right turn. City cameras set up to squeeze fines from residents for trivial rules. The judge put a happy face on this thievery.

22/8/2025, 6:43:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Cracker Barrel Home Cooking. Marginally Better Than Your Mom's! (New slogan for new logo.)

22/8/2025, 10:33:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Cracker Barrel. Homemade meals marginally better than your mother's.

21/8/2025, 10:55:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Not arguing. If we the people could amend the constitution, I think lifetime appointments for SCOTUS and other judges would be one of first changes. SCOTUS can make up law with impunity.

21/8/2025, 10:37:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

SCOTUS concurs, though.

21/8/2025, 10:31:55 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Shotgun formation. The ball is snapped into the small black hole behind the center. Time dilation, worm holes, spacial expansion. Basics of the Hawking's offense. Touchdown!

20/8/2025, 8:46:09 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Haven't seen it yet. Feel like I'd be cheating on Leslie Nielsen.

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

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Please remind your local masked ICE agent that he's a piece of shit.

20/8/2025, 3:57:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

All that remains are the faces and names of the wives, the sons and the daughters. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

20/8/2025, 10:46:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Chuck Schumer hammering out a strong response on his ol' reliable Smith Corona typewriter, a quart of White-Out at his elbow.

20/8/2025, 10:44:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably snatched by ICE at your doorstep.

20/8/2025, 10:41:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Nebraska state GDP down 6% from last year with drop in ag sales leading the way. Now Nebraska building a prison to house their farm laborers. Good luck recruiting ag workers!

20/8/2025, 10:25:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete (@peteolski.bsky.social) reply parent

Downloaded for a listen this evening as I fly JFK to Detroit, right over Cleveland.

20/8/2025, 9:58:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view