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Nom DePlume

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Veteran, tradesman, programmer, broadcaster. We are stardust.

created December 6, 2024

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Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Somehow, I feel like I've been Rick Rolled. 😜

2/9/2025, 11:49:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 11:18:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I disagree. I think they could have done it and may yet join in. Newsom simply had the nerve to try it first. Maybe he realized he had to do something bold to dig himself out of that hole he created with his podcast disaster.

30/8/2025, 5:31:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

In this country, talking politics is often considered taboo.

30/8/2025, 5:21:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Sort of reminds me of the fake history ride in Idiocracy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntAR...

30/8/2025, 5:12:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 6:07:36 AM | 2651 539 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Wake me when it's over. 😴

28/8/2025, 11:08:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 8:10:16 PM | 7528 3013 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Cause something is happening And you don't know what it is. Do you, Mister Jones?

27/8/2025, 10:40:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Pedophiles of a feather, flock together.

26/8/2025, 10:21:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for not polluting this with music!

25/8/2025, 11:31:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda (@krishna-author.bsky.social) reposted

It's over... he knows it... the baby knows it... ya'll know it... #bluesky

20/8/2025, 8:13:41 AM | 205 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I can only afford the ear bandage. :(

20/8/2025, 10:38:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I never realized there were so many anti-semites in Israel!

18/8/2025, 10:47:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Pirro can't even indict a sandwich.

15/8/2025, 4:45:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Install them in every person on earth and create the hive mind.

15/8/2025, 4:18:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw.bsky.social) reposted

This is exhilarating and terrifying at the same time ⬇️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

15/8/2025, 4:07:59 PM | 238 61 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

What level of horrible would it take for you to refuse go on stage? By the way, there is no such thing as a "congressional" medal of honor. The Medal of Honor is awarded by the DoD.

14/8/2025, 11:06:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid

12/8/2025, 3:59:48 PM | 15981 3004 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I think legislative and judicial should be limp, like willow branches.

11/8/2025, 10:54:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

That's what you get for listening to Rush Limbaugh in the trailer, while waiting to shoot your next scene.

9/8/2025, 1:32:46 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social)

Fuck Harry Potter, read The Great Crash.

8/8/2025, 3:30:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I would ask him how he avoids getting killed.

7/8/2025, 11:27:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social)

Guitar – Michael Bloomfield Bass, Vocals – Roger Troy Drums – Bob Jones Organ – Barry Goldberg Piano – Mark Naftalin www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozN7...

7/8/2025, 11:24:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

7/8/2025, 5:09:04 AM | 43853 12445 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/8/2025, 5:27:46 PM | 6924 2402 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social)

Oh, all hold up And abandon plans for the good times Kim Deal - Coast www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBu_...

6/8/2025, 11:14:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon of The North (@krauza.bsky.social) reposted

futurism.com/white-house-...

5/8/2025, 11:55:25 AM | 111 76 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it Tuesday already?

6/8/2025, 10:19:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Math is hard!

5/8/2025, 11:18:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they're going to share the power of healing crystals with our native brothers and sisters.

5/8/2025, 10:25:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charles Rusnell (@charlesrusnell.bsky.social) reposted

This is fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbL...

2/8/2025, 5:23:00 AM | 30 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2/8/2025, 9:01:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cancelled after one episode: Heil Honey I'm Home!

Heil Honey I'm Home!
2/8/2025, 7:08:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

The Twilight Zone (1959), The Prisoner (1967), Better Call Saul, Legion, and Babylon 5.

2/8/2025, 7:00:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Reaching the end of Carrie, I was leaning forward to pick up my trash. At that moment, there was a shocking surprise -- the audience gasped -- and I felt a powerful wave of energy run across my back.

2/8/2025, 6:36:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

The Importance of Being Earnest.

2/8/2025, 2:32:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience.bsky.social) reposted

Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert. Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)

31/7/2025, 11:43:17 PM | 1639 440 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Best propaganda campaign ever! Back in grade school a nice jewish lady would visit periodically. We sang songs, which was fun, but there were also propaganda films that made palestineans look like clowns. It made sense to me later when I saw Birth of a Nation and it portrayed blacks the same way.

1/8/2025, 2:01:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I imagine corruption and gangsterism will be on the upswing. Sort of like Russia.

1/8/2025, 12:19:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Why do you keep using the cliche, "I don't understand"? It doesn't have any impact.

31/7/2025, 10:30:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/7/2025, 11:43:37 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope, he's going to fuck *us*.

30/7/2025, 11:07:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Mmm, break dust!

30/7/2025, 10:26:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I think he hates himself.

30/7/2025, 12:01:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

That sentence is a five alarm fire.

27/7/2025, 11:08:25 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would you create an AI version of a real photo?

27/7/2025, 11:04:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

That's absolutely disgusting! I hate flies!

27/7/2025, 10:16:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Just can't picture the super-wealthy choosing to become merely wealthy, in order to create a better world. I think they're competing to see how high they can get on the Forbes list when the lights go out.

27/7/2025, 6:21:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social)

So long, Tom! RIP Tom Lehrer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pklr...

27/7/2025, 5:39:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They lobotomized the wrong Kennedy.

27/7/2025, 5:22:12 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/7/2025, 2:30:54 PM | 18632 3959 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

If you look, you can find tons of animal rescue/sanctuary videos from all around the world.

27/7/2025, 5:06:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kind people come in all colors.

27/7/2025, 5:01:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yikes! www.sciencefocus.com/news/cat-par...

27/7/2025, 1:16:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who was the artist? Was it PJ Harvey?

26/7/2025, 11:50:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every accusation is a confession.

26/7/2025, 11:16:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not just cruelty, but death. This is a death cult.

26/7/2025, 11:15:25 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These aren't the droids you're looking for.

26/7/2025, 11:12:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why have they not yet been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

26/7/2025, 8:47:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

"It's all good, bro!"

26/7/2025, 8:40:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lizard people rule the world.

26/7/2025, 2:04:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

A clearer message: hands off our money.

26/7/2025, 1:54:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/7/2025, 1:20:40 AM | 27851 5979 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social)

The Avett Brothers February Seven www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkVM...

25/7/2025, 10:36:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought it was about investors getting big returns.

25/7/2025, 6:49:20 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social)

Ah, it's summer of 1977 again, for a moment. RIP Chuck Mangione. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKp7...

25/7/2025, 5:04:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I needed an ear cleanser after that! 😜 Here's Lulu with the original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1q...

25/7/2025, 11:13:12 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

If you don't know already, then you haven't been paying attention.

25/7/2025, 10:16:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture scha·den·freu·de (@blisterpearl.bsky.social) reposted

And a plurality of voters fell for it. Unpresidented.

23/7/2025, 11:03:37 PM | 1022 244 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

He's making pedophilia great again!

23/7/2025, 11:51:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No paint involved: it's plastic.

23/7/2025, 10:32:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 (@alcappuccinoit.bsky.social) reposted

Really dislike it when celebrities I otherwise admire agree to be interviewed by Bill Maher. Everybody needs to boycott that rat bastard.

21/7/2025, 11:39:23 PM | 2020 231 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm glad he's using the "hoax" trope on something his followers know isn't a hoax. This may get them to realize that every "hoax" he croaked out was a confession.

22/7/2025, 11:13:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The opposite of how we do things in the US military.

22/7/2025, 10:54:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What about Whitewater? Now, there's a scandal!

22/7/2025, 10:43:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It will be repeated until homo sapiens meet their end.

21/7/2025, 11:59:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The old SNL skit was fun, but they sucked when I tried them at Chicagofest '79.

20/7/2025, 10:01:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBuS...

20/7/2025, 8:10:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1 Lutnick Unit equals 1/13 of a Friedman Unit

20/7/2025, 7:59:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, Kermit, helped out with the overthrow of the democratic government of Iran in 1953. That turned out well as everyone knows. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...

20/7/2025, 5:12:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

He shifted the Overton window by getting into bed with billionaires and moving a right wing agenda like NAFTA and welfare reform. This helped push the GOP further right, into crazy town. Both parties are now deep in the pockets of the morbidly rich. Note how the Dems have smeared Mamdani recently.

20/7/2025, 2:12:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted

Pete Holms

20/7/2025, 1:34:14 PM | 43 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Democratic party sold its soul when it nominated Clinton in 1992.

20/7/2025, 1:33:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're bringing separation of families, they're bringing mysery, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.

20/7/2025, 1:07:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted

Let The Mystery Be - Iris DeMent

20/7/2025, 11:43:18 AM | 29 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stopped at a light in LA, back in the 80s, and saw Loretta Swit in the rearview mirror. She was driving a white corvette.

19/7/2025, 4:55:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lack of butter during the depression and WWII led to widespread adoption of margarine. I did not know what butter was until I had dinner at a neighbor's house, circa 1970.

19/7/2025, 4:50:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That makes perfect sense, except the part that involves consuming *margarine*? Yuck!

19/7/2025, 4:23:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted

Colbert & Oscar

19/7/2025, 12:27:03 PM | 610 208 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oliver Markus Malloy (@malloy.rocks) reposted

HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.

18/7/2025, 3:59:41 PM | 23000 3466 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nom DePlume (@pokerbum.bsky.social) reply parent

They ask softball questions of our worst politicians even though the public subsidy is small. The 4th estate should be fully funded and independent. However, we just can't have nice things.

18/7/2025, 3:20:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) reposted

This is what integrity looks like.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJpN...

17/7/2025, 8:14:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to number 48 -- President Vance.

17/7/2025, 8:09:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I were Alex, *I* would need a therapy bunny to face that roaring crowd. Stadiums are LOUD.

17/7/2025, 7:42:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to mention NAFTA and welfare reform.

17/7/2025, 7:35:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

22 years later he would be running our country with near-total impunity. 🇺🇸

16/7/2025, 10:55:59 PM | 3653 1976 | View on Bluesky | view

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The two party system tag-teamed the middle class into oblivion.

15/7/2025, 11:45:28 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We are all descendants of persecutors as well as the persecuted.

15/7/2025, 12:31:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view