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TomPaleo

@tompaleo.bsky.social

Teacher, husband, father, dog owner, in no particular order. Practicing Democrat, aspiring hiker, and admirer of artists and writers who inspire me. Oh, and F47. 🚫crypto

created April 19, 2024

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We can all dream tonight.

2/9/2025, 2:39:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture See Through Canoe (@seethroughcanoe.bsky.social) reposted

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

1/9/2025, 2:18:48 PM | 17633 2331 | View on Bluesky | view

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Brown chicken, brown cow.

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

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Love the furbaby story, and the pillow in the background.

1/9/2025, 4:34:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All of us behind the president in his expression of what a good night this would be if it were his last night.

1/9/2025, 1:56:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raymond Schrab (@raymondschrab.bsky.social) reposted

Today I hiked from the beach at Pike Lake to the top of Powder Hill and back, 3 times. About 9 miles, and 1,100 feet of elevation gain. Getting in shape for a backpacking trip. Meanwhile, everybody else was soaking up the sun. I know, I'm just not that smart. 😅 #hiking

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31/8/2025, 8:09:07 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two is my count.

31/8/2025, 9:59:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The one they show in metal shop class the first day about wearing eye protection so you don’t get shards of metal in your eye. Just once is enough. My eyeballs filed it under « most important film ever made. »

31/8/2025, 4:32:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What other situation in life affords you the opportunity to suggest the possibility that one should form a rudimentary lathe? At work I only get to say it once or twice a day.

31/8/2025, 10:21:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The most trusted names in news reporting.

Morbid and Linda sitting at the Channel √2 News desk.
31/8/2025, 12:24:38 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know you’re real name, but I am going to insist on calling you Baby.

30/8/2025, 11:59:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I assume these events are planned in advance, so is the parade celebrating his arrival after a lifetime of work going to travel through all 9 circles before arriving at the lake of fire?

30/8/2025, 12:05:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was waiting for the Skynet Becomes Self-Aware Weekend Sales Event to buy you your present.

30/8/2025, 11:32:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lady4Freedom (@sassylassiein2024.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 10:40:22 PM | 15 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TJ Vissing - Photographer (@tjvphoto.bsky.social) reposted

Don't forget to look up!

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29/8/2025, 9:54:41 PM | 56 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomPaleo (@tompaleo.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m certain he doesn’t want to help anyone at all, regardless of status. He just gets off on the appearance of dividing people into us and them.

28/8/2025, 1:19:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that?”

A nerf super soaker is pictured spraying a clear liquid (could be bleach) at a high velocity.
26/8/2025, 7:57:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 💛💜JB💛💜 (@msjulesb.bsky.social) reposted

Good morning and happy Tuesday, BS 🦋👋… have a great one! ☕️🌿☀️🌳💛🌱✨

Three tall trees in a sunny woodland .. some smaller trees… patches of light on the ground.
26/8/2025, 6:00:11 AM | 300 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomPaleo (@tompaleo.bsky.social) reply parent

Young Americans

David Bowie with cigarette and sunglasses on the album cover of “Young American Sessions.”
25/8/2025, 9:55:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now watch him brag that Mexico had to pay for their paint.

25/8/2025, 7:48:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Post a Movie GIF from the year you were born.

25/8/2025, 12:28:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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SAD!

24/8/2025, 7:26:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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HAVE A GREAT FIRST DAY! MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT YOUR STUDENTS ARE INCREDIBLY LUCKY TO HAVE YOU AS A TEACHER. MAYBE THE GREATEST TEACHER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY! THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER!

24/8/2025, 7:07:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 2:44:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can’t be specific anymore.

24/8/2025, 2:07:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty sure we have reached the point where you spit after saying Trump’s name. Spouse thinks this applies only outside the house.

24/8/2025, 11:57:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 2:35:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just playing stuff from the new album.

22/8/2025, 6:09:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 (@hookcity.bsky.social) reposted

Night Sky on Mars #nasadailyupdates

22/8/2025, 10:10:27 AM | 5328 1228 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We're getting word that we have a man on the scene. What can you tell us, George?"

22/8/2025, 4:36:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Climb To The Clouds (@climbtotheclouds.bsky.social) reposted

Good morning my friends! From the mountains and fields of New Hampshire. We are going out on a trek soon. I hope everyone has an incredible day! #photography #sunsets #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #NewHampshire

A field with trees in the background. A mountain in the distance. The sun beginning to set hewing the clouds slightly pink shadows going across the field
21/8/2025, 11:16:29 AM | 211 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Steffanos (@gsteffanos.bsky.social) reposted

🧵1/5 My 2025 hike is starting. My hiking partner Dave and I are hiking from Northwest Connecticut to Vermont's border with Canada. We start with 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Falls Village, Connecticut to the Massachusetts-Vermont border.

Superimposed on this picture are the words,
19/8/2025, 1:03:40 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomPaleo (@tompaleo.bsky.social) reply parent

“Now pose as if you were a person responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images.”

18/8/2025, 11:49:20 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You must not have known the gravity of the situation.

18/8/2025, 10:41:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A man (Patton Oswalt) gesticulates wildly toward his laptop for the benefit of other customers in a hipster coffee shop.
18/8/2025, 9:41:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can set up a perimeter outside the blast radius. Will that help?

18/8/2025, 8:06:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I actually stopped “paying attention to this matter” when I read who it was from.

18/8/2025, 6:08:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Full cattery.

18/8/2025, 2:40:30 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they were already hurt when they laid it out.

17/8/2025, 3:12:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A photo of the album cover of MC Hammer’s third album, “Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em.”
17/8/2025, 2:47:01 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomPaleo (@tompaleo.bsky.social) reply parent

Putin also told him he is not mentioned in the Epstein files.

17/8/2025, 1:37:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Please Alaska, don’t hurt us.”

17/8/2025, 1:34:22 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Knob Loser Pedo Prize Award Winner.

16/8/2025, 9:46:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Bourne Abrasion

16/8/2025, 2:24:43 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now becoming the most valuable plants in my garden for a few more weeks.

16/8/2025, 1:23:51 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The press, as I understand their role, deserve no thanks.

15/8/2025, 11:26:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 4:23:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty sure there’s a deleted scene from Ronin where the team finds him and ties up a loose end by silencing him.

15/8/2025, 2:45:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No longer part of the deep state. Now a member of the piled high state.

15/8/2025, 2:39:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1:50 Desert Island Disc youtu.be/QsJSvOPuunM?...

14/8/2025, 6:57:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No sheet.

14/8/2025, 3:24:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomPaleo (@tompaleo.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

At any place a camera points at the occupation forces in Washington DC, the crowd surrounding them should be chanting “Release the Epstein files!” Every moment of coverage he gets for his attempted takeover should echo with his motivating guilt.

14/8/2025, 4:18:18 AM | 43 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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At any place a camera points at the occupation forces in Washington DC, the crowd surrounding them should be chanting “Release the Epstein files!” Every moment of coverage he gets for his attempted takeover should echo with his motivating guilt.

14/8/2025, 4:18:18 AM | 43 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/8/2025, 9:56:50 PM | 3499 919 | View on Bluesky | view

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“I’m Subwayacus!”

13/8/2025, 11:24:59 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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You may end up having to shell out for this yourself.

13/8/2025, 11:20:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not her only qualifications that he values.

13/8/2025, 9:23:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you. I have a couple dozen already, but I appreciate the new adds!

13/8/2025, 9:12:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomPaleo (@tompaleo.bsky.social) reply parent

Complete with the trademark Trump mistake, “thank you for you attention.”

13/8/2025, 9:07:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Lord of Light will not be pleased.

12/8/2025, 12:01:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think I’m in love with William Nerry Harrison

What Google Images contends is a portrait of Charles Dickens.
11/8/2025, 11:58:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is too ridiculous to consider, John Adama, second president and Battlestar Galactica Commander.
11/8/2025, 11:52:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They say the presidency changes a man.

11/8/2025, 11:50:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A Snarky Grandpa (Bruce) (@asnarkygrandpa.bsky.social) reposted

If you agree that Trump is the worst President in the history of the United States we should be friends💙

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26/7/2025, 7:07:43 PM | 141 27 | View on Bluesky | view

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What is the appropriate amount of accounts to follow? Who determines that?

11/8/2025, 2:30:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jim Henson with four different voices in this version.

11/8/2025, 2:27:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/XF8ZgguyQ3Y?...

11/8/2025, 2:27:19 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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When are we getting our Tariff Rebate Checks?

11/8/2025, 12:21:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TomPaleo (@tompaleo.bsky.social)

Trump wants Ukraine to give up about 20% of its territory to an enemy that attacked with no reason. That would roughly equal Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, and both Dakotas. Imagine what that would do to our country.

11/8/2025, 12:18:16 AM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) reposted

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

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10/8/2025, 9:09:36 PM | 6439 4828 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karly Kingsley (@karlykingsley.bsky.social) reposted

Why don’t we just hand Texas, Florida, or Oklahoma to Russia? We can call it a “territory swap” for goodwill. Americans can just leave and go somewhere else or live under Russian rule. Absurd, right? Stop suggesting people should just give up their home to an invader.

10/8/2025, 10:20:07 PM | 4069 1096 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a wonderful way to start a family curse that will haunt future generations.

10/8/2025, 10:25:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Melisandre vibes.

10/8/2025, 12:16:16 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If people looked like him, the population would take a precipitous decline.

9/8/2025, 9:50:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ll kick in a few bucks more if it will help.

9/8/2025, 2:09:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think he wants to include a parade.

8/8/2025, 9:42:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Aron (@aaronfrizzle.bsky.social) reposted

I feel seen. 🤣

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8/8/2025, 8:42:51 PM | 55 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t begrudge Melania her part in this triumph. She was surely a hands on manager.

8/8/2025, 8:07:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He did say, "whether you like it or not." He warned us how awful he would be.

8/8/2025, 3:25:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What was his line, "whether you like it or not."?

8/8/2025, 3:03:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

ICE GOONS in Burbank have been seen tearing down cameras, breaking doors, and shattering windows at a restaurant.

7/8/2025, 11:29:10 PM | 3072 2176 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Martin Gregus Jr. Cinematographer 📸GEO, National Geographic, BBC 🎥Netflix, Disney, Discovery "I often get asked if my images are real; if the flowers are really that purple, if the bears are often that calm. Well if you were wondering here is a little video from my most famous image."

7/8/2025, 9:33:22 PM | 2032 324 | View on Bluesky | view

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Their lawyer must have gone ballistic.

7/8/2025, 7:16:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

7/8/2025, 12:51:52 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surprised that a Donnybrook hasn’t broken out over the words left off this list.

7/8/2025, 12:42:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thoughts and prayers. For the Cape buffalo, of course. 🐃

7/8/2025, 12:37:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/LQCU36pkH7c?...

6/8/2025, 10:43:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”

6/8/2025, 9:50:15 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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But if Biden were to turn around and interact with paratroopers at a G7 summit….

6/8/2025, 9:34:55 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Get ready for the Mandela effect.

6/8/2025, 7:51:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thoughts and prayers for the Cape buffalo.

6/8/2025, 5:03:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Come see Jamie make a spectacle of herself.”

6/8/2025, 12:45:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well it seems you know what he is, but the question remains, what are you?

5/8/2025, 2:43:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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New Side Hustle?

5/8/2025, 1:01:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Writing my response to this in a spreadsheet with columns for original post, replies, and my private comments for each.

5/8/2025, 12:08:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think the fates were counting on B when they gave me C.

4/8/2025, 10:16:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I agree. I was talking about jokes like “Abbott won’t ______ for this.” It’s just in bad taste.

4/8/2025, 10:05:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No need for The Onion any more, when reality is satire.

4/8/2025, 9:52:32 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m disappointed every time I see a post about Abbott being disabled. There are many reasons to hate/condemn him. No need to reference his disability.

4/8/2025, 9:51:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rick Scott, being pressured by a tiny hand.

Rick Scott, with pressure being applied by a tiny hand, expresses his outrage.
4/8/2025, 5:09:09 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view