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Cranky old farm-lady surrounded by apartments. Gardener, Birder, Don't Blame Me I voted for McGovern. Also: I assume other people's lives are at least as complicated as mine.


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I have plenty of time to observe juvenile scrub jays, and juvenile flickers, and I've yet to decide which are the dorkiest.

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And a whole lot of it is picking at scabs.

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You know, it didn't take me long to learn that nobody gets everything they want out of an election, because the candidates have people giving them incompatible ultimata.

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Thank you very much.

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The number of people commenting on politics who would be left commentless if they were required to avoid idiotic generational terms is tedious. I used to be the mean person grading high school essays. They needed to be told to be specific and factual by their composition teacher.

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How long is a trillion seconds?

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Which "they" give me two or more precise equivalents to this circumstance, because I'm not seeing any.

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If you see this, post a bird! #birds

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For some reason these pictures make me want to read Island of the Blue Dolphins for which I am much too old.

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Very much how I feel about the current public celebration of the Fourth. An early-summer friends and family is a great tradition; all that noise is stupid. When I liked fireworks was back when nobody would spend a week's wages on aerial displays.

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Ooooo, orthoclase granite!

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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The supremacist court—I don't think we should call them Supreme—shot the Constitution in the head in the name of defending the Constitution, because fascists, like all supremacists and other types of narcissists, only ever act from fathomless bad faith.

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You question as asked is unanswerable , since there are no test cases.

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Happy 4th Simon!

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The cat is sitting on my husband, the dog is sitting under my chair.

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I was in Scotland on the forth in 1999 and was congratulated more than once for driving the sassenach out.

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In the midst of getting my pasta salad mixed for the family gathering at my Aunt Carol's house, I managed to coat both sides of my reading glasses with olive oil. Anything you can do I can do better.

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I was thinking about this article yesterday when NPR was interviewing new citizens. Thank you for giving it to us again.

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The LA Times and Boston Globe, at least, also make it difficult to use your subscription. They seem unaware that few online users read their paper as a daily unit but rather read articles as they are linked on SM, Reddit, Metafilter, et'c et'c and they require password sign-in every time

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Either that, or they're the actual source for all the adapters I need to connect usb, usbc, lightning, and what the hell it is that Panasonic and Nikon use for cameras, and they're making bank on it.

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Cotton wouldn't have been convincing in this case. (or any other, but we're talking about not voting).

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He's replacing Bannon in the Fascist Bad Grooming position for the next four months.

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So much unearned self-confidence at the point where "Left" and fascist stand parallel and sing in harmony.

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Skot Armstrong's avatar Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
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“The invention process is like a puzzle.

Keep rearranging the pieces until a solution emerges.”

#RubeGoldberg

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Grandpa and Grandma interfere with Beatrice's keyboard pounding

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Thank you, thank you. I learned, and I giggled... a real accomplishment this week.

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It's not Biden being old that keeps me up. It's this: 2025/26, bird flu grows legs, and instead of 20k dead in NYC its 200k, 10+ million dead in US instead of 1+ million, no relief, CDC gutted, no Fauci, and Jarred Kushner extorting the states during a full on big D Depression. That's Trump.

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"Is brat" also "Sounds too much like my BIL" both of which are compounded of an assortment of bad politics, bad behavior, and bad writing skills.

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Every additional reference to the effects of the SCOTUS Trump vs US decision make me want to dose the majority side with larger and larger amounts of Owsley's best.

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Note: I was working for the tribe when the final SCOTUS decision of Boldt came down, and wasn't that happy again until my kids were born, and I once turned around and went back up the aisle rather than passing Gorton in the theatre. I have no particular fondness for the Evans GOP.

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WA-GOP is the absolute opposite of the one I grew up with and seems to consist entirely of people who've never heard of Dan Evans and think Slade Gorton was a commie for his role in the 9/11 investigation.

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Mens pants used to be my default choice, but some time in the 90s the thighs and front were redesigned to emphasize the package and they both look ridiculous and do not fit a body with a six-inch difference between hips and thighs.

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Nobody in the post 14th Amendment US ever threatened to do that.

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Meanwhile most woman are down one hand so they can have their smartphone. Me, I cary a flip phone and certain cuts of jeans still have pockets which don't hold it securely.

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I'm pretty sure that if some Blue voters are keeping private guillotine lists, Jamie Dimon is in the top five for a plurality of them and top ten for a supermajority.

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Yeah, I wore men's jeans for decades until they started being cut to emphasize the package. Now I make weird choices like wearing Old Navy's summer linen pants and getting them two sizes too big so I can put my Lumix in the pocket; it's unaesthetic but easier than dealing with stupid belt purses.

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I keep trying to encourage people who have sewing machines to set up alteration shops to make pockets and enlarge stuff like jeans where the pockets are too small to be useful.

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I am a woman who refuses to spend money on clothing with no pockets.

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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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A male Eastern Bluebird on the lookout for insects to hunt down. While reviewing my photos I realized there is a young Eastern Bluebird in the upper left, keeping a close eye on Dad.

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Have you looked in to what buying land in Canada requires?

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Leave to where? Study imigration laws around the world and get back to us.

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