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John I. Carney

@lakeneuron.com

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County government employee. United Methodist lay leader / lay servant / lay speaker. Former journalist. Rookie oil painter, #MST3K, #UnitedWay. Author of "Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media."

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I'm a fairly new artist -- I've only been painting less than a year -- and I tried to do a symbolic piece on Alzheimer's a few weeks ago, but it turned out ham-fisted and clunky, and had some problems with the art as well. What you've done is beautiful and meaningful,

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A beautiful tribute. My father has been in memory care since April a year ago. I'm the only one of my siblings who lives here in town with him, so I try to spend a little time with him almost every day. My sister, who is two hours away, comes up on the weekends and stays with him longer.

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This photo is pure 2024.

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Maddie (derogatory)'s avatar Maddie (derogatory) @pbastronaut.bsky.social
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Holy shit. I just found that Adam West, who famously played Batman in the 1966 TV series, also played millionaire Bruce Wayne. What a talented actor.

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My rural county is just about to completely eliminate portable classrooms -- it's been hard, because we've been growing at a fairly good pace. They're horrible from a security standpoint and from a severe weather standpoint. And how sad is it that "security" is such an issue for schools now?

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The three types of food: Indian, Corn Dogs, Seafood

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John I. Carney's avatar John I. Carney @lakeneuron.com
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Thank you. I enjoyed your book so much that when I saw the May book advertised online, I wondered about it, and it's good to hear that it's also worth reading.

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Honestly the main reason I never became a private detective is I hate getting knocked out by being hit on the back of the head

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“Godzilla Minus One” is how I rsvp to parties because my date ghosts me and then I show up and smash the furniture in a rage

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Stop. Making. Star Trek. Prequels. It is a non-small miracle that Strange New Worlds is as good as it is. Look ahead, not back. You don't even have to reference events of DS9, Voyager, or Picard if you're worried the casuals will be confused. But go forward, please.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

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Breaking: Unloved and Heartbroken House Cat Forced to Eat Food That Is Not in the Direct Center of Her Dish, Seeking Legal Counsel

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A Methodist pastor in Nashville -- I don't really know him, but we're FB friends and met briefly once or twice -- organized a program called "Call Their Name" where at least 2 or 3 people gather at Nashville's indigent cemetery any time there is a burial where no friends or family are expected.

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It occurred to me that Star Trek’s tagline is ‘to boldly go where no one has gone before’, but in most of the episodes when they go somewhere there’s someone already there.

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I have been seeing FB ads for a little electronic Tic-Tac-Toe game, with the genius gimmick that as soon as you play your fourth mark, the first mark you made automatically disappears and becomes an open square again. When you make your fifth mark, the second one disappears, and so on.

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I only ever wanted to be Ford Prefect but now I see clearly that I have always been Arthur Dent

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We have a lot of Bobos here in Shelbyville, Tennessee, including the elder statesman of our legal community, John T. Bobo, who is attorney for Bedford County government (of which I am an employee). His firm's name is now Bobo, Hunt & White but used to be Bobo, Hunt & Bobo.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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What throwaway Simpsons joke lives in your head full-time? For me it’s Dr Hibbert deciding not to eat at Moe’s and instead taking the family to the Texas Cheesecake Depository

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They should invent a sunshine for when she’s gone

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I was charmed by this when I was in college in the early 1980s and have always wanted to go back.

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Those look like hungry hippos. Hungry, hungry hippos.

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I mainly keep up with The Phantom when Josh Fruhlinger makes fun of him in The Comics Curmudgeon. I've never seen the Billy Zane movie, but I remember it being a big flop.

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🌸🖋 Kelsey 🌈🌹's avatar 🌸🖋 Kelsey 🌈🌹 @punionrings.bsky.social
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As far as I'm concerned, buying this is paying $5 for a really nice new Tupperware container and you get some gelato to go with it.

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ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share! There are now 5.5 MILLION Bluesky accounts! Let’s find each other! Spread the post to reach the most! 💙

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸's avatar Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com
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Folks, if you've ever listened to me before, listen to me now: Don't store your tiny little squirt bottle of coffee sweetener next to your similarly shaped tiny little squirt bottle of mango peach water sweetener. Mistakes have been made. Mango peach coffee should not exist in this world.

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A co-worker went to Gatlinburg / Sevier County, Tennessee, over Easter weekend, and when she was showing me her photos afterward I remarked that one of them would make a good painting. So she sent the photo to me and I painted it. #art #oilpainting #painting

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Looking forward to the Slawburger Festival in Fayetteville, Tenn., a little south of me, this weekend. I stumbled onto it in 2017 and have been trying to get back ever since. The burgers are NOT made with coleslaw but a mustard-based, cooked slaw. A fun time. www.slawburgerfestival.com

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They had the annual postcard and paper memorabilia show in my small town and I could not say "nyet" to this, which set me back $2. #stamps #nasa #apollo #soyuz

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Someone was poking fun online of the captain's log as a narrative device on "Star Trek," and my somewhat off-topic response was that "The Wager" had given me a renewed appreciation for the importance of log-keeping and record-keeping in the old seafaring days.

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Just shut down the Internet for the rest of the day. You have won, you glorious bastard.

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I love watching them too. This is such a little thing, but I miss the ripped-off "Backdraft" theme music, which they had to overdub for rights reasons at some point after the original Food Network run.

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I recently read David Grann's excellent book "The Wager," about a shipwreck and murder in the 1740s, and I got a new appreciation for how important logs and diaries and records by the crew of a ship were in that day and age. And it might be the same way in an era of interstellar exploration.

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This reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy's old routine about a similar display at ATL of items you can't take on an airplane. The display included a leafblower. "If you do yard work, and you have to get on a plane to get to your next job, it is time to rethink your territory."

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Completely forgot about the eclipse today so it totally caught me off-guard while I was at the garden center. Found this cute little plant right afterwards, though, and it was so cheap! Taking name suggestions!

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My wife noticed the light getting weird before I did. It's so hard to describe; darker, yeah, noticeably so, but the *quality* of light is different, like going from natural sunlight to muted fluorescent. Feels weird.

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