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Retired software engineer, architect, program manager, director, and musician. Luthier for a cause. I am interested in art, literature, music, and social justice. I am a member of the First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder, and follower of St. Todd of East Nashville.
I believe in . . . YOU!

Profile pic is of sunflowers in a green field with blue sky. Background pic is of a mountain with a lake in front.

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If you're an artist, I love you. What you do is important and I appreciate it all. Keep on keepin' on.

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For the LOTR fans…

Screenshot of an X.com post by Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan…) captioned “The Ents showing up to take down Isengard,” showing an aerial-style video still of a large group of people in coordinated green, tree-like costumes or props moving together in a crowd, surrounded by security personnel.
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Looks like "Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane."

That is how it ended for another mad Scottish king. Maybe it's a sign.

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The quid pro quo takeover for oil.

Screenshot of a post by James Talarico on X criticizing Donald Trump over oil policy and Venezuela. The post claims Trump promised American oil executives favorable treatment in exchange for campaign donations and argues that U.S. actions in Venezuela are illegal, reckless, and corrupt. Below the post is a screenshot from The New York Times showing an article excerpt about U.S. plans for Venezuela’s oil industry. A highlighted sentence quotes Trump saying oil development “is going to make a lot of money,” emphasizing financial motivations tied to Venezuela’s large oil reserves.
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@ Who is going to make a lot of money?

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I hope he receives the help he needs. Santa, that his. Screw the state senator.

Screenshot of a PatriotTakes tweet reporting that Indiana GOP Senate Leader Chris Garten posted AI-generated images of himself beating up Santa Claus on Christmas, then called critics snowflakes. The images show a man in a suit kicking and striking a person dressed as Santa Claus outside a government building with a crowd in the background.
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WTF is wrong with this guy? Is there no one around him to say WTF are you doing?

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There is something very wrong with Megyn Kelly.

Tweet quoting Megyn Kelly expressing extreme comments about alleged war crimes. Below is a split-screen video still of Kelly on one side and a male guest on the other.
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She needs to be shunned EVERYWHERE! Sicko.

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My first thought was, "Cool, finally room for a home office.". I would totally keep this to myself. Rent is going to go up now.

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Shoutout to this guy who parked like this, got out to check his parking job, decided it was somehow acceptable, and proceeded to unload his vehicle.

Vehicle parked with both passenger side tires up on the curb with the driver unloading things from said vehicle.
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@Alice Walmart?

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Ahahahahaha!

A tweet from “Jonathan Pie” says: “Grok thinks Elon Musk would win in a fight against Mike Tyson.” Below are screenshots of replies, including a user asking who would win a fight in 2025, and Grok responding that Tyson has knockout power but Musk’s endurance and strategic mindset would let him win after Tyson fatigues.
A tweet from “matthew bailey” asks Grok which quarterback he would draft first overall in 1998: Peyton Manning, Ryan Leaf, or Elon Musk. Grok’s response praises Musk’s adaptability, innovation, and grit, saying he would “redefine quarterbacking” and that true MVPs “build empires, not just score touchdowns.”
A tweet from “word rotator” asks Grok whether Elon Musk would have resurrected faster than Jesus. Grok replies that Musk would try to engineer a neural backup and rapid-revival pod to reduce the timeline, but that resurrection is “a divine hack beyond physics,” and Jesus set the bar with the three-day miracle.

A tweet from “word rotator” asks Grok whether Elon Musk would have resurrected faster than Jesus. Grok replies that Musk would try to engineer a neural backup and rapid-revival pod to reduce the timeline, but that resurrection is “a divine hack beyond physics,” and Jesus set the bar with the three-day miracle.
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@georgetakei PLEASE, Elmo fight Mike Tyson. PLEASE!

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Uh, yeah, don't worry he'll be doing a 180 any day now.

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said: "If you are not a believer, what is the reason to be good"

Atheist here ✋ You don't have to believe or rather be scared to be good

Something... something.. decency..

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Right? So what are they up to when they think Sky Daddy can't see them. Though I hear he is like Santa and can see you when you're sleeping, knows when you're awake ...

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Maybe for an encore he could do "Relax"

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They really did tweet an image of the Golden M above the White House. Sheesh. Clowns, all of them.

A tweet from “Governor Newsom Press Office” shows an edited image of Trump's face placed onto a Ronald McDonald-style clown costume: red wig, white face paint, exaggerated red lips, and a yellow-and-red outfit. Below is an embedded tweet from “The White House @WhiteHouse” showing the White House with the McDonald’s golden arches photoshopped onto the roof.
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They’re living in their own little Bubba.

A tweet from MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) reads: “Worst damage control of all time.” It quote-tweets The White House (@WhiteHouse), which posted: “America’s power couple. 🦅🇺🇸” The image shows Donald and Melania Trump walking hand-in-hand down a red-carpeted hallway lined with photographers and uniformed personnel.
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Yeeess, I am looking forward to Malaria's Christmas greeting. I believe it is pronounced "fk chreeezmaz!"

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But can he compete with the Lloyd Bridges or Jack Lord? ¿Quién es más macho?

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Ooh, you touch my tra la la.
Mmm, my ding ding dong.

Neon sign for an ice cream shop named Gunther's. It's animated, so it's mid scoop-flying-overhead.
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If the whole sign were lit up it would be like Shiva the Destroyer (of Ice Cream).

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Oh the right is coping so hard.

A tweet from Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) reads: “Tim Pool, claiming Trump was actually an undercover snitch on Epstein: ‘Could you imagine if it turns out that Trump had Mar-a-Lago bugged so when people come for meetings, he records it and sends it off to the feds?’” Below the text is a collage. On the left, Tim Pool is shown speaking into a microphone while wearing a black beanie. On the right is a headline from The Guardian: “Mike Johnson claimed Trump was anti-Epstein informant, then retreated amid criticism,” with a subheading explaining that the House speaker had made a “baffling claim that president worked with FBI to take down Epstein before later backing away.”
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So, molesting children was part of his cover?

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We see this from all his closest people.

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To be fair, he is an idiot.

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In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

A tweet from J.J. Abbott (@jjabbott) says: “Narrator: He did not fight.” It quotes a 2022 tweet from John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) that reads: “Health care is a basic, fundamental human right. I will fight for health care like the health care that saved my life. #PASenateDebate.”
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He was quite specific that he would fight for the healthcare that saved his life. He said nothing about helping you.

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First, none of them look like this. Second, how does this flex “protect” anything?

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Balaclavas but no shirts 😂

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The Trump regime has now attacked 16 vessels in international waters, killing 66 individuals whom the regime suspected were criminals.

66 people.

Gone.

No investigation. No arrests. No charges. No trial.

Just murdered.

Because it makes Trump feel good.

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That should get him the FIFA Peace Prize though, right?

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Hillary was right. Deplorable.

A tweet from ABC News (@ABC) reads: “Rep. Lauren Boebert and her boyfriend Kyle Pearcy, a real estate broker from Windsor, Colo., attended a Halloween party dressed in costumes portraying a Mexican woman and an Immigration and Customs enforcement agent, photos obtained by ABC News show.” Below is a blurred photo of a man in a tactical uniform and a woman in a sombrero and Mexican-style dress at a party. The caption at the bottom says: “Lauren Boebert’s racially charged Halloween costume spar…”
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It is probably even creepier than it seems.

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Low, even for Handy Oakley.

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One day this social media exchange will be presented as evidence in a court room, and I cannot wait.

JD Vance condoning the killing of suspected criminals without due process, also known as murder.
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Bookmark that one.

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It is three years on Mastodon for me. A friend of mine said, you could always try Mastodon... and here we are. Thank you to all of you who make this place special.

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I don't mean to brag but I just got 100% on a Mensa test and am pretty sure I should be in charge of all important decisions. Ask me anything - I can solve all of the worlds problems.

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It was never “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” It was also a clear warning of what was to come.

Victor Shi posts: “This was published one year ago. Everything is right.” The image shows a New York Times Sunday Opinion page with bold black text reading: “DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES, ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS, USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS, ABANDON ALLIES, PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS. BELIEVE HIM.”
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The NYTimes failed to mention that they would help.

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...And maybe a little overly optimistic for an obese 80 year old.

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“He would have tweeted more than Elon Musk and Donald Trump combined,” says William F. Buckley biographer Sam Tanenhaus, speaking here at Ole Miss. (Buckley, father of modern American conservatism, was a dominant public intellectual of his time.)

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@w7voa ”...a dominant public intellectual of his time...” according to himself. 😂
More like a legend in his own mind

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Well, ICE is hiring and she seems to fit the hiring profile. 🙄

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Mike Johnson is running out of excuses for keeping the government shut down. Instead of reopening the government, preserving affordable healthcare, or lowering costs for working families, he’s attacking millions of Americans who are peacefully coming together to say that America belongs to its people — not kings.

We’ll see everyone on October 18: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

Aaron Rupar on Bluesky: “Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people..."”
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He is like a wimpy cartoon villain.

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This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.

Tweet from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick quoting Laura N. Rodríguez Presa. Aaron’s comment: “DHS is an escalation spiral; the more they do things like this, the more people on the ground push back... and I'm deeply worried what the ultimate result will be.” Laura’s tweet reads: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them... Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents ICE activity, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.” Attached photo shows a federal agent inside a vehicle pointing a rifle out of the driver’s side window.
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That actually is an assault with a deadly weapon.

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Trump dodged the Vietnam draft and made a disastrous deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The image is an X post by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar ) on X.com, quoting Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand." The post includes a photo of Trump speaking to an audience in Navy uniforms.
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Wasn't he president while U.S. troops were in Afghanistan?

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The Ministry of Propaganda controls the Ministry of Labor.

A screenshot of an X post by Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00 , 20 hours ago) quoting a CNN segment. The post includes a news broadcast image with a male and female CNN anchor, discussing a jobs report. Text overlay reads: "NEW THIS MORNING LABOR SECRETARY WE NEED GOVT OPEN TO RELEASE SEPT. JOBS REPORT D STABBING ATTACK OUTSIDE A SYNAGOGUE ON YOM KIPPER, THE HOLIEST DAY IN JEWISH CALENDAR 9:32 AM ET." The post text states: "CNN: Construction jobs fell in August, private sector payrolls plunged in September. Why is it heading in the wrong direction? Labor Secretary De-Remer: All indicators shows we have the strongest economy in the world. What we inherited from the Biden administration... CNN: Jobs economy? Do we have the strongest jobs economy compared to last year when there were hundreds of thousands of jobs added each month? De-Remer: Absolutely. [Everyone in this administration is out of their fucking minds]."
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...And CNN is feckless.

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Kamala Harris tried to warn us. Donald Trump is an unserious person who’s a serious threat to us all.

A screenshot of an X post by Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin ) on x.com. The post highlights a video posted by the President of the United States, a role once held by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR, and questions whether the price of groceries or housing has gone down for families or how a child's job search is going in the Trump economy. The embedded video, credited to Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump ), shows a dark, dramatic scene with hooded figures, one resembling the President holding drumsticks, with the U.S. Capitol building in the background, and a timestamp of 00:09/01:07.
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LESS COWBELL!!!

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The Epstein files have turned the entire GOP in Congress into a bunch of Gym Jordans. They know the truth about a pedophile but are actively covering it up.

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And people say they don't have a platform.

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Jimmy Fallon says he will avoid politics on The Tonight Show.

Let’s be clear: Cowardice isn’t funny. Silence in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t neutrality — it’s complicity. Urge Fallon and his producers not to be entertainers who keep their heads down: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/cowardice-isnt-funny-tell-jimmy-fallon-silence-complicity/?source=mastodon

We don’t need more celebrities pretending that Trump and MAGA aren’t tearing away freedoms and weaponizing government.

Variety headline: “Jimmy Fallon Plans to 'Keep My Head Down' and Avoid Politics on 'The Tonight Show': 'We Hit Both Sides Equally'”
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If his comedy had a color it would be taupe.

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Fail! He isn't funny either.

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The right must really be scared if they’re running stories about Mamdani’s parents’ AirBnb rental. 😅

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Can we call Elmo, Larry Ellison, Bezos, Cook, and Zuckerberg, the filthy rich from now on?

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Freak out as in, "Calm the fk diwn, this looks like Saddam's palace."

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What a freak.

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Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

A screenshot of two X posts. The first post is from Tom Morello (@tmorello), timestamped 7 hours ago, with a profile picture showing a person in a colorful outfit. The text reads: "What the f*ck is wrong with these people. Wounded Knee was a bloodthirsty massacre of Lakota Sioux, including dozens of women and children." The second post is from Secretary of War Pete (@username), timestamped 9 hours ago, with a profile picture of a man in a suit. The text reads: "Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled." The second post includes an image of a man in a suit standing in front of an American flag and an official seal, appearing to give a formal statement.
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I think his place in history is settled too.

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You know that “red wave” map Republicans love to trot out to prove how conservative the U.S. supposedly is? Well, now Trump is weaponizing the data behind it as his latest evidence of having won a so-called "landslide." But the thing is, the actual data tells a far different story. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-maga-landslide-times-two

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He is willfully stupid.

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I'd assume if good people were being brought to the kingdom of heaven, dogs would be first in line.

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I love how the public library is a space with power outlets and wifi where you are allowed to simply exist for a period of several hours without spending money

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That is exactly what I am doing right now. Is that you over there? 😁

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What about the victims whose lives were destroyed by Epstein and those he trafficked them to? No concern for their rights from Rep. Higgins?

The image shows two X posts. Ron Filipkowski quotes Rep. Clay Higgins, suggesting Higgins is concerned that releasing the Epstein files might harm the Republican Party. In response, Rep. Clay Higgins criticizes Thomas Massie, calling his Epstein petition "100% wrong" and a political maneuver. Higgins defends the Oversight Committee's official investigation into Epstein-related matters, adhering to criminal justice procedures, and accuses Massie of risking the privacy of innocent Americans with his petition.
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New Idea: The pesos should be named and go to jail.

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He is such an idiot. I guess their defense would be he is mentally incompetent, and he is televized purely for entertainment and not to be taken seriously - much like dressing chimps in suits and watching them fling poop. The same could be said for Kilmeade.

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Seems super stupid to sell seashells by the seashore.

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At the airport seems better. For the tourists.