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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 1d

Just shows you how ignorant and stuck in the past these people are, still thinking the terms "Marxist" and "Islamist" will cause any kind of stir that they had a decade or six ago.
It's also just a lame argument,
"They say abolish crowns, so that means they hate Burger King and therefore America!"

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 8d

Hi Cal,
I just tried messaginging you through the updated website, in the Contact page, but an invisible Captcha is blocking sending a message.
Would it be easier for you if I contact you here or through your website?

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Oh no, the peasants are getting over the walls."

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Sep 11

*will

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Sep 11

I mostly agree with you, violence should never be the answer.
But that "should" is based in morality but not reality.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ma'am, um, do you know how the majority of American countries acquired freedom from European control?
You think silent, peaceful protesting freed Haiti from being the longest-run slave port and then, suddenly, the safest place for African-descended slaves to live? After the snakes were weeded out?

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Sep 11

It's fascinating, the hypocrisies they are and those they aren't okay with making should be analyzed and made into a documentary.

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · Sep 11

And not to go all Levar Burton on you hoes but I just spent the whole day reading a book and I’m fairly certain the world would be a better place if more people did that

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · Sep 10

I will not waste a moment grieving for someone who wanted my loved ones dead, thanks

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Sep 11

Aimed at any and all children (not just the wealthy white ones they put on the news), we've been trying for decades but the NRA fanatics and those on their payroll have been making it impossible.

Aimed at the same corrupt adults who have been a part of that payroll, we all couldn't care less.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Sep 11

Gordon Ramsey also. He's not there for the restaurants, the employees, and the customers anymore - he's just there for the appearance checks and the British Food Man Angry memes.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Jul 25

Like some psychotic mix of cost-sunk fallacy & not wanting to rock the boat - no matter how many childhoods he might ruin, "He's a good guy, just a little lonely and looking for connection ..." in the children's clothing section at Walmart.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Jul 25

The reverend who everyone knows about his past but, "Now that he's a man of the cloth, why shouldn't he be allowed around children again?"

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Jul 25

Families ignoring how that creepy but "well-intentioned" uncle looks at all the little girls at the cookout. The skeezy coach who touches his players a little too often, "but we need him to get to Finals!"

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Jul 25

Folks have been protecting pedos in positions of privilege for centuries. Not just in politics but also within family ties, local businesses, and in churches and small-town schools.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Jul 12

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You Need to Know This About Prime Day Deals

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Jul 7

This feels like a ✨prime✨ week to close the book on Amazon.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you care...
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the decline in literacy & rise in ai

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · May 21

There's, "to each their own."
And then there's, "Are you doing okay, bud?""

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · May 21

*reads headline*
*glances over at my desk, wide-eyed*
*reads the entire article*
*rapidly, disappointedly scribbles out a name under the heading, "Send Application Here"*
*goes back to folding laundry*

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · May 21

At least one cop car would be sat right out in front of my middle school almost every day. This was a poor, diverse public school on a low-traffic street that already had a security guard. So, they were never requested by the school.
Who were we to call when they started arrested kids?
The cops?

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · May 21

Happy Wednesday

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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · May 21

this queen

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · May 21

HASSAN: That's almost 100% factually incorrect, but thank you for humoring me, ex-South Dakota Representative Noem.
*turns away from mic & leans toward aid*
HASSAN: We may need to tap the current S. Dakota State Rep, see if it's all of them or just this one.
Check the North Rep too, just to be safe.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · May 21

Are we really perpetuating the cliche of some older folk labeling all younger folk as entitled, spoiled, ungrateful, or whatever else previous generations have tacitly lumped their successors into?
I thought we millennials agreed: Don't blame the child for what their parents & society taught them.

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