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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 7h

Whenever I see a reference to the #HatchAct, I immediately think of #RichardHatch.
This is a problem.
@tvcritics.org @marymcnamara.bsky.social @survivorcbs.bsky.social @jeffprobstsurvivor.bsky.social

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 7h

Fascism never has had a keen grasp of irony. They're too busy beating people up and killing them (when they get their own way with impunity).
Everyone else — not so much. "Funny" how that works.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 8h

Curious cat: "Is that for me?" (regardless of contents)

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 8h

Best of luck. You're on the right side of this - but then you knew that already.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 8h

Would it be uncouth of me to point out that "church and family" may well be at the head of the pedo line?
Wouldn't put it past them. The scandals pointed in that direction appear to be endless.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you, PM.
#MarkCarney #Canada 🇨🇦 #trade #tradetalks @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 9h

Handsome boy.

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 9h

My media outlet was bought out by NY asset strippers. Not just my old paper, either, but the entire chain.
Hard to tell what's worse — being owned by NY asset strippers, or by manchild billionaires and gamer stoners.
Either way, it tends to end with the same result.

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 9h

Some people are still clutching their pearls over #TheExorcist — which was probably Billy Friedkin's intention all along.
Still can't get over the fact that Britain banned #AClockworkOrange, until fairly recently.
Would Clockwork Orange belong in that aisle, I wonder? Inquiring minds need to know. 🤔

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 9h

Schemer is hopeless, is he not?
The damage these aging Dems ... if only they knew how much of Trumpism is on them.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 1d

Serengeti lioness and her cub lapping up rainwater, December. Christmas rains!
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #nature #natureloversa #lions🦁 #bigcats #catsofafrica #africancats #photographersofbluskey #bluesky #naturephotography #thursdaythrowback #serengeti #tanzania 🇹🇿 #africanwildlife

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Here it is, your daily balm of calm.
@marymcnamara.bsky.social

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2d

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't it time he had another bucket of KFC?

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Looks not unlike the Washington Cascades in Wash. State, in the lee of Mt. Rainier. Unspoiled wilderness — well, unspoiled for now — in the US's Pacific Northwest.
Rolling mists off the Pacific, coupled with rain off the Coastal Mountains. Gorgeous light.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

I guess you could also describe that as foot-in-mouth disease.

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of Darwin, it would be remiss of me not to mention - if only in passing - 'Creation: Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution' by Randal Keynes (2009, Riverhead Books) based on Darwin's memoirs about his beloved daughter Annie, who died at age 10.
Poignant, moving, enlightening, and readable.

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Am re-reading Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson's The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) his firsthand account of dealing with (not very well, I might add) a pair of marauding lions who killed & devoured 135 'Indian and African artisans and labourers' (Patterson, 1925) in 1898.
Victorian writing is kinda cool.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Am re-reading Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson's The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) his firsthand account of dealing with (not very well, I might add) a pair of marauding lions who killed & devoured 135 'Indian and African artisans and labourers' (Patterson, 1925) in 1898.
Victorian writing is kinda cool.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!! That’s what makes it so great!

Social Scott @social-scott.bsky.social · 2d

#writingtips #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky #writers

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Am re-reading Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson's The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) his firsthand account of dealing with (not very well, I might add) a pair of marauding lions who killed & devoured 135 'Indian and African artisans and labourers' (Patterson, 1925) in 1898.
Victorian writing is kinda cool.

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

"Vichy Twitter." I like that. I'm sorry, but I think I'm going to have to steal it.

Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 2d

Namibia Cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres), also known as Cape griffon and Kolbe's vulture. Critically endangered.
#birds #birdphotography #namibia 🇳🇦 #photogrpahy #bluesky #photographersofbluesky #nature #naturelovers #wildlife #pics #potd #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #picperda\y

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 3d

Kalahari country: weaver bird nests on the road to Namibia's Fish River Canyon
#Namibia 🇳🇦 #weaverbird #weaverbirdnest #kalahari #birds #birdphotography #naturelovers #potd #photographersofbluesky #bluesky #naturephotography #photography #picperday #nests #wildlifephotography #fishrivercanyon

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 4d

This is #true.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 4d

I think I know that super stoned store clerk. The '5 movies for 5 days for $5' rings a bell, too. A faint bell, mind. The memory isn't what it used to be — not with all that stoner smoke, anyhow.

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Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 4d

A late, dear friend of mine ran a respected video store for many years in my home town (a production city, in Nowhere, Hollywood North).
He would often get well-known actors in his store, researching roles. Personal anecdotes, too. Interesting — and instructive — to see how people are in real life.

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