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Posting this as much to remind myself as anyone else. 😆

#DaylightSavingsTime #FallBack #TimeChange
A fall-themed graphic that reads "Daylight Savings Time Ends Nov. 2 at 2 a.m. Fall Back! Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour before you go to bed."
November 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I've never seen We Rate Dogs do *anything* like this and I've been following them for years. You have to understand how bad things have gotten when one of the most wholesome and good-natured brands on the Internet is dropping f-bombs and calling out ICE.
This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers. According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop ❤️ 14/10 CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-585-1924 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso): 915-541-1400 veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-reviewing-incident-texas-tx This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers. According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop ❤️ 14/10 CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-585-1924 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso): 915-541-1400 veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-reviewing-incident-texas-tx
October 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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For posterity.
Screenshot of a post where a user is talking politics and accidentally tags author Chuck Tingle instead of a politician.
October 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I'm not saying, I'm just saying...
Black & white meme-style cartoon of a guy pulling a dusty old pirate hat out of a drawer while saying "Hello old friend!"
September 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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What's the Bluesky rule for dealing with grifting asshats like this? We block them into oblivion. So block this asshole already.
QAnon-style bullshit tweet from altnps.bsky.social. Just reads "thirty-six "
June 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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How do they rise up?

#GNUTerryPratchett #Glorious25thOfMay
White text superimposed over a closeup photo of lilacs. The text reads: "Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it." Night Watch, Terry Pratchett.
May 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Me: I need some bad TV to watch. What's on? Oh, The Rookie. That's got Nathan Fillion. I like him. Let's check that out.

Me: *proceeds to watch 45 minutes of old age jokes*

The TV Show: He's so old! He's FORTY.

Me:
The "Seriously" meme face.
April 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Oh, no worries. They already updated the title.

(Link to article: www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/e...)
Screenshot of the same article with an updated title reading "Trump aide says tariffs will raise $6 trillion, which would be largest tax hike in US history."
April 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Good. I haven't been impressed with this guy at all. Let's get someone better.

Link: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sen-p...
Screencap of a short blurb in the Ed Blog from Talking Points Memo. Blurb reads, "Minor scoop here. Hearing that Sen. Gary Peters (D) of Michigan will announce his retirement this morning at 9:30 AM. That means an open seat election in 2026."
January 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The fuck did Trump do? He's not even president yet. For real, I've been at work all day. Did something happen or was this just a nakedly obvious stunt?
Screenshot of tiktok on my phone showing to its "Yay, Tiktok is back thanks to Trump!" message.
January 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Gentle reminder that prior to the advent of no-fault divorce, women used to just kill their husbands when they couldn't stand their awful marriages anymore.
Article: www.salon.com/2024/12/27/t...
Screenshot from linked article. Text reads: On some level, it appears that MAGA leaders and messengers understand that their vision of heterosexual life is not persuasive to women, which is why they often start entertaining the use of force. Abortion bans are the most overt example of how Republicans are fighting to deny women the ability to walk away from relationships that aren't serving them. In Texas, the abortion ban allows people to sue anyone who helped a woman abort a pregnancy. The law is being used almost exclusively by men who are trying to punish ex-girlfriends or ex-wives for leaving them. Some in the MAGA movement don't think that goes far enough and are floating the idea of ending laws that allow women to divorce without having to prove to a judge her reasons for leaving are "good" enough. Unsurprisingly, Vance has been at the forefront of this, arguing that women should even stay in "even violent" marriages. Last two sentences about no-fault divorce are highlighted.
December 27, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Terry Pratchett on believing in S̵a̵n̵t̵a̵ ̵C̵l̵a̵u̵s̵ the Hogfather.

#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett
A closeup image of a decorated Christmas tree showing branches with red ornaments and red and gold ribbon, with lights and glitter. Text over top reads: “All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.” REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. “Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little -“ YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. “So we can believe the big ones?” YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. “They’re not the same at all!” YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET – Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. “Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point -“ MY POINT EXACTLY. Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
December 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Happy solstice, folks. We're halfway out of the dark. 😄
Photo of a pretty, snowy, tree-lined road at night. Text over top reads, "On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. As if to say, 'Well done. Well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark.' Doctor Who, 'A Christmas Carol'"
December 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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Fair enough. Here's Miss Aggie waiting (impatiently) for her dinner.
A small, scruffy terrier dog. She's a half Boston Terrier and half poodle/pomeranian mix, with the black and white Boston colors and the Boston blaze on her face, and has shaggy, scruffy fur. Extremely cute. She's sitting on the floor, staring up at me somewhat accusingly as I waste time taking her photo instead of getting her dinner.
November 20, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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Just gonna stick this here. #GNUTerryPratchett
November 6, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Well, that's not good.
From here: yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-dose-n...
Screencap of text from linked article. Text reads: Not great news coming from a pig Earlier this week, a pig in a small backyard farm tested positive for H5N1, known as bird flu. Viruses spread, so it’s unsurprising that a virus jumped from poultry to pigs. Then why is a pig a big deal? Pigs are dangerous hosts for bird flu because they have avian and human receptors. This makes them “mixing vessels”—if a pig is infected with a human and bird flu strains, the virus can switch genes. When this happens, the virus could become more adaptable to human spread and become a pandemic. This is how the 2009 H1N1 pandemic started. The risk to you today is still very low. But this virus is making public health very uncomfortable.
November 1, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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I'm a little bit fascinated with how growing a beard didn't make Eric Trump look like any less of a gomer. He just looks like a homeless gomer now instead of a rich one.
Screencap of Eric Trump on Fox News recently. He has a scruffy lil' beard, looks like he can't really grow a full beard.
October 29, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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lol, lmao

Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement: www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...
Screencap of opening text from linked article. Text reads: The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president. More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon. A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The Washington Post Co.'s status as a privately held company. “It’s a colossal number,” former Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told NPR. “The problem is, people don’t know why the decision was made. We basically know the decision was made but we don’t know what led to it.”
October 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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Yay! 🎉🎉🎉

Jimmy Carter Achieves His Goal, Lives Long Enough to Vote for Kamala Harris: meidasnews.com/news/jimmy-c...
Screencap of article from MediasNews.com showing title, "Jimmy Carter Achieves His Goal, Lives Long Enough to Vote for Kamala Harris," tagline and author, "Early voting begins today in Georgia, Troy Matthews, 7 hours ago," and a picture of Jimmy Carter from a few years ago where he's sitting with a big smile.
October 15, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Apparently I was the 2,024,741st Blueskier. Blueskier? Sure, why not.
Bluesky user number graphic reading "Celebrating 10M Users # 2,024,741" with my username and joined on date of Nov. 16, 2023.
September 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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I was like 13 when they aired. Had to go look 'em up to figure it out. Wrote the stories longhand in school notebooks. Sadly, they don't exist anymore. I bet they were TERRIBLE. I'd love to read them again.
Thor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inc...
Daredevil: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tri...
Movie posters for the two linked made-for-TV movies. Poster on the left is "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" and shows Bill Bixby as David Banner in a courtroom, mugging for the camera as he turns into the Hulk, with Lou Ferrigno's Hulk behind him holding his arms up and out. Poster on the right is "The Incredible Hulk Returns" and shows Lou Ferrigno's Hulk twice, a smaller full-body figure in the bottom right and a big close-up in the background with him making an angry-face.
August 30, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Also, while googling for the book cover to add to the post, I discovered that the series is going to be a TV show! With a great cast! Can't wait to watch it.
Link: www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterp...
Screenshot of the linked article at PBS.org showing the main cast, in a big dusty old room in a house(?) - Samantha Bond, an older white woman, as Judith Potts, Jo Martin, a middle-aged Black woman as Suzie Harris, & Cara Horgan, a younger white woman, as Becks Starling.
August 29, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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Just finished The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood, the third in his Marlow Murder Club mysteries. Lots of fun! The whole series has been a hoot & I adore Judith Potts, the lead character.
Book cover for Robert Thorogood's "The Queen of Poisons." Cover art style is drawn art showing a black coffee cup spilling a bright green liquid across the cover. Title is in black in the green puddle, with a stylized skull in place of the second "O" in "poisons."
August 29, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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No the fuck I am not.
Screenshot of the top of a Spectator article by Kate Andrews, showing her dumb little avatar, the title, and the date. Title reads "Today, we're all MAGA." Date is July 14, 2024 at 6:36am.
July 14, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Wasn't there some kind of game going around for spotting a Tesla truck in the wild? If so, I'm out. Saw one today & good god, they're even uglier live & in person.
Tesla truck at night in a parking lot
June 8, 2024 at 8:44 AM