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@alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social
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Retired U.S. Navy officer, former federal civilian and college professor. Actually have a good sense of humor, just not finding much funny these days.

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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Moonlit scene showing a woman crowned with deer antlers, dressed in sort of gauzy elvish garb and striking a dramatic pose atop a boulder, about to let fly an arrow from her drawn bow. Credit: F. Scott Schafer, Instagram.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
darth have you met Coalie
Screenshot of January 24, 2026 Fast Company article headline, “The Trump Administration has a new mascot: a literal lump of coal.” Author is Grace Snelling. Illustration of a cute little lump of coal wearing a hard hat and safety vest and giving two big thumbs up in front of a background showing a decimated mining landscape on the left and a pristine landscape on the right.Another screenshot from same article article, showing a cartoon of Doug Burgum wearing a suit and white hard hat with the words “Mine, Baby, Mine” while kneeling next to a beaming Coalie, who is now even cuter,  with big googly eyes and apple cheeks. Coalie is so happy to that Burgum is his friend! In the background is a decimated landscape with a dump truck to the right and an American flag flying proudly on the left.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My semi-feral cat delivered by the Cat Distribution System four years ago. She alternates between wild and domesticated phases.
Wild phase: a black shorthair cat with green eyes is balancing in a flimsy-looking shrub and eyeballing the photographer.Domesticated phase: The same black 
shorthair cat is indoors, flopped on her side on a cat bed  with toys around her.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Yes!
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
CAPT Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager) delivering a death glare. Caption reads, “I don’t like this fucking timeline.”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Leaving aside everything else (and there’s SO MUCH “everything else”)… This sentence right here, subtly poking another hole in the fallacy of “infallibility.”
Quote from article in link:

Furthermore, the inclusion of corrections and annotations shows how monks at the Great Lavar Monastery interacted with manuscripts, modifying them overtime, rather than simply copying them down.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Orange warning sign stating “NO THRU TRAFFIC” on a fence blocking a low, narrow opening below a sloping concrete wall/ramp in a parking garage.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
On Sanibel Island, FL.
Yellow diamond warning sign with a lone drawing of an owl and the words LOW FLYING OWLS. Under the diamond is a yellow rectangle sign that says NEXT 2 MILES.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Brought to mind this ancient Windows Haiku.
A white screen with simple black lettering that reads, in haiku, format, “Yesterday it worked./ Today it is not working./ Windows is like that.”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
From the TV series “The Expanse,”
the good ship Rocinante, a type of small, fast, agile combatant called a corvette. Formerly belonged to the Martian Navy. Long, angular, with many hull protuberances for sensors and weapons, she looks muscular and ready to rumble.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Here is the list, screenshot from the UK Independent website.
Names of Democrats who voted *for* DHS funding bill:
- Don Davis (NC)
- Tom Suozzi (NY)
- Henry Cuellar (TX)
- Vicente Gonzalez (TX)
- Laura Gillen (NY)
- Marie Gleusenkamp Perez (WA)
- Jared Golden (ME)
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Here they are:
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I mean…
Screenshot of a short, fat plastic cylinder whose label identifies the content as Soylent complete protein powder (chocolate flavor), ten servings per tub. 
This is a real product. I have seen it in certain Florida grocery stores. The product website is soylent.com.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Morning sun filtering through tall pines beside a trail near Corvallis, OR.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Captain Kathryn Janeway, commanding officer of the Federation Starship Voyager, delivering a death glare. Caption reads: “I don’t like this timeline.”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This would be nice.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
(I don’t know who created this, but happy to credit if someone does.)
A cartoon with two stick-figure people standing side by side. 

The person on the left is smiling and wearing a red Santa hat. Above their head is a note, “1st - 26th Dec” and below their feet a caption reads “Festive.” 

The person on the right has no hat, looks uncertain, and is holding in their right hand a small angular yellow shape which must be cheese. Above *their* head is the note “27th Dec - 31st Dec” while below their feet the caption reads “Confused, full of cheese, unsure of the day of week.”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn.
Front cover of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn. An aerial (sorry) view of a woman in a red winter coat striding down a narrow snowy path between snow-covered trees.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Yes!
A woman with dark hair in a bowl cut and huge round black-framed glasses is grinning ferociously at a huge fire (offscreen) reflected in the lenses.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I saved this image years ago, sadly cannot now recall the source/credit. An aspirational sentiment to share with those you *loathe.*
A lovely vista of mountains receding into the misty golden distance. In the foreground, the following verbiage:

Fuck off. 

Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying “You Can’t Fuck Off Past Here.” 

Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Quite aside from everything else in Your letter, God, this photo shows the advanced state of physical decay of its subject.
Screen grab from the God Podcast article “Bless This Reporter For Fact-Checking Trump To His Face.” Photo shows an enfeebled elderly man with a strange, square-topped white hairdo and puffy, half-closed eyes, slumped low in an executive-style office chair and holding his left arm in front of his chest in a contorted position that suggests stroke.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
These are the agencies/statements:
Shows list including “Notice” (the judge’s directive) and statements from Departments of Commerce, Homeland Sec, Justice, Education, Energy, EPA, HHS, HUD, Interior, & Treasury.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Done, just now. When I confirmed cancellation, up popped an offer to provide comments. I accepted, but the next screen was this:
Hulu website screenshot that reads “Sorry for the inconvenience, our system is currently down. Please try again later.”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Instant trip back in time…
Lyrics for “High Flying Bird” by Elton John & Bernie Taupin, over photo of Bernie holding back the sea.  Album “Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player.”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Omg
The Muppet “Beaker” looking horrified. Caption reads, “What has been seen cannot be unseen.”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We surprised each other at a sliding glass door and she did a quick pivot.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Obi-wan Kenobi looking puzzled. Caption says, “Dafuq did I just read?”
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The painting “Freedom of Speech“ is 1 of 4 by Rockwell, collectively called “The Four Freedoms.” Done during WWII, they were intended to encourage buying war bonds.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Black and white photo from 1895 showing a steam locomotive face-planted onto a city street from the second story of the train station. True event, happened in Montparnasse, France when the engineer tried to make up time and the locomotive’s brakes failed approaching the station.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
1. Maddie just after the catnip hit. 2. First Nope Rope of the season.
A green-eyed black shorthair cat lying on her left side on a carpet. She is clutching an orange catnip mouse between her front paws and her face is slightly blurry (with a slight tongue bleep) because she’s high.A brownish water moccasin snake on a concrete surface, s-curved body, facing the camera. In real life this snake was about two feet long and thick for its length.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Here are the definitions from 2 CFR 200.1 cited in footnote 1 of the OMB memo. For more detail, see www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...
Definitions of “federal financial aid” per 2 CFR 200.1.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My second year with this tree. Highly recommend.
The Christmas Chair: a brown wicker chair with colored mini lights wrapped all around the frame and wrapped gifts arrayed on the seat cushion.
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alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social @alwaysbejaneway.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Have seen versions of that for real.
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