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More like “Ooh La Nah” amirite

Sign for a decidedly wilted hosta reading “Ooh La La Hosta”

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Yeah, that sounds like me.

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NPR announcer Carl Kassel was once asked how early he got up to do "Morning Edition." His answer: "1:05 a.m." The followup question: "Why not 1 a.m.?" "Because," Kassel replied, "I like to sleep in."

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*Flock of Seagulls voice* 🎵 “And I ran I ran so farro whey…”

Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Being married to someone with good taste = Still life happens

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A woman with an enormous tabby in her arms set the cat down in front of our house and then continued walking. As we watched, the cat froze like a meatloaf, then waddled after her. “It’s the only way he’ll get some exercise!” the owner shouted back to us.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Was just reminiscing with a sibling about how our family was both highbrow and downwardly mobile. For example, we kids loved playing “Upstairs, Downstairs”: “I’ll be the servant.” “No, no, *I’ll* be the servant, you be the landed gentry.” “Fine. But then I get to mismanage the estate!”

Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is this a Star Trek character or a tropical bird species? "Trogons eat small wild avocados, swallowing the fruit whole and digesting all but the woody kernel. The Trogons then regurgitate the kernel."

A trogon is a colorful tropical bird. Here's one on a branch looking awesome.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

IMPORTANT: This is a pretty badass book.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Although little remembered today, Kaitlin's Bombardment of Times Square made headlines in 1947.

A girl wearing a helmet mimes firing an actual massive howitzer in Times Square in 1947. Three members of the military gaze on approvingly.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My friends, I come bearing news of Gertrude Jekyll, who led an amazing life as a writer, artist, horticulturist, and partner of the architect Edwin Lutyens. And yes, her surname inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's title in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud...

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Gertrude Jekyll - Wikipedia

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“I can’t believe you drove pasta that place.” 🍝

Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm no nerd, but in the 1991 film “Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country,” Praxis is the Klingon moon that explodes due to overmining. This leads to the fall of the Klingon empire. Anyway, good luck to these tech-bros, and fingers crossed for life imitating art! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...

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Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay (Gift Article)

After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.

Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Idaho b̶u̶l̶l̶e̶t̶ ballot just dropped.

Image of Idaho ballot reading:
Idaho Advisory Question
Which of the following guns should be designated as the state gun of Idaho?
Please choose only one answer.
Winchester Model 1894
(.30-30)
Winchester Model 1873
"Gun that Won the West" (.44-40)
1873 Colt Single Action
Army Revolver
"Peacemaker" (.45 Colt)
M1 Garand rifle (.30-06)
Colt M1911.45 automatic
Colt pistol (.45 ACP)
Remington Model 700 bolt-action rifle (.30-06)

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Welcome! Would you like help with math or spelling?”

"Living with addition? You have the power to change your life today."

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Quite a remarkable passage by Nat Segebre.

While I was in Sopchoppy, I asked Gary Revell, 74, why he still grunts for worms. He told me that the times he goes out at dawn in the forest behind his house, the sunlight filtering through the pines, are when he feels closest to God.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gotta say, this isn’t exactly a “pulse-pounding” periodical.

“Heart Failure“ magazine – cover story is a beaming man saying “I see my heart failure as a gift!“

Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're not memorizing WWII plane and armored vehicle silhouettes, what are you even doing, bro? tinyurl.com/mmmp8pjw

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sent this photo to my wife, and she said I looked a little “peaked.”

Guy wearing glasses stands in ivy-shrouded German courtyard. Behind him is a building with a peaked roof.

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“I can’t remember Apple Jackshit.“

This extraordinary map for "Moby Dick" was made in 1956 by artist Everett Henry for a *calendar*! Its caption read: “We hear the call of 'Moby Dick,' still echoing today for anyone who yearns to feel the magic and terror, the stress and calm of the sea and its ships.” blogs.loc.gov/maps/2026/09...

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Gordon Parks took this photo in Alabama in 1956. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_...

At a takeout window for what looks like a Foster Freeze, a Black man and his three children make an order. The window is to the side of the eatery, and is marked "Colored." A window on the front of the building is marked "WHITE."

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Our “end of summer“ tomatoes are coming in great!

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I saw a butterfly on a Frank Lloyd Wright house today.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mitch McConnell is ready to answer the call.

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Lee Marvin was in many Westerns (e.g. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"), and I think lots of violence in the Old West could've been prevented if urban planners had just made the towns big enough for everyone.

Lee Marvin: There's not ENOUGH violence on TV!"

Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This P.G. Wodehouse book cover is *chef’s kiss*

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hmm, the early promo shots for Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Three" are not instilling confidence.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That reminds me: I am also not running for president in 2028. (I didn't want to leave anyone hanging.) wapo.st/46weDTq

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Mike Pence says he has ‘no plans’ to run for president in 2028

Mike Pence says he has no plans to run for president in 2028.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m not the brightest bulb, but tulips seem like a dubious construction material.

Shop in the Amsterdam airport that is built like a barn and named “house of tulips“

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Annie Dillard writing about her 1974 book, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.”

Of particular interest were the journals in which Ms. Dillard talked herself through the fear that no one would read a book like "Tinker Creek" because it was written by a woman.
"It's impossible to imagine another situation where you can't write a book 'cause you weren't born with a penis," Ms. Dillard wrote. "Except maybe 'My Life With My Penis?"

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just got a library notification that my hold on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is available. The copy will be at one of three possible library branches.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Why does your dog seem so friendly?” “Dunno. It might be his pink shag-carpet bed.”