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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 7h

#TextureTuesday The fascinator veil I made for my wedding all those years ago.

A cord sewn hair comb with small applique flowers sewn on with mini pearls and bird cage style toulle attached photographed on a table with sewing notions in the background

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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Hal Sparks @halsparks.com · 29/09/2026

This is what most people mean when they say AI bubble but they don't know it... also... we will shrug it off like the Dotcom bubble vs The gains from the existence of the internet. AI like politics... will be local.

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really enjoy both @parkroseperma.bsky.social YouTube channels. As a bonus, trolls that scour her comment sections are so delightfully cranky, humorless, and self-righteous that they're probably real people, not 'bots! In this #deadinternet day and age I actually find that refreshing! 🌱 😊

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

D'OH! #NoKings falls on the same day as my son's homecoming dance again. I'll be one less body in the crowd because I won't let Donald Trump ruin my guy's night.

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anybody GenX or older who wails that their "childhood is ruined" over some pop culture triviality deserve nothing but cold pudding skin and reverse mortgage advertisements for the rest of their lives! #GenX #Millennials #GenZ #Boomers

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kids! The caravans are back! The caravans are back! 🥳

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Years ago the posh, trustfund doctor my 1st husband worked for decided - one week before Christmas - to donate everyone's annual holiday bonuses to a local homeless shelter. She was so proud of herself. 🙄 We were counting on that $200. That was real money to a young couple in 1999. #clueless

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know it's sh*tty to admit this, but all the headlines Kyrsten Sinema's been generating about her messy personal life have been delicious. Its funny imagining the jury foreperson in her trial doing a flouncy, performative little thumbs-down when reading her guilty verdict! 😆 #KyrstenSinema

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Multicultural laborers coming together is that certain spice that makes union organizing so nice! 🌶️ @texasaflcio.org 🍲 #AFL-CIO #Union #UnionProud #KCL youtube.com/watch?v=yeTC...

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How Tech Giants & Company Towns Use Cult Tactics

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

7 years ago was a very dramatic "Gotcha Day" for Pretty Princess. #catsky

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seeing blonde Jimin performing gives me Stendhal Syndrome more than the Grand Canyon, the Giant Redwoods, the Lincoln Memorial, and a box of fresh, hot DiCarlos pizza combined. 🫠 #Jimin #BTS #StendhalSyndrome

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Extremes only serve extremists. Law enforcement officers can be trustworthy and discerning. Palestinians deserve their own country, sovereignty, and reparations. Being nasty and hateful to people who are Jewish or worship as such is bigoted and wrong.

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Before and after. This tall, slender fellow will glow blue in morning sun of an upstairs window, helping repair the view I lost when one of my big, leafy trees came down after a storm. #craftsky #DIY

A tall thin bottle with the tape of stenciled leaves covered in gold spray paint

The tall thin bottle with the tape removed to reveal stenciled leaves over blue glass

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#TextureTuesday Hunting lookout in a big, sappy Ponderosa pine

A tree from below with branches holding up slabs of lumber to form a small hunting lookout

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My tamale pot rudely rattled its lid at me as I passed by it on the shelf, as if to remind me that we have a date in December.

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seems like Rodney Dangerfield handled the "boys in girls sports" issue in Ladybugs far better than the average Democratic politician tying themselves into knots in an appeal for the fickle votes of crotchety sports parents. #DNC #TransRights #TransVisibility #bothsides

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let me guess: A crazed terrorist gunned his vehicle towards the brave ICE agent, who fearing for his life, was forced to open fire. Maybe it happened while they were stuck in a snowbank. ❄️ #Austin #abolishICE #ICEOut #ICEshooting

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dear Media Outlets- Maybe, just maybe, cover something else newsworthy. You don't owe the public unfiltered access to any president 24/7! Especially not this thirsty, boring warthog. @msnownews.bsky.social @cnn.com @politico.com #FirstAmendment #Media #journalism #TDS

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Caturday Question: if clever, small, exceptional cats get to go to The Jellicle Ball, where do big, dumb, chonky cats go? (besides the food dish?)

A bored looking orange cat in the foreground and a big belly up white and tabby cat in the back in front of stereo equipment

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My childhood loyalty to Wonder Woman comes roaring back to me! 🌟 #WonderWoman #LyndaCarter #HandsAroundTheKennedyCenter

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm working an international medical conference in Texas and it's painful to see the rest of the world is just going on without us. Technologically, philosophically, culturally - they're rocketing forward and the USA is pretty much now seen as a giant food court with Disney.

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you ever find this pasta, buy it in bulk! It is crazy-delicious! #FoodOnFriday

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If that big ol' storm hadn't forced a $2,000 emergency big ol' tree removal I'd get to go see Katy and Pete. 😟 🌩️ 🌳 If anybody in #SanAntonio can go, post pictures! #votetexas @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @katy4congress.bsky.social

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is as good a day as any to say Marco Rubio is responsible for what is happening right now. He has more power to steer this ship of state than any of us combined, but he gives off nothing but fawn in a meadow vibes as he makes his concern-face for the cameras. #MarcoRubio

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's getting comical, me reporting to my non-social media hubby what amazing things Zohran Mamdani is doing for New York City each day. It's like, what awesome thing now? An army of snow shovelers? Gardens at bus shelters? Fixing playgrounds? The man's a dynamo! #ZohranMamdani #NYC

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🖤 🫧 The world loves a happy ending.🫧🖤 Legally rounding up Trump, his thieving family, the international war criminal Hegseth, and the rest of the plunderers for long, exacting legal trials starting 2029 would go a long way to getting some of our international friends and allies back. 🇺🇸 🫶🏻 🕊️

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did you see how Joe Biden made 60 Minutes have low ratings?

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ponderosa pine cones on a pineneedle-bedded forest floor with a delicate pinewoods geranium poking out to say hello. 💜 #TextureTuesday #bloomsky #plantsky

Ponderosa pine cones on the pine needle bedded forest floor with a delicate pinewoods geranium poking out

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This morning, in lovely, languid San Antonio Texas. The Tower of the Americas, in front of lingering stars twinkling in patches of blue behind swiftly moving clouds. #SanAntonio

The Tower of the Americas lit orange against a still dark morning sky lined by live oaks

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't like saying I'm middle-aged because it feels presumptuous. If I were to "get hit by the pie wagon" tomorrow, then my middle age would've been my 20s. So now I have a better description: I'm a quinquagenarian. 😄

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wow! Amazing photos from the Mogollon Rim in #Arizona. The very edge of the mighty Colorado Plateau. #Scape

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

San Antonio Graffiti will never match the flare and irreverence of Pittsburgh Graffiti, but now and again we get a few gems! #SanAntonioGraffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social

Graffiti on a road barrier of a grumpy looking coiled stick figure smoking a cigarette

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"My Mama taught me never to cross a picket line!" #caturday #catsky #union

White and orange cat pacing on the sidewalk in front of a yard sign reading Proud Union Home

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When feeling a little sad, silly socks on sale at a small business bring a smile! #sillysocks #booksky

Pair of socks held up with a picture of Lowly Worm in his apple car with text reading on my way to the book store

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On September 11, 2021 I sat at a cocina on the Westside of San Antonio, wordlessly watching silent Telemundo footage in horror with patrons and staff. The thought "Those people...all those people" milled heavily through my mind, grinding trivialities apart in the wake of such loss. #NeverForget

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thursdays are a great day for a little Gavin Friday. 🎶

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With his usual fact-checks and wit, Hal Sparks streamed Trump's night 1 of the MAGA Midterm Convention. When the $5,000 checks were sweatily promised, Hal asked: Why not give people the money now? People are hurting now, why make them wait? 🫶🏻 @halsparks.com #TrumpBribe #Checks #SexyLiberal

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lucy has a $5,000 football teed up, Charlie Brown!

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mowed down by mistake May of '25, she's back to show me who's boss! #bloomsky #plantsky

A big bush of purple flowers on the side of the side of a plain modest house

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's cute how people think machines will operate forever, brilliantly chugging forth with nobody to vacuum dust out of them, sweep for insects, descale things, fix leaky roofs, reseal, repaint, deal with sagging foundations, dust storms, lightning strikes, and rodents. Destroy humanity? Please.

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#LaborDay is over. Time to get serious. My #KatyPadillaStout yard sign is on its way; the #JamesTalarico signs have been deployed! @katy4congress.bsky.social @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

Two Talarico signs and a pro labor sign in a yard with bushes and chunky rock bordering the yard there is also a United Farm Workers flag above the front door

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Even in a right-to-work (for scraps) state like Texas unions continue to thrive! @texasaflcio.org @aflcio.org #CBTU #UnionProud

Our Proud Union Home sign in our front yard

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you have a parent that calls you from somewhere public and doesn't mention you're on speakerphone or one who will upload the worst pictures of you (or your house) to Facebook without a single touch up or courtesy crop: You are seen! #GenX #Boomers #technology

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There would be no questions about Hasan Piker if everyone had just listened to Hal Sparks. #HasanPiker #MeetThePress @halsparks.com

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B. Pragmatic @bpragmatic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In my youth I remember just skipping out the door on a Saturday afternoon in slippy sandals with nothing more than my ID and a tube of lipstick in my pocket. Now I'm the one with the tote full of bandaids, sunscreen, extra socks, tweezers, tie line, pepto, tissues, and yes, lipstick!

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