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Captanne

@captanne.bsky.social
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NAFO fella, Prof historian, Veteran, ret military pilot C-12/5/22/21, JD from CUA, PhD from G’town. Native Washingtonian (DC). Opinions wholly, entirely and absolutely my own. I don’t interact during working hours.

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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have no doubt the same thing happened to Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Ford and etc … but we avoided the daily barrage of their condescending hatred. If they were half as smart as they pretend to be, they’d get off social media. I wonder if they know or care that their slips are showing?
Miss Lisa standing by a door with her slip showing from under her skirt.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s my man in all his glory. (SUCH A CRUSH I HAD). www.instagram.com/p/DQlsH9ljaGB/
Greatest quarterback of all time ever on any team ever and I will fight about it. Sonny Jurgensen, #9, Washington DC.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lighthouse built in 1885 in the first safe harbor on the Great Lakes.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looks great! I’m on the water up in Michigan. So nice to have some vacation time.
Harbor Beach lighthouse from the water.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Uptown Movie theatre in DC has entered the chat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Up...
The art deco Uptown Movie theatre in northwest Washington, DC where Star Wars opened in 1977.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Military aircraft overhead panel switches with only an « on » position. Label reads: Chemtrails.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hugh would like to say Happy Caturday. N
Sir Hugh Llewellyn in repos on the dining room table. What? Don’t judge.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry cut several albums. He had an amazing voice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ti...
Tim Curry album cover, « Simplicity ».
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He had the most amazing singing voice. I have all of his albums and I love them.
Album cover of Tim Curry’s « Simplicity ».
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We all know where the base of that meme came from, right? The irony is not lost on me.
Book cover. The short story of the title won the Hugo in 1968.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I never forget that. I hope others are grateful that they are alive, too. I was watching Dalgliesh on PBS last night and in « A Taste for Death » he has a wonderful reflection on life and death. He observes, « There’s only life ». It’s a beautifully acted scene by Bertie Carvel.
Bertie Carel as DCI Dalgliesh in the PBS series. He’s sitting at his desk with his elbows on the desk and his fingers knit.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Pacific Ring of Fire is making itself known, isn’t it.
Map of the Pacific Ocean Ring of Fire — an active tectonic phenomenon that goes from Tierra del Fuego all the way around the land masses and down to New Zealand.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Will it be as big as his health care plan from his first term? Remember? The one Leslie Stahl looked through only to find it a bound book of empty pages?
Leslie Stahl peaks in the health care book from the current administration’s first term only to find it full of empty pages.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Personally, I’m betting it was a catering truck they put him in but I don’t know so …. 🤷‍♀️
Image of an airplane cabin with a flight attendant serving drinks from a catering cart
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I will see you one Maxine and raise you a Hugh Llewellyn.
Sir Hugh Llewellyn Armstrong at 4 weeks of age. He is the cutest white and grey kitten. NB: bright pink nose.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I‘ve had a couple of dogs but really we are cat people. I’ve had cats all my life. We currently have 3. They are the best companions ever. Meet Hugh (9), Elspeth (1) and Mina (14).
Sir Hugh Llewellyn, a grey and white tabby, taking a richly deserved nap. Elspeth Inglis, a grey tabby with white paws, tummy, bib and socks, named for my grandmother, looking much older than her single year of age. The Lady Mina Delores, a marbled dark grey tabby with orange hints, Queen de la Maison resting comfortably.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Who dat? (I think that’s Stormy).
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
How does one « unleash » a gate? One unleashes a …. Oh God, we really are living in the dumbest (with a ‘b’) timeline. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus
Hercules battles Cerberus, guardian of Hades, the three-headed hound of Hell.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fair play, Mom. Sam Neill will always be Reilly: Ace of Spies to me and Reilly was the real person Iain Fleming based James Bond on. So, there ya go!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reilly,_Ace_of_Spies
Sam Neill as Reilly in Reilly: Ace of Spies, the real life James Bond
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Washington DC
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Genseric and the Sack of Rome, 456 AD. Pesky Vandals.
Ancient Vandals sack Rome in 456 AD, painting by Karl Briulov, “Genseric Sacking Rome”, (1836).
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Deservedly so.
Painting by John William Waterhouse (1903) of Narcissus admiring himself in the pool. It’s called “Echo and Narcissus”.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And he has multiple sized feet. Dude is a shape-shifter. [credit in alt text].
Marco Rubio’s feet in gigantic shoes given to him by the President with the logo of the movie Footloose written over the bottom of the image. Credit to ‘Musik’ on FB, taken from Google.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ann Telnaes drew this for the Washington Post (sigh) in 2017. She knew even then.
Ann Telnaes 2017 Washington Post cartoon of a GOP logo elephant with its trunk up a little girl’s skirt.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Are the chemtrail tin-foil hat folks losing their single brain cells? (Those aren’t contrails anyway).
Cockpit panel switch that says, “Chemtrails” with the switch in the on position.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hey, can I get my adoption fee refunded? Because despite what Elspeth may look like she is not a cat. She is a feral squirrel.
This is a feral squirrel. Do not be fooled.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Saw this gorgeous thing just the other day on Lake Huron.
Swan on a nest on Lake Huron.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I’m surprised no one in the comments has mentioned that she and William Shatner (Captain Kirk) had the first interracial kiss on television. The plot line that led up to it was ridiculous but necessary in the culture at the time (it was « forced on them by an alien ») but it happened!
Kirk and Uhura kiss in the episode Plato’s Stepchildren
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This guy can take his tan testicles and fuck right off.
A naked man, who might be Tucker Carlson, stands with his arms spread wide in front of some sort of light apparatus that is focused on his manhood. For some reason, he and the machine are in the middle what looks like an airfield.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Most welcome indeed!
A black cat with a ruffle dances, plays the banjo and says, “If we live, we live to tread on kings.”
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thanks! Here’s a brighter one. She’s so beautiful.
A grey and white tabby kitten.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We just got Elspeth in August and I think she looks quite similar!
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
NGL, pretty much all I can think about is the most important four people I know who are going to be zooming into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph and slowing to 20 mph here in a couple of hours. Godspeed, you all. Prayers up. 🙏
Earthset taken by one of the astronauts on the Artemis mission. (Reed?)
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
He was also in Wiseguy. First time I ever saw him and I never forgot that character. Frank McPike.
Frank McPike from Wiseguy
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
« ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US » (IYKYK)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us#/media/File:Aybabtu.png
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Jesus says, “I have nothing to do with this”.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
In my head, I’m starting to call Kushner « Zelig » because he turns up fucking everywhere with little to know reason or explanation. (Of course, post-Epstein, I get squicked because Woody Allen, so — my head can be an odd place to exist).
Zelig movie marquis. Zelig was a Woody Allen movie about a guy who impossibly showed up in images throughout time with the most important people of those times. He was everywhere as an EveryMan with no rhyme or reason.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
That was Ann Telnaes’ GOP logo. She is the double Pulitzer editorial cartoonist who Bezos drove to quitting when he pulled her cartoon including him in it.
Image of Ann Telnaes’ classic editorial cartoon GOP logo of an elephant with its trunk up a little girl’s skirt.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Hilarious.
Lincoln Memorial at night in yet another snowstorm for DC.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Happy Caturday from these three gifts from heaven. (Two kitten pictures).
Queen Mina Delores the cat looking regal.Kitten Elspeth Inglis looking cute.Kitten Hugh in momma’s arms.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Happy Caturday from Sir Hugh Llewellyn.
Hugh the cat is lying down in the sunshine.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Kitty at the spa. Elspeth enjoys the oscillating heater.
Tabby kitten flaked out in front of the oscillating heater. Toe beans.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
These little gifts from God say, “Feed the cat, Dan.”
Elspeth the cat. Hugh the cat. Mina the cat keeps warm. Elspeth’s eyes are demonic in the background.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Found it. IMage
Image of Ted Cruz taking his seat on an airplane while Texas is about to be snowed in again.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Looks like this was posted on Threads.
Image of a Threads post with Ten Cruz taking his seat on an airplane while his PR people are defending his trip when Texas is about to be snowed in again.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Abolish DHS and take the whole kit and kaboodle. They showed us they can do that by what they did to USAID. Do the same thing to DHS. Get it gone.
An Ann Telnaes political cartoon depicting Sec’y Kristi Noem and the current President in puddles of blood while Lady Liberty says, « Get the fuck out of America » behind them.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
From the wonderful @anntelnaes.bsky.social
An Ann Telnaes political cartoon depicting Sec’y Kristi Noem and the current President in puddles of blood while Lady Liberty says behind them, « Get the fuck out of America ».
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
So we’re doing this? Here’s mine. I’ll take it.
Screen shot from Meriam Webster’s challenge on New Year’s Day - the word Intrepid.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Here: someone else fixed it (not I). Credit to twitterrefugee.org adt Bluesky. I’ll come back with the correct attribution. I’m an old and can’t do all this at once.
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Captanne @captanne.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Elspeth would like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas evening!
A small grey kitten is peering out from under a table top Christmas tree lit with white lites. Her adorable little face is next to a tamte and a package. There is also a snow globe with a white owl in it.
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