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I couldn’t hold a candle to brave Greta, but for what it was worth…

Thanks Claire (also my mom’s name ❤️). No, I’m not at all offended, but please understand that many of us here are nearly out of our minds with outrage. Yes, Vermont is akin to Middle Earth to me. I hope you might come to visit, but only if and when this madness has passed 🙏

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 59m

I’ve protested time and again these past ten years. I’ve stood alone with a sign on a street corner on a frigid January day. I picketted alone for six hours in front of a local inn hosting Vance on his Vermont ski trip. I’m sickened to death of these thugs but don’t know what else to do!?

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1h

This container vessel passed us by on Wednesday. I pulled up a maritime tracker to instantly ID the ship and see the projected course. This is the ZIM Thailand out of Boston and making for Singapore via the Suez Canal. Arrives November 8!

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1h

These heathens actually eat cake for breakfast. Every respectable Vermonter understands that pie is the only proper breakfast dessert.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1h

We bicycled to Cape Cod’s Coast Guard Beach today 😊

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2h

What have we become? So long as we allow it, it’s all on us.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 4h

Those are American bombs. I hate that more than I can say.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 6h

Ben Jennings on the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” Tacitus, “The Agricola”

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nature has the most beautiful box of crayons. 💙💚🧡🤎🍂🍁 "Life in the Northwoods" - WI

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Tommaso Pincio @tommasopincio.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Angelo Morbelli La mia Teresa 1917

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Go ahead and raise the roof, Sofia „…manchmal ist ein Schrei besser als eine Dissertation.” R.W. Emerson Journal entry April 19, 1838

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As in Sarajevo, where snipers Lemi and Livek actually kept a scoreboard (NYT photo). I remember reading Confederate guards at the Andersonville, Georgia POW camp used captive Union soldiers for target practice during the 2nd American Civil War. Worst of the worst

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

”La Follia” (The Madness) is a dance tune which dates to at least the 16th century. Hundreds of variations have appeared through the ages. This one‘s by Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata No. 12 in D minor, RV 63

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Bålder Quartet - La Folia (Vivaldi)

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The eagerness of the St. Kilda islanders to heed sound medical advice is in diametrical opposition to the behavior of the modern day MAHA cult, who, when shown to be dangerously mistaken, consistently double-down on their perilous folly.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gobsmacking history The islanders somehow acquired the habit of smearing a mixture of oil and sheep dung on a newborn baby’s placenta. Of the 56 infants born in a 21 year period, 41 died within 8 days of birth (18:00). When an outsider pointed out their error they ceased the practice.

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1980: Residents Return to St Kilda After 50 Years | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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GOETHE @dailygoethe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is (still) Sunday. Act accordingly!

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dancing? Is that what you call it?

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Als ich 1978 Vegetarier wurde, galt ich als ziemlicher Sonderling. Heute ist das so viel einfacher…und „normal” 👍

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nice! We just picked the last of our bush beans. The potatoes, cauliflower, cabbages, Brussels sprouts and kale are still out there. And surprisingly, several summer squash. The carrots did okay despite a row being browsed by deer.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It certainly is. Do we burn Picasso’s art, Steinbeck’s books, Shelley’s poems? I doted on Knut Hamsun’s novels when I was young…less so once I learned of his Nazi sympathies. I’m still drawn to Nolde’s paintings despite it all. As you say, it’s complicated.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Starry Sky" by the German/Danish painter, Emil Nolde Nolde was a full-fledged Nazi sympathizer until the Reich declared his work "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) and confiscated his paintings. www.nationalgallery.ie/emil-nolde-c...

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Woohoo...we're off to the Cape for three days of beaches and bicycling! 🕺

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I foresee carrot cake in my future.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." Arthur Schopenhauer

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An old photo of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont. For 24 years I lived and worked Friday afternoon until Sunday evening in a little television transmitter hut located at the base of those antennas visible atop the mountain's "Nose." My sun rose behind NH's Whites and set behind NY's Adirondacks. I miss it.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.” Eric Hoffer, “The True Believer” 1951

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We have clearly reached the unenforcable stage and we've nobody to blame but ourselves. We did this; it's all on us. “When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.” Émile Durkheim www.iep.utm.edu/durkheim/#H5

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘Sunset in Mars’ Gale Crater.’ #Photography via NASA (April 15, 2015).

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Photos from my brother who is absolutely thrilled to be in Japan

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I rode my age in miles yesterday on my Oma bicycle. Feeling my age this morning 😬 But it was worth it 😊

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The trashiest white trash is white trash with money.

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And today's winner

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A loved one was recently informed that medical imaging results indicated an ominous anomaly. She learned today the initial reading was entirely incorrect and that she is absolutely fine. Of course I’m now walking on air. I’m going bicycling tomorrow just to breathe again and clear my head.

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Arcangelo Corelli - Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 4 in D major

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barbara b. @lunazuna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hans Thoma | Self-portrait in front of a Birch Forest, 1899, oil on canvas, 91 x29.7 cm., Städel Museum, #1370

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve kept my distance from pigeons after learning my SIL’s mother nearly died from a respiratory infection contracted from these birds when she was a student in Ottawa.

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It amounts to an act of desperation by Putin and echoes Nazi rhetoric when it became clear they were losing the war.

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Goebbels' speech for Total War at the Berlin Sportpalast (1943)

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I doubt that Putin’s forces were significantly constrained by “the rules of war” up till now, but this depraved order serves to openly codify the atrocities. It unfortunately gives the Ukrainian defenders less of an incentive to take Russian prisoners alive and treat them humanely.

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barbara b. @lunazuna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hans Thoma | Forest meadow (model: Celia Thoma, the artist’s wife one year before the marriage), 1876, oil on wood, 45.9 x 37.1 cm., Hamburger Kunsthalle

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barbara b. @lunazuna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hans Thoma | Forest Meadow, 1886, oil on canvas, 113 cm (44.4 in) x 87.8 cm (34.5 in), Hans Thoma Kunstmuseum

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