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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm sure you'll block me on here now too. Which is fine. You don't know me at all, or know where my real life heart and actions land on things like trans rights. So goes people on the internet. I'll keep enjoying your great videos anyway.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As if that word was there because I supported JKR's awfulness and not because it had simply just been there for years prior and was forgotten about. And then you even tweeted about blocking me.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I was real amused at a talking point of this video being how people act on the internet considering you once blocked me on Twitter right after I followed you, solely because I had the word "Hufflepuff" in my bio.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Somehow I signed up to be notified every time Groundhog Day is playing on TV. It's more often than you might think. (Or less if you were expecting every day.)

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Know your rights. These are your rights. 1. Not to be killed (Murder is a crime. Unless it was done by a policeman.) 2. Food money (Providing of course you don't mind a little investigation, humiliation.) 3. Free speech (As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.)

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The Clash - Know Your Rights (Remastered)

YouTube video by theclashVEVO

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

SNL IS NOT BAD TV. ...sometimes.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

POLL OF THE DAY Is the "Somebody go wake up Green Day" joke on October 1 Still funny or Just annoying ?

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I have several incomplete jokes and sharing with you to find the gem.

Picture of a mostly empty bookcase that is labled "U.S. Politics"

The book that is easy to see is titled JFK JR. There are a few others as well. Not all politics.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I remember standing next to Mom as she rummaged through our dark wood cabinets to find her tupperware mixing bowl. She'd work flour and cream into a sticky dough she'd then drop by spoonfuls into simmering chicken and vegetable stew. The dough would puff up into soft, shiny steamed dumplings. 1/6

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It's funny when tiny birds run. Hey little guy, you can fly! Did you forget?

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Anyone who is watching the #Tonys and enjoyed that performance from Buena Vista Social Club - I highly recommend listening to the 1996 same-titled album that inspired it. It features legendary Cuban musicians brought together to play traditional Cuban standards, and it's fantastic.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I've never watched the Tonys, and I feel like this is a reason to change that.

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A bear @asinglebear.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If you look hard enough, you can find many opportunities to sleep and not do things. I am a bear.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It was huge here in Georgia too. BNL was one of the first CDs I owned!

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Time to turn your calendar page!

June 2025 calendar page two goats with a pride flag and one with a pride crown on her head

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I had two bowls and wanted a third even though I was full. It was good.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Love Brandi Carlile! I listened to her 2007 album The Story for the first time yesterday and it was so good.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm so sorry you had to go through both of those things today. And I'm so thankful for that Panera worker.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I love it when stuff like this happens. It's so nice of the universe to keep us in sync!

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I like that roadrunner and I use the same tv tray

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Today I watched the 1954 sci-fi classic movie Them! about giant radiation-mutated ants. The ant scientist that advises the government is played by Kris Kringle from Miracle on 34th Street. I love that.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I just scrolled through my entire Bluesky and read all my posts and I'm shocked that I barely get any engagement. I'm interesting and hilarious.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I want to ban whole body deodorant commercials.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

He's alive! He's in 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡, but he's alive!

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

And then a bunch of accusations of cyberbulling came out against her. Of course she disputed all of this. Who knows if she really did plagiarize or bully, but from what I remember, the evidence was pretty damning. When she got a publishing deal, those stories all got wiped from the internet! 3/3

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

And then came all of the plagiarism accusations. Lots of them, but the biggest being from a published author of an old obscure fantasy series that she seemed to take major plot devices from. 2/3.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Haha, gladly. It was a big part of my "very online" high school years. At the time, she was the most popular author in the fandom by far. Her trilogy of novel-length fanfiction created several major tropes that the community/other authors adopted as canon. 1/3

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

So often we get told that being a parent is what invests you into the future of the world, but over and over so many people have committed to making the world better and better for generations to come even though they had no children of their own. Dr. Fischer cared.

Museum plaque describing life and work of Luther Fischer 1873-1953. He was committed to caring for poor patients and feeding them well.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Oh man. Every couple of years, I re-encounter the fact that CC is a famous author, which gives me so much glee, as I know her from insane drama in the Harry Potter fanfiction community 25 years ago. I always wonder if fans of her published work know about that stuff or if it's just too niche.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"Come, family. Let us all go watch television. Let us sit around the picture box and view the new episode of Hee Haw."

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The 'herby' is so key here.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Pope Pumpkin Bread IV.

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

They mentioned on the broadcast I was watching that when Pope John Paul II was introduced as Pope, he told the crowd that if his Italian was wrong, to please correct him. So at the very least, they don't have to be fluent!

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

And before a 4,000 yard passer!

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I don't recall learning about this in school - if I did, perhaps it is just more meaningful to me now. It's always encouraging to be reminded that in bad times where bad things happened, there were still people - my people - relatives, southerners in general - that were on the right side. 4/4

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

In fact, there was around 100,00 white southern soldiers that fought for the Union. Tennessee was the southern state with the most amount of Southern Unionists, but all but one southern state had regiments of white troops that fought on the side of the Union. 3/4

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A little confused, I did some googling and confirmed that there was several white infantry regiments from Tennessee that served in the Union Army. I continued to dig, and found the term "Southern Unionist" - southerners who did not support secession or slavery. 2/4

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

While working on my family tree this morning, I came upon a great-great-great uncle whose name was on a registry for headstones provided by the government for deceased Union Civil War Veterans. I looked at the document, and it indicated his unit as "Tennessee Infantry". 1/4

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The name of my new band is black smoke no pope

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

DeLorean time machine car from the movie Back to the Future

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Hahaha. You can always message me on here!

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

90s alternative rock is all about rhyming bath, ass, and vase

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Who decided that there should be two entirely different extinct furry elephants with names that start with m

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

All these years, I've thought I was one of those theoretical people who have immunity. But now I know I don't because I just tested positive for covid for the first time. I'm so sad that I'm not special. :(

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Joel @cpatchj.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thanks I love y'all too!

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