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D. W. Bassett

@danawroe.bsky.social
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An old locomotive engineer drinking deeply from the boulevardier of broken dreams, if not drinking really good coffee. Remember the miraculous absurdly of being alive. “It’s a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal”.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely 👇
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Pure gold. No notes.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 11h
Wow Chuck Lorre is pissed! Lol and I’m loving it 😍 #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here’s a few. Heat 1995, Mann. The Wild Bunch 1969, Peckinpah. Days of Heaven 1976 Malick. Rear Window & North By Northwest, by you know who. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971, Altman. The Sining. Harakiri and Kwaidan by Kobayashi…and too many others to recite.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.' Or storytelling + data visualization + data visualization about storytelling = mind blown. Original post
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh, gee, that’s…too bad. Anyway what’s for dinner? I used to deliver to the large television facilities of the “Pass the Loot Club”. Halfway along the manicured parkway to it, there was a Southern Ry. line and siding with a 10,000 gallon tank car always spotted. Tammy‘s mascara, as we had it.
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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Part owner of Canada) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah, but they’re not playing Radiohead…yet.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
its perfectly obvious. It’s people in back seat in the rearview mirror of a NYC taxi.🚖
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why do these guys all look like “that” guy in “Scanners”?
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Let alone breathe?”
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Best marketing choice Original post
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Senator Foghorn Leghorn. Senator phhhttt-tinnnnggg! helping out Senator Schmitt-head.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear Laurene, Utah, huh? I’m an east coast misfit living behind the “Zion curtain” since 1990. Depending on the feelings of my good wife I may or may not stay. It’s beautiful, but there seems to be an unlimited supply of selfish as***les here, or perhaps everywhere now? I’m not sure anymore. 😬
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, to be fair, he HAS Schmitt between his ears.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, you need to go back a while to the Joseph Smith decreed Mormon theology that black folks are the descendants of an inferior tribe cursed by God with dark skin. Once the church’s tax exemption was threatened, however, a convenient “new revelation“ was magically had to preserve it.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks for taking the time to explain. BTW, where in Japan are you? I have visited there many times. Can’t wait to see it again.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello, A56. Just have to inform you, while I grew up in a military household (and did three decades on the railroad, which is sort of like the military as in they own you), I am NOT a veteran, but was unfit medically (medication dependent). I would never claim to be that which I am not. Thanks.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
May they all be “enjoyed” in prison.
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These privileged frat bros gang raped a girl and invited others to join in for SEVEN HOURS. The story was buried, only two were expelled, and we are only hearing about it now because the victim is suing. Cornell, the police, and the system protected them. The Cornell Seven:
Pictures and names of the seven Cornell students accused of sexually abusing a woman for seven hours.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WOULD TAKE SOM KIND OF EVIL GENIUS TO DESTROY AMERICA, TURNS OUT, ALL IT TOOK WAS AN 80 YEAR OLD CONMAN WITH THE IQ OF A JAR OF MAYONNAISE AND MILLIONS OF SUPPORTERS WITH EVEN LESS 🙄
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The estate of Adolf Hitler sued Donald J. Trump on Thursday for what it called the “blatant theft” of the late German chancellor’s design for an arch of triumph in Berlin. “President Trump’s proposed monument is a brazen
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Hitler Estate Sues Trump for Stealing Arch Design
“It is our duty as trustees of the Adolf Hitler Estate to ensure that the Fuhrer’s intellectual property rights are vigorously protected.”
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You forgot fuck Jimmy Bowman and fuck Russel Vought.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I may not know much, but I do know one thing. For the rest of his life, whenever anyone encounters FBI director Patel, he should be greeted with a hearty “K-a-a-a-a-a-sh!”
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, not for long, thank goodness, cause that notion really is. He’ll be a mouldering carcass for vulture or worm soon, or shriveling wraith, and unmourned be even his children. A happy thought. 😊
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, Shanghai ca. 1926, perhaps, but this lot tops even that.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Worked this industry many a time on the Evanston local. it‘s a beautiful spot. there’s a little creek that parallels the industrial lead here and Joins the Weber next to the bridge. Always thought Devil’s Slide would make a great scene on a model railroad.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I ran many types of engines on the UP, but SD40s were my favorite. The throttle response, the way you could feather the independent etc. Very good engines for spotting cars at industries.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I used to work in and around that shop while on a midnight goat at north yard. Turned engines on a still functioning turntable behind this building. UP wound up closing this shop for a two track shop in Roper (D&RGW) yard. UTA owns it now. UP tried to buy it back and UTA said “pound sand”.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No shit. We could have avoided all of this chaos and fuckery if our government had done the right thing. Now we all get to suffer since the MAGA GOP has no balls or patriotism.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a horrific trade deficit with my local grocery store. I buy lots and lots of stuff from them, but they never buy anything from me! It’s infuriating. In order to help right that balance, I will henceforth never buy anything from them again. That’ll show em!
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Muerto Skeleton Dancing
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The former United States just now.
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Buster Keaton's Car Disaster
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dog vs Mailman IG: @daniellabelle1 www.instagram.com/daniellabell...
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Yellow Dog Dem ♿👨‍🦯‍➡️ @yellowdog1960.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This nails it!!!! ⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️ #tRumpProjection #Accusation=Confession #tRumpIsaLiar
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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good. It's way too much of a banger for an Ed Sheeran tour.
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Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are you sure those aren’t ravens on telephone lines?
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The one that was never made. “Time and Again” by Jack Finney.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cartoonist: Slyngstad
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I mean, they could’ve at least wheeled his moldering corpse in in a dolly. They’ve had months now to install servos into him for radio control.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey now! That’s an insult to worms, which after all perform a benificial biological purpose.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There are certain tribes in New Guinea that insist “long pig” is pretty good.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How many of these do you recognise? #BookSky #WritingCommunity
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
She’s the girl next door in the Tom Lehrer song. “Now there’s a charge for what she used to give away for free In my hometown” 🙃
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cheers.
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Too much of a mouthful I’m afraid. Taking a page from Rick in Casablanca, I suppose I’ll just wait for “drunkard appreciation week.” 🙃
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D. W. Bassett @danawroe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey! Why don’t locomotive engineers get an appreciation week? Is it because we dont have to steer? 😊
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