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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

His wrongdoing was discovered because he messed up on how he was paying a victim who was blackmailing him and ran afoul of mandatory bank reporting requirements. After his conviction, he tried to claw the blackmail money back, unsuccessfully.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To the summer bathrobe: thank you for your service

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"brain mostly back to normal"? I don't think the probe goes up that far.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This reminds me of a David Letterman top ten list for the top ten names for an upcoming Rolling Stones tour. My favorite from the list was: The Rolling Stones Live! – and Keith Richards.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Because a 5-neck guitar is easier to tune than a 6-neck guitar, I guess.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me, playing demon of temptation on your left shoulder: But the church wasn't usable without renovations and the adjacent property that you bought, so you should count that in the price too, and then update that number to account for inflation.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Despite your alt text, I choose to believe that's the eye of a giant reptile that is otherwise invisible or perfectly camouflaged. If you get injured or eaten on one of these dangerous trips outside, don't blame it on me.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*have* Sorry, it's getting close to my bedtime.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! Except, while I am sorta old, I hav always had a messed-up sleep schedule of the extreme night owl variety.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, every time you outlive an enemy, make sure to find or make at least one more new one so you'll continue to have reasons to live.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They had me at "des vaches qui explosent".

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kinda makes me wish I'd gotten an electric car, except the AI data center bubble is driving up electricity prices too.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes, but will you cardigan again tomorrow? Not a serious question, I just like saying cardigan again, which is why I offered this explanation, so I could say cardigan again, AGAIN.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I tip my imaginary mug of hot apple cider to you.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a transplanted Texan, I think Trump lost more than a few Texans when he didn't try to rename the Gulf of America to Gulf of Texas and went with Gulf of America instead. I can easily believe the Texas state legislature would do it if only Trump hadn't done his thing.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is there a special name for this kind of poetry about cats? Since it's about cats, doggerel seems inappropriate somehow.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think Asimov only deviated from this to make a science fiction-y point. Like in The Currents of Space there were just a few sentences about the slave class being white (and blond, I think) while the ruling class was dark-skinned.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It took me a little bit to figure out your description of the Obin early on in The Shattering Peace. It didn't take me nearly so long to visualize your other aliens. So I guess in addition to being boring to you they may sometimes also distract the reader. Your level of detail is spot on for me.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Congratulations, I'm sincerely happy for you.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It reminds me a little of Yoohoo, a chocolate flavored whey-based beverage.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That pretty accurately describes me as well. Thanks for putting that here.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So being a little bit taller is just a lagniappe?

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

According to the video, it's comes down to your skin microbiome, which mostly depends on your genetics. All this time I believed mosquitoes passed me by because I was such a cool guy (Literally! My temperature has always measured on the low side.).

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When I was researching cover crops I saw blends that had radish seed in them. I wonder if maybe that is where your radishes came from. Also, years ago I used a cover crop blend that had foxtail millet in it, and now foxtail millet is a common weed in my garden and my lawn.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sadly, my gmail account is so thoroughly incorporated into my life that I can't abandon it. It's used for friends, doctors, business, retirement, and countless subscriptions and commercial transactions. It would be *so* much trouble transferring these to something currently more reputable.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Since he's so sure he knows better than the Pope, he just might try to pull a Henry VIII move and get himself declared the head of the Catholic Church in America.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm getting cognitive dissonance from you using the British spelling of "plow" in your discussion of a quintessentially American treat.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I find the "No Added Sugar" at the bottom of the label particularly galling considering how loaded with stevia it is.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My most recent find of hers was the Young Merlin trilogy. Fantastic.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In my youth many decades ago, I recall there was a bit of a raw milk craze that led to miscarriages from brucellosis. The old tried and tested ways (pasteurization) are way better than the older tried and known to fail ways.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Also, I'm new to this being called Bowie eyes. I take selfies every time I get my bad left eye dilated, in my case not because it makes me look hot (It doesn't!) but because I think it looks hilarious.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

They couldn't, you know, just put a sticker above the eye before surgery and remove it after? That's what happens to me when I get an eye injection.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It's a slow-motion Pratt fall, isn't it?

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'm still amazed/amused that he played those coffee commercials so convincingly that millions of people believed that he was actually romantically involved with his costar.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Homer Simpson: Mmm, mummy yeast. <noisy drooling>

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't have one of those, but I do have an ancient yahoo! account that I used to at least partially hide myself from potentially unscrupulous people. Now that there are things like Apple's Hide my Email, I don't use the yahoo! account for anything new. And the email names are entertaining

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I am going on memory here. I think I got them at a local discount vegetable market that sells a number of weird things, so it's possible that I bought some odd knockoff instead of the real thing. The online evidence certainly does not back me up.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I dunno, mine seems to demand some pretty high end grub pretty regularly. Right now it is wanting sesame crusted tuna sashimi and shrimp, and is wasting cycles deciding what kind of shrimp it wants.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I got the cotton candy grapes once without first reading the label. Turns out that they are infused with artificial cotton candy flavoring. I do not like very many types of artificial flavorings, and it turns out I REALLY don't like cotton candy grapes.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Do you have an electronic version on your phone that you can airdrop (or whatever the Pixel equivalent term is) to other people's phones?

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I don't know if it's true for men in general, but one of mine is definitely more sensitive than the other. I'm not saying which one, because I want to preserve a little bit of mystery about myself.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

OK, I donated. I just wanted to add that my UIL participation was a long time ago, back when one of the contests was Slide Rule. I competed in that too some years but I think I was always only an alternate.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I grew up in small-town Texas and UIL was a big thing for us. My high school years we did really well in our division (we were barely big enough to be an "A" school). I competed in Science not acting, but "One Act" is a worthwhile thing to contribute to and I expect it will feed my nostalgia.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I wonder if this explains the sudden onslaught of people misusing "peak" for "peek". Honestly, I never saw it before a short while ago, and now I am seeing it everywhere.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I came here specifically to promote Sleepy Maggie. I'm glad to see someone has already done it. I'm not Canadian but I found this song a while ago on my local alternative music station and I really, really like it.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

From what I've been told, the virus is not easily transmissible (someone with the virus is not infectious until they're showing symptoms AND you have to be in prolonged close contact with them to have much chance of catching it), so it's unlikely to spread beyond a few cases.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I watched it last fall and thought it was really good. Suspenseful and entertaining to the very end, and wraps up nicely. I just wish I didn't have to wait so long for season 2 (they haven't started shooting yet, so I'm guessing we'll see it sometime in 2027).

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If I misspelled "souls" as "sould" it would then get autocorrected to "should" and I would end up with some odd phrases indeed. In fact, my body just left my should just thinking about it.

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

How much longer before they discover Yahoo! ?

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davidkwatson.bsky.social @davidkwatson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Goes well with The Return of the Burger King and The Two Seafood Towers

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