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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

I don't know, I feel like if you're able to do that last one you should be able to, lol I saw this one in at a country store in Oregon…

Bathroom sign that read, "Whatever, just wash your hands" with a silhouette of a woman, a man, and a Sasquatch who's actively peeing.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 24/09/2026

The cozy puppies are wishing you well, and hoping your back releases soon, take care 🫂

A pair of dogs, both curled up in cozy balls on the bed.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 22/09/2026

Thank you! The F-102 and DC-3 are both at my Museum, the open cockpit one is at The Western Antique Aviation and Automobile Museum (WAAAM) in Hood River, OR :-) I took this there, and I love that this scene could've happened sy any time in the last 90 or so years! www.waaamuseum.org

Black and white scene, looking out of a hangar past an open cockpit biplane there's a pair more biplane on the grass outside, a glider, and. Beech-18 in the background.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 21/09/2026

Perhaps too artsy, but hope ypu enjoy :-)

Looking at an F-102 head-on at golden hour, with its stark shadow, highlighting its sharp tail, on the sun washed wall behind it.

A lone jetliner climbs out underneath a crescent moon. The posterized image has reduced the palette, leaving the sky a dark, speckled blue that slowly fades to black, and the airliner a wholly sillhoutted shape.

Twin open cockpits of gorgeous antique biplanes soaking up the sun under bright, broken clouds.

Close up the elevator, rudder, and empennage of a polished metal DC-3.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 09/09/2026

I saw a throwback one at Charlotte in TWA livery :-)

An American 737 sporting the iconic TWA paint scheme, with a white fuselage, a pair of bright red sttaipes that get ever larger as you go aft, and TWA in white on a red field on the tail.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 08/09/2026

That'd be the Amiga A1200 for me. I still remember saving up $600 to upgrade it with a 68030 CPU and FPU running at 50mhz, along with 8MB of. RAM, jumping it from 2MB to 10MB! Did you see they launched an updated Commodore 64? commodore.net/computer/?sk...

An Amiga A1200 on top of its box. It's an integrated computer and keyboard, with extra space above the keys given to housing the computer bits.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 08/09/2026

Awesome! I always loved their livery too :-) And, speaking of DC-10's…

Drawing that shows the size comparison between a DC-10 and a DC-3, with the Dc-3 superimposed on the tail engine, showing that it's only a little bit bigger than it

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 05/09/2026

As I hold the Suspicious Mushroom in my hand and stare at it, a bright light appears unfold itself in middair. Words in a strange tongue whisper by, touching something deep inside me. The light dissappears with a snap, but the mushroom now appears to be glowing from within.

Screenshot of my encounter with the Middle-earth labeler @middlearth.quest :

Deep in a cave, the torchlight reveals a carved stone alcove. Something rests inside.
Reply OPEN to reach in.

OPEN

You rolled a 6 -A humble discovery.
LOW-GRADE FIND!
You are now a Cave-troll with a suspicious mushroom
Strength: +1

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 04/09/2026

Grew up in California on the Central Coast, went to school in Santa Barbara with friends and relatives throughout SoCal. I then worked in the Bay Area before moving to Portland so, yeah, this math is matching, lol

My results for the dialect quiz, showing 55% match for Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The Map confirms my strongest matches are on the West Coast, and get weaker towards the Southeast.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 03/09/2026

"No risk, no reward," I say through tears while putting together a PowerPoint of me and Mortimer visiting the best caves Middle Earth has to offer. Fun fact: our selfie with the Balrog was one of the last pictures taken with it! (setting this one to Ring of Fire)

Screenshot from my DM with the Middle-earth labeler in which I rolled a 1 and lost my beloved Stolen Carrot. My reaction:

N000000000000!! MY CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOO000000OOTTTTTTTTTTT!

Fare thee well Mortimer, you were the best Stolen Carrot a Cave-troll could ever hope to find 😭😭😭

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 02/09/2026

It was the legit forbidden pitcher. Basically something like this, but made out of corrugated metal, and with a uranium liner on the inside. I don't remember if they had removed the uranium liner or not, but the thing itself was original.

Plastic, five gallon water jug with a top you can open a spout for pouring single servings of water.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 01/09/2026

Adding this video I got when I happened to look back for Mt Hood, and saw the nearly full moon lighting up the clouds we were flying past. Another few seconds and I would've missed it! I added dramatic music, because the neither silence nor a crystal ng baby seemed right die the mood.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 01/09/2026

Nice! I enjoyed a lovely airplane dusk a couple days ago, with what I think was Venus too :-)

A dark left wing of an Airbus A321 diagonally cuts across the horizon. There's a line of bright orange giving way to lighter blue sky, in which a single bright dot is hanging. The sky the transitions to ever darker blues before moving on to black.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/08/2026

This is a video on IG of Airlink's low pass, with a screenshot for those who can't view it on IG. www.instagram.com/reel/DcoyDqj...

Screenshot from the video linked. The plane is painted black and appears to be approximately 50 feet above te top of the stadium.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 27/08/2026

That's gotta be the Vasa! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(s...

Wikipedia screenshot that reads, "Vasa (previously Wasa) is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 26/08/2026

The Woodman's Pal? www.warrencustomoutdoor.com/woodmans-pal...

Photo of Woodman's Pal, it has a wooden handle wide, single edged head with a sharpened hook on the back.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

I like to check people's TL before blocking, but holy wow is this a choice.

Screenshot from the blocked account in which he replies to a post asking if there's a collective noun for a large group of unsold Cybertrucks, along with a picture of such, with, "Cybertrucks continue to live rent free in the minds of many!"

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

And then they just kept right on going, sun at their back all the way to PDX. Their flying was top notch, and it was great seeing them from such a unique perspective. Thanks for tagging along, and yes, I do have more to add to Lucky Post 13 later ;-) 20/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Five of the of the Blue Angels in V formations departing at low level with the sun at their back.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

I honestly thought that last shot was them departing after ending their practice session. I didn't see them returning until they were almost on me. If I'd seen them sooner, I could've gotten directly underneath as they passed! 19/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Five of the Blue Angels in a V formation approaching at low level with the sun at their back, casting them in deep shadow and lighting up their smoke trails.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

And, speaking of filling the frame, the five remaining went by so low and so fast that I wasn't able to zoom out fast enough to get them all in frame. This is a great view of just how big and sleek they are too :-) 18/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Close up of Five of the Blue Angels in tight formation, with the Nose of One, Tail of Four, and most of Six out of frame

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

I love the colors on this one too, but because the original was so muted because of the lighting of the moment, I could oversaturate this in GIMP, giving it an old post feel to it. They were low enough that they filled the frame on my 300mm telephoto! 17/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The diamond formation close overhead with one Number One leaving a smoke trail. It's oversaturarted to the point where it looks like an old, limited color poster print

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

This is closing in on the end of their practice, when I've seen them do a six plane formation, basically in a triangle. here there is five of them in a V-formation. At some point #5 left the practice session, and did not return, but I don't know why. 16/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Five of the Blue Angels in a V formation, in a shallow, climbing bank against blue sky

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

Another hard break, with 2 going left and 2 going right. The turns are hard enough that the air over the wings gets compressed enough to squeeze the moisture out into little mini clouds, ie, vapor trails! It's very distinct against their blue paint :-) 15/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The Diamond formation in another break, with One and Two breaking hard left and Three and Four breaking hard right

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

One of the fun things about the Blue Angel's performances are when they break their Diamond Formation in a bunch of different directions. Here they're all pulling away from each other hard enough to create vapor trails on their wings! 14/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The Diamond formation of a group of green bushes and trees, immediately after breaking formation, with all four jets headed in a different direction. They're pulling enough G's for vapor trails to be visible on their inner wings.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

This is another four ship echelon formation, and I like that I could get a shot of them without any smoke too. A lot of aviation words, like echelon, come from French because France took to aviation with a passion early on, while the US' stalled. 13A/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Side view of Blue angels one through four in echelon formation, climbing at a forty-five degree angle of attack through deep blue sky.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

The Blue Angels do several maneuvers with five of them in line a abreast formation, so they are all at the same altitude and literally next to each other in a row. I love how the colors came out on this one too! 12/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Five of the Blue Angels in line abreast formation climbing straight up in deep blue sky.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

Another great view of the Diamond Formation passing overhead. Number One is the Lead of the formation and calls out the maneuver and formation as they do it. Two and Three are on the left and right, and Number Four is in the slot position. 11/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The Diamond Formation climbing overhead. All but Number Four have their smoke on.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

They returned back in the Diamond Formation, and this shot is a great view of why it's called that. There's one behind and below each of the Lead's wingtips, with the fourth immediately behind and below the Lead too. 10/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Portrait shot of the Diamond Formation in a climbing turn to the right with their full white smoke against a deep blue sky.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

Back for a few more! They came by so close, and so fast, that I didn't have time to get all 4 in frame! I love that most of the formations used in flying date to WWI, and that for as long as we've been flying, we've been wanting to fly together :-) 9/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Numbers 1 through 4 shifted out of the Diamond Formation into an echelon right formation, making a left hand turn. Number 3's smoke is off.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

The happiest of accidents! One of the Opposing Soloists was demonstrating the incredible Cobra Maneuver, popping up to a vertical climb and then leveling off higher up, when I caught a passing Amazon Prime 767 passing through in the far distance. 8/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Blue Angel 5 performing a Cobra Maneuver, going almost vertical against deep blue sky. Far in the distance, a tiny smudge of a Amazon Prime 767 can just be seen.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

Another great view of their F/A-18 Super Hornets in their "Dirty" configuration as they head slowly fly past in close formation. There was a lot of direct sun in between cloud cover, leading to some dramatic, and wildly different lighting. 7/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The Diamond formation with their gear and tail hooks down, flying away after a slow pass into the sun, turning them into near silhouettes.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

After flying bast, the Diamond formation returned, flying towards us in their dirty configuration. They were fairly far away, but you could still easily spot them because of their landing lights. I love how the trees helped frame this too! 6/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The Diamond formation approaching the camera head on with gear and tail hooks down. You can see their landing lights shining in front of the cloud of their smoke behind them. They're a far off, flying over green bushes and trees.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

The previous four shots were my favorite from the day, but the rest I'm posting chronologically for ease, and because trying to rank them further was breaking my brain, lol Here's the Diamond Formation in knife edge, immediately after arriving :-) 5/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Blue Angels in their Diamond Formation in a knife edge left turn, with their white smoke trailing off to the left of the screen against deep blue sky.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

The Opposing Soloists get their name because, well, they literally fly right at each other! Sort of. They do fly at each other, but each is along a different side of the runway for separation. Here you can almost see that through the smoke. 4/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The two opposing soloists crossing at airshow center. you can just see the one headed towards the camera through the other's smoke.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

Blue Angels 1-4 aren't always in the Diamond Formation, but they do focus on demonstrating formation and precision. I love this shot of them approaching behind the tree line, almost silhouetted in the sun, in line abreast formation. 3/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

Four Blue Angels in line abreast formation approaching a treeline in bright sun that's catching them and the trees in shadows. They're low enough that the trees are blocking the view of some of the fighters and their smoke trails.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

Blue Angel airshows, broadly, have two parts. The Diamond formation, Blue Angels 1-4, and the Opposing Soloists, numbers 5 and 6. Here are the Opposing Soloists mirroring each in a "dirty configuration" with gear and tailhooks down. 2/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The Blue Angel opposing soloists flying with their gear and tail hooks extended. Number five is inverted and appears to be directly over Number 6.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 17/08/2026

I snuck out of work early Thursday to get some shots of the Blue Angel's practice session from a turnout on a little country road close to the McMinville runway's centerline. This is my favorite of the lot, and one of my best pics every, IMHO 1/20 #AvGeek #BlueAngels #Planespotting #EASM

The Diamond Formation coming out of a loop into straight and level flight, with the sun lighting their smoke trails and glinting off their dark blue jets.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 16/08/2026

Perfect timing for BlueSky to be shitting the bed with images again 🤣🤣🤣

A screenshot of my last post which reads, "Sometimes the intrusive thoughts make particularly compelling arguments" showing nothing but accompanied by a blank image.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 16/08/2026

Sometimes the intrusive thoughts make particularly compelling arguments

Me holding up packages of of Trader Joe's dark chocolate covered espresso beans and dark chocolate peanut butter cups

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 14/08/2026

This alignment worked pretty damn good, lol

Screen shot of the original post, with the next one in the timeline being a King of the Hill screenshot of Hank looking horrified from KOTH Screens.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 13/08/2026

I saw a meme like this back in the day so had to recreate it :-) (I kept the label to avoid spoilers)

Cat singing at the top of its lungs, "Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeeeeene"

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 10/08/2026

This was soooo tempting! I even would've named my lad Linus!

A Low-Grade find from the m the LotR game, offering to switch my Stolen Carrot for a Smelly Blanket.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 04/08/2026

My brother and I would play with the cigarette vending machine at our regular family restaurant while waiting. You could pull on the knobs all you wanted since nothing happened unless you paid. Then, one morning a carton did vend, startling the hell out of us 🤣🤣🤣

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 03/08/2026

@bwjones.bsky.social A bit of an awkward shot before the late could change, but had to share this beauty of a Porsche. You know more than I do about it, lol, and while it didn't look pristine, it did look likes it's driven on the regular and is very well loved :-)

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 03/08/2026

I saw this and could've sworn that I ate there while I was at the AF Museum in Dayton. When I looked it up though, it turns out that was Mr. Shawarma and Grill! (Pic from their Google Maps page)

Night shot of Mr Shawarma & Grill restaurant in Dayton. "Mr" is a stylized gyro being roasted, with rest in lot up red colors.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 02/08/2026

And they're extra picky about Jesus too anymore 🙄

Colorized postcard of of an old, antique raci g car with text that's reads, "Not that wheel Jesus, the steering wheel" as the driver watches the right rear wheel depart the car.

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