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Jack Hackett

@frjack999.bsky.social
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Middle-aged Craggy Island fan, and collector of books, trivia and Dad jokes.

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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 16/10/2025
Every once in a while, the internet will remind you what it was made for.
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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This #TestItTuesday we have some smoke alarms to give away thanks to the NDFEM To be in with a chance of winning one, repost this message. #DidYouKnow you should have at least one smoke alarm per floor of your home.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
#ProudBlue Elmo creates a diss track and sings what we are thinking!
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 15/02/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Jack Hackett @frjack999.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year all! Let’s start with positivity and kindness and see how that works out. I’ll start.
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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Jack Hackett @frjack999.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Cunk On Life is outstanding!
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