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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2 weeks of subsidized coverage. A $100 payment covers roughly half of the standard monthly Medicare Part B premium of $202.90 for 2026, leaving a balance due of $102.90.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just the first shot over the bow before an Executive Order is released renaming our country the "Unites States of America."

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a UCLA student in the 1970's and '80's it was initially charming to run in to filming on campus. "Is that Barbara Eden?" By the end of my sophomore year it was "God dammit, get that McDonalds commercial out of my way!" I detoured to a longer walk to class (didn't want to be late).

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My Elsa dispelled decades of my involuntary prejudices against pitties. My first real MINE dog at age 68 (me, not Elsa) has saved my life. And I got her for someone else. But for pitties and people, the heart wants what the heart wants.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wait a minute. I smell an AI disinformation plot because NOBODY would cast aspersions of any kind on the All American Web Slinger. Or it's just an astute illuminating comment. Hard to tell in today's world.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our dogperson HATES dancing (holding front legs) so to break her from jumping up on people (affectionately but at 70 pounds she's a big girl) all we had to do was grab her front legs and say "Let's dance!" Saying "let's dance!" stops her in her jumping tracks.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have y'all tried faking a Southern accent? FWIW, my dog loves everyone so long as I don't pet or pay attention to any other dogs they might be accompanying. Jealousy. I reassure her that she's the best and we're good.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Offended bros could just adopt Two Mommy Tommy. Before anyone points out that these guys might not make the best dog owners (what makes a dog owner "best?") owning a dog has made me a better person. "I'll show them! I'll adopt and love the dog better than any lesbian could!" Go for it.

Elsa, a pitbull mix rescue, on her leash at surnrise at Stacy Park in Olivette, MO. Elsa is at the bottom of the photo walking towards a tree in front of her and the sun rising behind.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking: WNBA credits Caitlin Clark with Assist of the Year.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I originally thought, "That's how she always looks" then did a Google image search for her and, nope, she doesn't always look like she does in the now infamous closeup. She's a perky, smiling, MAGA nut. This new look? Priceless.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, and no proof that she wasn't wasn't there. Or wasn't wasn't wasn't there. Gimme a minute. I need a paper and pencil.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not sure why this video makes me think of the fictitious(?) show from the movie Idiocracy, "Ow! My Balls!"

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On amputating a front leg our vet told us our dogperson would get around fine (she did) as they told us that dogs are natural three legged creatures with a spare. Abby lived another 3 years quite happily, passing at the age of 17 in our arms with euthanization taking place with a vet in our home.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The discussions around consciousness remind me of the IAU eventually getting around to defining what a planet is in 2006. Previously, we all just knew what a planet was, forgetting that nobody had actually given a tight set of rules describing "planet." Thus with "consciousness" for me.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Note the first identifiable black person isn't until the last 30 seconds or so. Reminds me of some posters for some National Guard event posted in light rail train stops in St. Louis where every single person on every poster was white. Just like military demographics.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

About 1982 I worked for a company with big iron mainframes in MD with remote access for us in LA. As employees we weren't charged for any of our time sharing costs because it was all funny money. Wrote a bouncing ball on the screen in APL and we all gleefully yelled, "$10,000 per minute! Whoa!"

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Had a fascinating chat a couple of months ago with one of our AI overlords (forget which one) about Asimov's Laws of Robotics. Let us say, the chatbot was very well read.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am shaking my cane and yelling at him to get off my lawn!

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm just a single datapoint, but this US Navy vet (1980's) says, um, "nope."

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It took a while, but once I memorized all the books in our library it got easier.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And don't forget the little, quiet, every day joys constantly happening. The old man walking the dog. The dog walking the old man.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Incredibly brusque, crude, verbally violent patron every librarian stopped helping. Found out he had a traumatic brain injury event (steel rod into cranium type injury). "Well, we now know WHY he's an asshole." Two of us ended up training him to be civil. The rest of the librarians just walked away.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Super irate patron angry that we couldn't give them access to a database to which we had no access. Patron (idiot): I'm a tax payer! I pay your salary! You have to give me the answers I want! You are incompetent, you know? Librarian (me) taking a coin from my pocket: Here's your dime back.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wait. At the 1:15 mark on the clip behind the credits are too obvious men, one shirtless, in bed under the same covers together. Ahead of its time? I checked and Soap preceded Brady Brides by 4 years. But, still. You thought nobody was paying attention. AWESOME FIND-U! Thanks!

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Ellen. Really. @elliewing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So, Nicholas and I were in Alabama until he was 5 and so he got this Imagination Library books. When they first started arriving, I was confused and then thought it was cool as fuck. It was such a wide variety of books. I had no idea this was a thing. Dolly was just sending us books.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Why I quit the American Legion. - US Navy vet and librarian Volume 159, No. 3 (September 2005), p. 20.

"Libraries of Terror" displayed prominently as title of article on page 20 of American Legion, monthly publication of the American Legion. Volume 159, No. 3 (September 2005).

"Most U.S. libraries are tranquil centers for learning and reﬂection.
However, the next time you hear a misinformed lawmaker or media wag rail about the PATRIOT Act and its now-endangered “library provision,”
be aware that many of these institutions are being used as theaters of
operations for terrorists and pedophiles. And who can blame them? Some in the American Library Association have made them ideal places to plot crimes. Consider, ﬁrst, how Islamic extremists have made themselves cozy in the libraries of America. At least seven of the 9/11 hijackers used government libraries before their attack. Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi used computers at a New Jersey state college to buy tickets for American Airlines Flight 77, which later plowed into the Pentagon."

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Well, Custer was her age, 34, when he failed his mission at the Little Big Horn; Reinhard Heydrich directed the Einsatzgruppen death squads responsible for massive early-Holocaust massacres (such as the Babi Yar massacre) in his mid-30s.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Jeff was a Gunner’s Mate and I was a Quartermaster. We were the first crew of the USS Rentz (FFG-46). He worked in “the business” for decades as a stage crew member—grip, best boy, etc. Not a Navy diver; he self-certified and was on the crew filming underwater. And he was my best man at my wedding!

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Is one of the surviving Mini's the one they modified to be electric so it could drive down into the subway system without spewing fumes?

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Connection: My best man (41 years ago) worked on the underwater crew for the 2003 movie.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Consider that a lot of us have gotten better at hiding our addictions. Social disapproval is a good thing here though.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of my many stances (which change as new information accrues) is that we humans are our own existential threat to civilization. Social media just removes the friction and increases the speed of our natural proclivities. Makes it easier to fuck with everything. I.e., I agree with you.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Change "shifted" to "shitted" (what I originally mistakenly read) and it still works.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

ICE is inefficient in their cruelty. Shock gloves are about $1000/pair but a standard cattle prod is about $100.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

JIM HENSON wrote a letter to his Children to be opened after his death. It’s entirely beautiful.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think the POTUS inadverdently just drew a huge target on catering trucks worldwide for terrorists and such.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Trump was willing to sacrifice Rubio? What does little Marco think of that?

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Consider: Trump chooses to promote people specifically because they're in the Epstein files thus he has immediate leverage over them. They must do whatever he says. And if he knows specifics, a lot more leverage. And if he fires them, they keep their mouths shut because "leverage."

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Turn the video clip upside down for a ceiling cat.

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sideways comment: "Read that again" is something I do when I have Freudian seeing slips. Like a recent comment I read in a discussion had me thinking, "Why is this guy anti-Hmong? What's he got against the Hmong?" Reading it again I saw he was referring to a specific candidate named "Hong."

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Fugitive Pope @fugitivepope.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And one of the strengths of soccer as an international sport to this American, is how delightfully different (and better in so many ways) the whole soccer culture is. I would not look forward to mandatory hydration breaks every 10 minutes.

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