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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2h

Never once seen a 25-minute wait at my early voting spot. Oh my. durhamnc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

Updated screenshot of wait times for Durham NC. Greg's location now shows a 25-minute wait.

T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 4h

With the disclaimer this is pure anecdata from only one area of one state, I have never in my life seen a 40-minute wait on Day 1 of early voting at the South Library location of Durham NC I have also never once seen any wait at all at my early voting spot (the "12") Also notice the north / R area

Screenshot from Durham NC's polling place wait time system. The heavily Democratic South Library location shows a yellow pin with a "40" for the wait time. Six other locations show waits of 18 minutes or less. Three show no wait, including the one in the Republican part of the county.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The monotony of the playbook – the same things, in the same sequence, every time – is boring ➡️ Fabricate nonsense ➡️ Flood the zone with nonsense ➡️ Nonsense is debunked ➡️ Say the nonsense didn't matter b/c points were made Idk how sentient adults aren't bored to tears of this after a decade+ now

Tweet from TPUSA spokesman @AndrewKolvet on 11 October 2026 @ 8:50pm EDT, regarding James Talarico. Text reads: "It genuinely doesn't matter if it was a mental health hospital or the flu. Bailing on the biggest job interview of your life by disappearing for two weeks is damning enough all by itself."

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Negative, I don't talk about it often. My favorite handgun was a Ruger Mk I .22 that I qualified on for my concealed permit (body target on the left), but standard piece is a S&W M&P 9mm w/ 17rd mag (head target on the right) bsky.app/profile/allt...

Photo of a silhouette target, with a cluster of shots at center mass

Photo of a "Dirty Bird" color target roughly the size of a head, showing no clustering but 2 rounds apiece in each of the 4 color wheels

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just concussed myself on one of the cabinets that should not be where it is installed 🤬🤕

Photo of Greg's bald head. In the middle is an inch-long gash oozing blood.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also kinda funny: these were among the first cups I was allowed to use when I started being able to use cups on my own Pops now uses them for his juice 🤪

Photo of a small purple cup with a little handle about the size of my pinky finger, with the Kool-Aid Man's face on the front

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Same scrawl in the concrete from when I was five 😂

Photo of part of a concrete walkway. Etched into the concrete is "Greg 86"

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cops are great www.ksdk.com/article/news...

Screenshot of the linked article. Text reads: "St. Francois County family pleading for the truth after crash involving sheriff's deputy kills 16-year-old girl"

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally cracked Orange, and managed to hit the $400 mark in the same run

Screenshot of a Balatro run, showing $405 in cash and a variety of high-powered jokers

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This was the third screen. I hollered. bsky.app/profile/oryn...

Screenshot from the survey Greg is talking about. Text reads: "Have you seen, read, or heard anything about ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection technology previously used in Durham?"

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the screenshots of my answers, as a taste:

Screenshot from a survey on Durham's use of ShotSpotter technology. Each question is various copaganda that ShotSpotter claims to fix, followed by response options on whether the claim is convincing. Greg has selected "Not At All Convincing" for all of them.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The local Costco in Durham NC is working some kind of miracle to have it this low still bsky.app/profile/ezth...

Screenshot from the Costco app, showing the Durham NC warehouse is selling regular unleaded for $3.899 per gallon.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really felt good about this run, but alas

Screenshot of a Balatro run, showing a good set of quality jokers that you would think would be good enough to win. Only to get defeated by The Wall.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just posted to my Mastodon account so folks know -- accept no substitutes lol If you've recently been followed by a "T. Greg Doucette" that is not the Bluesky account I'm posting this from, that follower is a scammer 😉 I haven't been following new ppl elsewhere mastodon.sdf.org/@greg_doucet...

Screenshot from Greg's Mastodon account @greg_doucette@mastodon.sdf.org on 2 October 2026 at 11:21a EDT. Text reads:

It's nearing Foodraiser time, which sadly means the scammers are gearing up too. If you've recently been followed by a "T. Greg Doucette" Mastodon account, that *IS NOT* me.

This is the only Mastodon account I have.
My other accounts are on X, Bluesky, and Threads. I don't have any backup accounts, or secret accounts, or etc.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Google search gets them mostly right lol (Rule 1 is "dumb shit" not "dumb things")

Screenshot from Google's AI search results for the query "rules of fsck em all podcast". Text reads:

The 5 Rules of the [#FSCK 'Em All]
(https://x. com/fsckemall) podcast, hosted by defense attorney T. Greg Doucette, are:
• 1st Rule: Police will continue to do dumb things, even when being recorded.
• 2nd Rule: Start at the source.
• 3rd Rule: There are no new stories, just new names and jurisdictions.
• 4th Rule: The Wire was a documentary.
• 5th Rule: When people say "Blue Lives Matter," they don't mean the dark blue ones.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Final result after a full year of using the Shutter Declutter app: 17,428 photos+videos erased 🤯 Plus it provided an opportunity to relive a bunch of old memories (some of which were better than others 🤪)

Screenshot from the Shutter Declutter app, showing 17,428 photos erased and 25.47 GB of data freed up

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Asked the Mrs (who is generally not into political stuff) if she wanted to go to a fundraiser for Roy Cooper featuring Mayor Pete Got the Mrs equivalent of "meh" Sent her a pic of the invite, which notes Pete will be talking with @hcrichardson.bsky.social *Immediately* got "omg yes I love her" 🤪

Screenshot of messages between Greg and the Mrs.

Greg asks "Do you want to go meet Pete Buttigieg at a Roy Cooper fundraiser on October 17?"

Mrs replies: "Uhhh sure"

Screenshot of texts between Greg and the Mrs.

Greg sent a pic of the Roy Cooper fundraiser invite

Mrs replies "Heather omg Yes I love her"

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you answered "Far Left," please see the attendant to collect your LOLbux

Graph of the test results from the previous test, showing Greg on the far-left end of a left-right spectrum. Text reads: "Far left: further right than 3% of US adults"

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every time I change a thread to "Everyone can reply," I get reminded why that's a mistake

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

::low whistle:: americanresearchgroup.com/economy/

Table of Trump's job approval polling over time. The September 2026 entry is 29% approve, 68% disapprove, 3% undecided

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Flight took off at 7:10am, landed at 7:16am (gained +1 timezone), then hung out at LHR until the flight home took off at 11:57am and landed at 8.25 hours later at 3:08p Came home, unpacked, went to get Bojangles and groceries, and now have a cat grooming himself on my lap 😂

Photo of Biscuit laying in Greg's lab contentedly, cleaning his paws

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Going through Schiphol Airport -- very well-designed IMO -- also saw another art installation of a crushed ball thing. Didn't get a close look at this one though And they have a section of the floor where you can see the luggage conveyor belt 🥰 (Also saw a miniature of that floor at Madurodam!)

Photo of a tremendously large metallic sphere on a pedestal. Part of the sphere has a cylinder poking out of it.

Photo of a plexiglass floorway at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, with luggage conveyor belts underneath

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Then it was back to the hotel to finish packing. Finally went to bed around 1030pm-ish, and then awake at 3am to head to the bus stop I was more rested than the Mrs, but it was still pretty agonizing. Bus was packed though 🤯 At least a couple dozen ppl

Selfie of Greg sitting in a bus at 336am, looking tired. The Mrs is next to him, but her face has been replaced with a sleepy emoji.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From there I was informed that the Mrs "forgot" to buy some souvenirs 🙄 So we headed back to Leidesplein near the hotel After shopping, we got dinner at a great dim sum restaurant across the way 🤤

Photo from outside a restaurant. Stairs are visible through an open door. A glass upper portion of the doorway reads in white text "Full Moon Garden" and under in red text "Dim Sum Restaurant"

Photo from just inside the restaurant. A red wall has Mandarin text on the left, cherry blossom trees and a shrine on the right.

Photo of a variety of dim sum dishes served in bamboo steamer vessels

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Before dinner we went to Brouwerij 't IJ, which is a brewery built in to an old windmill

Photo of Brouwerij 't IJ. An old, large 4-blade, windmill overlooks a standard brick building with a brewery in it

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After snacks we went back to the hotel to pack until dinner time. Among the souvenirs acquired: roughly 20lbs or so of assorted cheeses to give people as gifts 🧀🧀🧀 Including a jet black cheese that I still don't know what it is

Photo of 12 items of cheese laid out on a bed spread for packing. Two columns of three rows of cheese wedges, a column of 4 cheese discs, a boxed cheese that is totally black in color, and an errant cheese wedge on the side.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We went to a spot called Calf&Bloom, which was good for what it was but a bit too upscale for my palate 😂

Photo to the entrance of Calf&Bloom. An open entryway into a bar. Overtop the entry is a white banner with black text reading "Café CALF&BLOOM Restaurant"

Photo of arancini in the background, and an artisanal amalgamation of fries + chicken + cheese + onions + tomatoes + jalapeños

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From there we walked through a mall-like structure in search of snacks En route we passed an art installation called "Beattle Ball" -- a VW Beetle crushed into a ball

Photo of a cherry red VW Beetle crushed into a ball and displayed on a black pedestal

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We then went to the Bloemenmarkt, a tourist trap of flower bulbs and souvenirs over the water 🤪 Some of the graffiti was fun though

Photo of the Amsterdam Bloemenmarkt, showing a long string of "floating" greenhouses filled with souvenirs

Photo of some graffiti at the Bloemenmarkt. A yellow and orange background has a stylized caricature of an artist in the left, holding a paintbrush in its right hand and a daffodil in its left. In the right is a stylized painting of Amsterdam in a fish-eye style. In blue text overtop the image are the words "Amsterdam City Love"

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Front page of today's Financial Times at LHR. Fun times ahead!

Photo of the Financial Times front page for 15 September 2026. Headline reads "Ten-year Treasury yield tops 5% as inflation fears batter bond markets"

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also many of these sold, if you need an idea of how people feel about the current Government

Photo of a 2-euro tote bag featuring an American flag and Barack Obama

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We walked through a bustling open-air market on the way out of the workshop At one point an elderly veteran in an electric wheelchair was behind me on the left, going at my same pace. I thought I was blocking him... but he just stared me up and down for a bit, goes "Big man," then drove off 🤔

Photo of an open-air market. Lots of stalls on both sides of a street, with a bunch of people milling about.

Photo of an open-air market from the end, looking the opposite direction. Lots of stalls on both sides of a street, with a bunch of people milling about.

Photo of an open-air market from the middle. Lots of stalls on both sides of a street, with a bunch of people milling about

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After work, we went to a stroopwaffel-making workshop 😁 *Much* easier than painting tiles!

Photo from inside the Stroopwaffel Workshop waiting area. Brick walls, an apron hanging, a wooden bench is next to an open wooden bookcase on the left with assorted plants and knickknacks. A waffle press is visible in the corner.

Photo of two completed stroopwaffels. Greg has taken a bit out of the one in his hand.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Monday I went to work 😄 I've now been at GitHub offices on 3 different continents 🤯

Photo of the GitHub break room. A modern design with dining tables and chairs in the foreground, cafe-style chairs and tables in the background across from some plush furniture, and windows looking out onto greenery. A variety of countries' flags hang from the ceiling.

Photo of one of the GitHub workrooms. Two "Zoom rooms" (like telephone booths for virtual meetings) are on the right, a conference room is on the left, and a round table is in the middle. On the table is a printout of an indiscernible image, with the text "The horrors persist. But so do I."

View from the window of the GitHub office, looking out into tall trees and canal houses.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To close out the night we headed to Winkel, which is apparently super-famous for their apple pies The Mrs got one and approved. I opted for cheesesticks -- which were a bit different from the American style (including being served with sweet-and-sour sauce) but still quite good

Photo of a green awning, with "Winkel" in white letters

Photo of Dutch cheesesticks, which are wrapped in dough rather than breaded, roughly in between a cigarette and a cigar in terms of size, and served with a side of sweet-and-sour sauce

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Then we headed over to the Anne Frank House Front and back ends of the museum include quite a bit of context, then the middle is a walkthrough of the Secret Annexe where she and her family hid for two years No pictures allowed inside, but well worth a visit

Photo of the old entryway to the Anne Frank House before it was turned into a museum. Two solid green-colored doors between two steel pillars, with a row of windows above the doors.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

By the time all that was done it was dinner time. We went to a Dutch-Chilean spot that had this dessert that was like a tres leches thing but with a flan-like consistency. It was divine 🤤 (The entrees were great too)

Photo from outside Spanjer Van Twist. Normal storefront but there's a Chile flag over the middle of the window.

Photo of the sort-of-tres-leches sort-of-flan, next to two mounds of whipped cream and decorated with zigzag lines of raspberry and white chocolate

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After the Royal Palace, we passed the Cow Museum and went to the Tulip Museum Apparently there are only 3 species of tulip eligible for import to the US for some reason? No clue if it's always been that way or is due to some political shenanigans

Photo of the windowfront to the Cow Museum. The walls are lined with all hundreds of miniature cows decorated in all sorts of ways

Photo of the entrance to the Amsterdam Tulip Museum. Looks like a normal beige-colored storefront.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is in-line with what I put to the group chat

Screenshot from a group chat. Text from the first sender reads:

"I told T Greg that I want the House and Senate. I still think that AES going to smoked in Michigan but still. These prices getting outta hand"

Greg responded:

"Dems end up at 52-48 in the Senate and 229-206 in the House. That's my prediction as of 14 Sept 2026.

Assumes current trajectory continues and no exogenous events like an assassination changes things"

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