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Deborah

@grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social
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💉💉💉 💉 💉 💉 😷 Tired and cranky old lady. Still working for a living. Militant Atheist so please no god botherers. Proud Gen X. Left / hard left. Social justice and equality. But I got manners and shit 🤣 on Kamilaroi land. Pronouns are she/her. Ally. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Cartoon 
Showing 2 women in front of a house 
You and me with a dog and a beautiful house

Who’s in the cage?

Netanyahu
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

"You forgot? Must not be important."
Listen bro, I can and have forgotten to eat, pee, sleep, cash cheques. I've lost my car by taking the bus home after driving there.
Importance is not a distinguishing factor here. The fact a commodore 64 has more RAM than I do is the issue
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Yeah let’s check a few things right now
In case it wasn't clear where I stand:
- free Palestine
- free Sudan
- free Congo
- f Trump
- f Reform
-f racism
- f homophobia
-f transphobia
- abortion is healthcare
- immigrants fuel the country
- no one is illegal, we live on a floating rock
-foppression everywhere
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Natalia Volkov
Jan 17 at 8:32 AM • ©
• 00
Bartending is daycare, but at night for adults. Hear me out:
-You give them sippy juice and snacks and supervise them while they play and practice their poor social skills.
-Sometimes they're mean to the other kids so they lose sippy juice privileges and have to sit in time out (or get sent home early!).
-They talk to you but they don't always make sense.
You have to listen and nod anyways.
-Cry unintelligibly for some reason sometimes?
-Cleaning up vomit, pee and poop is also a thing sometimes.
-Spills. Lots of spills.
-"Look what I can do!"
-Hopefully someone eventually comes to pick them up.
Edit: I've been helpfully informed that daycare providers don't have to yell at kids for doing cocaine off the urinal, but it's pretty much the same as yelling at kids to not eat that dead bug they found behind the toilet, so my point stands.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Beautiful poems
No Man Is an Island
No man is an island, Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls;
It tolls for thee.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The Boston north church Let the warning ride forth once more Tyranny is at our door One if by land Two if by DC The revolution started here and never left DC ☠️🤣☠️🤣 now that is fucking clever 🤣🤣
The Boston north church

Let the warning ride forth once more 
Tyranny is at our door

One if by land
Two if by DC

The revolution started here and never left
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Speak. Even if your voice shakes. We cannot go silent onto the dark. Light 🔥 the way
Thank you to all who write the truth boldly and aren't afraid of offending people. Society is crumbling all around us. It's not a time to be nice or likable.
The most kind and loving thing we can do is speak the truth.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Still the same after nearly 50 years. Will we ever learn 😢
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.
— Gough Whittam
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I think therefore I am not a Dutton supporter
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
True that!
Elon Musk is a rocket scientist the same way
Homer Simpson is a nuclear safety inspector


Bumper sticker on a rear window of a 4wd
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Guess what Peter Dutton isn't saying about the 36,000 'new' public
servants he wants to sack?
They're a replacement for the 54,000 private consultants the Coalition brought in last time.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
IT'S NOT ABOUT BATHROOMS AS IT WAS NEVER ABOUT WATER FOUNTAINS

Typed in rainbow flag colours
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Yup it will indeed
WHAT WAS IT SHE SAID THAT GOT EVERYONE SO UPSET?
"BE KIND TO EACH OTHER."
OH, YEAH.
THAT'LL DO IT.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
See? You can fact check shit with Google
8:27
Detect Al-generated images at scale
Elon Musk o x @elonmusk
Follow
What can I say? I got caught up in the moment. But it wasn't a "seig heil." Why would I pledge allegiance to a nation 80 years dead? Why would I lionize a subdued and failed state? MAGA is the future, and will, in fact, succeed in all the ways Nazi Germany failed to
23:50 - 1/20/25 - 1.8M Views
Tap to try an image
Not likely to be Al-generated or Deepfake
GenAl
Face manipulation
1%
1%
Diffusion ?
Other
0%
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Always was, always will be, Team Sussex! Congratulations 🥂 and I only wish Murdoch had to pay personally 🤣
NGN'S APOLOGY TO THE CLAIMANTS
NGN offers a full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life, including incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun.
NGN also offers a full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators instructed by them at the News of the World.
NGN further apologises to the Duke for the impact on him of the extensive coverage and serious intrusion into his private life as well as the private life of Diana, Princess of Wales, his late mother, in particular during his younger years. We acknowledge and apologise for the distress caused to the Duke, and the damage inflicted on relationships, friendships and family, and have agreed to pay him substantial damages. It is also acknowledged, without any admission of illegality, that NGN's response to the 2006 arrests and subsequent actions were regrettable.
NGN also offers a full and unequivocal apology to Lord Watson for the unwarranted intrusion carried out into his private life during his time in Government by the News of the World during the period 2009- 2011. This includes him being placed under surveillance in 2009 by journalists at the News of the World and those instructed by them. NGN also acknowledges and apologises for the adverse impact this had on Lord Watson's family and has agreed to pay him substantial damages.
In addition, in 2011 News International received information that information was being passed covertly to Lord Watson from within News International. We now understand that this information was false, and Lord Watson was not in receipt of any such confidential information. NGN apologises fully and unequivocally for this.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What a horrible world we have woken up to. I’m so sad for any trans person in the USA. A nightmare that is only just beginning 😢
Caitlyn Jenner @Caitlyn_Jenner
Congratulations Mr. President. Thanks be
to God
Olivia Julianna @Oliviajulianna
He just ordered the government to call you Bruce.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hello. Can I direct your call?
Poorly explain your job and let members guess what you do.
(Only rule: If you post, you have to guess at least two others' jobs.)
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 843926725152
Congratulations, you scrolled so far you found the pikachu of luck. It does nothing, it's just chonky and cute. Here you go!

Picture of pikachu being cute 🥰
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
And that is a legitimate use for AI. By artists. Not companies laying off their graphic art and photographers and using AI to generate images without any input from real artists.
The only perspective on Al that matters

"I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”

Author and videogame enthusiast Joanna Maciejewska nails it (although bathroom cleaning goes ahead of laundry and dishes)
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Yeah it has shitty fingers.
Likely AI generated 99% image results
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Congratulations to Elon Musk for making cars so bad that no-one can tell if a carbomb has just happened or if the car just did that.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year 🥳
I will have none of this "new year new me" rubbish. I was fabulous then and I am fabulous now!

A regal prince in robes and fancy uniform.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study
that monkey to
figure out what the heck was wrong with it.
When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Have you seen this one? Always makes me chuckle.
Was It Wrong for Scientists to Create a Pig-Human
Hybrid Embryo?

No, but it was wrong to elect it as the president.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I like this one I saw the other day.
Fun fact, if billionaires got shot as often as school children, we'd run out of billionaires in 2 months.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7 #MusicSky
Album cover 
Alice Cooper
Welcome to my Nightmare
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6 #MusicSky
Album cover 
Supertramp
Breakfast in America
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5 #MusicSky
Album cover. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon.
Black with white light passing thru a prism and coming out a rainbow
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I would give anything to hear this album again
An evening with Mike McClellan
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #MusicSky
An evening with Mike McClellan. Live.

Album cover showing a young man playing a guitar
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I’m doing the 20 day music album challenge. But this one hits different. Please check the first comment for a musical interpretation of the Bard. An interpretation that lead to a love of the plays that inspires truth and love to this day. It can be modern and contemporary if you let it.
LP album cover
Shakespeare and all that Jazz
Sung by Cleo Laine

Picture is a woman looking thoughtfully and cheekily at a traditional bust of Shakespeare
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Well, that’s a positive way to look at it 🤣
A picture of a damaged cactus with a sign that says
Damaged but adorable
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3 #MusicSky
Warren Zevon
Excitable Boy

Red LP album cover with a picture of the singer on the right hand side, 3/4 profile.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 #MusicSky
Album cover 
Styx. Cornerstone.
The picture shows a desert landscape, a person with barefeet and a torch shining into a mirror.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1 #MusicSky
Traditional LP album cover
Don McLean
American Pie
Shows a face and thumbs up with an American flag on the thumb.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Today’s thought…
Who knows why we were taught to fear the witches, and not those who burned them alive.

Black background white writing
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A post a day to remind me life goes on.
"I just need to get my shit together"
- me in 2009 / 2012 / this time last year / a minute ago / next year probably
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Love this 🤣
NBC NEWS
WATCH LIVE
INTERNET
Why top internet sleuths say they won't help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer
TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Brian Thompson.
Sparks, who also works in health care as a lactation consultant and holds a doctorate of pharmacy, didn't mince words when asked if her community was working to find the suspect in Thompson's murder.
"Absolutely the f-- not," she said.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
A dragon in the first frame says
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES I CANT SLEEP AT NIGHT FROM THINKING ABOUT ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS IVE DONE TO PEOPLE.
In the second frame
Then he smiles
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Not my garden but a nearby lookout
Green cicads (?) photo taken from a skywalk
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Full disclosure. I’m not an American. I have no desire to ever go to a country that has more pew pews than people. But I giggled over these 🤣 (and I was all out of thoughts and prayers for the titan sub thing too.)
This dead CEO story is getting more coverage than UHC ever provideda good rule of thumb is to simply live your life in a way that your murder isn't celebrated and joked about by millions on social media.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Today. And probably tomorrow as well.
A rising tide should lift all boats.
Not just the yachts.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Tbh I probably looked a little like this…but well iykyk 🤣
A dark hooded figure on a poorly lit path under a street light
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Today was many shades of unpleasant. So here’s a joke to cheer us up. 🤣 Validate me!!!
Therapist: so what actions did you take this week to help release dopamine in your brain?
Me: i shared a bunch of memes on the internet so i could feel validated.
Therapist: *sprays me with water bottle*
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#poetry #life #love #mylife
Being Boring
'May you live in interesting times.' Chinese curse
If you ask me 'What's new?'
*, I have nothing to say
Except that the garden is growing.
I had a slight cold but it's better today.
I'm content with the way things are going.
Yes, he is the same as he usually is, Still eating and sleeping and snoring.
I get on with my work. He gets on with his.
I know this is all very boring.
There was drama enough in my turbulent past:
Tears and passion - I've used up a tankful.
No news is good news, and long may it last, If nothing much happens, I'm thankful.
A happier cabbage you never did see, My vegetable spirits are soaring.
If you're after excitement, steer well clear of me.
I want to go on being boring.
I don't go to parties. Well, what are they for, If you don't need to find a new lover?
You drink and you listen and drink a bit more And you take the next day to recover.
Someone to stay home with was all my desire And, now that I've found a safe mooring, I've just one ambition in life: I aspire To go on and on being boring.
Wendy Cope
(July 21st 1945 -)
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This today is my life, tomorrow is another day
Therapist: so what actions did you take this week to help release dopamine in your brain?
Me: i shared a bunch of memes on the internet so i could feel validated.
Therapist: *sprays me with water bottle*
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I still have my copy. I found it originally in some old science magazine thing. It was a serial. My first comic book. 🤣
The Trigan Empire.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 20/20
The Trigan Empire
A fantasy space world of adventure and conflict.
The cover depicts a comic style space ship and the pictures of the main characters.
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 19/20 Omg I’m so late 🤣
Winnie
- the - Pooh
COMPLETE STORIES & POEMS
DELUXE EDITION
WINNIE-THE-POOH

And 
THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG
NOW WE ARE SIX
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Deborah @grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Or this? A day in bed sounds brilliant 🤣
Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.
Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace
If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.
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