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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Will the Senator from South Carolina please shut her fucking piehole?"

illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people who claim to have never heard of "Choosin' Texas" are the same snobs who have never seen an episode of "911-Nashville."

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I listened to PTFO podcast about the Life Surge Christian scam where people like Tim Tebow and Magic Johnson give speeches that say "take action" to get God's abundance through investing classes which are quite costly but they can arrange loans. How far we've come.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We just saw Shaun the Sheep: the Beast of Mossy Bottom at the local independent theater. It was such fun! There were a lot of very young kids. We giggled and laughed out loud at the same things for different reasons and that made for a delightful afternoon on this rainy day.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I used to listen to Abbey Road playing on cassette while I sat on the hood of my Chevy Impala watching the lobster boats come in. I miss that place.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's really not that hard to say "Northeaster." Anyway, I can stay inside and out of the wind and rain this weekend. My dog, on the other hand....

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For some reason I was talking to my wife about teaching a Bill McKibben essay about how his family decided not to buy anything but rather make their Xmas presents for each other. Wife: what will you make for me? Me: I'll write you a song. Wife: 🙁

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I get up in the morning and it's like that R.E.M. song "Everything Hurts All the Time."

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Such a great artist. Kathleen Edwards (and the great musicians who have collaborated with her).

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Kathleen Edwards - Six O'Clock News

YouTube video by building55

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026

Oh do listen

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The stuff you can find in a garage sale that's actually in a large truck-repair garage. It's such a shame that I no longer have my turn-table, amp, and speakers.

An old music album called "music of yugoslavia: dalmatia," and features three women in traditional garb of lamp-shade-like hat, black dress with some red and gold ornamentation.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If anyone is thinking of gifting me a massive green orb, please remember the gift receipt.

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LIVE at 2p ET Wed: @timwhitakerspeaks.bsky.social was raised a conservative Evangelical. He only later found his faith. Join us as we discuss the perversion of White Christian Nationalism: Link: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI, climate change, war on Iran, ICE, unbridled corruption--I'm starting to understand some Japanese peoples' response to the collapse of the Tokugawa: ee ja nai ka? (ええじゃないか) "What the hell?" [Party like it's 1867]

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I learned a new word: spizzerinctum. An old slang word, it means "will to succeed," "vim," "drive." Summer of '83 my dad (57) and I (18) rode from Champaign, Il west to a farm near Mt. Sterling, Il. My uncle (100) wrote a funny report for the local weekly and "it was 90 degrees in the shade." 1/2

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just saw a bobcat in the woods behind our home. I grabbed my phone to see if I could stealthily track it to take a picture. It was right at the edge of the woods when I got outside, saw me, and bolted before I could get the shot. Only my second sighting since moving here about 15 years ago.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Went to see Coyote vs. Acme today at local indie theater (clapping self on back). Lots of LOL moments for the small audience. I laughed a bit too loud at the casting of Elmer Fudd.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Many years ago my wife told me that a slang term in Japanese for something you don't have to pay for (free) is 'ro-ha.' Tonight she said that it appeared that she got a piece of clothing from Thredup for free and I said "ro-ha"? She said "wtf?"

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Was going through photos and came across a trip to Nikkō with students in 2018. I forgot about this sign. It's a saying of Tokugawa Ieyasu (the Tōshōgu shrine there was built as his mausoleum). It roughly says: "one's life is as a person carrying a heavy burden over a long distance--do not hurry."

Sign board at the shrine dedicated to first Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Behind a mossy stone fence amongst tall cedar trees.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trump's always had that "l'etat, c'est moi" mentality, so in his mind they are "Gulf of Trump" and "Lake Trump."

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 30/08/2026

Also custom colors now possible for anyone who hates the color scheme. Lot of data fixing, checking of OCRed data, adding romanizations and checking automatically generated ones, etc. in coming months, but still building out the basic infrastructure and datasets for this platform.

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 30/08/2026

Interactive map updates: Added train lines and stations for 1930 vs 1942 for Korea and Taiwan (근대 철도 DB & 日治時期鐵路分布圖 as foundation) + "Train Tools" feature, currently only for Taiwan, lets you animate the rail network (according to a 1936 列車時刻表. froginawell.net/reference/ja...

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That fellow had a tidy little mustache. I don’t think he has kids

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There's something I have to get off my chest. When I did my Order of the Arrow (Boy Scouts) ordeal spending the night alone in the woods, making my own lean-to, cooking fiddlehead-fern soup in a tin can and making a grill basket out of green branches for the 1/4# of ground beef they gave us....

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sakamoto for Coventry City has a bit of Mitoma flair.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Hey, long time no see. how ya doin'?" "I'm alright Nobody worry 'bout me Why you got to gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be?"

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wakey, wakey, time for your morning walk!

white lab mix dog with black eye patch and black ears peeking out from behind two pillows, one with red ticking and the other blue ticking fabric on a blue sofa.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I got in my wife's car to go fill it up and she had this spinning (cuz we buy used cars with CD players)

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Rosanne Cash - The Truth About You (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Rosanne Cash

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Proud of my kid. Couldn't afford tuition at top engineering schools, but lucky he could enroll where I teach and take tuition benefits. After sophomore year he applied to Cornell and got into civil engineering school. Today I saw a certificate that arrived by FedEx: he got award for top undergrad!

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really sad to see Chiba Prefecture get hit with such heavy rains and flooding, esp. at Obon. Damage will clearly be extensive. Hope people can stay safe and avoid floods and landslides.

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kaymac1953.bsky.social @kaymac1953.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If it was a man who wrote the book, he'd be a saint by now. She cannot even attain prophet status, at least enough to be fully recognized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming

In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Why do all the best celestial events have to take place at night after I go to bed?

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Here's a little tune for Bill Kassidy and the rest of the gutless wonders in the Senate:

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Gutless Wonder

YouTube video by Paul Kelly - Topic

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There are some good coffee shops in NH, but they're few and far between. I wonder if this is why.

A map showing per capita number of Dunkins for each state in the US. I'm not surprised that NH is #1.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945. #Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay

A watch frozen at 8:15am, the moment the atomic bomb detonated above Hiroshima, preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Museum.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wasn't sure how I felt at first, but the new Stones album is really growing on me. Amusing (to me) side note: when spouse 1st heard Keith sing "some of us are on our knees" she heard "on our knees" as "o-na-ni" (オナニー), one of myriad ways of saying 'masturbation' in Japanese. She still giggles.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 30/07/2026

"Trump's officials went on to tear down a mural with Fauci's face," says Katherine Wu. "Former colleagues have said it seems like essentially everything Tony Fauci touched, they have attempted to dismantle, destroy, or obliterate so that there is no legacy left." to.pbs.org/4wuWu3E

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The campaign against Fauci and what brought him back before Congress

Dr. Anthony Fauci helped lead the White House pandemic response for Presidents Trump and Biden and is now retired from government service. He appeared under congressional subpoena and invoked his Fift...

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Weirdest thing just happened. I reached into a bag to get one of my wife's homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and when I pulled it out I had two more stuck to my fingers.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Phew, just normal diarrhea.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

To make up for the extra 15 minutes allocated for the World Cup final halftime show, there will be no halftime break for today's England-France third-place match.

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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Irish Times is asking concert-goers to share their Slane Castle concert memories--including your experience at the band's historic 1995 show during the Monster Tour—feel free to leave them in the comments below as well! www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

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Slane Castle memories: Did you rock out to David Bowie, R.E.M. or Harry Styles?

Share your story: What are your best memories of the Co Meath venue?

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Watching the live stream of the 2026 Seismic Design Competition "Shake Day" (son is on one of the teams). Not my usual fare.

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