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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know who else never smiles?

The face of the Statue of Liberty with tourists looking out from the windows in her crown

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or sluiced off a leaf, but you know

Red leaves of Virginia creeper covered in dewdrops

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've got big screws in my left vagina and yes I've heard all the jokes before thankyouverymuch

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

post a picture of you from another era

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

from "Hal o' the Draft" in Puck of Pook's Hill by R. Kipling

‘Surely—sure-ly!’ he said, moving up on the window-seat, and returned to his work with a silver-pointed pencil. Puck sat as though the grin were fixed for ever on his broad face, while they watched the quick, certain fingers that copied it. Presently the man took a reed pen from his satchel, and trimmed it with a little ivory knife, carved in the semblance of a fish.

‘Oh, what a beauty!’ cried Dan.

‘’Ware fingers! That blade is perilous sharp. I made it myself of the best Low Country crossbow steel. And so, too, this fish. When his back-fin travels to his tail—so—he swallows up the blade, even as the whale swallowed Gaffer Jonah . . . . Yes, and that’s my ink-horn. I made the four silver saints round it. Press Barnabas’s head. It opens, and then——’ He dipped the trimmed pen, and with careful boldness began to put in the essential lines of Puck’s rugged face, that had been but faintly revealed by the silver-point.

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I had one of those! I *did* go to urgent care. Emergency open-heart surgery. Twenty years ago! Aortic graft is still working great. So glad I passed up Meet the Press.

Illustration of an aortic graft. A. Dacron sleeve sutured in from just above the aortic valve up to the innominate artery B. placement of the bovine pericardial patch over the sleeve C. the patch stitched up

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Well if he was re-enacting John Steele's jump...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steele_(paratrooper)

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A map of the Old City, showing the Processional Way from the Landward Gate to the Harbor.

A skeletal leaf showing veins like ancient city streets

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The story of the Conch Republic

In the Early Reagan Administration, Nancy Reagan and Atty Gen Ed Meese wanted to start having a drug war and after a while someone in the Justice Department noticed that the Florida Keys were ideal for smuggling, being composed of a very large number of islands, sticking WAY out in the ocean.

BUT, some Bad Liberal Judges had told the Justice Department that cops can't just stop people at random on the highway and search 'em for drugs, EVEN THOUGH it's okay for the Immigration and Naturalization Service to stop people on highways and search 'em for illegal immigrants, SO, the Justice Dept got the INS to set up a border checkpoint up around Key Largo, and while the immigration Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti were checking cars to see that no illegal aliens had driven into the Keys from Cuba or Guatemala or anywhere, Justice's Geheime Staatspolizei were looking over their shoulders to see if these folks had secreted any large bales of marijuana in their back seats.

Traffic backed up from Key Largo to Key West (a distance of 100 miles) and the Mayor complained to the Justice Department, which refused to answer. There are allegations in the official history that a federal judge was BOUGHT OFF.

Key West then seceded from the Union. Key West Naval Air Station was bombarded with loaves of stale French bread. A spontaneous demonstration was organized on Duval Street. An anarchistic government was formed. Some alcoholic beverages may have been consumed. The Conch Republic applied for UN membership. The Justice Department never found any drugs. Several Canadians may have been taken into custody and eventually deported.

The Conch Republic now annually celebrates its independance several times a year.

The UN never answered any of its letters.
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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Not liking these talking apples

A row of four dried apples with eldritch faces

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

They hired Wolverine to stand under it as an extra safety measure

Closeup of a sideburned face from the OP graphic, bearing a remarkable resemblance to Hugh Jackman

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The ending to "An Habitation Enforced" by Kipling:

“Here’s the place,” said his father at last among the water forget-me-nots. “But where the deuce are the larch-poles, Cloke? I told you to have them down here ready.”

“We’ll get ’em down if you say so,” Cloke answered, with a thrust of the underlip they both knew.

“But I did say so. What on earth have you brought that timber-tug here for? We aren’t building a railway bridge. Why, in America, half-a-dozen two-by-four bits would be ample.”

“I don’t know nothin’ about that,” said Cloke.

“An’ I’ve nothin’ to say against larch—If you want to make a temp’ry job of it. I ain’t ’ere to tell you what isn’t so, sir; an’ you can’t say I ever come creepin’ up on you, or tryin’ to lead you further in than you set out—”

A year ago George would have danced with impatience. Now he scraped a little mud off his old gaiters with his spud, and waited.

“All I say is that you can put up larch and make a temp’ry job of it; and by the time the young master’s married it’ll have to be done again. Now, I’ve brought down a couple of as sweet six-by-eight oak timbers as we’ve ever drawed. You put ’em in an’ it’s off your mind or good an’ all. T’other way—I don’t say it ain’t right, I’m only just sayin’ what I think—but t’other way, he’ll no sooner be married than we’ll lave it all to do again. You’ve no call to regard my words, but you can’t get out of that.”

“No,” said George after a pause; “I’ve been realising that for some time. Make it oak then; we can’t get out of it.”

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

They look like they've been taking standing lessons from Don Jr.

don jr looking like he's forgotten where he is. *who* he is

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

1950s. growing up 35 miles from SAC headquarters . anybody remember "Alas Babylon" by Pat Frank? good times. good times

"BURPLESON AFB 843RD BOMBARDMENT WING PEACE IS OUR PROFESSION"

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

We have an annual airshow with WWII fighters & bombers and the Blue Angels. They use my house as a waypoint—when they bank I can see into the cockpits.

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

There was a cemetery out back--with noxious fluids seeping up from under the gravestones

actual photo of the graveyard in back of Haworth House with gravestones

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is a fun addition to an afternoon on the lake

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

As a recovering cartoonist I just gotta say "is this real?"

Full-face, taxicab ears, beezer nose, dorky one-sided smirk, goofball hat, Don Martin thou shouldst be with me at this hour!

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Might be an old beat-up Hardee hat www.dirtybillyshats.com/us_dresshat_...

flat-brimmed black felt hat with a flower-pot shaped crown

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

No explanation of where they got 1990s Tcheky Karyo?

Two faces seen on a French street; on the right a dapper 1940s detective in a brown snap-brim hat, white shirt & blue tie, camel waistcoat & jacket with dark overcoat. On the left a French flic, black utility gear with snaps & buckles; a black garrison cap with silver piping and the face of 1980s-90s French actor Tcheky Kayo, now deceased, alas.

Actual photo of Tcheky Karyo from La Femme Nikita

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Trump can no longer manage the details of the comb-over, but has ALWAYS refused to allow anyone else to do it. Or apply the bronzer. Doonesbury was goosing him on the combover years ago

Frame from a Doonesbury cartoon showing the back of Trump's head with a complicated interweaving of strands. Dialog: I've GOT to find a new comb-over manager...someone world class!

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I stood at the gate of Housesteads, the Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall, and looked out at the vicus, the civilian settlement, & said, “There’s the Victory bar & oh yeah, the pawn shop. Looks like any post in CONUS” 1800 years old.