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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now hanging on a wall in my kitchen. Acrylic on canvas.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Costco today. Only 105 shopping days left.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just taking a reading break. Check back with me in a few hours.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Sorry about all that rain you have to endure…

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here’s an example of what the maritime trade analysts call “front loading”. It’s the practice of getting your orders delivered before tariffs or transport charges go up. Christmas, for those keeping score at home, is six months away.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Metaphor for __________ (Fill in the Blank)

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Here are the 63 gubernatorial candidates on the California primary election ballot. To be sure, some like Swalwell and Yee have withdrawn, but Barack D. Obama Shaw certainly rings a bell.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Buenos Aires street fair last month.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Attention Safeway shoppers: Save 2 whole cents! Special Member Price.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here’s the sort of left-wing extremist JD Vance would expel from his Catholic Church.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The sort of leftist extremist JD Vance wants to expel from the Catholic Church.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Few things say Christmas as much as an Italian choir singing American gospel music in Lucca’s Piazza Napoleone.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Talk about tariffs mangling supply chains, this tomato grown in a Canadian hothouse was purchased today in Sacramento, the center of the tomato-growing universe.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

California checking in. Please note the horrible, unrelenting sunshine.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A few cases of diverted trade? Here’s a can of California-grown tomatoes that normally would have been imported by Earth’s Choice, a Canadian food distributor in Vancouver, British Columbia…found on sale for 99 cents today in a Sacramento grocery store after Canada retaliated against U.S. products.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Flags over California’s State Capitol on the first day of June.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

What pause? A roll of aluminum foil imported from Thailand has just been marked up 40% at a discount store in West Sacramento (home of the former Oakland A’s) because of “the tariffs” said the checkout clerk.

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Jock O’Connell @jockoconnell.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Apparently, watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” has become an international Christmas tradition. Here’s a screenshot of the film dubbed into Italian on television here in Tuscany yesterday.