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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

@keaplin.bsky.social
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Retired Math, Physics, Computer…teacher. Music and Movie fan. Pragmatic Progessive. Romantic Realist. Agnostic. Philomath. Gentle Cynic. "At the end of my rainbow lies a Golden Oldie"

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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 14h
I've considered going to Starbucks for baked goods, but I don't speak the language.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 14h
thought of a name for a coffee house: Brewtique.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 14h
on my bank's website: "FDIC-Insured - Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government" …somehow that's not very reassuring these days.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 18h
It's National Name Your Car Day. Mine is "Hedy" (as in Lamarr) because it's German and beautiful.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 18h
Just wondering… why haven't we gotten a live-action Jonny Quest movie (or series)?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 20h
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- Erica Jong
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Best. James Earl Carter Jr, October 01, 1924…December 29, 2024
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hear today is "Take Your Bible To School Day". Seems like it would only be fair to have a "Take Your Darwin to Church Day" for balance.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ever wonder what was wrong with Love Potions #1_8?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When it comes to Business, Self-Regulation = No Regulation.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 X/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 too many possibilities! 😡
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so old … when I was in kindergarten we got our milk in little glass bottles with cardboard disc tops. (the chocolate was delish)
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Life is a sum of all your choices" – Albert Camus …plus the ones you avoided making
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough" -- Mario Andretti
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why don't we pronounce llama "Yama"?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom Lehrer
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Well behaved women do not make history." -- Mae West
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This 👇 👇 👇
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast." -- W. S. Gilbert
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My 9 games. I'm not much of a gamer, but I've spent entirely too much of my life playing these…
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What’s the most famous movie you’ve never seen? I’ll start: Titanic. (And, yes, I’m actually a cinephile)
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary." -- Devin J. Monroe
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.gocomics.com/bc/2026/09/27
gocomics.com
B.C. by Johnny Hart for September 27, 2026 | GoComics
Read B.C.—a comic strip by creator Johnny Hart—for today, September 27, 2026, and check out other great comics, too!
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No one makes billions, they take it from others.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Johnny Appleseed Born John Chapman September 26, 1774 Died March 18, 1845 (aged 70) Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing." -- Jessica Alba
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Happy Birthday! So glad you are with us!
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who believes Trump stole the 2024 Presidential election? ✋
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day." -- Mickey Rooney
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How is it possible that James Mason never won an Oscar?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." -- Laurence J. Peter
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development." -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." -- Elbert Hubbard
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
a mood lifter for anyone (like me) who needs it: youtu.be/geooJv-Usus?...
youtu.be
Hole In Your Soul
YouTube video by ABBA - Topic
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While answering a question about which President's signature is on the moon it struck me Republican Presidents seem to be really good at taking credit for stuff they weren't responsible for and really poor at avoiding the blame for things they were.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imho this world could do with a lot less Religion and a lot more Spirituality.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Facts are stupid things." -- Ronald Reagan …and that attitude, folks, is why the Republican Party is in the state it's in these days.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." -- James Thurber
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I keep hearing that if we tax the Rich they'll leave America. Sounds like a win-win to me.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Matthew Quigley: [to himself] Don't know where we're going, but there's no use being late.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true." -- H. L. Mencken
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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The only thing out of Dems’ mouths for the next six weeks should be: Donald Trump single-handedly drove up gas prices by starting a senseless war, and it will only get worse if you re-elect Republicans
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the day really zips by when one doesn't arise until 10am
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." -- Joe Ancis
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